The Old Neighborhood

In addition to Boston Marriage, David Mamet is the author of the plays The Old Neighborhood, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, A Life In The Theater, Speed The Plow, Edmond Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Woods, Sexual Perversity In Chicago, Reunion, and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include Red River by Pierre Laville, and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov. His films include The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House Of Games (writer / director), Oleanna (writer / director), and Hoffa. Mr. Mamet is also the author of Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan; Writing In Restaurants, Some Freaks and Make Believe Town, three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony, a book of poems; Three Children's Plays, On Directing Film, The Cabin, True And False, and the novel The Village.

Director of the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. Founding member and past Artistic Director of New York’s Atlantic Theater Company and past Director of the Atlantic Theater Acting School, where he still serves as Senior Acting Teacher. Co-author of the widely used text A Practical Handbook for the Actor.  Mr. Zigler has taught acting at universities around the country as well as in Canada, Italy, and Australia.  Directing:  Broadway: The Old Neighborhood by David Mamet; Off-Broadway: Dust (World Premiere); Atlantic Theater Company: Premiere of Tom Donaghy’s adaptation of The Cherry Orchard; The Woods; Sure Thing; Strawberry Fields; Suburban News; As You Like It; National Tour: Oleanna; Regional: Phildelphia Theatre Company: Race; Steppenwolf Theatre Company: The Cryptogram; A Fair Country; American Repertory Theater: Romance; world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s Ajax in Iraq (ART Institute); Copenhagen; Animals and Plants; Absolution; The Cripple of Inishmaan; The Old Neighborhood (world premiere); Other Regional: Glengarry Glen Ross (McCarter Theatre); The Cryptogram (Alley Theatre); Spinning Into Butter (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis).

Kevin Rigdon (Set Designer for The Old Neighborhood) designed lighting for the world premiere of Oleanna at the A.R.T. His Broadway credits include A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath (Tony nomination), Our Town (Drama Desk nomination), Speed-The-Plow, Glengarry Glen Ross, Ghetto, and The Caretaker. In London he designed Orphans (West End), Speed-the-Plow, The Grapes of Wrath (Royal National Theatre). He is resident designer at Steppenwolf Theatre with more than 100 productions to his credit, and has also worked at many off-Broadway and resident theaters. Mr. Rigdon is the recipient of two American Theatre Wing Design Awards.

Harriet Voyt (Costume Designer for The Old Neighborhood) designed costumes for the productions of The Cryptogram and Oleanna, both at the A.R.T. and in New York, as well as for the national tour of Oleanna. She attended the University of Maryland before embarking on a successful modeling career that spanned three continents over the course of a dozen years. Beginning with the prestigious Eileen Ford Modeling Agency in the 1970s, Miss Voyt achieved early success in Paris, Milan, and Tokyo while maintaining her base in New York City. She appeared in virtually all the major beauty and fashion magazines, both internationally and in the U.S., as well as in numerous commercial print and television ads for a host of national products.

Lighting Designer John Ambrosone has designed over thirty productions for the American Repertory Theater, including Lysistrata, Absolution, Marat/Sade, Othello, Animals and Plants, Mother Courage (2001 Elliot Norton Design Award), The Doctor's Dilemma, Three Farces and a Funeral, Nocturne, Ivanov, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The King Stag, Boston Marriage, Charlie in the House of Rue, Valparaiso, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, How I Learned to Drive, Nobody Dies on Friday, Man and Superman, The Old Neighborhood, When the World Was Green (A Chef's Fable), Alice in Bed, Slaughter City, and Buried Child. On Broadway he designed The Old Neighborhood. Work in resident theaters includes the Alley Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Walnut Street Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, and Arena Stage. Mr. Ambrosone also has designed in Singapore, Moscow, Japan, Brazil, Taiwan, Mexico, Germany, and France.