The Amateurs - Off-Broadway Creative Team

LAUREN Z. ADLEMAN is a Brooklyn-based director who has an affinity for the imaginative, the absurd, and for new work development. She has developed new plays with a variety of NYC based organizations including Ars Nova, Dixon Place, The Tank, the NYU Graduate Writing Department, Exquisite Corpse Company, Bookshop Workshop, and as a co-founder/resident director of PLAYxPLAY: a staged reading series, producing and presenting a night of shorts by an emerging playwright. In addition, Lauren is a co-curator and co-founder of Drinking Plays & Reading Wine, a casual play reading salon series in residency at Jimmy's No. 43 in the ... read more Dave's Broadway credits included Be More Chill, Indecent, M. Butterfly, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, The Real Thing, and Violet. His work was seen Off-Broadway in Little Miss Sunshine, Here Lies Love, Buried Child, Pericles, What I Did Last Summer, Booty Candy, The Killer, My Name is Asher Lev, Good Person of Szechwan, and Romeo and Juliet. His national tour credits included Cruel Intentions, The Lightning Thief, Love Never Dies, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 42nd Street, Ragtime, The Addams Family, Camelot, Rock of Ages, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. His work has also been featured regionally in Marie Antoinette at Steppenwolf Theatre, Hamlet ... read more Co-founder and co-artistic director of The Debate Society (TDS), with whom he has co-created and directed nine full-length plays since 2004. Mr. Butler directed TDS’ Jacuzzi, which premiered last fall at Ars Nova. He also directed the premiere of Will Eno’s The Open House (Obie Award for Direction; Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play) at the Signature Theatre Company. He directed the City Center Encores! Off-Center production of Jonathan Larson’s Tick…Tick…Boom starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom and Karen Olivo. TDS’ acclaimed production of Blood Play had sold out runs at The Bushwick Starr, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival ... read more Broadway: The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, Motown, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Peter and the Starcatcher, All About Me, and Next to Normal. Off-Broadway: Himself & Nora, Invisible Thread, Perfect Arrangement, The Tempest, Pretty Filthy, and Father Comes Home from the Wars. TV/Film: Mozart in the Jungle, Gotham, Inside Amy Schumer, God’s Pocket, Six by Sondheim, 30 Rock, Lola Versus, and Angelica. ... read more Broadway: The Real Thing, In the Next Room, The American Plan. Recently, original music and sound for Sam Gold's Othello at NYTW. Other recent Off-Broadway work at The Signature, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, the Public (Lortel Nomination for Buzzer), the Roundabout Theatre Company and Lincoln Center Theater. Regional work at Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, The Old Globe (Craig Noel Nomination for The Last Match), The Long Wharf, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, Hartford Stage, among others. Amsterdam: The Glass Menagerie (Toneelgroep) Upcoming: John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons at the Public. Awards: Obies for Sustained Excellence and Annie Baker's John ... read more Broadway: Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, Grand Horizons, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Off-Broadway work has been seen at Second Stage, The Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Signature, MCC, Roundabout, MTC, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public, The Vineyard, Women’s Project, Playwrights Realm, Primary Stages. Current: Blue Man Group National Tour. Opera: Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers (Metropolitan); Faust, Midsummer, Traviata (Mariinsky, Russia). Adjunct: Purchase. Mom: Henry. ... read more