Jonathan Warman (Stage Director) is conceiver of White City, a new musical with music and lyrics by Pete Townshend of The Who, currently in development. Artistic Director of NeoNeo Theatre Company, company member of Emerging Artists Theatre (eatheatre.org) NeoNeo productions: Andru’s Head (co-directed with Mark Dendy, Players’ Theatre), American Fabulous, Versatility (Duplex Cabaret Theatre); With Emerging Artists: One of the Great Ones, Recoil, Lucky Day. International: Dreams Reoccurring Universitatea A. I. Cuza, Iasi, Romania). Notable assistant credits: Three Sisters (La MaMa ETC, dir. Richard Schechner) and Rosencrantz si Guildenstern sunt Morti (Teatru National Vasile Alecsandri, Iasi, Romania, dir. Ovidiu Lazar). He has also served as Literary Manager for Access Theater.
Struck / Break by J. Stephen Brantley @ The First Annual New Orleans Fringe Festival, November 13-16, 2008. Two one-acts: In Struck, after suffering a stroke, a dynamic young novelist Adrian is visited by his longtime friend Veronica. Despite constant interruption by Adrian’s assistant Bit, Veronica does manage to get her friend ‘out of that chair’ – and onto the floor in a smack-down of New York art world egos. In Break, during the late hours of a summer night on the coast of Eastern Long Island, a displaced Englishman and the drug addict who breaks into his home confront their differences and, more importantly, discover their secret similarities. Neither is what he seems.
Hunter Gilmore and Jason Alan Griffin in Struck / Break. Photo Credit: Erica Parise