2013 Artists
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Choreographer Pontus Lidberg
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Award Winning Actor Andrew Weems
Andrew Weems has appeared on Broadway in Born Yesterday, Inherit the Wind, The Green Bird and London Assurance. Off-Broadway credits include Blood and Gifts (Lincoln Center, directed by Bartlett Sher), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (directed by Doug Hughes) and Bach at Leipzig at New York Theater Workshop, Theater for a New Audience productions of The Broken Heart, Troilus and Cressida (directed by Sir Peter Hall), Cymbeline, and Pericles (both directed by Bartlett Sher) The Green Bird (directed by Julie Taymor), as well as John Guare’s Woman at a Threshold Beckoning, Princess Turandot, Mere Mortals, Marathon Dancing, Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Acting Company), Somewhere Someplace Else and Telethon. Regional credits include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Center Stage), Don Juan (Old Globe), Intelligence-Slave and A Behanding in Spokane (Alley Theater), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Noises Off, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Rhinoceros, King John and The Time of Your Life (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), Three Sisters, Arms and the Man (Intiman, directed by Bartlett Sher), Learned Ladies (McCarter), Journey’s End (directed by Greg Boyd at Westport Playhouse), The Merchant of Venice (California Shakespeare Theater) as well as performances at Hartford Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Chautauqua Theater Company, Anne Bogart’s Trinity Rep, Vienna’s English Theater, and the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-Upon-Avon (Cymbeline). He is the author/performer of two solo plays: Namaste Man, produced at Intiman Theater (directed by Bartlett Sher), Boise Contemporary Theater and Two River Theater (directed by Davis McCallum); and Damascus, produced at NYC’s Fourth Street Theater and Boise Contemporary Theater, directed by Ian Belknap. He has degrees in theater from Brown University and the University of California, San Diego. He is a Fox/TCG fellow, which took him on an amazing trip to Nepal and India.
JOHN KOLVENBACH
Playwright John Kolvenbach
JOHN KOLVENBACH Fabuloso, Mrs. Whitney, Goldfish, Love Song, on an average day and Gizmo Love. Goldfish premiered at South Coast Repertory in the spring of2009, directed by Loretta Greco. Goldfish was then produced at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in the fall of that year. Love Song premiered at Steppenwolf in Chicago in the spring of 2006, directed by Austin Pendelton. Love Song went on to the West End, where it was nominated for an Olivier Award, best new comedy. The London production was directed byJohn Crowley, with Neve Campbell, Cillian Murphy, Kristen Johnston andMichael McKean. Love Song has been produced in Zurich, Melbourne, Sydney,Wellington, Seoul and Rome. There have been over fifty productions in theUS. on an average day premiered at the Comedy Theatre on the West End in2002, with Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan, also directed by Mr.Crowley. average day has been produced in Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, and Lisbonamong many other places. Kolvenbach's plays are published by Methuen and licensed by DPS. Kolvenbach's first screenplay, Clear Winter Noon, was selected for the Black List in 2008. He is currently writing a new play, a comedy.
"Kolvenbach reveals himself as a writer of real skills. His writing combines humor, sadness and the possibility of redemption in a manner that is all his own. We will be hearing more of him." —Daily Telegraph (London).
"Kolvenbach reveals himself as a writer of real skills. His writing combines humor, sadness and the possibility of redemption in a manner that is all his own. We will be hearing more of him." —Daily Telegraph (London).