The Hub kicks off the mainstage season just in time for the holidays with a world premiere and new take on a seasonal classic. Wonderful Life is based on It’s a Wonderful Life, produced and directed by Frank Capra. The Hub’s Artistic Director, Helen Pafumi, and talented actor and Hub favorite, Jason Lott (The Pavilion and Summer Cabaret), have co-adapted the classic to create a fun new version for the stage. Every holiday season, we follow George Bailey through highs and lows as he struggles to understand his own worth and ultimately finds that life is worth living. The Hub’s new telling features Jason Lott playing all the roles necessary to bring this Christmas tale to life. This exciting and demanding one-person show is sure to delight audiences of all ages this holiday season. Wonderful Life runs at the John Swayze Theatre from December 2 – 27, 2011.
Featuring: Jason Lott
Director: Gregg Henry
Scenic Designer: Brooke Robbins
Lighting Designer: Kyle Grant
Sound Designer: Thomas Sowers
Costume Designer: Maria Vetsch
Stage Manager: Sarah Conte
Jason Lott is making his third appearance at The Hub, having previously hosted the Summer Cabaret, and performed his favorite role of all time, The Narrator in The Pavilion. Regional credits include performances with The Kennedy Center TYA, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Studio Theatre 2ndStage, Olney Theatre Center, Everyman Theatre, Theater Alliance, Taffety Punk Theatre Company, Forum Theatre, Rorschach Theatre Company, Charter Theatre, Longacre Lea Productions, Catalyst Theatre Company, Imagination Stage, Source Theatre, and The American Century Theater. Jason will appear next, in another multiplicity of characters, in The 39 Steps at Olney Theatre Center.
Gregg Henry – Recent productions as a director include Bob Bartlett’s Whales at Catholic University and for the National New Play Network DC Playwrights’ Showcase, Melanie Marnich’s A Sleeping Country for Round House Theatre, Julie Jensen's Two-Headed and Barbara Field's adaptation of Scaramouche for Washington Shakespeare Company, the US Premieres of Morris Panych’s Girl in the Goldfish Bowl for Metro Stage and Daniel MacIvor's You Are Here for Theatre Alliance, Shelagh Stephenson's An Experiment with an Air Pump for Journeymen Theater, and Miranda is Morning by Stephen Spotswood for Catholic University. For Centerstage First Look series: The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph and The 13 Hallucinations of Julio Rivera by Stephen R. Culp. For Arena Stage Downstairs series: Autobiography of a Constellation by Lila Rose Kaplan and The Near East by Alex Lewin. For Fords’ Theatre: Empires Fall by Marlin Fitzwater and Robert Lawson.
For Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: Mermaids, Monsters and the World Painted Purple by Marco Ramirez, Norman Allen's The Light of Excalibur, Tom Isbell and Mark Russell’s Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe and Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major (plus national tour) and Barbara Field’s Dreams in the Golden Country (plus national tour.)
He is artistic director of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. In this capacity, he oversees all of the program's playwriting, performance, design and dramatic criticism programs and works with professional theatres to develop educational partnerships for student and faculty participants. He directs the Summer Intensives program at the Kennedy Center in design [led by Ming Cho Lee] and playwriting [led by Gary Garrison with Marsha Norman, Paula Vogel, Theresa Rebeck, Julie Jensen, Lee Blessing, Melanie Marnich, David Ives, Jocelyn Clarke, Carlos Murillo, Naomi Iizuka, Karen Zacarías, Heather McDonald, Carl Hancock Rux, Chay Yew, Kristoffer Diaz, Kirsten Greenidge, Samuel Hunter, Dael Orlandersmith and others.]
In addition to his KCACTF responsibilities he is artistic associate for New Works and Commissions for Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences. He also coordinates the Kennedy Center/Kenan Fund for the Arts Performing Arts Apprenticeship Program. He is the curator and co-producer of the annual Page-to-Stage New Play Festival, a free three-day event at the Kennedy Center, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary, featuring readings of new work by the theatres in the DC Metro Area with a mission to support new voices in the American Theatre. For these Festivals he produced special readings of Lee Blessing's The Scottish Play and Ken Ludwig's Shakespeare in Hollywood, The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, and The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays). He produces the annual MFA Playwrights’ Workshop at the Kennedy Center in association with the National New Play Network (NNPN) and the National Center for New Plays at Stanford University.
Gregg has acted, directed, and/or staged the fights with the Colorado, Iowa, Michigan, Oklahoma and Wisconsin Shakespeare Festivals. He received his MFA in Acting from the University of Michigan and is formerly the director of theatre and an associate professor at Iowa State University. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA.)
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