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| At Akhmatova's funeral. Poet Joseph Brodsky stands to the right. |
ON
NAKED SOIL
Imagining
Anna Akhmatova
Written
by Rebecca Schull -- Directed by Susan Einhorn
“Knock
with your little fist -- I’ll open the door.
I always opened it for you.
I am living beyond the high mountain,
Past the desert and the wind and heat,
But I will never let you down.
I did not hear you groaning.
You didn’t ask me for bread.
Bring me a sprig from a maple tree,
Or some bits of green grass, like last spring."
DIRECTOR
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Director
Susan Einhorn |
Director Susan Einhorn has directed over 70 productions and considers her specialty to be nurturing and developing new work. She has directed Rebecca Schull twice before. She was Assistant Director to the legendary Alan Schneider for four Broadway productions. Her first major NY success was "I Can't Keep Running in Place" at the Westside Arts Theater, starring Helen Gallagher. She has also directed in NY at the Promenade, Circle in the Square, the Vineyard, Primary Stages, Playwrights Horizons, La MaMa, HB Playwrights Theatre, Open Space, Ubu Rep, Jewish Rep, and regionally at Milwaukee Rep, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Whole Theatre, and Washington D.C.'s Arena Stage, New Playwrights Theatre and Studio Theatre. She has been a Professor of Theatre and head of the Acting Program at Queens College for 25 years. Her productions at Theater for the New City include "Reed!" by Wilson Lehr (her first professional production), "Before She Is Even Born" by Leah Friedman and "Finding Claire" by Kim Merrill. Most recently she directed the premiere of "Milton Bradley" in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's Marathon.
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