Staff and Resident Artists
Jennifer Pierro, Director of Productions
Ken Wolf, Artistic Director
Ken Wolf is the artistic Director of Manhattan Rep and the author of over 20 plays. His favorite plays include: The Match Game, The Eyes of Love, Conversations with Dog, Professor Albert’s Lessons of Love, MEN, Mr. Cupcake and Sleeping with God, all produced in NYC in the last 9 years. He has also directed over 35 productions including The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Sisters, Tales of Terror, Men, The Match Game and GHOST. This Winter, he will be performing in his astonishing one-man play THE PEOPLE IN MY HIPS, a tour-de-force about Split-Personality and the indomitable spirit in us all. DON’T MISS THIS PLAY! (Opening January 17th, 2009) He is thrilled to be here at Manhattan Rep supporting artists and thrilled to be here creating and creating and creating.
Liza Lentini, Resident Playwright
Liza Lentini’s surrealistic drama Drowning in Euphoria received an extended Off-Broadway run at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre in 1999 where it was hailed by Showbusiness Weekly as “poignant and haunting…almost musical”.
Other favorite productions include: The Euthanasist (Manhattan Rep), The Gentleman Caller
(Women’s Project & Chicago Dramatists), Psychotic & Weird (but enough about me) (American Theatre of Actors, NYC & London), Life in Exodus (Milagro Theatre), Brain Children (Rubicon Theatre Project, Chicago) and The Low Road to Phoenix (Actor’s Workshop, Boston).
Liza is the Creative Director of Elephant Ensemble Theater (www.elephanttheater.com), a company that brings children’s theatre to NYC hospitals, and has also written their inaugural production of Thumbelina: The Story of a Brave Little Girl. Liza holds an MFA in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. For more information, please visit www.lizalentini.com.