Northeast Regional Report September/October 2010

Friend Chris Cardoni just returned from a vacation that included visits to Jamestown, Yorktown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Washington, DC in which he viewed many weapons of the colonial era. Chris is preparing to direct and stage fights for Hamletat the Vokes Players in Wayland, Massachusetts, which auditions in August.

Friend Kim Carrell is in the last phases of getting ready to depart for England. He’ll be there for two years as a grad student at the University of Exeter, getting his MFA in Staging Shakespeare.  Best of luck, Kim!

AC Meron Langsner had his play The Devil's Own Game received a round table reading at the Lark New Play Development Center in NYC and is scheduled for a staged reading from Holland Productions in Boston.  He is the co writer of the opera libretto Juxtapositions: The Marquis De Sade's Justine & Juliette that is in development with Fort Point Theatre Channel, and his short play The Case Against Vampirism was recently performed at Salem Theatre Company.  His documentary drama Bystander 9/11: A Theatre Piece Concerning the Events of September 11, 2001 is about to be released by JAC Publishing, while The Godot Variations will be included in Best Ten Minute Plays 2010 by Smith & Kraus and Culty-Mates of Frisbee is included in The Northwest Playwrights' Alliance publication NorthNorthWest.  Meron was recently a summer fellow at Northwestern University's Performance Studies Summer Institute.  He recently fight directed Family Stories with Whistler in the Dark at the Factory Theatre in Boston.  Meron continues to research and write his doctoral dissertation at Tufts University on the representation of martial arts on the American stage.

CT/Regional Representative Robert Najarian just got back from some traveling around the East Coast that included attending two workshops this summer. For four weeks at the beginning of the summer, Robert was a student at SITI Company Summer Intensive in Saratoga Springs, NY.  It was quite an extraordinary month of classes attended by artists from around the world.  Classes were taught by SITI and Martha Graham Company members, including SITI Artistic Director, Anne Bogart.  In July, Robert swung by Winston-Salem for the final few days of the NSCW.  Congratulations to all participants of the ACW, AACW, and TCW for completing the three weeks in fine style!  Many thanks to CT/NSCW Coordinator Mike Mahaffey and the staff of the NSCW for being so welcoming and running a fantastic workshop.  Best wishes for the rest of the summer!

Friend Skye Noel just got cast as Lady M in a production of Macbeth out here in LA!  All the murders will take place on stage, including her suicide.  Can't wait to see all the blood!

Friend J.T. Turner of Ipswich MA, served as Fight Captain and Choreographer for The Lyric Stage Company's production of Kiss Me Kate, teaching the whip work as well as the Kate/Petruchio fight. He also staged the violence for The Tragedy of Macbeth at Moonlight Production Inc.