Renowned director Tazewell Thompson stages the poignant comic-drama Broke-ology, by Nathan Louis Jackson at TheaterWorks in Downtown Hartford.
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Nathan Louis Jackson (Playwright) Plays: Broke-ology, When I Come to Die, The Mancherios, The Last Black Play. Other: The Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive, William Inge 24 Hour Play Festival, Ebony Theatre's The Word, Kansas State Speech Team. Directing: The Colored Museum, The Island (Ebony Theatre). Awards: AFA Prose Interpretation Champion (two times), Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award Winner (two times), Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting ard, ACTF Region V Best Acting Partner, President of Ebony Theatre, Recipient of the Kennedy Center's Gold Medallion. TV: Southland. Education: BS, Kansas State University; The Juilliard School.
Tazewell Thompson (Director) Stage Director: Arena Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival, Second Stage, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Roundabout Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The Huntington Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, People's Light & Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Classic Stage Company, Virginia Stage Company, The Cleveland Play House, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, The Acting Company, City Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, MaYi Theater Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Florida Stage, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Children's Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, The Laguna Playhouse, New Federal Theatre, Musical Theatre Works, Gateway Playhouse, Juilliard, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, University of Kansas, Sundance Theatre, Indiana University. Playwright: Constant Star (16 National Productions); A Christmas Carol (Commissioned by People's Light & Theatre, Produced for People's Light & Theatre and Westport Country Playhouse), Jam & Spice (Stage Adaptation of Kurt Weill music). Commissions: Lincoln Center Theater, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, People's Light & Theatre. Awards: Constant Star (9 Barrymore Awards, 5 NAACP Awards, 3 Carbonell Awards - Best Play/Musical Ensemble/Direction).
GINA DANIELS (Sonia) New York: Macbeth (TWAS); Napoleon Beazley (Incumbo); Wive's Tale (Summer Play Festival); Displaced (Nicu's Spoon); Zona, (Abingdon Theatre); Hairy Vest and Sconces (24 Hour Plays); Safehouse (Safehouse Productions). Regional: Measure for Measure (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival); Doubt (The Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Cyrano (Willamette Repertory Theatre); All's Well That Ends Well (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Private Lives (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); The Story (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Medea (Pittsburgh Public Theater); An Ideal Husband (Center Stage); The Exonerated (Charlotte Repertory Theatre); The Taming of The Shrew, Dracula (Delaware Theatre Company); Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Virginia); As You Like It (Arden Theatre); Christmas Carol (Geva Theatre); Other: Well, Winter's Tale, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Skin of Our Teeth, Darker Face of the Earth, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet among others (Oregon Shakespeare Festival - 6 Seasons). Education: University of Southern California.
Frank Faucette (William) Off-Broadway: Much Ado about Nothing (The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival), LA: Flight (Kirk Douglas Theatre/CTG) Regional: An Enemy of the People (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown), Song for New York (Sundance Institute/Bam Cafe Live), Rap (HBO Aspen Comedy Festival). Film / TV: Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, Cold Case, Hacks, Racing for Home, Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, BET's Truth Hall (Producer). Writing: Sins of the Father. Education: MFA, NYU Graduate Acting Program.
Royce Johnson (Ennis) Off Broadway: Brother/Sister Plays (The Public Theater), Defiance (Manhattan Theatre Club), A Soldier's Play (2nd Stage), Light Raise the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop), Fly (Lincoln Center Institute), Macbeth (The Classical Theater of Harlem), The Taking of Miss Janie (New Federal Theatre). Regional: A Lesson Before Dying (Stamford Theatre Workshop), Fences (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Lobby Hero, Native Son, and The Piano Lesson. Film / TV: American Gangster, Brother to Brother, Good Sharma, Conspiracy X, A Magic Helmet, The Cycle, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Rubicon, Life on Mars, Cupid, Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, Third Watch, Queens Supreme, Kidnapped (recurring), Guiding Light. Education: SUNY Purchase.
David Pegram (Malcolm) Theater: Suits & Ties, Tis Pity She's a Whore, In The Blood, and Red Flags. Training: BFA, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.Luke Hegel-Cantarella (Sets) TheaterWorks: Speech and Debate, Blackbird, Driving Miss Daisy, Make Me a Song, The Exonerated, Blue/Orange, Ten Unknowns, The Last Five Years, Dinner with Friends, Spinning into Butter, Lobby Hero, and Chesapeake. NYC: New World Stages, The Atlantic Theater Company, Lucille Lortel Theatre, The Lamb's Theatre Company, HERE, Synapse Productions, Whitney Biennial. Regional: Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theater, Two Rivers Theater Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Yale Repertory Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Lyric Theater, Prince Music Theater, RoadWorks Productions. Opera / Dance: Wolftrap, The Wood Floor, Eastern Connecticut Ballet, Dance Connecticut, Curtis, New England Conservatory of Music. Film / TV: Damages, NOVA, Julie & Julia, Pink Panther 2, State of Play, Synecdoche, NY, The Accidental Husband. Upcoming: Woody Sez (Arts Theater/West End). Luke is the Head of the Set Design program at UCIrvine. Education: Yale School of Drama. www.lukecantarella.com
Harry Nadal (Costumes) TheaterWork's debut. Broadway: A Class Act and Paul Simon's The Capeman. New York: Pregones Theatre, The Atlantic Theatre, Lincoln Center Institute, LAByrinth Theater Company, Theatre for The New City. Regional: Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Open Stage of Harrisburg, Spectrum Stage, HOME, Miranda Theatre. International: The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Ensemble InterNational Theatre. Broadway: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Assistant Costume Designer). Other: Assistant to the Curator, Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designing for Live Performance (NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center). Education: MFA, NYU-Tisch.
GREG GOFF (Lights) TheaterWork's debut. New York Stage and Film, NYU Tisch Department of Dance, NYU Tisch Graduate Acting, Studio Tisch, CAP 21, Curtain Call Theatre, Playwrights Horizon Theater School, New York City 24-Hour Play Festival, The New York Musical Theatre Festival, New York City International Fringe Festival. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Design: Robert Wilson, Urban Tap, The Shelby Company, Liguorian Players, Patricia Norowol Dance Company. Education: MFA, NYU-Tisch. www.greggoff.com Fabian Obispo (Sound) TheaterWork's debut. Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Manhatten Theatre Club, MCC Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Vineyard Theatre, New Group, Classic Stage Company, Primary Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, MaYi Theater Company, The Acting Company. Regional: Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, ACT - A Contemporary Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Huntington Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Playmakers Repertory Company, Perseverance Theatre, Florida Stage, The Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company. Awards / Recognitions: Theatre Wing's Hewes Design Award, Helen Hayes, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Barrymore, NAACP, Audelco, Jackie and IRNE.
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