Watson Arts presents
Dog and Wolf
by Catherine Filloux
directed by Jean Randich
Company Bios (in alphabetical order:)
NADIA BOWERS (Jasmina) Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention, Doubt, Metamorphoses. NYC: Julius Caesar (NYSF); Romania, Kiss Me!; Not Waving; Eyes of the Heart and others. Numerous regional theatres: Guthrie; La Jolla Playhouse, Tartuffe, with Des McAnuff. Various film and TV. Webseries: www.yearofsublets.com. BA: Dartmouth College. MFA: NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. AEA.
MICHAEL CHYBOWSKI (Lighting Design) Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Off-Broadway: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, A Question of Mercy, The Beard of Avon (NYTW), Endgame (BAM), Hamlet (Public Theater), L’Isola Disabitata (Gotham Chamber Opera). Regional: Old Man & The Sea (Long Wharf). Upcoming: Socrates (Mark Morris Dance Group), Romeo & Juliet (The Acting Company, Guthrie), A Little Night Music (Opera Theatre of St. Louis).
JOHN DAGGETT (Joseph) Off-Broadway includes: Killing the Boss, Cherry Lane Theatre; Lemkin’s House, McGinn Cazale Theatre; Teahouse of the August Moon, Pan Asian Rep; Rome and Portrait of a President, FringeNYC; An Artist’s Life, Dawn Powell Festival; and The Witches Triptych, Idle Hands (OOBR Award). Regional: Guthrie, Merrimack Rep, Jewish Repertory Theatre, Odyssey Theater and H.T.Y. Numerous roles for Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Orlando Shakespeare, Shakespeare in Delaware Park, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare and Sherwood Shakespeare. John is a member of the Government Relations Committee of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. AEA.
CATHERINE FILLOUX (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright who has been writing about human rights and social justice for the past twenty years. Her plays have been produced in New York and around the world. They include: Killing the Boss (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC, 2008); Lemkin’s House (Rideau de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2007; McGinn-Cazale Theatre & 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC, 2006; Kamerni teatar 55, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2005); The Beauty Inside (New Georges, NYC and InterAct, Philadelphia, 2005); Eyes of the Heart (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC, 2004); Silence of God (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV, New Play Commission, 2002); Mary and Myra (CATF, 2000 and Todd Mountain Theater, NY, 2002); Arthur’s War (commissioned by Theatreworks/USA, NYC, 2002); Photographs From S-21, a short play that has been produced throughout the world; Escuela del Mundo (commissioned by OSU, Columbus, toured 2006-2005); The Breach, a collaboration with playwrights Tarell McCraney and Joe Sutton (produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, 2008; Southern Rep, New Orleans, 2007). The Beauty Inside was translated into Arabic for a workshop at ISADAC in Morocco, 2004. Filloux wrote the book and lyrics for Where Elephants Weep (Composer Him Sophy), a musical, which received its world premiere in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2008. She is the librettist for The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown (Composer Jason Kao Hwang), selected as a Critics Choice in Opera News, 2005; CD released by New World Records; premiere at Asia Society, 2001. Awards include: New Generations-Future Collaborations Award (Mellon Foundation/TCG), PeaceWriting Award (Omni Center for Peace), Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill), Callaway Award (New Dramatists), Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia & Morocco), William Inge Center for the Arts Playwright-In-Residence, Thurber Playwright-In-Residence, Asian Cultural Council Grant, Winner Nausicaa Franco-American Play Contest, Rockefeller MAP Fund (for Southern Rep and Floating Box), 5-time Heideman Award Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Juror for 2004 MES International Theater Festival, Sarajevo, Core Writer of The Playwrights’ Center, and New Dramatists alumna. Oral History Project: A Circle of Grace with Cambodian Women's Group, Bronx, NY. French-English Translation: Ubu Rep, NYC and various periodicals. Eyes of the Heart was developed for Lifetime TV. Filloux’s plays are published by Playscripts, Inc., Smith & Kraus, Vintage and Prentice Hall. Her recent anthology Silence of God and Other Plays is published by Seagull Books “In Performance”, Editor: Carol Martin. Her articles have appeared in such periodicals as American Theatre, Manoa, and The Drama Review. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and her French Baccalaureate with Honors in Toulon, France. Filloux is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders, a volunteer organization engaged in international theater exchange, and she has served extensively as a speaker for playwriting and human rights organizations around the world. http://www.catherinefilloux.com
MARY FULHAM (Producer) is the Artistic Director of Watson Arts, a resident company of La MaMa E.T.C. that develops and presents theater with a particular emphasis on women. Mary has produced, written and directed several award-winning play productions for Watson Arts: Was That My 15 Minutes? and P.S. 69, both of which won the Montreal Fringe’s Just For Laughs Award; Devotion, MECCA Award (Montreal English Critics Circle Award); and Hercules in High Suburbia, NYC Fringe Overall Excellence Award for Best Score. Watson Arts’ productions Balletto Stiletto, Trophy Wife, and Coming, Aphrodite!, were nominated for multiple Innovative Theatre Awards. Mary was a founding member of the 1980’s comedy group, The High Heeled Women. She became the Executive Producer for Mrs. Greenthumbs, the funny gardening lady who appeared on Live! Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly, and a Producing Partner at Swingline Productions in NYC where she produced Warren Leight’s No Foreigners Beyond This Point with the MaYi Theatre Company. Mary is currently the Managing Director at La MaMa E.T.C. She thanks Catherine Filloux for giving Watson Arts the opportunity to present Dog and Wolf.
ANNA KIRALY (Scenic/Video Design) A multi-disciplinary artist residing in New York, Anna creates set, video design and costumes for productions. Recent and upcoming projects include set design for TERRIBLE THINGS (D’Amour/Pearl at PS 122), set design and video for REAL MAGIC and FLIP SIDE (Talking Band), costumes for KAFKA FRAGMENTS (Peter Sellars) and set design for CHEKHOV LIZARDBRAIN, ISABELLA, and PAY UP with the Pig Iron Company. She is the recipient of the Arts Link Grant, the NEA/TCG Program for Designers (2003-2005) and the TCG New Generations (with Talking Band). Her visual puppet pieces SLOW ASCENT and UFO for St. Ann’s Warehouse both won the Jim Henson Foundation’s support.
ROBERT MURPHY (Sound Design): Robert is very happy to be working with Jean and Catherine once more, having designed Lemkin’s House in 2006. Off-Broadway: NAATCO, MCC, The Play Company, Drama Dept., Pearl Theatre Co., New Group, Second Stage, Roundabout, New Georges, CSC, Soho Rep. Regional: Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, People’s Light & Theatre Co. In addition to design, Robert is currently developing music theatre projects with a number of writers. Education: Yale Drama, Univ. of Iowa.
JEAN RANDICH (Director) has been directing new work and re-imagining the classics for twenty years. Dog and Wolf is her fifth collaboration with Ms. Filloux. New York: Leah’s Train, by Karen Hartman (NAATCO); Cabaret (Tisch; Abe Burrows Theatre); Killing the Boss by Catherine Filloux (Cherry Lane Theatre); The Constant Couple, by George Farquhar, (The Pearl Theatre Company); The Dispute, by Marivaux, (NAATCO); The Busybody by Susanna Centlivre (Fordham Lincoln Center); Lemkin’s House, by Catherine Filloux, (McGinn Cazale Theatre); The Unknown, by Allard, Randich, & Rettig, (P73 Productions & NYMF 2005); Commedia dell Smartass, by Sonya Sobieski, (New Georges); Antigone, by Sophocles, (NAATCO); The Floating Box, an opera by Hwang/ Filloux (Asia Society); Drawn to Death, by Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston (St. Ann’s, NYC); Karen Hartman’s Girl Under Grain (Winner: Best Drama, NY International Fringe Festival 2000); He Who Says Yes; He Who Says No (NAATCO); The Golden Door (Tenement Theater, NYC); J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation, by Jeff Jones and Jonathan Larson, (En Garde Arts). Regional: Kraken, by Len Jenkin and Bananas and Water by Barry Jay Kaplan (Todd Mountain Theater, NY); Silence of God (CATF, WV); Serious Money (Yale Repertory Theatre); Travels with My Aunt (Portland Stage Company); Gum (Magic Theatre); Little Mahagonny (Dallas Theatre Center). Ms. Randich has also directed in Germany and Norway, and served as the American Juror at the 15th Session of the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theater. She was commissioned by the Dallas Opera to write the libretto for a chamber opera, The Miraculous Phonograph Record. Ms. Randich has received an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship, a Fox Foundation Grant to work at the National Theatre in Oslo, Norway, and a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Grant. Training: BA and Masters, Brown University; MFA, Yale School of Drama. Ms. Randich teaches at Bennington College and NYU.
DALE SOULES (Judge/Mother/Waitress) made her Broadway debut (as Jeanie) in the landmark musical Hair. Other Broadway productions include Whose Life Is It Anyway? (Mary Jo Sadler); The Magic Show (Cal) where she co-starred with magician Doug Henning and introduced the Stephen Schwartz songs “Lion Tamer” and “West End Avenue”; in Richard Eyre’s The Crucible (Sarah Good); and most recently covering and playing (Edith Bouvier Beale) in Grey Gardens. Her Off-Broadway work includes Getting Out; The Water Engine (The Atlantic); New Jerusalem, Lotta, The Unknown (Public Theatre), ‘Maid (Lincoln Center); and most recently Wapato for the Women’s Project. Regional work includes: Wintertime (Wilma), Landscape of the Body (Seattle Rep.); Candide (Guthrie); Paris Commune (La Jolla); and All’s Well That Ends Well (Yale Rep). TV work includes: American Playhouse; Sesame Street; Law & Order; and Maurice Sendack’s Really Rosie. Dale is associated with NYTW as a Usual Suspect and has been awarded the Mabou Mines Suite/Artists Grant; New Dramatists Charles Boden Award; Spencer Cherashore Artistic Dev. Grant; and the Richard Porter Leech Fellowship in Theatre from SUNY.