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Patrick
Dooley
Artistic Director
Patrick is the Artistic Director and founder of the Shotgun Players. He
launched the Shotgun Players with a production of David Mamet's play
Edmond in July of 1992. Patrick received a BA in English from James
Madison University of Virginia and studied in the Atlantic Theatre's
Practical Aesthetics Workshop. He was a founding member of the
international touring company, The Shenandoah Shakespeare, and has scores
of other regional theatre acting and directing credits. He has directed
over forty plays since founding the Shotgun Players in 1992. Some of Mr.
Dooley's Shotgun Player directing credits include: All Men are Whores,
The Shawl, The Lover, Iphigenia in Aulis, Merchant of Venice, The Bacchae,
Dr. Faustus (for which he won 2 Dramalogue Awards for Direction and
Production), The Birthday Party, Baal and Henry V (for which Shotgun won
the 1998 Bay Guardian Black Box Award), Skriker (2000 Dean Goodman choice
award for Best Director, Overall Production & Ensemble) & the critically
praised Mother Courage & Her Children. Shotgun Players have won Best
Overall Production three of the past five years at the Bay Area Critics
Circle Awards. Patrick received the Barbara Bladen Porter award for
bringing innovation and enthusiasm to new works and classics in 2002. He
currently is co-chair of the New Plays League, a member of the Berkeley
Cultural Trust and is elected to TBA’s Theatre Services Committee. |
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Liz
Lisle
Managing Director
In addition to her administrative roles with Shotgun Players, Liz edits a
small literary magazine called Watchword Press, and an all art, no words art
review called (lo!). To keep the literary lobe from going rotten, she also
works at a bookstore once a week. Her latest passion is to envelop herself
in the Shotgun Theatre Lab project, and to create and facilitate as many new
styles of theater making as humanly possible. Shotgun is her constant
inspiration to think bigger and better on all things art. |
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Joanie McBrien
Dramaturg and Development Director
Joanie is a company member and the resident dramaturg for Shotgun. She
worked as dramaturg and/or assistant director for The Skriker, Iphigenia in
Aulis
(she also wrote the pre-show: The Curse of the House of Atreus), Trojan War
Will Not Happen (for which she also made a brief appearance on stage with a
feather boa), A Fairy's Tail and Oedipus Rex. She was the co-director of
Troilus &
Cressida and she took a plunge into directing with The Vampires in 2003.
Joanie has a Master's degree in English & European Renaissance Drama and has
worked for several years with the California Shakespeare Theater as a
writer,
dramaturg and most recently as the resident lecturer for the nightly
pre-show
discussions. She is very happy to be part of Shotgun's talented, creative
ensemble.
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