Director Wils Wilson and movement director Eddie Kay with their talented, 10-strong cast and supporting community actors communicate the harshness, the hopefulness, the vigour and desperation of youngsters fighting to find identity in urban, industrial uniformity.
They want to appeal to the creative community — actors, writers — and mine the best of that Hollywood ethos".
That would mean turning a suburban company that relies on community actors into a professional, or Actors Equity, house.
Staged outdoors, the productions employ Actors Equity members under guest artist contracts, community actors, student interns, professional directors, and set designers and technical personnel.
A troupe of five community actors, along with Jane Murphy, a composer and singer, perform two original "poetry plays," written by Ms. Melchior, that incorporate works by more than 35 Long Island poets.
Chekhov Out East With a cast of Actors Equity guest artists and community actors and using Emily Mann's 2000 English colloquial adaptation, the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton presents Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard".
