Scenes from an Execution (1996), Howard Barker.Brown (Pepper White, Drake and Driscoll), Alex Draper (Mickey, Lewis and Barker) and Jon Rothstein (Sam and Call Boy) Bonaparte), Emily Wachtel (Anna), James Matthew Ryan (Frank Bonaparte), Lee Wilkof (Roxy Gottlieb), Bruce MacVittie (Eddie Fuseli), P. Carp), Peter Gregory (Siggie), Spiro Malas (Mr. Cast including: James Naughton (Tom Moody), Angie Phillips (Lorna Moon), Greg Naughton (Joe Bonaparte), Joe Grifasi (Tokio), Yusef Bulos (Mr.Cast: John Ellison Conlee, Andy Taylor, Robin Weigert, James Matthew Ryan, Kevin Crawford, Kelly Deadmon, Donna Jean Fogel, Trevor Moran, Vernon Morris, Greg Naughton, Jon Rothstein, Stephen Thirolle.Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth (1994), Tom Stoppard.staged playwright and director Dare Clubb's modern adaptation of Oedipus (starring Frances McDormand and Billy Crudup), which won an Obie Award for playwrighting. Greg Naughton and Joe Grifasi in 'Golden Boy', 1995 Awards Blue Light produced six seasons and 16 main productions under an Equity Off Broadway Letter of Agreement contract before suspending its operations in 2001. Other productions include Jessica Goldberg's The Hologram Theory, the New York premiere of Daniel Goldfarb's Adam Baum and the Jew Movie, a revival of Philip Barry's Hotel Universe, and Darko Tresnjak's Princess Turandot. The troupe transitioned to performing works by contemporary playwrights, such as the Michael Cristofer drama Amazing Grace, as well as the 1999 New York premiere of Philip Ridley's The Pitchfork Disney. Other revivals included Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena (adapted by Maria Tucci) and Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (directed by Austin Pendleton). The Blue Light Theater Company initially gained attention from revivals of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (starring James Naughton and Greg Naughton) and Waiting for Lefty (starring Marisa Tomei), both directed by Joanne Woodward (wife of the late Paul Newman). She and Peter Manning (formerly producer of New York Stage and Film) are credited with the artistic direction and selection of Blue LightвЂ™s final season, when Mr. Mandy Greenfield (later the artistic producer of Manhattan Theatre Club and artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival) joined as Blue LightвЂ™s producing manager in 1998. They began as an itinerant theater troupe, renting theaters from such venues as Primary Stages, HERE Arts Center, the Classic Stage Company, and Atlantic Theatre Company, before settling in for two seasons at the 55th Street Theatre (now the Women's Project Theater) and their final two seasons in the McGinn-Cazale Theatre. Actor/ Artistic-Director Greg Naughton (also a singer-songwriter with The Sweet Remains), and Darice O'Mara, Assistant to Paul Newman, founded Blue Light in 1995 with the stated mission of producing challenging, primarily larger-cast plays that would bring up-and-coming actors together with veteran artists in a spirit of apprenticeship. Knight, Chris Messina, and Matthew Saldivar. Alex trained at the Yale School of Drama and Middlebury College, where he is currently Chair of the Department of Theatre.The Blue Light Theater Company was an off-Broadway theater company located in New York City primarily active in the late 1990s through 2001 and notable for the many celebrated actors associated with the company, including Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Frances McDormand, Billy Crudup, Marisa Tomei, and Marsha Mason, as well as many who have since gone on to have notable careers including Josh Radnor, T.R. TV: Chicago Med, Taken, The Good Wife, John Adams, Sex and the City, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order: CI, Suddenly Susan and Ed. Film: The Witch in the Window, No Pay, Nudity, Yellowbrickroad, Joshua, Hysterical Blindness, Simply Irresistible, The Photographer, Kalapani and Hard Shell. Theatre credits include the New York premieres of Terrorism (New Group/Play Company) Get What You Need (Atlantic) RoseвЂ™s Dilemma (MTC) Endpapers (Variety Arts) Saint CrispinвЂ™s Day (Rattlestick) The Pitchfork Disney (Blue Light) and Oedipus(CSC/Blue Light) revivals of Waiting for Lefty and Golden Boy (Blue Light) and Scapin and The Triumph of Love (CSC) and regional productions at Yale Rep, Williamstown, Arena Stage, the Westport Playhouse, The McCarter, The Huntington, George Street, and The Berkshire Theatre Festival. Alex Draper is a founding member and the Associate Artistic Director of PTP/NYC, appearing most recently in their productions of The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, Arcadia, No End of Blame, Judith: A Parting from the Body, Pentecost, Gertrude-The Cry, Serious Money, and Plevna: Meditations on Hatred.

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