Exclusive: Ensemble Studio Theatre, one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway venues perhaps best known for its annual Marathon of One-Act Plays, announced today that Estefanía Fadul and Graeme Gillis have been appointed the new Co-Artistic Directors of the 55-year-old theater company.
Gillis, who has been serving as Interim Artistic Director since William Carden retired in 2022 and is a long-time member of Est, will begin planning the 2023/2024 season with director/producer Fadul who will officially join the company in March.
Over the past five decades, Est has developed thousands of new American plays and has grown into a company of over 600 actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Est was founded and led by Curt Dempster beginning in 1968; he was succeeded as Artistic Director by William Carden in 2007. Fadul and Gillis mark the first co-leadership structure for the company.
Est’s current season kicked off in the fall with the 38th...
Gillis, who has been serving as Interim Artistic Director since William Carden retired in 2022 and is a long-time member of Est, will begin planning the 2023/2024 season with director/producer Fadul who will officially join the company in March.
Over the past five decades, Est has developed thousands of new American plays and has grown into a company of over 600 actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Est was founded and led by Curt Dempster beginning in 1968; he was succeeded as Artistic Director by William Carden in 2007. Fadul and Gillis mark the first co-leadership structure for the company.
Est’s current season kicked off in the fall with the 38th...
- 1/31/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
John (Robbie Tann) and Mary (April Matthis). Jason Neulander: ' I was like, you know, what, this is going to be a weird experimental film, and I am simply not going to worry about mainstream Hollywood rules for this project' Photo: Courtesy of Poff Director Jason Neulander: 'I’m not a young person a more so to feel like I've been stretched in this way just made me feel like I was 23 all over again, which is really magical' Photo: Jason Neulander Fugitive Dreams, the debut film from Jason Neulander takes us on the road with Mary (April Matthis) and John (Robbie Tann), both homeless and lonely in their own ways. We follow them on an odyssey that is as much psychological as physical - and that dips into memory and the imagined - as they encounter others, including Israfel (Scott Shepherd) and his disabled mother Providence (O-Lan Jones...
- 11/21/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If Waiting For Godot's Vladimir and Estragon had a couple of American cousins, they might look a little like Mary (April Matthis) and John (Robbie Tann), the central characters in Fugitive Dreams, which director Jason Neulander and playwright Caridad Svich have taken from stage (where it was named Fugitive Pieces) to screen in a way that gains scope with the transition.
Like Vladimir and Estragon, Mary and John are "tramps" of a sort, homeless and on the road when they encounter one another in a petrol station loo. And though through the course of the movie they will move around a lot more than Beckett's characters, this is as much a psychological journey as it is physical, and one that never loses its sense of humanism and hope.
Mary is on the brink of suicide when she meets John, while he is haunted by a past that often muscles its way in.
Like Vladimir and Estragon, Mary and John are "tramps" of a sort, homeless and on the road when they encounter one another in a petrol station loo. And though through the course of the movie they will move around a lot more than Beckett's characters, this is as much a psychological journey as it is physical, and one that never loses its sense of humanism and hope.
Mary is on the brink of suicide when she meets John, while he is haunted by a past that often muscles its way in.
- 9/3/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Every single one of us knows the terror of the unknown. Maybe it’s as universal as our collective uncertainty about the future or as specific as your inability to guess whether an abusive family member is going to fall asleep before taking off their belt. Some wonder if the randomness of the world will strike them down without warning or if a broken system of prejudice will collect them for no other reason than the color of their skin. We battle mental illness, post-traumatic stress, bigotry, poverty, and the weight of an inescapable hopelessness that we’re simply not strong enough or compassionate enough to fight together. And so many of us find ourselves alone and drifting, lost in the dark thoughts that will ultimately become our demise.
It’s where we find Mary (April Matthis) and John (Robbie Tann) at the beginning of director Jason Neulander and co-writer...
It’s where we find Mary (April Matthis) and John (Robbie Tann) at the beginning of director Jason Neulander and co-writer...
- 9/1/2020
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
Check out this intriguing teaser for Jason Neulander's feature film debut Fugitive Dreams. It is quite the striking collection of bleak images in black and white film before a splash of hopeful color at the end. Fugutive Dreams will have its World Premiere at this year's digital version of the Fantasia Film Festival on Monday, August 31st. In this allegorical road movie touching on themes of homelessness, mental health, and addiction, two lost souls embark across a dreamscape America. Their darkly strange journey confronts them with their traumatic pasts, and bonds them in compassion and love. Jason Neulander directs from a screenplay written by Caridad Svich and Neulander based off of Svich's stageplay. Fugutive Dreams stars April Matthis, Robbie Tann, Scott Shepherd, O-Lan...
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- 8/20/2020
- Screen Anarchy
NoPassport Theatre Alliance and Press presents reading of Obie-winner Caridad Svich's new play Fuel starring Jo Lampert Saint Joan, the Public, Alex Esola A View From The Bridge, Broadway, Luis Vega Tell Hector I Miss Him, Atlantic Theater Company, Sofia Jean Gomez Angels In America Parts 1 and 2, Signature Theatre Company, and Charlie Pollock TV's The Good Wife on October 4,...
- 9/21/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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