Exclusive: On the heels of a huge week for their Adam Sandler-led Netflix animated feature Leo, co-directed with Robert Smigel, David Wachtenheim and Robert Marianetti have signed with Independent Artist Group for representation.
A musical comedy also featuring voice work from Bill Burr, Cecily Strong and more, Leo tells the story of an elderly lizard of the same name, who plots an escape from his longtime home within a Florida school classroom terrarium, alongside a turtle friend. Now laying claim to the biggest ever debut for a Netflix animated feature, the film bowed at the top of the English films list for the week of November 20 to 26 with 34.6 million views.
A pair of writer-directors known for their specialty in animation, Wachtenheim and Marianetti first came to work with Sandler and his Happy Madison banner when they were were hired as Heads of Story on Hotel Transylvania 2. The pair...
A musical comedy also featuring voice work from Bill Burr, Cecily Strong and more, Leo tells the story of an elderly lizard of the same name, who plots an escape from his longtime home within a Florida school classroom terrarium, alongside a turtle friend. Now laying claim to the biggest ever debut for a Netflix animated feature, the film bowed at the top of the English films list for the week of November 20 to 26 with 34.6 million views.
A pair of writer-directors known for their specialty in animation, Wachtenheim and Marianetti first came to work with Sandler and his Happy Madison banner when they were were hired as Heads of Story on Hotel Transylvania 2. The pair...
- 11/30/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephanie Hsu skyrocketed to fame this past year with her role in the critically acclaimed indie darling “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” But the California native is no newby to the world of acting. She recently sat down with TheWrap for an exclusive one-on-one interview to discuss that career-changing film, her newfound celebrity and the Hollywood bias that she refuses to slow her down.
Sitting high in the Hollywood Hills, Hsu overlooked the city of Los Angeles and uttered one word — “Wow.” But the “wow” that should be talked about is her phenomenal performance in the 2022 film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which has gotten her awards buzz that includes a SAG nomination and puts her in contention for an Oscar nomination as well. Hsu plays opposite Hollywood veteran Michelle Yeoh in one of the year’s most talked about films directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
The success didn’t come overnight,...
Sitting high in the Hollywood Hills, Hsu overlooked the city of Los Angeles and uttered one word — “Wow.” But the “wow” that should be talked about is her phenomenal performance in the 2022 film “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” which has gotten her awards buzz that includes a SAG nomination and puts her in contention for an Oscar nomination as well. Hsu plays opposite Hollywood veteran Michelle Yeoh in one of the year’s most talked about films directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
The success didn’t come overnight,...
- 1/15/2023
- by Elijah Gil
- The Wrap
The Public Theater Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis Executive Director, Patrick Willingham announced today that The Public's Annual Galawill be a performance of the groundbreaking and thought-provoking musical Runaways by Elizabeth Swados on Monday, June 11 at the Delacorte Theater. Directed by Sam Pinkleton with choreography by Ani Taj, and creative advisement by Jeanine Tesori, the highly-anticipated summer gala under the stars will celebrate the 40th anniversary of this milestone production that first premiered at The Public in 1978 and continues to be a definitive moment in Public Theater history.
- 3/27/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New YourCity Center's Encores Off-Center series is back and better than ever The series will kick off the 2016 season withRunawaysthrough July 9th. Runaways is set in 1977 when Liz Swados spent several months observing and interviewing childRunawaysbefore shaping their stories, fears, and fantasies into a musical. A deeply unconventional work in its day,Runawaysfeels like the funkiest, most heartbreaking mixtape ever to come out of a 1970s boom box, packed with reggae anthems, hip-hop, soul-food lullabies, and spoken-word poetry. The Encores Off-Center production will honor a theater visionary who was ferocious, inspiring, and left us far too soon.
- 7/7/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
New Your City Center's Encores Off-Center series is back and better than ever The series will kick off the 2016 season withRunaways from July 6-9th.Runaways is set in 1977 when Liz Swados spent several months observing and interviewing child Runaways before shaping their stories, fears, and fantasies into a musical. A deeply unconventional work in its day, Runaways feels like the funkiest, most heartbreaking mixtape ever to come out of a 1970s boom box, packed with reggae anthems, hip-hop, soul-food lullabies, and spoken-word poetry. The Encores Off-Center production will honor a theater visionary who was ferocious, inspiring, and left us far too soon.
- 7/6/2016
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York City Center today announced the cast of the Encores Off-Center production of Runaways, Elizabeth Swados' landmark musical about the stories, fears, and fantasies of runaway children. Cast largely from an open call attended by over 300 teenagers of 'all ethnicities, body types, gender identification, and ability levels,' the 'wolfpack' of 25, as director Sam Pinkleton affectionately calls them, embody the ferocious kinetic energy of today's New York-just as the original cast reflected the New York of 1978.
- 5/25/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
The next “Hamilton” might be among this year’s crop of Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominees. Nominations for their 6th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, which honor commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened during the 2015–16 season, have been announced. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” won last year’s Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best New Musical. Mike Birbiglia (“Thank God for Jokes”), Staceyann Chin (“MotherStruck!”), James Lecesne (“The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey”), Joanna Rush (“Kick”), and Andrew Schneider (“Youarenowhere”) are among this year’s nominees for Best Solo Performance. Broadway publicist Merle Debuskey, Tony Award–winning performer Linda Lavin, director and Playwrights Horizons founder Robert Moss, and Tony-nominated actor Lois Smith are set to receive Legend of Off-Broadway honors. Meanwhile Hall of Fame Awards will be presented posthumously to longtime married actors Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach, actor and comedian Anne Meara, as well as writer, composer, musician, and theater director Elizabeth Swados.
- 4/27/2016
- backstage.com
“'Here in these hands I hold the planet, bigger than the stars and stranger than the moon ... when my mama is out looking for a boy/girl to beat, I play basketball ...' words I still know by heart from the play Runaways, created by one of my heroes, Elizabeth Swados. These words and this play spoke to me, inspired me, but most of all made me feel not so very alone.” Elizabeth Swados died on Tuesday, at 64, the result of complications after surgery for esophageal cancer, and these words from Anastasia Traina, posted on her Facebook page, are among the hundreds of tributes that continue to pour in on social media this week. Swados was only 27 at the time Runaways, which she wrote, directed, and choreographed, moved from the Off Broadway realm of the Public Theater to Broadway in 1978, earning five Tony nominations and winning her an Obie for...
- 1/8/2016
- by Jonathan Coleman
- Vulture
Real-life horrors are all around, and few are more terrifying than the fear of becoming mentally ill and spiraling down into an abyss of depression and despair. But there's always hope, as shown in Elizabeth Swados' My Depression: A Picture Book, now an animated short film.
My Depression: The Up and Down and Up of It had its world premiere during this past spring's Tribeca Film Festival, and we were fortunate enough to grab a few moments with one of the film's voice stars, the incomparable Sigourney Weaver.
We know... My Depression isn't really a horror movie by any stretch, but when you're given an opportunity to speak with Ms. Weaver, you grab it! And we can't imagine anyone complaining too loudly about learning more about such a timely, powerful, and inspiring story.
The iconic Ms. Weaver talks voicing the main character in theater legend Elizabeth Swados...
My Depression: The Up and Down and Up of It had its world premiere during this past spring's Tribeca Film Festival, and we were fortunate enough to grab a few moments with one of the film's voice stars, the incomparable Sigourney Weaver.
We know... My Depression isn't really a horror movie by any stretch, but when you're given an opportunity to speak with Ms. Weaver, you grab it! And we can't imagine anyone complaining too loudly about learning more about such a timely, powerful, and inspiring story.
The iconic Ms. Weaver talks voicing the main character in theater legend Elizabeth Swados...
- 8/18/2014
- by Heather Buckley
- DreadCentral.com
Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and one of the pioneers of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died on Jan. 12. She was 91.Stewart nurtured the careers of many influential theater figures, often giving them their first exposure, including directors Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, Tom O'Horgan, and Joseph Chaikin; actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein; playwrights Sam Shepard, Charles Ludlam, Adrienne Kennedy, Taylor Mac, Lanford Wilson, and Israel Horovitz; composers Philip Glass, Elizabeth Swados, Meredith Monk, and Stephen Schwartz; and theater troupes Mabou Mines and the Talking Band. She also introduced American audiences to such European directors as Jerzy Grotowski and Andrei Serban.Stewart came to New York in the 1950s to become a fashion designer and founded La MaMa in 1961. More than 2,000 productions later, the theater, which is located at 74A E. Fourth St. in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, is still going strong. During the theater's infancy, Stewart funded it with her earnings from dress designing.
- 1/13/2011
- backstage.com
The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera, a music-theater piece by Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney of 13P. Commissioned by The Flea in 2006, the piece marks Swados return to The Flea, where she previously wrote, composed and directed the long-running hit Jabu. Performances of Kaspar Hauser begin previews on February 13th, with opening night set for February 28th.
- 2/28/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Flea Theater presents the World Premiere of Kaspar Hauser: a foundling's opera, a music-theater piece by Tony-nominee and Obie-winner Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney of 13P. Commissioned by The Flea in 2006, the piece marks Swados return to The Flea, where she previously wrote, composed and directed the long-running hit Jabu. Performances of Kaspar Hauser begin previews on February 13th, with opening night set for February 28th.
- 1/14/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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