This year, our three finalist judges are returnees from last year's contest. We're very happy to have Jim Haynes, Marcy Arlin and Marta Ljubkova back on our team.
Jim Haynes
Jim is the founder of the Traverse Theatre, the London Traverse Theatre Company and the Arts Laboratory. He was awarded the Whitbread Prize for his “contribution to theater in Britain.”
Marta Ljubkova
Marta studied Czech Language and Literature at the Philosophical Faculty, Charles University, Prague, and directing and dramaturgy at the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague.
Since 2005, she has been working as a free-lancer in different Czech theatres as an author, dramaturge and director (Naive theatre, Liberec, National Theatre in Ostrava, Universal NoD, Prague, Lyra Pragensis Prague etc.)
In 2003, she wrote and directed a show for the Hungarian theatre Ciróka, Kecskemét.
She also publishes literary and theatre reviews especially for the cultural newspapers A2.
Marcy Arlin
Marcy (Director The First Time; Artistic Director. Immigrants' Theatre Project) founded the OBIE-winning ITP in 1988. Recent directing work includes The First Time by Michal Walczak for the Made in Poland Festival (59E59Theatre), the German-language translation of Caridad Svich's Tropic of X, Artheater of Koln, Germany) and Jovanka Bach's Marko the Prince (Barrow Group Theatre). She is an original member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Core Member of Theatre w/o Borders, No Passport. Fulbright Senior Specialist 2005-09 to the Babes Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, and Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (2009). Directing venues include: Soho Rep, LaMama, 59E59, HERESY (Heresy/Progress with Ian Morgan), Vineyard, EST, NY Int'l Fringe, Dublin Fringe, The Public, NYTW, Barrow Group Theatre, BAX, Tenement Theatre, Teatrul Imposibil/Nat'l Theatre/Romania, Yiddish Book Ctr. Notable plays: 365/365/Suzan-Lori Parks, Here/Sabina Bermana, Red Bull/Vera Ion, (Play Company), Name Day/Jovanka Bach; Australian Aboriginal Voices/Andrea James, Waxing West/Saviana Stanescu (in Romanian), Journey Theatre-theater project with survivors of torture (w/ Victor Maog/Ruth Margraff), Ellis Island Museum. Curator/Director: Czech Plays in Translation, Dis-Location/Re-Invention (MESTC), After the Fall: New Romanian Theatre. Guest speaker on Immigrant Theater: 2003 Prague Quadrennialle, Yale University, Univ. of Chicago (her alma mater), Brown University. Lecturer, CUNY. Editor, Czech Plays in Translation: the NY Series, released by the Martin E. Segal June 2009.
