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July 10, 2007
For Immediate Release
LAByrinth Theater Company
ANNOUNCES NEW LEADERSHIP
John Gould Rubin joins John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman
in leading LAByrinth’s 2007-2008 Season
LAByrinth Theater Company is proud to announce new leadership for their 2007-2008 Season. Current co-Artistic Director John Ortiz will take the position of Artistic Director. Longtime LAByrinth member John Gould Rubin will assume the role of Executive Director and join Philip Seymour Hoffman as co-Artistic Director.
An accomplished actor, director and producer, John Gould Rubin has been a LAByrinth Company Member since 1998. Next season, he will direct Rebecca Cohen’s Penalties and Interest for LAByrinth at The Public Theater. With LAByrinth he created and directed Dreaming in Tongues, and directed Stopless by David Deblinger, The Trail of Her Inner Thigh by Erin Cressida Wilson, John Patrick Shanley’s musical A Winter Party, and Mémoire, which he directed and co-created with Company Members Tomoko Miyagi and Florencia Lozano. For LAByrinth he produced Our Lady of 121st Street by Stephen Adly Guirgis, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman both at LAByrinth and off Broadway. He also produced Dirty Story, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, at the Harold Clurman Theatre on Theatre Row, and Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train,
(Guirgis and Hoffman) at LAByrinth, off Broadway (two Drama Desk
nominations), at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival (Fringe First Award),
at The Donmar Warehouse in London, and The Arts Theatre on the West End
in London.
Mr. Rubin most recently directed Edith Freni’s My Dog Heart, in the EST Marathon, Dan Klores’s Myrtle Beach in Naked Angels’ “Armed and Naked in America” festival, Qui Nguyen’s Bike Wreck for EST’s Youngbloods, and NAMI for Partial Comfort at Theater Row. Other recent directing credits include Little Willy at the Ohio Theater and Trial By Water for the Ma-Yi Theater Company at The Culture Project. Last season he directed Sue Costello’s one-woman show, The Evolution of a Sexy Mutha Fukah!! at The Zipper Theater and in LA at The Triplex, A Matter of Choice for Partial Comfort at Chashama, The Cherry Orchard with the 2nd year students at SUNY Purchase and Hamlet for the graduating class of Columbia University’s MFA program.
Mr. Rubin recently shot his first film, Almost Home, for Trigger Street Independent, and premiered the new musical, The Fartiste,
by writer Charlie Schulman and composer/lyricist Michael Roberts at The
NY Fringe Festival (“Best Musical” Award). He co-created and directed The Erotica Project on WBAI radio, at HERE and The New York Shakespeare Festival, and directed A Taste of Honey in Playwrights’ Horizons lab theater. In 2003 he directed the premiere of Blood in the Sink by Josh Ben Friedman at Urban Stages. In 1996 Mr. Rubin wrote (and played Ivan Boesky in) The Predators' Ball,
in collaboration with Karole Armitage and David Salle, which premiered
at the Pergola Theatre in Florence, Italy, and was then the Gala
Production for the Next Wave Festival in the Opera House at BAM.
This July his production of Julie Marie Myatt’s My Wandering Boy premieres in The Summer Play Festival on Theater Row. Next season he will direct The Fartiste, Dan Klores’s play Little Doc, and Richard Vetere’s Caravaggio, all off Broadway.
His production of Macbeth with Stephen Dillane playing
all the roles, directed by Travis Preston, performed last season at The
Almeida Theatre in London (Olivier Nomination, Best Actor, Best
Shakespeare Production and Best Solo Performer Nominations, Peoples
Choice Awards) and then appeared in Australia at The Sydney Theater
(Helpman Award Nomination) and The Adelaide Festival. Next season, Mr.
Rubin will produce the New York premiere of Sarah Koskoff’s The Apple Juice Man.
LAByrinth Theater Company was
founded in 1992 by a group of actors who wanted to push their artistic
limits, hone their craft, and create new plays that truly reflected
their heritage and experience.
LAByrinth today is comprised 98 established and emerging theater
artists from a wide array of cultural perspectives. Led by Artistic
Director John Ortiz and co-Artistic Directors Philip Seymour Hoffman
and John Gould Rubin, the inclusive, multicultural ensemble encourages
all members to write, act, direct, and design, and supports
multidisciplinary growth and exploration in the creation of daring new
work that celebrates the diversity of its New York City home.
Over the last fifteen years, LAByrinth has developed hundreds of new plays and staged 47 productions including: Jack Goes Boating (2007), A Small, Melodramatic Story (2006), Sailor’s Song (2004), Dutch Heart of Man (2003), Dirty Story (2003), Our Lady of 121st Street (2002), Where’s My Money? (2001), Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (2000), and In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings
(1999). The 2007/08 season will be LAByrinth's fifth in residency at
The Public Theater. LAByrinth has also collaborated with The
Public to develop new work, with productions such as School of The Americas (2006), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2005) and Guinea Pig Solo (2004).
LAByrinth Theater Company is dedicated to developing new plays through
a unique creative process. Each play LAByrinth produces is first
presented at the Company’s annual Summer Intensive – a concentrated
two-week retreat where Company Members and invited guest artists create
brand new material and develop current works in progress. By
surrounding the playwright with talented and passionate artists, this
supportive environment allows freedom of expression and nurtures
creativity.
LAByrinth's 2007/08 season includes the world-premieres of A View from 151st Street by Bob Glaudini, directed by Peter DuBois and UNCONDITIONAL by Brett C. Leonard, directed by Mark Wing-Davey; and two developmental productions: Penalties & Interest by Rebecca Cohen, directed by John Gould Rubin and Sweet Storm by Scott Hudson, directed by Padraic Lillis. LABPASS membership is on sale now for $85 per person. To purchase, please visit www.labtheater.org or call 212.260.2400.
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