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Box Office #: 323-663-1525 Main Office #: 323-663-2235 Public Relations Lucy Pollak P.R.. 818-887-1499 Board of Directors Sharon Bailey Beckett · Kato Cooks · Karen Kondazian · Deborah Lawlor · Simon Levy · Patricia Parker · Stephen Sachs · Barbara Sanders
Artistic Associates and Advisors Simone Abkarian · Maria Bermudez · Lee Blessing · Tom Bower · Shirley Jo Finney · Athol Fugard · Anthony J. Haney · Jessica Harper · Israel Horovitz · Ed Harris · Morlan Higgins · Karen Kondazian · Amy Madigan · Eduardo Machado · Tracy Middendorf · Lisa Pelikan · Priscilla Pointer · Jacqueline Schultz
Flamenco Advisors Roberto Amaral · Maria Bermudez · Bruce Bisenz
In 1990 she and Stephen Sachs co-founded the Fountain Theatre, which is now in its 16th season of theatrical and dance events. Deborah is responsible for the Fountain's extensive dance involvement She's creating a contemporary version of the Don Juan story, D.J, Don Juan in L.A., A Flamenco Fantasia, scheduled to premiere in November 2008. The 1995 season included, The Women of Guernica, Deborah’s flamenco-based adaptation of Euripides' The Trojan Women, which she also directed. She directed two one-act plays by Tennessee Williams and created and directed three full-evening Dance-Theatre pieces for the Fountain, Declarations: Love Letters of the Great Romantics, The Path of Love, and a “dance opera,” The Song of Songs, with music by Al Carmines. She directed a production of The Path of Love in South India. Most recently she directed Yussef El Guindi's Acts of Desire to considerable acclaim, as well as Mark Sickman's Taxi to Jannah. As a producer of plays, she has been responsible for many of the Fountain's productions over the past 18 years.
His 2008 production of the U.S. Premiere of Athol Fugard's Victory, which he directed, has received glowing reviews and will be produced at the Santa Barbara Theatre in May. His 2007 production of Miss Julie Freedom Summer, which he wrote and directed for the Fountain, was Critics Choice in numerous publications, has been nominated for Best Adaptation by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and will receive other productions in America and Canada. His play, Sweet Nothing in My Ear, is now a TV movie for CBS, starring Jeff Daniels and Marlee Matlin, and will air April 2008. He directed the world premiere of Athol Fugard’s Exits and Entrances (3 Ovation Awards including Best World Premiere of a New Play and Best Director, 5 LA Drama Critics Circle Awards including Best Production and Best Director). Sachs is directing regional productions of the play around the country. Sachs recently directed the West Coast Premiere of String of Pearls at The Road Theatre Company. He will direct the world premiere of a new translation of Euripides’ Hippolytos for the J. Paul Getty Museum, launching the new outdoor venue at the Getty Villa in Malibu. He's won many theater awards for directing such plays as the Los Angeles premiere of Athol Fugard’s The Road to Mecca, After the Fall (four L.A. Ovation Awards including Best Production of the Year and Best Director), Sweet Nothing in my Ear (Fountain Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago, Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis), the Los Angeles premiere of Steven Dietz’s Lonely Planet (starring Philip Anglim), The Seagull (starring Salome Jens, Philip Baker Hall and Bud Cort), the 20th Anniversary production of The Boys in theBand, and many others. As a playwright, Sachs wrote Open Window (Pasadena Playhouse), Central Avenue (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist, Garland Award for Best Play, Sweet Nothing in my Ear (PEN USA Literary Award Finalist, published by Dramatic Publishing), Mother's Day (Garland Award Honorable Mention), The Golden Gate (Drama-Logue Award, Best Play), and The Baron in the Trees. Sachs is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
His stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby inaugurated the Guthrie Theater's new theatre complex in July 2006,was produced at Seattle Rep in November 2006, is in preparation for a 2008 London production, and was a Finalist for the 2007 PEN Award in Drama. He's currently writing the stage version of Tennessee Williams' novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (courtesy of the Williams Estate) for production in 2009. He recently directed the Los Angeles Revival of Tennessee Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, Back Stage West Garland Award Best Direction.
His critically-acclaimed production of What I Heard About Iraq - link to webpage - which he adapted and directed, won the 2006 Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, was extended several times at the Fountain Theatre, was nominated by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Adaptation, was produced at the 2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival where it won the Advertiser Fringe Award, was produced by BBC 4 Radio in May 2007, and received a 30-city UK tour in 2007 that culminated at the Arts Theatre in London. It has been read/performed in 45 cities around the world, and has been chosen by BBC Radio as its entry for Best Drama Adaptation for the 2008 Prix Italia. He remounted his award-winning production (OVATION Award Best Production 2004) of Master Class for Santa Barbara Theatre, January 2007, and directed Dael Orlandersmith (of Yellowman fame) in her one-womanplay, The Gimmick, September/October 2006 at the Fountain, winner of the LA OVATION Award for Solo Performance.
He is currently producing the West Coast premiere of Bernard Weinraub's The Accomplices for July 2008. Ron Gwiazda ABRAMS ARTISTS AGENCY 275 Seventh Avenue / 26th Floor New York, NY 10001 646-461-9325 (tel)
He is a graduate of Carroll College where he majored in theatre. Ben recently directed the critically acclaimed Joe Turner's Come and Gone (winner of the 2006 OVATION Award for Best Production and Best Director), and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, which ran in repertory with Master Class. He also directed Direct from Death Row: The Scottsboro Boys (winner of Best Ensemble, L.A. Weekly Award, and Best Ensemble, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award) at the Fountain. He will direct the Los Angeles Revival of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean which will open at the Fountain in September 2008. Ben has worked at the Los Angeles Theatre Center as Lobby Subscription Manager. Ben produced the acclaimed productions of Yellowman, Master Class and Central Avenue, and co-produced the Fountain Theatre's The Darker Face of the Earth, I Am A Man, and Four by Tennessee. He also produced the Fountain's VOICES (HIV/AIDS) Theatre Workshop, which staged The Guilt and Innocence of Citizen Zed and in '98 The Tribe of the Blue Mud People, also an original work, which was staged in LA and San Francisco in 1996. |
Ben Bradley