August 2024 Newsletter: Announcing AJT's Fall and Winter Programming

Looking ahead, please mark your calendars.

In This Edition: We look ahead to mark programming occurring from August to December!

 REMINDER:

AJT Member Monthly Meet-Up for August! 

Wednesday, August 7th

4 pm PT/ 7pm ET

A chance for Members to connect online, virtual space with the option of break-out rooms. 

About: Some months will be free-form, and members can bring topics to talk about; other months this is affinity space based on role in industry.

AUGUST'S GATHERING IS INFORMAL.

A SPACE TO CONNECT AND BEGIN.

For current members only.

Not a member yet / anymore? Register below.

Future Member Meet-Ups:

Wednesday, October 16th,

7 pm EST / 4 pm PST

Thursday, December 12th,

7 pm EST/ 4 pm PST 

Zoom Links Will Become Available as we draw closer to each session in the Members Area of our Website 

 August's PlayMakers Lab is just around

the corner:

Sunday, August 25th Lab #1

4-6 pm EST/ 1-3 pm PST

Featuring our Playwrights Hank Kimmel and Malka Wallick.

Members, Register to attend August here:

Check Out Bios and Headshots For All Our PlayMakers!

You may still register to be an Actor or an Observer. Doing so is reserved for Members only, so any non-members who register the form will be prompted to join as a Member. 

ASK A CASTING DIRECTOR

with DARYL EISENBERG

in conversation with Ari Roth

on Zoom, Wednesday, September 18th
10am PT/ 1pm ET/ 8pm Israel Time.

Bring your Casting Director questions! How do you use a casting director? Casting Jewish artists, casting for Jewish companies- bring questions! Can your small company/production see a cost savings with a casting director? What value does a casting director bring? How does my pool of actors change with a casting director? Joining Daryl is Voices Festival Productions leader Ari Roth.

FREE to AJT Members, $18 for non-members

DARYL EISENBERG (she/her) is a proud Jewish Casting Director and Owner of Eisenberg Casting- an Artios-nominated full-service casting office. Eisenberg Casting is a fast-paced, bi-coastal casting office with extensive experience casting for Broadway, Off-Broadway, Regional Theater, National Tours, Film, TV, Commercials, Voiceover, and New Media. Daryl Eisenberg creates a comfortable space for actors to take risks and re-imagine their potential as artists in a progressing industry. Eisenberg Casting connects talent to clients with thoughtfulness and vision while maintaining an efficient and enjoyable process for the artists on both sides of the table. Daryl has covered nearly all the major and minor markets coast-to-coast and her films have played major festivals such as Sundance, Venice, Tribeca, TIFF, SXSW, San Diego, Cleveland, Atlanta, Soho, and have also received distribution theatrically and streaming. Daryl is the chair of the Somerset County Film Commission and is a former Watchung Borough Councilmember. She was awarded the 2021 Eleanor Roosevelt Volunteer Service Award by the Somerset County Federation of Democratic Women. Daryl was listed in the Insider 100: Millennial Power List and is a recipient of the Somerset County Business Partnership Top 40 Under 40 Award. Daryl has taught at schools and institutions around the country. She holds a BFA from Tisch School of The Arts/New York University and Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Member of Casting Society of America. @EBCastingCo. www.ebcastingco.com

ARI ROTH  is a producer, playwright, dramaturg, educator, songwriter, and child of Holocaust refugees. He served as Artistic Director of Theater J from 1997 to 2014 and established Mosaic Theater Company of DC in late December of 2014 as its Founding Artistic Director. 

THE LAST YIDDISH SPEAKER 

-In Conversation with Laufer, Rozin, and Willis

September 30th, 7 pm EST /4 pm PST

on Zoom, Free and Open To All

In Conversation with Playwright/ Director Deborah Zoe Laufer, Artistic Director of InterAct Theater Company Seth Rozin & Artistic Director of Oregon Contemporary Theatre Craig Willis 

DEBORAH ZOE LAUFER'S plays have been produced at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse, Geva, The Humana Festival, Everyman, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and hundreds of other theaters around the world. Plays include Be Here Now, End Days, Rooted, Informed Consent (NYTimes critic’s pick), Leveling Up, Out of Sterno, The Last Schwartz, Sirens, Meta, The Three Sisters of Weehawken, Fortune, dozens of short plays, and the musicals, Window Treatment, and By Any Other Name, written with composer, Daniel Green.
Deb is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, the Lilly Award, The ATCA Steinberg citation, and grants and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Edgerton Foundation, The National New Play Network, and the Lincoln Center Foundation. Her work has been developed by The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Theatre Lab, PlayPenn, The Cherry Lane Alternative, The Missoula Colony, LOCAL Theatre, Asolo Rep, The Baltic Playwrights Conference, and more. Her plays are published or recorded by Concord/Samuel French, Smith and Kraus, Playscripts, LA Theatreworks, and Premieres. She is a graduate of Juilliard, an alumna of the BMI Lehman Engel Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a member of Honor Roll, and a Dramatists Guild Council member.  DEBORAHZOELAUFER.com

SETH ROZIN (Producing Artistic Director) co-founded InterAct in Philadelphia in 1988. Under his leadership, InterAct has championed the development and production of new and contemporary plays that grapple with pressing, complex and sometimes controversial issues of our time, while garnering critical acclaim and numerous awards for the quality of its productions and national recognition for its commitment to diverse voices and ideas. Seth has directed over 60 productions for InterAct, including THE LAST PARADE (2023), EUREKA DAY (2019), THE GREAT LEAP (2019), HOW TO USE A KNIFE (nominated for seven 2017 Barrymore Awards, including Outstanding Overall Production), THE NETHER (nominated for three 2016 Barrymore Awards, including Outstanding Overall Production), THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY (cited for Best Director by Philadelphia Weekly in 2009), PERMANENT COLLECTION (nominated for four 2003 Barrymore Awards, including Outstanding Overall Production), IT’S ALL TRUE (nominated for five 2001 Barrymore Awards, including Outstanding Overall Production), LEBENSRAUM (nominated for six 1999 Barrymore Awards, winner of Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Overall Production, named one of the fifteen Best Productions of the decade by the Philadelphia Inquirer) and 6221 (named one of the Best Productions of 1993 and one of the fifteen Best Productions of the decade by the Philadelphia Inquirer). Seth is the author of numerous plays, including MEN OF STONE, MISSING LINK, BLACK GOLD, TWO JEWS WALK INTO A WAR…, THE THREE CHRISTS OF MANHATTAN, HUMAN RITES and SETTLEMENTS, which have been produced at 28 theatres across the country and in Australia. He is also the author of several musicals, including A PASSING WIND, which was featured in the inaugural Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts at the Kimmel Center in 2011. Seth is the recipient of two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the National New Play Network’s 2007 Smith Prize, a commission from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and two Barrymore Award nominations. He co-founded Philadelphia Scenic Works, a nonprofit community-based scenic fabrication shop, in 2016, MusiCoLab, dedicated to the development of new musical theatre works, in 2018.  Seth has twice served as President of the Board of National New Play Network, as well as Philadelphia Artists Collective, Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and New Paradise Laboratories.

CRAIG WILLIS (Producing Artistic Director) has been at the helm of Oregon Contemporary Theatre since 2003. Craig has an MFA in Directing and a PhD in Dramatic Literature/Theory from the University of Oregon. In 2008, he received an Oregon Arts Commission fellowship to train with Anne Bogart and SITI Company. Craig’s OCT directing credits include: Jonathan Tolins's Buyer & Cellar, Jen Silverman's The Roommate, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's Fun Home, David Ives's Venus in Fur, Steve Yockey's Blackberry Winter, Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird, Nathan Alan Davis's Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, Nina Raine’s Tribes, Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s Next To Normal, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty’s Avenue Q, Geoffrey Nauffts’s Next Fall, Itamar Moses’s The Four of Us, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R & J, Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, David Auburn’s Proof and Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. His scenic designs for OCT include: The Flick, Becky’s New Car, The Seagull, Ordinary Days and I Am My Own Wife.

IN-PERSON EVENT!

ON THE BIMAH, LIVE PODCAST!

Tuesday, November 19th, 7:30 pm

Philadelphia: Christ Church Neighborhood House, 20 N American Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Ticketed Event. Save The Date and Stay Tuned For Further Details!

THEATREMACHER 2024 SHOWCASE

SAVE THE DATE!

Sunday, November 3rd,

(tentatively 8 pm EST/ 5 pm PST)

On Zoom!

Free and Open for All To Watch! Save The Date. Zoom Registration Link will be available soon on our Programs Page!

AJT ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP  MEETING

Sunday, December 8th,

4 pm EST / 1 pm PST

ON ZOOM

Save the date.

Link For Registration Found in the Members Area of our Website 

Hey there, member actors! Member Theatres are seeking actors to fill roles throughout the country and internationally on a regular basis. Please be sure to check our Casting Calls "virtual callboard" on a regular basis. 

Reminder: Our Member Bulletin Board has now transitioned to the ListServ. Please Share to our ListServ, found in our Members Area, to share your updates!