MATTHEW MAGUIRE
Director of Theatre Program
Head of Playwriting Program
Teacher of Playwriting, Acting, and Theatre History

Matthew Maguire is a two-time OBIE award winner: once for acting in 1998 and most recently (2006) for direction of his play Abandon at La Mama E.T.C. He is a co-artistic director of Creation Production Company, which he founded with Susan Mosakowski. The company has produced forty-seven original works for the stage. His plays, which he often directs, include The Seven Deadly Elements, based on the collage novel by Max Ernst, Eye Figure Fiction, Untitled (The Dark Ages Flat Out), The American Mysteries, The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo, Propaganda, Fun City, Visions of Don Juan, The Tower, and its solo version, Babel Stories, a science fiction opera, Chaos, with Michael Gordon, The Window Man, a musical with Bruce Barthol and Greg Pliska, Phaedra, Throwin’ Bones, which began as a collaboration with architects Diller + Scofidio titled Skin at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. His work also includes the creation with Philip Glass and Molissa Fenley of A Descent into the Maelström for Australia’s Adelaide Festival. His directing projects include Molière and Charpentier’s Le Malade Imaginaire for the Long Beach Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club’s Downtown Uptown Festival, and the Bang on a Can Festival’s Van Gogh Video Opera. He is an active alumnus of New Dramatists, and served as chairman of the Theatre panel of the New York State Council on the Arts. His awards include fellowships from the NEA, the McKnight and Hammerstein Foundations, commissions from the NEA, NYSCA, and Meet the Composer, and an America Award for Playwriting. He received his MFA from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He performed his play, Luscious Music, as a solo at the Architecture Museum of Basel. His recent projects include a new musical with composer Daniel Levy called Laughing Pictures, a play commissioned by Tulane University and the D-Day Museum about the Battle of Midway called A Cliff in the Dark, a chamber piece commissioned by The Dogs of Desire called Flowing in Two, composed by Randall Eng, a new translation of Molière’s Imaginary Invalid, and Faustus/Faustus, an adaptation combining Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus and Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, with music by Greg Pliska. His writing has been published by Sun & Moon Press, Backstage Books/Watson Guptill, Manchester University Press, TheatreForum, Performing Arts Journal, and The Drama Review.

Kai Brothers is a production supervisor and consultant with ten years experience in New York theatre. Recent production supervision includes Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park at the Cort Theatre; Sweeney Todd, directed by John Doyle, at the Eugene O’Neil; Souvenir at the Lyceum Theatre; TONY Award-winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Circle in the Square; TONY Award-winning Urinetown at the Henry Miller Theatre and at the American Theater of Actors; Terrence McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the clair de lune at the Belasco; Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit at the Union Square Theatre as well as the Wit national tour; Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick…Boom! at the Jane Street Theatre; Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the Minetta Lane Theatre; Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets at the Variety Arts Theatre as well as the Vagina Monologues in Los Angeles; Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby at the Century Center Theatre, Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project at the Union Square Theatre, Kenneth Lonnergan’s Lobby Hero at the John Houseman Theatre, and Anne Meara’s Down the Garden Paths at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Kai has been responsible for a number of special events for corporate and not-for-profit clients. He has consulted on the design of several small theatres in New York City and on larger installations around the country.

DANIEL ALEXANDER JONES
Teacher of Playwriting, Acting, and Theatre History

Daniel Alexander Jones received the prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre in 2006 in recognition of his interdisciplinary theatre work. “Moved by silenced histories, informed by acts of survival and transcendence, Jones creates his own language, and, in doing so, finds his own way home,” noted the Alpert Foundation. Jones’s work reflects his passions for expansive aesthetic impulses in theatre, and for the rich interdisciplinary traditions of Black American culture. American Theatre Magazine named Daniel one of fifteen theatre makers whose work will “change American stages for decades to come.” Daniel’s plays and performance pieces include Phoenix Fabrik, Bel Canto, Earthbirths, The Book of Daniel, Hera, Blood: Shock: Boogie and Cab and Lena. Daniel has performed to critical and audience acclaim in New York, Minneapolis, Austin, St. Paul, Seattle and Boston, among other cities, and internationally in London, Dublin, Manchester and Leeds. Jones was Resident Artist with Vicky Boone’s vanguard theatre company, Frontera @ Hyde Park in Austin, TX; and is an Affiliated Artist with Pillsbury House Theatre in Minneapolis. The Rockefeller Foundation M.A.P. Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts and TCG, The Creative Capital Foundation, The Howard Foundation and The Jerome Foundation all supported Daniel’s work. His writing has been published in the journal, CALLALOO, in the anthologies, SPIRITED and VOICES RISING published by RedBone Press and by the LAMBDA Literary Review. A passionate educator, Daniel has been a faculty member with Goddard College’s Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts Program and its Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program; a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and from 2004-2008 Daniel was a Lecturer in Playwriting and Directing at the University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Theatre and Dance. Daniel’s online theatre initiative, Round House Arts will launch in 2009. Current projects include Qualities of Light, an interactive performance installation created with acclaimed musician, Helga Davis.