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Dawn Monique Williams	Williams is an adjunct faculty member in the Theatre and Dance Department at California State University, East Bay where in November 2012 she directed the U. S., English premiere of the award winning play NN12, by Gracia Morales.
Fritz Muliar	Muliar, Michael Dangl the theater and Jeff Baron were awarded the 2001 Kulturpreis Europa for this production, which ran for several seasons and was nationally telecast.
Maggie Smith	She was'' in Orange'' in the musical comedy Share My Lettuce, based on the book by Bamber Gascoigne, that opened at the Lyric Hammersmith on 21 August 1957.
Eubie Blake	In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African American s. Blake's compositions included such hits as,'' Bandana Days'','' Charleston Rag'','' Love Will Find A Way'','' Memories of You'' and'' I'm Just Wild About Harry''.
Harry Horner	Harry Horner designed the scenery for the drama'' Lady In The Dark'', a drama with a musical dream sequence (music : Kurt Weill) ; opening January 23, 1941-June 15, 1941 (reopening 10/2/41 -5 / 30/42, revived 2/27/43 -5 / 15/43).
Woody Allen	He became a successful Broadway playwright and wrote Do n't Drink the Water in 1966.
Kramer (musician)	This phase of Kramer's career culminated in 2002 when he composed the music for Fortune's Fool, the Tony Award - winning Broadway play directed by Arthur Penn and starring Alan Bates and Frank Langella, both of whom swept the Broadway acting awards for that year.
Tom Waits	Franks Wild Years, a musical play by Waits and Brennan, was staged as an Off-Broadway musical in 1986, directed by Gary Sinise, in a successful run at Chicago's famed Steppenwolf Theater.
Charles Messina	Twilight Theatre Productions performed three of Messina's plays - Thompson Street, Lilac, and Fugazy - from June 21 through August 2, 2013 at Kenlake State Resort Park in Hardin, KY.
Alex Horn	Alex and Sharon ran the Theatre of All Possibilities until 1978 when it received unfavorable press from the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Progress in the wake of the Jim Jones tragedy in November 1978.
Michael P. Riccards	He published a volume of his collected plays, and one of them on Lincoln became a musical produced by Genevieve Fraser on behalf of the Drama Circle in Massachusetts (2012).
Stuart Milk	Dear Harvey has been translated into Spanish for production in Mexico and Spain while Stuart Milk's character was performed by actor Chad Allen in the Spring 2010 Sacramento California production.
Hanoch Levin	His next play, Ya'akobi and Leidental, the first that Levin also directed, was first presented in December 1972 at the Cameri Theater.
Abbie Hoffman	The Mary-Archie Theatre Company in Chicago started the'' Abbie Hoffman Died For Our Sins'' Theatre Festival in 1988.
Bradley Steffens	Steffens turned to writing a series of one-act plays-in-verse, which were professionally produced as `` Herod the Great : A Sequence of Pageants'' by the Olympia Arts Ensemble in Minneapolis in 1981 with Michael Yonkers in the title role.
George Birimisa	Birimisa's first produced play, Degrees (February 1966), a portrait of a gay relationship, premiered at Theater Genesis in the East Village, Manhattan.
William Attaway	According to Harlem Renaissance Lives, Attaway's sister, Ruth, helped him to enter the theater world and he also performed in several productions, including a 1939 traveling production of George S. Kaufman's'' You Ca n't Take it With You''.
Anastasiya Verbitskaya	She also wrote plays, including the comedy Mirages (1895), which was staged at the Maly Theater.
Mark Gatiss	He is also involved with theatre, having penned the play The Teen People in the early 1990s, and appeared in a successful run of the play' Art' in 2003 at the Whitehall Theatre in London.
John Pinder (comedy producer)	In 2001, Robert Love, Director of the Parramatta Riverside Theatre, asked Pinder to create a comedy festival around the Riverside Theatre hub.
Norris Houghton	To conclude the Phoenix opening season, Norris approached Montgomery Clift, an acquaintance since Norris designed the set for Clift's 1939 Broadway debut in the Theatre Guild's Dame Nature.
Bette Bourne	In 1999, Bourne played his friend, Quentin Crisp, in Tim Fountain's play, Resident Alien, at the Bush Theatre in London.
Ewa Kuryluk	In 1988 she designed and directed `` In the Little Manor'' by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz at the off-Broadway Interart Theater in New York.
Tom Pickard	In 2004 he was commissioned by Sage Gateshead and Folkworks to write a libretto, Ballad of Jamie Allan, for the composer John Harle.
Shawn Hollenbach	Hollenbach has created and co-produced the first annual Miss Fag Hag Pageant on May 17, 2009 featuring Caroline Rhea, Michael Musto, Hedda Lettuce, Shayna Steele and Frank DeCaro as a benefit for the Hetrick-Martin Institute, home of The Harvey Milk School.
Randy Newman	In 2000, South Coast Repertory (SCR) produced The Education of Randy Newman, a musical theater piece that recreates the life of a songwriter who bears some resemblance to the actual Newman.
Katherine Dunham	In 1946, Dunham returned to Broadway for a revue entitled Bal Nègre, which received glowing notices from theater and dance critics.
John Stanley (playwright)	In June 2012, Stanley's one act play, Gabrielle's Kitchen was produced as part of LOST Theatre Company's One Act Festival.
Jeff Wayne	In 1966, Wayne composed the score for his father's West End musical Two Cities based on Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities which ran at London's Palace Theatre.
Gary Anthony Williams	Prior to moving to Los Angeles in 1998, Williams was involved in theatre, comedy and television in Atlanta, where his credits include acting with the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, performing and writing for Agatha's : A Taste of Mystery and being a longtime member of Atlanta's longest running improv troupe, Laughing Matters.
Lally Katz	Her 2009 play, Goodbye Vaudeville, Charlie Mudd, was performed in the Beckett Theatre at the Malthouse and received the State Library of Victoria's Louis Esson Prize for Drama.
Alan Aldridge	In the theatre, in February 1969 he designed the graphics for controversial Jane Arden play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven at the London Arts Laboratory, Drury Lane.
Hugh Cook (Canadian novelist)	His stories in Home in Alfalfa were adapted into a stage play which was performed by the Redeemer University College Theatre Arts department in the fall of 2007.
Marc Ian Barasch	Barasch conceived and launched the Green World Children's Choirs in 2012, collaboarting with Disney and Broadway composer Alan Menken, Broadway lyricist Lynne Ahrens, and educator Yunus Sola (Abraham's Path Initiative).
Rikki Beadle-Blair	In Dec 2010 he wrote and directed the Team Angelica production twothousandandSex - featuring 35 actors - at the Drill Hall Theatre.
Bryan Davies (singer)	At the beginning of 1964 Bryan with The Delltones, Dig Richards, Justin and others including his then girlfriend Jacki Weaver performed in the youth oriented stage production produced and written by Bill Watson at the Palace Theatre in Sydney.
Jerome Lawrence	Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock (1972).
Carola Standertskj?ld	A biographical play Kielletyt leikit (Forbidden Games), named after the title of the singer's version of the Spanish song'' Romance'' and based on Carola's life, ran for a month in the Frenckell theatre of Tampere in 2009.
Ryuichi Kawamura	In April, Kawamura starred in the Legend of Galactic Heroes stage play Chapter 2 : Free Planets Alliance Arc as the character Yang Wenli.
Tammy Faye Messner	In June 2006, a stage musical titled The Gospel According to Tammy Faye opened at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival and is currently being developed for a larger professional production.
Keith Prentice	In 1968, he appeared off-Broadway in the non-musical The Boys in the Band, a once controversial play featuring gay characters at a dramatic birthday party - the Summer before the Stonewall gay civil rights riots.
Shoji Kameda	In 2009, he worked with Khoomei Taiko Ensemble, appearing at the Kennedy Center and at the Earshot Jazz Festival in Seattle Kameda's studio credits include Heroes Original Television Score, produced by Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman and Calling All Dawns, produced by Christopher Tin.
Mark Wadlow	In 1984, he and Morgan wrote a play entitled Gross, based on his summer job in a call centre, which they took to the Edinburgh Festival.
Adelaide Hall	'' CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS'' opens at the new Apollo Theatre, Harlem, starring ADELAIDE HALL Harlem, New York, February 14, 1934 : `` Chocolate Soldiers,'' a production featuring Adelaide Hall and the Sam Wooding Orchestra, opened at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem.
Stephen Most	Most wrote book and lyrics for the sci-fi musical comedy Raven's Seed, which Sansei Productions staged in San Francisco in 1984.
Adrian Harris	In 2011 Harris was commissioned by the Writers' Forum at the Ustinov Theatre to write The Fairer Race for Game : play with Bath Spa University, which was performed as February's Script Factory.
Theodore Bikel	In February 2012, Bikel played the title role in Visiting Mr. Green with the Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company in Toronto, Ontario.
John Howard Lawson	This was Lawson's first show to reach Broadway, which opened on March 1, 1923.
Paul Kreppel	Currently, Kreppel is directing and producing with his partner in WetRock Entertainment, Ms. Murphy Cross, Jay Johnson : The Two and Only, in which he won a 2007 Tony Award for best special theatrical event.
Arthur Miller	Within six weeks, he completed the rest of the play, Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre, directed by Elia Kazan, and starring Lee J. Cobb as Willy Loman, Mildred Dunnock as Linda, Arthur Kennedy as Biff, and Cameron Mitchell as Happy.
Tania Lacy	In 2000 Tania went to Los Angeles where she staged a one-woman show entitled Suburban Refugee - it did an extended run at Theatre Theater in Hollywood.
Tiana Alexandra	A Tony Award Celebration was organized by Tiana in 2009 in conjunction with the successful run of Yazmina Reza's Broadway play God of Carnage.
Annasaheb Kirloskar	In 1879, playwright and producer Trilokekar independently presented his musical play Nal-Damayanti (नल-दमय ंती) to Marathi public.
Anthony Newley	Pure Imagination : The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Briccuse, devised and directed by Bruce Kimmel, opened at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013.
Alan Eichler	Following admission to the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers union in 1969, he worked as publicist on numerous Broadway hits including the original productions of Hello, Dolly !
Patrick White	Of its 1961 Adelaide premiere, he wrote that the play... brilliantly suggests a way out of the impasse in which the Australian drama finds itself.
Mulgrew Miller	In 2003 Miller was commissioned to write a score for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company ; after writing The Clearing in the Woods and having it choreographed by Ronald K. Brown, Miller and his band played the piece for performances by the company.
Iain Hollingshead	Iain wrote the book and lyrics for the satirical musical Blair on Broadway, first performed in October 2007 at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in Highbury.
Nick Enright	He wrote the book and lyrics to a number of musical works : three musicals with Terence Clarke - The Venetian Twins ; Variations (Winner, NSW Premier's Literary Play Award, 1983) ; and Summer Rain (commissioned for a graduating class at NIDA) -, and others with Alan John (Orlando Rourke), David King (The Betrothed, The Voyage of Mary Bryant, The Good Fight), and Max Lambert (Miracle City) ; and an opera with Graham Dudley (The Snow Queen).
Gore Vidal	On August 23, 2012, a celebration of Vidal's life and work was held at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York, where a revival of his play'' The Best Man'' (play) was running.
Itzik Manger	Romanian Jewish playwright Israil Bercovici adapted a collection of Manger's poems into a two-act stage piece, Mangheriada, which premiered April 6, 1968 at the Romanian State Jewish Theater in Bucharest.
James Millar (Australian actor)	He is the author of the musical drama The Hatpin which premiered in Sydney on 27 February 2008 and the critically acclaimed Song Cycle'' LOVEBiTES''.
Maya Dunietz	Dunietz wrote the music and was musical director of the play Garinim, directed by Ariel Efraim Ashbel, awarded best play and best musical soundtrack in the 2003 Acco Festival of Alternative Israeli Theatre.
Stephin Merritt	Merritt penned the music and lyrics for a 2009 Off-Broadway stage musical adaptation of'' Coraline'', a novel by Neil Gaiman.
Linda Chambers (playwright)	Rain Pryor as -LSB- -LSB- Joan of Arc, with Robin Skye, Zoe Trilling, and Tyrone Granderson Jones in Brad Mays' 2003 Los Angeles stage production of Joan, written by Linda Chambers. -RSB- -RSB-
Ben Moor (writer)	In 2004 he adapted Black Cocktail, a novella by Jonathan Carroll, and performed it at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Bransby Williams	In 1898 he appeared as Sydney Carton in The Noble Deed, based on A Tale of Two Cities at the Oxford Theatre.
Lindsay Farris	html School of thought'', Elissa Blake, The Sydney Morning Herald, METRO : Stage, 1 -- 7 February 2013, p 11 - Lindsay Farris and James Mackay on the hard questions The History Boys, the latest production from the Peach Theatre Company to play at the Sydney Opera House.
Rikki Beadle-Blair	In January 2009 Team Angelica, in association with the fledgling Achilles Productions, founded by actors Ian Sharp and Rebecca Joerin staged one off theatrical presentation of Beadle-Blair screenplay' KickOff' at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.
George Benjamin (composer)	His first operatic work Into The Little Hill, a collaboration with playwright Martin Crimp, was premiered at the Festival d'Automne in Paris in 2006 and has toured widely on both sides of the Atlantic.
Vladimir Vysotsky	After having appeared in the experimental Poet and Theater (Поэт и Театр, February 1965) show, based on Andrey Voznesensky's work and then in Ten Days that Shook the World (after John Reed's book, April 1965), Vysotsky was commissioned by Lyubimov to write songs exclusively for Taganka's new II World War play.
Betty Roland	Her best known play, The Touch of Silk, was first performed in 1928 by the Melbourne Repertory Theatre company, and hailed as'' The first Australian play written by a real dramatist''.
J. Russel Robinson	In 1957, while living in Palmdale, California, Robinson teamed with a young librettist/lyricist, Leo McElroy, to create the score for a musical entitled Mermaid Tavern which enjoyed a brief flirtation off-Broadway and continues to be considered and produced in regional theatres.
Joe Shea	Shea appeared as The Tourist in the original Brooklyn Academy of Music production of Robert Wilson's 12-hour opera,'' The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin,'' in 1976.
Joe Jordan (musician)	From 14 April to 20 June 1936, Jordan worked with Johnson, Porter Grainger, and Asadata Dafora providing music for the Federal Theatre Project production of Shakespeare's Macbeth directed by Orson Welles at the New Lafayette Theatre.
Dominic Mafham	In October 2011 Mafham took part in the new Bush Theatre's inaugural event ’66 Books', in a two handed play by Jack Thorne based on the book of Daniel, with Miranda Raison.
Rita Moreno	In September 2011, Moreno began performing a solo autobiographical show at the Berkeley Rep (theater) in Berkeley, California, Rita Moreno : Life Without Makeup written by Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone after hours of interviews with Moreno.
Anthony Neilson	He also participated in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six, writing a piece based upon a chapter of the King James Bible.
John Meredith (folklorist)	He wrote several plays, including The Wild Colonial Boy with Joan Clarke, first produced by Brisbane New Theatre in 1955, and How Many Miles from Gundagai performed by the Bushwhackers.
Rikki Beadle-Blair	Beadle-Blair has adapted his own screenplay of Stonewall for the stage and his production company Team Angelica which he took to the 2007 Edinburgh Festival.
Julee Cruise	She appeared as Andy Warhol (among other characters, including Susan Sontag) in the 2004 Keith Haring bio-musical Radiant Baby (musical) at the Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival, directed by George C. Wolfe.
Ben Hecht	Also in 1943,'' out of frustration over American policy and outrage at Hollywood's fear of offending its European markets,'' he organized and wrote a pageant, We Will Never Die, which was produced by Billy Rose and Ernst Lubitsch and with the help of composer Kurt Weill and staging by Moss Hart.
Woody Allen	In October 2011, Woody Allen's one-act play called Honeymoon Motel premiered as one in a series of one act plays on Broadway titled Relatively Speaking.
Max Cullen	Since 2007 Cullen has also been performing'' Lawson'', a one-man show based on the life of Australian poet Henry Lawson.
Judith Thompson	A penultimate scene which Thompson cut after the first workshop production of the play, was restored for the 1999 Theatre Kingston production, and Thompson has since then included the scene in published editions of the play as one of two alternative versions.
Charles Busch	The Green Heart was adapted by Busch from a short story by Jack Ritchie into a musical which was produced by the Manhattan Theater Club at the Variety Arts Theatre in New York City, opening in April 1997.
Jon Plowman	He co-produced Lucky You, the Carl Hiaasen bestseller that is premiered as a theatre production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2008.
Rachel House (actress)	Other directing work includes the award winning production of Hinepau which House also co-adapted from Gavin Bishops original book and toured both nationally and internationally, Neil La Bute s Mercy Seat and Hui a new work by long time collaborator Mitch Tawhi Thomas that premiered at the Auckland International Festival in 2013.
James Martin (Jesuit)	His involvement with the LAByrinth Theater Company's 2005 stage production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, written by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and featuring Sam Rockwell, John Ortiz, Eric Bogosian, and Callie Thorne, is the subject of Martin's book, A Jesuit Off-Broadway : Center Stage with Jesus, Judas, and Life's Big Questions (LoyolaPress.
Stephen Jordan (writer)	In 2013, Jordan debuted' Pilgrim Shadow' at the Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden, London as part of the 2013 Camden Fringe Festival.
Woody Allen	On October 20, 2011, Allen's one-act play Honeymoon Motel opened as part of a larger piece entitled Relatively Speaking on Broadway, with two other one-acts by Ethan Coen and Elaine May.
Robert Aickman	A musical staging of his short story'' The Same Dog'', for which Dyson co-wrote the libretto with Joby Talbot, premiered in 2000 at the Barbican Concert Hall.
Rudolf Rojahn	His song cycle Lust based on the novel by Efriede Jelinek was staged by Sanford Sylvan for the Boston Conservatory's Opera Department in 2007.
Tracy Chapman	Chapman was commissioned by the American Conservatory Theater to compose music for its production of Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, a play on apartheid in South Africa, staged in early 2008.
Oriel Gray	and it was here that her first play Lawson, a play based on the short stories of Henry Lawson, was performed in 1943.
Ron Whyte	At the Yale School of Drama in 1968, he wrote Welcome To Andromeda, a one-act play for two characters written.
Walter Schumann	He wrote one opera, John Brown's Body, which premiered in Los Angeles in 1953 and subsequently ran for sixty-five performances on Broadway at the New Century Theatre.
Heather Ford	She co-wrote and starred in the National Arts Festival Fringe Festival play : ` Sincerely, Colour' in 1997 and was considering a career as a dance choreographer before she decided to find work in the media sector.
James Millar (Australian actor)	Millar completed a degree in Writing at The University of Technology in Sydney, and has subsequently penned a number of original cabaret shows such as Moments of Breathtaking Stupidity which he performed with Verity Hunt-Ballard in both Sydney and Melbourne in 2004, The Story Goes On, for Australia's Elphaba from Wicked - Amanda Harrison, Poison Soprano, Ten Things I Hate About Cabaret, Impossible Blonde, and Amelia Cormack's Love For Sale which enjoyed four return seasons.
Rick Bayless	In 2012, Bayless ventured into the world of theatre, partnering with Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago to put on the play,'' Rick Bayless in Cascabel'', which Bayless created along with Tony Hernandez and Heidi Stillman.