THOMAS SADOSKI
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Thomas Sadoski returns to Long Wharf Theatre where he was featured in last year’s production of The Santaland Diaries and The Waverly Gallery.

His Broadway credits include Reckless (Manhattan Theatre Club/Second Stage).

His Off-Broadway credits include This Is Our Youth, Gemini (Second Stage); Where We’re Born (Rattlestick Productions); The Mistakes Madeleine Made (Naked Angels); Jump/Cut (The Women’s Project); The General from America (Theatre for a New Audience); Thunderbird (Cherry Lane) and Man Measures Man (The Lark).

Mr. Sadoski’s regional credits include Moonlight & Magnolias (Alliance Theatre); The General From America (Alley Theatre); Left (New York Stage & Film); Street Scene, The Skin Of Our Teeth, Hot L Baltimore and Rodney’s Wife, Dissonance (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

His film and television credits include Late In The Game, Fast Company, Loser, Happy Hour, Company K, Winter Solstice, "As The World Turns" and "Law & Order." He has worked extensively helping to develop new works at New Dramatists, The Lark, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center and the Sundance Institute.

He is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City. For my family, for my Kim.

David Sedaris made his comic debut recounting his strange-but-true experiences of being a Macy's elf clad in green tights, reading his "Santaland Diaries" on National Public Radio's Morning Edition.

Sedaris' sardonic humor and incisive social critique have since made him one of NPR's most popular and humorous commentators and a bestselling author in the United States and abroad. The great skill with which Sedaris slices through euphemisms and political correctness proves that he is a master of satire.

Everywhere he goes David Sedaris delights his audience with his irreverent style and great humor. In addition to his commentaries on NPR, David Sedaris is the author of the best sellers Barrel Fever and Naked. His other book, a collection of Christmas related stories, is entitled Holiday on Ice.

His most recent book of essays, Me Talk Pretty One Day, was published in June 2000 and became an immediate bestseller.

David and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name "The Talent Family" and written several plays which have been produced at LaMama and Lincoln Center in New York City.

These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe (Obie Award), Incident at Cobbler’s Knob and The Book of Liz. David Sedaris is a regular contributor to Esquire magazine and his essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, Allure and Travel & Leisure.

Sedaris' original radio pieces can often be heard on public radio's This American Life, distributed nationally by WBEZ in Chicago, as well as BBC radio in London. David Sedaris currently resides in Paris.

Joe Mantello’s directing credits include Assassins (Tony Award); Wicked; Take Me Out (Tony Award); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; A Man of No Importance; Design for Living; Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking (San Francisco Opera); The Vagina Monologues; Bash; Another American: Asking and Telling; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Proposals; The Mineola Twins; Corpus Christi; Mizlansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks; Blue Window; God’s Heart; The Santaland Diaries; Lillian; Snakebit; Three Hotels; Imagining Brad and Fat Men in Skirts.

Mr. Mantello also directed the film Love! Valour! Compassion!. As an actor he appeared in Angels in America (Tony nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz.

He is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway Awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company.

Ms. Rubinstein previously directed The Santaland Diaries at Long Wharf Theatre. Other Long Wharf Theatre credits include Private Lives, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Guys and Dolls (2004).

Other directing credits include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Portland Center Stage and San Jose Repertory Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Love’s Labours Lost (Next Theatre), The Tempest (Southwest Repertory Theatre), Old Times (Court Theatre), American Plan, Eloise and Ray (Roadworks), Pan and Boone (Running with Scissors), Sarita, Baby with the Bathwater and Beckett Shorts: "Act Without Words," "I, Not I," "Come and Go" (Berkshire Theatre Festival), and Associate Director of the national tour of Angels in America (Old Times).

Her teaching credits include Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown/Trinity Consortium, NTI at O’Neill Center, Teatro degli Stracci, Wesleyan and the Professional School at Steppenwolf.

Ms. Rubinstein was a recipient of the TCG/NEA directing fellowship, was nominated for the Alan Schneider Directing Award among other awards for her directing and teaching. She has also served as Long Wharf Theatre’s Associate Artistic Director.

Ms. Ford’s costume designs were most recently seen in Long Wharf Theatre’s production of The Price.  Regional credits include costumes for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet (Shakespeare and Co), The Underpants (Two River Theatre), Big River (co-design), BUG, and Fiddler on the Roof (Syracuse Stage), The Taming of the Shrew, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Henry IV Pt. 2 (Milwaukee Shakespeare), King Lear (Yale Rep), All in the Timing, Sleuth (Hangar Theatre), Cosi Fan Tutti (University of Michigan). 

Selected New York credits include Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (Celebrate Brooklyn), Mary Stuart (Pearl Theatre), Mayhem, Spain (SPF), Hard Lovin' Ever After (Active Eye Co).  Ms. Ford did sets and costumes for Two Rooms (Checkpoint Productions) and The Home (Summer Cabaret at Yale).  

Film: Laurie Anderson's Hidden Inside Mountains.  Jessica received her MFA from Yale School of Drama and is a recipient of the 2007-9 NEA/TCG fellowship for early career designers. www.jessforddesign.com.

Olivera Gajic is New York based designer and 2004 recipient of the NEA/TCG CDP for Designers. Ms. Gajic designed costumes for last year’s production of The Santaland Diaries at Long Wharf Theatre.

Her recent New York credits include God’s Ear For New Georges, The Necklace (Talking Band Production); The Greeks/The War, Edward II, A Midsummer Night’s Dream opera at The Juilliard School.

She has designed extensively for the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Some of her Berkshire Theatre Festival credits include Mrs.Warren Profession, The Glass Menagerie, Amadeus, Peter Pan, A Dream Play, My Fair Lady with director Eric Hill, Miss Julie, Talley’s Folly, Heartbreak House, Misanthrope, American Buffalo and The Father with director Anders Cato. 

Ms. Gajic comes from Serbia with a degree in Fine Arts and completed her studies with an MFA from the University of Connecticut in Theatre Design.

Mr. Epstein is excited to be returning to Long Wharf Theatre. In an ironic twist of fate he has just completed the lighting for the 2007 Macy’s Christmas Windows in New York.

Mr. Epstein’s Off-Broadway credits include Dead City (New Georges), One Day on Wall Street (Naked Angels), Dearest Eugenia Haggis and Those Who Can, Do (Clubbed Thumb), Bliss (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), The Claiming Race (Theater for the New City), Marriage of Figaro (Target Margin), Speed Hedda (La Mama ETC), and The Mapmaker’s Sorrow.

His regional theatre credits include serving as resident lighting designer at O’Neill Playwrights Conference, the United States premiere of Orpheus by Telemann (Wolf Trap Opera Company), as well as designs at the Alliance Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.

Mr. Epstein has worked recently with directors Wendy Goldberg, Melissa Kievman, Maria Mileaf, David Herskovits, Steffan Novinski and Jesse Berger. His dance credits include productions at The Joyce, Wolf Trap, Danspace at St. Marks, The 92nd St.Y’s Harkness Dance Project, Symphony Space and The Joyce Soho.

Mr. Epstein was a recipient of the 2004 -2006 NEA/TCG Career Development Program. He received his MFA from New York University. www.joshepsteindesign.com

Daniel Baker’s credits include The Santaland Diaries and Private Lives (Long Wharf Theatre), Acts of Mercy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Iron Kisses (Geva Theatre) Animal Farm (Synapse Productions), Cyrano (Weston Playhouse), The Real Thing (Huntington Theatre Company), The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Studio Theatre/Atlantic Theatre), Mystery Plays (Second Stage Theatre), There’s the Story (Blue Heron Theatre), Golden Age (Kraine Theatre), Mamillius (LaMama/ETC), The Jammer (Players Theatre) My Fair Lady (Dallas Theater Center), Androcles and the Lion (Hangar Theatre), Cuckooland (Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theatre), The Black Dahlia (Yale Repertory Theatre), Cymbeline, and Henry IV, 1 (Texas Shakespeare Festival).

Long Wharf Theatre: The Price, Underneath The Lintel, and Aphrodisiac. Broadway: Golda’s Balcony (Helen Hayes) and Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square).

Off Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, Edge Theatre Company, Actors Playhouse, New World Stages, Manhattan Ensemble Theater, Soho Playhouse, Cherry Lane Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club and New York Theatre Workshop. Regional: Pasadena Playhouse, A.C.T., New York Stage & Film, Wadsworth Theatre, Hartford Stage, City Theatre and Actors Theatre of Louisville (six seasons).

Additional: 52nd Street Project, EST, Classic Stage Company, The Public Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Summer Play Festival, Roundabout Theatre Company Playreading Series, Lucille Lortel Awards (five seasons), Ravinia Festival, New York Philharmonic, Juilliard School, among others.