Meet the 'Night Sings Its Songs' Team
JON OLAV FOSSE
Playwright
Jon (he/him) is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable." Fosse's work spans over seventy novels, poems, children's books, essays, and theatre plays, which have been translated into over fifty languages. The most performed Norwegian playwright after Henrik Ibsen, Fosse is currently—with productions presented on over a thousand stages worldwide—one of the most performed contemporary playwrights globally. His minimalist and deeply introspective plays, with language often bordering on lyrical prose and poetry, have been noted to represent a modern continuation of the dramatic tradition established by Henrik Ibsen in the 19th century. Fosse's work has often been placed within the tradition of postdramatic theatre, while several of his notable novels have been described as belonging to the style of post-modernist and avant-garde literature, due to their minimalism, lyricism and unorthodox use of syntax.
SARAH CAMERON SUNDE
Translator
Sarah (she/her) is an interdisciplinary environmental artist and director working at the intersection of performance, video and public art. She was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her series of nine performances and video artworks made on six continents, 36.5 /A Durational Performance with the Sea (2013 – 2022). In 2017, Sunde instigated and co-founded Works on Water (a triennial and artist-driven experimental organization dedicated to art that is made on/in/with bodies of water). She served as Deputy Artistic Director of New Georges for 16 years (2001-2017), co-founded the live art collective Lydian Junction (2011-2015) and theater company Oslo Elsewhere (2004-2012), and is known internationally as Jon Fosse’s American director and theatrical translator (five U.S. premieres in New York and Pittsburgh).
JERRY HEYMAN
Director
Jerry (he/him) is an award-winning director. Recent: Sold-out run of Imagining Madoff (59E59 Theaters) including Off-Broadway extension at Theatre Row. Select: Call Me Charlie w/ Danny DeVito (La Mama); My Daddy’s Serious American Gift (Tiffany Theatre, LA); A Country For Old Men (American Stage); Three (EST); Demeter’s Lost Daughter (St. Clement’s Theatre). PhD and MFA from Carnegie-Mellon and is a member of SDC.
GAMA VALLE
Casting Director
Gama (él//him) is a New York based director, playwright, screenwriter, children's book author and casting director. He holds an M.F.A in Directing from The New School and a B.A. in Drama from University of Puerto Rico. His Spanish language debut picture book, PITU LE BAILA AL AMAR (Pitu Dances to the Sea) is an International Latino Book Awards winner. He is a recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship at Repertorio Español. Gama received the First Prize in playwriting from Puerto Rico’s Institute of Culture for his play “Queishd&Dilit”. ​Directing credits include: The Lesson, L’Amfiparnaso, I Catch You Dreaming, Among Who, Whom and Ever, Jump It, In Love but Discreet, The Girl Who Used to Die Often. @gamavalle
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For New Light (casting): The Greatest Hits Down Route 66, War Words, The Lights Are On, I Wanna F*ck Like Romeo & Juliet, The End of Hester, The Great Novel, The American Tradition
JENNY ALLEN
The Mother
Jenny (she/her) is a performer and writer. Select New York credits include: Love, Loss and What I Wore and Turquoise. Her solo show, I Got Sick Then I Got Better, was extended three times at New York Theatre Workshop and has been seen across the country. Her collection of essays, “Would Everyone Please Stop?”, was a finalist for the Thurber Prize. She has also hosted and told stories for The Moth.
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For NLTP: Imagining Madoff
KYLE CAMERON
The Young Man
Kyle (he/him) NYC: By the Water (MTC), Chains (Mint Theater), Pushkin (the american vicarious). Proud member of the 52nd Street Project. Regional: Capital Rep, Albany (Seared); SF Playhouse (Significant Other, Theatre Bay Area & SF Critics Circle Award Nominee; Trouble Cometh, world premiere), Denver Center (Anna Karenina, Henry Award Nominee), Studio Theatre, DC (The Hard Problem), City Theatre, Pittsburgh (The White Chip). International: Green Thumb Theatre (CRANKED, Dora Mavor Moore Award, world premiere), Arts Club (Vancouver), The Belfry (Victoria). Film: Vampire (Sundance). TV: “FBI: Most Wanted”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “The Blacklist”, “Orange is the New Black”, “The Lottery”, “Murdoch Mysteries”. Training: NYU Grad Acting.
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NLTP debut.
KEN KING
Baste
Ken (he/him) Off-Broadway: Sleep No More’s The Lost Supper, (McKitterick Hotel), Cool Hand Luke (59E59 Theaters), A Clockwork Orange (59E59 Theaters, Edinburgh Fringe festival), The UnBrunch (Norwood Immersive), What the Butler Saw (Franklin Stage Co.), Fahrenheit 451 (59E59 Theaters), 2nd Violin (Boston Center for the Arts), Proof (Princeton Theater) The Third Man (Manhattan Theater Source), All in the Timing (Manhattan Theater Source) Film/TV: Finding Steve McQueen, Before I Go, Happy Birthday, Marsha!, Alternatino with Arturo Castro, The Blacklist, FBI: Most Wanted. NLTP: This Is Not a Time of Peace. For Titi. For Ricardo. Love, always.
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For NLTP: This Is Not a Time of Peace
SUSAN LYNSKEY
The Young Woman
Susan (she/ her) Handbagged (59E59 Theaters); POTUS (Berkeley Rep); ROE (OSF/Arena/Centerstage); INDECENT (Arena Stage/Balt.Centerstage/KC Rep); Steel Magnolias (Cincy Playhouse/Indiana Rep), Leah and Her Dybbuk (Kennedy Center); Importance of Being Earnest (Centerstage/Pittsburgh Public), and Gloria Steinem: A Life (Theater J, Washington DC; title role). Susan is proud to have broken a gender barrier this past June, as the first woman in the US to play a Lehman brother (Mayer) in the tour-de-force epic, The Lehman Trilogy at The ZACH Theatre in Austin. Her recent film The Friend, opposite Bill Murray/Naomi Watts, releases this March. She is represented by the HCKR Agency. Susan is thrilled to be together again with New Light and the incomparable Jerry Heymann; she is profoundly grateful for her loving parents, her chosen family, Susie and LBR. Lynskey is the recipient of numerous Helen Hayes Award Nominations for Outstanding Lead and Outstanding Supporting Actress in A Play, a Bay Area Critics Circle Award Nomination, and is a multiple DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Awardee.
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For NLTP: The Jewish Wife, Self Help in the Anthropocene
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STEVEN RATTAZZI
The Father
Steven (he/him) Broadway: Indecent. Off-Broadway: King Kirby (Brick); Henry V w/ Liev Schrieber (Public Theater); Galileo w/ F. Murray Abraham; The Tempest w/Mandy Patinkin (CSC); Stunning (Lincoln Center); Dinner Party (Target Margin); Painted Snake on a Painted Chair (OBIE); McGurk (ERS); Richard Foreman’s Samuel’s Major Problems (Ontological). Regional: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Two River); Lempicka (Williamstown); Seder (Hartford Stage); Indecent (Yale Rep/La Jolla); Marie Antoinette (ART/Yale Rep); Lovesong of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cincinnati Playhouse); Christmas Carol (McCarter). Film: Venture Bros: Radiant Is the Blood; The Family (Besson). TV: New Amsterdam; Venture Brothers.
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For NLTP: This Is Not a Time of Peace, Arthur and Esther
TOM DRISCOLL
Assistant Stage Manager
Tom (he/him) is an actor thrilled to continue earning his stage management hyphenate by joining the team for Night Sings Its Songs! Past credits include The Curtain’s Macbeth (PA) and The Tank’s Midnight Coleslaw’s Tales from Beyond the Closet (SH). Some favorite acting credits include A-Gay in Hit The Wall, William in Punk Rock, and Charles Surface in The School for Scandal. He earned his BFA in Theater at Point Park University.
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NLTP debut.
BRIAN DUDKIEWICZ
Scenic Designer
Brian (he/him) is an award-winning set designer who’s work has been seen across Canada, The United States, and Asia. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in set design from the Yale School of Drama, and a Bachelor Degree in Architecture from McGill University. His bold ideas and attention to detail allow him to specialize in both scenic design as well as costume design.
Brian has most recently designed at the Mirvish Theatre, Musical Stage Company, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Aquarius, Neptune Theatre, The Grand Theatre, the Segal Center for Performing Arts, The Weston Playhouse, the Abingdon Theatre Company, Orlando Repertory Theatre, St. Petersburg Opera, Theatre Horizon, Sierra Repertory Theatre, The Resident Theatre Company, Luna Stage, Cape May Stage, 59E59, Theatre Row, Urban Stages, to name a few.
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For NLTP: War Words, The Lights Are On, According to the Chorus, Everything is Super Great, Imagining Madoff (Theatre Row), The American Tradition, Life x 3, Hal & Bee, Time Stands Still, Breeders, Omega Kids, Sight Unseen, The Ross Howard Festival: Two of Us and Arthur & Esther, Strange Country, In the Soundless Awe, No One Loves Us Here
JENNIE GORN
Sound Designer
Jennie (she/he/they) is a sound designer/engineer based in NYC. They are delighted to make both their New York City design debut as well their debut working with New Light Theater Project! Jennie can usually be found working at Titanique in Union Square fixing microphones, or baking cookies. They send their love and gratitude to everyone who made this possible!
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For NLTP: Room 1214, This Is Not a Time of Peace
PAUL HUDSON
Lighting Designer
Paul (he/him) works in live performance and studio television. Recent credits and highlights include: The Beat Goes On (Transcendence), Little Women and Once (Bristol Valley), Lonely Planet (Keen Co.), Lulu XX (WaxFactory), Basetrack, Live (NYT critic's pick). Upcoming: his twelfth year lighting Beyond the Machine at Juilliard, and a production of Lulu XX in Croatia. Mr. Hudson served as associate designer to Paul Gallo on Three Tall Women (Broadway), to Mimi Sherin on The Hairy Ape, and Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), and to Betsy Adams on The Laramie Project Cycle (Tectonic). MFA:NYU; member, USA829.
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For NLTP: This Is Not a Time of Peace, Life x 3, The Property
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ROGER LIPSON
Production Stage Manager
Roger (he/him)'s recent credits include: Saratoga Shakespeare Company: Twelfth Night (directed by Helena Binder); Public Theatre of Maine: Polka Dots – the cool kids musical (directed by Adam Blais); The End of Hester (directed by Jerry Heymann, NLTP); Esther in the Spotlight (directed by Gary Slavin, produced by Rich Orloff;) Di Froyen (directed by Rachel Botchan, produced by New Yiddish Rep). As a musician: sitar soloist for Holiday Music of Eric Whitacre (Carnegie Hall, conducted by the composer); lead guitar during Off Broadway run of Hedwig & The Angry Inch Member: AEA; SAG-AFTRA.
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For NLTP: This Is Not a Time of Peace, The End of Hester, Monte Cristo, REX
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CAROLINE MACK
Producing Associate
Caroline (she/her) is an NYC based director, actor, and improv comic. She is currently pursuing her BFA in Acting and BA in Theatre Arts Concentration in Directing from Marymount Manhattan College. Caroline serves as the Treasurer of Play On and Vice President of Off The Dome Improv at Marymount Manhattan College. Recent credits include: The Mannequin (Director; Marymount Manhattan College), The Marvelous Wonderettes (Associate Producer; Pendragon Theatre), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Assistant Director; Marymount Manhattan College), Scenic Route (Finley; Marymount Manhattan College).
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For NLTP: The Lights Are On
JULIA SQUIER
Costume Designer
Julia (she/they) is a NYC based costume designer and self proclaimed jack of all trades who received their BFA in Costume Production and Design and a minor in Drama Therapy from Marymount Manhattan College. Off-broadway credits include design for War Words (NewYorkRep), assistant design for (pray) (Ars Nova), and coordinator for Hamlet, The Harder They Come, A Raisin in the Sun, Fat Ham (The Public Theater). Other design credits include Our Town, Sleeping Beauty: Sort of, Muppet Cabaret (Pendragon Theatre); Lysistrata, Mr. Burns, Urinetown (Marymount Manhattan College); My Father’s Play (Alchemical Studios); Let’s Dance! (Transcendence Theater Co.). JuliaSquier.com
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For NLTP: This Is Not a Time of Peace, War Words