In March of this year, I was able to add my first directing credit in New York onto my resume. Through a job listing I found on Playbill, I applied for a 24 Hour Play festival called “Insomniacs” produced by Grex Group Theatre. This was one of the first times in my creative career that I was going into something completely blind. I did not know the company, anyone else who was participating, and I had not done a 24 hour festival before. While this could have been a detriment, I chose to view this as an opportunity where I had nothing to lose.
Read MoreExciting news for the 2018-2019 theatrical season!
Read MoreVideos of two episodic plays that premiered as part of Know Theatre of Cincinnati's Serials program: Wassaktuchatts by Chris Wesselman and The Nautical Nonsense and Fun-time Adventure Funtimes of Spongey Spongey Bogdan by Andy Simpson.
Read MoreIn the Spring of 2015, I directed a serialized drama, written by Chris Wesselman, about the heroin epidemic in Cincinnati. At the point, it was one of the most serious pieces of theatre I had directed. Staring Patrick Phillips, Aiden, Sims, Tracy Connor, Leah Strasser, Victoria, and Joe Mock, this play tackles how it is to fall back into addiction, even after rehab.
Read MoreNetzley is able to get his actors to deliver strong performances. Overall, this Streetcar stays on track, stops only to pick up passengers, and runs swiftly to its tragic conclusion.
Read MoreInterviews with the director and the cast of Falcon Theatre's production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
Read MoreTara Williams’ tour de force as Blanche is the highlight of Falcon Theatre’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Directed by Nate Netzley, this is an overall fine production of a 70-year-old theater icon that still resonates today.
Read MoreAs you watch the play, you feel like you’re just outside the two-bedroom apartment, peering in on what’s happening to this couple’s life.
Read MoreNext up for the Falcon stage is Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire," which opens March 16 and is directed by Nate Netzley. A child of Greater Cincinnati's diverse theater community, his parents met doing theater in college before relocating to Cincinnati. The pair became active with the local community theater group the Drama Workshop.
Read MoreDelusion is shattered by harsh reality when a pair of iconic characters face-off. Fading southern belle Blanche DuBois is confronted by her merciless brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski in post-WWII New Orleans in Tennessee Williams’s classic A Streetcar Named Desire. It’s on stage at Falcon Theatre in Newport March 16-31.
Read MoreNorthern Kentucky University grads Robert Macke (playwright) and Nate Netzley (director) are collaborating again for Clifton Players’ season opener, the world premiere of The Road Through Damascus, continuing through Oct 1 at Clifton Performance Theatre.
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