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| Joe Calarco is the adaptor/director of Shakespeare's R&J which ran for a year in New York and earned him a Lucille Lortel Award. He also directed the play's premieres in Chicago (5 Jeff Award nominations including Best Play and Best Director) and Washington, D.C. (Helen Hayes Award nominations for Best Play and Best Director). R&J completed a celebrated run on London's West End in late 2003. He directed the critically acclaimed world premiere of the musical Sarah, Plain and Tall at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York. He also directed Julia Jordan's The Summer of the Swans at the Lucille Lortel, and directed Ms. Jordan's play Boy at Primary Stages. He is an Artistic Associate at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, where he directed the world premiere of Norman Allen's Nijinsky's Last Dance (4 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Play and Best Director), Side Show (4 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical and Best Director), and the world premiere of ...in the absence of spring..., which premiered in New York at Second Stage under his own direction.
Other regional directing credits include: The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrymore nomination), A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre), My Fair Lady, Edward II, Suddenly Last Summer, To Kill A Mockingbird, Keely & Du, Educating Rita, How I Got That Story, Goodnight Desdemona, Goodmorning Juliet, Babes In Arms, and Godspell. He served as resident playwright at Expanded Arts, Inc. for two years. He is one of New York Theatre Workshop's "usual suspects," a Drama League directing fellow, and has been a Joseph Papp artist in residence at Second Stage. He is a graduate of Ithaca College. |
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| Sheila Callaghan. Sheila Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The Lark, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Annex Theatre, Moving Arts, and LABrynth, among others. She is the recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best One-Act, a 2001-2002 Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, a 2002 Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwriting, a 2003 MacDowell Residency, and a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts grant. She is currently working on commissions from Playwrights Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include Scab, The Hunger Waltz, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Lascivious Something, and her opera Elemental with music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos. Three monologues from her plays appear in Heinemann's series Monologues by Women, For Women. Ms. Callaghan is a proud member of the playwrights' organization 13P. |
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| Christina Calvit is an ensemble member of Lifeline Theatre in Chicago. She has written over a dozen theatrical adaptations which have been performed throughout the United States and Canada, including A Room with a View, Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (Jeff Non-Equity Award, 2004), Far from the Madding Crowd, Jane Eyre, Pistols for Two (Jeff Non-Equity Award, 2000), The Talisman Ring (Joseph Jefferson Award, 1996), and Pride and Prejudice (Jeff Non-Equity Award, 1986). Her musical adaptation of Queen Lucia, a Musical Romp, created with composer/lyricist George Howe, was awarded a 2005 After Dark Award and a 2006 Jeff Non-Equity Award. Original plays include Snowflake Tim's Big Holiday Adventure, Purloined Poe, Chaos (co-writer), and Several Voices from The Cloud (Agnes Nixon Award, 1981). |
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| Cathy Caplan. Cathy Caplan's plays include Lapis Blue Blood Red, about the 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, and Silver Nitrate, which recreates photographs from 1930s Berlin. She received a new play commission from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture for Silver Nitrate. She co-authored hair, blood, vinyl with Rinde Eckert and the Juggernaut Theatre Company for the 1997 New York International Fringe Festival. Ms. Caplan has also explored alternate narrative structures in dramatic scripts for Grahame Weinbren's interactive cinema installations Sonata and March. She was a Juilliard playwriting fellow from 1992 to 1993, a Mabou Mines/Suite artist-in-residence in 2000, and one of the three-member team that co-directed and edited the Academy Award-winning documentary film American Dream, produced by Barbara Kopple. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons. |
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| Jane Caplow is the Director of Creative Development for Davenport Theatrical Enterprises in New York City. She also serves on the reading committee and awards jury for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. She has a MA degree in Musical Theatre (producing) from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a BA in Theatre from the University of Minnesota. Other companies she has worked with include The Flying Foot Forum, Nautilus Music-Theater, Theatre Latte Da, and Minneapolis Musical Theatre. |
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| Michael Carleton is the Producing Artistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. He directs frequently at regional theatres around the United States. As a playwright his plays include Michelangelo's Ladder, Anais Nin: An Unprofessional Study, Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!), and Hyde, in the Shadows. He is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio in New York. |
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| Laurie Carlos is an original player in the New York avant-garde performance scene and has developed new characters and new aesthetics for the stage for more than 30 years. Her works include White Chocolate, The Cooking Show, and Organdy Falsetto. She is the co-artistic director, with Marlies Yearby, of Movin' Spirits Dance Theater Company. She is on the board of the Jerome Foundation, and has received numerous awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as a Bush Fellowship. |
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Bridget Carpenter is a member of New Dramatists. Most recently, she was a playwright-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre in London. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002, and her play Fall was the recipient of the 2000 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Her plays have been produced across the country. She is working on new play commissions from South Coast Repertory and the Mark Taper Forum. She holds an M.F.A. from Brown University, and has taught playwriting in grammar school, high school, college, and prison. Born in New York, Ms. Carpenter lives in Los Angeles. |
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| Lonnie Carter received a 2003 Obie Award for his play The Romance of Magno Rubio, produced by the Ma-Yi Theatre Company. His plays also include China Calls, The Sovereign State of Boogedy Boogedy, The Gulliver Plays (Lemuel, Gulliver, and Gulliver Redux, published by Broadway Play Publishing), Baby Glo, Wheatley (the Colonial HippeHoppe story of Phillis Wheatley), Concerto Chicago, and most recently The Lost Boys of Sudan, commissioned by the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis (Tony Winner for Best Regional Theatre 2003). His home theater in Chicago is Victory Gardens (Tony Winner for Best Regional Theatre 2001), and his home theatre organization in New York is New Dramatists. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Marquette University, and twice a Fellow of the National Endowment of the Arts and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. |
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| Christopher Cartmill received a B.A. in Chinese and East Asian Studies at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Virginia. He also did graduate work in Chinese at Fu Ren University in Taipei, R.O.C., and was accepted to the Royal Scottish Academy for Dramatic Arts in Glasgow. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actor's Guild, and AFTRA. Mr. Cartmill spent time writing at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland and the Kimmell Harding Nelson Arts Center in Nebraska.
His plays include: Incorruptible: The Life, Death, And Dreams Of Maximilien De Robespierre. Incorruptible premiered at the Bailiwick Repertory in Chicago and received a Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding New Work. Light In Love, which premiered in Chicago, received the Society of Midland Authors Award for Drama and the Joseph Jefferson Citation for Outstanding New Work. Light In The Heart Of The Dragon received a Jeff nomination and was awarded the John W. Schimd prize for Best New Play. His play La Chasse had a successful run in Los Angeles garnering a Drama-Logue Award for Outstanding New Play. The play has continued in New York readings and workshops with David Strathairn. In 1999, Romeo's Dream was given the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays. Benjamin Constant was presented in a reading by the Blue Light Theatre company with Joanne Woodward.
Mr. Cartmill is part of a small writer's collective called Groop with Barbara Hammond, Adam Langer and Jane Gennaro. He has been working with the One Arm Red Theater company and Artistic Director Adam Adams, creating new work and performing existing material. This has included the production of Light On The Golden Slipper in the Berkshires. With the Gad's Hill Theater Company, he created and directed a new version of Moliere's Tartuffe which premiered at New York City's ArcLight Theatre. Christopher's adaptations of Tennyson's Idylls Of The King and Lancelot And Elaine continue to air on New York's WNYC. He has participated in an ongoing guest artist program at Lincoln Southeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Currently, Mr. Cartmill is an adjunct professor at the Gallatin School of New York University, teaching theater courses (Romantics and Revolutionaries: Theatricality in the Age of Revolution, Asian Theater: Ritual and Performance) He has also created a series of integrated-arts programs for the New York Public Schools, in association with "Learning through an Expanded Arts Program" and continues to write and perform special programs for the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Yale Center for British Art. |
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| Matt Casarino has been writing since 1997, when City Theater in Wilmington, Delaware produced his first play. Since then, his short plays been produced in 49 states and eight countries. His full-length comedy The PornoZombies debuted with the Renegade Theater Experiment in San Jose and was produced in Chicago, Delaware, and North Carolina.
Mr. Casarino's plays have been anthologized by Original Works and United Stages, and his play Larry Gets the Call appears in the Smith & Kraus' Best American 10-Minute Plays series. His works have appeared at such theaters and festivals as the Emerging Artists Theatre, New York 15-Minute Play Festival, Prop Thtr, The ArtsCenter 10X10 Festival, The Short & Sweet Festival, Impact Theatre, Moving Arts, City Theater, The High Desert Play Development Workshop, the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, and Philly Fringe. In 2005, he was awarded an Established Artist Fellowship by the Delaware Division of the Arts, and his works have been honored with the L.W. Thomas Award and the Alan Minieri Playwriting Award. His plays have appeared at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Valdez, AK) and the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive.
Mr. Casarino is a member of The Dramatists Guild and Emerging Artists Theater, and a co-founder of First Draft Theatre, an ongoing workshop for east-coast playwrights. He lives in Delaware. Turn-ons include singing, songwriting, Tom Waits, purple, Smithwicks, Tilly and the Wall, and Tromeo & Juliet. Turn-offs include mushrooms. |
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| Debra Castellano. Since writing The Rehearsal for "theAtrainplays," Debra Castellano has written and performed three theatrical solo shows: Swamp Girl (who needs a therapist when you have knee pads?), The Further Adventures of Swamp Girl (in which she tries to find someone besides herself to marry), and Waste Management: The Show, which she is currently expanding. Her past literary forays include TV and sketch comedy in Los Angeles, screenplays, essays, and humor pieces. When not writing, she is acting on the radio, singing in the monthly gathering "The Secret City"...and trying desperately to get a good night's sleep. |
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| Marcia Cebulska. Marcia Cebulska's recent play Touched was commissioned for and premiered at the William Inge Theatre Festival. Her play Now Let Me Fly, commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, has been performed at over 300 venues around the world. Ms. Cebulska's other plays have been produced at The Georgia Repertory Theatre, HERE Arts Center, the Phoenix Theatre, Frontera at Hyde Park, Fremont Centre Theatre, The Theatre Building, and elsewhere. Through Martha's Eyes, for which Ms. Cebulska wrote the screenplay, aired nationally on PBS in 2008 and received a Best Historical Film award at the Traildance Film Festival. Ms. Cebulska has received the Dorothy Silver Award, the Jane Chambers International Award, Kansas Arts Commission and Indiana Arts Commission Master Artist Fellowships. Her plays have been chosen for development by the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Sundance Playwrights Lab, and Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat. She has been playwright-in-residence at The University of Georgia, Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and The William Inge Center for the Arts. Ms. Cebulska currently is working on a stage play entitled The Bones of Butterflies and a film script entitled The Dogs of Eden. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and Chicago Dramatists. |
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| Marisha Chamberlain is best known for her play Scheherazade, which won the Dramatists Guild/CBS regional and national awards and has been produced widely throughout the United States and in London and Toronto. Her other plays include The Angels of Warsaw, winner of the Midland Authors Award, and Snow in the Virgin Islands, winner of the Twin Cities Drama Critics Circle Award. Besides Young Jane Eyre and Little Women, which played at the Stratford Festival Theater, Ms. Chamberlain has adapted a number of works for the stage including Nancy Drew, Aesop's Fables, The Canterville Ghost, and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She is currently director of The Seneca Falls Project which features her chamber opera, Meeting at Seneca Falls, created with composer Carol Barnett, with whom she also wrote The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass. Ms. Chamberlain is a recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and lives with her family in Hastings, Minnesota. |
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| Gamal Abdel Chasten. Let Bygones Be represents Gamal Abdel Chasten's fourth collaboration with Actors Theatre. Mr. Chasten first came to Actors Theatre as a member of Rhythmicity, then as a cast member of UNIVERSES' Slanguage, and in 2009 as a playwright and performer of UNIVERSES' Ameriville. Mr. Chasten's writing credits include The Last Word at PS 122 and God Took Away His Poem at the Abrons Arts Center. Mr. Chasten has been commissioned along with UNIVERSES for Oregon Shakespeare Festival's American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle. He has also written two screenplays, Red Moon and Joe Bloe, which he is currently shopping. |
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| Julia Cho's plays include The Language Archive (2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), The Piano Teacher, Durango, BFE, The Architecture of Loss, and 99 Histories. Her plays have been produced at South Coast Repertory, The Vineyard Theatre, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, East West Players and the Cincinnati Playhouse, among others. |
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| James Christy. Mr. Christy's full-length play Never Tell was produced by Broken Watch Theatre Company in August 2006, starring Drama Desk nominee Mark Setlock. The play's premiere at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival had an extended, sold-out run. Its Los Angeles premiere in May 2005 at Elephant Stageworks also had an extended run. He was the co-winner of the 2001 Heideman Award for Creep, published by Samuel French in 10-Minute Plays From the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2005. He was also a Heideman finalist in 2002, 2003 and 2004. No Change, an evening of short plays, premiered at Access Theater in TriBeCa in February 2005. His newest full-length play Put Them Away had a reading at Broken Watch Theatre Company in February 2007. |
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| Robin Moyer Chung. Currently, Ms. Chung is developing book & lyrics for Big Fat Cat, an original musical comedy, with composer Brian Feinstein. It received a reading with Bruce Vilanch. She also writes for www.robinsresources.com, a site about shopping, eating, and drinking in Fairfield County, CT.
Vital Theatre Company commissioned her to write book & lyrics for The Top Job (with composer Brian Feinstein), an original children's musical comedy. The musical ran at Vital Theatre during the Spring of 2008.
She was commissioned by Mondo Publishing to write a one-act children's musical, Daphne and Apollo. The show was released on book/CD to launch their song and music educational series.
Her song "I Can't Help But Fall in Love" (music by Sam Piperato) was selected as one of two original songs on the EFA/Broadway Cares album Broadway Romances Manhattan.
Her musical fable The Dancing Monkeys was produced by The Calhoun School in Manhattan (music by Allison Leyton-Brown).
From 1997-2003, she wrote numerous songs for original musicals produced by the Vincent Club of Boston.
She received her MFA in 2003 as a graduate of NYU/Tisch school of the Arts' Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.
She is a member of ASCAP and a graduate of Barnard College.
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