The Cleveland Play House
8500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
p: 216-795-7000
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Director, CASE/CPH MFA ProgramRon Wilson - Chair, Case Western Reserve University Department of Theater and Dance. Ron Wilson has directed more than 50 productions, ranging from opera, musical theatre, farce, classical, and mime-clown theatre. He is Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at Case Western Reserve University, and Case audiences have seen his directorial work in Hurlyburly, Playboy of the Western World, and An Ideal Husband. Mr. Wilson directed Comedy of Errors at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and The Triumph of Love at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. His play The Last Days of Route 66 was featured in The Next Stage Festival of New Plays and, in 1989, was produced at the Hannah Theater by the Cleveland Actors’ Theater Company. His work has been seen at various regional, summer stock, and university theatres across the country. He serves as Resident Fight Choreographer at The Cleveland Play House and has staged and coached hand-to-hand and sword fights, waltzes, period style work, salsa dances, and lizard movement in such productions as A Streetcar Named Desire, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Bright Eyes, I Hate Hamlet, and Frank Langella’s Cyrano, among many others. He has appeared in Cleveland Play House productions of Room Service, The Underpants, The Guardsman, and Infinite Regress of Human Vanity. He also directed last year’s CASE/CPH production of The Little Foxes.
- Phone: 216-368-6142
E-mail: rgw4@po.cwru.edu |
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Associate Director, CASE/CPH MFA ProgramMark Alan Gordon - Mark Alan Gordon recently directed Lunacy for Dobama at The Play House during 2007's FusionFest and has been involved with over 200 productions regionally, which such theatres as The Cleveland Play House, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Syracuse Stage, The Kitchen Theatre, the RoundHouse Theatre, The New Harmony Project, and Arlington’s Signature Theatre. Mr. Gordon served as director for Twelfth Night, which inaugurated the commitment in 2003 made between The Cleveland Play House and Case Western Reserve University. Since then, Mr. Gordon has gone on to direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream and the acclaimed Big Love for the Graduate Ensemble. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Gordon was the Artistic Director for the Champlain Shakespeare Festival. He has worked on several original plays, including Romulus Linney’s Ambrosio and True Crimes. Stage credits include: Daniel in Heather McDonald’s Available Light; Bob in Chuck Mee’s Wintertime, and Fabrizio in Heather McDonald’s When Grace Comes In (Sundance Theatre); Piero/Leo in Chuck Mee’s Big Love; Merchant of Venice, with Hal Holbrook (D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre); Roy Cohn in Angels in America (Parts I and II); The Dybbuk; and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. TV: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” and MTV’s “Made: Actress.” Mr. Gordon is a founding member of the Signature Theatre Company in New York, where he assisted Michael Kahn in the direction of the Obie Award-winning play Sleep Deprivation Chamber by Adrienne Kennedy. Mr. Gordon has mentored and directed for the Caymichael Patten Studios, NYU/Playwrights Horizon Theatre School, University of Vermont, and the Hangar Theatre Lab, among others.
- Phone: 216-795-7000 ext. 208
E-mail: magordon@clevelandplayhouse.com |
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