BIOS Ray Dooley
PlayMakers: Company member since 1989. Most recently: The Storyteller, Ragtime, Dairyland, Life of Galileo, Bewilderness, She Loves Me. Broadway: Macbeth. Off-Broadway: Three seasons with Classic Stage Company (OBIE Award for Distinguished Performance, Peer Gynt). International: European premiere of Doubt (Vienna’s English Theatre); Amadeus, The Lark (Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, Canada). Regional: Folger Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Shakespeare Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre Company, among many others. Film/ TV: Trainhopper, Changeover, The Trial of Standing Bear, Stonebrook, One Life to Live, Guiding Light. Education/Other: MFA, American Conservatory Theater; BA, Hamilton College (Phi Beta Kappa). Professor Emeritus, UNCChapel Hill Department of Dramatic Art; C. Knox Massey Award for Unusual, Distinguished and Meritorious Service to the University, Jonathan B. Howes Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Service. Member Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA.
Michael Perlman Director
PlayMakers: Associate Artistic Director. Directed Bye Bye Birdie for the Summer Youth Conservatory and Ray Dooley in A Christmas Carol (2017). Michael has directed at Goodspeed Opera House, Cleveland Play House, Trinity Repertory Company, Kitchen Theatre Company, Arvada Theater Center, Boise Contemporary Theater, Creede Repertory Theater, Swine Palace, Maples Rep, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep and the Brown/Trinity MFA Programs as well as workshops with The Playwrights’ Center, The Magic Theater and Young Playwrights, Inc. He’s the Associate Director on Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods which was seen at the McCarter Theater, Old Globe, Menier Chocolate Factory and Roundabout Theater Company, in addition to Noises Off at Roundabout. Michael’s plays include At The Table and From White Plains, which is the recipient of a 2013 GLAAD Media Award and was nominated for New York Innovative Theater awards for Outstanding Premiere Production and Outstanding Full-Length Script. In addition, Michael’s one-person show Flying on the Wing was presented at the New York Fringe Festival, where it was the winner of Outstanding Solo Show. Michael is an Artistic Associate with both Fiasco Theater and Fault Line Theatre. He is proud to be a member of SDC, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and holds a BA and MFA from Brown University, where he has also served on faculty.
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