Ari Roth (Artistic Director) is entering his 11th season as artistic director where he has produced over 65 productions, including 24 world premieres. Also a playwright, Mr. Roth has staged seven of his plays at Theater J including Still Waiting (companion to Waiting for Lefty); Goodnight Irene (first produced at The Performance Network); Life In Refusal; Love & Yearning in the Not-for-Profits; a repertory production of Born Guilty, based on the book by Peter Sichrovsky (first produced at Arena Stage, directed by Zelda Fichandler), together with its sequel, Peter and the Wolf (which ran in rep last season at Jewish Theater of the South); as well as his play with music, Oh, The Innocents (first produced at Geva Theatre, directed by Joe Mantello). His plays have been nominated for five Helen Hayes Awards, including Best Resident Production and two Charles A. MacArthur Awards. He is a 1998 and 2003 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts playwriting grant; three-time winner of the Helen Eisner Award, two-time winner of the Avery Hopwood, four-time recipient of commissions from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and recipient of the Mertyl Wreath Award from Hadassah.
About Theater J
Hailed by The New York Times as “The Premier Theater for Premieres,” Theater J has emerged as one of the most distinctive, progressive and respected Jewish theaters on the national and international scene. A program of the Washington DC Jewish Community Center, Theater J works in collaboration with the four other components of the Washington DCJCC’s Morris Cafritz Center for the Arts, which include the Washington Jewish Film Festival and Screening Room, the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, the Program in Literature, Music and Dance, and Nextbook.
Theater J produces thought-provoking, publicly engaged, personal, passionate and entertaining plays and musicals that celebrate the distinctive urban voice and social vision that are part of the Jewish cultural legacy. Acclaimed as one of the nation’s premiere playwrights theaters, Theater J is a nurturing home for the development and production of new work by major writers and emerging artists exploring many of the pressing moral and political issues of our time. Dedicated above all to a pursuit of artistic excellence, Theater J takes its dialogues beyond the stage, offering an array of innovative public discussion forums and outreach programs which explore the theatrical, psychological and social elements of our art. We frequently partner with those of other faiths and communities, stressing the importance of interchange among a great variety of people wishing to take part in frank, humane conversations about conflict and culture.
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Outed by Bobby! Much too big a picture and much too old a bio, but it's copied off our own dang website so I should maybe pay attention to these things!
It's nice to read of so many coming back to Hyde Park in June and I wish I could be there ALL weekend.
I've got our own theater's outdoor fundraiser that Saturday night at 6 so I'd have to leave the U-Hugh picnic Saturday just after it started, which would be stupid. A Friday night pop-in and closing down the bar at Jimmy's is possible but highly unlikely--who needs to hear of our family travel weary blues?.... We're in Chicago the week before for bar-mitzvah; tis the time in our lives where we're going to these kind of things way too much, and not having time for friends at reunions. But trying to work something out... thanks to Bob all the good communicative work on behalf of our class. And good thoughts to all of us at Hyde Park becomes its own character in the national political debates -- David Brooks of the NY Times (who had his kids in the same school as my daughter for about 8 years) lambasts Hyde Park as liberal bastion bested only by Berkeley and the Upper West for its incendiary left-winger culture. It's an interesting time to hail from them parts, no? And a pretty revealing campaign as to how far we have and haven't come. We should talk about that. How bout Friday night a Jimmy's?
PS. Can I edit that bio and all that mission statement stuff?
PPS. Life in DC is good. Our daughter Isabel is a freshman at Oberlin, doing choreography, and as a safe/lucrative backup, leavening that with a double major in comparative literature. She just wants to be rich like her dad.
Sophie, our graduating 8th grader, plays a mean drum set and sings Steve Miller's The Joker and Van Morrison's Tupelo Honey in the City Collegiate Public Charter School Jazz Band. Both great girls.
Be well, all.
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