DIRECTORS AND CREATIVE TEAMS
ROBERT BARTLEY (Hair) conceived and directed NY’s Broadway Backwards featuring Betty Buckley, Richard Kind, Constantine Maroulis, Len Cariou, Charles Busch, and Tony Roberts. His next directing project is The Family Fiorelli at the 2007 NYMF Festival. Robert’s writing projects include a new musical, Dance With Me!, a NAMT 2007 finalist, and the screenplay Elephant Walk. His songs have been recorded by Tonya Pinkins, Karen Mason and Rachel York. As an actor, Robert has been seen on and off Broadway in Miss Saigon (Chris); Hollywood Hits Broadway with Robert Deniro, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Bette Midler, Beyonce, and Chita Rivera; Cats (Tugger); Cy Coleman’s Exactly Like You (Bates); Clue The Musical (Mr. Boddy); Ionescopade opposite Ruby Dee and Barbara Feldon; and Aladdin at Carnegie Hall. Many thanks to this inspiring cast.
TIM CUSACK (Camera Obscura) is the co-artistic director of Theatre Askew, and can currently be seen as “1” in the company’s premiere of i google myself. For PWP, he directed The Bed in West Village Fragments. Other directing credits include Richard Foreman’s What Did He See? set in a gay bathhouse and Charles Ludlam’s Der Ring Gott Farblonjet staged throughout the Show World porn palace.
CHERRYE DAVIS (Creative – The Indian Wants the Bronx) Cherrye is in her 4th year at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU. She appeared as Lady in Red in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide...(NYU Tisch Gap show, 2007) and Eurydice in Polaroid Stories (Playwrights Horizons 4th Year Production). She has designed costume and makeup for such projects as David’s Birthday (Fall 2006), Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night (Fall 2006), and Witness (Spring 2007) and most recently 10,000 Ways (3rd year COW Project). Here’s to an awesome show!
MARK FINLEY (Why Hanna's Skirt Won't Stay Down) is the artistic director of TOSOS 2 and a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. Directing highlights include Penny Penniworth (2003 International Fringe), Follies of Granduer (Theater for the New City) and A Perfect Relationship (2003 OOBR Award). His play The Mermaid was recently published by United Stages.
JIM FRITZLER (Prologue/The Foreigners/Epilogue) Is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Hastings College in Nebraska. Jim was a Founding Member of Open Channels in New York which produces Dixon Place. He also co-founded and served as Artistic Director for Big State Productions in Austin, TX. He has worked as an art director for independent film and is a professional pianist.
HELENA GLEISSNER (Hurrah For The Bridge/Balls) MA in theatre from Michigan State. Off-Broadway credits include, AD for the Drama Desk nominated production of The Hairy Ape and Defender of the Faith at the Irish Rep Theatre. Off-Off Broadway credits include, Rumple Who, Lobster Tales, staged readings of Burning the Old Man and Pow’r in the Blood, ADing Elevator Face and Orphans. Like to thank friends, family, and Peculiar Works for this opportunity.
JEFF JANISHESKI (America Hurrah) is Associate Artistic Director at Classic Stage Company and co-founder of the NY Butoh Festival. Recent directing: Midsummer Night’s Dream (CSC) and Kinuta/Noh Fusion (New York Theatre Workshop Studio). He has worked with PWP since their Judson House Project in 2000.
SPENCER KATZMAN (Five Points Jazz) is a guitarist and mandolinist based in Manhattan. In addition to leading the improvisation driven Spencer Katzman Threeo, he performs and records regularly in the jazz, ska/reggae, r & b, theater, and singer-songwriter scene as well. His debut recording with the Threeo, 5 Is the New 3, will be released this summer. Tune in to www.spencerkatzman.com for details.
LAUREN KEATING (Monuments and Murder Cake) is a New York City based freelance director. Her credits include: NYC: Measure for Measure. Williamstown: Pugilist Specialist, Summer, Seagulls. Assisting: Third, Stuff Happens and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Daniel Sullivan. Lauren is a proud graduate of NYU (‘05) and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab (‘07). In 2006, she was a nominee for the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship (Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation).
BRYN MANION (The Rock Garden) Bryn is a writer/director and Co-Artistic Director of Aisling Arts (NYTheatre.com People of the Year 2006). Her seven-hour play FORCE (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence) was performed in February at the Chocolate Factory and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Some of her recent directing credits include Synge’s Playboy of the Western World and the FringeNYC 2006 hit Imminent Indeed (or Polly Peachum’s Peculiar Penchant for Plosives). She lives with her husband and their kitties in Long Island City.
ANNA McHUGH (Viet Rock) is a director, choreographer and performer. A former graduate of Syracuse University she most recently originated a childrens show that features McHugh’s “electrifying” hula-hoop dance and theatrical storytelling. She directed The Successful Life of 3 in PWP’s West Village Fragments and is honored to be directing again with PWP. She would like to thank her grandmother for introducing her to Megan Terry and would like to thank Megan Terry for introducing her to PWP!
CASEY McLAIN (The Mulberry Bush and The Bundle Man) is thrilled to be working with PWP again and would like to thank them for bringing her back to do the East Village Fragments. Casey is currently Tech Director of Dixon Place. She would like to thank all her actors for being so wonderful.
Directors and Creative Teams (cont'd)