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New York Stage And Film
New York Stage and Film is an art and film institution founded in 1985 by Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer and Leslie Urdang in order to provide artists with a rigorous and nurturing environment to invigorate the artistic process; to promote collaboration between artistic peers and between artists and audiences; and to facilitate the sharing of knowledge from one artistic generation to the next. A non-profit company dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of theater and film, it is a vital incubator for artists and their work, a catalyst for stories that start with us and continue across the country and around the world. Each year, in collaboration with Vassar College they produce the Powerhouse Season and Powerhouse Training Company. Year round work includes programming in New York City and the Hudson Valley, as well as a Filmmakers' Workshop. This work annually supports: * 400 professional artists * 40 professional projects * 75 student w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Linn-Baker
Mark Linn-Baker (born June 17, 1954) is an American actor and director who played Benjy Stone in the film ''My Favorite Year'' and Larry Appleton in the television sitcom '' Perfect Strangers''. Early life and education Mark Linn-Baker was born with the given names Mark Linn and the surname Baker in St. Louis, Missouri. He later changed his surname to a compound surname by hyphenating his middle name Linn with his surname Baker, producing Linn-Baker. His mother, Joan (née Sparks), was a dancer, and his father, William Nelson Baker, co-founded the Open Stage Theater in Hartford. His parents were both active in theatre and participated in civil rights activism. He graduated from Wethersfield High School in Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1972, and from Yale University in 1976. He then attended the Yale School of Drama, receiving a MFA in Drama in 1979, and following that, found most of his early roles on stage. Career He developed and performed in a two-man comedy show, ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Vernon
Max Vernon (born May 24, 1988) is an American performer, composer/lyricist, and playwright from Los Angeles, California, currently living and performing in New York City, where they attended New York University. Best known for their work in musical theatre; their musicals include ''The View UpStairs'', ''KPOP'', and The Tattooed Lady. Theatre Max Vernon's original musicals include ''WIRED'' (music, lyrics, book; Ars Nova), ''The View UpStairs'' (music, lyrics, book; Lynn Redgrave Theatre, Culture Project) - inspired by the UpStairs Lounge arson attack, ''30 Million'' (music, lyrics; book by Jason Kim; Keen Company), ''KPOP'' (music, lyrics; book by Jason Kim; Ars Nova), and ''The Tattooed Lady'' (music, lyrics, book; Philadelphia Theatre Company). The ''View UpStairs'' has received numerous regional productions since its original Off-Broadway run, including London (Soho Theatre), Richmond, Chicago, Sydney (Hayes Theatre), Los Angeles (Celebration Theatre), San Francisco (New C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harrison David Rivers
Harrison David Rivers (born September 11, 1981) is an American playwright. Rivers' work has won him thRelentless Award a GLAAD Media Award, a McKnight Fellowship for Playwrights, a Jerome Foundation Many Voices Fellowship, an Emerging Artist of Color Fellowship, a Van Lier Fellowship and the New York Stage & Film's Founders Award. He is based in Saint Paul, Minnesota and is married to Christopher Bineham. Life and career Rivers was born in Manhattan, Kansas. He attended Manhattan High School, where he was active in the music and theater programs. He earned a B.A. in American Studies and Dance & Drama from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio (2004) and an M.F.A in Playwriting from the Columbia University School of Arts in New York City (2009), where he received the John Golden Playwriting Award. While still a student at Columbia, Rivers was selected to participate in the inaugural "24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices" event at the Atlantic Theatre. He also wrote a short play for The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Gancher
Sarah Gancher is an American playwright. She has worked with ensembles including the Telluride Theatre in Telluride, Colorado, The Team in New York City, and the Blue Man Group. In addition, she has assisted on the television show ''The Colbert Report ''The Colbert Report'' ( ) is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005, to December 18, 2014, for 1,447 episodes. The show focuse ...'', and worked with the theater organizations The Big Apple Circus, and Stellapolaris in Norway. She is also a jazz violinist. Plays (full length) * ''I'll Get You Back Again'' * ''Duet'' * ''The Place We Built'' * ''Klauzál Square'' * ''Seder'' * ''Lovebird With a Mirror'' Plays (short) * ''Settlers of Catan'' * ''Budapest December 2011'' * ''1978 Verbatim'' * ''Five Mothers'' * ''The Great Sacrifice'' * ''In This Place'' * ''Anniversary'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ganche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Caren
Jonathan Caren is an American playwright and TV writer. His plays have been seen or developed at The Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Rattlestick, The New Group, Williamstown Theater Festival, Ars Nova, Keen Company, The IAMA Theatre Company, Woodshed, The Berkshire Playwrights Lab, The Lark, New York Stage and Film, The Jewish Plays Project, Partial Comfort, The Samuel French OOB Festival, and The Old Vic in London through the T.S. Eliot UK/US exchange. The plays include ''Need to Know'' (Colt Coeur, Rogue Machine), ''The Recommendation (''The Windy City Playhouse, IAMA, The Flea, The Old Globe, Craig Noel Award for Best New Play, Ovation Award for Best New Play, NAACP nomination), ''Catch The Fish'' (Most Outstanding Play, NY Fringe), ''Canyon'' directed by Whitney White in a collaboration between IAMA and The Latino Theater Company, and ''Four Woke Baes directed by Teddy Bergman'' (w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taylor Mac
Taylor Mac Bowyer (born August 24, 1973) is an American actor, playwright, performance artist, director, producer, and singer-songwriter active mainly in New York City. In 2017, Mac was the recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Mac was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Early life Mac was born Taylor Mac Bowyer in Laguna Beach, California and raised in Stockton, the child of Joy Aldrich and Vietnam War veteran Lt. Robert Mac Bowyer. Mac's mother opened a private art school that influenced Mac's early aesthetic by embracing collage and teaching students to build from mistakes rather than attempt to erase them.Svich, Caridad. "Glamming it Up with Taylor Mac." ''American Theatre.'' November 2008. Mac moved to New York in 1994 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After graduation, Mac began working as an actor and wrote the plays ''The Hot Month'' (1999), ''The Levee'' (2000), and ''The Face of Liberalism'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wolves (play)
''The Wolves'' is a 2016 one-act play by Sarah DeLappe. It premiered Off-Broadway at The Duke at 42nd Street in September 2016 and centers on the experiences of high school girls through their weekly Saturday morning pre-game soccer warmups. The play received multiple awards and was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Synopsis ''The Wolves'' is set in an indoor soccer facility. Each scene depicts the nine teenage girls who make up the Wolves, a high school soccer team, conversing while they warm up before their game each week. In most scenes, the team is going through a stretching routine led by #25, the team captain, or doing practice exercises. The girls sometimes continue their gossip from the previous week, bringing up new developments or related topics. The first scene opens with discussion of the sentencing of an elderly participant of the Cambodian genocide, and conversations stem from there. Overlapping dialogue illustrates an atmosphere where each group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Star (musical)
''Bright Star'' is a musical written and composed by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. It is set in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in 1945–46 with flashbacks to 1923. The musical is inspired by their Grammy-winning collaboration on the 2013 bluegrass album ''Love Has Come for You'' and, in turn, the folk story of the Iron Mountain Baby. Productions ''Bright Star'' was workshopped by the New York Stage and Film at the Powerhouse Theater at Vassar College in July 2013. It had its world premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego on September 28, 2014, and ran to November 2, 2014. The musical opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on December 2, 2015. The show began previews at the Cort Theatre on Broadway on February 25, 2016, before officially opening on March 24. Directed by Walter Bobbie, the cast featured Carmen Cusack as Alice Murphy, Paul Alexander Nolan as Jimmy Ray Dobbs, A.J. Shively as Billy Cane, Hannah Elless as Margo Crawford, Emily Pad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Idiot (musical)
''American Idiot'' is a sung-through rock musical based on the concept album of the same name by punk rock band Green Day. After a run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2009, the show moved to the St. James Theatre on Broadway. Previews began on March 24, 2010, and the musical officially opened on April 20, 2010. The show closed on April 24, 2011, after 422 performances. While Green Day did not appear in the production, vocalist/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong performed the role of "St. Jimmy" occasionally throughout the run. The story, expanded from that of the album, centres on three disaffected young men, Johnny, Will and Tunny. Johnny and Tunny flee a stifling suburban lifestyle and parental restrictions, while Will stays at home to work out his relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, Heather. The former pair look for meaning in life and try out the freedom and excitement of the city. Tunny quickly gives up on life in the city, joins the military and is shipped off to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadestown
''Hadestown'' is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Anaïs Mitchell. It tells a version of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, a young girl looking for something to eat, goes to work in a hellish industrial underworld to escape mythically-inspired climate-change induced poverty before her poor singer-songwriter lover Orpheus comes to rescue her, and together they show others the way to escape. The original version of the musical premiered in the town of Barre, Vermont, in 2006. There was also a production in Vergennes in the same year and a tour between Vermont and Massachusetts in 2007. Then Mitchell, unsure about the future of the musical, turned it into a concept album, released in 2010. In 2012, Mitchell met director Rachel Chavkin, and the two started to rework the stage production, with additional songs and dialogue. The new version of the musical, developed for the stage and directed by Chavkin, premiered Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Mayer (filmmaker)
Max Mayer is an American filmmaker. He is one of the founding members of New York Stage and Film. Well known for directing TV shows including ''The West Wing'' and ''Alias'', he wrote and directed the film '' Adam'' (2009), winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. Filmography * ''Me and Veronica'' (1993, producer) * ''Better Living ''Better Living'' is a 1998 American film featured in the Hamptons International Film Festival. It stars Roy Scheider and Olympia Dukakis, and includes Edward Herrmann. Cast * Olympia Dukakis as Nora *Roy Scheider as Tom *Edward Herrmann as Jac ...'' (1998) * '' Adam'' (2009) * '' As Cool as I Am'' (2013) References External links * American film directors Living people American male screenwriters American television directors Year of birth missing (living people) Alfred P. Sloan Prize winners {{US-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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