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NY DIRECTING CREDITS
Off Broadway
Shaviana
M. Martin
Samuel Beckett Theatre
Off-Off Broadway
The Basic Theatre (Director in Residence):
The Haircut (Premiere)
P. Galino
Titus Andronicus
W. Shakespeare
Santa MonicaThreeway(NY Premiere)
T. Jacobson
BertoltBrecht: In
Dark Times (NY
Premiere)
D. Langworthy
Shaviana(Premiere)
M. Martin
Let Us Go Into The Starry Night
J.P. Shanley
Sure Thing
D. Ives
Vineyard:
Grit in a Sensitive Instrument (NY Premiere)
P. Singleton
Pretty Witty Nell (NY Premiere)
C. Malugen
Stage 73, Manhattan Theatre Club:
HeddaGabler
H. Ibsen
Summer and Smoke
T. Williams
T. Schreiber Studio:
Last Chance For Happiness (Premiere)
J. Greenhouse
Loot
J. Orton
Stagewrights:
Snake Eyes (Premiere)
A. Masters
Gutterballs(Premiere)
U. Taubert
42nd St. Collective
Artifice (Premiere)
B. Beatty
Real Live Dancing Boy (Premiere)
K. Grubb
Westside Rep, NYC:
In Memory (Premiere)
J. Dirigl
A Place To Come Home To
J. Dirigl
Additional NY Credits:
Brighton Beach Memoirs
N. Simon
American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Scenes From American Life
A.R. Gurney
The New Actors Workshop
A Little Bit More (Cabaret w/Jenny Lynn Stewart)
Rodgers & Hammerstein
Various Venues
Mister Lincoln
H. Mitgang
The Acting Company
The White Whore and the Bit Player
T. Eyen
Core Group; Theatre Row Theatre
Pearl
J. Poglinco
Pulse Ensemble Theatre,
Soap Opera
R. Pape
Houseman Theatre
Gift of the Magi (Musical/Tour)
Cosentino/ Mondzak
Interborough Repertory Theater
Free Pass to SoriaMoria(U.S. Premiere)
B. Vik
CityUniversity of NY
Nathaniel (Premiere)
M. Sawyer
Theatre 11
The White Whore and the Bit Player
T. Eyen
The Production Company
As You Like It (A
New Musical)
Winters/Watkins/Shane
Brothers & Sisters Cabaret,
REGIONAL DIRECTING CREDITS
Artistic Director
Shakespeare in San Marco/The Met
Theatre Jacksonville
Jacksonville, FL
Macbeth
W.Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
W.Shakespeare
Hamlet
W.Shakespeare
The Tempest
W.Shakespeare
Cleveland Public Theatre:
Bright Room Called Day
T. Kushner
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Mitchell/Trask
Sweet Phoebe
M. Gow
Science Gets Serious (Premiere)
F. Green
FindlaySummerStock
Blithe Spirit
N. Coward
Bus Stop
W. Inge
Additional Regional Credits:
Awake and
Sing
C. Odets
Halle
Theatre Cleveland, Ohio
Shatter
The Vessel (Premiere)
L. McDermott
New Play
Festival Charlottesville,VA
A Season
in Rep (Premiere)
L. Shane
West Coast
Ensemble, LA
Readings and Workshops
The Basic Theatre; Stagewrights;
42nd St. Collective,
Cleveland Public Theatre;NYU; ADAPT;
The New Group, IRT
Industrials
Hoffman-Hedges Prod
ACTING CREDITS
(selected, full list available including film , television and radio)
Mortal Coil
(all roles)
NY Int'l Fringe Festival/
Cleveland Public Theatre/
Stella Adler Theatre, LA/Video
Polymorphous Perverse (George)
42nd St. Collective Summerfest
The Tempest (Ariel)
People's Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA
Counting the Ways (He)
PAI Rep
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck)
Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio)
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Taming of the Shrew (Tranio)
Three Seasons in Repertory
School for Wives (Alain)
Tartuffe (Tartuffe)
As You Like It (Jacques)
Also served as company
Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry)
Voice and Movement Master
Macbeth (Angus)
Two Gentlemen of Verona(Speed)
Hamlet (Guildenstern;
Osric)
The Comedy of Errors (Dromio)
WRITING CREDITS
Mortal Coil (play)
Produced:Cleveland Public Theatre
Produced: NY Int'l Fringe Festival
Reading:Basic Theatre Marathon, NYC
Winner of Cleveland Drama Critics Award
Produced:Stella Adler Theatre, Los Angeles
Produced:Video - Pan:Image, Inc.
Selected Institutional Venues
Nazis & The Occult: Myths, Mystics and Madmen
Cinnabar Pictures/Discovery Channel
20th Century Fox:The First
Fifty Years
Van Ness Films / AMC TV
Carmen Miranda: The South American Way
Tyrone Power: The Last Idol
A&E TV Biography Series
James Brown: Godfather of Soul
Rupert: Just Being Me (Book w/Rupert Boneham)
LifePress
Seven Keys To Success Without Struggle (book w/Penelope Brackett)
Creative Seed Publishing
POV: Max (A Sitcom Treatment; w/ Merrick Bursuk)
Children's Television Workshop
Indieplanet (Website)- Theatre Channel
Grolier Encyclopedia
Contributing Writer
My Weekly Reader
Facilities Magazine
The Mystery Page
Column in A&E Monthly Magazine
To Be Quentin
Miracles:A Fable
Children's' Plays
The New Baby
Published by
Victory At Calvin Coolidge
Sundance Publishing
Life In The Laugh Track
The Bride's Guide (60' Instructional Video)
E.N.D. Productions
A Season in Rep (Play)
Workshop Production
West Coast Ensemble, LA
Pajama Party Horror (Screenplay; w/ Lynn Lowry)
AeonDubai
Industrial Narration
R.U.R Architectural Firm
TEACHING CREDITS
Speech and Dialects
New Actors Workshop (current)
Two year professional conservatory program
Skinner Technique;IPA;
Working with verse and elevated text;
Dialects;Advisor to Masters
Candidates
Speech and Voice
American Academy of Dramatic
Art (current)
Three year professional training conservatory program
Skinner technique, IPA; Director
Speech
New York Film Academy (current)
One year professional training program Skinner technique, IPA
Speech/Voice/Poetry/Shakespeare
TadaTheatricalEnsembleSchool (current)
Pre-professional training program - students ages 10-17
Guest Teacher
Directing Shakespeare
FloridaCommunity CollegeJacksonville
Speech and Dialects
T. Schreiber Studio
Shakespeare Workshop
N. Canyon HS, Phoenix,
AZ
KeyIn To Speech Workshop
The Creative Seed Network
Excellent Service Series
Keynote Speaker
PBS National Teacher Training Institute
Directing as a model for the classroom
The Theatrical Choice
ADAPT, NYC
A workshop on what makes something "theatrical"
The Dybbuk
Society for the Advancement of Judaism
A three week class on the play,
its role in Jewish Theatre, and the religious, mythic and superstitious
elements
Two Faces of Shlyock
West End Synagogue, NYC
A lecture on Shakespeare’s villain and the hero of Wesker’sThe Merchant
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dramaturg
My In Father’s Eyes (Anastassi/Friedman). Lessons(W. Graf), Farenheit 451 (Jax
Reads)
Artistic Director
Shakespeare in San Marco/The Met (Jacksonville, FL)
Director in Residence
The Basic Theatre, NYC
Executive Director
The Conspiracy Theatre, NYC
Speech Coach
Merchant of Venice (w/ M. Carnovsky)
Dialect Coach
Escape From Happiness
T. Schreiber Studio, NYC
Orpheus Descending
T. Schreiber Studio, NYC
New Music
Mint Theatre Co., NYC
Voice & Movement Master
3 Seasons Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Script Reader
The Hartford Stage;
Manhattan Theatre Club, Westbeth
Freelance Copy and Technical Writing
Private Coaching--Acting & Dialects
Client list by request
Field Coordinator
NBC News Elections
Volunteer
Jacob Perlow Hospice
AWARDS
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Dan Folino
(Hedwig) Winner:-
Outstanding Performance by an Actor - Scene
Magazine; Best of 2002
Hamlet
Matt Hemphill (Hamlet) Best Actor,
Theatre Jacksonville
Twelfth Night
Mandy Proctor (Viola) Best Actress,
Theatre Jacksonville