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Footlights Guest
Speakers
Playwrights
Allyson Currin, Treadwell: Bright and Dark
Lydia R. Diamond, Stick Fly
Ernest Joselovitz, Shakespeare, Moses, and Joe Papp
Jennifer Maisel, The Last Seder
Heather McDonald, Available Light
Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel
Sean O'Leary, Pound
Ari Roth, Oh, the Innocents
Mayo Simon, The Old Lady's Guide to Survival
Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
Karen Zacarías, The Sins of Sor Juana, Legacy of Light
Directors/Artistic Directors
Michael Baron, Signature Theatre (The Visit)
Ben Fishman, Washington Jewish Theatre (The Adding Machine)
Ellen Dempsey, The American Century Theater (Little Murders)
Michael Dove, Forum Theatre (Scorced)
Carolyn Griffin, MetroStage (Girl in the Goldfish Bowl)
*Christopher Henley, Washington Shakespeare Company (5th of July, Galileo,
Jumpers, Death and the King's Horseman, Equus, Caligula,
Tennessee Continuum)
Ed Herendeen, Founder and Producing Director, Contemporary American
Theater Festival (Race)
Bill Largess, Washington Stage Guild (Magic)
Jack Marshall, The American Century Theater (The Andersonville Trial,
The Titans, A Passion for Justice: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow, Treadwell:
Bright and Dark)
Robert McNamara, Scena Theatre (No Exit)
Hugo Medrano, GALA (Blood Wedding)
Linda Murray, Solas Nua (Shining City, Everything Between Us)
*Jim Petosa, Olney Theatre Center (Shadowlands & many others)
Aaron Posner, Woolly Mammoth Theatre (In the Next Room, or the
vibrator play)
Mark Rhea, Keegan Theatre Co. (Translations, The Crucible, The
Hostage, Glengarry Glen Ross)
Blake Robison, Round House Theatre (Crime and Punishment)
*Molly Smith, Arena Stage (All My Sons, The Great White Hope)
Jack Sbarbori, Quotidian Theatre Company (Tomorrow, The Carpetbagger's
Children, Dublin Carol, The Trip to Bountiful)
Jeremy Skidmore, Theater Alliance (Insurrection: Holding History)
(The Lieutenant of Innishmore, New Jerusalem)
John Spitzer, Fraudulent Productions (R.U.R.)
Paata
Tsikurishvili, Synetic Theater (Animal Farm)
Jerry Whiddon, Round House Theatre (Three Days of Rain)
Joy Zinoman, Studio Theatre (Three Sisters)
Directors
Kathleen Akerley (Jumpers, Beyond the Horizon)
Bob Bartlett (Native Son, "Master Harold" . . . and the Boys)
Jesse Berger (Marat/Sade)
Steve Carpenter (The Rules of the Game)
Jose Carrasquillo ('night, Mother, The Maids, Happy Days)
Richard Clifford (Elizabeth the Queen)
John Dillon (Picasso's Closet)
Timothy Douglas (Insurrection: Holding History)
Susan Einhorn (Look Back in Anger)
Cheryl Faraone (Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants.)
Grover Gardner (Side Man)
*Lee Mikeska Gardner (Angels in America, Stop Kiss, Machinal,
Golden Boy)
H. Lee Gable (The Royal Hunt of the Sun)
John Going (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Lend Me a Tenor, Doubt)
Wendy Goldberg (K2, Proof, The Goat)
Gregg Henry, (Girl in the Goldfish Bowl)
Kirk Jackson (Six Characters in Search of an Author, Rosencrantz &
Guildenstern are Dead)
Abel López, GALA
Production Director (The Sins of Sor Juana, Blood Wedding)
Don Martin (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon
Marigolds)
Rahaleh Nassri (The Skin of our Teeth)
Dorothy Neumann (Waiting for Godot)
*Nick Olcott (Communicating Doors, The Weir,
Heartbreak House, The Disputation, On the Razzle)
Scott Pafumi, Keegan Theatre (Picasso at the Lapin Agile)
Alisa Palmer, Diana of Dobson's
Jackson Phippin (On the Verge)
Susan Marie Rhea (The Crucible)
Mike Replogle (A Thousand Clowns)
Richard Romagnoli (The Homecoming, The Best Man)
Ed Sherin (Ghosts)
Jeremy Skidmore (The Lieutenant of Inishmore)
Genevieve Brunet Smith (Rhinoceros)
Tim Vasen (Blithe Spirit)
John Vreeke (Death and the King's Horseman)
Shane Wallis (Charles Aidman’s adaptation of Edgar Lee
Masters’ Spoon River Anthology)
Brad Watkins (Carousel)
Halo Wines (Cloud 9)
Actors
John Collins (Tomorrow)
Kate Debelack (Fat Pig)
Rick Foucheux (The Rivalry)
*Christopher Henley (Jumpers, Equus)
Ashley Ivey (On the Razzle)
David Bryan Jackson (Jumpers)
John Lescault (Hannah and Martin)
Leah Mazade (The Carpetbagger's Children)
Scott McCormick (The Skin of Our Teeth)
Karl Miller (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
Paul Morella (A Passion for Justice: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow)
Stephanie Mumford (Tomorrow, The Carpetbagger's Children)
Saxon Palmer
(Picasso's Closet)
Peter Pereyra
(The Royal Hunt of the Sun)
Barbara Scheide (The Carpetbagger's Children)
Stephen Schnetzer (Noises Off)
Alexander Strain (New Jerusalem; Scorched)
Delia Taylor (Happy Days)
Holly Twyford (Lost in Yonkers)
Ted van Griethuysen (The Habit of Art)
Academic Scholars
Professor Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland & Center for
Advanced Holocaust Studies (A Question of Priorities: Democratic Reform and
Economic Recovery in Postwar Germany) (Taking Sides)
Professor Roger Crockett, chair, German and Russian, Washington & Lee
University (Understanding Friedrich Durrenmatt) (The Physicists)
Professor Yasmin Y. DeGout, Howard University (The Amen Corner)
Professor Dorothy Denning, director, Institute for Information
Assurance, Georgetown University (Information Warfare and Security) (Y2K/BecauseHeCan)
Dr. Deborah Payne Fisk, American University (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Professor Verlyn Flieger, University of Maryland (Shadowlands)
Professor John Fuegi, University of Maryland (The Essential Brecht,
Brecht and Co.: Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama) (Galileo)
Professor Cara Gabriel, American University, (Born Yesterday)
Professor J. Ellen Gainor, Cornell University (Susan Glaspell in
Context: American Theater, Culture, and Politics 1915- 1948) (Alison's House)
Professor James Gilbert, University of Maryland (Redeeming Culture:
American Religion in an Age of Science) (Inherit the Wind)
Professor Rachel Hartig, Gallaudet University (Out of Darkness)
(The Miracle Worker)
Professor John Haught, founder & director, Georgetown Center for the
Study of Science and Religion, Georgetown University (God After Darwin: A
Theory of Evolution) (After Darwin)
Professor Gerald Izenberg, co-director, program in literature &
history, Washington University (St. Louis) (Modernism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky
Through World War I) (Lulu)
Professor Alan Kraut, American University, Department of History (Parade)
Rev. John P. Langan,
S.J., the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social Thought
at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University (Doubt)
Professor Frederick Lubich, chair, Foreign Languages, Old Dominion
University (Max Frisch: Literary Criticism in Perspective) (Andorra)
Professor Christina Mahony, associate director, Irish Studies Program,
Catholic University (Contemporary Irish Literature: Transforming Tradition)
(The Steward of Christendom, The Cripple of Inishmaan)
Professor George O'Brien, Georgetown University (Brian Friel &
Brian Friel: A Research Guide) (Translations)
Professor Sr. Anne M. O'Donnell, Catholic University (editor, An
Answer Unto Sir Thomas More's Dialogue (original by William Tyndale)) (A Man
for All Seasons)
Professor Brian Richardson, University of Maryland (Rock 'n' Roll)
Professor Aurelia Roman, Georgetown University (Rhinoceros)
Professor Alvin Saperstein, Wayne State University & editor-in-chief,
Physics & Society (Copenhagen)
Professor Sandra Shannon, Howard University (The Dramatic Vision of
August Wilson) (Two Trains Running, Fences, Radio Golf,
Ruined)
Professor Saul Sosnowski, director, Latin American Studies Center,
University of Maryland (Death and the Maiden)
Professor Eleanor W. Traylor, Howard University (The Humanities and
Afro-American Literary Tradition) (The Amen Corner)
Professor Alan Woods, director, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee
Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University (Selected Plays of Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) (Inherit the Wind)
Other
Danielle Mages Amato, Studio Theatre Dramaturg
& Literary Associate (Fat Pig, Shining City)
John Andrews,
director of the Washington branch of the English Speaking Union (Rosencrantz
& Guildenstern are Dead)
Tracy L. Bahm, Stalking Resource Center (Boy Gets Girl)
Vilhelm Bohr, Niels Bohr Archive (Copenhagen)
Vicky Breman, therapist, St. Elizabeth's Hospital chaplaincy department
Kay Ellen Consolver, producer (Woyzeck)
Dina Epshteyn,
dramaturg (Ah, Wilderness!)
Akiva Fox, dramaturg (Design for Living)
Richard Freed, National Symphony Orchestra (Taking Sides)
Mike Giuliano, Baltimore-Washington theater critic for Variety
Rachel Grossman,
Director of
Education and Outreach for Round House Theatre
Michelle Hall, Dramaturg, Studio Theatre (The Last Night of Ballyhoo)
& Arena Stage (M. Butterfly)
Mary Starke Harper (A Raisin in the Sun)
Ann Hoffman,
retired
lobbyist for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (Born Yesterday)
Martin Kettling, Dramaturg, Arena Stage (Born Yesterday)
Jacqueline Lawton, Dramaturg for Eurydice
Sylvia Jukes Morris (Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce)
(The Women)
Rev. Elizabeth Orens, National Cathedral (Racing Demon)
Trudi Olivetti, Dramaturg, Keegan Theatre (The Crucible)
Augie Praley, dramaturg, Woolly Mammoth (Full Circle)
Otis Ramsey-Zoë,
Literary Manager, CENTERSTAGE (Radio Golf)
Eric
Ruffin,
head of Howard University’s directing program
(Radio Golf)
Serge Seiden, Director of Production, Studio Theatre (The Steward of
Christendom)
Maurice Shapiro, Manhattan Project (Copenhagen)
Sarah Wallace, Dramaturg, Studio Theatre (Rock 'n' Roll,
Moonlight, Reasons to be Pretty)
Gavin Witt, Resident Dramaturg, Center Stage (The Rainmaker)
*Member, Footlights Advisory Board
This page was last updated on January 30, 2012.
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