People Be Heard
- Written by Quincy Long
- Original Music by Michael Roth
- Directed by Erica Schmidt
Productions: People Be Heard, Playwrights Horizons;The Lively Lad, New York Stage and Film and The Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Virgin Molly, Atlantic Theatre and Berkeley Rep;The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, Atlantic Theatre and Mark Taper Forum. Joy was published by Dramatists Play Service as were People Be Heard and The Lively Lad. Current projects:Loulou, a musical, in development at the Banff Centre, commissioned by Ginger Cat Productions in Toronto; Buried Alive, a one act opera adapted from Edgar Allan Poe short story, commissioned by American Lyric Theatre; The Huntsmen, a play with songs which won a 2009 Time Warner Storyteller’s award;The Gospel According to Trains, a recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist’s grant through America-In-Play. Quincy Long grew up in Warren, Ohio, is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and lives in New York City. (As of 2012)
MICHAEL ROTH is a composer, music director, orchestrator, pianist, and sound designer whose work has been described as music “one could imagine Charles Ives composing had he lived long enough to encounter rock-and-roll and beat poetry.” Having graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he studied composition with William Bolcom, he has been an active professional for over 35 years, creating a body of work that encompasses chamber music, new and experimental opera and music/theatre, music for dance, music for film, and especially music and sound for theatre, having composed the music for over 250 productions at major theatres throughout North America, including Broadway, off-Broadway, the Stratford Festival in Canada, and as a resident artist and composer at
both South Coast Repertory and La Jolla Playhouse in California. Michael is also known for his many collaborations with composer Randy Newman, as a music director, orchestrator, arranger, and pianist, including musical direction for THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Disney Animated Features), HARPS & ANGELS (Center Theatre Group), THE EDUCATION OF RANDY NEWMAN (Act Theatre, Seattle; SCR), FAUST (La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre), and editing five definitive songbook anthologies for Alfred Music Publishing. Michael was proud to be a 2011 fellow at the prestigious Sundance Institute Composers/Documentary Lab.
ERICA SCHMIDT played the title role in the Off-Off-Broadway play "Brandon Teena", written and directed by Leigh Silverman, produced by The Present Company. Director of the Off-Off-Broadway play "Slag Heap" at the Cherry Lane Studio in Manhattan's West Village, from April 9-26, 2003. Written by Anton Dudley. Produced by Cherry Lane Theatre. Cast: Brienin Bryant, Caroline Clay, Nina Zoie Lam, Andy Powers, Debargo Sanyal, Yvonne Woods. Director/Adaptor of the Off-Broadway play "Debbie Does Dallas" at the Jane Street Theatre in Manhattan's West Village, from October 8, 2002-February 15, 2003. Produced by The Araca Group, Jam Theatricals, Waxman-Williams Entertainment. Cast: Paul Fitzgerald, Mary Catherine Garrison, Caitlin Miller, Tricia Paoluccio, Del Pentecost, Sherie Rene Scott, Jon Patrick Walker, Jama Williamson. Director of the Off-Off-Broadway play "Spanish Girl" at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre in Manhattan's Upper West Side, from July 17-August 4, 2002. Written by Hunt Holman. Produced by Second Stage Uptown. Cast: Ari Graynor, Joey Kern, Nate Mooney, Jama Williamson. Director of the Off-Broadway play "As You Like It" at The Public Theater in Manhattan's East Village, from March 25-May 4, 2003. Written by William Shakespeare. Produced by The Public Theater. Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Lorenzo Pisoni, Lethia Nall, Drew Cortese, Johnny Giacalone, Jennifer Ikeda.
When a small town becomes embroiled in a brouhaha over the teaching of evolution in the schools, a single mom who moonlights as a stripper is unwittingly drawn into the fray, and forced to confront the values she holds dear.
Featuring
Guy Boyd
Funda Duval
Dashiell Eaves
Annie Golden
Laura Heisler
Brian Hutchison
Kathy Santen
Conrad John Schuck
Was last seen on Playwrights Horizons’ Mainstage in Quincy Long’s People Be Heard and before that as Sondheim’s Squeaky in Assassins. Annie is so happy to be back. On Broadway and Off: The Full Monty; On the Town; Xanadu; Leader of the Pack; Ah,Wilderness!; Hair; Mimi le Duck; The Black Suits; Saturn Returns. Big screen and small: I Love You Philip Morris, Hair, Twelve Monkeys, The Pebble and the Penguin, “Law & Order,” “SVU,” “Third Watch,” “Cheers,” “Miami Vice,” “Letterman,” “One Life to Live,” “All My Children.” (As of May 2011)
Playwrights Horizons: Kin, Doris to Darlene, People Be Heard. Broadway: Coram Boy. Other Off-Broadway: The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), Everything Will Be Different (Soho Rep), A Mother, A Daughter and a Gun (Dodger Stages), Water Music (EST), Somewhere Someplace Else (Clubbed Thumb), The Given (Studio Dante). Regional: Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Williamstown, Humana Festival, Woolly Mammoth, McCarter, Old Globe, The Alley. TV: “The Middle,” “Ugly Betty,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Bones,” “Numbers.”
Creative Team
Christine Jones
Scenic DesignerMichelle R. Phillips
Costume DesignerMichael Lincoln
Lighting DesignerBrett Jarvis
Sound DesignerJ. Steven White
Fight DirectorMichael Roth & Steve Tarshis
Music DirectionMichael McGoff
Production Stage ManagerPeter Pucci
ChoreographyPhotos of (1) Guy Boyd, Conrad John Schuck, Dashiell Eaves, Kathy Santen, and Laura Heisler; (2) Funda Duval and Laura Heisler; (3) Funda Duval and Annie Golden; and (4) Dashiell Eaves, Guy Boyd, and Conrad John Schuck by Joan Marcus.