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| July 31, 2010 |
 It's coming up next week, and you do NOT want to miss it: the long-awaited
workshop of Katharine Clark Gray's User 927 at HERE. The blurb:
"When Deena is dragged from Brooklyn to Indiana by her overprotective
mother, the teenager’s only solace is the internet, until she disappears.
When her technophobe mom must plug back in to seek the culprit, will the
person she's hunting be found online, or a bike ride away?"
I've been itching to direct this play since I worked on a reading of it last June,
and now here we are with a workshop. The astonishing cast includes Kelly
McAndrew (Still Life), Erika Rolfsrud (Misalliance), Alvin Keith (Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof), Gerry Lehane, Jake Paque, Anna Kull, Arielle Lever &
David Julian Melendez. The fantastic designers are Eugenia Furneaux-
Arends (sets), Colin D. Young (lighting), Charles Coes (sound), and Nicholas
Gray (video).
Please join us at HERE (145 Avenue of the Americas, enter on Dominick St.)
August 5 -- 8. Performances each evening at 8:30pm, with an additional
performance on Sunday the 8th at 4pm. Five perfs only -- get tickets now!
Visit http://here.org/shows/detail/270/ to do so. |
| July 16, 2010 |
 I'm delighted to announce that Manuel Igrejas's beautiful play Hassan &
Sylvia is running at the Cherry Lane Studio Theatre. We got a great review
on nytheatre.com (http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/showpage.php?
t=hass10523), and you can learn more about the show at
www.manueligrejas.com/hassanandsylvia. Great, great play, I have loved
directing it.
And next? User 927 at HERE, part of their Summer Sublet Series! Visit
www.reverieproductions.org for all sorts of information.
And in the fall? My play The Insidious Impact of Anton is a winner in
the 2010 Ashland New Plays Festival, so I'll be going to Ashland, OR for a
week of rehearsal and a reading of the play! www.ashlandnewplays.org
Thanks! Hope you're all well. |
| May 20, 2010 |
 So for those of you who somehow escaped being besieged by invitations (of
both the e-mail and Facebook varieties) from me, last night a new theater
company called Fundamental Theater Project held a fundraiser, and said
fundraiser featured a play I've written, THE INSIDIOUS IMPACT OF ANTON,
and then a set by a truly great band, Renee & the Derelicts.
Let me back up, though, to March of 2009. Reverie Productions (a company
I work with often as a director, for whom I serve as an Artistic Advisor, and
which sponsors a writers' lab of which I'm a member) held a week of
readings of new plays, including three plays developed in the lab. Sheri
Graubert's THE TROGLODYTES was one of those plays, and I directed the
reading with a great cast that Sheri, herself also an actor, assembled. Sam
Underwood was in that reading -- I'd actually seen Sam in a one-act that
Sheri wrote and directed; in THE TROGLODYTES, he played one of the
"ignudi," the naked or mostly-naked male figures floating around on the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He was charming and terrific (and, I hasten to
add, clothed, so get your minds out of the gutter). Sam and I ended up on
each other's e-mail lists.
Then a couple of months ago I got an e-mail from Sam inviting me to the
launch event for a new theater company he was starting up, called
Fundamental Theater Project. I went out of more-than-mild curiosity. Yes,
new theater [...continue] |
| February 27, 2010 |
 Clearly, I have been lax about updates. So here we go!
First of all, THE ROYAL FAMILY was a complete treat to work on. An insanely
talented and kind company made that one a very special experience, and I'm
so grateful to have worked on it. Thanks to all of you who got to see it!
Thanks, too, to the folks who saw my subsequent directorial gig, DADDY, a
new play -- the first, in fact -- by Dan Via, who was also in the show. The
production (and I) got a slew of nice reviews. My direction was praised as
"clear and unpretentious" (BroadwayWorld) and "smart" (nytheatre.com);
"Hilder keeps the action moving, escalating at an appropriately involving
speed" (Show Business Weekly), and "There's lots of laughter, lover, anger,
sadness and even fear...Hilder not only makes it happen, he helps elevate
the play" (CentralJersey). "Daddy is a triumph for all three actors, as well as
director David Hilder, who gets extra credit for packing so much great stuff
into a fast-moving 95 minutes" (DishMiss.com). Rah.
And now comes Wet Ink! Last year, Reverie Productions decided to mount a
week of new play readings and workshops, work that had been generated in
Reverie's playwrights' lab and found through their annual Next Generation
Playwriting Contest. The festival was such a hit that it's back again, and I'm
involved in three evenings of the work.
Please join us [...continue] |
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