Marie Antoinette

A.R.T.: Debut. David Adjmi is the author of Elective Affinities, the 2011 site-specific Off-Broadway hit starring four-time Tony winner Zoe Caldwell (commissioned by the Royal Court; world premiere at Royal Shakespeare Company). Other plays include Stunning (Lincoln Center Theater’s LTC3, Woolly Mammoth), The Evildoers (Sundance, Yale Rep, Royal Court), 3C (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Caligula (Soho Rep Studio Series), and Strange Attractors (Empty Space). He received the 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2010 Whiting Writers’ Award in Playwriting, 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award, 2009 Bush Fellowship, 2009 Kesselring Fellowship, Helen Merrill Award, Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Award, Cherry Lane Mentor Project Fellowship, multiple MacDowell Colony fellowships, Sundance/Ucross residency and others. David has been awarded commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and the Royal Court. A collection of David’s work, Stunning and Other Plays, is published by TCG, and he is currently writing a novel for Harper Collins.

A.R.T.: Debut. New York: Off-Broadway: upcoming Luck of the Irish (by Kristen Greenidge), LCT3; Milk Like Sugar (by Kirsten Greenidge), Playwrights Horizons; Orlando (by Sarah Ruhl), Classic Stage Company; Dark Sisters (world premiere, music by Nico Muhly, libretto by Stephen Karam), Music Theater Group/Gotham Opera at John Jay; Orpheus (by Telemann), New York City Opera; The Scene (by Theresa Rebeck), Second Stage; Menopausal Gentleman, The Ohio Theatre. Regional: The Winter’s Tale, upcoming at McCarter Theatre and Shakespeare Theatre Company; Sleeping Beauty Wakes (book by Rachel Sheinkin, music and lyrics by Groove Lilly), Twelfth Night, McCarter Theatre; Milk Like Sugar (world premiere), La Jolla Playhouse; She Loves Me, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, and The Taming of the Shrew, Shakespeare Theater Company; Dead Man’s Cell Phone (world premiere, by Sarah Ruhl), The Clean House (by Sarah Ruhl, 2006 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play), Woolly Mammoth; The Evildoers (world premiere by David Adjmi), Iphigeneia at Aulis, Yale Repertory; The Green Violin, (world premiere by Elise Thoron with music by Frank London, 2003 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical), The Prince Music Theatre; Swimming in March (world premiere by Kate Robin, 2001 IRNE Award for Best New Play), The Market Theater; Oklahoma City (by Tom Cole), Theatre Offensive. Currently co-creating new piece Rehearsing Vengeance with Paula Vogel for OSF and Yale Repertory Theatre. Instructor: The O’Neill National Theater Institute, MIT, Yale University, and the University of Maryland. Training/Affiliations: TCG New Generations Grant Recipient with Woolly Mammoth, Drama League Directing Fellowship, MFA from Yale School of Drama.

A.R.T.: Death and the Powers: The Robots’ Opera. Artistic Director of the Armitage Gone! Dance Company based in New York, and renowned for pushing the boundaries to create contemporary works that blend dance, music, and art. Armitage has choreographed for major dance companies throughout Europe and the U.S. and has directed opera for leading European houses. She was director of the Florence Ballet (1996–2000), the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Dance (2001), and was resident choreographer for the Ballet de Lorraine (2000–2005). She is known for her collaborations with important contemporary artists, such as Jeff Koons, Brice Marden, filmmaker James Ivory, and pop icons Madonna and Michael Jackson. She has also created choreography for a William Wegman dog and choreographed the Cirque du Soleil production AmaLuna in 2012, directed by Diane Paulus. Armitage received a Tony nomination for her Broadway choreography of Hair (2009), also directed by Diane Paulus, after making her Broadway debut with Passing Strange (2008), also filmed by Spike Lee. She received the French honor Commandeur dans L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She danced with Balanchine’s Geneva Ballet (1973–1975) and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1976–1981).

A.R.T.: The Provok’d Wife; Pericles; The Birthday Party; Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2; Henry V; The Tempest; The Threepenny Opera. Recent work includes Osvaldo Goliov’s Ainadamar directed by Peter Sellars for the Teatro Real in Madrid, Stew and Heidi’s The Total Bent at The Public Theater and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s last play, Of Masks Outrageous and Austere at the Bleeker Street Theater in New York. An OBIE and Bessie award winner, Ms. Berry is the only American to ever win an individual medal at the Prague International Design Quadrennial. She received a silver medal for her contributions to experimental theater.

A.R.T.: Marie Antoinette, Three Pianos. Sound Design credits: Preludes, LCT3; The Royale, Time and the Conways, Old Globe; Stage Kiss, 100 Saints You Should Know, Playwrights Horizons; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Kazino, Ars Nova; Marie Antoinette, Soho Rep, Yale Rep; How We Got On, Death Tax, A Devil at Noon, Humana Festival of New American Plays; Three Pianos, NYTW; The Human Scale, Public Theater; Telephone, Foundry Theatre; Hammock, The Matter of Origins: Tea, Blueprints of Relentless Nature, 613 Radical Acts of Prayer, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; the National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. A company member of the TEAM, he has designed The Holler Sessions, RoosevElvis, Mission Drift, Architecting, Particularly in the Heartland, and A Thousand Natural Shocks. BA in Philosophy as a University Scholar at Xavier University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Worked with: Dan Hurlin, Mabou Mines, Lee Breuer, Basil Twist, Paula Vogel, Chris Green, Metropolitan Opera, MTV, and Lake Simons. Favorite collaborations include: A Howling Flower (directed by Nami Yamamoto); Rinne Groff’s Compulsion (dir. Oskar Eustis). Film: In the House of the Sin Eater. Currently, Matt directs the Puppet Lab at St. Ann’s Warehouse; Resident Puppetry Director for Warhorse, Lincoln Center Theater; Associate Puppetry Director for the War Horse North American tour.

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway choreography: Wit; Born Yesterday; A Life in the Theatre; Speed the Plow; Come Back, Little Sheba; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore. New York premieres: Blasted, The Whipping Man, Ages of the Moon, The American Pilot, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe. Worked with: The Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, The Atlantic, The Roundabout, The Guthrie, David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Martin Mc-Donough, Tracy Letts, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli.

A.R.T.: Gloria: A Life, SIX, The Shape She Makes, Marie Antoinette. Broadway/​National Tours: Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, The Band’s Visit, Prince of Broadway, Indecent, Bandstand, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, A Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life; Smokey Joe’s Café; Here Lies Love; Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Westport Country Playhouse, Asolo Rep.

A.R.T.: Debut. Off-Broadway: Black Tie, Happy Now?, NEWSical the Musical, Ink’d, Macbeth. Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Baltimore’s CenterStage, Northern Stage, Elm Shakespeare. National Tours: NEWSical the Musical, Finding Ways…, Macbeth. Television: “The Academy Awards.” Amanda received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.

A.R.T.: Prometheus Bound, The Donkey Show, Alice Vs. Wonderland. In association with OBERON: Roller Disco the Musical! Regional: God of Carnage, Ruined, Prelude to a Kiss, Huntington Theatre Company; The Comedy of Errors, Ten Cents a Dance, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Boston Playwrights’; Boston Children’s Theatre; Arden Theatre Company of Philadelphia; Westport Country Playhouse. Opera credits include Romeo et Juliette, Susannah, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Cosi fan tutte, Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers. BFA Stage Management Boston University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Worked with: La Jolla Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, The Cutting Ball Theatre. New York International Fringe Festival: Baristas, Heads. She previously worked as an Agent Trainee at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. She attended The Boston Conservatory and graduated from Northwestern University.

A.R.T.: Debut. Boston Experimental Theatre Company, director and producer: The Spurt of Blood, The Misunderstanding, There Is Another Court: An Evening with JonBenet Ramsey, Trim: The Tyger Woods Story, The Other Woman, Crying Deer, Play Strindberg; Dance of Death (Best Directing Award from KCACTF-2007). Assistant director: Nora Theatre, Underground Railway Theatre, Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company. Stage manager and actor in Iran, and director The Most Honest Murderer in The World. Film producer: Over There (Golden Alexander at THESSALONIKI film festival for the Best Future Movie-2008).

Emily Wagner trained under scholarships at the Flint Youth Ballet, Virginia School of the Arts, and the American Ballet Theatre School. Her most influential training came from Sabrina Pillars, friend and mentor from the New York City Ballet. Wagner has performed nationally and internationally with companies including: Ballet Austin, Eglevsky Ballet, Ballet Noir, Terra Firma Dance Theater, International Ballet Theater, and BalletX in Philadelphia. In 2005 she performed Peter Breuer’s Bolero in Salzburg, Austria with the Salzburg Ballett and from 2005 to 2007 she danced as a soloist with the Movement Network of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. While in Europe, she also received an International Pilates Certification with Body Arts and Sciences international. In addition she regularly freelances in New York City, dancing as a tango artist with the New Generation Dance Company and is a guest artist with the Pennsylvania Ballet. Wagner has also modeled for Sansha and KD Dance. Emily is elated to work with such a talented group of people at Marie Antoinette.

JANE GUYER FUJITA, is a New York based voice and speech specialist and dialect designer.  She is a proud graduate of the ART’s Institute for Advanced Theater Training, where she studied voice and speech pedagogy under Nancy Houfek.  While in residence at the American Repertory Theater, Ms. Fujita served as Vocal coach on Marie Antoinette, Romance, Alice in Wonderland, The Winter’s Tale, The Island of Anyplace, and Sexual Perversity in Chicago.  She assisted Nancy Houfek in vocal coaching The Seagull, Trojan Barbie, and Paradise Lost.  Her other vocal and dialect coaching credits include productions at Yale Repertory Theater, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Primary Stages, The Public Under the Radar Festival, Signature Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater, Ugly Rhino, The Drilling Company, and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot.  She has coached dialects on set and in preproduction for various film and television productions produced by HBO, ABC Family, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Participant Media, and Production One.

Jane is the recipient of three certificates of distinction in teaching from Harvard University.   She is a lecturer in acting, specializing in speech, at the Yale School of Drama. Her previous teaching appointments include the MFA training Program at Rutgers’ Mason Gross, ESPA, and the Studio.  She has worked with numerous classes of graduate, and professional acting students to prepare them for the voice and accent demands of the twenty first century stage ad screen.  As a voice teacher she has trained in several major vocal techniques including Fitzmaurice Voicework™, Linklater Technique, Roy Hart work and Chuck Jones.  Her background in speech training includes deep study in both Knight-Thompson and Skinner methodologies.   Jane is certified by Catherine Fitzmaurice as an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. 

A.R.T.: Prometheus Bound. New York: Murder Ballad (workshop), Manhattan Theatre Club; Fun Home (workshop), The Public Theater, The Last Goodbye (Mercutio), Joe’s Pub, The Wild Project; Dance, Dance Revolution (dir. Alex Timbers), Ohio Theatre; The Daughters (Aphrodite), Joe’s Pub; Hamlet (Composer, Player), Galapagos Art Space. Regional: The Last Goodbye, Williamstown Theater Festival; Raindogs (dir. Andrew MacBean), Bay Street Theater; The Daughters (dir. Mark Brokaw), Yale Institute for Music Theatre. TV/ Film: Terry Richardson’s Last Hours (dir. Charlotte Robert); Declare Independence (Bjork music video /dir. Michel Gondry). BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights Horizons Theater School/ Experimental Theater Workshop).

A.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: The Royal Family, MTC; Born Yesterday. Off-Broadway: Henry V, The Guthrie Theater/The Acting Company; Blue Man Group. Regional/International: The Spy, The Guthrie Theater; The Book Club Play, Arena Stage; Travesties, McCarter Theatre; Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, Measure for Measure, The American Shakespeare Center; Billy Bishop Goes to War, Virginia Stage; The Blackamoor Angel, Bard Summer Scape; Playboy of the Western World, The Hangar Theatre; Pericles, The Continuum Company in Florence, Italy. Awarded the Baryshnikov Fellowship. Film/TV: Shadows & Lies, “The Good Wife,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Training: MFA from the NYU/Graduate Acting Program.