JUDY
BRAHA has
directed productions at the Huntington Theatre Company,
The New Erlich Theatre, The Nickerson Theatre, The
North Shore Music Theatre, the Nora Theatre, the
Merrimack Theatre, Emerson Stage and the American
Stage in St. Petersburg, Florida. Ms. Braha
has taught acting and directing throughout New England.
Credits include Brandeis University, Wheaton College,
Mt. Holyoke College, Trinity Repertory Conservatory
and the Boston University Theatre Institute.
Currently Ms. Braha is on the faculty of the Theatre
Arts Division at Boston University School for the
Arts teaching in the BFA Acting Program and the
MFA Directing Program. She is Literary Associate
at the New Repertory Theatre producing and directing
its new play series. Ms. Braha was a longtime
member of the Board of Directors of StageSource,
the New England Alliance of Theatre Artists and
Producers, and was awarded a 1992 citation for contributions
to theatre by the New England Theatre Conference.
NORA
HUSSEY
has been the Director of
Theatre at Wellesley College for the past 13 years.
She has directed over 30 plays for the college and
has directed well over 80 productions in New England
in the last 20 years. She is the founding Artistic
Director of the professional wing of the department
the Wellesley Summer Theatre which launches its
sixth season this June. She is a three time winner
of the prestigious Moss Hart Award for Theatrical
Excellence in a Production and in 1998 was awarded
the highest teaching accolade at Wellesley, the
Pinanski Teaching Prize. She is married to Kieran
Brennan and they are proud parents of video/skateboard
enthusiast Rory.
MARTIN
JENKINS.
As Senior Producer for
Radio Drama at the British Broadcasting Corporation,
Mr. Jenkins produced over one thousand programs
including plays by authors ranging from Shakespeare
to Arthur Miller to Tom Stoppard. His work
includes a recording for radio of Julius Caesar
with Richard Dreyfuss and Stacey Keach, a co-production
of Streetcar Named Desire for the British
Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, a radio documentary, In The Name
of Security, based on three major espionage
trials - Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs and J.
Robert Oppenheimer. Since 1997 Mr. Jenkins
has been working as a freelance drama director.
Most recently his productions include George Bernard
Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple" recorded
in Los Angeles for BBC Radio 3, "The Red Badge
of Courage" by Stephen Crane recorded in the
CBC Studios in Toronto for CBC and BBC and a reading
of Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep with
John Turturro. Mr. Jenkins was nominated for a SONY
Best Production Award in the UK in 1998 and was
awarded the USA-UNDA Gold Award for the radio production
of "The Trojan Women" in 1999.
ROBERT
SCANLAN has
directed many plays at the American Repertory Theatre
including A Beckett Evening and the
Beckett Trio - three short one-act pieces:
"Eh, Joe", "Ghost Trio", and
"Nacht und Traeume". In 1998, with
Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky, Robert Scanlan
produced Mr. Pinsky's translation of Dante's
Inferno for stage performances in New York and
Boston.
JOHN
THEOCHARIS
has directed many plays for the British Broadcasting
Corporation. As Senior Drama Director he worked
with many distinguished actors including Judi Dench
(Saint Joan); John Gielgud (Genesis);
Peggy Ashcroft (Queen Victoria); Michael
Redgrave (Oedipus): Paul Scofield (The
Cosmic Clock); and Derek Jacobi (Hans Christian
Andersen). For many years John Theocharis was
Editor of the BBC Radio Drama Features Unit and
made a large number of award winning radio documentaries
on a wide range of subjects including "The
Spring of Memory" (two Pye-Radio/Society of
Authors' Awards); "Alexandrias" (Gold
Sony Award) and, as co-productions with Martin Jenkins:
"The Chicago Conspiracy Trial" and "The
Nuremberg Trial" (New York Radio Festivals’
Awards). For the BBC Radio Anthology he produced
his own Shakespeare Anthology "All the World's
a Stage", and "Gielgud at the BBC."
John Theocharis has acted and sung on the stage,
and directed plays for the theatre: Medea
for the Athens Festival; The Importance of Being
Earnest for the State Theatre in Cyprus; and,
most recently, semi-staged operas in London: L'Amore
Industrioso and Goyescas. John Theocharis
has run radio seminars in England, Canada, Scandinavia,
Holland and Belgium. He is a member of the 2002
Prix Europa Jury and has served as Radio Jury Member,
Raporteur or Chairman in Britain, Germany and Croatia.
DAVID
ZOFFOLI.
As an artist and administrator Mr. Zoffoli has created
and developed nationally recognized programming
for regional theatres, school systems and municipal
governments around the country. He currently teaches
at the college level. As a theatre director, his
productions often appear on the Year's Best Lists
and his production of David Ives' All in the
Timing at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre was
awarded the 1996 Elliot Norton Award for Excellence.
He played the title role in Peter Sellars' production
of MacBeth at the Boston Shakespeare Company
and in Samuel Beckett's Not I with Vanessa
Redgrave.
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