John Rando

 

Episodes:
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES: St. Francis Preaches to the Birds by David Ives
IVES SAID IT: Sure Thing, The Other Woman, The Philadelphia by David Ives
TWO HOLIDAYS AND A BLIZZARD: The Blizzard by David Ives
COSMIC CONNECTIONS: The End of Travel by David Ives

John Rando made his Broadway debut directing Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party, starring Henry Winkler and John Ritter. Other Broadway credits include Urinetown: The Musical (2002 Tony Award, Best Director and Outer Critics Circle Award), the 2006 Tony nominated musical The Wedding Singer, the revival of Herb Gardner’s A Thousand Clowns starring Tom Selleck, and Dance of the Vampires, starring Michael Crawford. For City Center’s Encores! series, John recently directed the highly-acclaimed concert version of On The Town. Also for Encores! he directed Irving Berlin and Moss Hart’s Face The Music, Of Thee I Sing, The Pajama Game, Do Re Mi and Strike up the Band. And for the Encores Summer Stars, he directed Damn Yankees. His current Off-Broadway production of The Toxic Avenger Musical won the 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for best Off-Broadway Musical. Rando achieved prominence in New York as director of the David Ives’ comedies: Mere Mortals (Primary Stages, John Houseman Theatre), Polish Joke (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Ancient History/English Made Simple (Primary Stages), as well as Lives of the Saints (Philadelphia Theatre Company and Berkshire Theatre Festival). Additional Off-Broadway credits include Pig Farm (The Roundabout Theatre), Bright Ideas (Manhattan Class Company), Peter Ackerman’s Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight (Promenade Theatre) and Comedy of Errors (The Acting Company). John has worked extensively in the regional theatre, including productions at The Old Globe Theatre, The Geffen Playhouse, and The Alley Theatre, among many others.

David Ives

 Episodes:
TWO HOLIDAYS AND A BLIZZARD: The Blizzard
IVES SAID IT: Sure Thing, The Other Woman, The Philadelphia 
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES: St. Frances Preaches to The Birds 
THE REAL ME: Mere Mortals 
ALL WELL AND GOOD: It’s All Good, The Goodness of Your Heart 
COSMIC CONNECTIONS: The End of Travel live at BRIC 

David Ives was recently represented on Broadway with his play Venus In Fur. He is otherwise perhaps best known for his evenings of one-act comedies, Lives of the Saints, All In The Timing (winner of the Outer Critics Circle Playwriting Award) and Time Flies. Other plays include New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza (winner of the Hull-Warriner Award); The Liar (adapted from Corneille’s comedy, and winner of the Charles MacArthur Award); The School for Lies (adapted from Molière’s The Misanthrope); The Heir Apparent (adapted from J-F. Regnard); Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain); Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; and Polish Joke. He has translated Feydeau’s A Flea In Her Ear, he has adapted 32 musicals for the Encores series, and is the author of three young-adult novels: Monsieur Eek, Scrib, and Voss. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow in playwriting and lives in New York City.

Heidi Schreck

Episode:
TWO HOLIDAYS AND A BLIZZARD: The Blizzard by David Ives

Heidi Schreck’s recent credits include The Madrid (MTC), How The World Began (Women’s Project), The Language Archive (Roundabout Theatre Company), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, 2010 Theatre World Award, Drama Desk and OBIE award for ensemble), Drum Waves (Two-Headed Calf, 2008 OBIE Award for performance), and Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Williamstown Theatre Festival). She has also worked at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, The Long Wharf, 13P, Clubbed Thumb, Bay Street Theatre, Target Margin, The Foundry, The Talking Band, and Actors Theatre of Louisville.  Her own plays have been produced at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Page73 and New Georges. TV/Film: “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order SVU,” Clutter, Hedda Gabler, Perfidia.

Alfredo Narciso

Episodes:
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME: West of Stupid by Cusi Cram
TWO HOLIDAYS AND A BLIZZARD: The Blizzard by David Ives
THE REAL ME: Mere Mortals by David Ives

Broadway: The Motherf***er With the Hat (LAByrinth/Public/Gerald Schoenfeld Theater), A Streetcar Named Desire(Roundabout/Studio 54) New York: The Ugly One (Soho Rep/Play Co.), After.(Partial Comfort), Thinner Than Water(LAByrinth), Measure For Measure; Chair (TFANA), Safe (Studio Dante), Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons), Ivo Van Hove’sMisanthrope (New York Theater Workshop), Microcrisis (Ma-Yi), Edgewise (Play Company/Page 73), among others. Regional: Art (Elliot Norton/IRNE nominations), Huntington (IRNE nomination), Two River, Long Wharf, HBO Comedy Arts Festival, Magic Theater, Sundance Theater Lab, among others.  Film/TV: Elliot Loves, Living & Dining, The Guys, “Blue Bloods”, “Unforgettable”, “Person of Interest”,  “Law & Order”, “L&O: CI”, “Ugly Betty”, among others. Recipient of the Charles Bowden award and member of LAByrinth, Ensemble Studio Theater and Partial Comfort.

Learn more at: www.alfredonarciso.com

Jesse Eisenberg

Episodes:
TWO HOLIDAYS AND A BLIZZARD: The Blizzard by David Ives
OFF MY CHEST: A Little Part of All of Us by Jesse Eisenberg
A DOG AND A CAT: The Final Interrogation of Ceaucescu’s Dog by Warren Leight

Jesse Eisenberg most recently wrote and starred in the play Asuncion at the Cherry Lane Theatre, for which he was nominated for a Drama League Award.  He has appeared in the films The Social Network (Oscar nomination), Zombieland, Adventureland (BAFTA nomination), The Squid and the Whale, and Roger Dodger.  He is also a contributing writer for McSweeney’s and his humor essays have appeared in Harper’s and The New York Times.  His play The Revisionist, which he starred in opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Daniel Oreskes, premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in spring 2013.