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John Regis

JOHN REGIS

  (1958 - )
Nationality:    USA
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JOHN REGIS is an actor, a director, a teacher, and a playwright. He was born in Marblehead, MA on July 4, 1958, and raised in both Peabody, MA and Hampton, NH. He received a B.A. in Communications from Fordham University, and studied with Stella Adler and Mario Sileti at the Stella Adler Conservatory. He is the author of St. Vitus Dance, an adaptation of Dostoevskys The Idiot (also director: Theater Off Park, 1993), and Stavrogins Confession, adapted from Dostoevskys The Possessed (New York International Fringe Festival, 1998; The Storm Theatre, 1999; Three River Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, 2005). His adaptation of William Tenns science fiction novella, Winthrop Was Stubborn, was commissioned for the 2006 Three River Arts Festival. He is a founding member of The Storm Theatre, and has directed their productions of Jean Anouilhs Eurydice (2000), Luigi Pirandellos Henry VI (2001), and Job by Karol Wojtyla (2007). In January of 2007, the Storm presented his original play Linnea directed by Peter Dobbins. This play was included in NYTEs Plays And Playwrights 2008 anthology. He has also directed nearly 40 Shakespeare productions with students at both the Bank Street School and the Calhoun School in New York City. John teaches drama and video making at the Bank Street School, is a lifelong Red Sox fan, and lives in New Yorks West Village.

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         Linnea         St Vitus' Dance         Stavrogin's Confession         Winthrop Was Stubborn

Linnea

Linnea
Danny, a reclusive Brooklyn playwright, awakens one morning from an odd dream where a mysterious woman beckons him into a strange new world. Is Danny's dream an ecstatic vision? Is it a warning of things to come? Or is it merely the result of too many beers the night before? Setting off on a journey from his home in Brooklyn to the island of Manhattan, he encounters a world very different from any he's ever known. Over the course of one long, unpredictable evening he meets a cast of shadowy characters and finds himself entangled in a love triangle with a sultry stripper named Linnea, who he believes is the woman of his dreams. Danny's obsessions grow stronger as he attempts to finish his play and help Linnea, but as the lines between reality and art are blurred, his dreams quickly turn to nightmares.
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Storm Theatre, NY, USA >>>    11 Jan 2007

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St Vitus' Dance

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adaptation of Dostoyevsky's the Idiot

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Theatre Off Park    1993

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Adaptation

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Stavrogin's Confession

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Stavrogin's Confession is, as they say, a mystery wrapped in an enigma. the mystery, central to our understanding of the plot, is whether Stavrogin has actually done the heinous crimes he claims. the enigma, essential to our understanding of the play, is whether Stavrogin is in fact guilty of something more serious. Whatever the content--or veracity--of his confession, Stavrogin's atonement is designed to take in all of the sins of mankind. In his assumption of this Christ-like sentence, Stavrogin's greatest sin may be the sin of hubris.
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from A story by Dostoyevsky

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60 min One Act

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Winthrop Was Stubborn

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adaptation of William Tenn's science fiction novella

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Three River Arts festival    2006

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