| mission | The Board of Directors: John Clancy, Executive Director Abby Marcus, Managing Director Paul Bargetto, Martin Denton, Michael Goldfried, Shay Gynes, Robert Honeywell, Leonard Jacobs, John Pinckard, Moira Stone, Erez Ziv. |
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John
Clancy is the founding Executive Director of the League of
Independent Theater. He is an OBIE award winning director and Executive
Artistic Director of Clancy
Productions, Inc. He is the founding Artistic Director of The
Present Company, a leading Off-Off Broadway theatre company, and a
founding Artistic Director of The New York International Fringe
Festival, North America’s largest theater and performance festival. His
plays have won The American Shorts Contest and The San Francisco
Playwrights Center Dramarama, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First and
have been short-listed for the Julie Harris Playwrighting Award and the
Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award. Directing credits include Americana Absurdum,
winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2000, Cincinnati, winner
of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2002 and Adelaide Best of Fringe
2004, Horse Country,
winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2002, Scotsman Best of the
Firsts 2002 and Adelaide Best of Fringe 2004 and Fatboy, Edinburgh
Festival Fringe First 2004. He directed C.J. Hopkins’ screwmachine/ eyecandy: Or How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Bob at the Edinburgh
Fringe in 2005, garning him his 5th Fringe First in 4
years. In 2007, Clancy Productions was awarded the
inaugural Edinburgh Festival Award by the Edinburgh International
Festival and will present a new work at the arts festival in August of
08. John serves on the Advisory Council of The New York Theatre
Experience, Inc., the city’s preeminent advocacy and resource center
for downtown theater, and the Advisory Board of the 24:7 Theatre
Festival in Manchester, England. He is a New York Theatre Workshop
Usual Suspect and his writing has been published in Off, Edge, Village
Voice, The Sunday Herald and The New York Times. He was awarded The New
York Magazine Award in 1997 for 'creativity, enterprise and vision'. In
2002 he was awarded a Glasgow Herald Angel for excellence in direction
at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He lives on the Lower East Side with
his wife, Nancy Walsh. Abby Marcus is the Managing Director of the League of Independent Theater, Managing Director of Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company and the General Manager of The Dramatists Guild of America. Abby has worked as a Stage Manager and Administrator with The Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, NY; Westport Country Playhouse in Westport, CT; The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC; The Town Hall in New York; Nosedive Productions; Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York; Second Generation Productions; Choice Theatricals; as Company Manager for LAByrinth Theater Company; and as General Manager for HERE Arts Center. Abby received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Ithaca College, and her Master of Arts degree in Performing Arts Administration from New York University. Paul Bargetto is the Founder and Artistic Director of East River Commedia, an international theater company headquartered in New York City, and the curator of the undergroundzero festival. He holds an MFA from Columbia University in Directing and a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University. Martin Denton is the founder, editor, and chief reviewer of nytheatre.com. He is also Executive Director of nytheatre.com's nonprofit parent organization, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (NYTE); the editor of NYTE's annual Plays and Playwrights anthologies (nine volumes so far since 2000), along with the collections Playing with Canons and Unpredictable Plays; and the founding producer of nytheatrecast, NYC's first original, regularly scheduled theatre podcast. Martin blogs at the nytheatre I. Michael Goldfried is a freelance director based in New York City. Off-Off Broadway premieres include: Rob Urbinati's new musical Shangri La (Queens Theater in the Park), Mike Albo's Sexotheque (Kraine), and the New York revival of Stage Blood by Charles Ludlam (Red Room/KGB). Broadway: Losing Louie (Biltmore Theater) and Stairway to Paradise (City Center Encores) - both as Assistant Director for Jerry Zaks. Off-Broadway: Novel (2007 SPF), Gardening Leave (2006 SPF), 365 Plays/365 Days (Joe's Pub/Public), Kahn and Kant (2005 Drama League), The Wikipedia Plays (Ars Nova), numerous plays for Youngblood (Ensemble Studio Theater), and On The Threshold, a presentation of new work by Brown MFA playwrights (Public). He is a member of the first graduating class of the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium (MFA '05), and has directed his own adaptations of The Imaginary Invalid (Trinity Rep) and Twelfth Night (Perishable Theater). He has worked regionally at Berkeley Rep, The Long Wharf and the Intiman Theater, and has served as Assistant Director for: Oskar Eustis; Les Waters; Blanka Zizka; Peter DuBois, and assisted Craig Lucas. Directing fellowships: the Manhattan Theater Club, the Drama League and the Geva Theater Center. Teaching and guest directing includes: NYU; Brown; Fordham; SVA; Suny Brockport and California College of the Arts. He is a Teaching Artist for Broadway Classroom and an alum of the Drama League Director's Project & Lincoln Center Director's Lab. Visit michaelgoldfried.com. Shay Gines graduated from the Actors Training Program at the University of Utah with a dual degree in theatre and marketing. Since then she has done everything from spackling walls at the Pasadena Playhouse and running follow-spot for the Pioneer Theatre Company to serving as the Artist in Residence for Touchstone Theatre. She has performed in theatres of all sizes from 30 seats to 1,000 across the country, from L.A. to NYC. She is an award winning producer whose Off and Off-Off-Broadway shows include: Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig, Ritual of Faith, What the F**k?!, Hamlet and Muse of Fire. Shay was a Founding Member and the Producing Director for Esperance Theatre Company, served for 5 years as an Associate Director for Emerging Artists Theatre Company and is a Founding Director for the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation. Robert Honeywell is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Brick Theater. He is a playwright, composer, actor and director. New York works include Every Play Ever Written: a distillation of the essence of theatre ("a must-see for anyone who has been onstage" - New York Times), Greed: a Musical Love $tory, Ich Liebe Jesus!, Francoise Changes Her Mind, and World War III shall be a lovely daydream. He recently appeared in the revival of Notes From Underground at The Brick (Michael Gardner, dir.), and has also appeared at The Brick in Mountain Hotel, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, and In a Strange Room. Leonard Jacobs is the national theatre editor of Back Stage and first-string critic for Back Stage and the New York Press. While he's the author of the new book Historic Photos of Broadway: New York Theatre 1850-1970, as a playwright, director and dramaturg he has been a committed member of the indie theatre universe since escaping NYU in 1991. John Pinckard As an inaugural recipient of the prestigious T. Edward Hambleton Fellowship for gifted commercial producers, John Pinckard is developing a new Broadway musical under the mentorship of Broadway legend Hal Prince. His other advisors include producer Margo Lion (Angels in America, Hairspray), Gregory Mosher (Artistic Director, Lincoln Center, 1985-94), and director Jack O'Brien (The Coast of Utopia, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels). Prior to this, John had back to back successes as a producer at the New York International Fringe Festival: in 2005 with Silence! the Musical, the best selling show in Fringe Festival history (Outstanding Musical, FringeNYC) and in 2006 with the return engagement of Never Swim Alone, which Jason Zinoman at the New York Times dubbed "a 45 minute triumph." Other notable credits include Gutenberg! the Musical! (producer, at Royal George Theatre, Chicago), Verbatim Verboten (director/producer at Fez), The Shooting Stage (director/producer at 45 Below), and over one hundred shows as lighting designer. John has served on the faculty of the University of Florida and has guest lectured at universities and colleges across the southeast. Moira Stone has performed in over 40 off-off-Broadway and independent theater productions in the last decade. She is a proud member of AEA. Visit moirastone.com. Erez Ziv has joyfully dedicated the last ten years of his life to creating Horse Trade Theater Group, an entirely self sustaining off-off-Broadway theater company in New York City. His three stage performances include a bomb shelter performance of Hit the Road Jack at the age of 10 and speaking roles in two Yiddish productions (the last of which had him singing a Yiddish version of "the Age of Aquarius"). He has learned that he hates being on stage. His educational history includes a BA in Jewish and Religious studies with a minor in comparative religion from the University of Minnesota, a semester at Oxford, and a never to be quite completed Masters Degree in Talmud and Rabbinics from JTS. He is a licensed fireguard, Handsom Cab Driver, sprinkler systems inspector, flame proofing Supervisor and wedding ceremony officiate. He is very happy to have helped to firmly establish Horse Trade's reputation in the downtown theater scene and to create a well respected, self sufficient organization that has created and continues to create a home for some the New York City's most innovative, talented and hard working theater artists. Thankfully the World keeps providing him with both fresh and refined talent to let loose on NYC. |