MTC To Host SDCF "One-On-One Conversation Series" with Doug Hughes & Daniel Sullivan

Manhattan Theatre Club will host a special edition of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation's "One-on-One Conversation Series" with Tony Award winning directors Doug Hughes (Defiance, Doubt) and Daniel Sullivan (Rabbit Hole, Proof) with moderator Mandy Greenfield, MTC Director of Artistic Operations, on Monday, March 13 at 6 PM at New York City Center- Stage I (131 West 55th Street).

The SDCF's "One-on-One Conversations Series" explores the careers and creative processes of the theatre's foremost directors and choreographers. These evenings provide the rare opportunity to interact with masters of the theatre, and hear them speak on a broad range of topics. Each 90-minute session is an in-depth interview of artists by the moderator, with questions from an audience of directors, choreographers, students, theatre artists and theatre enthusiasts.

Past participants of the series have included such renowned artists as Kathleen Marshall, Rob Marshall, John DeLuca, Marshall Mason, Lanford Wilson, Sir Peter Hall, Harold Prince, Jack O'Brien, Susan Stroman, James Lapine, Stanley Donen, Robert Wilson, and Jerry Zaks.

For tickets, please contact Tracy Mendez at SCDF at 212-391-1070 x 252 or via e-mail at TMendez@ssdc.org. Ticket are $10 for the general public and $5 to MTC subscribers & SSDC Members and Associate Members.

BIOGRAPHIES

Doug Hughes (Director) received the 2005 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Doubt, which received its world premiere at MTC. He also won the Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk and Callaway Awards for the same production. He is an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company, where he recently directed A Touch of the Poet and The Paris Letter. He is also the Resident Director at MCC, where he has directed Frozen and The Grey Zone (1996 Obie Award, Direction). For Frozen, Hughes received Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle and Lortel nominations. Other work in New York includes Engaged at TFANA; Flesh and Blood (Callaway Award, Best Direction) at NYTW; Othello at the Public; Lake Hollywood at Signature and An Experiment with An Air Pump for MTC. In May 2005, Hughes received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.

Daniel Sullivan (Director) received the 2001 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for Proof, which received its world premiere at MTC. Other Broadway credits include After The Night And The Music; Brooklyn Boy; Sight Unseen (all at MTC); Julius Caesar; The Retreat From Moscow; Morning's at Seven; Major Barbara; A Moon for the Misbegotten; Ah, Wilderness!; An American Daughter; The Sisters Rosensweig; Conversations With My Father; The Heidi Chronicles; and I'm Not Rappaport. Off-Broadway credits include Third, Intimate Apparel, In Real Life, Dinner With Friends, Proof, Ten Unknowns, Ancestral Voices, Spinning Into Butter, Far East, London Suite, The Substance of Fire, Psychopathia Sexualis, A Fair Country and An American Clock. Most recent regional credits are Julius Caesar, Cymbeline and Romeo and Juliet at The Old Globe. From 1981 to 1997, Mr. Sullivan served as artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre, where he directed more than 60 productions. He established Seattle Rep's New Play Program, developing new works by Jon Robin Baitz, Herb Gardner, A.R. Gurney, William Mastrosimone, Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein and Charlayne Woodard, among others. Mr. Sullivan's film and television credits include The Substance of Fire and "Far East." He is the Swanlund Professor of Theater at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.

Mandy Greenfield serves as the Director of Artistic Operations at Manhattan Theatre Club where she collaborates on the development of new work and line produces plays on and off Broadway. At MTC, Ms. Greenfield's credits include new work by Nilo Cruz, Daniel Goldfarb, Jeffrey Hatcher, David Lindsey-Abaire, Craig Lucas, Rona Munro, John Patrick Shanley and ReGina Taylor; she has worked with directors Mark Brokaw, Michael Greif, Doug Hughes, Lynne Meadow, Anna D. Shapiro and Daniel Sullivan among others. Before joining MTC, Ms. Greenfield produced several Off-Broadway premieres including the musical Betty Rules and new plays by Helen Edmundson, Jessica Goldberg, Daniel Goldfarb and Darko Tresnjak. Ms. Greenfield serves on the committee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Playwriting Prize and is a founder of Step Up Women's Network, New York. She is a graduate of Yale University.

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