Dennis Gersten American actor and director who helped create Stagewrights, Inc. in New York City, a playwrights' theatre company. There, he wrote Mine and the one-acts Rhetoric and Puppy Chow and directed and performed in original works. Gersten attended the graduate program in acting at California Institute of the Arts where he wrote Willie Said To, a finalist with the LA Arts Council and other contests nationally and performed at Playwrights Arena and Unity Players; Desert - Morning, performed at the Gene Dynarski Theatre; and Dirty Slut. Primarily an actor, Gersten performed with Linda Hamilton in the world premiere of Worse Than Murder: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg at the Ventura Court Theatre and the west coast premiere of David and Goliath in America with the Road Theatre Company, for which he received an ADA Award. He is a founding member of Theatre Unlimited, where he was seen in Shoe Man and Move Over, Mrs. Markham, and where he directed The Author’s Thumb, his own adaptation of the works of Henry Fielding, for which Gersten received three ADA Awards, as a director, writer and producer. He was also nominated for an LA Weekly Theater Award for his performance in Dirk at the Road Theatre.
The City of New York, usually called either New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2018 population of 8,398,748 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 19,979,477 people in its 2018 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 22,679,948 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the United States created specifically for students of both the visual and performing arts. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in six schools: Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater.
Linda Carroll Hamilton is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Sarah Connor in The Terminator film series and Catherine Chandler in the television series Beauty and the Beast (1987-1990), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She also starred as Vicky in the horror film Children of the Corn (1984). Hamilton had a recurring role as Mary Elizabeth Bartowski on NBC's Chuck.
Dennis Gersten is known to have a large blue jacket ,that is the reason his friends call him "The Wizard".
Craig Lucas is an American playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, musical actor, and film director.
Israel Horovitz is an American playwright, director, actor and co-founder of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after The New York Times reported allegations of sexual misconduct.
Nicholas Paul Enright AM was an Australian dramatist and playwright and theatre director.
J.T. Rogers is a multiple-award-winning, internationally recognized American playwright who lives in New York. Rogers has written more than five plays, including Oslo, Blood and Gifts, The Overwhelming, White People, and Madagascar.
Mel Shapiro is an American theatre director and writer, college professor, and author.
Jon Mullich American actor, playwright, director and Academy Award historian.
Steve Peterson is an American actor was seen as Stanley in The Body at the Matrix Theatre, King Arthur in Dennis Gersten’s The Author’s Thumb, Tranio in Taming of the Shrew at the Globe Playhouse, Aguecheek in Twelfth Night for both Shakespeare at Play and Ellen Geer's Theatricum Botanicum, and as the Ghost in Mark Ringer’s production of Hamlet. He has appeared at the Write/Act Repertory Theatre Company in Murder, Mayhem and the Macabre, A Patriot for Me, Transports of the Heart, and Bleak House. Other Los Angeles stage appearances include A Month in the Country at the Odyssey Theatre, The Letter Writer at The Santa Monica Playhouse, and Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee at the Sierra Madre Playhouse. Peterson has appeared in numerous productions at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre, at the Grove Shakespeare and Nevada Shakespeare Festivals, and the UK/AZ Festival in Phoenix, as well as Glendale’s A Noise Within. Peterson’s Television credits include appearances on the daytime serials Days of Our Lives and General Hospital as well as primetime series Murphy Brown, Murder, She Wrote, and Mama’s Family, to name a few. Peterson can be seen in the cult film classic Lobster Man from Mars, and as one of the many Elvi in Honeymoon in Vegas.
The Talking Band is an American Off-Off-Broadway theatre company specializing in experimental theatre, based in New York City, New York.
Ken Urban is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and musician based in New York. He is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and leads the Music and Theatre Arts Program's dramatic writing program. Urban is also a resident playwright at New Dramatists and an affiliated writer at the Playwrights' Center.
Larry Carpenter is an American theatre and television director and producer. In the theatre, he has worked as an Artistic Director, Associate Artistic Director, a Managing Director and General Manager in both the New York and Regional arenas. He also works as a theatre director and is known primarily for large projects, working on musicals and classical plays equally. In television, he works as a director for New York daytime dramas. He has served as Executive Vice President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the national labor union for professional stage directors and choreographers. He is also a member of the Director’s Guild of America PAC.
Tarell Alvin McCraney is an American playwright and actor. Since July 1, 2017, McCraney has been the chair of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. He is also a member of Teo Castellanos/D Projects Theater Company in Miami and in 2008 became RSC/Warwick International Playwright in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In April 2010, McCraney became the 43rd member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble.
Charles Dennis is a Canadian actor, playwright, radio actor, journalist, author, director, and screenwriter.
Rick Shiomi is an internationally recognized, award-winning Japanese Canadian playwright, stage director, artistic director and taiko artist, and a major player in the Asian American/Canadian theatre movement. He is best known for his groundbreaking play Yellow Fever, which earned him the Bay Area Theater Circle Critics Award and “Bernie” Award. Over the last couple decades, Shiomi has also become a notable artistic and stage director. He directed the world premiere of the play Caught by Christopher Chen for which he received the Philadelphia Barrymore Award Nomination for Outstanding Direction. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of Full Circle Theater Company.
Colin McColl ONZM is a distinguished director in theatre, opera and television from New Zealand. He is a leading figure in the world of professional theatre in the country, winning numerous awards as well as working internationally with major national companies. McColl's career spans more than 30 years in the performing arts where he has also been an actor and a producer. He has won Best Director at the Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards three times, received the prestigious Arts Laureate Award in 2007 and was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in June 2010. McColl was born in Lower Hutt in Wellington, the country's capital.
Theatre of NOTE is a theatre company located in Los Angeles, California.
Terence Clarke works in theatre as director and composer (mainly), and, to a lesser extent, as actor, pianist/musical director, teacher, and dramaturg.
M[argaret] Elizabeth (Betty) Osborn,, was a playwright, author, theater director, critic, editor, and educator. From the 1980s to early ‘90s, she was a prominent member of the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA).
Marco Calvani is an Italian playwright, director, filmmaker, translator and actor.
Chris Tugwell is an award-winning Australian dramatist, screenwriter and author of English descent. Best known as a playwright, his most successful play was X-Ray, which he also produced. He was originally a dancer and actor, performing with some of Australia's most prominent Theatre-in-Education companies, before turning to writing full-time. Tugwell is also a teacher of screenwriting and the author of the textbook, Dinosaur Theory.
Ivica Buljan is a Croatian theater director, playwright, theater critic, and educator whose work is widely known in Croatia and performed around the globe.