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Playwright Michael Kramer. Divine Rivalry, by Kramer with D. S. Moynihan, directed by Michael Wilson, runs at The Old Globe July 7 - Aug. 5, 2012. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe. |
Michael Wilson will direct Divine Rivalry, by Michael Kramer with D. S. Moynihan, at The Old Globe, July 7 - Aug. 5. Photo by Joan Marcus. |
Divine Rivalry. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe. |
Cast and Creative Team
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Michael Kramer (Playwright, Divine Rivalry) is an award-winning journalist. As New York Magazine’s political columnist in the 1970s and 1980s, he covered local and national politics. For a decade beginning in the late ‘80s, he was TIME Magazine’s political columnist, covering national and foreign affairs. He was also chief political correspondent for US News & World Report and managing editor of the New York Daily News. He was the editor and publisher of More, the media magazine, and editor of Content, a short-lived magazine about the news business. He is the coauthor of The Ethnic Factor, a book about minority voting patterns that became a standard text on the subject. He also coauthored I Never Wanted to be Vice President of Anything, a political biography of Nelson Rockefeller that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a graduate of Amherst College and the Columbia Law School. |
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D. S. Moynihan (Playwright, Divine Rivalry) began her career in the Press/Marketing departments of New York’s Circle Repertory Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre. She then became Literary Manager of the latter, where she worked closely with writers on the creation and development of new plays. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Drama from New York University and taught theater at Sarah Lawrence College for five years. She currently serves as Vice President—Creative Projects for The Shubert Organization. |
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Michael Wilson (Director, Divine Rivalry) directed the World Premiere of Divine Rivalry at Hartford Stage. He is also the director of the Globe’s upcoming production of Dividing the Estate. Wilson received a Drama Desk Award as well as the 2010 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Director of a Play (On or Off Broadway) for his premiere production of Horton Foote’s three-part, nine-hour The Orphans’ Home Cycle. On Broadway, he has directed Foote’s Dividing the Estate (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), Matthew Barber’s Enchanted April (Tony nomination for Best Play) and John Van Druten’s Old Acquaintance (Roundabout Theatre Company). His Off Broadway credits include the premieres of Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets, Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children (Lincoln Center Theater), Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet (Primary Stages), Christopher Shinn’s Picked (Vineyard Theatre) and What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons), as well as the New York premieres of Jane Anderson’s Defying Gravity and Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign. His regional work includes plays at Alley Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Long Wharf Theatre and Hartford Stage, where he was Artistic Director from 1998 to 2011. This season he directed Roundabout’s revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore starring Olympia Dukakis. For Broadway next season, he will direct James Earl Jones in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. Considered one of the foremost interpreters of Horton Foote’s work, Wilson has also directed the premiere of Foote’s The Death of Papa (1997), the New York premiere of The Day Emily Married (2004) and the 50th Anniversary production of The Trip to Bountiful (2003), all featuring his longtime collaborator, the playwright’s daughter, Hallie Foote. |
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