ShareThe Global Age Project 2007 BIOGRAPHIES
Laura Jacqmin (Playwright: Happyslap) is a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, was the co-founder of the Yale Playwrights Festival, and is a nominee for the inaugural Wasserstein Prize. Her plays have been staged and developed at Victory Gardens Theater, Perishable Theatre, the Contemporary American Theater Festival and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University, among others. She is the recipient of a 2006 Ohio University SEA development grant for 10 Virgins, which will receive its world premiere in Chicago Dramatists’ 2007-2008 season. Also premiering in Chicago next season is Jacqmin’s Butt Nekkid, produced by the side project theatre company.
Craig Lucas (Writer/Director: Subterranea) is the author of Missing Persons, Blue Window, Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss (now in revival on Broadway), God’s Heart, The Dying Gaul, Stranger, Small Tragedy and The Singing Forest. His screenplays include Longtime Companion, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, Blue Window and The Dying Gaul, which he also directed. For stage he directed Harry Kondoleon’s plays Saved or Destroyed at Rattlestick, Play Yourself at NYTW as well as his own play This Thing of Darkness (co-authored with David Schulner) at the Atlantic Theater Company. Twice nominated for a Tony (Prelude and The Light in the Piazza), three times for the Drama Desk (Prelude, Reckless and Missing Persons), he has received numerous awards including the L.A. Drama Critics (Blue Window), and Obie Awards for Best Play (Prelude and Small Tragedy) and Best Director (Saved or Destroyed).
Brian Thorstenson (Playwright: Over The Mountain) Plays include: Shadow Crossing (Central Works), Drop (Alternative Theater), Sudden Tuesday (Stephen Pelton Dance Theater), and Summerland (Alternative Theater, Wings Theatre, NYC). Brian is a lecturer at San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University. He received a B.A. in Theater from Willamette University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. He is an associate artist at the Z Space studio and lives in San Francisco.
Enrique E. Urueta (Playwright: Learn To Be Latina) Colombian-American, by way of Virginia and San Francisco, Enrique has a BA in Theatre from The College of William and Mary and currently attends Brown University’s MFA playwriting program. He is the author of the plays The Johnson Administration, Learn To Be Latina, The Danger of Bleeding Brown, and Forever Never Comes. His plays have been developed or produced by The Queer Latino Artists Coalition, The Queer Cultural Center, Playwrights Foundation, Impact Theatre, Lark Play Development Center, American Repertory Theatre, and Golden Thread Production. He is a proud member of NoPassport, a pan-American theatre coalition devoted the advocacy of Latino/a and hemispherically-minded work.
Justin Warner (Playwright: American Whupass) Justin Warner’s plays have been produced in NYC, London, LA, DC, Toronto, San Francisco, San Diego, and elsewhere. He is a Harrington Award winner (BMI Workshop), a Peabody Award winner, a Kennedy Center-ACTF winner, a Princess Grace finalist, an O’Neill semi-finalist, and a five-time Heideman Award finalist. He lives in New York City. Member: BMI, Dramatists Guild.
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Tom Bentley (Director: Happyslap) has been a professional director and teacher in Canada for twenty-five years. He was the artistic director of three theatres and achieved a national reputation for developing and directing original Canadian drama. The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, credits him with having engineered one of the most dramatic comebacks in Canadian theatre history. He is also a playwright, novelist, and award-winning short story writer. Tom recently moved to San Francisco and is excited to be on staff at Aurora as the coordinator of the GAP
Raelle Myrick-Hodges (Director: American Whupass) recently assistant directed Mother Courage and Her Children (featuring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline). She directed the West Coast premiere of In the Blood by Suzan-Lori Parks and also worked on the Broadway premiere and national tour of Topdog/Underdog. She also directed the Philadelphia premiere of Polaroid Stories, Pretty Fire (Barrymore nomination). She has been awarded several grants and awards including the NEA/TCG directing grant and the Independence Foundation grants. Raelle is co-founder of Azuka Theatre in Philadelphia and has worked with such companies as the Mark Taper Forum, The Public Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre, and the Magic Theatre.
Elizabeth Williamson (Director: Over The Mountain) New York: Michel Azama’s The Life and Death of Pier Paolo Pasolini (Village Voice Choice, US Premiere at the Act French Festival), Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab), Peter Morris’ The Second Amendment Club, Chikamatsu’s The Floating World (LCT at HERE), Genet’s The Maids (FringeNYC). Regional: The Deception (remount, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, fall 07), Leah Muir’s opera Desire (World Premiere, Open Music Ensemble, 2008), PlayGround Festival 07 (company member). She’s also worked at ACT, BAPF, Berkeley Rep’s School, Cal Shakes, Lorin Maazel’s Chateauville Foundation, Court Theatre, the La Jolla Playhouse, Steppenwolf, Williamstown Theatre Festival. She is the recipient of a 2007 NEA Fellowship for her translations of Michel Azama’s plays.
Ben Yalom (Director: Learn To Be Latina) is Artistic Director of foolsFURY, where he has directed many productions including Fabrice Melquiot’s The Devil on All Sides, Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso, Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life, and others. With New York’s Inverse Theater he directed the controversial musical Bangers Flopera (“Outstanding New Musical” Talkin’ Broadway, Summer 2005 citations). Ben has also worked with ACT, Traveling Jewish Theatre, the Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, the Magic Theatre, Playground, and Encore Theatre ( San Francisco), and Théâtre Ange Magnétique ( Paris). Ben is a graduate of the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and teaches at California College of the Arts and Stanford.
*Member, Actors' Equity Association
