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STACY ROSS* - Helene SARAH GREENMAN - Playwright JON TRACY+ - Director |
NINA BALL** - Scenic Designer MAGGIE WHITAKER** - Costume Designer KURT LANDISMAN** - Lighting Designer TEDDY HULSKER - Sound & Video Designer BRITTANY WHITE - Props Master AMANDA MASON* - Stage Manager NANCY CARLIN - Dialect Coach |
Leni
By Sarah Greenman | Directed By Jon Tracy
Leni Riefenstahl was the brilliant German film director of Triumph of the Will and Olympia, films cited by Pauline Kael as “the two greatest films ever directed by a woman,” and which also served as propaganda for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. In Sarah Greenman’s wildly creative multimedia play, Riefenstahl’s older and younger selves edit a film of the director’s life, playing out and reshooting scenes from her past until the director finds the beauty she is seeking. Leni is an extraordinary work about artistic responsibility, narcissism and denial.
"Greenman demonstrates a masterful confidence as her text darts from one decade to the next and one Leni to another." - Seattle Weekly
RUN TIME: 80 MINUTES
Tracy's mesmerizing staging... lingers in the mind long after the curtain falls.
San Jose Mercury News
ARTISTS
STACY ROSS* was last seen in Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem at A.C.T., which followed a summer of the west coast premiere of The Thrush and the Woodpecker at Custom Made Theatre and Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at Califonia Shakespeare Theatre. At Aurora Theatre Company she has had the pleasure of performing in such classics as Hedda Gabler and A Kind of Alaska as well as the contemporary and cutting edge Gideon’s Knot. She’s happy to be back.
MARTHA BRIGHAM* is so excited to return to Aurora Theatre Company! Stage Credits include Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly (Marin Theatre Company), The Birds (Symmetry Theatre), Value Over Replacement (Playground-SF), The How and the Why (Aurora Theatre Company), Stupid Fucking Bird(San Francisco Playhouse), The Tall Girls (La Jolla Playhouse), The Man in the Red Suit (Secret Rose Theatre), The Cross Over (Marilyn Monroe Theatre). Film and television include Children of Sorrow, The Man in the Red Suit, The Empire Builders, First Day. She graduated from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute as well as studying with Steppenwolf West under alumni Tom Irwin and LA’s comedy improv group, The Groundlings.
Associate Sponsors
Deborah & Howard Goodman
Candy & George Hisert
Ellen & Barry Levine
