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Straight White Men
''Straight White Men'' is a 2014 American play by Young Jean Lee. The play's 2018 production at the Hayes Theater made Lee the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Background Much of ''Straight White Men'' was born out of a workshop Lee conducted with a group of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people. Lee was cognizant that the umbrella term "straight white man" represented the default "other" for marginalized groups, and so asked the workshop attendees what they thought of straight white men, and how they would prefer straight white men behave. After a lengthy discussion, the group decided the ideal straight white man was someone who was not aggressive, who was passive in social justice spaces and overall did not interfere with their causes. Lee took the ideas and created a straight white male character that fit the workshop's description: this became the character of Matt in the finished play. When Lee brought the character back to the workshop, howev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Jean Lee
Young Jean Lee is an American playwright, director, and filmmaker. She was the Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. She has written and directed ten shows for Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Lee was called "the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation" by Charles Isherwood in ''The New York Times'' and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York. With the 2018 production of '' Straight White Men'' at the Hayes Theater, Lee became the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway. Background Lee was born in South Korea and moved to the United States when she was two years old. She grew up in Pullman, Washington and attended college at UC Berkeley, where she majored in English and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Immediately after college, Lee entered UC Berkeley's Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marin Theatre Company
The Marin Theatre Company (MTC) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and professional LORT D regional theater located in Mill Valley, California. Jasson Minadakis is the company's Artistic Director and Meredith Suttles its Managing Director / CEO. Reaching an annual audience of approximately 35,000 people, MTC offers a season of six mainstage productions that runs annually from August to June in its 231-seat Boyer Theatre. Recent notable productions since 2010 include the Bay Area premiere of Matthew Lopez's ''The Whipping Man'', the 10th Anniversary revival of Suzan-Lori Parks's Pulitzer Prize for Drama-winning ''Topdog/Underdog'', the Bay Area premiere of Annie Baker's ''Circle Mirror Transformation'', the West Coast premiere of Keith Huff's ''A Steady Rain'', the world premiere of Steve Yockey's ''Bellwether'', the world premiere of Libby Appel's adaptation of Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull'', the world premiere of Bill Cain's 2011 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Plays
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2014 Plays
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Hilton Als
Hilton Als (born 1960) is an American writer and theater critic. He is a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, an associate professor of writing at Columbia University and a staff writer and theater critic for ''The New Yorker'' magazine. He is a former staff writer for ''The Village Voice'' and former editor-at-large at ''Vibe'' magazine. In June 2020, Als was named an inaugural Presidential Visiting Scholar at Princeton University for the 2020–2021 academic year. At Princeton, he will teach "Yaass Queen: Gay Men, Straight Women, and the Literature, Art, and Film of Hagdom", a course offered by the Program in Theater, the Program in Creative Writing, and the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. Background and career Hilton Als was born in New York City, with roots in Barbados. Hilton was raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, he has four older sisters and one younger brother. His 1996 book ''The Women'' focuses on his mother (who raised him in Brooklyn), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Yorker
''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the Culture of New York City, cultural life of New York City, ''The New Yorker'' has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric American culture, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of Short story, short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous Fact-checking, fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue. Overview and history ''The New Yorker'' was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a ''The New York Times, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Arndt
Denis Arndt (born November 23, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his starring role as Alex Priest in the play ''Heisenberg'' for which he earned a 2017 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play. Life and career Denis Arndt served in the Vietnam War as a United States Army helicopter pilot, earning a Purple Heart and Commendation Medal. After the war, Arndt flew helicopters in Alaska for several years before completing a degree at the University of Washington. He joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon where he completed 15 seasons and was a charter member of Seattle's Intiman Theater. After Kenneth Welsh exited rehearsals of the play ''Heisenberg'', Arndt was cast and joined the Manhattan Theater Club's production, which opened June 3, 2015. The production moved to Broadway's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on October 13, 2016. Arndt has also appeared in guest roles on a number of television shows including ''The Good Fight'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Skerritt
Thomas Roy Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes since 1962. He is known for his film roles in ''M*A*S*H'', ''Alien'', '' The Dead Zone'', ''Top Gun'', '' A River Runs Through It'', '' Poltergeist III'', and '' Up in Smoke'', and the television series ''Picket Fences'' and ''Cheers''. Skerritt has earned several nominations and awards, including winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1993 for ''Picket Fences''. Early life Skerritt was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Helen, a homemaker, and Roy Skerritt, a businessman. He is the youngest of three children. A 1951 graduate of Detroit's Mackenzie High School, Skerritt attended Wayne State University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Skerritt enlisted just after graduating from high school, and served a four-year tour of duty in the United States Air Force as a classifications specialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ty Defoe
Ty Defoe is an Ojibwe and Oneida performance artist, activist, and writer living in New York. Defoe grew up in Wisconsin in the Ojibwe and Oneida communities of his parents. Defoe is two-spirit, a term used in many Native American nations to indicate gender fluidity, non-traditional gender roles, or queerness. He began his performative life as a toddler when he learned to hoop dance. Defoe continues to hoop dance in his performances, along with eagle dancing, puppetry, and other various art forms. With Lakota playwright and choreographer Larissa Fasthorse, Defoe founded Indigenous Direction, a "a consulting firm that helps organizations and individuals who want to create accurate work by, for and with Indigenous peoples". Indigenous Direction's clients include The Guthrie Theater. Career Defoe holds degrees from the California Institute of the Arts, Goddard College, and New York University's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at Tisch School of the Arts. He works w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Bornstein
Katherine Vandam Bornstein (born March 15, 1948) is an American author, playwright, performance artist, actor, and gender theorist. In 1986, Bornstein started identifiying as gender non-conforming and has stated "I don't call myself a woman, ''and'' I know I'm not a man" after having been assigned male at birth and receiving sex reassignment surgery. Bornstein now identifies as non-binary and uses the pronouns they/them and she/her. Bornstein has also written about having anorexia, being a survivor of PTSD and being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Biography Early life Bornstein was born in Asbury Park, New Jersey, into an upper middle-class Conservative Jewish family of Russian and Dutch descent. Bornstein studied Theater Arts with John Emigh and Jim Barnhill at Brown University (Class of '69). Bornstein joined the Church of Scientology, becoming a high-ranking lieutenant in the Sea Org, but later became disillusioned and formally left the movement in 1981. Borns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Schneider (actor)
Paul Andrew Schneider (born March 16, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Mark Brendanawicz on the first two seasons of the NBC sitcom ''Parks and Recreation'' and Dick Liddil in ''The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford''. He won a Best Actor in a Narrative Feature award at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival for his performance in '' Goodbye to All That'' and the Best Supporting Actor Award from the National Society of Film Critics for his performance as Charles Armitage Brown in '' Bright Star''. Early life Schneider was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Career In 2000, Schneider made his film debut in David Gordon Green's ''George Washington'' and starred in Green's '' All the Real Girls''. As research for his role as Jesse Baylor in '' Elizabethtown'', director Cameron Crowe suggested that Schneider tour with the band My Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Charles
Joshua Aaron Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American actor. He is best known for the roles of Dan Rydell on '' Sports Night; '' Will Gardner on ''The Good Wife'', which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations; and his early work as Knox Overstreet in ''Dead Poets Society''. Early life He is the son of Allan Charles, an advertising executive. He's Jewish on his father's side and has described himself as Jewish. He began his career performing comedy at the age of nine. As a teenager, he spent several summers at Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Center in New York, and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts. Career Charles' film debut was in fellow Baltimore native John Waters' ''Hairspray'' in 1988. The following year, he starred alongside Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke in the Oscar-winning ''Dead Poets Society''. Subsequent film roles have included ''Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead'', ''Threesome'', ''Pie in the Sky'', ''Muppets from Space'', '' S.W.A.T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
