REVIEWERS' BIOS

KEVIN BROFSKY

ALYN HUNTER

LOUIS LOPARDI


KEVIN BROFSKY - Concentrating on his playwriting, last year he received the Samuel French Award for his one-act Strawberry Fields to be published this spring. He has directed S.O.S. at the Samuel Beckett Theater, many plays by Neil Simon and Bernard Slade, as well as plays by many of his contemporaries.

ALYN HUNTER - Has been a resident director with several NYC and regional groups, recently directing Veronica's Room, The Odd Couple, The Taming of The Shrew, and Cabaret. He is a stage combat coach, and may also be seen (or heard) in many local and regional commercials and industrial training films.

LOUIS LOPARDI - Currently Artistic Director for Special Projects with New Village Productions, Louis is a Resident Director with Sage Theatre Company, where his own play The Greatest Show On Earth has received critical acclaim. His original music for Antigone has won a "Frankie" - Off-Broadway's newest award. His recent docu-drama The Strange Case Of Rudolf Hess is part I of the Purgatory Project's ongoing study of defining humanity, continued in the critically acclaimed Part II: A Short Safari Through Purgatory (Best Original Play - 2001). He is the composer & librettist of a 1-act opera The Return, which also deals with the subject.

As a Director on the regional circuit he has directed such staples as Twelfth Night, Sylvia, Threepenny Opera, Wozzeck, Equus, Die Fledermaus, as well as early Fassbinder screenplays and Dutch, German, and Russian theatre & opera, and has received an "Outstanding Achievement" award two years in a row for his Off-Broadway work. Spotlight Productions has just presented a staged reading of his new full length play: BOLT - The Frankenstein Journals. Louis is an Associate of the Society of Stage Directors & Choreographers. You are welcome to Visit the Louis personal web site.