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WHO MADE THIS SHOW?
>>STEVE CUIFFO Playwright KIRK LYNN Artistic chutzpah & pop culture savvy operating on all eight cylinders. – Austin Chronicle Kirk Lynn is a Founder and Co-Producing Artistic Director of the theatre collective Rude Mechs of Austin, TX. Rude Mechs' 22 original productions have received 140 awards and nominations for artistic excellence, and the company itself has been voted “Best Theatre Company in Austin ” by the Austin Chronicle for a record 4 consecutive years. The Rude Mechs' theatrical adaptation of Greil Marcus's cult classic, LIPSTICK TRACES: A Secret History of the 20 th Century , was produced by The Foundry Theatre in 2001 and has since toured both nationally and internationally. Kirk's original scripts include PALE IDIOT, CHERRYWOOD, REQUIEM FOR TESLA, and EL PARAISO: AN HUMILIATION OF PLEASURES.
Magician/Performer STEVE CUIFFO Steve Cuiffo is an actor and an accomplished magician, whose body of work ranges from performing with the Wooster Group to consulting with David Blaine. Recent credits include Lypsinka's THE PASSION OF THE CRAWFORD; New York Theatre Workshop's Patriot Act – A Public Meditation and GHOSTLIGHT (work in progress); The Foundry Theatre's THE ROARING GIRLE; and BYRDLESQUE at the Donald Byrd-New Victory Theatre, Broadway. At 14 years old, Steve was the youngest magician to win First Place at the Society of American Magicians National Magic Contest. In 1995, Steve, with collaborator Derek Hughes, won First Place at the International Brotherhood of Magicians Annual Magic Contest. Steve has performed his magic all over Manhattan and Brooklyn , having appeared at Joe's Pub, The Cutting Room, The Zipper, Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction, Low, and Galapagos, among other venues. He attended New York University 's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. He has trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City and the British American Drama Academy in London .
Performer MAGGIE HOFFMAN Radiohole is a theatrical head-trip. – Village Voice Maggie Hoffman is one fourth of Radiohole, which has been performing colossal acts of degradation and other enormities too juvenile to mention since 1998. In addition to performance work, Radiohole has established (in conjunction with The Collapsible Giraffe) the OBIE Award-winning venue, the Bucky Fijian Lounge (a.k.a. The Collapsible Hole), one of the most internationally lauded performance venues in Williamsburg , Brooklyn . Radiohole's next show, FLUKE (Solemn Mysteries of the Ancient Order of the Deep), will be presented at P.S. 122 this spring.
Director PAUL LAZAR This splendid and adventurous company conjures up the most implausible concoctions. – ‘00 OBIE Awards Paul Lazar is Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE and Bessie Award-winning theater company, Big Dance Theater. Most recent Big Dance pieces in which he either acted, directed, or co-directed with Annie B. Parson: PLAN B; Mac Wellamn's ANTIGONE; ANOTHER TELEPATHIC THING; Mac Wellman's GIRL GONE; Odon Von Horvath's DON JUAN COMES BACK FROM THE WAR; and Fassbinder's BREMMEN FREEDOM. Paul has also performed in numerous movies and other theatrical productions.
Co-Conceiver/Co-Creator MELANIE JOSEPH Works that challenge the mind and stimulate the senses – NY Times Melanie Joseph is the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Foundry Theatre (8 OBIE Awards, 3 Drama Desk nominations for “Unique Theatrical Experience”). With The Foundry, she has directed Alice Tuan's THE ROARING GIRLE as well as all three of playwright W. David Hancock's New York City premieres: THE CONVENTION OF CARTOGRAPHY (OBIE Award, “Best Play”); DEVIANT CRAFT (Drama Desk nomination, “Unique Theatrical Experience”); and THE RACE OF THE ARK TATTOO (OBIE Awards, “Best Play” & “Best Performance”). With The Foundry, Joseph has also produced works by Grisha Coleman, David Greenspan, Carl Hancock Rux, Linda Chapman and Lola Pashalinski, Rude Mechanicals, Rinde Eckert, and Russian auteur Kama Ginkas. In 2001, Joseph herself received the Lucille Lortel Award for Producing, in recognition of premiering “cutting-edge works of artistic excellence.” She sits on the board of Theatre Communications Group and is the US President of the International Theatre Institute.
Scenic Designer, MICHAEL CASSELLI Michael Casselli graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a master's degree in sculpture. He has worked extensively in the downtown theatre/dance/performance scene, with artists and companies including Anne Bogart, En Garde Arts, Elizabeth Streb, Richard Foreman, Big Art Group, Reza Abdoh, Ian Belton, Juliana Francis, and Chashama. Recent design work includes Yehuda Duenyas's Pastoralia at P.S. 122; SWEET NOTHINGS FOR MY NEUROSURGEON with Chelsea Bacon at the Flea; GAUNTLET for Elizabeth Streb; Dawn Akami Saito's The Bacchae at Fordham University ; and ABYSS, a collaboration with Grisha Coleman. Upcoming projects include Lear DeBessonet/ Juliana Francis's Death Might Be Your Santa Claus ; Caden Manson/Big Art Group's Dead Set ; John Jahnke's Parsifal (based on Susan Sontag's 1991 script) at P.S. 122 this February; and Elizabeth Streb's Superforce , premiering at the Lincoln Center Festival in July 2006. Also watch out for Casselli's glorious return to the stage as the Ghost of Christmas Past/Ali Baba in Ken Nitzel's holiday extravaganza Twas the Night Before the Twelve Days of Nutcracker Christmas Carol at P.S. 122 in December. Casselli received a 1998 Bessie Award for Theatrical Design with Elizabeth Streb.
Lighting Designer, DAVE MOODEY Recent design work includes Wozzeck , directed by David Schweizer at NYU; Molissa Fenley, New Works at Joyce Soho; Peter Boal and Company at the Joyce Theater ; Big Dance Theater's Simple Heart at the Spoleto Festival; and Robert Ashley's latest opera, Celestial Excursions , NYC, Berlin . David's design experience includes extensive world tours with Molissa Fenley, Meredith Monk, and Sin Cha Hong. David has also done gallery lighting for many artists, most recently, Carol Hepper at the Maryland Institute for the Arts. David was honored with a Bessie Award for his design for Molissa Fenleys' State of Darkness , danced to Stravinskys' Rite of Spring. David is also a full time employee for the Metropolitan Opera House in the electric department where his primary responsibility is structural design for new scenery and special effects.
Costume Designer, WENDY MEILING YANG In September 2005, Wendy Meiling Yang opened her flagship atelier and boutique, “Maiden Hong Kong,” in Williamsburg , Brooklyn . Recent design endeavors include costumes for the Off-Broadway play FATAL ATTRACTION: A GREEK TRAGEDY; David Neuman's HANSEL AND GRETEL; assistant costume design & building for Big Dance Theatre; production design work on the short film “The Pied Piper of Manhattan,” and production design work on Nightmare : NYC's Original Haunted House . Wendy is also co-founder and manager of Red Humor Salon, an artists' performance, rehearsal, and workspace in East Williamsburg .
Sound Designer, RAUL VINCENT ENRIQUEZ As a sound designer, Raul designed all of Reza Abdoh's US and European Dar A Luz theatre productions and playwright/director Juliana Francis' GO GO GO and SAINT LATRICE. Raul currently works as a media artist and has been exhibited at the New Museum, Performance Studies international, Cal Arts, NYU, Knitting Factory, New York Digital Salon, Sin-e, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Mastel + Mastel Gallery, and Prix ARS Electronica.
Marilys Ernst won the 2002 OBIE Award for Video Design for her contribution to The Foundry Theatre's TALK by Carl Hancock Rux. As a video artist, she has also collaborated with Gabri Christa ( Dominata , performed at Dance Theatre Workshop) and Michael Cerveris (HISTORY OF TEARS). Marilys is also a film producer and editor, who heads her own company, Media Metier.
Established in 1994, The Foundry Theatre seeks to assemble a community of artists with revolutionary ideas for the theatre. We commission, develop, premiere, and tour plays that stretch theatrical conventions and provoke new questions for our times. The Foundry also hosts civic dialogue events that bring artists together with members of other communities to interrogate the politics of our everyday lives. The Foundry's productions have included Kama Ginkas and Moscow New Generation Theatre's K.I. FROM “CRIME”; Alice Tuan's THE ROARING GIRLE; poet/playwright Carl Hancock Rux's TALK; Rude Mechs' LIPSTICK TRACES: A Secret History of the 20th Century ; Rinde Eckert's AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES; and Lola Pashalinski and Linda Chapman's GERTRUDE AND ALICE: A Likeness to Loving . Current artists under commission include playwright/performer Juliana Francis; investigative director Steve Cosson, choreographer/performance artist Ann Carlson; and playwright W. David Hancock, long-time collaborator and recipient of two OBIE Awards. The Foundry's previous works have been recognized with 7 OBIE Awards and 3 Drama Desk nominations for “Unique Theatrical Experience.” In 2000, The Foundry itself was honored with the Ross Westzeon OBIE Award for its “overall contribution to Off Broadway theatre…fostering envelope pushing work that engages artists in the thorniest issues of the world we inhabit.”
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