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Open Fist Theatre
The Open Fist Theatre is both a 501(c)(3) non-profit theatre company. Originally operating a 99-seat theatre facility in Theatre Row Hollywood located at 6209 Santa Monica Blvd, it is now in residence at the Atwater Village Theatre. The name of the Open Fist Theatre Company comes from two principles: the notion of an open spirit and the fist - a sign of determination and force. The OFTC was founded in 1990 by Ziad Hamzeh (Artistic Director), Michael Denney (Actor/Playwright/Teacher), Tim Pulice (Actor), Brian Muir (Actor) and Kathleen Dunn (Actor/Teacher), all of whom were graduates of the Theater Program of California State University, Fullerton. , Martha Demson has been the company's artistic director for 20 years, taking on the role in 2000. Originally the company was based at 1625 North La Brea in a rehearsal hall once owned by Bob Hope. In 2005 this facility was destroyed to accommodate Hollywood redevelopment and the company moved to 6209 Santa Monica Boulevard - a facility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Row Hollywood
{{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Hollywood Theatre Row is the official name for the district of Hollywood, California bounded roughly by McCadden Place and El Centro Ave and Lexington and Melrose Avenues, consisting of approximately 22 stages. On June 1, 2015, City Councilmembers Mitch O'Farrell (CD13) and Tom LaBonge (CD4) along with actor French Stewart, The Blank Theatre Artistic Director Daniel Henning and several hundred community members unveiled the City of Los Angeles signage that officially created Hollywood Theatre Row as a "Live Theatre District." It is also the core home of the Hollywood Fringe Festival each June, bringing thousands of audience members to Hollywood Theatre Row to see nearly 400 productions each year. Venues * McCadden Place Theatre 1157 N McCadden Pl *The Lex Theatre 6760 Lexington Ave * The Village at Ed Gould Plaza 1125 N McCadden Pl *National Comedy Theatre 733 Seward St *Hudson Theatres 6539 Santa Monica Blvd * The Blank†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Gems
Pam Gems (1 August 1925 – 13 May 2011) was an English playwright. The author of numerous original plays, as well as of adaptations of works by European playwrights of the past, Gems is best known for the 1978 musical play '' Piaf''. Personal life Iris Pamela Price was born in Bransgore, Hampshire, and had her first play – a tale of goblins and elves – staged when she was eight by her fellow pupils at primary school. She studied psychology at Manchester University from which she graduated in 1949. She was in her forties when she started to write professionally. She is best known for her 1978 musical play ''Piaf'' about French singer Édith Piaf. She was nominated for two Tony Awards: for ''Stanley'' (Best Play) in 1997, and for ''Marlene'' (Best Book of a Musical), starring Siân Phillips as Marlene Dietrich, in 1999. Gems adapted works by dramatists ranging from Henrik Ibsen, Federico GarcÃa Lorca and Anton Chekhov to Marguerite Duras. Family She married wax model manuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neal Bell
Neal Bell is an American playwright and screenwriter. Bell has written such plays as the thriller ''Two Small Bodies'', as well as co-writing the screenplay for the ''Two Small Bodies ''Two Small Bodies'' is a 1993 thriller directed by Beth B and starring Fred Ward and Suzy Amis. The film is based on the 1977 American stage play '' Two Small Bodies'' by Neal Bell Neal Bell is an American playwright and screenwriter. ...'' film adaptation. Bell has written other plays such as ''On the Bum'', ''Somewhere in the Pacific'', ''Monster'', ''Operation Midnight Climax'', ''Therese Raquin'' and ''Spatter Pattern (Or, How I Got Away With It)''. References External links *Broadwayworld.com [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Burns
Mary Elizabeth Burns (born October 7, 1957) is an American basketball coach who is currently the women's basketball associate strength and conditioning coach at the University of Louisville. Previously, Burns was the head coach at San Diego State for 1989 to 1997 and from 2005 to 2013 and at Ohio State from 1997 to 2002. With a 295-186 record at San Diego State, Burns has the most career wins in school history. She guided San Diego State to seven NCAA Tournament appearances and earned five Coach of the Year awards combined from the Western Athletic Conference and Mountain West Conference. Career Burns played college basketball at Ohio Wesleyan from 1975 to 1979. From 1979 to 1981, while completing her master's degree in physical education, Burns served as a graduate assistant at Ohio State. Burns then was an assistant coach at East Carolina from 1981 to 1983, Colorado from 1983 to 1988, and NC State from 1988 to 1989. Burns's first tenure as women's basketball head coach at San D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marlene Meyer
Marlane Meyer is a television producer and writer. She is a recipient of the 1992-93 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Filmography ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'' (as Marlane Gomard Meyer) ''Paris enquêtes criminelles (as Marlane Gomard Meyer) ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' *Hyperion Bay *Now and Again *Sirens * Better Off Dead * Prison Stories: Women on the Inside * Nothing Sacred Publications ''Moe's Lucky Seven'' in ''Plays From Playwrights Horizons'', Broadway Play Publishing Inc. Broadway Play Publishing Inc (BPPI) was established in New York City in 1982 to publish and license the stage performance rights of contemporary American plays. The Broadway Play Publishing Inc catalog consists of over 1,000 plays and nearly 400 ... External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American television producers American women television producers American television writers Place of birth missing (living people) American women television writers A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April De Angelis
April De Angelis (born April 1960) is an English dramatist of part Sicilian descent. She is a graduate of Sussex University who trained at East 15 Acting School. De Angelis began her career in the 1980s as an actress with the Monstrous Regiment theatre company. In 1987, her play ''Breathless'' was a prize winner at the 1987 Second Wave Young Women's Writing Festival. Her plays often feature historical figures. ''Playhouse Creatures'' and ''A Laughing Matter'' are set in the London theatrical milieu of the 17th and 18th centuries respectively. ''Wanderlust'' examines Victorian colonialism and ''Ironmistress'' is a verse play exploring Lady Charlotte Guest's factory ownership. As a librettist, De Angelis contributed to the opera ''The Silent Twins'' (2007), composed by Errollyn Wallen, which is based on the case of June and Jennifer Gibbons.April de Angeli"'Have I the strength to kill her?'" ''The Guardian'', 28 June 2007 De Angelis tends to write to commission and several o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. At age 33, after years of obscurity, Williams suddenly became famous with the success of ''The Glass Menagerie'' (1944) in New York City. He introduced "plastic theatre" in this play and it closely reflected his own unhappy family background. It was the first of a string of successes, including ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' (1947), ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1955), ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' (1959), and ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1961). With his later work, Williams attempted a new style that did not appeal as widely to audiences. His drama ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' is often numbered on short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century alongside Eugene O'Neill's '' Long Day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Antoine is a French given name (from the Latin ''Antonius'' meaning 'highly praise-worthy') that is a variant of Danton, Titouan, D'Anton and Antonin. The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana, Madagascar, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda. It is a cognate of the masculine given name Anthony. Similar names include Antaine, Anthoine, Antoan, Antoin, Antton, Antuan, Antwain, Antwan, Antwaun, Antwoine, Antwone, Antwon and Antwuan. Feminine forms include Antonia, Antoinette, and (more rarely) Antionette. As a first name *Antoine Alexandre Barbier (1765–1825), a French librarian and bibliographer *Antoine Arbogast (1759–1803), a French mathematician *Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), a French theologian, phi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Spiridakis
Tony Spiridakis (born 1959 in Queens, New York) is an American film director, writer, actor, producer and playwright best known for such films as ''Queens Logic'', ''Tinseltown'', '' The Last Word'', ''If Lucy Fell'' and ''Ash Tuesday''. He is the writer of ''Ezra'' (previously titled '' Inappropriate Behavior''), which he produced with director Tony Goldwyn, William Horberg, and Jon Kilik. The film, which stars Bobby Cannavale, Robert DeNiro, Rose Byrne, and Vera Farmiga, follows a struggling comedian and his autistic son on a cross-country road trip. Spiridakis has developed scripts for Dustin Hoffman, Richard Dreyfus, and Diane Keaton as well as for iconic producers such as Laura Ziskin, Stacey Snider, Mary Parent, and Warren Littlefield. Other films include ''Tinseltown'', based on his acclaimed play ''Self Storage'', both starring Ron Perlman and Joe Pantoliano; ''Noise'', which he directed and produced, starring Ally Sheedy and John Slattery; the documentary road trip film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Strindberg
Johan August Strindberg (, ; 22 January 184914 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.Lane (1998), 1040. A prolific writer who often drew directly on his personal experience, Strindberg wrote more than sixty plays and more than thirty works of fiction, autobiography, history, cultural analysis, and politics during his career, which spanned four decades. A bold experimenter and iconoclast throughout, he explored a wide range of dramatic methods and purposes, from naturalistic tragedy, monodrama, and history plays, to his anticipations of expressionist and surrealist dramatic techniques. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed innovative forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition. He is considered the "father" of modern Swedish literature and his '' The Red Room'' (1879) has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. In Sweden, Strindberg is known as an essayist, painter, poet, and especially as a novelist an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janusz Glowacki
Janusz () is a masculine Polish given name. It is also the shortened form of January and Januarius. People *Janusz Akermann (born 1957), Polish painter *Janusz Bardach, Polish gulag survivor and physician *Janusz Bielański, Roman Catholic priest *Janusz Bojarski (born 1956), Polish general *Janusz Bokszczanin (1894–1973), Polish Army colonel *Janusz Christa (1934–2008), Polish author of comic books *Janusz Domaniewski (1891–1954), Polish ornithologist *Janusz Gajos, Polish actor *Janusz Gaudyn (1935–1984), Polish physician, writer and poet *Janusz Głowacki (1938–2017), Polish-American author and screenwriter * Janusz Janowski (born 1965), Polish painter, jazz drummer and art theorist *Janusz Kamiński (born 1959), Polish cinematographer and film director *Janusz Korczak (Henryk Goldszmit), Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogist * Janusz Kurtyka (born 1960), Polish historian specializing in the culture and religion of Poland in the 16th and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Kazan
Nicholas Kazan (; born September 15, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film producer and film director, director. Early life Kazan was born in New York, the son of Greek Americans, Greek-American director Elia Kazan and his first wife, playwright Molly Kazan (née Mary Day Thacher). Through his mother, Kazan is a descendant of classicist and college administrator Thomas Anthony Thacher, Yale president Jeremiah Day, and founding father Roger Sherman. Career Kazan, a noted playwright, premiered his newest work, ''Mlle. God'' (2011), in Los Angeles with the Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA. Kazan's dark comedy re-invents Frank Wedekind's seminal "Lulu" character. He noted his inspiration came "most of all by Louise Brooks' luminous cosmic performance" of the character. Kazan was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for his work on ''Reversal of Fortune''. Personal life In 1984, Kazan married screenwriter Robin Swic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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