Dr. Marion Castleberry To Direct WaterTower's THE TRAVELING LADY
By: Gabrielle Sierra Sep. 30, 2010
WaterTower Theatre Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin today announced that he has hired director Dr. Marion Castleberry to direct the Company's production of The Traveling Lady, WaterTower Theatre's entry into the Dallas/Fort Worth Foote Festival. The 3rd installment of WaterTower Theatre's 15th Anniversary Season, The Traveling Lady will run April 1 - May 1, 2011.
Dr. Marion Castleberry is Graduate Professor of Theatre Arts at Baylor University and co-founder of the Horton Foote American Playwrights Festival. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre from Louisiana State University. A member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Dr. Castleberry has worked professionally as an actor, director, and producer for more than two hundred productions across the nation. He has directed Off-Broadway and worked in New York theatres like HB Studios, Resonance Ensemble, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. He directed an Equity production of Romulus Linney's Heathen Valley in 2005 and his 2006 Off-Broadway production of Horton Foote's The Traveling Lady was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for "Best Revival of a Play." In 2008, he directed the world premiere of Arthur Giron's The Coffee Trees at the Beckett Theatre in New York. Dr. Castleberry has written numerous books and articles on a variety of playwrights such as Moliere, Bertolt Brecht, Martin McDonagh and Horton Foote. He is editor of Horton Foote: Genesis of an American Playwright, published in 2004, and Farewell: Remembering Horton Foote (1916-2009), published in 2010. He was recently the recipient of the 2011Texas Educational Theatre Association.
Horton Foote was a Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and Oscar-winning screenwriter. Born on March 14, 1916, in Wharton, Texas, Foote died March 4, 2009 - just 10 days shy of his 93rd birthday. Foote, known as the "American Chekhov," was one of the founders of the American Actors Company. While he took on some minor stage roles, Foote was best known for his writing. He won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, and an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Tender Mercies. Other film credits include Tomorrow, The Trip to Bountiful, Baby the Rain Must Fall (adapted from The Traveling Lady) and Of Mice and Men. His play The Young Man from Atlanta was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Included in his numerous playwriting credits are Tomorrow, The Orphans' Home Cycle, and The Chase.
In addition to his Pulitzer Prize and two Oscars, Foote was honored with the William Inge Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre in 1989, a Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998, the Writer's Guild of America's Lifetime Achievement award in 1999, and the PEN American Center's Master American Dramatist Award in 2000.
About WaterTower Theatre
WaterTower Theatre is celebrating its 15th anniversary with its 2010-2011 season. The Company is one of the leading regional theatres in North Dallas and Texas. It is consistently recognized for its artistic excellence by the Dallas Theatre League, Dallas/Fort Worth Theatre Critics Forum, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Observer, D Magazine and The Fort WorthStar-Telegram, among others. WaterTower Theatre has a subscription base of more than 1,800 subscribers and serves an audience of over 35,000 patrons annually. This past season, WaterTower Theatre's work was recognized with four Dallas/Fort Worth Critics Forum Awards.
WaterTower Theatre gratefully acknowledges the support of The Town of Addison, TACA, Texas Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. WaterTower Theatre is supported, in part, through the generosity of The 500 Inc., Ackley Financial Group, Inc., Atmos Energy, AT&T Yellow Pages, Liberty Capital Bank, Rainmaker Advertising, Target, The Shubert Foundation, and Media Sponsors the Dallas Voice and WFAA.
About Terry MartinTerry Martin is WaterTower Theatre's Producing Artistic Director, a position he has held for 12 years. MR. Martin has directed 40 productions for WaterTower Theatre. Some of his directing credits at WTT include Our Town, which is currently playing at WaterTower Theatre, Grey Gardens, Doubt, a Parable, The Full Monty, Man of La Mancha, Humble Boy, The Crucible, Take Me Out,A Country Life (which he adapted from Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and which won the 2005 Rabin Award - Best New Play), Cabaret, It Ain'tNothin' But The Blues, Company, An Inspector Calls, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Laramie Project, You Can't Take It With You, Book of Days, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2002 Rabin Award - Director of a Play), Sweeney Todd (2002 Rabin Award Nomination - Director of a Musical), Desire Under the Elms, Ravenscroft, Rockin' Christmas Party (2000, 2001), Enter the Guardsman (2001 Rabin Award Nomination - Director of a Musical), Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill and Little Shop of Horrors (2000 Rabin Award Nomination - Director of a Musical) among others. For Plano Repertory Theatre, he has directed Journey's End (2000 Rabin Award - Director of a Play), Dracula, La Bête, Little Shop of Horrors and Pump Boys and Dinettes.
The Traveling Lady
Written by Horton Foote
Directed by Dr. Marion Castleberry
April 1 - May 1, 2011
Previews: April 1, 2 @ 8pm and April 3 at 7:30 pm
Opening night: Monday, April 4 @ 7:30pm
Performances: April 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, May 1.
7:30 PM Wednesday &Thursday
8:00 PM Friday & Saturday
2:00 PM Saturday (April 30 Only)
2:00 PM Sunday
Tickets: www.watertowertheatre.org or 972-450-6232
WaterTower Theatre
Addison Theatre Centre
15650 Addison Road
Addison, Texas 75001
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