ACTORS & WRITERS
MEMBER NEWS &
LINKS
Fall 2009!
Congratulations to Siri Crane and Michael
Woodin on their wedding on 9/26 ...
Adam LeFevre appeared in Guys &
Dolls on Broadway; his upcoming films include Morning Glory with
Harrison Ford, The Bounty with Jennifer Aniston, and Fair Game with
Sean Penn and Naomi Watts, in which Adam is playing Karl Rove ...
Mary Louise Wilson will appear on Broadway in Nora Ephron's Love,
Loss, and What I Wore from 10/21-11/15 ...
Denny Dillon appeared in
The Prisoner of Second Avenue at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and
is currently Artist-in-Residence at SUNY Ulster, where she's
presenting her Improv Nation troupe on 10/9, an improv workshop 11/5,
and plays co-written with Mary Louise Wilson 12/3 ...
Nicole Quinn is
curating a Screening Room series at SUNY Ulster; upcoming events
include a selection of shorts starring Academy Award nominee Melissa
Leo 10/20 and Eve Waltermaurer's First 11/17 ...
Sophia Raab
Downs' documentary 21 Below played at the Woodstock Film Festival,
Silverdocs, Hot Docs, Sarasota, and Galway, and is being invited to
film festivals around the world ....
Davis Hall appeared on As the
World Turns, and in Knife Point at the Woodstock Film Festival,
Sundance, and Boston Film Festival ...
David Smilow played Judge
Brack in Hedda Gabler at the HB Ensemble ...
Lori Wilner appeared in
the world premiere of Giant at the Signature Theatre Company, starred
in Dreyfus in Rehearsal at NYC's Beckett Theatre, and will be in the
upcoming Beau Jest at the Gulfshore Playhouse ...
Mark Chmiel just
completed the national tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ...
John
Seidman appeared in The Tempest at the Shakespeare Theatre of New
Jersey, and Sigrid Heath in the Vagabonde Players' The Tempest in
Danville, PA;
Sigrid is en route to Paros, Greece ...
Shelley Wyant
is teaching at the New School's MFA program and is going to India in
January ...
Laura Shaine Cunningham's international smash Beautiful
Bodies includes new productions in Prague, Warsaw, Paris, Mexico
City, and throughout Germany ...
Katherine Burger's play Resonance
is under negotiation for another production in Paris ...
Joe White
directed a staged reading of Robert Askins' Princes of Waco at
Manhattan Theatre Club, acted at Manhattan Class Company, and is
teaching theatre to incarcerated teens on Rikers Island ...
Nina
Shengold's "Maya Gold" avatar will launch her six-book Cinderella
Cleaners series at Scholastic Book Fairs this Fall and in bookstores
in April 2010 ...
Mary Gallagher, still writing her massive novel
Exquisite in Mourning, was thrilled to welcome twin grandsons Sam &
Leo Duneman on 4/29/09 ...
Sarah Chodoff, Mikhail Horowitz, Adam
LeFevre, Nina Shengold, David Smilow, and Lori Wilner will appear in
Stage Fright, a benefit evening for Unison Arts Center on 10/17...
Mikhail Horowitz's We Cannot Know the Mind of God was performed at
Byrdcliffe by Star Mountainville company and at Hiram College, Cape
Cod Community College, and Trinity-Pawling School. Mik & Gilles
Malkine will perform their fourth annual holiday show with Peter
Schickele at Bearsville Theater 12/5 ...
And the biggest news of the
season, if not the millennium: Carol Morley has an e-mail address!
See you at the Odds!