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Mr. and Mrs. Child (T. Ryder Smith & Mike Daisey) live in perpetual enmity with their only mistake, NO HANDS, BODIES, SETS, OR ADULT LANGUAGE. |
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LAWRENCE KRAUSER (writer/director/music) is author of the novel LEMON (McSweeney's Books, 2001); for the first U.S. and Dutch editions he hand-illustrated 11,000 individual book covers. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Textualities, The Believer, Bridge, Open City, McSweeney’s, Monkeybicycle, Sweet Fancy Moses, The Best Stage Monologues, and The Muse Apprentice Guild, also elsewhere. Lawrence lectured on American Poetry at Hebei University, China, taught filmmaking at The New School, and is currently House Piano Player for the Paranoid's Guide to History and Big Tasty's Funk Party and copyeditor for Doubleday Books. He attended the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, and University of Hartford, from which he graduated. He has been writer in residence at Ateliers Fourwinds, Annex Theater, the Santa Maddalena Foundation, and Hawthornden Castle, where he wrote the novel PINOCCHIO (awaiting links). His shortish novel The Day in Question is readable online, here. LARISSA TOKMAKOVA (production design/editor) Her paintings can be seen this in New York at McNally-Robinson Booksellers, Ambienti Italia,and Deloitte-Touche headquarters, and lately at Le Chateau de la Napoule in Cannes. Previous exhibitions include solos at Columbia University and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture in Sao Paulo. Larissa has taught painting at France's Ateliers Fourwinds, Hebei Academy of Art in Baoding, China, and at St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn, her work supported by grants and residencies from Ateliers Fourwinds, the Puffin Foundation, Kunstcentrum Sittard, and Fundaçion Valparaiso. She was born in Ukraine, studied painting at the Faculty of Applied Arts in Moscow, and now lives in New York City. More paintings can be seen at Artistsspace.org & on her website: www.tokmakova.com
PAUL WILLIS (Horrible Child & Co-producer) Originally from the Northwest, he co-founded Seattle’s acclaimed Printer’s Devil Theatre where he served as co-Artistic Director for five years. In addition to Printer’s Devil, Willis’ has worked at The Seattle Rep, A Contemporary Theatre, Annex, Empty Space, CTG|Mark Taper Forum, and The Public. Other theatrical directing credits include world premiere productions of HURRICANE by Erin Cressida Wilson, HORRIBLE CHILD by Lawrence Krauser, THE SCANDAL by Kristen Kosmas, and THE GAS MAN by Herbert Bergel. Willis has also directed productions of FREE WILL AND WANTON LUST by Nicky Silver, MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS by Caryl Churchill, and workshop productions of plays by Erin Cressida Wilson, Chay Yew, Annie Weisman, Heidi Schreck, and Kristen Palmer, among others. Additional credits include WEDNESDAY, HANK, a short documentary about the Honky Tonk Revue with co-director Kristin Newbom, and the short rock opera film THE GAS MAN composed by Herbert Bergel and a feature film adaptation of HEDDA GABLER currently distributed by AliveMindMedia. Other film credits include producing the feature film adaptation of HORRIBLE CHILD written and directed by Lawrence Krauser (LEMON, McSweeney’s Press) and designed by painter Larissa Tokmakova, and creating and editing the video projections and animations for MORT, a performance piece about composer Mort Feldman created by direcor Kip Fagan and poet Niko Vassilakis. In 2002, Willis’ was honored to be one of 16 directors from the Northwest selected for a master directors workshop with Peter Brook. He has served on grant panels for King County Council of the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, Northwest Film Forum, and has conducted interviews for the Lincoln Center Jazz Academy and for articles in the Brooklyn Rail. Paul most recently directed Sheila Callaghan’s CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE for 13p in NYC. Other recent NYC credits include ONE THING I LIKE TO SAY IS by Amy Fox for Clubbed Thumb, Aaron Landsman’s OPEN HOUSE with The Foundry (actor), Kristen Kosmas’s CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS with CSC as well as multiple workshops with SohoRep’s Writer/Director Lab, Culture Project, St. Ann’s Puppet Lab, and The New Group. Paul is currently developing Nancy Nyman and Heather McNama’s TAFFETA for television and prepping Sheila Callaghan’s LACIVIOUS SOMETHING for its debut production with Circle X Theatre at the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles, March 2010. www.paulwillis.net
MIKE DAISEY (Mrs. Child) [AT THE PUBLIC THEATER in NYC DEC 2009 in "THE LAST CARGO CULT"] has been called “the master storyteller” and “one of the finest solo performers of his generation” by The New York Times for his monologues, includingMonopoly!, TRUTH, Invincible Summer, Tongues Will Wag, The Ugly American, I Miss the Cold War, Great Men of Genius, Wasting Your Breath and 21 Dog Years, and over the past decade he has performed his unique brand of extemporaneous storytelling at venues such as the Public Theater, American Repertory Theatre, the Spoleto Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Cherry Lane, Yale Rep, the Noorderzon Festival, Portland Stage Company, Intiman, Performance Space 122, and many more. He’s been a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman, and his work has been heard on the BBC, NPR, the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and his groundbreaking series All Stories Are Fiction is available through Audible.com. Currently he’s a commentator for NPR’s Day To Day and PRI’s Studio 360, a contributor to WIRED, Slate and Salon, a web contributor to Vanity Fair and Radar Magazine, a frequent performer and host with the Moth, and his writing appears in the anthology The Best Tech Writing 2006. His first film, Layover, is being distributed by Lars von Trier’s company Zentropa. His first book, 21 Dog Years: A Cubedweller’s Tale, was published by the Free Press and he is working on a second book, Great Men of Genius, adapted from his monologues about genius and megalomania in the lives of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla, and L. Ron Hubbard. He lives with his director, collaborator and co-conspirator, Jean-Michele Gregory, in New York City. They recently completed a run of their show If You See Something, Say Something at the Public Theater in New York, and are now back at the Public. www.mikedaisey.com
T. RYDER SMITH (Mr. Child) (Mr. Child) has been called "Electric" by the New York Times, "Astonishing" by New York magazine, and "Phenomenal" by Time Out NY. Recent work includes the world premieres of Doug Wright’s adaptation of Strindberg’s CREDITORS, at La Jolla Playhouse, and Mark Olsen’s CORNELIA, at The Old Globe; Peter Shaffer’s EQUUS on Broadway, opposite Daniel Radcliffe; Sarah Ruhl's DEAD MAN’s CELL PHONE at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Anne Bogart, and Ms. Ruhl’s epic PASSION PLAY at The Goodman Theatre, directed by Mark Wing-Davy. In his native NY, he has appeared in the world premieres of Richard Foreman's THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD and KING COWBOY RUFUS RULES THE UNIVERSE, (Ontological), David Greenspan's SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY, (Playwrights Horizons), Ann Washburn’s APPARITION, (Connolly), and I HAVE LOVED STRANGERS, (Clubbed Thumb), Will Eno's THOM PAIN, (Daryl Roth), Barabra Wiechmann’s SUMMER, (New Georges), and more. Other NY work includes MARAT/SADE with the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Lear De Bessonet's TRANSFIGURES with the Women's Project, the Rude Mechs’ LIPSTICK TRACES, with Foundry Theatre, Glen Berger's THE WOODEN BREEKS, (MCC), and UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL (Soho Playhouse), for which T. received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Solo Performer. In 2007, T. shared a Drama Desk award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast, for the 3-actor, 50-character LEBENSRAUM, Off-Broadway. Regional theatre credits includes the world premieres of Charles Mee's BIG LOVE at ATL's Humana Festival, Jeffrey Hatcher's STAGE BEAUTY at the CATF, and John Strand’s LINCOLNESQUE, at the Old Globe, for which T. was awarded a Craig Noel award for Outstanding Lead Performance. IN 2007, T took part, in association with artist/activist Paul Chan, the Classical Theatre of Harlem and public-art presenters Creative Time, in site-specific production of WAITING FOR GODOT, peformed in two neighborhoods of New Orleans most devastated by Hurricane Katrina. TV work includes appearances on NURSE JACKIE, CONVICTION and LAW & ORDER, and film work includes playing the Trickster in the cult-chestnut BRAINSCAN, Mitchell Lictenstein’s HAPPY TEARS, (2009), and short films by Marie Losier, (THE ONTOLOGICAL COWBOY, 2006), and Redmond Entwistle, (MONUMENTS, 2010), as well as an appearance in Ryan Kerrigan’s MINDFLUX (2010), a documentary about Richard Foreman. Vocal work includes narration on several Criterion Collection dvds; the videogames MANHUNT, GRAND THEFT AUTO and BIOSHOCK; and the Adult Swim series THE VENTURE BROTHERS. T. has won 2 Earphones awards for his work for Recorded Books. T. was profiled in the September 2006 issue of American Theatre magazine, linked HERE. You can read a recent interview with him on nytheatre.com HERE. His IMDb page is HERE, and his Wikipedia page HERE.
LILA JAVAN (Director of Photography) has been in the film industry in Los Angeles since 1994, and working exclusively as a cinematographer for the past six years. Javan has shot a wide variety of projects in multiple formats, including seven feature films, documentaries, and shorts featured in numerous film festivals. Currently her feature film Venice Underground is availble on DVD. Javan holds a BA in photography and anthropology from the University of Arizona and an MFA in cinematography from the American Film Institute.
JOSEPH MAHAN, singer of our themesong and an Uncle of five,
Our postproduction sound was recorded by WINSTON SPENCER RICE. Visit his playground on the web: www.squidinc.us
See what our muse OOTE BOE has seen at www.ooteboe.com
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