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Quotes & Highlights
- "What can one say? Except that plays don't come much tougher, or more compassionate, than 33-year-old American Rebecca Gilman's The Glory Of Living...It's a viscerally powerful piece...Gilman's real theme in this powerfully unnerving play is the desolation of her native soil." --The Guardian
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Website: http://www.athenatheatre.com/
The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize and has won an Osborn Award, an After Dark Award, a Jeff Citation, the George Devine Award, and the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. Rebecca Gilman has created a riveting, unsentimental portrait of a young woman whose most striking quality is not her capacity for evil but the depth of her emptiness, in an environment as harsh and unyielding as the contours of her life.
About the creative team
Rebecca Gilman (Playwright) Born in Trussville, Alabama, playwright Rebecca Gilman attended Middlebury College, is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1991. Her other plays include Dollhouse, Spinning Into Butter, Boy Gets Girl, Blue Surge (all of which premiered at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre), and The Glory of Living. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prince Prize for Commissioning New Work, the Roger L. Steven Award from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, and the George Devine Award. She was also named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2001 for The Glory of Living. Chicago Tribune Arts Critic Chris Jones has said of Gilman that "she writes plays with such intriguing plots that the audience finds itself hungry for what is going to happen next…”
Alice Ensor (Co-Director/Producer) – formed Full Circle Theatrics, LLC at The El Centro Theatre with partner and Co-Director Joe Koonce in July 2007, after spending more than a decade with The Theatre District who had been in residence at the Theatre for the previous 7 years. While with The Theatre District she worked closely with the Artistic Director, Macario Gaxiola, both as an actress, and as an organizational leader for the group; handling many of the production responsibilities for over 20 productions including 1 to 10? by Max Riley, Light Sensitive by Jim Geoghan and Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball. Previous Directing credits include Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer by Jason Miller, The Sea Horse by Edward Moore, and Agnes of God by John Pielmeier. This is her Los Angeles directing debut.
Joe Koonce (Co-Director) – formed Full Circle at El Centro with partner and Co-Director Alice Ensor in July 2007. He also spent more than a decade with The Theatre District both while in residence at the theatre, and for five years prior in Orange County at the Anti-Mall. With The Theatre District he worked directly with Artistic Director Macario Gaxiola, as both the Theatre’s Technical Director, and as an integral part of the set and lighting design team who worked on over 30 productions including 1 to 10? by Max Riley, Light Sensitive by Jim Geoghan, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball, Boys in The Band by Mort Crowley, Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling, Lake Street Extension by Lee Blessing and In-Betweens by Bryan Goluboff. This is his directing debut after years of mentorship with Macario and The Theatre District.
Veronique Ory (Producer) recently re-located to New York from Los Angeles after producing the Off-Broadway sensation STITCHING by Athony Neilson in Hollywood. She most recently was Associate Producer for Caucasian Chalk Circle with PL115; Nathan + Joe Comedy Show at Comix NY. Ms. Ory is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Athena Theatre Company, a non-profit theatre company in Los Angeles. She has produced all twelve Athena Theatre productions since 2003. Some highlights include their most recent Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman which played to sold out houses at the Lankershim Arts Center. The Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel and Proof by David Auburn won members of the casts Best Actor/Actress of the year by Metro LA and Reviewplays.com. “We strive for theatre that entertains, informs, enlightens, questions and deepens audience awareness to vital modern issues.”
The Design Team for THE GLORY OF LIVING features Set Design by MonkeyBoy Productions; and Lighting Design by Extended Visions Design.
Athena Theatre Company
The Athena Theatre Company is dedicated to developing and producing contemporary, off-beat and irreverent psychological dramas and dark comedies that challenge traditional stereotypes. They strive for theatre that entertains, informs, enlightens, questions and deepens audience awareness to vital modern issues. They endeavor to actively and responsibly invest in new voices for the stage by nurturing writers and promoting original works; especially in regards to gender, politics, race and religion. They aim to become an important and necessary force in both their community and their country.
