Adam Bock's The Drunken City was produced at Playwrights Horizons in 2008. His play The Receptionist received its World Premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in the fall of 2007 to a sold-out extended run. The play has had many stock and amateur productions around the country, including last fall, starring Megan Mullally at The Odyssey Theatre in LA. His other works include The Thugs (Obie Award), Swimming in the Shallows (3 BATCC Awards, Clauder Award), Five Flights (Glickman Award), The Typographer's Dream, The Shaker Chair and Three Guys and a Brenda (Heideman Award). His plays have been commissioned, developed and ... read more
Tina Howe is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Born on November 21, 1937, in New York City, Howe grew up in a family of artists. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from the Hunter College Playwriting Program.
Howe's career in theater began in the late 1970s when her play "The Nest" was produced Off-Off-Broadway. Her breakthrough came in 1981 with the production of "Painting Churches" at the Second Stage Theatre. The play was a critical and commercial success and earned Howe an Obie Award for Best New American Play. "Painting Churches" went on to be produced on ... read more
David Ives is probably best known for his evenings of one-act comedies called All in the Timing and Time Flies. All in the Timing won the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award, ran for two years Off-Broadway, and in the 1995-96 season was the most performed play in the country after Shakespeare productions. His full-length plays include The School For Lies (adapted from Moliere's The Misanthrope and a major hit at New York's Classic Stage Company last spring); The Heir Apparent (an adaptation of J-F Regnard's comedy that was an audience and critical hit at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, ... read more
McNally has had a remarkably far-ranging career spanning six decades. In 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won four Tony Awards for his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Master Class and his musical books for Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime.
He has written a number of TV scripts, including "Andre's Mother," for which he won an Emmy Award. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, four Drama Desk Awards, two ... read more
Melissa Attebery (Director) began in Los Angeles in series television, holding various positions in production and development at companies like Paramount, Viacom and Granada Entertainment before moving to the New York stage.
Her New York stage credits include primarily original works, playing at venues such as Primary Stages, The Abingdon, HERE, Queens Theatre in the Park, FringeNYC, The Players, TADA and at Westbeth. She assistant-directed for Tina Howe at the 24 HOUR PLAYS ON BROADWAY and directed the award-winning comedy LARRY GETS THE CALL by Matt Casarino (The 15-Minute Play Festival), which went on to be featured at DaDaFest International ... read more
Diana BasmajianAssistant Director ("The First Tree In Antarctica")
JOSH BRADFORD (he/him) Regional credits: The Rocky Horror Show (Rocky), Gypsy (Newsboy) - Cygnet; Jesus Christ Superstar (John), School of Rock (Ensemble/Theo U/S), Escape to Margaritaville (Ensemble/Chadd U/S), Saturday Night Fever (Ensemble/Bobby & Joey U/S), Disney’s Tarzan (Ensemble), Something Rotten! (Swing), Beauty and the Beast (Ensemble), Matilda (Ensemble), Newsies (Scab/Ensemble), The Little Mermaid (Ensemble), The Music Man (Ensemble) The Who's Tommy (Young Tommy), The Wizard of Oz (Mayor of Munchkinland) - Moonlight; She Loves Me (Arpad Laszlo) - SRT; How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Ladybug Who) – Old Globe. Josh is a Senior at SDSU’s School of Theatre, Television, and ... read more