TWELVE SEASONS OF CARNEGIE MELLON’S
“SHOWCASE OF NEW PLAYS”
Artistic Director/ FRANK GAGLIANO
(1987-1998)
FIRST SEASON
(Summer, 1987)
(Studio Theatre)
“Blood Of The Panther”
Playwright, Michael Winks
Director: Mary G. Guaraldi
“The Dykes Of Dunkirk”
Playwright, Bill McCardell
Director: Scott T. Cummings
“From The Bodoni County
Songbook Anthology”
Original text and lyrics: Frank Gagliano
Music: Claibe Richardson
Director: Larry Arrick
Music Director: Keith Lockhart
“Classic Mistakes”
Playwright: Anthony McKay
Director: Anthony McKay
and
“A Thousand Miles of Coleslaw”
Playwright: Dennis Danziger
Director: Brook Garrett
SECOND SEASON
(Summer, 1988)
(Studio Theatre)
“A Credit To The Family”
Playwright: Anthony McKay
Director: Rick Davis
“Intensive Care”
Playwright: Margaret Kelso
Director: Mary Guaraldi
“Brummagem”
Playwright: Ann Harson
Director: Barbara MacKenzie-Wood
“Pretty Ugly”
Playwright: Bill McCardell
Director: Scott T. Cummings
THIRD SEASON
(Summer, 1989
(Kresge and Studio Theatres)
“Love And Murder” (Kresge)
Playwright: Arthur Giron
Director: Scott T. Cummings
“The Break” (Studio)
Playwright Jay B. MacNamee
Director: Mary Guaraldi
“Congo Square” (Kresge)
Original book and lyrics: Frank Gagliano
Music: Claibe Richardson
Director: Daisy Prince
“Shooting Gallery” (Studio)
Playwright: Pamela Blake
Director: Elisabeth Orion
“Devious Means” (Kresge)
Playwright: Bruce Graham
Director: Michelle Macau
“Rushmore”
Playwright: Anna Theresa Cascio
Director: Rick Davis
“In Flight” (Kresge)
Playwright: Robert Gordon
Director: Jeanine Howe
“Hostages” (Studio)
Playwright: Joseph L. Guindi
Bob Hoffman
FOURTH SEASON
(Summer, 1990)
(Kresge and Studio Theaters)
“The Duck Sisters” (Kresge)
Playwright: Sheldon Rosen
Director: Michelle Macau
“The Closer” (Studio)
Playwright: Willy Holtzman
Director: Brian Kulick
“Spinning Into Blue” (Kresge)
Playwright: Sally Nemeth
Director: Rick Davis
“Steel Kiss” (Studio: Canadian Slot)
Playwright Robin Fulford
Director: Jed Allen Harris
“The Gravity Of Honey” (Kresge)
Playwright: Bruce E. Rodgers
Director: Brian Kulick
“The Battle of Shallowford” (Studio)
Playwright: Ed Simpson
Director: Mary Guaraldi
“Accelerando” (Kresge)
Playwright: Lisa Loomer
Director: Jed Allen Harris
“Connemara Dreaming” (Studio)
Playwright: Jack Gilhooley
Director: Bob Hoffman
FIFTH SEASON
(Summer, 1991)
(Kresge and Studio Theaters)
“Static” (Kresge)
Playwright: Ben Siegler
Director: Jim Niesen
“Haircut” (Studio)
Playwright: James McLure
Director: Larry John Meyers
“Personal Effects” (Kresge)
Playwright: Douglas Post
Director: Rick Davis
“Generations” (Studio)
Playwright: Glyn Jones
Director: Michele Macau
“The King Of King Of Prussia” (Kresge)
Playwright: William Burrison
Director: Jeanine Howe
“Four Men From Annapolis” (Studio)
Playwright: Ron Wood
Director: David Shookhoff
“Early Sarah, Late Bernhardt” (Kresge)
Playwright: Jose Verona
Director: Michael Montel
“Writing With Our Feet” (Studio: Canadian slot)
Playwright: Dave Carley
Director: Jed Allen Harris
SIXTH SEASON
(Summer, 1992)
(Kresge and Studio Theaters)
“What Comes To Those Who Wait” (Kresge)
Playwright: Jean-Marie Besset
Director: Michael Montel
“To My Chagrin” (Studio)
Playwright: Ben Siegler
Director: Geoffrey Hitch
“The Rehearsal” (Kresge: Canadian Slot)
Playwright: Dominic Champagne
Director: Mladen Kiselov (Translater: Shelley Tepperman)
“Security” (Studio)
Playwright: Barbara Garson
Directed by Barbara MacKenzie-Wood
“Joined At The Head” (Kresge)
Playwright: Catherine Butterfield
Director: Rick Davis
“Bodies In The Garden” (Studio)
Playwright: Gary Webster
Director: Jed Allen Harris
“Monte Carlo” (Kresge)
Playwright: Lydia Stryk
Directed: Michelle Macau
“The Living” (Studio)
Playwright: Anthony Clarvoe
Director: Brian Kulick
“Punch and Judy” (Kresge)
Playwright: Bill Svanoe
Director: Sherry Landrum
SEVENTH SEASON
(Summer, 1993)
(Kresge and Studio Theatres)
“Marie Hasparren” (Kresge)
Playwright: Jean-Marie Besset
Director: Brian Kulick
“Watbanaland” (Kresge)
Playwright: Doug Wright
Director: Christopher Ashley
“Children” (Kresge: Canadian Slot)
Playwright: Lawrence Jeffrey
Director: Jed Allen Harris
“What Are Tuesdays Like?” (Kresge)
Playwright: Victor Bumbalo
Director: Marc Masterson
“Graffiti” (Kresge)
Playwright: Nilo Cruz
Director: Mladen Kiselov
“The Boundary” (Studio)
Playwright-In-Residence: Tammy Ryan
Director-in-Residence: Seth Gordon
EIGHTH SEASON
(Summer, 1994)
(Kresge and Studio Theatre)
“Hotel Europa” (Kresge)
Playwright: Howard Marc Solomon
Director: Mladen Kiselov
“Confessions of a Plumber” (Kresge)
Playwright: Dennis Kennedy
Director: Michael Montel
“F-64” (Kresge)
Playwright: Christina de Lancie
Director: Rick Davis
“Hunters of the Soul” (Kresge)
Playwright: Marion Isaac McClinton
Director: Claude Purdy
“Three in the Back, Two in the Head” (Kresge: (Canadian Slot)
Playwright: Jason Sherman
Director: Brian Kulick
“The Buckland Canticle” (Studio)
Playwright-In-Residence: Brian Silberman
Director: Jed Allen Harris
NINTH SEASON
(Summer, 1995)
(Kresge and Studio Theatre)
“Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons” (Kresge: (Canadian Slot)
Playwright: Wajdi Mouawad
Director: Michael Montel
“Once in Elysium” (Kresge)
Playwright: David Grimm
Director: Gregory Lehane
“The Farewell Concert of Irene and Vernon Palazzo” (Kresge)
Playwright: Frank Gagliano
Composer: Bill Young
Director: Michael Montel
“The Lodger” (Kresge)
Playwright: Simon Burke
Director: Stephen Bennett
“Sabina” (Kresge)
Playwright: Willy Holtzman
Director: Melia Bensussen
“Marian Visions” (Studio)
Monday Night Readings
Playwright: Ted Hoover
Director: Paul Zablocki
“When Lucy Ran Away” (Studio)
Monday Night Readings
Playwright: Stanton Wood
Director: Paul Zablocki
“Shepherd’s Bush” (Studio)
Monday Night Readings
Playwright: Scott C. Sickles
Director: Paul Zablocki
“Sacred Cows” (Studio)
Monday Night Readings
Playwright: Joanna Downey
Director: Paul Zablocki
TENTH SEASON
(Summer, 1996)
(Kresge and Studio Theatre)
“Playback” (Kresge)
Playwright: Charlie Peters
Director: Leslie Ferreira
“The Last American Convertible” (Kresge)
Playwright: Donna DeMatteo
Director: Glenn Paris
“Down the Drain” (Kresge)
Playwright: Stanton Wood
Director: Paul Zablocki
“Shepherd’s Bush” (Kresge)
Playwright: Scott C. Sickles
Director: Seth Gordon
“A View From The Roof” (Kresge: Canadian Slot)
Playwright: Dave Carley
Director: Michael Waller
“Dimly Perceived Threats To The System” (Kresge)
Playwright: Jon Klein
Director: Peter Frisch
“Raymond’s Hero” (Studio)
Monday Night Reading
Playwright: Steve Gaydos
Director: Micki Selvitella
“The Last Bridge” (Studio)
Monday Night Reading
Playwright: Melissa Martin
Director: Denise Pullen
“Two Tribes” (Studio)
Monday Night Readings
Playwright: Steve Hayworth
Director: Micki Selvitella
“Vegetable Love” (Studio)
Monday Night Readings
Playwright: Tammy Ryan
Director: Denise Pullen
“American Haiku” (Studio)
Monday Night Readings
Playwright: Braden Phillips
Director: Micki Selvitella
ELEVENTH SEASON
(Summer, 1997)
(Kresge and Studio Theaters)
“Two Tribes” (Kresge)
Playwright: Steve Haworth
Director: Dan Green
“Last Lists Of My Mad Mother” (Kresge)
Playwright: Julie Jensen
Director: Marc Masterson
“Picasso Does My Maps” (Kresge)
Playwright: Carter W. Lewis
Director: Sara Chazen
“The Hole” (Kresge Theatre)
Playwright: Wendy Hammond
Director: Seth Gordon
“My Chekhov Light” (Studio)
Monday Night Reading
Playwright: Frank Gagliano
Reading performance by Frank Gagliano
“Enquiring Minds” (Studio)
Monday Night Reading
Playwright: Colin Doty
“Saloon” (Studio)
Playwright: Mickey Kessler
Director: Jonathon Rest
“The Chimes of War” (Studio)
Playwright: J.R. Hall
Director: Denise Pullen
“Leap Before You Look” (Studio)
Playwright/Lyricist: Steve Gaydos
Music: Scott Cohen
Director: Bruce Wallace Hostetler
TWELFTH SEASON
(Summer, 1998)
(Kresge Theatre)
July 3, 4, 5
ELSIE’S BOTTOM, by Stanton Wood;
Directed by Paul Zablocki
July 17, 18, 19
FOUR, by Christopher Shinn;
Directed by Jed Allen Harris
July 24, 25, 26
TWO SHIPS PASSING, by Dave Carley;
Directed by Sally Han
July 31/ August 1, 2
THE CHOSEN, Adaptation Posner/Potok;
Directed by Marc Masterson
(The Studio Series)
JULY 5
EATING DIRT, BY Stanton Wood
Directed by Daniella Topol
JULY 10, 11, 12, 13
A GAGLIANO RETROSPECTIVE
(Four consecutive evenings of the plays of Showcase Artistic Director Frank Gagliano--mostly from the 1960’s--when Frank was part of the Off-Broadway movement.) Directed by Bruce Wallace Hostetler
July 10/ FATHER UXBRIDGE WANTS TO MARRY
JULY 11/BIG SUR
JULY 12/ THE TOTAL IMMERSION OF MADELEINE FAVORINI
JULY 13/ (double bill) CONERICO WAS HERE TO STAY & MY CHEKHOV LIGHT
JULY 20
MIDNIGHT MADNESS, by Dave Carley
JULY 27
ANOTHER ROUND, by J. Adam Russell, Directed by Denise Pullen