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"Catherine Filloux has brought Raphael Lemkin, who first identified and led the effort to criminalize genocide, to life for audiences who otherwise might never understand how important this man's contribution has been to humankind. We all need to walk into Lemkin's House and remind ourselves that we have to finish what Lemkin began - to end genocide forever." David Scheffer,former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues |
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Elizabeth Becker, award-winning New York Times, Washington Post and NPR reporter and author of "When the War was Over" |
Creative Team Bios
Catherine Filloux- recent plays include: KILLING THE BOSS (The William Inge Center for the Arts, KS, 2006); LEMKIN’S HOUSE (78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC, 2006; Kamerni Theatre, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2005); THE BEAUTY INSIDE (New Georges, NYC, 2005); EYES OF THE HEART (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC, 2004); SILENCE OF GOD (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV, New Play Commission, 2002); MARY AND MYRA (CATF, 2000 & Todd Mountain Theater, NY, 2002); ARTHUR’S WAR (Theatreworks/USA, NYC, 2002); PHOTOGRAPHS FROM S-21, a short play which has toured the world; ESCUELA DEL MUNDO (Commission toured by OSU, Columbus, 2005/6.) THE BEAUTY INSIDE was translated into Arabic for a workshop at ISADAC in Morocco (2004). Filloux’s other plays have been produced in New York and around the U.S. She is currently writing a play about Hurricane Katrina to premiere at Southern Rep in New Orleans in August 2007 (she is collaborating with playwrights Joe Sutton and Tarell McCraney.) Opera libretto: THE FLOATING BOX (Composer Jason Kao Hwang, Critics Choice, Opera News, 2005, CD New World Records, Premiere Asia Society 2001); Opera libretto commission from Cambodian Living Arts for WHERE ELEPHANTS WEEP (Composer Him Sophy, 2006.) Awards: PeaceWriting Award (Omni Center for Peace), Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill), Callaway Award (New Dramatists), Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia & Morocco), Thurber Playwright-In-Residence, Asian Cultural Council Grant, Winner Nausicaa Franco-American Play Contest, Rockefeller MAP Fund (for Floating Box with Hwang), 4-time Heideman Award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Oral History Project: CIRCLE OF GRACE with Cambodian Women's Group, Bronx, NY. French-English Translation: Ubu Rep, NYC; various periodicals. EYES OF THE HEART (Development for Lifetime TV). Juror for 2004 MES International Theater Festival, Sarajevo. Filloux’s plays are published by Playscripts, Inc., Smith & Kraus, Vintage, Dramatic Publishing & Seagull. Articles in American Theatre, Manoa, TDR and CTR. M.F.A. Dramatic Writing, Tisch, NYU, and French Baccalaureate with Honors in Toulon, France. She is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders.
Jean Randich, director
Jean has been directing new work and re-imagining the classics for nearly twenty years. She is pleased to be reunited with playwright Catherine Filloux and this spirited company. New York: The Dispute, by Marivaux, (NAATCO); Lemkin’s House, by Catherine Filloux, (78th Street Theatre); The Unknown, by Allard, Randich, & Rettig, (NYMF 2005); Commedia dell Smartass, by Sonya Sobieski, (New Georges); Antigone, by Sophocles, adapted by Brendan Kennelly (NAATCO); The Floating Box, an operaby Hwang/ Filloux (Asia Society); Drawn to Death, a three-panel opera, by Art Spiegelman and Phillip Johnston (St. Ann’s, NYC); Karen Hartman’s Girl Under Grain (Winner: Best Drama, NY International Fringe Festival 2000); Alice Down the Hole (Access Theater); He Who Says Yes; He Who Says No (NAATCO); The Golden Door (Tenement Theater, Fringe Festival, NYC); J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation (En Garde Arts). Regional: Kraken, by Len Jenkin and Bananas and Water by Barry Jay Kaplan (Todd Mountain Theater, NY); Silence of God (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV); Serious Money (Yale Repertory Theatre); Travels with My Aunt (Portland Stage Company); Gum (Magic Theatre); Little Mahagonny (Dallas Theatre Center). Ms. Randich has also directed in Germany and Norway, and served as the American Juror at the 15th Session of the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theater. She was commissioned by the Dallas Opera to write the libretto for a chamber opera, The Miraculous Phonograph Record. Ms. Randich is the recipient of theNEA/TCG Director Fellowship, a Fox Foundation Grant to work at the National Theatre in Oslo, Norway, and a Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Grant. Training: BA and Masters, Brown University; MFA, Yale School of Drama. Ms. Randich teaches at Bennington College and NYU. Upcoming: Susannah Centlivre’s The Busybody at Fordham University.
Mathew E. Adelson, lighting designer
Mathew has collaborated with Ms. Randich on numerous productions, including the premier production of Lemkin’s House, Girl Under Grain, Gum, The Unknown, Drawn to Death, Travels with My Aunt, Measure for Measure, The Golden Door and Peer Gynt. Additional credits: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Florida Studio Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, Portland Stage, Merrimack Rep, Burning Coal, Miniature Theatre of Chester, Yale Rep, American Music Theatre, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Berkshire Opera, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Joyce Theater, Hopkins Center, Lincoln Center and City Center, among many others. Matthew is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and is currently the Production Manager and Lighting Supervisor for the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Camille Assaf, costume designer
Recent New York costume design credits include Norman and Beatrice (Synapse Productions), Three Children (New York Yale Cabaret), Don Imbroglio (NYMF at Theater Row), Without (GuggenheimMuseum), Perseus (dir. Ellen Stuart, La Mama ETC), There's the Story (The Blue
Heron Theater). Mammilius-The Winter's Tale (LaMama, NYC), Pink (Summer Play Festival), and three new ballets by choreographer Eliot Feld (Backchat, Rumors and Pattootie, Joyce Theater). Credits elsewhere include, The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theater), The Brighter Side of Alzheimer (Edinburgh Fringe Festival '04), The Tempest (Shakespeare on the Sound, CT), Evita (Louisiana),
>Coriolanus (Yale School of Drama), Henry IV part 1 (Yale School of Drama), and the upcoming production of Richard II (Milwaukee Shakespeare Company). She is currently designing costumes for the upcoming world premiere of Animal Tales (music by Kitty Brazelton, libretto by George Plimpton). Education: MFA in Stage and Costume Design from Yale University, School of Drama (2004), and recipient of the Leo Lerman Fellowship award in costume design.
Robert Murphy, sound design
Mr. Murphy is happy to be helping Mr. Lemkin repair his house one more time. Off-Broadway, etc.: NAATCO, CSC, Drama Dept., MCC, New Georges, New Group, Lark Theatre, Pearl Theatre, The Play Company, Second Stage and Soho Rep, among others. Regional: Long Wharf, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Westport Playhouse, Yale Rep. Currently slaving away on The Great American Music Theatre Piece.
Sue Rees, set design
Sue is delighted to be working again on Catherine Filloux’s Lemkin’s House. She has worked with Jean Randich on numerous productions including The Dispute by Marivaux and Antigone both for NAATCO and Mia Katigbak, Commedia del Smartass by Sonya Sobieski ( New Georges), The Unknown by Janet Allard/Jean Randich (NYMF).Other companies and directors she has
worked with recently include 13P: The Internationalist by Anne Washburn (45 Bleecker Street, Fairfield Theater Company), Aphrodisiac by Rob Handel (P.S. 122, Long Wharf Theatre, CT), both directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, At Said by Gary Winter directed by Tim Farrell at PS122, additionally Clubbed Thumb’s Alice the Magnet by Erin Courtney directed by Pam MacKinnon., and SPF’s Millicent Scowlworthy by Rob Handel, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. Additionally, Like I Say by Len Jenkin (Flea Theater), Jabu by Elizabeth Swados, (nominated for a 2005 Hewes Design Award) and Margo Veil by Len Jenkin, (The Flea Theater), A Likeness for Creach/Company (Joyce Soho), Fare Well for Nugent+ Matteson (Danspace @St. Marks and Colony Theatre, Miami). In 1989 she received a “BESSIE” for her Creach/Company scenic design.