Eunuch Alley Bios
Eunuch Alley Bios
Actor Sudipto Chatterjee has a Ph.D. from New York University in Asian and Asian-American performance, film, post-colonial performance, modern and contemporary performance theory. His dissertation on nineteenth-century Bengali Theatre won the Michael Kirby Memorial Prize in 1998. He is the author of fourteen plays and translations in Bengali and English. In 1999, he was awarded the New York Drama Circle Award of Distinction for translation and direction of Nuraldeen’s Lifetime (by Bangladeshi playwright, Syed Shamsul Haq), a bilingual production in Bengali and English. He directed Girish Karnad’s Hayavadana and The Playboy of the Western World at Tufts University, as well as Badal Sircar’s Bhoma at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2002, he directed Birpurus, his own Bengali adaptation of The Playboy of the Western World, in Kolkata, India. For ten years, he was the Artistic Director of Epic Actors’ Workshop & Choir in New York. Currently Sudipto is an Assistant Professor (Asian Performance) at UC Berkeley.
Actor Pearce Bunting is a graduate of the Yale school of Drama. In 1999, Pearce was awarded the Judges prize for best performer at the International Theatre Festival at San Antonio and won the Philadelphia Critics Award for best actor. He was won the Barrymore award in 1995. Other than appearing on the Philadelphia stage he has been seen in the International Theatre Festival in the Czech Republic, in Vienna’s English Theatre and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television credits include Homicide (NBC), As the World Turns (CBS) and the host of Travelers (Discovery Channel, 1996-1998). Currently, Pearce is traveling with the Broadway hit musical, Mamma Mia.
Actor Samuel F. Reynolds has acted, directed, or written for numerous theatres and film productions in the Philadelphia and New York City areas. In 2000, his first full-length play, Dog Fight, was selected for InterAct Theatre’s annual “Showcase of New Plays,” as part of the New Play National Network and chosen as a finalist in the National Arts Club’s Playwrights First contest. In 2000 he was awarded a Theatre Fellowship by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He is a published poet and essayist, with some of his work appearing in two critically acclaimed anthologies: Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of American Poetry (Syracuse University Press: 1996) and Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity (Beacon Press: 1994). He is a cum laude graduate of Syracuse University and received a master’s degree in African American Studies at Temple University. Currently, Samuel lives in Brooklyn, New York and maintains a growing astrology practice
Producer George McCartin, better known as Veck in the Philadelphia entertainment and arts communities, is a Film Crewman, Photographer and Sound engineer who also works full time at The University of the Arts. McCartin has produced 4 short films and was line producer on 2 feature-length productions in the last 3 years. He recently released 2 twenty-five year anthologies of music and is in production for locals The Banfords. This past year, after the release of the 225 minute Kwederology 3 cd compilation, Veck did a 3-month promotional run of the roving video projection installation Videographitti in and around the Delaware Valley. Sometime in 2005, Veck will undertake… a nap.
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