JILL FORBATH
Director,
Producer, Playwright & Choreographer
PLAYS
DIRECTED
"A
Sea Of White Horses" by Peter Dee
Kristen Davidson as Janice and
Vince Campbell as Ed. (VTE)
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"Jake's Women" by
Neil Simon
Dawna Finley
as Edith, Aaron
Charney as Jake, and Debbie Sperry as Karen.
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"The Author's Voice"
by Richard Greenberg
Lynn Laguna
as Portia and David Kelso as Todd.
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"Henceforward" by
Alan Ayckbourn
David
Kelso as Jerome, Lisa Halstead as Nan 300F, Alice Ensor as Corinna, and
Rollo Sternaman as Mervyn.
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"The Gondoliers"
by Gilbert and Sullivan
Scott
Ruiz as the Gondolier, Patricia Miller and B. Aaron Cogan as the Duchess
and the Duke of Plaza Toro.
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"Blue Window" by
Craig Lucas
Alice
Ensor as Libby, Kerene Cogan as Boo, Dawna Finley as Alice, David Kelso
as Norbert, and Michael Thorstensen as Griever.
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"The Sisters Rosensweig
" by Wendy Wasserstein
Norma
J. Morrow as Dr. Gorgeous and Ann Raphael-Walker as Sara Goode.
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"Night and Her Stars", Richard Greenberg, SCR, World Premiere, A.D. to David
Warren
"Apprenticeship", Dale Griffiths-Stamos
"The Cavedwellers", William Saroyan
"Painting
Churches", Tina Howe
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"The Philadelphia", David Ives
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"The Sitting", Curt Webster
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"The Nutcracker"
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"Seascape", Edward Albee
"The Author's Voice", Richard Greenberg
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"Steel Magnolias", Robert Harling
"Imagine Music", John Glore, World Premiere
"Passion, Poison And Petrifaction", George Bernard Shaw
"Twenty-Seven Wagons Full Of Cotton", Tennessee Williams
"What She Found There", John Glore, West Coast Premiere
VENUES
- Cabrillo
Playhouse, San Clemente
- Camino Real Playhouse,
San Juan Capistrano
- Capistrano Valley High
School, Mission Viejo
- Cerritos
College
- Changing
Masks Theatre Ensemble
- Chapman
University, Orange
- Costa
Mesa Civic Theatre
- Huntington
Beach Playhouse
- Irvine
Community Theatre
- Jewish Community Center,
Costa Mesa
- Leisure World Theatre, Laguna
Woods
- Orange
County Light Opera
- Orange
County Playwrights Alliance
- Readers
Repertory Theatre
- South
Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa
- St. Mark Presbyterian
Church, Newport Beach
- Temple Bat Yahm, Newport
Beach
- Vanguard
Theatre Ensemble, Fullerton
PLAYS
WRITTEN & PRODUCED
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"Me
Fish, You Fish", Vanguard Theatre Ensemble, OCPA showcase.
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"13 Years", St. Mark
Presbyterian Church, OCPA showcase.
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"Janet, Trish, and Barbie",
SCR Professional Conservatory showcase.
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"Freedom", SCR Professional
Conservatory showcase.
PROGRAMS
CREATED
West Coast
Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival, "Six
at Eight"
Six short pieces
at 8pm offering performances of top three winners of West Coast Ten-Minute
Playwriting Contest and three pieces by established playwrights. Fourth
place winner of the contest receives two staged readings after matinees.
Festival coordinates the efforts of four on-site playwrights, six directors,
and twenty+ actors. 1994 - continuing.
West Coast
Ten-Minute Playwriting
Contest
Annual national contest concentrating
on West Coast entries offering monetary awards for top three winners of 10 page
plays with no prior equity productions. Begun
1994 - continuing.
NewPlays,staged
readings of original works by local playwrights
Process: casting,
playwright and director meetings, two to three rehearsals, publicity, and
public staged reading.
New plays directed:
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"Other
Pictures", Marilynn
Bates
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"Food
Court", Shawn Quirk
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"Workman's
Carp", Eric Eberwein
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"Geese",
Richard
Freedman
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"Genes
R Us", Stanley Hoffman
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"Someone's
Daughter", Patrice Badstubner
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"Medea’s
Ghost", S. Michele McFadden
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"The Bird’s
Nest", Dea JuVett
- "Sunday
At The Ritz", Richard
Meese
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"La Ventana",
Steve Flores
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" Dearborn",
W.J. Lazerus
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"At Claudette's",
Marti Hood
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"Crossing
the Line", Joe Hullett, 1993 Julie Harris Award winner.
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"Circles",
S. Michele McFadden, Ashland, Oregon New Plays Festival winner.
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"A Summer
with Hemingway's Twin", Lucille deView
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"The Beast",
Brook Stowe
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"Willing
to Wait for a Miracle", David Scaglione
Adult
Acting Conservatory, Camino Real Playhouse.
Began conservatory with
classes in Improvisation, Stanislavsky System, Playwriting, Theatre Appreciation,
and Beginning/Intermediate Scene Study.
Cold
Reading Workshop, Irvine, California.
Workshop for actors
to practice reading 5-7 page excerpts from 6-8 plays. Also acts as a forum
for local playwrights to bring their works-in-progress for reading, discussion,
and evaluation. 1992 - 97.
EDUCATION
- MBA, U.C. Irvine.
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SCR, year-long playwriting
workshop, John Glore, Literary Manager.
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SCR Conservatory (Peter
H. Schroeder, Georgia Phillips, Greg Atkins, Bob Destri).
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Gardner Theatre, Los
Angeles, performance improvisation.
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Cumulative dance experience
spans 25+ years.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
ARTISTIC
DIRECTOR, Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano, CA
1992 - 97.
Researched plays
for six main stage show season, directed plays, coordinated NewPlay program,
founded 10-Minute Playwriting Contest and subsequent Festival, piloted
adult acting conservatory, sought corporate sponsorship of plays/projects/venue
enhancements, aided in community outreach programs, enhanced theatre's
subscriber base with newsletter/direct mail/telemarketing efforts, and
provided artistic/office support during theatre operations and performances.
(Vice President, South Orange County Community Theatre, 1995 - 97.)
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Judge, Annual High School
Theatre Festival & Competition, Fullerton
College.
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Member, Theatre Communications
Group (TCG)
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Member, United States
Ballroom Dancing Association (USABDA)
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Instructor, improv workshops.
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Acting roles upon request.
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Orange
County resident 25 years.
Jill
Forbath is a member of 
References
available upon request.
Check
out "A Writer's
Choice Literary Journal".
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Jill Forbath.
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rights reserved.