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Meet-the-Artists Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
TODAY!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, August 2 * Noon
Warner Bentley Theater * FREE
Meet the creators and directors of "Wild with Happy" and "The Loudest Man in the
World"
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WILD WITH HAPPY AUGUST 6 * 5 PM By Colman Domingo * Directed by Robert O'Hara
Tony Award nominee Colman Domingo explores mother-son dynamics.
About the show:
Scottsboro Boys and Passing Strange star, Colman Domingo is developing his dark
comedy Wild with Happy, under the direction of Robert O'Hara. The Tony Award nominee
Domingo, who also starred in his own solo play A Boy and His Soul, explores "the
surreal, bizarre and outrageous comedy that lies in everyone's search for answers
as they try to deal with death and healing," when a young man named Gil plans
to scatter his mothers ashes in the place where she was the most happy: Disneyworld.
Colman Domingo Bio:
Colman Domingo is nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Actor in a featured
role in a Musical for the critically acclaimed, final Kander and Ebb collaboration,
"The Scottsboro Boys" directed by Susan Stroman. Colman is the recipient of an
OBIE, Lucille Lortel, GLAAD, and Connecticut Critics Circle Award. He has been
nominated for The Drama Desk, Drama league, Audelco and Fred Astaire Awards. Colman
is the author of "A Boy and His Soul" the multiple award winning solo play that
premiered at the Vineyard Theater. "A Boy and His Soul" will have a commercial
limited engagement in the fall of 2011.
Colman has starred in the Tony Award winning Broadway musical "Passing Strange"
that was also filmed by Spike Lee. He recently starred as Billy Flynn in the musical
"Chicago" on Broadway. His film work includes Miracle at St. Ana directed by Spike
Lee, True Crime directed by Clint Eastwood, Freedomland directed by Joe Roth,
Around The Fire, King of the Bingo Game, and Kung Phooey. His small screen credits
include: Two seasons on the Logo Network hit series, "The Big Gay Sketch Show"
produced by Rosie O'Donnell.
Robert O'Hara Bio:
Robert O'Hara has recently completed his Film Directing debut, THE INHERITANCE.
He received the 2010 NAACP Best Director Award for his direction of Eclipsed
by Danai Guiria. He received 2010 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play for
ANTEBELLUM and an OBIE Award for his Direction of the World Premiere of the critically
acclaimed In The Continuum at Primary Stages. He wrote and directed the World
Premiere of Insurrection: Holding History at the New York Shakespeare Festival,
the piece received the Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play and was subsequently
published by both TCG and Dramatist Play Service. He Directed the World Premiere
of Brother/Sister Plays (Part 2), Co-Production at McCarter Theater/ New York
Shakespeare Festival. His recent Stage Directing: Tough Titty, Magic Theater.
Eclipsed, CTG/Kirk Douglas Theater. A Life In The Theater, Alliance Theater. Brother
Size, City Theater. His new play Etiquette of Vigilance was produced in the Steppenwolf
First Look Festival 2010. ACT/Zeum recently produced his play, Good Breeding.
His play, Bootycandy will be present under his direction this spring at the Woolly
Mammoth Theater. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at NYU/TISCH School of the
Arts.
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LOUDEST MAN ON EARTH AUGUST 6 * 8 PM By Catherine Rush * Directed by Pamela Berlin
A romantic comedy tracing a blossoming relationship and the challenges faced by
a deaf/hearing couple.
About the show:
Jordan Weiss has been deaf from birth. A loner, maverick theater director and
staunch non-conformist, Jordan's life is going along pretty well. Until he meets
Haylee Masters - a quirky and independent woman, unfazed by his screams to get
off the stage during a set change. Jordan finds Haylee fascinating and she, in
turn, is drawn to him. The only problem is - Haylee can hear. The Loudest Man
on Earth is a romantic comedy tracing the relationship that blossoms between Jordan
and Haylee and the unique challenges they face as a deaf/hearing couple. Seventeen
other characters played by two actors take us through moments in their relationship
that are hilarious, bizarre, frustrating and sometimes heart- breaking.
Catherine Rush Bio:
Catherine's plays include: Losing the Shore commissioned and produced by BCKSEET
Productions in Philadelphia; The Loudest Man on Earth commissioned by the Philadelphia
Theater Workshop as part of their Playshop festival; This Island Alone, co-written
with Adrian Blue, developed and produced at Vineyard Playhouse, MA; A Nice Place
to Live, co-written with Adrian Blue, commissioned and produced by Wheelock Family
Theatre of Boston; Double Helix; Main Line; The Me Generation and many others.
Catherine translated Shakespeare's Twelfth Night into American Sign Language with
the ASL Shakespeare Project. The translation was produced in Philadelphia at the
Prince Music Theater.
Pamela Berlin Bio:
New York credits include Endpapers, Steel Magnolias, which ran Off-Broadway for
three years, To Gillian on her 37th Birthday (Circle in the Square downtown),
Crossing Delancey (Jewish Rep), The Cemetery Club (Broadway), Joined at the Head
(Manhattan Theater Club), The Family of Mann and The Red Address (Second Stage),
Three in the Back, Two in the Head (MCC), Black Ink and Elm Circle (Playwrights
Horizons), Snowing at Delphi, Club Soda, 'Til the Rapture Comes (WPA), Wallflowering
and Play by Ear at the HB Playwrights Foundation, and numerous one-acts at the
Ensemble Studio Theater. Regionally, she has directed at the Seattle Rep, Pittsburgh
Public, Huntington, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Stage,
and Virginia Stage, to name a few. Opera credits include Carmen, Rigoletto, Lucia
Di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, Hansel and Gretel, A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Of Mice and Men, and Cold Sassy Tree. For the past five years, she has co-produced
the HB Playwrights Foundation Annual One-Act Festival, and is the director of
the Playwrights Unit at HB. Pamela currently serves as President of the Society
of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
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