New Jersey Stage Issue 54 | Page 55

Black Box PAC shows and straight from Backstage. As I’ve said since I started in this business, casting is truly 75% of a show (maybe 80%?)- and when you get it right, its obvious and a relief.  Thankfully we got this one right. In addition to being the artistic director of Black Box Studios and a playwright/composer, you’d a busy director as well.  Do you find that directing plays takes away from your writing time or inspires you to write? Both, but directing great work is always inspiring. Black Box PAC is positioning itself a destination theater just outside of Manhattan, and we have been lucky to get the chance to produce new versions of some modern classics (Shepard, Albee, Churchill, Bogosian, etc.) and some amazing newer plays, “just out” of NY (Hand To God, Disgraced, Bad Jews, and the up- coming Significant Other, How To Transcend A Happy Marriage, and Sweat). Every day we rehearse something like Buried Child or The 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ www.ShakespeareNJ.org