Earthworms
- Written by Albert Innaurato
- Directed by David Schweizer
Albert Innaurato (born June 2, 1947) is an American playwright, theatre director, and writer. Innaurato was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947. After graduating from Temple University and California Institute of the Arts, Innaurato attended the Yale School of Drama. He was awarded the Guggenheim Grant, the Rockefeller Grant and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. Innaurato collaborated with Christopher Durang on The Idiots Karamazov, I Don't Normally Like Poetry but Have You Read Trees, and Gyp, the Real-Life Story of Mitzi Gaynor while both were students at Yale University's School of Drama. They performed in all three plays but especially in the last two named. Dressed as priests they played women in summer stock, they opened the Manhattan Theatre Club, almost costing the founder Lynn Meadow her new board. At Yale they frequently appeared in plays with their Drama School classmates Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver and their friend, the late Wendy Wasserstein. In 1976, he drew critical attention for the Playwrights Horizons staging of his play Gemini. A year later, after some cast changes, the play was produced at PAF Playhouse on Long Island. That production subsequently was presented off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Company, opening March 8, 1977, where it was acclaimed by the major New York critics. The Circle Rep production transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 1819 performances and earned him an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding New American Play. Innaurato is currently Artistic Director of Creative Development Projects at Center City Opera Theater in Philadelphia.
David Schweizer is an American director. His directing debut was at the age of 22, with a "radical revival" of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. His other directing credits include The Mines of Sulphur , And God Created Great Whales (OBIE Award Winner), Horizon (OBIE Winner), The Greater Good, Montezuma, Powder Her Face, Albert Herring, Abduction From The Seraglio, La Perichole, It's A Man's World, A History of Sexuality, Plato's Symposium, Wintertime, White Chocolate, Songs From An Unmade Bed, My Price Point, Los Big Names, Caroline Or Change, Tobacco Road, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Schweizer attended the Yale School of Drama, and has taught at UCLA, NYU, CalArts, Circle In The Square, and Bennington College. Currently, he is working on his first feature film.
Performances began May 17, 1977.
Featuring:
Cara Duff-MacCormick
Michael Egan
Jonathan Frakes
Richard Hays
David Keith
Jeffrey Knox