This winter, Guild Hall debuts the John Drew Theater Lab (JDTLab), a workshop devoted to fostering East End performing artists and cultivating audiences for their work. The mission of JDTLab is to support actively-engaged performing artists by providing the helpful resources of the John Drew Theater to further them along on the journey of their creative process. The JDTLab programs will be presented free of charge to the public at 7:30pm on select Tuesdays through May.
On February 4, Sawyer Avery makes his directorial debut, working with a cast of local favorites from Guild Hall’s recent production of The Cripple of Inishmaan and Bay Street’s The Diary of Anne Frank. Co-directed by Megan Minutillo. Featuring Stan Demidoff, Christian Scheider, Sawyer Avery, Christopher Imbrosciano, Joe Pallister, Evan Daves, Chloe Dirksen, Jessica Mortellaro, and Aaron Costa Ganis. A Tony-Award winning play, Biloxi Blues is the second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon’s trilogy, which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WWII going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital ‘L,’ along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.
