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Cohen Ambrose, authorA native of Montana, Cohen received his BA in Performance Studies and Post-Colonial Drama. He is an actor, director and published playwright. Recently, he spent two years living in New York City directing plays and readings for various off-off Broadway companies. New York directing credits include Quick Bright Things for GroundUP Productions, Painting Tomatoes for the Riant Theatre’s One Act Festival, and Elephants and Coffee for 13th Street Repertory Theatre. Other productions include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and The Elephant Man. He now lives in Prague. |
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Nickolas Perry, directorNickolas Perry is an American screenwriter and director who began his career working as Francis Ford Coppola’s assistant on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In 1994, Nick moved to Los Angeles and began writing scripts and directing short films. One of his short films, Must Be the Music, starring Milo Ventimiglia (Heroes, Rocky Balboa) as gay teen on a Friday night out in Los Angeles, premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival and was later distributed as part of Strand Releasing's Boys Life 2. The film got the attention of director Gus Van Sant, who would go on to executive produce Nick's first feature film, Speedway Junky.
Nick wrote and directed Speedway Junky in 1999. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and starred Daryl Hannah, Jesse Bradford, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. In 2004, Nick co-wrote, co-directed, and edited The Hunting of the President, a feature documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman. |
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Mark Yates, authorRaised in Iowa and schooled there and in Oregon, Mark Yates moved to Prague in 1999. In his day job, he's been a marketing manager, financial services trainer, and copywriter — from Internet start-ups to major telecoms. Off the clock, he has managed to get published a few essays and articles (and produce a drawer full of unpublished novels). He has been reading so many science books that he may try and write one just as soon as he’s figured out loop quantum gravity. Meanwhile he casts his net wide in the search for answers to the other big questions through his podcasts at http://www.faithandfriction.org. |
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Jonathan Solari, directorJonathan Solari is a director of Theatre and Opera based in Brooklyn, New York. His recent directing credits include Ricky Ian Gordon’s Green Sneakers (Vail Valley Music Festival), The Voice of the City (Geneva Theatre), Howard Barker’s Judith (Kraine Theater), Kesav Wable’s For Flow (Theater for the New City) and Matt Burns’ The Lion and the Bull. Jonathan has worked extensively as an Assistant Director on and off Broadway with Bartlett Sher, Daniel Sullivan, Jo Bonney and Daniel Kramer. This Summer he will be restaging William Kerley’s productions of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw and The Beggar's Opera for Maestro Lorin Maazel’s Castleton Festival. Jonathan is the Founding Director of Brooklyn’s The Centrifuge, a not-for-profit theater company. |  Jonathan Solari |
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Josh Kaston, authorJosh Kaston is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. After high school he spent four years in Miami where he earned a bachelors degree in both Screenwriting and History from the University of Miami. After spending a year working in Boston he returned to New Orleans just in time for Hurricane Katrina. After the storm he packed his bags and set out for Prague to get TEFL certified and teach English. Like many ex-patriots it did not take long for him to fall in love with the Bohemian city. He decided to prolong his stay and acquire a Master’s degree in International Business from Prague School of Economics (VSE). He graduated last October and is currently seeking employment. His abundance of free time is the prime reason this play exists. This is his first produced play and he hopes you enjoy it. If for some reason you don’t enjoy it, then he hopes it at least offends you. |
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Julek Neumann, directorJulek was born in Prague, graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts with an MA in 1975, worked as an actor with Studio Ypsilon theatre both in Liberec and in Prague for 10 years. He started directing in 1979. Since then he directed in Prague, Vienna, Antwerp, London, Vancouver and various theatres in the Czech Republic. The plays included classics (Romeo and Juliet, medieval French farces, Marivaux), unusual scripts (Grabbe: Joke, Satire, Irony, and Deeper Meaning; The Trap by Rozewicz, I Feuerbach by Tankred Dorst) and new texts he helped develop (including his own). He translated many plays into Czech, many of them still in repertory. In the Czech Republic he is currently involved as an actor (at Studio Ypsilon), writer (Cheb and Brno), director (Jeffrey Bernard is unwell at Ungelt; Maureen cannot stop wondering at the West Bohemian Theatre). He was on the jury panel at several playwriting contests such as Alfred Radok Playwriting Competition and theatre festivals. For the Prague Playhouse Playwright Competition he directed two winning entries of 2007 and 2008. |  Julek Neumann |
