Marc Wolf: "Another American: Asking and Telling," 1999-
A Solo Docudrama about Gay Men and Lesbians in the Military, and about America
From the Website of the Publicist:
With original direction by Joe Mantello, Another American: Asking and Telling takes the audience on a national tour of sexual politics, the American military, sanctioned discrimination, and its human fallout. Distilled from over one hundred and fifty interviews with straight, gay and lesbian military personnel (from World War II veterans to anonymous service members serving today), in addition to civil rights lawyers, federal judges, professors and politicians, Wolf portrays a community of characters struggling with the government’s ban on gays and lesbians in the armed forces.
Biographies
- Playwright, Actor
Marc Wolf won an Obie and was nominated for the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his Off-Broadway performance of Another American: Asking and Telling at The New Group, directed by Joe Mantello. He has also performed Another American at the McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum (Garland Award), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, The Studio Theatre Washington D.C. (Helen Hayes Award, GLAAD Award), Baltimore Center Stage, About Face Theatre (Jeff Nomination), New Conservatory Theatre (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award) and New York Stage and Film, among others.
Wolf was commissioned by McCarter Theatre and awarded a National Endowment for the Arts/TCG grant to develop his solo show The Road Home: Re-Membering America, which he performed at McCarter Theatre, Huntington Stage
Company and Geva Theater.
Another American: Asking and Telling is published in Political
Stages: Plays that Shaped a Century (Applause Books).
- Director
Joe Mantello’s directing credits include The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Blackbird, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony Nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design For Living, Terrence McNally and Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking for San Francisco Opera. The Vagina Monologues, Bash, Another American: Asking and Telling, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony Nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, Corpus Christi, Mizlansky/Zilinsky..., Blue Window, God’s Heart, The Santaland Diaries, Snakebit, Three Hotels, Imagining Brad.
As an actor: Angels in America (Tony Nomination) and The Baltimore Waltz. He is recipient of Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company.
==Praise for Another American: Asking and Telling:==_________________________
“Marc Wolf is a brilliant artist. A tour-de-force portrayal. There is an exceptional actor at work here.”
- The New York Times
“Gripping … a smart, provocative, and chilling event.”
- Village Voice
“Wolf’s passionate piece of political theatre is funny, vivid and trenchant.”
- Time Out
"an essay, a shadow history, a stirring testimony, and a masterwork, still relevant and deserving of a much wider audience."
- New Yorker, August 16-23, 2010
TICKETS: SEPT-OCT 2010
Tickets for Another American: Asking and Telling are $50 and can be purchased at www.telecharge.com, by calling 212-239-6200 or at the box office of the Daryl Roth Theatre (101 E 15th Street, NYC).
For group sales call 646-747-7400.
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