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A selection from
Silent Steps by B. Walker Sampson, directed by Rachel Ford Silent Steps depicts a modern paranoid romance between a lonely taxidermist and a mysterious female spy as they struggle to develop their relationship in a Hitchcockian world populated by MacGuffins keen on thwarting any upstart romance with misplaced nostalgia, deception and doubt. |
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B. Walker Sampson's plays include: Absence of a
House (produced by Double Take Theatre at the New
Yorks Sargent Theatre/American Theatre of Actors);
Roosevelt Island (produced at BRIC and in HEREs 2003
American Living Room Festival in association with
Lincoln Center Theater), Clear Across (1999 Off-Off
Broadway Short Play Festival), and Full View (part of
Aftershocks evening, Jean Cocteau Repertory).
Readings of his plays have included: Silent Steps: A
Play with MacGuffins (HERE), October Folks (reading,
Brooklyn College), and War of Ghosts (Flea Theater).
His work has been published in Stirring and The
Brooklyn Review. He received his MFA in playwriting
from Brooklyn College, where he studied with Mac
Wellman.
Rachel Ford: Recent directing projects include Susannah Centlivres The Basset Table and Wallpaper which she co-wrote with Amina Henry, both productions were at HERE, where co-curated the directing portion of the 2003 American Living Room Festival. Assistant directing credits include working with Joanna Settle/Division 13 on a workshop of Coriolanus at the Public Theater. Additionally, she has been a literary management associate at the Womens Project & Productions and has worked as a dramaturg on productions the Summer Cabaret at Yale. She is currently working as associate producer at HERE, and youll find her ramblings at www.saltchunkmary.com. |
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