Bios
James Braly spent over twenty years researching life in a marital institution. He's performed his autobiographical stories on Marketplace, NPR, and at The Whitney Museum, Long Wharf Theatre, and The Moth, where he is the only two-time winner of the GrandSLAM and a featured performer on The Moth/TNT National Story Tour. His monologue, LIFE IN A MARITAL INSTITUTION, was featured at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, opened this February in New York City at 59 East 59th Street Theaters, and will transfer to SOHO Playhouse starting on June 26, 2008.
Hal Brooks (Director) directed No Child...by Nilaja Sun, which ran in New York at the Barrow Street Theatre for over 350 performances. No Child national tour this year included stops at Lookingglass (Chicago), ART (Cambridge), Woolly Mammoth (DC), Kirk Douglas (LA), and Berkeley Rep. He also directed Will Eno's Pulitzer Finalist Thom Pain (based on nothing) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Soho Theatre, London, and DR2 in NYC. Recent projects: Craig Wright's Lady (Asolo Rep), Lee Blessing's Lonesome Hollow (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Ariel Dorfman's Widows (59E59), Athol Fugard's Master Harold…and the boys (Weston Playhouse), Jessica Provenz's Better Than Chocolate (Juilliard). NY Credits include: Rinne Groff's What Then (Clubbed Thumb); Don DeLillo's Valparaiso (NY Times Top Ten) and Will Eno's The Flu Season (Oppy winner). Regional: Sharr White's Six Years (Actors Theater of Louisville - Humana Festival); Baby with the Bathwater (American Conservatory Theater, MFA program). Upcoming: Dan Lefranc's Origin Story (Sundance), Annie Baker's Nocturama (Cape Cod Theater Project) and Itamar Moses's Back Back Back (Dallas Theater Center). A Drama League Fall Directing Fellow, Hal is also a proud member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and SSDC and is a recipient of the 2007-09 NEA TCG Career Development Program for Directors.
Little Johnny Koerber (Executive Producer) would like you to believe that he is both faster than a speeding bullet and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Alas. In reality, on weekday mornings, he gets on a Metro-North train and ventures out to the wilds of Connecticut where he works at an investment firm. He co-produced Life In A Marital Institution (20 years of monogamy in one terrifying hour) at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and 59E59 Theaters. In addition, LJK is the Executive Producer of the 2007 jazz CD Sky Blue by the Maria Schneider Orchestra, whose track "Cerulean Skies" won a Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition. Enjoy the show.
Anna Becker (Producer) Founder, The Deep End Productions. The Deep End Productions produced the New York premiere of Life In A Marital Institution at 59E59 Theaters. The Deep End Productions' Insights & Revelations Performance Series is a recipient of the 2007 Best of Westchester Award, where presentations have included The New Group's A Spalding Gray Matter, James Braly's Life In A Marital Institution, The Atlantic Theater Company's The Pinter Plays, and Classic Stage Company's open rehearsals of The Merchant of Venice with Ron Leibman and Richard III with Michael Cumpsty. Anna has produced for theatre, film, and television for more than 20 years - independently for Andre Gregory, Eve Ensler and others, and on staff at A Traveling Jewish Theatre and Lucasfilm. Special projects include The Race For The Arts (in collaboration with the NYS Council on the Arts and the NY Road Runners Club), and A Celebration of the Actor at the Public Theater (for The Spencer Cherashore Fund) with Kate Burton, Charles Busch, Charlayne Woodard, John Seitz, and Julie Halston performing original works by Lee Blessing, Migdalia Cruz, Jose Rivera, and James Still. www.TheDeepEndProductions.org.