Classic Stage Company Off-Broadway Honors Tichler at Gala

Written by Best of Off-Broadway
Published 2010-04-23

Classic Stage Company (CSC), under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will honor their board member Rosemarie Tichler, the highly-respected producer, casting director, teacher and author, at this year’s annual benefit gala Monday evening, May 17 at Twenty Four Fifth.

The Honorary Chair for the evening is Mike Nichols and Honorary Co-Chairs are Olympia Dukakis, Dianne Wiest, Walter Bobbie and James Lapine. Honorary Artists include F. Murray Abraham, Christopher Durang, Michael Greif, John Guare, Bill Irwin, S, Epatha Merkerson, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn and Michael Stuhlbarg.

Rosemarie Tichler was the Artistic Producer of Off-Broadway's The New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater from 1991 to September 2001 where she worked on over 40 productions including The Skriker by Caryl Churchill, Simpatico by Sam Shepard, Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks, George Wolfe’s production of The Tempest at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan by Arthur Miller and Mike Nichols’ production of Chekhov’s The Seagull with Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Christopher Walken et al. in the summer of 2001.

Prior to 1991, Ms. Tichler was Head of Casting (1975-1991) at the Public for Joseph Papp where she cast over 150 plays, including such landmark productions as Andrei Serban’s The Cherry Orchard, Richard Foreman’s Threepenny Opera, Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls...,Wilford Leach’s Pirates of Penzance, David Hare’s Plenty, Mike Nichols’ Streamers by David Rabe, The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, Aunt Dan and Lemon by Wallace Shawn and The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe.

Ms. Tichler founded The Shakespeare Lab, now in its 15th year: an intensive program for actors in Shakespeare performance. Prior to working at The Public, she was Associate Director for Artistic Services at Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization for the country’s not for profit theaters from 1972-74 and its Casting Director before that from 1969-71.

CSC is currently presenting Academy Award winner Dianne Wiest in Alexander Ostrovosky’s The Forest, adapted by Kathleen Tolan and directed by Brian Kulick, and co-starring Obie Award-winner John Douglas Thompson. Click here for more information about The Forest Off-Broadway.

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CLASSIC STAGE COMPANY OFF-BROADWAY HONORS TICHLER AT GALA