meantime: home

Read The New York Times feature story
on the MEANTIME project here. 

 by Alexandra Gersten Vassilaros
at NYU:Tisch Graduate Acting
developed and produced as part of Project/Project, 
to run simultaneously with Meantime: War (Janet Zarish, Director)
February 7 - 10, 2013
Scenic Design by Feli Lamenca
Costumes by Ari Fulton and Mary Sievert
Lighting by Leslie Smith
Sound by Toby Algya
Production Photography by Ella Bromblin






major barbara

by George Bernard Shaw
at Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
November 28 - December 2, 2012
Scenic Design by Timothy Rothwell
Costumes by Ella Rose Haag
Lighting by Ethan Steimel
Sound by Jason Biggs





the merchant of venice

D Magazine names MERCHANT OF VENICE one of the best productions of 2012. [see full article here]

TheaterJones names MERCHANT OF VENICE one of the best productions of 2012. [see full article here]

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram names MERCHANT OF VENICE one of the best productions of 2012. [see full article here]

Criticalrant.com names MERCHANT OF VENICE one of the best productions of 2012. [see full article here]

 at Trinity Shakespeare Festival
June 13 - July 1, 2012
Scenic Design by Brian Clinnin
Costumes by Aaron Patrick Turner DeClerk
Lighting by Michael Skinner
Sound by Toby Algya
Production Photography by Amy Peterson


"Chilling, dark, and oh-so-good." - D Magazine


"One of those poignant, understated, transcendent stage moments theatre lovers hunger for but don’t often get to experience"
- Alexandra Bonifield - criticalrant.com


"TRINITY SHAKESPEARE HITS SECOND HOME RUN WITH THE MERCHANT OF VENICE:  Director Stephen Fried creates a provocative mood piece that is visually stunning, thanks to Brian Clinnin’s shadowy set ... and Michael Skinner’s simple, but beautifully executed lights, in a production that is acted with polished verse. Fried’s success with the material comes as no surprise. The director delivered the best live Shakespeare I have ever seen as a critic (Much Ado About Nothing at Trinity), and helmed last year’s superb Macbeth." - M. Lance Lusk - D Magazine [see full review here]


"The production roils and seethes with inner repressed outrage and anguish, reflecting the frozen emotion exploding off the panoramic painting floating above... J. Brent Alford steers away from a stereotypical depiction of Shylock the Jew, and makes him a tangibly real man. Under Stephen Fried’s direction he manages to both repel the audience with his outrageous greed and vengefulness yet elicit their sympathy for the crushing life blows he receives. Chuck Huber, perfectly cast as Portia’s suitor Bassanio, defines a man consumed with guilt, whose heart has led his head and caused a true friend to suffer horrific consequences. Richard Haratine as the merchant Antonio...undergoes one of the most beautiful acting transformations I have witnessed on stage." - Alexandra Bonifield - criticalrant.com [see full review here]


"TRINITY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CAPTURES BOTH SIDES OF THE MERCHANT OF VENICE: The Merchant of Venice might be Shakespeare’s most sharply divided play. Stephen Fried’s production for Trinity Shakespeare Festival makes that beautifully clear" - Lawson Taitte - The Dallas Morning News [see full review here]

welcome to america

by H. Leivick
translated from Yiddish and adapted by Ellen Perecman
produced by New Worlds Theatre Project
at the 45th Street Theatre
May 2 - 20, 2012
Scenic Design by Lee Savage
Costumes by Alixandra Gage Englund
Lighting by John Kernisky
Production photographs by John Kernisky

"Welcome to America...warrants a look as an immigrant story that doesn't shy away from the contradictions inherent in its subject. ... Stories of generational conflict and assimilation can approach cliché, but "Welcome to America" stands apart because of its willingness to embrace the ambiguity and irresolution that mark the Mazes' status in New York." - Nicole Villeneuve - Backstage






the trojan women

adapted from Euripides by Jean-Paul Sartre
translated by Ronald Duncan
at The New School for Drama
February 23 - 25, 2012
Scenic Design by Lee Savage
Costumes by Rachel Dozier-Ezell
Lighting by Gina Scherr
Sound by Toby Algya
Production photography by Rachel Dozier-Ezell and Lee Savage

 

  


 

 


 

 

 

 

shakespeare's r&j

based on the adaptation by Joe Calarco of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
at Virginia Commonwealth University
September 30 - October 8, 2011
Scenic Design by Jasmine Roberts
Costumes by Michael Magaraci
Lighting by John Kernisky
Sound by Andrew Redmon
Production photography by Robert Perry and Glynn Brannan

macbeth

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram names MACBETH one of the best productions of 2011. [see full article here]

D Magazine names MACBETH one of the best productions of 2011. [see full article here] 

Winner of a 2011 DFW Theater Critics Forum Award for Creative Contribution.

at Trinity Shakespeare Festival
June 8 - 26, 2011
Scenic Design by Brian Clinnin
Costumes by Aaron Patrick Turner
Lighting by Michael Skinner
Sound by Toby Jaguar Algya
Production photography by Amy Peterson



"Trinity Shakespeare Festival's 'Macbeth' is nothing less than amazing"

"Wow.
The Trinity Shakespeare Festival's production of Macbeth is a visceral stunner filled with treachery, blood, guilt, and the full and mighty power of the Bard's words. If you have ever wondered what it is like to be left breathless by a piece of theater, go see this one.
The opening moments of this production are absolutely electrifying. Shrieking soldiers enter and exit wildly from every direction with swords and banners held high as the sounds of war blend with lightning and thunder in a hellish cacophony. It is amazing both aurally and visually. And it is but a small taste of what is to come.
Director Stephen Fried rips the heart out of this tragedy and hands it to us while it is still beating. He uses an amazing array of theatrical devices to make this production look and sound fabulous, but he never resorts to gimmickry. Every move he makes rises inexorably from the text. What's left is all Shakespeare all the time." - Punch Shaw - Fort Worth Star Telegram

"Trinity's Macbeth is a visual spectacle and a master class in attention to detail... In directing Macbeth Stephen Fried has the courage to allow the actions to speak for themselves rather than serve as a metaphor for something else. His careful exploration of the rich nuances of Shakespeare’s language yields rich dividends, making it extremely accessible, deeply engaging and forms the basis for some strong performances. Trinity’s Macbeth...is a powerful, energetic, visceral experience drenched in blood, murder and madness." Chris O'Rourke - Examiner.com
"Only three years into its short existence, and yet again, Trinity Shakespeare Festival continues to provide by far the best of the Bard’s work in Dallas-Fort Worth... Director Stephen Fried’s incandescent Much Ado About Nothing for Trinity last year was nothing short of magnificent, and was the most superior Shakespeare production, if not the best play period, of the year. Fried uses a similar deft touch for a much different creature in one of the darkest tragedies in the canon, Macbeth... Firstly, the aesthetics from the team of Brian Clinnin, Michael Skinner, and Toby Jaguar Algya (Scenic, Lighting, and Composition/Sound design) are phenomenal in every sense of the word. Slate and stones with a mossy arched cave, scraggly tree, and scattered puddles dominate the thrust stage. There is a smoky ambience throughout punctuated by eerie music, bombastic sounds, and the clamor of war, all of which create a different take on nature and the elemental: As You Like It’s Arden is an earthly paradise, whereas Macbeth occupies an earthly hell. The Three Witches (Morgan McClure, Kelsey Milbourn, Sophie Smith) are demonic and disgusting as they contort, and consort with dark forces. Richard Haratine’s Macbeth begins with wide-eyed wonder, soon transforming into a Fortune-disdaining, dizzy lunatic. He shines as the antic, mad tyrant, particularly in his “Tomorrow” speech. Trinity Shakespeare Festival’s As You Like It is “wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful,” and their Macbeth is “yet again wonderful!” - M. Lance Lusk - D Magazine


lysistrata

at the University of Miami's Jerry Herman Ring Theatre
February 16 - 27, 2011
Sets by Ashley Gilbert
Costumes by Michiko Kitayama
Lighting by Robert Perry


'LYSISTRATA is a must-see'
- The Miami Hurricane [see full review here]


[all photos by Kent Lantaff]
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