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Kelly Barrett has been directing in New York City since 1999, beginning with the one-acts Tremulous, Jumping Bridge, The Dating Cyclone, Georgie Goodbye, and Why Do You Smoke So Much, Lilly. She also directed At Two O' Clock in the Morning for the Samuel French Festival. More recently Kelly has been focusing on classical full-lengths. She assistant directed Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, and Macbeth before moving on to direct productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, and Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband. Kelly attended the conservatory program at Stella Adler and studied with Creative Acting Company.
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Merry Beamer has directed extensively in New York, including last year's Off-Broadway production of DAPH! by Le Wilhelm at 59E59 Theaters. She has directed many other Wilhelm plays, including Floating Island, Peter, Banana Kiwi Murders, and The Power and The Glory, as well as the traveling production of Daphne, Daphne, Daphne and Daphne Does Christmas. She formerly served as Artistic Director of Bridge Theater Company in Washington Heights, where she directed their productions of Neil Simon's Fools and The Good Doctor; Jim Leonard Jr.'s The Diviners; John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men; and their annual holiday show A Christmas Carol (adaptation) as a benefit for the local schools and community. Merry also co-directed the first New York revival of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead (Straight from the Heart Productions). Merry has directed productions for Workshop Theater Company, Beautiful Evening Productions, Lightning Strikes, and Performers at Work, as well as conducted a volunteer theater program for the West Bronx Recreation Center. Outside New York she has directed for Raleigh Ensemble Players in North Carolina and L'ACT in Los Altos, California.
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John Borras- John is an Actor/Writer/Director. As a playwright, he has had six plays produced (see Writers portion of the website for more details) and has acted in over 80 plays and directed over 50 throughout New York City. Too many credits and too many theatre companies to list but he has directed plays from established to emerging playwrights and enjoys the process. He developed his directing style over the course of 15 years of working with all different types of directors as an actor, and believes that the process should not only be challenging but it should also be fun. Special thanks goes out to Le Wilhelm and LoveCreek productions for giving him the opportunity to continue grow as an artist. AEA, SAG 914-760-9343 or jborras88aol.com or www.sceneinteractive.com/talents/johnborras
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Liz Forst made her directorial debut with Love Creek Productions in 2003. Two years later she directed Lone Star and its companion piece, Laundry and Bourbon (both by James McLure), under the auspices of Developing Acts. Most recently she had the pleasure of directing a new play for ETC, John Woods' The Making of a Fine Salad. In addition to directing, Liz is also an actor, and recently enjoyed appearing in a production of Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes at La MaMa E.T.C. Liz a proud member of both LCP and The WorkShop Theater Company.
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Lawrence Frank has directed over 20 plays in NYC over the last 5 years. Among them Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women, George S. Kaufman's Dulcy, Patrick Hamilton's Rope, Christopher Durang's For Whom the Southern Bell Tolls, Le Wilhem's La Chienne in the Park, Boys in the Backroom, and Lullaby for Murder, and Isreal Horovitz's Line are some favorites. Also an accomplished actor, he has appeared in numerous plays as well as many films. AFTRA 646 319 3194
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Cynthia Granville Selected New York City directing credits include Moon For The Misbegotten; the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival finalists The Voyeur and the Widow and Jumping Bridge; Tennessee Williams' Moony's Kid Don't Cry; Junction City (a modern allegory of a young seminarian's crisis of faith); Zeta Dawson Godboalt's Down Home Sausage Meat and Obedience; Love Creek Festival winners The Sleep Seeker by Staci Swedeen and Tarzan the Apeman is Dead by Ms. Godboalt; and the Manhattan Community Arts Fund-supported production of New York Cycle VII, a modern adaptation of the medieval Wakefield Cycle as it might be performed by New York's homeless. Regional directing includes the premieres of Geneva for Hudson Exploited Theater Company and Through November Moonlight for Blueberry Pond Theatre Ensemble, a professional company in Westchester County of which she is Artistic Director. Cynthia has specialized in new work as director and dramaturge and has directed many developmental staged readings in the tri-state area. She also served as assistant director of "Choices" for Avcel Inc. (educational video) and as Casting Director of Deerfield Video. She teaches acting and audition technique for OssArts. AEA SAG. cynthiagranville.com
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Tom Holmes last directed Christopher Durang's Naomi in the Living Room for Love Creek's Brief Acts spring festival. He has also directed Le Wilhelm's You Don't Have to Go to Kansas City to Meet the Devil and Consumption for RCL. Tom is a Samuel French One-Act Festival winner, directing Frederick Stroppel's Single and Proud. His next project will be assistant directing Le Wilhelm's The Shattering of the Golden Pane that will appear at 59E59 Theaters. He would like to thank Le Wilhelm for this incredible experience and opportunity, as well as Kathy Towson at RCL.
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Linda Loren is a longtime member of Love Creek. She has directed many one-acts by Le Wilhelm, as well as his full-length Fragments in the Garden. She has also directed three plays in the Samuel French Festival, one of which was a festival finalist. Linda has had the opportunity to direct plays by Tennessee Williams, including Purification and The Mutilated, as well as one-acts by Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Christopher Durang, and Anton Chekov. In addition, she has also directed plays by many new playwrights. One of her favorite new plays is on the history of baseball, titled Boys and Girls Together.
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Shawn Madsen has been directing in the New York Off-Off Broadway market for a number of years. His directing credits include productions of Euripedes' The Trojan Woman; Terence's The Eunuch; an evening of the anonymous religious cycles Creation, Noah, Pharoah, and Everyman; and a commedia-inspired piece co-written by himself titled A Servant of Three Masters (Whose Wife Is She Anyway). Modern productions under his direction include William's The Fat Man's Wife, Wilhelm's Tales From The Heartland and Bubbling, Trupia's Voices, Drake's Gorked, Guare's Cop Out, Durang's The Actor's Nightmare, Chekov's The Bear, and numerous others.
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Gregg David Shore continues to direct a mix of published and original new plays, both full-lengths and one-acts. Most recently, he directed The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer, Eight Halloween Monologues by Le Wilhelm, and three plays of the Women in Boats collection from the RCL Writers Group. Other favorites include Nature and Purpose of the Universe and Mrs. Sorken by Christopher Durang, The Long Christmas Dinner by Thorton Wilder, and Blue Alaska, Alaska, and One Eyed Venus and the Brothers, all by Le Wilhelm. He also directed two Samuel French winners: The Parrot by Le Wilhelm and Picture Perfect by Harlene Goodrich.
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Erin Smiley NY credits include: Training Wisteria (NY International Fringe Festival), When Mother Calls (Samuel French Short Play Festival), Love is Good (Developing Acts), Mrs. Warren's Profession, Mrs. Weinberg's Profession, An Old Beagle Named Amour (ETC), The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Mothers and Monsters, No Problem, Tremulous, and Sun Tea and Bagels (Brief Acts). Credits outside of NY include Grease, How to Succeed…, Footloose (Roslyn, LI). Erin is a graduate of Vassar College, an Associate Member of SSDC and a Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
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Paul Trupia is a life long New Yorker having grown up in Astoria Queens. Since casting aside his background as a financial professional, Paul has contributed to many Off Broadway shows as a writer, director and actor. His style ranges from dramatic social commentary to contemporary real life humor with a New York flavor. Written work includes several One Act pieces which were accepted for performance in both the Strawberry and Samuel French Festivals. Most recently such work included: A Day At The Office; The Hired Hand, Changing Times and The Fourth Voice. Other written work includes Attitudes and Alternatives, Spirit Within, A Sip of Time, The Barbeque and the recently performed Judgment Day. Contact Paul at PJT149@aol.com
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Tony White graduated from the University of Buffalo Master's Program in Media Study & Theater. He has directed several acclaimed productions including Wait Until Dark, As You Like It, and Romeo and Juliet. He recently received the Tiffany Award (Best Play) for the long-running Tambourines to Glory by Langston Hughes.
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Le Wilhelm Le Wilhelm has been directing plays most of his life, having received his MA and MFA in Directing and Writing. Mr. Wilhelm trained under Dr. Leslie Irene Coger, and has extensive training in Chamber and Reader's Theatre. These two art forms are capable of bridging the gap between live performance and great literature. In recent years, there has been a lack of focus on Interpreters Theatre, Chamber Theatre and Reader's Theatre. Today many of our universities have chosen a path they call Performance Studies, and this is most unfortunate*.
Mr. Wilhelm has directed hundreds of plays, and has received awards for his productions of Long Day's Journey Into Night, Everyman (a musical version with '50s music set on the beach), Hot L Baltimore, House of Blue Leaves, and the original full-length Home in Illinois by Matt Swan. One of the first full-length productions he directed was The Owl and the Pussycat, starring the marvelously talented Kathleen Turner. Mr. Wilhelm was fortunate in attending Missouri State to work with some highly skilled performers. Besides the aforementioned Ms. Turner, others include the Oscar-nominated Tess Harper, who appeared in the wonderful film Tender Mercies, the award-winning actor John Goodman, Jack Laufer of numerous television performances, and George Cron, television and film performer. While attending Florida State University, Mr. Wilhelm had the privilege of seeing many of the skits and playlets of writer Alan Ball, who later went on to win the Oscar for best screenplay for American Beauty.
At LCP, Mr. Wilhelm has been fortunate enough to direct many talented performers, many of whom have highly successful careers, including: DeLane Matthews, John Haymes Newton, Carol Halstead, Dustye Winniford, Cynthia Granville, Philip Galbraith, Jon Oak, and Nancy McDoniel, who was most recently seen in the film United Flight 93.
In New York, Mr. Wilhelm has directed numerous Off-Off Broadway productions and has directed Off Broadway with Bill Elverman's The Mask, the bio drama concerning the kidnapping and sadistic murder of a Norwegian fashion model in the '80s.
Some of the plays besides original productions directed in New York regional theatre by Mr. Wilhelm are: House of Blue Leaves, Boys in the Band, The Children's Hour, Uncommon Women and Others, Hot L Baltimore, Geniuses, Say Good Night Gracie, The Seven Year Itch, See How They Run, The Star Spangled Girl, Trojan Women, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The Owl and the Pussycat, Bent, Maranda, Tartuff, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Everyman, Six Characters in Search of an Author, I'm Dreaming but am I?, The Man With the Flower in his Mouth, The Lesson, Our Lord of the Ships, A Perfect Analysis Given by a Parrot, Seahorse, The Sandbox, The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Sister Mary Ignetius, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, The Stronger, Different, Beyond Therapy, An Actor's Nightmare, When You Coming Back Red Ryder, Grease, Porno Stars at Home, Patio/Porch, Ms. Marguerite's Way, Seven Keys to Ball Pate, No Exit, And Ms. Reardon Drinks a Little, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Of Mice and Men, The Madness of Lady Bright, The Great Nebula in Orion, X-Miss Copper Queen on a Set of Pills, The Tiny Closet, Bus Riley's Back in Town, Dracula, Dracula-la-la, Frau Dracula: That Prussian She-Bitch from Hell and many more.
*Performance Studies as it is taught in many universities is filled with political agendas, and fails to address the need of bringing great world literature to the masses. One can only hope that this is an unfortunate phase that will pass. Mr. Wilhelm was extremely disappointed when he discovered that Missouri State University (the theatre there is named after Dr. Coger) had allowed the Reader's Theatre, Interpreter's Theatre and Chamber Theatre classes to be usurped by questionable political agendas.
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Kymm Zuckert has been a director since 1992. Her directing credits include I Sell Footstones, Naked Mole Rats in the World of Darkness, Just War, Straight Talk, Rewriting the Script, The Way One Writes His Name, Naked Ambition, If Billy Had Been Earnest, Guacamole Toes, The Seductive Countess, Ladies Man, Group Therapy, The Hot Dog Machine, You Can Look But You'd Better Not Touch, Junction City, Statics and Dynamics, Sister Mary Ignatious Explains it All For You, Orpheus Descending, Et Tu Kelly?, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, A Doll's House, Blackberry Frost, Flora, Horror and Java, The Monsieur le Chat Show, You Can Look But You'd Better Not Touch, Vanities, the second cast of Death in the Juniper Grove, and Whoppers.
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