Exclusive: Ensemble Studio Theatre, one of New York’s premiere Off Broadway venues perhaps best known for its annual Marathon of One-Act Plays, announced today that Estefanía Fadul and Graeme Gillis have been appointed the new Co-Artistic Directors of the 55-year-old theater company.
Gillis, who has been serving as Interim Artistic Director since William Carden retired in 2022 and is a long-time member of Est, will begin planning the 2023/2024 season with director/producer Fadul who will officially join the company in March.
Over the past five decades, Est has developed thousands of new American plays and has grown into a company of over 600 actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Est was founded and led by Curt Dempster beginning in 1968; he was succeeded as Artistic Director by William Carden in 2007. Fadul and Gillis mark the first co-leadership structure for the company.
Est’s current season kicked off in the fall with the 38th...
Gillis, who has been serving as Interim Artistic Director since William Carden retired in 2022 and is a long-time member of Est, will begin planning the 2023/2024 season with director/producer Fadul who will officially join the company in March.
Over the past five decades, Est has developed thousands of new American plays and has grown into a company of over 600 actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Est was founded and led by Curt Dempster beginning in 1968; he was succeeded as Artistic Director by William Carden in 2007. Fadul and Gillis mark the first co-leadership structure for the company.
Est’s current season kicked off in the fall with the 38th...
- 1/31/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
A new Theater Talk episode focuses on two of the season's best new plays. David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen, two of the stars of Christopher Durang's celebrated Broadway comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, lead off the two-segment episode, followed by playwright Joe Gilford and producer William Carden discussing Ensemble Studio Theatre's acclaimed off-Broadway production of Finks, a look at the impact of the 1950s blacklist based on the experiences of Gilford's parents. The program premieres Friday, April 26, 2013 at 1 Am Saturday morning on ThirteenPBS, and repeats in New York City on Cuny TV Saturday at 830 Pm, Sunday at 1230 Pm, and Monday at 730 Am, 130 Pm, and 730 Pm.
- 4/25/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
After 32 years, it seems as if every year, everyone and his agent sends a one-act play script to The Ensemble Studio Theatre for its annual marathon of one-act plays, the oldest, acclaimed one-act play festival in the country. This year is no exception with 886 one-act scripts totaling 21,264 pages which were read by 17 readers over 5 months. From that, Ensemble Studio Theatre artistic director William Carden selected 10 plays this spring to be presented on two separate programs for the Ensemble Studio Theatre's 2010 Marathon of One-Act Plays May 21 through June 26.
- 6/19/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
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