Sailor's Song - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Broadway: Between Riverside and Crazy. Theater: Stephen Adly Guirgis’s Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven, Little Flower of East Orange,Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Our Lady of 121st Street, Jesus Hopped the “A” Train, and Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline, among others. Films: 1 Mile to You, Allswell in New York. Liz wrote the short film Father’s Day (Tribeca Film Festival). Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Madge Evans and Sidney Kingsley Award recipient for excellence in the theater chosen by the winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (with Liza Colón-Zayas and Elizabeth Rodriguez). Member of LAByrinth Theater Company and The Actor’s Studio. Broadway credits include Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and The Elephant Man. Her lighting of Amadeus won a Tony award. Regionals include JF Kennedy Center, the Guthrie, Arena Stage, the Alley. Off B’way she worked for Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. For Robert Wilson; Einstein on the Beach and others. Her designs for dance: Martha Graham, Trisha Brown, Alvin Ailey, Merce Cunningham. Awards: seven Tony nominations, several American Theatre Wings, 1980 Obie and others. Philip Seymour Hoffman was an American actor, known for roles in the films Scent of a Woman (1992), Boogie Nights (1997), Happiness (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Almost Famous (2000), Charlie Wilson's War (2007), Doubt (2008), The Master (2012), The Savages (2007), Synechoche, New York (2008), and Plutarch Heavensbee in the Hunger Games series (2013-2015). He won an Oscar for his performance as Truman Capote in Capote (2005), and made his film directorial debut with 2010's Jack Goes Boating. He received Tony Award nominations for his performances in True West, Long Day's Journey ... read more Additional credits include: The Emperor Jones~ Irish Repertory Theatre 2009 Choreographer Ernest in Love~ Irish Repertory Theatre 2010 Choreographer Finian's Rainbow~ Irish Repertory Theatre 2004 Choreographer Lucille Lortel Nominee ~ Choreography Sailor's Song~ LAByrinth Theatre @ Public Theatre 2004 Choreographer Drama Desk Nominee ~ Choreography Award-winning actor John Ortiz has earned widespread recognition for his work across film and television. His accolades include Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award nominations for his performance in Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Jack Goes Boating, as well as a Gotham Award nomination as part of the ensemble cast of David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, which also earned him an MTV Movie Award nomination for Best Actor. Ortiz was further recognized with a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination as part of the ensemble cast of Ridley Scott’s American Gangster. A two-time Imagen Award nominee (“Bad Monkey,” 2025; “Luck,” 2012), he ... read more