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Samuel Beckett Playwright
Playwright
Samuel Beckett is widely regarded as one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1906, Beckett attended Trinity College Dublin and later taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He wrote his first novel, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, in 1932, but it was never published during his lifetime. Beckett's first major play, Waiting for Godot, premiered in Paris in 1953 and is now considered a seminal work of the Theatre of the Absurd. The play's two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the eponymous Godot, who never arrives. The play's ... read more
Philip Glass Music
JoAnne Akalaitis Director
Director
Mr. Blankenbuehler won a 2008 Tony Award for his choreography in the Tony Award winning Best Musical In The Heights (also Lortel Award, Outer Critics Award and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Choreography). He also choreographed the Broadway revival of The Apple Tree. Other recent projects include the new Broadway-bound musical Waiting For The Moon (music by Frank Wildhorn); the world premiere of the musical A Little Princess (music by Andrew Lippa); the Paper Mill Playhouse production of A Wonderful Life; as well as the off-Broadway play Burleigh Grimes (music by David Yazbek); and the hit Caesars Palace ... read more
Alexander Brodsky Scenic Designer
Scenic Designer
Christie Carroll Assistant Costume Designer
Assistant Costume Designer
Anthony Cerrato Production Stage Manager
Production Stage Manager
Philip Glass Composer
(Original Music)
Matt Hubbs Assistant Sound Designer
Assistant Sound Designer
Credits: The Royale (Lincoln Center Theater, Old Globe); Indecent (La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep, Vineyard); Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (ART, Ars Nova, Kazino); Time and the Conways (Old Globe); Stage Kiss, 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons); Marie Antoinette (ART, Yale Rep, SoHo Rep); Three Pianos (NYTW, ART); The Human Scale (The Public); Telephone (Foundry Theatre); How We Got On, Death Tax, A Devil at Noon (Humana Festival); Hammock and Blueprints of Relentless Nature (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange). As a company member of The TEAM, Matt has designed Roosevelvis, The Holler Sessions, Waiting for You ... read more
Andreea Mincic Assistant Scenic Designer
Assistant Scenic Designer
S. Ryan Schmidt Assistant Lighting Designer
Assistant Lighting Designer
Odessa "Niki" Spruill Assistant Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Mirit Tal Video Designer
Video Designer
Jennifer Tipton Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Recent work includes A Doll's House, Part 2; David Cale's We're Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time (Goodman Theatre); Romeo et Juliette (Metropolitan Opera); Alexei Ratmansky's Romeo and Juliet (The Bolshoi Theatre); Shen Wei's Neither (BAM); and Richard Nelson's Uncle Vanya (Hunter College). Tipton teaches lighting at the Yale School of Drama. She has received the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Jerome Robbins Prize, and the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008 she was made a United States Artists Gracie Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow. She is a two-time Tony Award ... read more
Maureen Towey Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Kaye Voyce Costume Designer
Costume Designer
Broadway: True West, The Nap, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, Shining City. Ms Voyce also is very active in theatre off-Broadway, internationally, and in opera and dance. ... read more
Darron L. West Assistant Scenic Designer
Sound Designer
Sound Designer
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