Daniel Fish: Kramer/Fauci

Daniel Fish is a New York-based director who makes work across the boundaries of theater, film, and opera. He draws on a broad range of forms and subject matter including plays, film scripts, contemporary fiction, essays and found audio. Recent work includes Oklahoma! (Broadway and St. Ann’s Warehouse), Michael Gordon’s opera Acquanetta (Prototype Festival), Don’t Look Back (The Chocolate Factory), Leonard Bernstein’s A Quiet Place (Curtis Opera), Who Left This Fork Here (Baryshnikov Arts Center, Onassis Center), Ted Hearne’s The Source (BAM NEXT WAVE, L.A. Opera, San Francisco Opera), and Eternal. His work has been seen at theaters and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe, and his residencies and commissions include The MacDowell Colony, Baryshnikov Arts Center,  Mass MOCA, The Chocolate Factory and The Bushwick Starr.  He is the recipient of the 2017 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for the Theater. 

Thomas Jay Ryan (Larry Kramer) With Daniel Fish: Eternal, Dollar General, Tom Ryan Thinks He’s James Mason…. Broadway: Enemy Of The People (Sam Gold, director), West Side Story (Ivo van Hove, director), The Nap (Daniel Sullivan, director), The Crucible (Ivo van Hove, director), In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play (Les Waters, director). Off-Broadway: The original productions of Deep Blue Sound, Dance Nation, 10 Out of 12, The Temperamentals, The Amateurs, Becky Nurse of Salem, Venus, and several of Richard Foreman’s plays at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Films: feature films with the directors Michel Gondry, Bertrand Mandico, Muriel Paraboni, Robert Redford, Mary Lambert, Lynn Hershman-Leeson, Ian Olds, Drake Daramus, Jay Duplass, Dash Shaw, Onur Tukel, Eric Laplante, Susie Moon and Hal Hartley (four films including the title role in the Cannes Festival prize winning Henry Fool).

Will Brill (Dr. Anthony Fauci) Broadway: Oklahoma! (dir. Daniel Fish), Stereophonic (Tony award!), Act One, You Can’t Take It With You; Off-Broadway: Meet The Cartozians (2nd Stage), Our Town, Tribes (OCC nom) (Barrow Street), A Case for the Existence of God (Drama Desk nom) (Signature), The Counter (Roundabout), Uncle Vanya (Oh Henry), Illyria (the Public), Stereophonic (Drama Desk Ensemble Award) (Playwrights Horizons); Off-Off-Broadway: Up Late with Skip Carter (Shelby Co. at The Access), FGP LAY MIZ (Fresh Ground Pepper at Irondale), Restoration Comedy (EPBB), Ephemera (Shelby Co. at The Cove), Zero Cost House (Pig Iron on Zoom); other media: Caught Stealing, Test Pattern, Not Fade Away, Fellow Travelers, The OA, The Beast in Me, Monster: Ed Gein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, #Z, King Kelly. Coming up: The Whisper Man, Being Heumann, The Musical, Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret!. He attended CMU where Tom Ryan also went.

Greig Sargeant is an actor, associated artist of Target Margin Theater, and company member of Elevator Repair Service. Recent credits include Trust, Faith & Confidence by Brian Quirk (Judson Church), The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Metropolitan Opera House), Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge, Measure for Measure, and The Sound and the Fury (The Public Theater), Fondly, Collette Richland, Bonnie’s Last Flight, and The Little Foxes (New York Theatre Workshop), The Parable Conference (BAM), Please Bury Me/Go Forth (Baryshnikov Arts Center), Strictly Dishonorable (Vineyard Theater), Uncle Vanya (HERE), and Gatz (REDCAT). International Festivals: Adelaide, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Avignon, Berlin, Lisbon, Spoleto, and Vienna, Film credits include Help Me Mary (dir. Annie Tippe) and The Bad Infinity (dir. Graham Sack). MFA: West Virginia University.

Jennifer Seastone. With Daniel Fish: A (Radically Condensed and Expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, (Chocolate Factory, Under The Radar, Arts Emerson and The Walker); with minor theater: Marie it’s Time, Pathetic, Grimly Handsome, Nomads, Dreamless Land and American Treasure (P13); Also: North Atlantic with The Wooster Group; The Gin Baby (Daniel Talbott); Our Planet (Alec Duffy, The Japan Society); with Thomas Bradshaw: Purity (PS122, Yahuda Duenas); The Bereaved (Partial Comfort, May Adrales), and Dawn (The Flea, Jim Simpson); also Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and very many downtown playwrights. Selected Film: Hal Hartley’s The Girl From Monday, Meanwhile, and Ned Rifle.  2020 member of Target Margin Theater’s Institute; Founder of the performance series Catch. Jennifer is also a furniture maker and sculptor: