Daniel Gidron recently directed Master Class at Shakespeare & Company and Absurd Person Singular, The How and the Why, and Photograph 51 for The Nora Theatre Company, as well as the immensely popular collaboration between The Nora and Underground Railway Theater, Arabian Nights (2011 IRNE Award, Best Director of a Drama). At Central Square Theater, he has also directed the world premiere of Silver Spoon by Amy Merrill and Si Kahn, Hysteria, The Caretaker, The Lady With All The Answers, The Cherry Orchard in a world premiere translation by George Malko, and We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! for The Nora. An IRNE Award nominee for Best Director of a Drama for the company’s 2007 production of Buried Child, Mr. Gidron has directed 17 other productions for The Nora, including The Unexpected Man, How I Got That Story, Richard McElvain’s world premiere adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, Smelling a Rat, The Countess, Full Gallop, and Mere Mortals, among others. He has also directed for many other companies such as The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Tremont Theatre, Opera Boston, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Gloucester Stage, and La Mama ETC. In Israel, where he was born, he has directed at Habimah National Theater, Haifa Municipal Theatre, Arab Theatre, Beit Lessin, Dror Theatre, and Beersheva Municipal Theatre. He has taught at Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Brandeis University. He currently teaches at UMass Boston. Other productions include The Chosen, Or, Groundswell, and November (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (New Repertory Theatre); The Consul at Opera Boston; and Golda’s Balcony (Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards, Best Solo Performance, Shakespeare & Company).
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Fatimah Mateen, a senior at Emerson College, studying stage and production management, recently worked with The Nora as a production assistant on Absurd Person Signular. Other professional credits include The Civilians Present: Home (ArtsEmerson, ASM) and Durang/Durang (Bad Habit Productions, ASM). Her Emerson Stage credits include Grapes of Wrath (ASM), XDance 2012 (ASM), and Man of La Mancha (ASM). Other Emerson credits: The Handmaid’s Tale (SM), The Baccahe (SM), Die Laughing: The Kevin Bright Workshop (SM), The Irish Double Bill Plays (PSM), and Glory Days (SM).
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Jamie Biancardi is a junior at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she has been involved in Lysistrata, The Seagull, Diversity of Motion, the UMB Playwrights Festival and Urinetown: the Musical. Professional credits include Legally Dead (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre) and Supergravity and the Eleventh Dimension. Now Jamie is proud to be a part of the Insignificance family and wants to thank the company for all their hard work.
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Megan F. Kinneen. Previous CST productions include Matt and Ben, and The Nora’s The How and the Why and Operation Epsilon. Recent props work includes Tribes and Kurt Vonnegut’s Make Up Your Mind (SpeakEasy Stage) and Henry VIII (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Other props credits include work at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Fiddlehead Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and Suffolk University. Set designs include A Streetcar Named Desire (Wax Wings Productions) and Caucasian Chalk Circle (Apollinaire Theatre Company). Scene painting credits include work at Cobalt Studios, Glimmerglass Opera Festival, and Cyco Scenic Studios. MFKDesign.com.
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Dewey Dellay Off-Broadway: Duet (Greenwich Street Theatre); The Countess (Criterion, London’s West End). Partial list of Boston/regional: Operation Epsilon, The How and the Why, Photograph 51, Betrayal (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Production by a Small Resident Company & IRNE nomination, Best Sound Design; The Nora Theatre Company); Fully Committed (IRNE nomination, Best Sound Design), The Women (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Design, for music and sound design), History Boys (IRNE nomination), and Five by Tenn (IRNE Award, Best Sound Design, SpeakEasy Stage Company); 9 Parts of Desire and Miss Witherspoon (Lyric Stage Company). Television: Music for Emmy-nominated National Geographic’s China’s Mystery Mummies and Discovery Channel’s Miami Jail, America’s Spookiest Places, and Date Patrol, as well as many national commercials. Mr. Dellay is composing music for the upcoming television show Our America, with Lisa Ling for the Oprah Winfrey Network.
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