Light Years
- Written by Billy Aronson
- Directed by Jamie Richards
BILLY ARONSON is a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Playwrights Horizons archive. He served as a Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA/Americorps), in 1980-81. His work has been included in Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents, and Teachers. He was honored with a New York Foundation for the Arts playwriting grant and invited to New River Dramatists writing center, in Healing Springs, North Carolina. As well, Aronson is a member of Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, and BMI. He received a BA in English/theater from Princeton '79, MFA in playwriting from Yale Drama School '83. He currently lives in Brooklyn with my wife Lisa Vogel and our children Jake and Anna. (As of October 2013)
JAMIE RICHARDS has directed Stonewall Jackson’s House (American Place Theater), Light Years (Playwright’s Horizons), Klonsky and Schwartz, The Secret Order, District of Columbia, Flight, Heaven Knows, and Hell’s Kitchen Sink (EST). Plays for EST’s Marathon include Little Duck, Brown, Night Rules, Cats and Dogs, Reunions, Real Real Gone, and The 100 Most Beautiful Names of Todd. She has directed and developed plays at Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, Primary Stages, and Youngblood. She is Artistic Director of 9th Ave Theater Project, which produces the new play development program 9th & Madison. She served as Executive Producer of EST, where she produced premieres of plays by David Mamet, Arthur Miller, David Ives, Paul Rudnick, Lynn Nottage, and many others, as well as the Going to The River Festival. She is a member of EST, and is grateful to have had long-time collaboration with Romulus Linney. (As of 2012)
Navigating the seemingly infinite time and space between freshman and senior years, four young friends check in, break up, fit in, stand out, stay cool, drop out, and go nuts. A tender, frantic ode to the college years, when you're only as good as your course cards, and identity is just a state of mind.
Featuring
Paul Bartholomew
Ian Reed Kesler
Anne Marie Nest
Sarah Rose
Creative Team
Narelle Sissons
Scenic DesignerAmela Baksic
Costume DesignerMichael Lincoln
Lighting DesignerLaura Grace Brown
Sound DesignerMichael Schleifer
Production Stage ManagerPhotos of (1) Anne Marie Nest and Sarah Rose; and (2) Ian Reed Kesler and Paul Bartholomew by Joan Marcus.