THE OTHER SIDE OF SILENCE
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Doric Wilson (general director & founder) was one of the first playwrights at NYC's legendary Caffe Cino, his comedy And He Made a Her* opening there in 1961. A pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway movement, he has written, directed, produced and/or designed over a hundred productions and was a founding member of Circle Repertory Theater and the Barr/Wilder/Albee Playwright's Unit. A participant in all three nights of the Stonewall Riots, he became active in the early days GAA (Gay Activist Alliance) and in 2004 was honored to be one of the Grand Marshals in NYC's Gay Pride March celebrating the 35th anniversary of Stonewall. As a "star" bartender/manager of the newly liberated gay bar scene, he opened such landmark institutions as the Spike, TY’s and Brothers & Sisters Cabaret. In 1974, Doric Wilson formed TOSOS, the first professional theatre company to deal openly and honestly with the gay experience. In 2001, with Mark Finley and Barry Childs, he resurrected the company as TOSOS II. His plays Street Theater,* The West Street Gang, Forever After,* and A Perfect Relationship, quickly became staples of the emerging gay theater circuit of the 1970s, winning numerous honors. A full length version of an earlier Cino one act play Now She Dances!* premiered (2001) at the Flexible Deadlock Theatre (Glasgow, Scotland), directed by Steven Bottoms. Doric Wilson received the first Robert Chesley Award for Lifetime Achievement in Gay Theatre (1994) and the 2007 IT Award for Artistic Achievement. He is working on a new play: The Boy Next Door for thecoming season. His collected plays can be downloaded for free from his website: www.doricwilson.com (doricw@nyc.rr.com). (*published by United Stages.) |
| Mark Finley (TOSOS II artistic director) Directing credits for TOSOS II include the recent New York Minutes, a musical revue of the songs of the late John Wallowitch (which he also conceived); and Michael Lynch in a historic production of Lanford Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright. Other TOSOS II credits: Eisenstein's Monster, an evening of short plays by Linda Eisenstein; four Chris Weikel plays: Speaking Parts, Gareth & Lynette; Penny Penniworth and Weikel Works; five Doric Wilson plays: And He Made a Her, A Perfect Relationship (2003 OOBR Award), Street Theater and staged readings of The West Street Gang and Now She Dances!; Kevin Brofsky's Dancing Straight; and his own adaptation of Young Stowaways in Space. A revival of his play How Do We Get Her in the Water? opened Movie Lover, a Triple Feature, and his most recent play The Mermaid had its world premiere to much success in 2005 and is published by United Stages. He has just finished a new play , The Faraway Girl. Mark has also directed for Theater for the New City, Abingdon, Emerging Artists Theatre and NativeAliens, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. He recently returned from Ireland and the Fifth International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival when he directed Kathleen Warnock’s Some Are People. Future plans: Elizabeth Whitney's A Day Without Sunshine, a musical biography of Anita Bryant, which he directed for the next Ethyl Eichelberger outing; and a revival of Doric Wilson’s Forever After. (finberg1@juno.com) |
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Barry Childs (administrative director) TOSOS II directing credits: the world premiere of Robert Patrick’s Hollywood at Sunset (2004 oobr award), the staged reading of Tom Eyen’s Sarah B. Divine (LOOK AGAIN! Series), and Mark Finley's The Mermaid. Producing credits: Doric Wilson’s Street Theater (The Eagle NYC); Weikel’s Penny Penniworth ( 2003 FringeNYC Festival) and Mark Finley's adaptation of Young Stowaways in Space. Other NYC directing credits: Middleton and Rowley‘s The Changeling and Shakespeare’s A Winter's Tale (Bottom's Dream Arts); The Flushing Cycle (Queens Theatre in the Park), and Joe Orton's The Erpingham Camp. West Coast: Charles Ludlam's Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde, Maeterlinck's The Intruder and Tom Eyen's My next Husband Will Be a Beauty. Barry holds a PhD in Theatre History from the University of Oregon, and has taught numerous classes in acting and theatre history at the University of North Dakota, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and the University of Oregon. (bchildsny@aol.com) |
| Jamie Heinlein (director, Ethyl Eichelberger Solo Show Project) Acting: for TOSOS II "Eve" in the 2007 revival of Doric Wilson’s And He Made a Her, "Penny Penniworth" & "Malodorous Dump" in Chris Weikel's Penny Penniworth, & "Muriel Fell" in Mark Finley's How do We Get Her in the Water? For EAT: "Joanne" in Kathleen Warnock’s Rock the Line, "Pansey Sue" in David Bell’s Chauncey’s First Day of School", "Tess" in Chris Weikel’s Faithfully Presented & many more. NDT: Anapest, Rick Willett’s 2B, other NYC acting credits include work at the Public Theater, The Apollo, Soho Rep & The Samuel Beckett. Producing: Stephen Belber’s The Transparency of Val"& several staged readings of Bill Solly & Donald Ward’s ground-breaking hit Boy Meets Boy. Co-produced & acted in The End of Civilization, Savior of the Universe & Exhibit #9 for Theatre Outrageous, a company she co-founded, where she also curated the GNU PLAZ reading series. Jamie is a member of TOSOS II, Emerging Artists Theatre and The Mirror Rep. (jheinlein@gmail.com ) |
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Rick Hinkson (director, Billy Blackwell/John Wallowitch Musical Theatre Project) A native of the Pacific Northwest, his first life in the theatre began at the University of Puget Sound, and continued in many small Seattle theatres. First fully professional experience, a season with the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in Cleveland, was followed by work at Seattle Repertory Theatre, the Seattle premieres of Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George at Civic Light Opera, and Doric Wilson’s Street Theater, directed by the author. Following a sabbatical involving a lot of traveling and singing with Seattle Men’s Chorus and The Washingtonians! (a comedic choir), his second life in the theatre included touring the US and Canada in an industrial show for Holland America Line, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and Intiman Theatre. A second sabbatical involved working on HAL cruise ships, including three years as Cruise Director. He now lives in NYC and is very happy to begin his third life in the theatre, dedicated to Doric Wilson and in memory of John Wallowitch, with TOSOS II. (rickseattle@yahoo.com) |
| Kathleen Warnock
(director, Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwright Project) is a
playwright who got her biggest break in the Chesley/Chambers when her play
The Audience was given a staged reading and later chosen for full
production by EAT (Emerging Artists Theatre) under the title Rock the
Line. (It is published by United Stages.) Her work has been seen in
New York City, regionally, in London, and most recently, at the
International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, where Some Are People
(directed by Mark Finley) was presented by EAT. All Good Cretins Go To
Heaven will be seen in June at the Metropolitan Playhouse's East
Village Chronicles; The Adventures of... in the Samuel French
Off-Off-Broadway play festival in July; and Sharing the Pie in the
Rochester (MN) Rep's inaugural Short Play Festival. She also organizes
Drunken! Careening! Writers! held the 3rd Thursday of each
month at KGB Bar, 85 E. 4th St. (kwnyc@yahoo.com
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Chris Weikel ( actor; costume consultant, playwright, founding member) TOSOS II produced his SPEAKING PARTS, GARETH AND LYNETTE, and PENNY PENNIWORTH ("must see" show - 2003 FringeNYC Festival). EAT workshopped his THE WAY-WEARY (Kennedy Center Finalist, Playwright’s First Semifinalist) and the premieres of his LOST BOYS, DANSPORT, GARETH AND LYNETTE and FAITHFULLY PRESENTED. D-Stages premiered his SPEAKING PARTS and APPOINTED LIMITS in the Off-Center festival. His TOSOS II acting credits include Doric Wilson’s STREET THEATER, THE WEST STREET GANG and NOW SHE DANCES!; Frank Adamo’s DIS CON Igor Goldin’’s production of Bill Solly and Donald Ward’s BOY MEETS BOY and the Igor Goldin/Tim Herman LOOK ASKEW! He was recently featured in NEW YORK MINUTES / THE WORLD OF JOHN WALLOWITCH. As a costumer he designed the TOSOS production of STREET THEATER, and A PERFECT RELATIONSHIP (oobt award), as well as Mark Finley's THE MERMAID. |
| Michael Muccio (technical director; set designer) designed the set for Mark Finley’s production of Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship (oobr award); Robert Patrick's Hollywood at Sunset (oobr award); the Kevin Brofsky/Mark Finley/Chris Weikel triple feature Movie Lover, Musically Speaking: The World of Bill Solly; Eisenstein's Monster, both revues of the songs of John Wallowitch, Wiekel Works and Doric Wilson's And He MAde a Her.. Michael received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin in 1987 and spent the next six years working with many Midwest theatre companies as actor, director, and designer before he made the move to NYC to pursue a career in the theatre. |
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| David Stern (designer,
producer;
webmaster)
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Acting Company (See also Heinlein above under staff) |
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Kevin Held (actor, producer, production staff) TOSOS II: Barry in Mark Finley’s productions of Doric Wilson’s A Perfect Relationship (2003 oobr award); Timothy in Wilson's Street Street Theater The Eagle NYC; and Penn in the world premier of Robert Patrick’s Hollywood at Sunset (2004 oobr award). For the Chesley/Chambers Playwrights Project he appeared as Bill and later as the Prisoner in Wilson's Now She Dances!; Lee in Mark Finley's The Mermaid; Kenny Sundress in Bob Cruz's Shadenfreude!; and various roles in Jimmy Maize's In One Room. Central to the production staff of TOSOS II, Kevin was co-producer of Chris Weikel's TALES TOLD. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. (Currently in exile in Los Angles) |
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Playwrights (See also Finley, Warnock, Weikel & Wilson above under staff) |
| Kevin Brofsky (playwright) made his TOSOS debut with his play DANCING STRAIGHT (part of the MOVIE LOVER triple feature). CLAYMONT, produced by Emerging Artists Theater (EAT) at the Intar Theater, ran in rep with the TOSOS production of YOUNG STOWAWAYS IN SPACE. His one-act play STRAWBERRY FIELDS was published by Samuel French in their 25th Annual Off-Off Broadway Festival series. He has written nearly 50 one-act plays which are widely performed in cities across the country. New York City productions of his full-length plays include STARS (New Village Productions and Spotlight Production; AWAKEN THE WOLVES (Spotlight Productions) both winner of Spotlight's Best Play Awards; LIVING WITH DRAGONS (Pulse Theater); the book for the musical NORTHERN BOULEVARD (AMAS Theater) which starred Rosetta LeNoire and THE MATINEE LADIES (Greenwich House and last summer at SNAP Productions in Omaha). |
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| Robert Patrick (playwright) has been a major influence in the development of alternative theater since THE HAUNTED HOST opened at the Caffe Cino (1964). He moved uptown to Broadway with KENNEDY'S CHILDREN, still the most telling dissection of the 1960s. His more than 50 published plays include T-SHIRTS, UNTOLD DECADES, MY CUP RANNETH OVER, and far too many more then we have room to list here. TOSOS II presented the world premiere of his new play, HOLLYWOOD AT SUNSET (2004 oobr award). In 1994 Patrick published his novel, TEMPLE SLAVE, a romantic fictionalization of the Caffe Cino and the origins of modern gay theatre. 1980 he won the International Thespian Society's Founders Award" for services to theatre and to youth," and in 1995 received the second Robert Chesley Lifetime Award for Gay Playwriting (presented by its first recipient, Doric Wilson). Patrick lives in Los Angeles (rbrtptrck@aol.com.) |  |
On Sabbatical
| Mark Barranco (company stage manager) made his TOSOS II debut as the stage manager for Mark Finley’s production of Doric Wilson’s STREET THEATER (Eagle NYC). His other TOSOS credits include Robert Patrick's HOLLYWOOD AT SUNSET (2004 oobr award); Chris Weikel's PENNY PENNIWORTH (2003 FringeNYC Festival) and the Chesley / Chambers readings of Garet Scott's ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES and Bob Cruz’s SCHADENFREUDE!: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BEN AND DAY-GLO. |
| Igor Goldin (actor, director; Billy Blackwell Musical Theater Project, director; founding member) For TOSOS he has directed the musical Bill Solly and Donald Ward’s BOY MEETS BOY (scheduled to open Off-Broadway late 2004); the revue LOOK ASKEW; MUSICALLY SPEAKING: THE WORLD OF BILL SOLLY and Lanford Wilson's THE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION. Igor is also Associate Artistic Director of Emerging Artists Theatre Company and ongoing visiting director of musical theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA). Other Off-Broadway directorial credits include A RITUAL OF FAITH, and TRUE LOVE, TWO MINUTES, STATE VS. JOOP and SPILT MILK (Emerging Artists); COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE SUNSET (Finalist - Samuel French Festival); Mae West's THE DRAG (New Village Productions); Scott Sickles’ BEAUTIFUL NOISES (42nd Street Workshop & NativeAliens); HARD TO GET (Waterfront Ensemble/OOBR Award). His TOSOS acting credits include his "magnetic" performance in Chris Weikel's PENNY PENNIWORTH. Igor is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts. |  |
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Bob Cruz (On Sabbatical - playwright; producer; Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project, co-director; Board of Directors) His new play, SCHADENFREUDE!: THE UNTOLD STORY OF BEN AND DAY-GLO, was just presented as part of the Chesley/Chambers Project, as was his work in progress THE WRITERS BLOCK, directed by Bruce Ward. For TOSOS he produced Chris Weikel’s TALES TOLD; the revival of Doric Wilson’s STREET THEATER at the Eagle; and the upcoming MOVIE LOVER. He has appeared as an actor off-Broadway in LADY L (Actor's Playhouse). He is finishing up THE IMMORALITY OF INDIFFERENCE, a gay perspective on the Titanic disaster. He attended Yale. |
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