The following is a preliminary list of honorees, special guests and scholars currently expected to attend, present and perform during the 29th William Inge Theatre Festival, April 21-24, 2010:
More names will be added in the weeks to come. Please check this page again for the latest information.
Gigi Bolt is currently a program and philanthropy consultant and adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University. In 2006-2007, she served as Interim Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group. Ms. Bolt was Director of Theater and Musical Theater at the National Endowment for the Arts from 1995 till 2006. Prior to joining the Endowment, she served as Director of the Theater Program at the New York State Council on the Arts. Her tenure at the Council was preceded by work as an actor including five seasons as a member of the company of the Cleveland Play House. She serves as Interim Board Chairman of the SITI Company and on the Board of the William Inge Festival Foundation. She is the recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the NEA, the Lee Reynolds Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women, and an Alumni Honor Citation from the University of Kansas.
Mark Brokaw directed the New York premieres of Paula Vogel's HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE and LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, and the revival of BALTIMORE WALTZ. Other NY work includes premieres by Douglas Carter Beane, Eric Bogosian, Keith Bunin, Lisa Kron, Lisa Loomer, Kenneth Lonergan, Craig Lucas, Eduardo Machado, Patrick Marber and Wendy Wasserstein. Regional includes Yale Rep, Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Center Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, La Jolla, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, Sundance and the O'Neill Conference. He has directed at London's Donmar Warehouse and Dublin's Gate Theatre, and is the Artistic Director of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre and an artistic associate of the Roundabout Theatre.
Gilbert Glenn Brown recently appeared in Paula Vogel's CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS with the Huntington Theatre (dir. Jessica Thebus), Ester Armahs FORGIVE ME featured in the Mid-Town International Theatre Festival (dir. Trezana Beverly), TOPDOG/UNDERDOG (dir. George C. Wolf Seattle Rep/Circle Theatre Group), Miss Evers Boys (National Black Theatre Festival), MALCOLM X, LIVE FROM DEATH ROW... SCOTTSBORO BOYS (Fountain Theatre), DWB in Beverly Hills (Lynne Hamilton, Matrix Theatre). Film: A Long Night, Concrete River, DreamGirls (dir. Bill Condon), Rain, Children of the Struggle, Raising the Heights, Night Falls on Manhattan (dir. Sidney Lumet). Television: Mercy, ER, The O.C., Cold Case, Shark, CSI: Miami, The Shield, as well as several commercials on camera and voiceover talent. He has received a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts; he has garnered 3 NACCP Theatre Award nominations, COLSAC Best Lead Performance Award, along with a Drama Critic and L.A.Weekly Award.
Wayne Bryan has performed extensively on Broadway (GOOD NEWS!, RODGERS AND HART, TINTYPES) and has directed productions all across the country. Wayne began his professional career as both actor and director with San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, and credits at regional theatres include starring roles in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES, BARNUM, 1776, WHERE'S CHARLEY?, and ME AND MY GIRL. In 1988 Wayne become the Producing Artistic Director for Music Theatre of Wichita, where he has now produced 105 Broadway-scale, highly acclaimed musical productions. Numerous awards include the Kansas Governor's Arts Award and the NCCJ Brotherhood / Sisterhood Award. He is co-author of the rewritten collegiate musical GOOD NEWS!, which has received more than 250 productions in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, plus a well-received cast album. He also produced the American cast album for the Olivier Award-winning HONK! Wayne has been been seen in Inge Festival tributes to Stephen Sondheim, Kander and Ebb, Arthur Laurents, Comden and Green, Bock and Harnick and Jones and Schmidt.
Marcia Cebulska has received the Dorothy Silver Award, the Jane Chambers International Award, Kansas Arts Commission and Indiana Arts Commission Master Artist Fellowships, "Best Historical Film" (Traildance) and other honors. NOW LET ME FLY, commissioned for the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board, has been performed at over 3,000 venues from Topeka to Turkmenistan and filmed for a French documentary. TOUCHED was commissioned for the 25th anniversary of the Inge Festival. THROUGH MARTHA'S EYES aired nationally on PBS. Her plays have been chosen for development by the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Sundance Playwrights Lab, and Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat and produced at The Georgia Repertory Theatre, HERE (NYC), the Phoenix Theatre, Frontera at Hyde Park, Fremont Centre Theatre, The Theatre Building of Chicago, Fusion Theatre and elsewhere. She has been playwright-in-residence at The University of Georgia, Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, and The William Inge Center for the Arts.
Barbara Dana made her New York stage debut at the age of 17 in the off-Broadway production of Arthur Laurents' A CLEARING IN THE WOODS. She appeared on Broadway in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, ENTER LAUGHING, ROOM SERVICE and William Inge's WHERE'S DADDY? She was also a member of the improvisational group, Second City, appearing in Chicago and New York. Ms. Dana is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her first play, WAR IN PARAMUS, premiered at Abingdon Theatre Company in New York in 2005, directed by Austin Pendelton. It has recently been published in the anthology New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2006. Her most recent book, Wider than the Sky: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson (Kent State University Press) has recently been released. Barbara has just completed a novel based on the young life of Emily Dickinson, which will be published by HarperCollins in February, 2009. www.barbaradana.com
Philip Dawkins has performed his play YES TO EVERYTHING! all around the country. Other plays include: YOU GONNA EAT THAT? (Healthworks); EDGAR AND ELLEN: BAD SEEDS (published with Playscripts International) and THE SKOKIE DETECTIVE CHARTER SCHOOL (Northlight Theatre Academy); UGLY BABY (Chicago Vanguard / Strawdog Theatre), A STILL LIFE IN COLOR (T.U.T.A.), THE MAN WITH A SHATTERED WORLD (Ethington Theatre), SAGUARO (Estrogen Fest, Chicago; Estrogenius Festival, NY; 16th Street Theatre, Berwyn, Illinois; Painted Filly, Dublin); PERFECT (The Side Project), and CAST OF CHARACTERS (Theatre III, Long Island). Mr. Dawkins is a Fellow of the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Scotland, and was a William Inge Arts Center Playwright-in-Residence in the fall of 2009. He is a founding member with Eric C. Reda of Chicago Opera Vanguard. He teaches playwriting in public schools through Chicago Dramatists. He also teaches Kung Fu to little, tiny, Chicago children. Hi-YAH!
Teresa Eyring is Executive Director of Theatre Communications Group, the national organization for non-profit professional theatre. Prior to arriving at TCG in 2007, Ms. Eyring spent more than twenty years as an executive in theatres around the U.S. Positions included: managing director of the Children's Theatre Company (CTC) in Minneapolis from 1999-2007; managing director of the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia from 1994-1999; and assistant executive director of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1989-1993. She began her theatre career as director of development for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C in 1983. She holds a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and an MFA in Theatre Administration from Yale School of Drama. Eyring is currently active as an executive committee member of the Performing Arts Alliance, is chair of the follow-up process for the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention, is a member of the National Advisory Council for the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, and a member of the Tony Awards nominating committee.
Yvette Freeman has played the role of Nurse Haleh Adams on the acclaimed dramatic series ER for the past fifteen seasons. She also played the funny but slightly evil character of Evelyn Smalley on the NBC sitcom series Working. Yvette has starred in the Broadway, First National, Paris and International companies of AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'. Yvette starred in the New York production DINAH WAS, based on the life of the legendary jazz singer Dinah Washington, and won the 1998 Obie for Best Actress. She also received the NAACP Award, Ovation Award, LA Weekly and a Dramalogue Award for her portrayal of Dinah Washington in the Los Angeles production of DINAH WAS. Most recently she played the role of 101 year old Dr. Bessie in HAVING OUR SAY at the acclaimed McCarter Theater. For more information on Yvette check out her website: www.yvettefreeman.com
Katori Hall is a playwright-performer hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Her plays include HOODOO LOVE, which was produced Off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and THE MOUNTAINTOP, which was recently produced to great acclaim at London's Theatre 503 and transferred to the Trafalgar Studios in London's West End. Other plays include REMEMBRANCE, HURT VILLAGE, SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING, WHADDABLOODCLOT!?!?, THE HOPE WELL and PUSSY VALLEY.
Her awards include the 2009-10 Lark (PONY) Fellowship, Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship, two Lecompte du Nouy Prizes from Lincoln Center, Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, NYFA Fellowship, Van Lier Fellowship from the Public Theatre and the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award. Recently, THE MOUNTAINTOP was nominated for a prestigious 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Play. Hall was shortlisted for the London Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright Award.
Hall has been published as a book reviewer, journalist, and essayist in publications such as The Boston Globe, Essence and Newsweek. She has been a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow at the O'Neill. She was a member of the 2007-20010 Lark Playwrights' Workshop and the 2006-2008 Women's Project Playwrights' Lab. She is a member of the Dramatist's Guild and the Old Vic New Voices program.
As an actor, Hall's credits include Law & Order: SVU, THE PRESIDENT'S PUPPETS (The Public), GROWING UP A SLAVE (American Place Theatre), INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL (American Place Theatre), the world premiere of AMERIKA (Theatre de la Jeune Lune/American Repertory Theatre), SPRING AWAKENING (Moscow Art Theatre School), AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH (Classical Theatre of Harlem), SCHOOLED (WOW Café Theatre) and BLACK GIRL (Sande Shurin Theatre).
She graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a major in African-American Studies and Creative Writing. She was awarded top departmental honors from the university's Institute for Research in African-American Studies (IRAAS). In 2005, she graduated from the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University with a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. She is a recent graduate of the Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program. Hall currently lives in New York City.
Mary Hanes has had many plays, one-acts and sketch comedy shows produced around the country. Her sketch comedy, THE NEW ROTICS, won Best Comedy of the Year from the L.A. Weekly. Her play, THE CRIMSON THREAD, was first produced on National Public Radio and is published by Samuel French. Her play, DOIN' TIME AT THE ALAMO, won two national playwriting awards: the New Voices in American Theatre Award from the William Inge Festival and the Mildred & Albert Panowski Playwriting Award and is published by Samuel French. Mary co-developed and Executive Produced the television series Hope Island and for the past ten years has written on several television shows like Hack, Til Death Do Us Part, Doc and Dead Last. Currently, Mary is developing a series for television with her husband/co-writer, Ken Hanes.
Lanny Hartley is a jazz pianist, conductor and composer who began his career as the pianist for his church in Burlington, New Jersey. With a solid gospel music background he went on to study Music Education at Indiana University. He has performed with such great Jazz artists as Wes Montgomery, Jon Hendricks, Lou Rawls, Ernestine Anderson, and others. The pop artists he has worked with include Thelma Houston, The Fifth Dimension, David Clayton Thomas and others. As musical director and arranger he has worked for Della Reese, Linda Hopkins, Sandra Reeves and with his wife, Yvette Freeman. They have an Award winning off Broadway show, DINAH WAS. He has privately taught piano and music theory for over thirty years. He is also called as a substitute teacher for Jazz classes in the local LA colleges.
Chisa Hutchinson, originally from Newark, New Jersey, is author of a number of plays. Her scripts include THE SUBJECT, commissioned by The Atlantic Theatre Company; and SHE LIKE GIRLS, and THE GOOD MOTHER, at the Lark Play Development Center. DIRT RICH was commissioned and premiered at the City Park Foundation in New York. Her #9 premiered at the Vital Theatre Company. She is a graduate of Vassar College and is currently pursuing her MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University.
Esquire Jauchem has been producing, designing, and directing television and live performances across the United States and around the world for the last 35 years. Founder of the Boston Repertory Theater, Esquire also served as the Managing Director for The Big Apple Circus during its first touring season. At the Boston Rep he produced more than 45 stage productions. As Associate Director of the Opera Company of Boston with famed Director Sarah Caldwell, he was involved in more than 40 opera productions including five American premiers. He also served as the Producing Director of the American/Soviet Festival which brought the Bolshoi Ballet, Bolshoi Opera and 200 other Russian artists to performances in Boston. His television credits include over 1,000 individual shows for NBC, CBS, UPN, The Discovery Channel, Spike, Court TV and for the past three years he has been the Supervising Producer of the Style Network's hit series, Clean House, starring comedian Niecy Nash. In 2009 he was nominated for two Emmy's.
Anika Noni Rose most recently performed as the voice of Princess Tiana in the Disney movie The Princess & The Frog which has been nominated for three Oscars, including Best Animated feature and Best song. Anika first appeared on Broadway in FOOTLOOSE. She followed that with Off-Broadway's Laura Nyro retrospective, ELI'S COMIN', for which she garnered an Obie Award. Her next stage project was Tony Kushner's CAROLINE OR CHANGE, which went from The Public Theater, where she earned a Lucille Lortel award for her portrayal of Emmie Thibodeaux, to Broadway, where she received the Tony Award for featured actress in a musical, The Theater World Award, The Clarence Derwent Award, and a Drama Desk nomination. Anika took the play to the west coast where she picked up The Los Angeles Critcs' Circle Award and an Ovation Award. Her next stop was the big screen, playing Lorrell Robinson in Bill Condon's Dreamgirls. The movie received an AFI ensemble award, and was nominated for a SAG award. Anika herself was nominated for an NAACP award. Anika has sung all over the world, including the 79th Annual Academy Awards, and The Vatican. Anika was classically trained at San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater.
David Rush has had productions of his plays at Mark Taper Forum, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club, Stage Left, Chicago Dramatists and others. He's had readings and workshops at major festivals including Great Plains, Odyssey, Utah Shakespeare, and Abingdon Theater. He has won or was a finalist in several national playwriting contests including Dayton FutureFest, Fremont Center, Great Plans Theater Festival, Firehouse Theater, Ashland Shakespeare and others. His awards include several Chicago Jeff Awards, a Los Angeles DramaLogue Award, and Dayton FutureFest Best Play and two midwest Emmies. Among his plays and musicals are LEANDER STILLWELL, ONE FINE DAY, CUTTINGS, POLICE DEAF NEAR FAR, GERMINOUS SEEDS, PRAIRIE LIGHTS and recently, WOMEN OF CHOICE, a monologue collection. He is currently working on a musical and a civil war play. He has written two college textbooks on playwriting and play analysis. He currently is Head of Playwriting at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, a member of Chicago's Stage Left Theater, and a past affiliate of Chicago Dramatists.
Alan Safier continues to play to sold-out houses and standing ovations across the U.S. as George Burns in the one-man show, SAY GOODNIGHT GRACIE. His stage career has included portrayals of several other celebrated persons: Spiro Agnew in AN EVENING WITH RICHARD M. NIXON, Truman Capote in the off-Broadway revival of NEW FACES OF 1952, Albert Einstein in the world-premiere musical THE SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD, John Adams in 1776, and Charles Guiteau in the L.A. premiere of ASSASSINS. Other recent stage credits include THE MEN FROM THE BOYS, CITY OF ANGELS, THE SPEED OF DARKNESS, Steve Martin's THE UNDERPANTS, and William Inge's "lost play," THE DISPOSAL. Festival attendees will remember him from past tributes to Jones & Schmidt, Christopher Durang, Bock & Sheldon, Arthur Laurents, and Romulus Linney. Alan has done hundreds of radio & tv voiceovers (most notably as the Kibbles 'n' Bits dog), and has guest-starred in TV series, most recently on The Wizards of Waverly Place. http://alansafier.com
David Savran is a specialist in twentieth and twenty-first century American theatre, popular culture, and social theory. He is the author of eight books, including Breaking the Rules: The Wooster Group; Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams; and most recently, Highbrow/Lowdown: Theater, Jazz, and the Making of the New Middle Class. He has published two collections of interviews with playwrights, In Their Own Words and The Playwright's Voice, and has served as a judge for the Obie Awards and the Lucille Lortel Awards. He is the editor of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre and is the Vera Mowry Roberts Distinguished Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Anne Fausto Sterling is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Biochemistry at Brown University. She is Chair of the Faculty Committee on Science & Technology Studies. She has served on the Brown faculty for more than 30 years. A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she has received grants and fellowships in both the sciences and the humanities. Author of scientific publications in developmental genetics and developmental ecology, Pr. Fausto-Sterling has achieved recognition for works that challenge entrenched scientific beliefs while engaging with the general public. Her new work applies dynamic systems theory to the study of human development. Dynamic systems theory permits us to understand how cultural difference becomes bodily difference. Professor Fausto-Sterling's current case studies in this area examine sex differences in bone development and the emergence of gender differences in behavior in early childhood and the emergence of human sexuality.
Dan Sullivan directs the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Critics Institute and teaches journalism at the University of Minnesota. He was chief theater critic for the Los Angeles Times for twenty years, and has also reviewed for the New York Times and the Minneapolis Tribune. He was a writer-in-residence at Independence Community College in 1989 while researching the life of William Inge. He is married to Faith Sullivan, author of "Gardenias," "The Cape Ann" and other fine novels.
Paula Vogel's play, HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play, as well as winning her second OBIE.
It has been produced all over the world. Other plays include THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, THE MINEOLA TWINS, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, HOT'N'THROBBING, Desdemona, AND BABY MAKES SEVEN, and THE OLDEST PROFESSION. In 2004-5 she was the playwright in residence at The Signature Theatre in New York which produced three of her works. Her new play A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS was produced at The Long Wharf Theatre in November 2008, directed by Tina Landau. This past season it was produced at Theatre Works in Palo Alto, CA and by the Huntington Theatre in Boston.
She is currently playwright in residence at the Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as an artistic associate at Long Wharf Theatre. Work in progress includes a commission for Yale Repertory (THE ANATOMY OF MAN), a work in collaboration with Stephen Flaherty, choreographer Chris Gatelli and producer Jennifer Manocherian, and a new play, JITTERBUGGING AND THE WAR EFFORT.
Theatre Communications Group has published three books of her work, THE MAMMARY PLAYS, THE BALTIMORE WALTZ AND OTHER PLAYS and THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME. A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS will be published in Fall 2010.
Most recent awards include the 2010 William Inge Theatre Festival Distinguished Achievement in the American Theatre Award (past recipients include Arthur Miller, Horton Foote, Edward Albee, and August Wilson). She will be inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center in April. Last spring, she was awarded the Stephen and Christine Schwarzman Legacy Award for Excellence in Theatre for lifetime achievement and excellence in teaching. She is most honored to have two awards to emerging playwrights named after her: the Paula Vogel Award, created by the American College Theatre Festival in 2003, and the Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting is given annually by the Vineyard Theatre, since 2007: its first recipient was Yale School of Drama alum Terrell McCraney.
Ms. Vogel won the 2004 Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the OBIE for Best Play in 1992, the Rhode Island Pell Award in the Arts, the Hull-Warriner Award, The Laura Pels Award, the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Award, a Guggenheim, an AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the McKnight Fellowship, the Bunting Fellowship, and the Governor's Award for the Arts. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was recently awarded a Thirtini, a most coveted award, from 13P in New York.
Paula Vogel is the Eugene O’Neill Chair of Playwriting and Chair of the Playwriting Department at the Yale School of Drama.
Ralph Voss A native Kansan, Ralph is a Professor of English at the University of Alabama, where he specializes in American Drama and Rhetoric. Voss is author of the William Inge biography, A Life of William Inge and several books and articles on American Drama and the craft of writing. Voss holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Ft. Hays State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published biographical and critical articles about Inge and Tennessee Williams in The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Dictionary of American Biography, Kansas Quarterly, and Library Chronicle. He also publishes in the field of rhetoric and composition.
Amanda White is a proud member of Actors' Equity, and currently serves as the Coordinator of Planning & Development at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She has worked in play development for The Araca Group and for Theatre Development Fund, and recent production work includes co-Producing THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE and Willliam Inge's BUS STOP for Brooklyn's Gallery Players. Some favorite credits include A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Anne), THE HEIDI CHRONICLES (Heidi), CAROUSEL (Julie Jordan), JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, KITTY, MEDEA, and BALM IN GILEAD. Most recently, Amanda received an MA in Arts Administration from Columbia University and graduated from the School at Steppenwolf. She is a proud native daughter of Buffalo, Iowa.
Elizabeth Wilson studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Her Broadway debut was in PICNIC in 1952. Since then she has appeared on Broadway in WAITING IN THE WINGS; A DELICATE BALANCE and AH, WILDERNESS; among others. She won a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Actress in MORNINGS AT SEVEN, and a Tony Award for her performance in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of STICKS AND BONES. She won Obie Awards for TAKEN IN MARRIAGE and ANTIROOM and was given the Drama Desk Award for SOLONIKA. She has various film and television credits as well including: The Graduate; The Addams Family; Grace Quigley with Katherine Hepburn; and Child is Waiting with Judy Garland. She was recently inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Chay Yew's directing credits include – New York: DURANGO and LOW (Public Theater); THE ARCHITECTURE OF LOSS (New York Theatre Workshop); THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA (National Asian American Theatre Company); LAST OF THE SUNS (Ma Yi Theatre Company). Regional Theatre: Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cornerstone Theatre Company, East West Players, Northlight Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Gala Hispanic Theatre, Empty Space, etc. International Theatre: Singapore Repertory Theatre. Opera credits: World premieres of Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang's AINADAMAR (co-production with Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Los Angeles Philharmonic) and Rob Zuidam's RAGE D'AMORS (Tanglewood). He is the recipient of the OBIE Award and Dramalogue Award for Direction. An alumnus of New Dramatists, he also serves on the Executive Board on the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.