Playwrights Horizons

Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tim Sanford and Managing Director Leslie Marcus, Playwrights Horizons continues to encourage the new work of veteran writers while nurturing an emerging generation of theater artists. Writers are supported through every stage of their growth with a series of development programs: script and score evaluations, commissions, readings, musical theater workshops, Studio and Mainstage productions.

Playwrights Horizons was founded in 1971 at the Clark Center Y by Robert Moss, before moving to 42nd Street where it has been instrumental in the revitalization of Theater Row. The current building was built on the site of a former burlesque.

André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981 to 1991, followed by Don Scardino who served through 1995.

Chika Okpala

Chika Okpala, MFR (born June 10, 1950) is a Nigerian Comedian. He his popularly known as Chief Zebrudaya Okoroigwe Nwogbo, an appellation he got from his role as "Chief Zebrudaya" in a TV comedy series, New Masquerade (1983-1993).

Education

He attended Prince Memorial High School at Onitsha, a city in Anambra State Northeastern between 1964 to 1972. He later obtained a Bachelor of science (B. sc) degree from Enugu State University of Science and Technology in 1996.

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Pam MacKinnon

Pam MacKinnon (born January 8, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American theatre director. She has directed for the stage Off-Broadway, on Broadway and in regional theatre. She won the Obie Award for Directing and received a Tony Award nomination, Best Director, for her work on Clybourne Park. In 2013 she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for a revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Biography

Early life

MacKinnon is a native of Chicago and was raised in suburban Buffalo, New York. She majored in economics and political science at the University of Toronto and enrolled in a political science Ph.D. program at the University of California, San Diego,but leftto work with Des McAnuff and Anne Bogart in San Diego. She studied at the Lincoln Center Directors' Lab and the Drama League.

Career

MacKinnon has directed many plays by Edward Albee, including the premiere of his Peter and Jerry at the Second Stage Theatre (2007) (and also at Hartford Stage), and his Occupant (2008) by the Signature Theatre Company. Additional Albee works that she has directed include: A Delicate Balance (2009) at the Arena Stage, Washington, DC, and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? at the Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas, in 2003.The Houston Chronicle reviewer wrote of MacKinnon's direction of The Goat: "Director Pam MacKinnon negotiates the shifting tone as expertly as Albee has written it." She directed Albee's The Play About the Baby (2002) by the Philadelphia Theatre Company, Philadelphia and at the Goodman Theatre (2003). The Philadelphia Inquirer reviewer wrote that MacKinnon "...displays an unerring understanding of the play's moods and rhythms."

Bruce Norris

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