DAVID CALE is an English-American performance artist, playwright, songwriter and actor based in New York City.
His solo musical memoir "We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time", for which he wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed the music with Matthew Dean Marsh, and starred, premiered at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago and The Public Theater, New York City and was the recipient of the 2019 Jeff Award for Best New Musical, a NY Times Critics Pick, a 2020 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a 2020 Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Show, a 2020 Drama Desk Award ... read more
LISA RAMIREZ (Actor/Playwright) will be performing the part of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in the upcoming production in May/June at Oakland Theater Project. Recent productions include, Cashed Out at SF Playhouse, Nan and the Lower Body at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Crucible at Oakland Theater Project, Water by the Spoonful at the SF Playhouse, Addressless at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and the drive-in theater production of TS Eliot's, THE WASTE LAND at Oakland Theater Project. Seen as Wilma in THE CONVENT by Jessie Dickey at Rising Phoenix- Rattlestick Theater, MJ's Mom in GOOD GRIEF at the Vineyard Theatre ... read more
Theresa Rebeck is a widely produced playwright. Past New York productions include The Understudy, Mauritius, The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, Spike Heels, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, View of the Dome and Omnium Gatherum (co-written, Pulitzer finalist). Publications include her Collected Plays Volumes I, II and III; Free Fire Zone (fall 2007), all with Smith & Kraus; and two novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms With a View with Random House/Shaye Areheart Books. Produced feature films include Harriet the Spy, Gossip and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing ... read more
Joan Stein is a producer and theatre executive known for her work on Broadway and Off-Broadway. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended Brooklyn College, where she studied English and theatre.
Stein began her career in the theatre industry as a stage manager for the off-Broadway production of "The Fantasticks" in 1960. She went on to work with the New York Shakespeare Festival, where she served as the production stage manager for the original production of "Hair" in 1967.
In 1970, Stein co-founded the Manhattan Theatre Club with Lynne Meadow. The company started as an Off-Off-Broadway theatre and has since ... read more
Annie Weisman is a Los Angeles-based playwright whose play HOLD PLEASE was produced by the Working Theatre in New York in February 2003, after premiering at South Coast Rep in September 2001. Her play BE AGGRESSIVE premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in July 2001, and went on to productions at Dallas Theatre Center, Chicago's Rivenden Theatre, Austin's State Theatre, and others. BE AGGRESSIVE is published in Smith & Kraus' "Best Plays of 2001" and by Dramatists Play Service, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Ms. Weisman's play A TOTALLY MEANINGFUL RITUAL was commissioned by A.S.K. Theatre ... read more
MTC: From Up Here. Broadway: The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory�. Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center, Atlantic, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb (Affiliate Artist), Adobe. Regional: Minneapolis Children's Theatre, Bay Street, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Long Wharf, The Alley, Kennedy Center, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre, ATF. TV: Comedy Central, NBC. Radio: Studio 360, WNYC News. Nominations: Drama Desk, Henry Hewes. Ruth Morley Design Award. Adjunct Professor: Sarah Lawrence College. ... read more
A well established Singer and Stage/Television Actress most recently playing 'Veronica' in Jennifer Saunders' Jam and Jerusalem for the BBC. She is a well-known West End performer and has played many leading roles including 'Christine' in Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom Of The Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre. She is a regular Concert Performer and Voiceover Artist.
Jan's West End starring roles include 'Maria' in West Side Story (Her Majesty's). 'Lucy' in Bless the Bride (Sadler's Wells). 'Wallis Simpson' in Always (Victoria Palace) and a year as 'Christine' in The Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre. Her appearances for ... read more
Lisa Peterson (Director) is a two-time OBIE Award-winning writer and director. She wrote and directed An Iliad (Seattle Rep, McCarter Theatre, NYTW) with Denis O’Hare and The Good Book, commissioned and produced by Court Theatre. Her directing work includes the world premiere productions of new plays by Tony Kushner, Beth Henley, Donald Margulies, Naomi Wallace, Marlane Meyer, Jose Rivera, Luis Alfaro, Chay Yew and many more. She has also directed classic plays at theaters across the country, including the Guthrie, Arena Stage, Yale Rep, Hartford Stage, OSF, Baltimore Center Stage, South Coast Rep and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Lisa has ... read more