2010 DIRECTORFEST PRODUCTIONS
Snow Day
by Eliza Clark
directed by Lila Neugebauer
Cast
Nate: Greg Keller*
Carol: Julie Jesneck*
Lindsay: Reyna de Courcy*
Stage Manager: Jason A. Quinn*
Casting: Cindi Rush Casting, Ltd.
*Member of AEA
Snow Day is produced by a special agreement with the playwright.
Lila Neugebauer (Director) is a freelance director based in New York City. Her recent directing work has been seen at Ars Nova’s ANT FEST, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Cherry Lane Studio Theatre, The Brick, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Theater of the American South. She has developed new works through Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Dramatists Guild, EST/Youngblood, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, NYU Tish Graduate Playwrighting, and the Yale Playwrights Festival. As part of the artistic collective The Mad Ones, she co-conceived and directed Samuel and Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (winner of multiple New York Innovative Theatre Awards, including Outstanding Production of a Play and Outstanding Ensemble). Assistantships include Jo Bonney, Leigh Silverman, Les Waters, and Chay Yew, among others. She is a frequent guest director at NYU Tisch/Atlantic Acting School, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, member of the 2010-2011 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, LCT Directors Lab, The Civilians’ inaugural Research and Development Group, and was a 2009-2010 Resident Director at Ensemble Studio Theatre. BA Yale College. For her Drama League fellowship Lila assisted Diane Paulus on The Capeman at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park and Kathleen Marshall on Bells are Ringing at City Center Encores! Upcoming: new short plays by Kristoffer Diaz, Molly Smith Metzler, and Tasha Gordon-Solomon as part of The Wii Plays (Ars Nova), Josh Conkel’s The Sluts of Sutton Drive (EST/Youngblood Unfiltered), and Assistant Directing/Dramaturging Adam Rapp’s The Edge of Our Bodies (2011 Humana Festival).
The Furniture Fire
by Thomas Higgins
directed by Jeremy Bloom
Cast
Jane: Birgit Huppuch*
Clark: Marc Damon Johnson*
Wanda: Alenka Kraigher*
Martie: Stephen Bradbury*
Stage Manager: Marisa Levy*
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting
*Member of AEA
The Furniture Fire is produced by a special agreement with the playwright.
Jeremy Bloom (Director) directs his original adaptations including La Boheme (Spoken), Peter-Wendy (Dark), and Leaves of Grass (Nude), as well as the work of new playwrights (most recently, The Green Knight by Brian Rady). He has directed at The Flea, Walkerspace, The Cherry Lane, Incubator Arts Project, NYU Grad, 45 Bleecker, The New York Botanical Gardens, in festivals, site specifically, and at The Cell where he is a resident artist. He is the recipient of The Planet Connections Artist Grant. Favorite assistant credits include The Met, Broadway, LCT3, and The Flea (most frequently for Mary Zimmerman). Upcoming: Walt and Emily: Between the Rooms by Jonathan Cott, featuring Neal Huff and Birgit Huppuch and produced by Evenstar Films, as well as ‘Lil Mermaid with Art.Party.Theater and a dozen composers (www.jeremybloomplays.com). For his Drama League fellowship Jeremy assisted Mary Zimmerman on Candide at The Goodman Theatre and, Drama League Alum Alex Timbers on The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway. Thanks to Roger and The Drama League. Thanks Lila, Tyrone, and Rafael.
Audience
by Václav Havel
directed by Rafael Gallegos
Cast
Brewmaster: Doug Wert*
Vanek: Stephen Tyrone Williams*
Stage Manager: Colleen M. Sherry*
Casting: Dani Super Casting
*Member of AEA
Audience is produced by a special arrangement with Samuel French.
Rafael Gallegos (Director) is an opera and theatre director based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Opera and music theatre work includes Matt Marks’ The Little Death: Vol. 1 (Incubator Arts Project/Ontological Theatre), The Coterie (Joe’s Pub), Alarm Will Sound’s 1969 (assistant/tour director). Rafael creates devised theatre as Conspiracy Laboratory, aka ConLab, an interdisciplinary arts team currently researching the intersection of sports and performance. For ConLab he created the original works It’s In The Game, a series of sports theatricals, Songs Our Mothers Taught Us, Soldierz Tale: Agent Zero and Going, Going, Gone! As an assistant, Rafael has worked with Ivo van Hove, John Jesurun and Moisés Kaufman. From 2008-2010, Rafael was the Artistic Leadership Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, apprenticing under Artistic Director James Nicola. Rafael is a Resident Director for the contemporary opera company The Coterie and currently serves as Theatre Curator for The Tank where he directs the Fresh Out The Box series of new experimental theatre. Drama League Directing Fellow, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, NYTW Directing Fellowship, University of New Mexico. Rafael and designers Brett J. Banakis and Sydney Maresca are winners of the Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Showcase of OPERA America for their production concept of Philip Glass’s Hydrogen Jukebox. For his Drama League fellowship Rafael assisted Ivo van Hove on Hellman’s The Little Foxes at NYTW and observed Nicholas Hytner’s production of Verdi’s Don Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera. Upcoming: Stravinsky’s L’Histoire Du Soldat with Deviant Septet. www.rafaelgallegos.com
Poof!
by Lynn Nottage
directed by Tyrone Brown
Cast
Loureen: Linda Powell*
Florence: Nikki E. Walker*
Samuel: John Earl Jelks*
Videographer: Lindy Boustedt
Stage Manager: Lisa McGinn*
Casting: Elissa Myers Casting, Paul Foquet, CSA
*Member of AEA
Poof! is produced by a special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc.
Tyrone Brown (Director) is a theatre director and producer. Directing credits include Black To My Roots: African American Tales from the Head and Heart (a Fringe First Award winner at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Hamlet X: The Tragedy of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz an adaptation of the William Shakespeare tragedy, No Exit by Jean Paul Satre, Pterodactyls by Nicky Silver, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, and Hot Grits: A Punk Play On Music by Dirty Girl Productions. He is a co-founding member of The Wrecking Crew, a Seattle-based theatre company and was the founding Artistic Director of Brownbox Theatre, an African American Theatre company. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Theatre from Western Washington University and a MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University. For his Drama League fellowship Tyrone assisted director Jo Bonney on The Break of Noon by Neil LaBute at MCC Theater and assisted Drama League Alum Jaime Castañeda on Kristopher Diaz’s Welcome to Arroyo’s at The Old Globe.
