P L AY W R I G H T Athol Fugard is an internationally acclaimed South African playwright whose best-known work deals with the political and social upheaval of the apartheid system in South Africa. He was educated at the University of Cape Town. His plays include The Captain’s
Tiger, Valley Song, My Children! My Africa, A Lesson from Aloes, The Island, and the award-winning Sizwe Banzi is Dead. Mr. Fugard has received six honorary degrees from esteemed colleges and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
DIRECTOR Gilbert McCauley is delighted to be directing his first production at Syracuse Stage. He is presently a Professor in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts. He has served as the producing artistic director of the Oakland Ensemble Theatre, resident director at Rites and Reason Theatre, as an acting company member of the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and he is an alum of the New York Drama League’s Directors Project. Mr. McCauley has directed Off-Broadway and at regional theatres around the country including Arena Stage, Ar-
kansas Repertory Theater, Goodman Theatre, New Century Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the National Theatre of Ghana. His directing credits include, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, The Call by Tanya Barfield, Cheryl L. West’s Jar the Floor, The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez, Gees Bend by Elyzabeth Gregory-Wilder, Hell in High Water and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley, Peter Morgan’s Frost/ Nixon, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson and Fences, Charles Fuller’s A Soldier’s Play and Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Robert Hupp is in his fifth season as artistic director of Syracuse Stage. He recently directed Annapurna, Talley’s Folly, Amadeus, Noises Off, Next to Normal, and The Three Musketeers for Stage. Prior to coming to central New York, Robert spent seventeen seasons as the producing artistic di-
rector of Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. He directed over 30 productions for Arkansas Rep ranging from Hamlet to Les Miserables to The Grapes of Wrath. In New York City, Robert directed the American premieres of Glyn Maxwell’s The Lifeblood and Wolfpit for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble. He also served for nine seasons as the artistic
33
