His play 'Women Without Men' in 1985 won the
New York Shakespeare Festival's National Contest for Latino Plays.
The author contends that both The Empty Space and the five-year period of experimentation at the Royal Shakespeare Company "played a profound and formative role in the evolution of scenography." According to Arnold Aronson, Ming Cho Lee had a similar impact on American Shakespearian production with his 11 years as resident designer of the
New York Shakespeare Festival, where he transformed the American approach to scene design from the poetic realism of Jo Mielziner, to a "sculptural, emblematic, and architectural approach." Aronson notes that Lee's best work was created in association with large institutions and adventurous directors willing to experiment.
Soon thereafter he landed a part in "Little Shop of Horrors" off-Broadway and won an Obie Award for his work in the
New York Shakespeare Festival revival of "Cafe Crown."
Kievman has been creating and presenting multimedia and music-theater works in 36 countries around the world, including the Tanglewood Music Festival, The
New York Shakespeare Festival, the National Theater Manheim, the Basel State Theater, Eugene O'Neill Opera/Music-Theater, Florida Philharmonic, Piccolo Spoleto Festival and the Darmstadt Summer Music Festival.
Cobb has a wealth of Shakespearean experience, including a long stint at Shakespeare's Globe in London as well as performances with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., and the
New York Shakespeare Festival.
Career: Braugher's professional career began on stage at the
New York Shakespeare Festival. He also trod the boards in Washington DC before TV came calling.
He began at the
New York Shakespeare Festival. As production manager for Theater Row, he led the adaptive reuse of five movie theaters into legitimate performance stages.
Intriguingly, Thompson also notes that these same companies tout multicultural casting as a 'new' development in theatre when in reality Joseph Papp pioneered non-white casting at the
New York Shakespeare Festival in the 1950s (71).
Morton ha trabajado/colaborado profesionalmente con el San Francisco Mime Troupe, el
New York Shakespeare Festival, el Denver Center Theatre, La Compania Nacional de Mexico, el Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre y la Arizona Theatre Company.
My first direct contact was with Book of Splendors, Part Two, two years later--though in the meantime I had seen the production of Brecht and Weill's Threepenny Opera that Foreman directed for the
New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976.
After a stint in the military, he went onstage in New York, appearing with the
New York Shakespeare Festival and winning an Obie for the play "Stephen D."