| Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom Staff Bios DAVE MOWERS (DIRECTOR) is a former artistic director of Common Ground Stage and Film Co., where he directed an inaugural season of plays by Andrew Ordover, including AGAMEMNON, SISTER STRATA and GILGAMESH. Also for Common Ground: TWELFTH NIGHT, THE GOLEM and INFINITE CAGES. Recent work includes a reading of Lucy Thurber's INNOCENCE IS A SIN, for the 6@6 series at Manhattan Theatre Club. Also in New York he staged two incarnations of PLANET Q, including HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART Q, as well as a solo performance piece, THE VICAR'S WIFE. He has recently returned from Norway where he directed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Dave spent two years as a member of the artistic staff of Manhattan Theatre Club and recently was appointed artistic associate of Rattlestick Productions. AMY PODGURSKI (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) has only been in New York for a short time and has already been a part of many wonderful productions. Theatre: MACBETH (TNE), 4 new plays, a new works festival with NY Play Development and A CHRISTMAS CAROL with Victory Hall, Inc. Regional Theatre, all in Pittsburgh, PA, includes RUN FOR YOUR WIFE, INTO THE WOODS and GOODBYE MY FANCY. Thanks to the folks at TNE for giving her a chance to make their lives a little less crazy. DAVID ZELLNIK (PLAYWRIGHT) is thrilled to be working with TNE on LET A HUNDRED FLOWERS BLOOM, which last year won the All Out Arts Best Play 2000 prize, awarded with a Jerome Foundation grant. Other plays produced in NYC include: KILLING HAND, KARMIC THUNDER, A LITANY OF SORROWS, NO REPLY AT ALL, PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY and PUPPY'S PORN. His work has appeard at such venues as Ensemble Studio Theatre, Expanded Arts, adobe theatre company, SOHO Rep., the RAT Conference and HBO Studios. Outside New York, he was comissioned by Syracuse Stage to adapt Rudyard Kipling's JUST SO STORIES, culminating in KIDNAPPING KIPLING (Syracuse Stage, 1999. Further afield, his play PRODIGAL SON was produced as part of the Divadelni Ostrov Festival in Prague in June, 1993. David is a member of the Dramatists Guild and of Ensemble Studio Theatre. |
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| RIGHT: Jake (Grant James Varjas, foreground) in a telephone conversation with Samson (Andy Paris) in a scene from Let A Hundred Flowers Bloom. |