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I Am My Own Wife

Jan 12 – Mar 7, 2010
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Winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 Tony Award® for Best Play

Inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I Am My Own Wife tells the fascinating real-life story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a German transvestite who managed to survive both Nazi rule and the repressive East German Communist regime.

Von Mahlsdorf was an iconic figure who created a safe-space in the bowels of her antiques museum for East Berlin’s “undesirables” – homosexuals, cross-dressers, and prostitutes. But in order to survive, she sacrificed her ideals – becoming an informer for the East German secret police, the Stasi.

In this “brilliant” (New Yorker) one-man show, the award-winning Andrew Long (My Fair Lady, Saving Aimee) portrays Charlotte’s complexity – a non-conformist shrouded in an image of conformity; a protector of minorities who ultimately becomes their betrayer.

By Doug Wright
Directed by Alan Paul

Cast

Andrew Long

SIGNATURE: I Am My Own Wife, My Fair Lady (Henry Higgins), Saving Aimee. DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Frozen (Helen Hayes Award); Shakespeare Theatre: Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Antony & Cleopatra (Antony), Julius Caesar (Antony), Hamlet (Claudius), King Lear (Edmund), Richard II (Bolingbroke), Don Carlos, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Duchess of Malfi, and many others; Arena Stage, Theater J, Olney Theater, Folger. REGIONAL: Guthrie Theater: M Butterfly (Gallimard), Gross Indecency; Rep of St. Louis: Enrico IV (Enrico), Amadeus (Salieri), Copenhagen, Metamorphoses; Denver Center: Richard III (Richard); Cincinnati Playhouse, Pioneer Theater, Chautauqua Theater, and the Oregon, Illinois, Alabama, and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals. EDUCATION: BFA, University of Nevada, MFA Alabama Shakespeare Festival/University of Alabama. AWARDS: 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow, 2007 Will Shakespeare Award.

Creative Team

Doug Wright

Playwright

BROADWAY: The Little Mermaid (Book), Grey Gardens (Book, Tony and Drama Desk nominations), I Am My Own Wife (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award for Best Play, Drama Desk Award, GLAAD Media Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award, Lucille Lortel Award). PLAYS: Quills (Obie Award for outstanding achievement in playwriting, Kesselring Award for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club), The Stonewater Rapture, Interrogating The Nude, Watbanaland, Buzzsaw Berkeley, Unwrap Your Candy. FILM: Screenplay: Quills (Golden Globe nomination, Paul Selvin Award); Acting: Little Manhattan, Two Lovers. TV: “Tony Bennett: An American Classic” (dir. Rob Marshall). AWARDS: American Academy of Arts and Letters, Tolerance Prize from the KulturForum Europa. MEMBERSHIPS: Dramatists Guild, the Writer’s Guild of America, East, the Screen Actor’s Guild, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. DIRECTING: Kiki And Herb: Pardon Our Appearance in Washington DC, Philadelphia, London.

Alan Paul

Director

SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY: Resident Assistant Director (2008-present): directing credits include readings of Sir Patient Fancy, Britannicus, The Gamester, The Demi-Monde, The Dispute, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and Inherit the Wind (with the National Academy of Sciences); Assistant Directing credits include 11 shows for Michael Kahn, David Muse, Rebecca Taichman, Gale Edwards, Mary Zimmerman, Jonathan Munby, and Maria Aitken. DIRECTING: DC AREA: Source Festival: The Downtown Daylight Project, X-Ray Vision at the Motel 9. REGIONAL: Apex Theatre Company: Richard II; Northwestern University: Six Degrees of Separation. MUSIC DIRECTING: DC AREA: Woolly Mammoth: Dead Man’s Cell Phone. REGIONAL: Northwestern University: The Dialogues of the Carmelites; Porchlight Music Theatre: Assassins; Theatre Building Chicago: Black, White and Gray. ASSISTANT DIRECTING: DC AREA: Arena Stage: Cabaret (dir. Molly Smith), 33 Variations Workshop (dir. Moisés Kaufman); Woolly Mammoth: Dead Man’s Cell Phone (dir. Rebecca Taichman). TRAINING: B.S. in Theatre, Northwestern University.

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