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BECKETT SHORTS
Company
biographies
Mikhail
Baryshnikov
Actor
NYTW debut. Broadway: METAMORPHOSIS (Tony nomination & Drama Critics
Award). Off-Broadway: FORBIDDEN CHRISTMAS OR THE DOCTOR AND THE PATIENT
(Lincoln Center Festival). Film & TV: The Turning Point
(Oscar nom.), White Nights, various television shows, including
three Emmy award-winning specials.
Bill Camp
Actor
NYTW: THE MISANTHROPE, HOMEBODY/KABUL (OBIE), LYDIE BREEZE/GARDENIA,
THE DEVILS, LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. Broadway: CORAM BOY, HEARTBREAK
HOUSE, JACKIE: AN AMERICAN LIFE, ST. JOAN, THE SEAGULL. Off-Broadway:
SORE THR-OATS, MACBETH, MEASURE FOR MEASURE (TFANA); TI JEAN BLUES (ST.
MARKS); WORDS AND MUSIC, CASCANDO, ...BY THE CLOUDS (92nd St.). Regional:
A.R.T., Taper, Guthrie, Seattle Rep., Berkeley. Film & TV: The
Tourist, Reservation Road, The Guitar, The Dying Gaul, “Law
& Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,”
“The Great Gatsby.”
Karen
Kandel
Actor
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: PETER AND WENDY (OBIE, Drama League, Dramalogue,
Connecticut Critics Circle, Craig Noel Awards), TALK (OBIE), MABOU MINE’S
LEAR (OBIE). TCG/William & Eva Fox Resident Artist Fellowship with
Mabou Mines.
David
Neumann
Actor
NYTW debut. As a choreographer: HOT ‘N’ THROBBING (Signature
Theater); MOLLY’S DREAM (SoHo Rep); THE MUSIC TEACHER (The New
Group); BARBER OF SEVILLE (St. Ann’s Warehouse); A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S
DREAM, HENRY V (New York Shakespeare Festival); CABARET (Helen Hayes
nomination, Arena Stage); OSUD0 (dir. JoAnne Akalaitis, Fischer Center/Bard
Festival); MOBY DICK (BAM). Film: I Am Legend, The Girl From Monday,
The New Math(s), ‘No Such Thing, The Manchurian Candidate.
Artistic Director, ‘advanced beginner group’.
Samuel
Beckett
Playwright
Selected plays: ELEUTHERIA (1947), WAITING FOR GODOT (1952), ENDGAME
(1957), KRAPP’S LAST TAPE (1958), HAPPY DAYS (1960), PLAY (1963),
COME AND GO (1965), BREATH (1969), NOT I (1972), THAT TIME (1975), FOOTFALLS
(1975), A PIECE OF MONOLOGUE (1980), ROCKABY (1981), OHIO IMPROMPTU
(1981), CATASTROPHE (1982), WHAT WHERE (1983). Selected prose and poetry
works: “Dream of Fair to Middling Women” (1932), “Murphy”
(1938), “Mercier and Camier” (1946), “Molloy”
(1951), “Malone Dies” (1951), “The Unnamable”
(1953), “How it Is” (1961). Selected works for Radio/Television:
“All That Fall” (1956), “Embers” (1959), “Rough
for Radio I” & “II” (1961), “Words and Music”
(1961), “Cascando” (1962), “Ghost Trio” (1975).
Awards: International Publishers’ Formentor Prize (1961), Nobel
Prize for Literature (1969).
JoAnne
Akalaitis
Director
NYTW: PRISONER OF LOVE (adaptation and direction). Broadway: IN THE
SUMMER HOUSE (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: HENRY IV PART I, HENRY
IV PART II, WOYZECK (Public); THROUGH THE LEAVES, DEAD END KIDS: A HISTORY
of NUCLEAR POWER (Mabou Mines); ARTS AND LEISURE (Playwrights Horizons).
Regional: ENDGAME, THE BALCONY, TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE (American
Repertory Theatre & Goodman Theatre); THE IPHIGENIA CYCLE (Court
Theatre); THE SCREENS (The Guthrie Theater); GREEN CARD (Mark Taper
Forum). Awards: Five OBIE Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment
for the Arts grants, Edwin Booth Award. Chair, Theatre Program at Bard
College; Founder, Mabou Mines; Former Co-Chair, Directing Program at
Juilliard School; Former Artistic Director, Public Theater.
Philip
Glass
Original Music
Opera: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH, SATYAGRAHA, AKHNATEN, THE VOYAGE, 1000
AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF, GALILEO GALILEI, HYDROGEN JUKEBOX, THE JUNIPER
TREE, THE MONSTER’S OF GRACE, THE PHOTOGRAPHER, APPOMATTOX. Film:
The Hours (Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations), Koyaanisqatsi,
The Illusionist, No Reservations, The Thin Blue Line, The
Fog of War, The Truman Show (Golden Globe award), Kundun
(Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations), Notes on a Scandal
(Academy Award nomination), Taking Lives, Secret Window, Cassandra’s
Dream, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh. Composition: Music
in Twelve Parts, Modern Love Waltz, The Orphée Suite, A Musical
Portrait of Chuck Close. As an author: La Mia Musica, Musik:
Philip Glass, Music by Philip Glass. Co-founder, Mabou Mines.
Alexander
Brodsky
Sets
Solo Exhibitions: Untitled (Installation, Ronald Feldman Fine
Arts, Spring 2008); Inhabited Locality (Russian Pavilion, Venice
Biennale of Architecture, 2006); Canal Street Subway Project
(NYC Public Art Fund, 1997). Selected Solo Exhibitions: Moscopolis
(Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2007); RUSSIA! (Guggenheim Museum,
Bilbao, 2006). Collections: The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney
Museum of American Art, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Duke
University Museum of Art, and The Russian State Museum. Books: Brodsky
& Utkin: The Complete Works (Princeton Architectural Press). Represented
by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts since 1990. Selected Awards: First prize:
Coma, Milano Europa, Museo del Presente (2000); First prize
Arch Moscow, Ice Pavilion and House for Elderly Footballers (2001 and
2005); Numerous prizes for entries in international Paper Architecture
competitions with his collaborator, Ilya Utkin (1975 – 1992).
Training: Moscow Architectural Institute.
Kaye
Voyce
Costumes
NYTW: ALL THE WRONG REASONS (set and costumes). Broadway: SHINING CITY.
Regional: TARTUFFE (McCarter
and Yale Rep), THYESTES (Court Theatre), THE ELLIOTT SMITH PROJECT (Bard
Summerscape), ILE DE MERLIN (Spoleto Festival USA), BRITANNICUS (ART).
International: THE FRAME (Theater Bonn); POOR BECK (RSC). Opera: ORPHEE
(Glimmerglass Opera).
Jennifer
Tipton
Lighting
NYTW: CAVEDWELLER. Off-Broadway: HAMLET (Public/Wooster Group), BRACE
UP! 2003 (Wooster Group). Regional: Seneca’s THYESTES (Court Theater);
MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA (Long Wharf). Opera: EURYANTHE (Glyndebourne),
DA GELO A GELO (Paris Opera), ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Royal Opera, London),
THE MAGIC FLUTE (BAM). Dance: WINTERREISE, O COMPOSITE (Trisha Brown);
PROMETHEAN FIRE, DREAM GIRLS, LINES OF LOSS (Paul Taylor); DGV (Christopher
Wheeldon). Awards: 2001 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, 2003 Jerome
Robbins Prize, 2004 Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New
York City.
Darron
L West
Sound
NYTW: THE BLACK EYED, ALL THAT I WILL EVER BE, THE SEVEN (Lortel Award),
A NUMBER, SHOPPING AND FUCKING, VIEW OF THE DOME, RENT, QUILLS, THE
MEDIUM, SLAVS!, THE SECRETARIES, LOVES FOWL, BOB (OBIE), CULTURE OF
DESIRE, THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD, SLANGUAGE. Broadway: WAIT
UNTIL DARK. Awards: 1997 Princess Grace, 2000 Entertainment Design Magazine
EDDY, 2003 Prague Quadrennial, 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Design Awards,
2005 Lortel and AUDELCO Awards. NYTW Usual Suspect and member of Anne
Bogart’s SITI Company.
Mirit Tal
Video
Off-Off-Broadway: UNIVERSAL ROBOTS, METRONOMA (31 Down, Ontological
Incubator); RED FLY/BLUE BOTTLE (HERE); TERRORISM (Lee Strasburg Theater).
Exhibitions: The Builders Association’s Invisible Cities
(3LD); Wanderlost (31 Down, Airborne: The New Museum of Contemporary
Art); Rita Katrina and Stan (31 Down, Performa '05, White Box Gallery);
Somnambulator (31 Down, Surge: Rhizome & Free103point9).
Anthony
Cerrato
Production Stage Manager
Off-Broadway: KING COWBOY RUFUS RULES THE UNIVERSE, THE GODS ARE
POUNDING MY HEAD, ZOMBOID! (Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Richard Foreman);
HOBO-NONO (St. Ann’s Warehouse). Dance: Martha Graham Dance
Company, Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre (international tours); SONGS OF
THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN (national and international tours).
Regional: The Farm Theatre, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte
Odessa "Niki" Spruill
Assistant Stage Manager
NYTW: HORIZON, ALL THE WRONG REASONS, ALL THAT I WILL EVER BE, KAOS.
Off-Broadway: MEDEA, MACBETH (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional:
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’, DANCE ON WIDOW’S ROW, BLACK NATIVITY
(The New Jomandi Productions, Atlanta, GA.); IN THE BLOOD, A TRIBUTE
TO NINA SIMONE (Cal Arts). TV: “BET’s All Access Granted:
Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, Vote or Die.”
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