ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Stuart
Warmflash, Artistic Director
founded
Playwrights Harbor in 1994 in an effort to provide a supportive, self-directed,
cooperative workshop for playwrights to realize their individual dramatic
visions with the assistance of a company of actors and directors. As the
written work continued to expand in quality and scope so did the vision
for a producing theatre. Subsequently, the non-for-profit company was
incorporated as "The Harbor Theatre".
Since that time there
has been an annual reading series (HarboReadings), an annual
one-act festival (Harbor Currents) and full productions
of Edmund deSantis' Making Peter Pope and Stephanie Lehmann's
comedy Order Up / Watch TV.
As the weekly workshop continues to evolve new plays for the American
Theatre, The Harbor Theatre is dedicated to bring those unique works to
the attention of the public. Mr. Warmflash is immensely proud of The Harbor
community, both as artists and as individuals dedicated to respecting
others with a deep sense of compassion.
STAFF
BIOS
Andrew
Dawson,
Company Manager
New
York credits include: The Blue Flower (HERE, ASCAP &
NYMF-St.Clements), Training Wisteria (Cherry Lane–FringeNYC)
Sebresque (CenterStage NY), Artaud Le Momo
(Fringe NYC), Play, Voice of Reason (Kraine
Theatre). National Tours: Salem Justice, Anne of Green Gables
and Hans Brinker. Regional credits include The Tale
of the Allergist’s Wife, Fuddy Meers, An American Daughter,
Watch on the Rhine, An Enemy of the People, Uncle Vanya, Arcadia, Talley’s
Folly, The Quadroon Ball, The Normal Heart, Blithe Spirit, The Shadow
Box, and the one-man show The Only Thing Worse…
Education: Trinity University, the University of Houston and the AADA
in New York. Harbor member since 1999. AEA SAG AFTRA
Mark
Edward Lang,
Artistic Associate / Webmaster
An
actor, director and graphic designer, Mark joined the Harbor in 1995,
its second season. Recent directing projects include Eugene O'Neill's
Anna Christie for the East Lynne Theater Company and Shakespeare's
Othello for the Africa Arts Theater Company. He has also directed
a number of plays in the Harbor Currents and HarboReadings
series, including the workshop of Donna Spector's Off-Broadway show
Golden Ladder. Also Feydeau's farce The Turkey (Theatre
TenTen); the comedy Instant Shakespeare (45th Street Theatre);
the political satire The White House ‘96 (Theater Row);
and Sam Shepard's Fool For Love in Sanibel, Florida. His
acting work has taken him to thirty-five states on tour with the National
Shakespeare Company and others. Regional work includes Jake in Stones
in his Pockets, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest
in South Carolina, the lead in a new version of War of the Worlds
in New Jersey, A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Brooklyn
Academy of Music, and Orlando in As You Like It. Also NYC
and regional productions of The Sum of Us, Terra Nova,
The Tempest and Native American. He has studied
with R.S.C. directors John Barton and Patrick Tucker, and at the New Actors
Workshop. Film: Lead in The Westchester Comanche. He is a native
New Yorker and a graduate of Vassar College.
PLAYWRIGHT
BIOS
Kathryn
Chetkovich
is a relative newcomer to playwriting, having written primarily short
fiction for the last several years. (Her collection of short stories,
Friendly Fire, won the 1998 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and
was published by the University of Iowa Press.) She is currently at work
on her first full-length play. Four of her short plays have received productions
or staged readings in Santa Cruz, CA; two of these were finalists in the
National Ten-Minute Play Contest sponsored by the Actors Theatre of Louisville,
and one, Love and Death, was published in the anthology Eight Tens
@ Eight Festival. Kathryn is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the
WGA.
Stuart
Warmflash
Full
Length Plays: Art's Life played an extended run on Theatre
Row, and his eight subsequent works have all been read and/or performed
in and outside NYC. Lost at Sea, a comic satire, won two
National Play Contests including the New Play Festival at the Charlotte
Repertory Company. Heart-Timers, won first prize and a production
at both the Theatre-in-the-Works contest (Amherst, MA) and the Festival
of Emerging American Theatre contest at the Equity Phoenix Theatre in
Indianapolis. For two and half years, Mr. Warmflash toured his highly
acclaimed one-man show, A Map And A Cap... which
was chosen as a semi-finalist in the Forest A. Roberts/ Shiras Institute
Competition. Owning the Knuckleball, developed in part at
the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, was produced in London and an American
premiere is pending. Together Tulane has had readings in
Los Angeles, Florida and New York. His most recent work, Bizet's
Locket, has, to date, won the Paul Green Award given by the North
Carolina's Writer's Network and the Founder's Award Contest sponsored
by the Riverside Stage Company in Wilton, CT. The play was a finalist
in the Generic Theater's "1999 New Plays for Dog Days", a finalist in
the Theatrework Studio Project of New Mexico, a finalist in the South
Carolina Playwrights' Festival for 2000, and a finalist in the New Play
Project at the Backdoor Theatre. It received Honorable Mention in the
Writer's Digest 1999 writing competition. Readings of Bizet's Locket
have taken place at the Key West Theatre Festival, the Playwrights Kitchen
Ensemble in Los Angeles and at The Harbor Theatre in NYC.
His play The Czar of Nothingness was produced to critical
acclaim at the Mill Mountain Playhouse as well as at the Actors in the
Gym in Miami, FL. It was publicly presented in Los Angeles starring Ed
Asner and Thora Birch, in NY with Theodore Bikel and Kathleen Early and
at the Sledgehammer Theatre in San Diego. It was one of three finalists
for the John Golden Award, a finalist in the FutureFest Contest, a finalist
for the 2000 Paul Green Playwrights Competition, a finalist for the Dorothy
Silver Playwriting Competition (Halle Theatre, Cleveland), a finalist
at the Ashland New Plays Fesitval and a finalist for the Jewish Ensemble
Theatre's Festival of New Plays. It was given public readings at CAP 21,
the Abingdon Theatre, Urban Stages, Algonquin Productions, The Pulse Theatre
and at Hudson River Classics. Shortly After Takeoff was
the winner of the Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award presented by
the Abingdon Theatre, a finalist for the Ashland New Play Competition,
the American Theatre Coop, the Oglebay Institute and a semi-finalist at
Mill Mountain's New Play Competition and at PlayLabs. There have been
readings produced by the Abingdon Theatre, Hudson River Classics and Broad
Horizons Theatre.
One Acts: Car Nil Knowledge - First prize and production
at the Public Studio Theatre's one-act Festival, Grace -
First prize and production at the Dubuque Fine Arts Players one-act festival,
Clean Sweep, and Six Inch Adjustable - produced
in The Harbor Theatre's one-act Festival (Harbor Currents
2000). Film: Mr. Warmflash's theatrically released, award-winning
full-length documentary entitled Unforgotten: Willowbrook 25 Years
Later opened to excellent reviews both in LA and New York. Currently
he is working on a documentary with director Chris Eyre about The Indigo
Girls' involvement with the Honor The Earth organization. Television:
Two original sit-coms (Home Sweet Home and Broadway and 69th
Street) and an episode for Murphy Brown. Fiction: Mr. Warmflash
is the author of a romantic, episodic novel entitled Swamp. Magazine
Articles: Cosmopolitan, GQ and Playboy. Corporate: Mr. Warmflash
has written for accounts such as Sony, IBM, Kodak, BMW, Avon, Seagrams,
Lifetime TV, Andersen Consulting, Hyperion, the USPS, Nokia, and NCR among
others. Poets & Writers has awarded Mr. Warmflash numerous grants for
writing and performing. Mr. Warmflash is a member of the Dramatists Guild,
AEA, AFTRA and SAG. Visit
Stuart's web site
