| Author: Ariel Dorfman
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Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean-American author of numerous works of fiction, plays, poems, essays and films in both Spanish and English, has been called a “literary grandmaster” (Time) and “one of the greatest living Latin American novelists” (Newsweek). Previous plays include Death And The Maiden (Olivier Award), Reader, Speak Truth To Power (Kennedy Center), Purgatorio, Picasso’s Closet, The Other Side (MTC), and the new musical Dancing with the Shadows. Dorfman’s films include ‘Balmaceda’ (First Prize Chile Films 1973); ‘Death And The Maiden’ (dir. Roman Polanski) and ‘Prisoners In Time’ (WGGB Awards, 1995 Best Feature). Novels include Widows (1981), The Late Song of Manuel Sendero (1983), Mascara (1988), My House Is on Fire (1990), The Nanny and the Iceberg (1999), and Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of Augusto Pinochet (2002). His memoir Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey was recently turned into a feature length documentary, ‘A PROMISE TO THE DEAD: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman’, by director Peter Raymont, which has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. He writes regularly for many of the most important newspapers and magazines in the U.S. (New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post, Harper’s, The Nation, Time) and abroad (El Pais, the Observer, the Guardian, The Independent, Le Monde, Frankfurter Algemeine, L’Unita, La Stampa, etc.) |
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| Direction: Hal Brooks
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Hal Brooks is currently directing the regional tour of Nilaja Sun's Obie Award Winning No Child. He also directed the acclaimed Off-Broadway hit and Pulitzer Finalist Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno. Other production: Lee Blessing's Lonesome Hollow (CATF), Don DeLillo's
Valparaiso
, Will Eno's The Flu Season, Six Years (Humana Festival),) Rinne Groff's What Then (Clubbed Thumb). Upcoming: James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution (59 E 59) and Craig Wright's Lady (Asolo). Hal is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and SSDC. He was a Drama League Fall Directing Fellow in 2003 and is a recipient of the 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. |
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Scenic Design: Wilson Chin
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New York
: Masked (DR2), Dark Matters (Rattlestick Theatre), The Dear Boy (Second Stage), Hardball (Summer Play Festival), Christine Jorgensen Reveals (Dodger Stages), Holy Cross Sucks! (Ars Nova). Regional: The Old Globe, Trinity Rep, ACT, Indiana Rep, Geva Theatre, Studio Arena, Yale Rep, Weston Playhouse, Dorset Theatre Festival, Hangar Theatre. Opera:
San Francisco
Opera, Central City Opera,
Berkeley
Opera,
New York
Chamber Opera. MFA:
Yale
School
of Drama. www.wilsonchin.com |
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Costume Design:
Kimberly Glennon
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As resident costume designer for the Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH), she received a 2003 OBIE Award and an American Theatre Wing Award nomination for The Blacks: A Clown Show, a 2005 AUDELCO for Melvin Van Peebles' Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death and a Howard Hewes Design nomination for Marat/Sade. Other credits include; Sixteen Wounded; Growing Up A Slave; As You Like It (Juilliard); The Magic Flute (ONU) and most recently, the
New Orleans
' production of Waiting For Godot (CTH). Her work can also be seen in two short films at the New York Historical Society's New York Divided exhibition. |
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Lighting Design:
Colin D. Young
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Off Broadway: In the Continuum (Primary Stages/Perry St. Theatre), Classical Theatre of Harlem: The Blacks, Crazy Locomotive (2003 Audelco Award), Native Son and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; Signature Theatre: Horton Foote’s Talking Pictures & Albee’s Fragments Reverie: Rearviewmirror, Billboard, Havana Bourgeois, Ping Pong Diplomacy, Mephisto, Carson Kreitzer’s Valerie Shoots Andy, John Clancy’s Fatboy, and Robert O’Hara’s Brave Brood and American Ma(u)l. Regional: Goodman, Guthrie, Yale Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse, CTG-Kirk Douglas, Philadelphia Theatre Co. International: Traverse and Assembly Theatres,
Edinburgh
; Market Theatre,
Johannesburg
. Upcoming at 59E59: The Jazz Age by Allan Knee and Life in a Marital Institution by James Braly. Colin was the founding Festival technical director for the New York International Fringe Festival, and is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Reverie Productions. www.LightandPhoto.com |
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Sound Design: Matt O’Hare
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Based in
New York
, Matt's most recent projects include Another Country (Columbia Stages, design),
Spain
(MCC, asst. design), and
Mauritius
(MTC, asst. design). Regionally, Matt has worked with Berkeley Rep, The Adirondack Theatre Festival, and The Hangar. He is honored to contribute his talents to Ariel Dorfman's Widows. Thanks to
Hal
Brooks
and Reverie Productions. Love to the family in
Vermont
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Casting:
Judy Bowman Casting
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With Reverie: Rearviewmirror, Ping Pong Diplomacy &
Havana
Bourgeois. Other NY Theatre: Unconditional (LAByrinth), Night Over Taos (dir: Estelle Parsons), Lights Rise on Grace (dir: Robert O’Hara), Points of Departure (dir: Ron Daniels), David Mamet’s The Old Neighborhood (Broadway, co-cast), and several musicals. Regional Theatre: Charles L. Mee’s Cardenio (dir: Les Waters) for ART, Strike/Slip & dark play or stories for boys (Humana Fest). Film: “Body/Antibody”, “508 Nelson”, “Duane Incarnate”, & several shorts. NY Casting Associate for films “Something’s Gotta Give”, “Mean Girls”, & “Shortbus”. TV: “Nate the Great”(PBS animated series). Judy is also casts for INTAR, Partial Comfort Productions, and the American Repertory Theatre. www.judybowmancasting.com |
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Publicity:
Karen Greco PR
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Design & Illustration
Bryan Sears
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Associate Producer
Layna Fisher
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Co/Assoc/Producer (selected credits): Truncated (Public Theater), sKin (Theater/Theatre, LA , DP Theater,
Orlando
& dBA, NY) HOWL! Festival (2003 + 4), The Squirrel Variety Show (Mo Pitkins), Trials and Errors (American Place Theatre) and with her company LawnFish: Aparkments (DUMBO arts fest), Subversions (NY subway cars); Performer (selected credits): Truncated (solo show co-produced with Studio 42), Stolen Chair: Kinderspiel, Commedia
del
Artemisia, and Stage Kiss, Faux-Real Theatre Co.: IE; in other words and FunBox. |
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Associate Director
Johanna Gruenhut
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Johanna Gruenhut has directed plays for Andy’s Summer Playhouse, Bright Young Things, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Tank, and Dock Street Project. She has assisted Max Stafford-Clark, Gordon Edelstein, Oskar Eustis, Daniel Kramer, and Kim Rubinstein. Her short film “Thanksgiving 2001” was a finalist at
Boston
’s Redstone Film Festival. Johanna is currently working with Israeli playwright Yosef Bar-Yosef on his newest play, This Great Sea. This is her third collaboration with Hal Brooks. |
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Production Stage Manager
Samone B. Weissman*
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Off-Broadway credits include: Crime & Punishment (Writers' Theatre/59E59 St.), Exits & Entrances (Primary Stages), In The Continuum (Primary Stages/Perry Street), Savages (Lion), Captain Louie (York), The Lonely Way, Milne at the Mint & The Daughter-In-Law (Mint), Self Torture & Strenuous Exercise, The Dadshuttle and Not Enough Oxygen (Drama League DirectorFests '02-'04). Regional: Chester Theatre Company, Emelin Theatre,
Cincinnati
Playhouse, CTG Kirk
Douglas
& the Goodman. Int'l:
Edinburgh
Fringe Festival '07,
Harare
Int'l Festival of the Arts, Baxter Theatre/Cape Town & the Market Theatre/Johannesburg.
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| * Appears courtesy of Actor's Equity Association |
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