Robert Bruce McIntosh
Co-founder and Artistic Director
Rob is an actor, director and educator with over 20 years of experience in arts education. He currently teaches theatre at Repertory Company High School for Theatre Arts in Times Square.
As the artistic director of City Lights Youth Theatre, Rob developed and ran programs providing youth from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to participate in theatre experiences to develop confidence, responsibility, teamwork, and a greater sense of self and community. With The Children’s Aid Society, he founded and directed the award-winning, nationally recognized Advantage Theatre and Film Program, a comprehensive after-school performing arts program for New York City junior high school students. As a senior teaching artist with ENACT, Rob designed curriculum and trained teaching artists and educators to use improvisation, theatre games and drama therapy techniques to teach conflict resolution in New York City classrooms.
Directing credits include: Next Year in Jerusalem, Liberty the Musical (WorkShop Theatre), Women and Guns (Castillo Theatre), Scrooge and Marley, Captains and Courage (Barefoot Theatre Company), Fairytale (NYMF), The Grapes of Wrath, The Laramie Project, The Crucible, Metamorphoses, Somebody in America (City Lights), Lady of Copper, The Road to Freedom, Enough for All, First Lady, Romeo and Juliet (Theater Garden).
Rob is a member of AEA and SDC as well as an artistic associate at The WorkShop Theater Company. He holds an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University an MS in Education from Long Island University and a BA in Theatre Studies from Emory University.
He also juggles knives and flaming torches and rides a unicycle.
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Dana Leslie Goldstein
Co-founder and Playwright-in-Residence
Dana Leslie Goldstein is an award-winning playwright and lyricist who was born in New York City (in the borough of Queens) and lives in New York City (in the borough of Brooklyn). She received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University, as well as Master of Fine Arts degrees in Poetry from University of Virginia and Playwriting from Brandeis University, both of which she attended on full writing scholarships.
Dana’s work has won the New England New Play Competition, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Prize, Different Voices New Play Award, ACTF New Play Award, the Henry Hoyns Poetry Fellowship, AWP Intro Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize, as well as numerous development grants.
Dana’s plays and musicals have been seen at The Cherry Lane Theater, Culture Project, Julia Miles Theater, The York Theatre Company, Theatre 80 St. Mark’s, New Dramatists, Center Stage, BMI, Vineyard Playhouse, Pulse, Theater Row Theatre, Gene Frankel Theatre, The Barrow Group, Acorn Theatre, Lark Theatre Company, Beckett Theatre, Neighborhood Playhouse, The Workshop Theater, Pacific Theatre (Vancouver), TischAsia (Singapore), at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, on Ellis and Liberty Islands, at the United Nations and on Equity TYA tours throughout the East Coast.
Dana’s musical LIBERTY (book & lyrics) is enjoying an open-ended off-Broadway run at 42WEST in New York City. LIBERTY premiered at the 1,700 seat Warner Theatre Center (CT) and ran off-Broadway at Theatre 80 St. Mark’s before opening on 42nd Street on July 4th 2016. The original cast recording has been released by Broadway Records and is also available on iTunes and Amazon. LIBERTY is available for national and international licensing through Miracle or 2 Productions. LIBERTY’s development has been supported by grants from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Dana’s dramatic writing has also been funded by the Women’s Project Collaboration Initiative and the Sachar Foundation.
Dana’s play Daughters of the Sexual Revolution was produced on the MainStage at the WorkShop Theater Company (NYC). Additional presentations in 2015 included the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York, and the Players Club Theater of Swarthmore in Pennsylvania.
Dana has been a lyricist at BMI and a member of the Playwrights Lab at The Women’s Project, where several of her plays and her comic book musical CYCLONE and the Pig-Faced Lady originated. CYCLONE was also an official Next Link selection of the New York Musical Theater Festival and has been seen at the York, TBG and most recently at The WorkShop Theater in NYC, where it is continuing its development.
Dana’s newest full-length play Go Down, Moses was recently seen in public, staged readings at The Workshop Theater and is being developed for production in 2016-2017.
Dana is Playwright-in-Residence for Theater Garden, Ltd. and a member of the Workshop Theater, NewShoe Theatre Group and the Dramatists Guild of America.
Contact: dana@theatergarden.org
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