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Playwrights

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

Directors/Artistic Directors


Ben Fishman
, Washington Jewish Theatre (The Adding Machine
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
Jack Marshall, The American Century Theater (The Andersonville Trial)
Robert McNamara, Scena Theatre (No Exit)
Linda Murray, Solas Nua (Shining City)
*Jim Petosa, Olney Theatre Center (Shadowlands & many others)  
Mark Rhea, Keegan Theatre Co. (Translations, The Crucible
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)
Jeremy Skidmore, Theater Alliance (Insurrection: Holding History)
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)
Jesse Berger
(Marat/Sade
Steve Carpenter (The Rules of the Game
Jose Carrasquillo ('night, Mother, The Maids
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
H. Lee Gable (The Royal Hunt of the Sun)
John Going (Love! Valour! Compassion!, Lend Me a Tenor) 
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)
Don Martin (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Dorothy Neumann (Waiting for Godot
*Nick Olcott (Communicating Doors, The Weir, Heartbreak House, The Disputation
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)
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)
*Christopher Henley
(Jumpers, Equus)   
David Bryan Jackson
(Jumpers)
John Lescault (Hannah and Martin)
Leah Mazade (The Carpetbagger's Children)
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)

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 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 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)

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)
Kay Ellen Consolver, producer (Woyzeck)
Dina Epshteyn, dramaturg (Ah, Wilderness!)
Richard Freed
, National Symphony Orchestra (Taking Sides)
Mike Giuliano
, Baltimore-Washington theater critic for Variety
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)
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)
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
Gavin Witt, Resident Dramaturg, Center Stage (The Rainmaker)

*Member, Footlights Advisory Board


This page was last updated on November 29, 2007.