MALLERY AVIDON is a playwright interested in the intersection of fact and fiction. Her play O GURU GURU GURU, OR WHY I DON’T WANT TO GO TO YOGA CLASS WITH YOU had its world premiere at the Humana Festival in February of 2013 and will be produced by Carolina Actors Studio Theatre in November. Her […]
Dylan Jarrett was born in Bergen County, NJ and spent her formative years distressingly far away from NYC on the New York-Canada border in a town called Ogdensburg. She is about to enter her senior year at NYU, where she is majoring in dramatic literature with a minor in creative writing. Looking for internships for […]
Who: Natan SkopWhat: TMT Winter 2013 InternAnd What: Outreach Ambassador for The ( * ) Inn Natan Skop was born and bred a 10 minute walk from Target Margin in Boreum Hill, Brooklyn. In 2006 he moved with his family to Jerusalem, Israel where he co-founded Theater in the Rough and served in the Israel […]
Target Margin tracks down The (*) Inn dramaturg and resident Yiddish expert Debra Caplan to hear what she has to say about Yiddish theater.
Carolyn Mraz is a New York-based set designer of theater and live performance. Interested in the aesthetic development of experimental works, she often collaborates on world premieres of devised pieces, new plays, and radical reconstructions of classics.Credits include: SPACEMAN (Incubator Arts at St. Mark’s Church), Barking Girl (East 4th St. Theater), A History of Launching […]
Debra Caplan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where she is completing a dissertation on the interwar Yiddish art theater movement. Her work has appeared in Comparative Drama, New England Theatre Journal, The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy and is forthcoming in Yiddish Women Writers and […]
David Greenspan with Target Margin: performed his monologue play The Argument (Obie), acted in Dinner Party and wrote Old Comedy; two performance Obies: one for Faust (Target Margin) and Some Men, one for The Boys in the Band; recent Marie Antoinette, Melancholy Play, solo renditions of Barry Conners’ The Patsy and Gertrude Stein’s lecture Plays; […]
Well? Not as easy to define as you thought. For every Purim play and Shtetl standard a surprise awaits you. For over a year we’ve been thrilled to find our definition’s flavor complexity evolving like an everlasting Yiddish Gobstopper. So in anticipation of the March 7th opening of The (*) Inn at Abrons Arts Center […]
Who: Tonia JagodnikWhat: Fall 2013 Intern And What: Stage Manager, A Night in the Old Market Place, 2013 TMT Lab Like every college graduate with a Theater degree, I moved immediately to New York to fulfill all of my hopes and dreams. My interview with Target Margin was my very first in New York so […]
Ásta Bennie Hostetter was born in New York City and worked in experimental theater before attending CalArts. Work at school includes: The Firebugs, Cherry Jam (Costumes), and The Life of the Bee (Set). She is an Associated Artist with Target Margin Theater and designed 10 Blocks on the Camino Real (Ohio Theater) and The Argument […]
Stephanie Weeks Regional Credits: Salima in RUINED,Florida Studio Theatre. Charmian in Antony & Cleopatra Dir. Craig Baldwin at the Stonington Opera House, Me, Belle in A Christmas Carol, Actors Theater of Louisville. Beth in A Christmas Carol, American Conservatory Theater. Off-Broadway: Long White Beard in As Yet Thou Art Young and Rash and Socrates in […]
Joshua William Gelb is a director and librettist who specializes in devised theater and experimental music-theatre. Most recently he completed his graduate studies at Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama with his thesis production: a new translation/adaptation of Cocteau’s 1950 movie Les Enfants Terribles. Last summer, his adaptation of the last play O’Neill ever attempted to […]
Joseph Fletcher is a director, stage manager, and designer. He is the Lab Director and a founding member of the Artist’s Laboratory Theatre, an experimental theatre company, currently in the middle of a three-year “Place Project.” Past directing credits include China the Whole Enchilada (NYC Fringe), Alley 38, Bombs Babes and Bingo (ALT), War of […]
Welcome all to the TMT blog. As we attempt to catch up with the times, expect periodic updates from the nerve center that is David, John and Moe. Not to mention guest blog appearances from the many artists we serve. Stay tuned for musings on Yiddish theater/culture and our season. In the meantime, check out […]
Kathleen Purcell graduated from The London International School of Performing Arts in 2009 with an Advanced Certificate in French mimetic-based actor devised physical theatre. She also is continuing towards a bachelor’s degree at The New School for Public Engagement. Kathleen is a performer, writer, activist, stage electrician, stage manager, producer, and director of devised original […]
Donya K. Washington directs mostly new work (with Patricia Ione Lloyd, brokeMC, Charity Henson-Ballard, Fernanda Coppel, Jesse Cameron Alick, Justine Levine, to name a few). She’s worked with Subjective, Rising Circle, Redshirt Entertainment, Rattlestick, The Civilians, Williamstown as well as with the 52nd Street Project and Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. Training: MFA, Directing – Brown […]
