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Spring 2010!
Katherine Burger's play Morphic Resonance has productions pending in
Paris and Germany. Her musical Legends of Batvia will be read in New
York City at the Dramatists Guild's Loewe Room on May 11.
In a
reading for producers, Mark Chmiel played several roles in Behind the
Limelight, an Off-Broadway-bound musical about the life of Charlie
Chaplin.
Sarah Chodoff, Mikhail Horowitz, Adam LeFevre, Nina
Shengold, David Smilow, and Lori Wilner performed in an A&W Shorts
on Tour program at Unison in New Paltz on April 30.
Laura Shaine
Cunningham's new play, Beware of Waiter, enjoyed a run at Dixon Place
in New York. Her play Beautiful Bodies will debut this year in South
America, Paris, Prague, and London. Laura was literary director of
the Woodstock Writers Festival in February, and offered her memoir
workshop, Write for Your Life, as a benefit for the Rosendale
Theatre Collective. She had two new plays published in Best Plays of
2007-08 (Applause Books): Outsourced and Web Cam Woman.
Denny Dillon is teaching improvisation at Primary Stages in New York City. Last
fall she was an artist-in-residence at SUNY Ulster, and she was
recently featured in the A&E documentary Saturday Night Fever-Inside
the Movie, which aired on Biography.
Jason Downs has finished his most recent album, Love Me Alone, and will be releasing it this year. He has appeared in two feature films, Whisper Me A Lullaby and The Festival of Lights as well as several shorts that will be released during the coming year.
Four of Mary Gallagher's plays-
Andre the Seal, Bedtime, First Communion, and The Perfect Guy- will be
published this year by playscripts.com, and Andre will also be
published in a Chinese anthology. Her novel, Exquisite in Mourning,
is progressing nicely.
Davis Hall and his wife, Ingrid Price, are in
preproduction for Mother's House, a short film to be shot this
summer.
Sigrid Heath is alive and well and living in Paros, Greece,
and planning to marry a goatherd.
Mikhail Horowitz and his partner in
pataphysical crime, Gilles Malkine, performed at the Germantown
Jewish Center in Philadelphia in April, and did a benefit for the
Rosendale Theater Collective (along with Melissa Leo and Lori Wilner)
on May 1.
Adam LeFevre appears in the Dreamworks feature She's Out of
My League and in Columbia Pictures' The Bounty Hunter. He'll soon be
seen in The Scientist, a sci-fi drama from Polynation Pictures, and as
-no kidding- Karl Rove in Fair Game, Doug Liman's film about the Joe
Wilson/Valerie Plame affair. Adam and Lori Wilner appeared in Horton
Foote's Orphans Home cycle at Hartford Stage.
Melissa Leo plays a
civil rights lawyer in the new HBO series Treme and a flight
attendant in The Space Between (premiering at the 2010 Tribeca Film
Festival). She also has roles in three forthcoming films- Betty Anne
Waters, Welcome to the Rileys, and The Fighter.
Carol Morley continues to teach acting technique, scene study, and The Art of the
Audition at HB Studio in New York. She plans to host acting
workshops in her Woodstock home in the near future.
Ron Nyswaner is
making a documentary about character acting starring Mary Louise
Wilson.
Sophia Raab Downs is still a stone fox. She's also busy saving the Rosendale Theatre and starting an accredited film and television studio, in addition to being a goddess among women.
John Seidman will be appearing in The Taming of the Shrew at
the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in June, and is working with
Hopeful Monsters on the development of a new work based on Mark
O'Connor's Americana Symphony.
Nina Shengold's Finger Foods was
produced by theaters in Fort Lauderdale and Bellingham, Wash. Her book River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers will be
published by SUNY Press in September 2010, and her Maya Gold alias
is busily cranking out Cinderella Cleaners adventures for Scholastic.
David Smilow has slipped back into daytime writing harness to help
tow the As The World Turns tumbrel to the killing grounds. He will
be writing scripts until the death sentence is carried out on June
8.
Joe White recently directed a group of one-act plays for the
Working Theatre.
Mary Louise Wilson appeared most recently off-
Broadway in Norah Ephron's Love, Loss and What I Wore. She has been
teaching at Primary Stages in New York City and at Tulane University
in New Orleans.
Shelley Wyant directed Glengarry Glen Ross at the
Rosendale Theater on May 14, 15, & 16. She's off to Romania as a
Fulbright Senior Specialist in mask work.