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Women's Project presents
THE HOTHOUSE PRODUCTION OF
ENCHANTMENT
by Carson Kreitzer
directed by Anne Kauffman

and featuring David Chandler, Gian Murray Gianino,
Lynne McCollough and Danielle Skraastad


Hothouse is a new play development series for new works created by our current and alumnae Lab Artists. WP members enjoy free admission to these innovative plays...before they make it to the big time.

ENCHANTMENT
explores the reverberations between the two extraordinary lives of Bruno Bettelheim and Temple Grandin.

Bruno Bettelheim was born in 1903 and died in 1990, barbiturates in his bloodstream and a plastic bag over his face. In between, he spent time in Dachau and Buchenwald, put forth the theory that autism was caused by bad mothering, and wrote The Uses of Enchantment, a popular and somewhat scandalous book on fairy tales.

Temple Grandin is a high-functioning autistic woman who designs more humane slaughterhouses. She is a Doctor of Animal Science at Colorado State University and a bestselling author who believes we owe our animals a decent life and a painless death.

ENCHANTMENT will have two workshop performances for invited audiences only at Julia Miles Theater (424 W. 55th Street, just west of 9th Avenue). For specific dates and times, please contact info@womensproject.org or 212.765.1706.

After each workshop performance of ENCHANTMENT, audience members are invited to join in a discussion with the artists to provide feedback and help the play advance to the next stage.

 

CREATIVE TEAM

Carson KreitzerPlaywright CARSON KREITZER'SThe Love Song of J.Robert Oppenheimer won the Lois and Richard Rosenthal New Play Prize, the American Theatre Critics’ Steinberg Citation, the Barrie Stavis Award, and is published in Smith and Kraus’ “New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2004” and by Dramatic Publishing. SELF DEFENSE or death of some salesmen has been produced across the country, and is published by Playscripts and in Smith and Kraus’ “Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002.” Other work includes 1:23, Flesh and the Desert, The Slow Drag (New York and London), Freakshow, Slither, Dead Wait, and Take My Breath Away, featured in BAM's 1997 Next Wave Festival.  Ms. Kreitzer has received grants from NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA, TCG, and the Jerome and McKnight foundations, as well as a BA from Yale University, and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin.   She is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, an associated artist with Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and the Fire Department, and a member of The Workhaus Collective, The Playwrights’ Center and the Dramatists Guild.  Ms. Kreitzer recently finished a year as the first Playwrights Of New York (PONY) Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center.

Director ANNE KAUFFMAN won the OBIE Award for THE THUGS by Adam Bock at SoHo Rep (TimeOut NY, New York Sun top 10 productions of 2006). She also directed GOD’S EAR by Jenny Schwartz at the Vineyard and New Georges, STUNNING by David Adjmi with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT by Anne Washburn at American Repertory Theater, HAVE YOU SEEN STEVE STEVEN by Ann Marie Healy with 13P, , EXPECTING ISABEL by Lisa Loomer and DOUBT at Asolo Repertory Theater. ACT A LADY by Jordan Harrison at the Humana Festival of New Plays, SIDES: THE FEAR IS REAL (commercial run) at the Culture Project, TYPOGRAPHER’S DREAM by Adam Bock at the Encore Theater (San Francisco Chronicle top 10 productions of 2005), THE LOYAL OPPOSITION by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas at the New York Theater Workshop, HANG TEN by Karen Hartman at Women’s Project & Productions, THE LADIES by Anne Washburn with The Civilians at Dixon Place and Cherry Lane Theater. Anne has worked at Playwrights Horizons Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Manhattan Theater Club, CSC, The Vineyard, The Public, Rattlestick, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, American Conservatory Theater, A.R.T., The Guthrie, Sundance Institute.  She received a “Big Easy” award in New Orleans for her production of THE CHILDREN’S HOUR at Loyola University.  She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, an alumnus of the Soho Rep Writers and Directors Lab, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Drama League of New York, a founding member of The Civilians and was a 2003-2004 New Dramatist Resident Director and a member of New Georges Kitchen Cabinet.  She is also on the directing faculty at NYU in the Playwrights Horizons Theater Studio.  Anne received her MFA in directing from UCSD.

Kris Stone - Set Design -- has designed the world premieres of many plays such as Aliens With Extraordinary Skills (Women's Project), God's Ear by Jenny Schwartz (CSC/Vineyard), Act A Lady by Jordan Harrison (Humana), Steve And Idi by David Grimm (Rattlestick), The Black Eyed by Betty Shamieh, Suburb a musical by David Javerbaum and Bob Cohen, and Dublin by Lamplight by Michael West (Ireland, London, & Tasmania).  Kris received a Drama Desk Award nomination for “Outstanding Set Design of a Musical” for Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak’s Brundibar.

Brian H Scott - Lighting & Projection Design -- is a SITI Company member and has designed lighting for Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, systems/layers, Death and the Ploughman, bobrauschenbergamerica, War of the Worlds - The Radio Play, and the Midsummer Night’s Dream touring production.   He has designed lights for: Hamlet at Classic Stage Company; The Darkling for American Opera Projects, The Importance of Being Earnest at the Arena Stage, Marina: A Captive Spirit with American Opera Projects, Twisted Olivia w/members of the Ridiculous Theatre Company, Showpeople with Anne Bogart @ Exit ART, Macbeth (scenic and lighting design), The Laramie Project, Death of A Salesman in Baton Rouge, LA, and Get Your War On, The Match, Cherrywood, How Late It Was How Late (Production Design), Requiem for Tesla, El Parasio, Big Love and Lipstick Traces with Austin Theatre Company the Rude Mechs.  

Emily Rebholz - Costume Design - Bio to come.

Jill BC DuBoff - Sound Design - Broadway includes: The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory…, Three Days of Rain (assoc),  Inherit The Wind (assoc).  Wit (National Tour). Off-Broadway includes: Atlantic, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, New Georges, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature, Clubbed Thumb, Culture Project, Actor’s Playhouse, New Group, Promenade, Urban Stages, Houseman, Fairbanks, Soho Rep, Adobe .  Regional: Minneapolis Children’s Theatre, Bay Street, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Longwarf, The Alley, Kennedy Center, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre, ATF. Television; “Comedy Central Presents: Slovin & Allen”, “NBC Late Fridays” Film: We Pedal Uphill: Radio: Contributing producer for PRI’s Studio 360; Nominations: Drama Desk, Henry Hewes. Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award.

Megan E. Carter - Dramaturg -- Prior to joining Women’s Project as the Associate Artistic Director in September 2006, Megan worked as a dramaturg and educator in Seattle and New York. Recent credits include Sand, transfigures, Corporate Carnival, and Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ (WP); Mac Wellman’s Harm’s Way, aTack and the AmerikAn trip, tik (newFangled theatReR); Burial at Thebes and Sincerity Forever (New Workshop Theatre). In 2005, Megan curated the Building Bridges New Play Festival, which included works by Stephanie Fleischmann, Sibyl Kempson, and Erin Courtney. She has also worked with ACT Theatre’s Young Playwrights Program and Intiman Theatre’s award-winning Living History program. Megan is a collaborator on Lynn M. Thomson’s musical work-in-progress, Parlor Song, which completed a residency at Tribeca PAC. She received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Brooklyn College.




Enchantment
 has been developed with the support of the Lark Play Development Center, The Playwrights Center, Minneapolis,  Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco, New Dramatists, and the Michener Center for Writers,  Austin.

The Playwright extends special thanks to Tina Howe, Lisa McNulty, Jason Baruch, and Seth Gelblum, and to Audrey Rosenberg and the Fire Department.


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