Nick Newlin: Nick Newlin has been a performer, writer and arts educator for
international audiences for 30 years. Since 1996, he has conducted an annual
Play Directing residency affiliated with the
Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.
Nick has a BA from Harvard University with Honors 1982
and an MA in Theater from The University of Maryland
with an emphasis on Play Directing. Mr. Newlin now has 20 plays
in The 30-Minute Shakespeare series, plus
The 30-Minute Shakespeare Anthology: 18 Student Scenes with Monologues.
In 2017 Mr. Newlin collaborated with Emmy Award winning The Simpsons writer
Mike Reiss on a new play "Shakespeare's Worst", which had its world premiere at
Bristol Shakespeare Festival in the UK in 2017. Shakespeare's Worst
played in Summer 2018 at Utah Shakespeare Festival. Summer 2019 Shakespeare's Worst
will be produced by Capital Fringe Festival at Washington DC's Arena Stage.
The Nicolo Whimsey Show has performed at The Smithsonian's Discovery Theatre
where they were honored with Legacy Artist award,
The National Theatre in Washington, DC, and the White House
HEINER MÜLLER is widely regarded as the most important German-language playwright since Bertold Brecht. His Hamletmachine is considered one of the great plays of the end of the twentieth century. Müllers´s plays are not merely adapted translations but texts that follow the narrative of the originals only to a degree and are new plays in their own right.
Carl Weber is a director and translator who early in his career worked as an assistant director to Bertolt Brecht and actor at the Berliner Ensemble. He has directed plays in major theatres in the U.S., Europe and Canada. Weber has also translated the work of Peter Handke, Franz Xaver Kroetz and several PAJ Publications titles by Heiner Müller, including Hamletmachine and Other Texts for the Stage. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University.
Paul David Young is a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. His plays have been produced at MoMA PS1, Marlborough Gallery, the Living Theatre, Lion Theatre, Kraine Theater, the Red Room, and at the Kaffileikhusid (Reykjavik). A Fulbright Scholar in Germany, he graduated from Yale College, Columbia Law School, and New School for Drama. His critically acclaimed In the Summer Pavilion is being made into a feature film. He is a Contributing Editor at PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art and writes for Art in America.
