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The Gold was conceived and written by Dr. Philip Yosowitz over a five period, completed in 2000. In 2003, Philip teamed up with his daughter, Laura Yosowitz, as producer to develop the new work. Since that time, they have taken The Gold from a four hundred fifty page, handwritten score through two development readings, a demo recording and its first workshop production. The Gold now boasts a tremendous production team of accomplished professionals invested in making it the best show possible. Laura shares that, “the difficulty and complexity of mounting a show with topics this weighty and epic are enormous, but if it can be accomplished in such a way that will move and inspire thousands of audience members, it can truly be a work of theatre that makes a significant impact around the country and across the globe.” They are extremely grateful to the Boniuk Center for their partnership in producing The Gold at Miller Outdoor Theater. Together they are proud to dedicate this event to the memory of the Holocaust and to the creation of compassion and respect among people of all faiths. |
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Laura Yosowitz Laura holds a BA and MFA in Theatre Arts and is the founder and artistic director of Arts with an Impact, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to “Empowering Generations through the Arts.” Laura grew up in Houston where her primary love was competitive dancing in which she received numerous awards, including four-time national champion and third overall in the world. She also developed an avid love for theatre, which was naturally “next” upon completing her dance career. Since that time, Laura has participated in many worlds of theatre, including acting, singing, dancing, choreographing, directing and producing. The first show she produced was a two-woman Shakespearean piece called Women with Will, which she co-created and starred in. Other favorite credits include Measure for Measure, A Little Night Music, Oleanna, Chess, and Damn Yankees. Laura studied producing under the Tony Award winning producer, Stuart Ostrow. In association with Stuart Ostrow’s Musical Theatre Lab, Laura produced two original works that premiered at the Hobby Center in Houston, one based on the novel, “The Life of Pi”, and the other based on a famous Jewish short story titled “Bronx Bashert.” |
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Philip Yosowitz Philip Yosowitz is a Houston surgeon by day and composer by night. Phil grew up with his Czech-born immigrant father and Hungarian-Romanian mother in Cleveland, Ohio. He completed his medical training at UCLA and at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, D.C., and began his private practice in Houston, TX where he now resides. While Dr. Yosowitz's love for composing began in childhood, The Gold is his first completed musical theatre work. The story of The Gold was inspired by his love of athletics and his childhood memories of living with family members who were Holocaust survivors that had recently immigrated to the United States. Dr. Yosowitz is a lover of history and is currently writing a musical based on Joan of Arc. |
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Andrea Lepcio (Book Writer) Andrea Lepcio's Looking for the Pony was named an NEA Outstanding New American Play finalist. It will be presented in a “Rolling World Premiere” at Vital Theatre Company in New York City and Synchronicity Performance Group in Atlanta in 2009. Her plays have been presented at HERE, Chashama, Epiphany Theater, NewShoe, Shalimar Productions, Three Chicks Theatre, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and Women's Project in NY; and at Trustus Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Bloody Unicorn and Provincetown Theatre Company, regionally. She is a member of the New Perspective Women's Work Project Lab, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop and alumnus of the Lark Playwrights’ Workshop and Women’s Project Lab. Her screenplay, A September Spring, won the Sloan Foundation Dramatic Writing Award. A two-time finalist for the Heideman Award, her work has been published by New York Theatre Experience, Estrogenius, lichen and Smith & Kraus. She is the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program Director and is a visiting faculty member in the Graduate Dramatic Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon. Education: M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University; M.B.A. UC Berkeley; B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic. |
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Steven Jamail Steven Jamail recently premiered his concert feature Vote or Die with collaborator Ryann Ferguson at the Zipper Factory Theater in New York featuring Andrew Keenan –Bolger, Allison Case and Metropolitan Opera star, Sasha Cooke. He has also premiered two works under the direction of Tony award winning producer, Stuart Ostrow at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, and his musical Byzantium as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. Regionally, has worked with the Reprise! Series and the record label Fynsworth Alley in Los Angeles; Theater Under the Stars in Houston; and served four seasons as resident musical director/conductor with the Galveston Island Outdoor Musicals. He has performed onstage with jazz legend Chick Corea, pianist/composer John Tesh, and recently conducted A Tribute to Chita Rivera featuring Bebe Neuwirth, Linda Eder, Christine Ebersole and Rosie O’Donnell. He is currently working on a new musical, Vanity Fells, with director/playwright Cailín Heffernan. Steven currently serves as the music director for Rosie O'Donnel's foundation, Rosie's Broadway Kids in New York City. Steven holds a degree in music composition from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. |
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Cailín
Heffernan (Director) Cailín Heffernan has directed and/or choreographed Off-Broadway as well as regionally throughout the U.S. She has directed new plays including works by Larry Kirwan, Dan Dietz and Mary Fengar Gail; classical plays ranging from Shakespeare & Dryden to Eugene O’Neill & Tennessee Willams; comedies including Stones In His Pockets & musicals including Byzantium for the Fringe Festival at the Village Gate & Suddenly Summer for NYMF at the Women’s Project. As Resident Director of Texas Family Musicals, she has directed Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific, Hello Dolly!, Barnum & Brigadoon. Her work for universities include NYU, Pace & St. Peter’s. Cailín is a member of the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers, the League of Professional Theatre Women, as well as the acting unions. She is the founding Artistic Director of Manhattan Dance-Theater (1984-2002), a theater & dance company developing works containing strong linear story-telling elements. She is book writer for two musicals: Loveless Texas with music/lyrics by Henry Aronson, which has a projected 2009 production, slated in Texas; and Vanity Fells with music/lyrics by Steven Jamail. Theatres worked at include: New Amsterdam Theatre, St. Lukes, The Folksbiene, Jewish Repertory, Lucille Lortel, The Naked Angels, Capital Repertory, Penguin Repertory, New Jersey Repertory, Bay Street & Texas Family Musicals. |
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Kevin Rigdon (Scenic and Lighting Design) Mr. Rigdon is a scenic, lighting, and costume designer whose credits include the Broadway productions of The Old Neighborhood; Speed-the-Plow; Glengarry Glen Ross; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Buried Child; The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Grapes of Wrath; The Caretaker. London credits include Orphans (West End); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Barbican); American Buffalo (Donmar Warehouse); Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (Old Vic); Speed-the-Plow and The Grapes of Wrath (National). Off-Broadway credits include: American Buffalo; Oleanna; Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love; Orphans, Landscape of the Body; True West; Balm in Gilead; Road; I Can’t Remember. As the resident designer for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre from 1976 to 1997 he designed the scenery, costumes, and lighting for more than 110 productions. Currently Mr. Rigdon is the Associate Director/Design for the Alley Theatre where he has designed 50 productions. Other credits include productions for The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Virginia Museum Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival,The Hartford Stage, The Dallas Theatre Center, The Remains Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Ford's Theatre, The Festival of Perth, The Festival of Sydney, The Cameri Theatre of Tel-Aviv. Mr. Rigdon’s awards include two Tony Award nominations, seven Joseph Jefferson Awards, two American Theatre Wing Design Awards, the Drama-Logue Award and a Special Honorary Mention from the Prague Quadrennial Scenography Exhibition for his participation in the American exhibit. Mr. Rigdon is a Professor at the University of Houston where he teaches scenic and lighting design and is the coordinator of the design, management and technology program. |
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Trish Rigdon (Costume Design) Costume Design credits include: Theatre Royal Bath/Peter Hall Company national tour of The Importance of Being Earnest with Lynn Redgrave, West End (Waiting for Godot and You Never Can Tell), and The Peter Hall Company Season at Theatre Royal Bath (Measure for Measure, Habeas Corpus, Miss Julie, Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Galileo’s Daughter, and Don Juan). Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Crime and Punishment), Round House Theatre (Lord of the Flies). Other theatre credits include, as Associate Producer/Director: The Peter Hall Company Season at Theatre Royal Bath 2004, 2005, 2006, The Importance of Being Earnest (National Tour), and As You Like It (National Tour 2004, 2003). Credits as Director include: upcoming Off-Broadway (Breakfast at Eight); Express Theatre, Houston (La Llorona); Rice University, Houston (Hecuba, True West, No Exit, The Laramie Project, Antigone and Spike Heels). She has designed lighting for Chrysalis Dance Company and City Dance Company and worked as an Assistant Lighting Designer on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, The Alley Theatre, Houston, and Dallas Theatre Center. Ms. Rigdon received an MFA from University of Houston and subsequently served as the Director of Theatre at Rice University 2004 – 2007, Associate Director of Theatre also at Rice 2000 – 2004 before returning to University of Houston School of Theatre & Dance to teach in the Graduate Program. Ms. Rigdon is a member of USA 829. |
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Eva De
La Cruz (Production Manager) Eva has been active in the Houston theatre scene in many different capacities for several years. She is currently the Managing Director of the newly-formed Classical Theatre Company. Since 2006, she has also been the Associate Producer for the annual Houston Shakespeare Festival and Children’s Theatre Festival. Eva received her BA in Theatre from the University of Houston, where she served as the Head of Publicity for 3 years, and as Assistant Production Manager immediately following her graduation. Eva has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2005, and has worked as a stage manager for over 25 local productions at several theatres, including: Stages Repertory Theatre, Main Street Theater, HITS Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Festival, Talento Bilingue de Houston, and the University of Houston. |
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