

His book Great Lengths: Seven Works of Marathon Theater won the George Freedley Memorial Award for the outstanding theater book of 2012.


A two-time winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, he has published five books on theater and has written for dozens of publications including The New York Times, The Village Voice, New York Press, The Nation and. Jonathan Kalb (Resident Literary Advisor and Dramaturg) is a professor of theater at Hunter College, where he was Chair of the Theatre Department for six years, and an internationally acclaimed theater critic and scholar. Cicely was awarded the CBE, Commander of the British Empire, in 2009 for her pioneering work in theatre. She had a very close and happy association with TFANA over many years. She made a series of videos, Working Shakespeare, with top English and American actors. Cicely worked with major theatre companies all over the world: she worked regularly with Nos Do Morro, a company based in Viidigal, one of Rio’s favellas. This work has developed considerably, and there is now a four-member voice team working in the Company. She was invited by Trevor Nunn to take over voice work with the actors in 1960. This summer she’s directing an adaptation of The Tempest in a refugee camp in Greece. Cicely Berry (Deceased Former Distinguished Resident Artist) was the Voice Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. She was a Drama League Directing Fellow, a Princess Grace Award Recipient and spent several years making theatre with prisoners at a medium security prison in upstate New York in association with Rehabilitation Through the Arts. Arin Arbus (Resident Director) has directed The Skin of Our Teeth ( Obie), repertory productions of Strindberg’s The Father and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, as well as King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Measure for Measure and Othello. She staged Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia at Houston Grand Opera and La Traviata at Canadian Opera Company and Lyric Opera of Chicago.
