| THE DRAMA LEAGUE ANNOUNCES NEW DIRECTOR-FOCUSED DIGITAL SERIES: “IN CONVERSATION” and #COLLABORATION VIDEO SERIES AND PODCAST | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 11:20 am EDT 04/06/20 | |
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| THE DRAMA LEAGUE ANNOUNCES NEW DIRECTOR-FOCUSED DIGITAL SERIES: “IN CONVERSATION” and #COLLABORATION VIDEO SERIES AND PODCAST NEW EPISODES WILL BE RELEASED EVERY WEDNESDAY IN APRIL & MAY DONATIONS BENEFIT THE DIRECTORS EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND WWW.DRAMALEAGUE.ORG/DIGITALSERIES New York, NY (April 6, 2020) – The Drama League (Artistic Director, Gabriel Stelian-Shanks / Executive Director, Bevin Ross) announces two new digital series, In Conversation and #Collaboration, to be released weekly on Wednesdays at 3pm in Spring 2020, in video and podcast formats. The first episode, featuring Tony-nominated director Moritz von Stuelpnagel, premieres this Wednesday, April 8 at 3pm at www.dramaleague.org/digitalseries, as well as on podcast services worldwide. In Conversation, The Drama League's acclaimed series of live discussions with directors who are changing the face of theater, television, and film, has expanded to become accessible via digital video and podcast. The process of creation is revealed in these intimate, surprising, and wide-ranging conversations with award-winning creators from around the world. In addition, the brand new series, #Collaboration, provides a window into the unique collaborative process between a director and a playwright, designer, producer, or actor; in each episode, two artists will discuss their journey together on a project and their relationship as collaborators. Video and podcast episodes will be released simultaneously on a weekly basis. In the first episode, launching on Wednesday, April 8 at 3:00pm, Drama League Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian- Shanks sits down with Tony-nominated director Moritz von Stuelpnagel to discuss his approach, inspirations, and theatrical work, including the recent Broadway productions of Bernhardt/Hamlet, Present Laughter, and Hand To God. Upcoming episodes of In Conversation and #Collaboration include Erica Schmidt (Cyrano, Mac Beth), Awoye Timpo & Ngozi Anyanwu (director and playwright, respectively, of The Homecoming Queen at ATC and Good Grief at the Vineyard Theatre), Daniel Kramer (Bent in London, Romeo & Juliet, La Boheme), Jenna Worsham & Ren Dara Santiago (director and playwright, respectively, of The Siblings Play at Rattlestick), and more. Additionally, exclusive bonus content will be released on select dates, including a never-before-seen video recording of last season’s In Conversation with Steven Canals, filmed at The Drama League Theater Center in front of a live audience. Canals is the Emmy-nominated screenwriter, producer, director, and co-creator of the FX Network’s smash television series, Pose. In Conversation and #Collaboration Spring 2020 Digital Video and Podcast Series Schedule & Bios In Conversation with Moritz von Stuelpnagel Moderated by Drama League Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 3:00 PM MORITZ VON STUELPNAGEL is a New York based director. Broadway: Theresa Rebeck’s Bernhardt/Hamlet starring Janet McTeer (Roundabout), Noël Coward’s Present Laughter starring Kevin Kline (three Tony Award nominations including Best Revival), Robert Askins’ Hand to God (five Tony Award nominations including Best Play and Best Director). West End: Hand to God (Olivier Award nomination). Off-Broadway: Larissa Fasthorse’s The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public Theater), Nick Jones’ Important Hats of the Twentieth Century (MTC), Nick Jones’ Verité (LCT3), Mike Lew’s Bike America (Ma-Yi), Nick Jones’ Trevor (Lesser America), Robert Askins’ Love Song of the Albanian Sous Chef (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Mel & El (Ars Nova), Michael Mitnick’s Spacebar (Studio 42), and Adam Szymkowicz’s My Base and Scurvy Heart (Studio 42). Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and more. Moritz is the former artistic director of Studio 42, NYC’s producer of “unproducible” plays. www.moritzvs.com In Conversation with Steven Canals Moderated by Drama League Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 3:00 PM Hailing from The Bronx, STEVEN CANALS is a 2015 graduate of UCLA’s MFA Screenwriting program. He began his journey as a storyteller in high school, producing a documentary short about turf violence. Steven went on to earn a BA in Cinema from Binghamton University. While attending UCLA, Steven served as a Research Assistant for Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black. Steven was the Staff Writer on Freeform’s “Dead of Summer,” the same year his short film, Afuera, premiered at the 2016 LA Film Festival. Variety Magazine named Steven a TV Writer to Watch in 2018. His original drama series, “POSE,” co-created with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, debuted in 2018 on FX. #Collaboration: Jenna Worsham & Ren Dara Santiago Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 3:00 PM JENNA WORSHAM is a stage director and activist. Broadway: The Parisian Woman, Picnic, The Heidi Chronicles (Associate Director). Off-Broadway/Regional: Summer’s Soldier by Boo Killebrew (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Climb by C.A. Johnson (Cherry Lane); Agnes by Catya McMullen (59E59/Lesser America, NY Times Critics’ Pick); Belleville by Amy Herzog (Pasadena Playhouse); Carlo at the Wedding by Bryna Turner (ACT); Wonder Boi by Jacob Jarrett (NYMF); Dear by Lily Houghton (MCC); Blue Ridge by Abby Rosebrock (Williamstown); Street Children by Pia Scala-Zankel (Vertigo Theater, NY Times Critics’ Pick); Gun Country (A.R.T/New York); The First Immigrant by Martyna Majok (Williamstown); Invincible Ones by Samantha Cooper (Signature Center); Here to Be Seen (commissioned by the Brooklyn District Attorney); and The Vagina Monologues (Taconic Prison & Cherry Lane, for the Women's Prison Association). Jenna has developed new work at The Public, Labyrinth, ACT, Playwrights Horizons, The Women’s Project, MTC, EST/Youngblood, MCC, and Primary Stages, among others. She is a 2019 National Directing Fellow at The O’Neill Theater Center, as well as the recipient of a Jonathan Alper Award (MTC), two SDCF Observerships, and The Drama League/Williamstown Sagal Directing Fellowship. Jenna is the founding Artistic Director of Middle Voice at Rattlestick, and the Co-Founder of Creative Solutions at SPACE on Ryder Farm, a residency program for human rights advocates. REN DARA SANTIAGO is a Fila-Rican playwright from Yonkers and Harlem. She is the 2019-2020 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Something in the Balete Tree, a 2019 Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, was written with the support of Gingold Theatrical Group, Clubbed Thumb, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. The Siblings Play has had development at The Cherry Lane Theatre (Mentor Project), Labyrinth Theater, MCC Theater, and Ojai Playwrights Conference. Other plays include Battle, Come to Starr Street, The Gods Play, Little Stories, Big World, and Love + Animation. She is a teaching artist with The National Theater Institute, The Young Women’s Leadership School, and the Playwriting Lab at MCC Youth Company, guest artist in Playgrounds at The Lark, member of Rising Phoenix Rep, founding member and former Artistic Producer of Middle Voice at Rattlestick, and an eternal member of The Baldwin Project by Lucy Thurber. Santiago is the proud recipient of the MCC Alumni Award and the inaugural recipient of Rising Phoenix Rep’s Cornelia Street American Playwriting Award. In Conversation with Erica Schmidt Moderated by Drama League Artistic Director Gabriel Stelian-Shanks Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 3:00 PM ERICA SCHMIDT’s directing credits include: Mac Beth (Seattle Rep, Red Bull Theater); Richard II with Robert Sean Leonard (The Old Globe); Cyrano and All the Fine Boys at The New Group (writer and director); Turgenev’s A Month In The Country (Classic Stage Company); Dennis Kelly’s Taking Care Of Baby (Manhattan Theatre Club); Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s I Call My Brothers, and the Obie Award-winning Invasion! (both for The Play Company); co-creator/writer of Humor Abuse (Lucille Lortel Award) at MTC, Philadelphia Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theatre, Seattle Rep, and The Taper; Rent (Tokyo); Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid, Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer, and Copland’s The Tender Land (all at Bard SummerScape); Carnival (Paper Mill Playhouse); Quincy Long’s People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons); Gary Mitchell’s Trust (The Play Company, Callaway Award nominee); As You Like It (The Public Theater/NYSF, chashama; New York International Fringe Festival Winner for Best Direction); Debbie Does Dallas (wrote the adaptation and directed Off-Broadway for The Araca Group); Spanish Girl (Second Stage). Princess Grace Award recipient 2001. #Collaboration: Awoye Timpo & Ngozi Anyanwu Wednesday, April 29, 2020 at 3:00 PM AWOYE TIMPO’s off-Broadway directing credits include In Old Age (NYTW), Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre), The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwrights Realm), and The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company). Regionally she has directed School Girls... (Berkeley Rep), Everybody Black (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Pipeline (Studio Theatre), and Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre). Additional credits include Carnaval (National Black Theater), Sister Son/ji (Billie Holiday Theatre), The Vanished (site-specific), Skeleton Crew (Chester Theatre Company), and Ndebele Funeral (59E59, Edinburgh Festival/Summerhall, and South African tour). She is a producer for CLASSIX, a series exploring classic plays by Black playwrights. NGOZI ANYANWU - Education: University of California, San Diego (MFA in Acting), Point Park University (BA). Playwriting: Good Grief (2016 Kilroys List, Princess Grace semi-finalist, Humanitas Award), The Homecoming Queen (2017 Kilroys List, Leah Ryan Finalist), The Book of Lucy, and NIKE, or We Don’t Need Another Hero (2017 Kilroys List). Anyanwu starred in Good Grief at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles (Spring 2017), and off-Broadway at Vineyard Theatre (Fall 2018). NIKE was recently workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark, and The Strand Festival in conjunction with A.C.T and SPACE on Ryder Farm. The Homecoming Queen had its world premiere at Atlantic Theater in 2018 (sold-out run). Anyanwu has received residencies from LCT3, SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, and Page 73. She is commissioned with NYU, The Old Globe, and Atlantic Theatre, and is currently staffed on HBO Max’s limited series, “Americanah”. In Conversation with Daniel Kramer Moderated by Drama League Artistic Director, Gabriel Stelian-Shanks Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 3:00 PM DANIEL KRAMER is a freelance theater and opera director. His credits include Mask of Orpheus, Jack the Ripper, War Requiem, and La Traviata (Artistic Director of English National Opera from 2016 to 2019). La Boheme and La Traviata (Theatre Basel, ENO), Sadko (Vlaamse & Bratislava Opera), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), Dream Play (Harvard), Tristan and Isolde (ENO), The Serpent (Brown University), Pélleas et Mélisande (Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatre, Golden Mask Awards), Carmen (Vlaamse Opera and Opera North), Punch & Judy (Grand Theatre Geneva and ENO – Outstanding Achievement in Opera, South Bank Award), Bluebeard’s Castle (ENO, Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatre – Golden Mask Awards), Pictures from an Exhibition (Sadlers Wells and Young Vic), King Kong (Regent Theatre, Australia), Angels in America (Headlong, Glasgow Citizens Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith), Woyzeck (St. Ann’s Warehouse NYC), Bent (Trafalgar Studios London), Prick Up Your Ears (Comedy Theatre London), Hair, Woyzeck (Gate Theatre, Notting Hill), Through the Leaves (Southwark Playhouse & Duchess Theatre, West End). Daniel is a NYC Drama League Fellow. Education: Northwestern University, Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique, International School of commedia dell’arte and Circus Space. Daniel is the former Artistic Director of English National Opera, and has been an associate at the Gate Theatre (Notting Hill), Young Vic Theatre (London), and the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also been a guest artist and professor at Harvard, Brown, NYU, Northwestern, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. |
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