Gemini
- Written by Albert Innaurato
- Directed by Peter Mark Schifter
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.
Peter Schifter was a theatre, opera, and television director. He has directed productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. His Broadway credits include Welcome to the Club, which earned him a Tony Award nomination. His Off-Broday credits include Gemini, Titanic, Das Lusitania Songspiel, and The Time of Your Life. His regional credits include Christoper Durang's History of American Film. Schifter's work in television includes after-school specials and daytime dramas such as "One Life To Live" and Loving". Schifter passed away in 1993 at the age of 44.
Featuring:
Jon Polito
Jessica James
Reed Birney
Sigourney Weaver
Jonathan Hadary
Tom Mardirosian
Anne DeSalvo
Scenic Design: Christopher Nowak
Costume Design: Ernest Smith
Lighting Design: Larry Crimmins
Production Stage Manager: Belle Baxter
Featuring
Reed Birney
Sigourney Weaver
Tom Mardirosian
Jonathan Hadary
Has appeared at Playwrights Horizons eight times, most recently in Annie Baker’s Circle Mirror Transformation directed by Sam Gold. He was just in Tigers Be Still at Roundabout Underground. For the NewYork premiere of Sarah Kane’s Blasted at Soho Rep, he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He was Dr. Sweet in the original New York cast of Bug and played Tony Blair in Stuff Happens at The Public Theater. He has received three Obie Awards and a Drama Desk Award. On film, he can be seen in Changeling and the current Morning Glory with Harrison Ford, as well as Jeff Lipsky’s Twelve Thirty. In February he will be in David West Read’s The Dream of the Burning Boy at Roundabout Underground. (As of December 2010)
(Bio as of November 2008)
Mr. Mardirosian most recently appeared at the Goodman in Ruined during the 2008/2009 Season. His Broadway credits include Wonderful Town, My Favorite Year, Cuba and His Teddy Bear, The Magic Show and Happy End. His off-Broadway credits include Gemini, Losing Time, Butter and Egg Man, The Normal Heart, Largo Desolato, Henry IV, Measure for Measure and The Taming of the Shrew, among others. His film credits include Lady in the Water, Presumed Innocent, Don Juan DeMarco, Boomerang, Dark Half, Betsy’s Wedding, New York Stories, Power, Rosary Murders, Shakedown, Trading Places, Only When I Laughand Alphabet City, among others. Television credits include "Oz," "Law & Order," "NYPD Blue," "The Cosby Show," and "Miami Vice," among others. As a playwright, his credits include Saved from Obscurity (Drama Desk Award nomination) and Subfertile.
Playwrights Horizons: Assassins, Gemini (also Broadway), Coming Attractions. Broadway: Gypsy (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations), Golden Boy, Spamalot, Awake and Sing, All Shook Up, The Best Man, Guys and Dolls, As Is (Obie Award), Torch Song Trilogy. National tour: Angels in America (Jeff, Hayes awards). Off-Broadway: Incident at Vichy; Jules Verne; The Destiny of Me; Lips Together, Teeth Apart. TV: “As Is,” “Louie.”
Photo by Nathaniel Tileston
This is a play that comes alive in performance…Mr. Innaurato is a playwright with his own extraordinary voice and the imaginative talent of a conjuror.
Innaurato is an original, of incomparable imagination.
A rambunctious, hilarious, touching, quite beautiful play.