Sat, May 01, 2010
Larry Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author. He is perhaps best known as one of the creators and driving forces behind long-running television series MASH. He also co-wrote the film Tootsie and the broadway play A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum. He died in 2009.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Russell Vandenbroucke served for eleven seasons as artistic director of Chicago’s Northlight Theatre, where he directed such plays as the Philoctetes of Sophocles, Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror, and the world premieres of Arnold Wesker’s Three Women Talking and Martha Boesing’s My Other Heart. As a playwright, he is the author of Feiffer’s America and Eleanor: In Her Own Words, adapted from the writings of Eleanor Roosevelt which won a Los Angeles Emmy. His play Atomic Bombers commemorated the 50th anniversary of Hiroshima on radio and opened Northlight’s first permanent theatre. His lifelong commitment to peace and justice is reflected in many of the plays he has written, directed, and produced.
Sat, May 01, 2010
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of several books, most recently The Assassins’ Gate. His reporting has won four Overseas Press Club awards.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Mame Hunt attended the University of California, Davis, CA. She is the Lead Dramaturg, Sundance Theatre Lab. She is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Theatre/Performance Studies, Georgetown University.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Kenneth Lonergan has had his work performed at Naked Angels, H.B. Playwrights' Foundation, Atlantic Theatre Company, Manhattan Punchline, the Royal Court Theatre (London), the first annual Young Playwrights' Festival at Circle Rep, and the Coast Theatre in Los Angeles. Currently working on an original screenplay for Universal and soon to direct his first film, You Can Count On Me, based on his original screenplay, he is co-author of the story and screenplay for the hit movie Analyze This. He lives in New York.
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