Next Season:
"Ten Million Black Republicans."
By Steve Gold and Tom Ferriter
Steve Gold
Steve Gold is a native New Yorker who first became seriously interested in the theatre about a decade ago. While serving as an artistic apprentice with the Seventh Sign Theater Company, he wrote his first play. In 1991, Steve formed the Enigma Theatre Company, an outlet for producing new work by emerging playwrights. The early productions of the Enigma were seen at the Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, on Manhattan's upper west side. Later plays of the Enigma Theatre Company originated from Alice's Fourth Floor, located on Theater Row. Most recently, Enigma has been producing at Theater 22, in Chelsea.
Enigma has presented nine showcase productions. The Heights Players, in Brooklyn, has mounted workshop productions of a number of Steve's one-act plays. This past summer, Samco Productions, produced Master Race, a full-length play, at the American Theater of Actors. Steve's dark comedy, Ten Million Black Republicans, is currently in development with Stageplays Theatre Company
Tom Ferriter
Artistic Director Tom Ferriter directed the world premieres of James MacGuire's Nanny, a comedy about extended families, at the Nottara Theatre-Bucharest, and Harding Lemay's From A Dark Land, a World War-II era drama of complicity, at the National Theatre of Romania (Craiova), after having directed the world premiere of Marlene Fanta Shyer's First Wife, a serious comedy about divorce, at the Emelin Theatre (Mamaroneck, New York), the East Coast premiere of Diane Leslie's and Mary Orr's Enchanted Afternoon, an environmentally-themed musical for families, and the world premieres of Frank O'Donnell's psycho-sexual thriller, Twisters, Tedd Smith's Perpetrator, a drama of responsibility inspired by the relationship between Norman Mailer and John Henry Abbott, and Jerry McGee's Reunion at Red Fork, a comedy of remembrance and reunion, Off Broadway and on New York's Theatre Row. Tom has directed more than 30 plays in workshop in theatres in and around New York. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Dramatists Guild, Actors' Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
