Shirley Jo Finney, a theater director and actor known for the 1975 TV biopic “Wilma,” died on Oct. 10 following an eight-month battle with cancer. She was 74.
The Fountain Theatre announced the news of Finney’s death in a statement on Friday.
“It shatters my heart beyond expression to announce the passing of my artistic sister,” said Stephen Sachs, artistic director of the Fountain Theatre. “I am deeply, deeply devastated. She was my theatrical soulmate for 26 years.”
Finney directed eight productions over many years at the Fountain Theatre, including Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s “From the Mississippi Delta”; Stephen Sachs’ “Central Avenue”; Dael Orlandersmith’s “Yellowman”; Ifa Bayeza’s “The Ballad of Emmett Till”; Claudia Rankin and Stephen Sachs’ “Citizen: An American Lyric”; and Jeremy J. Kamps’ “Runaway Home,” among other titles. Finney and her productions received several accolades, including the Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award for best director for “Yellowman.
The Fountain Theatre announced the news of Finney’s death in a statement on Friday.
“It shatters my heart beyond expression to announce the passing of my artistic sister,” said Stephen Sachs, artistic director of the Fountain Theatre. “I am deeply, deeply devastated. She was my theatrical soulmate for 26 years.”
Finney directed eight productions over many years at the Fountain Theatre, including Endesha Ida Mae Holland’s “From the Mississippi Delta”; Stephen Sachs’ “Central Avenue”; Dael Orlandersmith’s “Yellowman”; Ifa Bayeza’s “The Ballad of Emmett Till”; Claudia Rankin and Stephen Sachs’ “Citizen: An American Lyric”; and Jeremy J. Kamps’ “Runaway Home,” among other titles. Finney and her productions received several accolades, including the Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award for best director for “Yellowman.
- 10/15/2023
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
This weekend, former “West Wing” stars Bradley Whitford, Richard Schiff, Joshua Malina, and Ed Begley Jr. took part in a live reading of William Goldman’s Oscar-winning “All the President’s Men” screenplay at Los Angeles City Hall. The January 27 performance commenced in the marble-columned Council Chamber, where audience members in wooden pews faced the 20-person cast, who temporarily occupied legislators’ desks and high-backed leather chairs.
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Stephen Sachs, the co-founder and co-artistic director of Los Angeles’ Fountain Theatre, created the free event and served as the show’s director. “News journalists and artists are the enemy of dishonest leaders, because we are the truth tellers,” he said. “I am so proud of our city. What other major city in the country would hand over City Hall to its artists?”
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- 1/28/2018
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
1982 - 84 mins. - Rated R
D: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow
C: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Daphne Zuniga, Pamela Holland
Group of college students playing pranks on one another while getting an old college dorm ready for a demolition are picked off by an unseen killer.
Ok. Yes there are more technically proficient slashers from the mid to early 80's out there. And yes, there is better acted ones out there too. However, one of the main objectives of a slasher is its ability to craft suspense, tension and unease. With that in mind, The Dorm That Dripped Blood succeeds admirably. The Dorm That Dripped Blood features creepy sequences of the killer lurking in shadows, stalking his victims from afar. The music score is well used throughout the film helping to heighten the suspense and involvement in the film's proceedings. The death sequences, while not overly gory, are brutally effective.
D: Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow
C: Laurie Lapinski, Stephen Sachs, David Snow, Daphne Zuniga, Pamela Holland
Group of college students playing pranks on one another while getting an old college dorm ready for a demolition are picked off by an unseen killer.
Ok. Yes there are more technically proficient slashers from the mid to early 80's out there. And yes, there is better acted ones out there too. However, one of the main objectives of a slasher is its ability to craft suspense, tension and unease. With that in mind, The Dorm That Dripped Blood succeeds admirably. The Dorm That Dripped Blood features creepy sequences of the killer lurking in shadows, stalking his victims from afar. The music score is well used throughout the film helping to heighten the suspense and involvement in the film's proceedings. The death sequences, while not overly gory, are brutally effective.
- 4/27/2011
- by Big Daddy aka Brandon Sites
- Big Daddy Horror Reviews - Interviews
Syfy and Korean monsters, machine-gun-toting Japanese schoolgirls, and some re-releases are the topics of this week's horror titles.
While Dinoshark (directed by Kevin O'Neill and starring Eric Balfour, Iva Hasperger, Aaron Diaz, Humberto Busto, Roger Corman) and Mongolian Death Worm (directed by Steven R. Monroe and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Victoria Pratt) were on cable TV only recently, they're already here on home video. On top of that Chawz, the "Jaws with a wild boar" offering from Korea, and the hilariously unbelievable Machine Girl are vying for your purse strings all way from the Far East.
For the classically inclined, re-releases of Roger Corman's The Terror with a young Jack Nicholson, The Dorm That Dripped Blood, El Topo, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 will keep you company this week.
The Terror
Directed by Roger Corman
Starring Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, Sandra Knight
In one of his first-ever roles,...
While Dinoshark (directed by Kevin O'Neill and starring Eric Balfour, Iva Hasperger, Aaron Diaz, Humberto Busto, Roger Corman) and Mongolian Death Worm (directed by Steven R. Monroe and starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Victoria Pratt) were on cable TV only recently, they're already here on home video. On top of that Chawz, the "Jaws with a wild boar" offering from Korea, and the hilariously unbelievable Machine Girl are vying for your purse strings all way from the Far East.
For the classically inclined, re-releases of Roger Corman's The Terror with a young Jack Nicholson, The Dorm That Dripped Blood, El Topo, as well as Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 will keep you company this week.
The Terror
Directed by Roger Corman
Starring Jack Nicholson, Boris Karloff, Sandra Knight
In one of his first-ever roles,...
- 4/26/2011
- by kwlow
- DreadCentral.com
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