The Artistic Collaborators of ONCE the Musical
Enda Walsh (Playwright) Enda Walsh is a playwright from Dublin, Ireland. His most famous play is Disco Pigs (1996), which was adapted into a 2001 movie starring Cillian Murphey as the Pig. His other works include Penelope, Misterman, and The Walworth Farce. The Village Voice noted in a 2008 profile, “Walsh emphasizes characters and situations that reflect a new, economically transformed Ireland: wrapped in cyber rather than wool, and more fixated on multiculturalism than folklore.” In the same article, Walsh is quoted saying, “I don’t want to see ‘life’ onstage. I don’t want to see something set in a pub and guys sitting around
chatting, and by the end you’re going to sort of know them as deeper characters.” John Tiffany (Director)
John Tiffany is a Scottish theatre director and the Associate Director for the National Theatre of Scotland. He is best known for his imaginative style. His acclaimed production of Black Watch, a collaboration with choreographer and director Stephen Hoggett, provides an example of the way in which Scottish culture and tradition runs through much of his work. Black Watch tells the story of members of the Scottish regiment in Iraq based on interviews with actual soldiers and has been incredibly well received since its premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2006 and has run at St. Ann’s Warehouse and other venues. Other recent works include versions of Peter Pan and The Bacchae. In an interview with The Harvard Crimson, Tiffany said, “There’s something about Scottish theater that I especially love. It’s very musical and connected with vaudeville and a very working-‐class country – that shows in the art form. There’s a lot of movement, there’s a lot of heart. It’s very different from the more – how would you say it? – refined English theater.”
Steven Hoggett (Choreographer) Steven Hoggett is a New York based choreographer and director known for brilliant and incredibly physically demanding staging. He is responsible for the choreography of American Idiot on Broadway, Peter and the Starcatcher at New York Theatre Workshop, and the movement direction of 2008’s Black Watch at St. Ann’s Warehouse, which was directed by John Tiffany. Hogget heads his own theater company, Frantic Assembly.
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