DIRECTING
The following examples have been selected from the full list of productions and highlighted with production credtis, photos and reviews.

INDEX:
The Hairy Ape
Julius Caesar
The Lady Aoi
Midsummer Night's...
Mensch Meier
Money
Motel
Paris Lights
Piecework
Shepard Sets
The Tooth of Crime- 1983
The Tooth of Crime - 2006
Bonus Tracks
Tooth of Crime La MaMa, 45th Anniversary Celebration
La MaMa's 1983 production of Sam Shepard's
The Tooth Of Crime
by Sam Shepard,
Music by Shepard
Additional Music: Bob Jewett.
Music Direction: Bob Jewett
Set Design: Bill Stabile
Costume Design: Sally Lesser.
Lighting Design: Jeff Tapper,
Sound Design: Tim Schellenbaum 
Stage Manager: Elyzabeth Gorman
Production Consultant: Virlana Tkacz

Featuring Arthur Adair, Raul Aranas, Charles Gideon Davis, Nick Denning, Cary Gant, Andrew Morrison, Jenne Vath and Ray Wise.
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Piecework Theatre for the New City
Piecework
Written by Robyn Burland
Set Design Consultant - Tom Lee
Costume Design - Sally Lesser
Sound Design - Tim Schellenbaum
Stage Manager - Stephanie Atlan
Cast: Alexander Alioto, Jamie Ansley, Felipe Bonilla, Charles Britt,
Nell Gwynn, Allison Hiroto, Jennifer Mann, Juliet O’Brien, Micki Paley,
Heather Rogers, Julie Rosier, Chriztopher Zaborowski

Piecework Piecework
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Motel La MaMa, NYC
Motel
by Jean Claude van Itallie
Puppet Design - Catherine Jane Shaw
Set Design - Peter Case
Music & Sound Design - Tim Schellenbaum
Costumes - Ellen Stewart
Lighting Design - Jeff Tapper
Stage Manager - Esteban Fernandez
Cast: Allison Hiroto, Rosemary Quinn, Shawneeka Woodward,
Chriztopher Zaborowski

Motel Motel
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presented in German by Meta Theater, Munich, Germany,
The Lady Aoi
by Yukio Mishima
Stage Design by Watoku Ueno,
Costumes by Barbara Schaucher,
Lighting Design by Markward Scheck,
Music by Helga Pogatschar,
Cast: Hede Beck, Elisabeth Erhard, Daniela Schneider and
Axel Tangerding

Motel Motel
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Midsummer
San Diego Rep.
Midsummer's Night Dream
by William Shakespeare
Music by Max Roach
Set by Rob Murphy
Costumes by Sally Lesser
Lights by Peter Maradudin
Featuring Beverly Bremers, Damon Bryant, Keith David, Sheila Dabney,
Joe Kane, Natasha Kautsky, Jim Morlino and Ronn Smith

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Cleveland Playhouse
Mensch Meier
by Franz Xaver Kroetz
Set design by Bill Stabile
Costumes by Estelle Painter
Lights by Blu.
Featuring Catherine Albers, Thomas Kopache and Joseph Pecchio

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Money
La MaMa ETC, NYC
Money: A Jazz Opera
Libretto by Amiri Baraka
Music by George Gruntz.
Set by Jun Maeda
Costumes by Sally Lesser.
Lights by Jim Hardy
Featuring Ray Anderson, Kenneth Bell, Bakida Carroll, Chico Freeman,
Sharon Freeman, Frank Gordon, George Gruntz, Billy Hart,
Howard Johnson, Sheila Jordan, Erica Lindsay, Cecil McBee,
J.D. Parran, Janice Robinson, Wallace Roney and Vera Williams.

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LaMaMa and Syracuse Stage
Shepard Sets,
Plays by Sam Shepard,
Original music by Max Roach
Set by Bill Stabile
Costumes by Sally Lesser
Lights by Blu
Featuring Jim Abele, Betsy Aidem, Raul Aranas, Akin Babtunde,
Tom Costello, Sheila Dabney, Peter Jay Fernandez, Zivia Flomenhaft,
Stephen Mellor,S. Epatha Merkerson and Deirdre O’Connell

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Tooth of Crime

the original 1983 production was in association with
SYRACUSE STAGE/SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
La MaMa, NYC & Syracuse Stage
The Tooth Of Crime
by Sam Shepard,
music by Shepard
Additional Music by Bob Jewett.
Music Direction by Bob Jewett
Set by Bill Stabile
Costumes by Sally Lesser.
Lights by Paul Mathiesen,
Featuring Richard Allen, Raul Aranas, Benmio Easterling, Peter Jay Fernandez,
Jodi Long, Stephen Mellor, John Nesci and Ray Wise.

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Paris Lights American Place Theatre, NYC.
Paris Lights
(The All-Star Literary Genius Expatriate Revue)

by Mike Zettler
Music by Bill Russo,
Set by Bill Stabile,
Costumes by Sally Lesser and Kathleen Smith,
Lights by Laura Rambaldi,
Choreography by Jane Summerhays.
Featuring Margery Cohen, Rhetta Hughes, Trisha Long,
Stephen Mellor, Christopher Murray, Jane Summerhays,
John David Westfall and Nicholas Wyman.

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Julius Caesar
Impossible Ragtime Theatre, NYC,
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare,
Set by George Ferencz.
Costumes by Sally Lesser.
Lights by Jon Gisondi.
Featuring Patti Baker, Catherine Boyd Louis Braunstien Glen Cabrera,
Brian Dennehy, David Duhaime, Greg Fabian, Margaret Flanagan,
Drew Keil, Richard Leighton, Karen Pontius, Kristen Richards,
J.W. Roberts, Dino Shorte, Ray Wise and Kate Zentall.

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The Hairy Ape Impossible Ragtime Theatre, NYC.
The Hairy Ape
by Eugene O’Neill.
Set by Ron Daley and George Ferencz,
Costumes by Sally Lesser
Lights by John Gisondi,
Stage Fighting by Spencer Cohen.
Featuring Pattie Baker, Louis Braunstein, Richard Carballo, Spencer Cohen,
Cynthia Crane, Gideon Davis, Greg Fabian, Margaret Flanagan,
Jonathan Foster, Jonathan Frakes, Drew Keil, Annette Kurek,
Karen Pontius, Kristen Richards, Ray Wise and Stephen Zuckerman.

Subsequent productions at Pittsburg Public Theatre and at Berkeley Rep
featured music by Max Roach and set design by Bill Stabile

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BONUS TRACKS (Info Pending)

Nude with Violin
by Noel Coward @ The Amature Comedy Club

The Last Two Jews Of Kabul
by Josh Greenfeld, @ La MaMa, NYC

Max Roach Spectacles
@ Lincoln Center, NYC; Aaron Davis Hall, NYC;
Perugia, Italy; Verona, Italy; Red Bank, NJ; 92nd St Y, NYC

Ghosts: Live From Galilee (The Scottsboro Boys Blues Opera)
Libretto by Edgar Nkosi White, Music by Genji Ito @ La MaMa ETC, NYC

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