Now aged 65, the
theater director always gave the impression he was unapproachable and publicity-shy.
The
theater director and creator of the very popular satirical television show "The Street" also believes that "those who impede the learning process are not the students, but the government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski that does not want to resign."
Cooley's hook is this: She invents an "incorporeal double," a collaborator or doppelganger for the early-twentieth-century Russian
theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold; and she imagines that this spirit character intercedes in the mental life of a contemporary New Yorker named Camilla Archer, manipulating her dreams in what amounts to a kind of invasive, aestheticized psychotherapy.
Turo Herala, a
theater director in Helsinki, the capital, recently offered "anger venting" classes to teach emotional release.
The Canadian writer-producer Guy Fournier presides over the seven-strong jury which also includes: French
theater director Caroline Huppert; Britain's indie consultant Andy Allan; Italian director Cinzia Torrini; Dieter Kosslick, president of Germany's NRW (Nord Rhein Westfalen) film foundation; Hisanori Isomura, president of the Japanese cultural center in Paris, UNESCO advisor and ex-director of NHK; and Spanish journalist and news director-presenter Pedro Piqueras.
French dramatist and
theater director who was one of the creators of the opera-comique (French form of opera in which spoken dialogue alternates with self-contained musical numbers).
"I just know that Gary and I--and even Matthew and Nathan--all sat there the first couple of days like, 'Man, are we lucky we're here!'" says Roger Bart, who plays the outrageously gay "common-law assistant" to Gary Beach's hack
theater director in the movie version of the Broadway smash The Producers.
His approach is very much that of a
theater director, and he's not afraid to mix things up.
In the early '70s,
theater director Robert Wilson heard the boy's poetic sound recordings through a mutual friend and drafted the fourteen-year-old into an impromptu onstage appearance in The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973), the beginning of an ongoing collaboration between the two men involving writing as well as performance.
Other partygoers included "Illuminata" stars Christopher Walken, Rufus Sewell and Bill Irwin, producer John Penotti, thesp guests Matt Dillon, John Leguizamo, Julianna margulies, Gretchen Moll and Rosie Perez, model Karen "Duff" Duffy,
theater director Peter Askin and artists Robert Longo and Julian Schnabel.
A children's
theater director and his actress wife are put to the test when they meet up with an old lady (played by Marian Seldes) who owns an abandoned historic theater they would dearly love to acquire.
Created by the renowned British
theater director Declan Donnellan on his first foray into the world of dance, with choreography by the Moldovan, Radu Poklitaru, this Romeo sees Juliet in pants, Mercutio in drag, and an ever-present corps.
Being both an artist and a
theater director, Kantor found Happenings well suited to closing the gap between art and theater.
