DAN MORAN (HAMM/Subject) has been seen on Broadway in Julius Caesar, The Man Who Had All the Luck, A Month In the Country. Off-Broadway: Henry V, Pericles, Macbeth, True West (Public Theater), Hiding Behind Comets (29th St. Rep), Sam & Lucy (SPF '04), Dark Rapture (Second Stage) A Streetcar Named Desire (Arena Stage), A Midsummer Night's Dream, Escape From Happiness (Center Stage), MacBeth, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare & Co). A founding member of NY Stage & Film he originated roles in: Sideman, Dark Rapture, Filthy Rich, and Escape From Happiness. Television: Lights Out, Law & Order, Homicide, Third Watch, Johnny Zero, One Life to Live. Films include: American Gangster, Winter of Frozen Dreams, Mighty Aphrodite, Sweet & Lowdown, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Happiness, Maximum Risk, Ball In the House and Hamlet.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER JONES (CLOV/Subject) made his Broadway debut in Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged (1977) directed by Harold Pinter. Also on B'way, Hurlyburly, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, A Month In The Country, The Suicide, London Assurance, Democracy, The Goodbye Girl, Tom Sawyer, Beauty and the Beast, Absurd Person Singular, Heartbreak House, and Jose Quintero's revival of The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards. Other New York highlights include Quartermaine's Terms, Aristocrats, Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Fuddy Meers, Sight Unseen, Golden Child, Don Juan, The Forest, and The Seagull. A founding member of Shakespeare & Company, Mr. Jones has performed Troilus, Antipholus of Ephesus, Hal, Proteus, Mercutio, MacBeth, Cloten, Lavatch, Gravedigger, Grumio, Elbow, and is slated to do the Porter this season. His films include Moonstruck, Awakenings, Desperate Hours, The Hurricane, and The Village. An Associate Director of the Depot Theatre in upstate New York, he has adapted for the stage Shaw's novel, An Unsocial Socialist. Currently he is translating The Cherry Orchard for a production at the Classic Stage Company.
JIM BERNFIELD (Film Director/Producer) has written, directed, and produced award- winning films that have been broadcast and exhibited nationwide. Rally Behind the Virginians, a television documentary, aired on PBS. Two short films have won awards at film festivals around the country. His pilot, The Second Oldest Profession, won the Creative World Awards competition as the best television comedy. He wrote the teleplay It's Best Not to Know for an Italian production company's two-part miniseries based on the true story of two young sisters who survived the Holocaust at Auschwitz. Jim has also written, produced, and directed thousands of issue and advocacy advertisements for public interest groups and political campaigns, including media for the campaigns of the last four Democratic Presidential candidates. He earned his MFA in film directing at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He lost his father to Parkinson's ten years ago.
JOE GRIFASI (Theatrical Director) Broadway: Dinner at Eight, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Memory of Two Mondays, Boy Meets Girl, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Happy End. Off-B'way: Conversations in Tusculum, The Boys Next Door (Drama Desk Nomination), Once Around the City, Golden Boy, Filumena, Says I Says He. Other theatre: Hughie (Stratford Festival, Trinity Rep) My Fair Lady (NY Philharmonic), Privates on Parade, (Long Wharf), Once in a Lifetime (Williamstown). Over fifty feature films including: Presumed Innocent, The Deer Hunter, Big Business, Beaches, Matewan, Naked Gun, Natural Born Killers, One Fine Day, F/X, Benny & Joon, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Brewster's Millions, Batman Forever, The Flamingo Kid, Ironweed and Splash. Television: The Bronx is Burning (as Yogi Berra), 61* (as Phil Rizzuto), Law & Order, ER, LA Law, Chicago Hope, Hill Street Blues, SCTV, Rosanne and The Practice. He has directed: The 39 Steps (Weston Playhouse) A Slight Hitch by Lewis Black, Cup of Coffee (Yale Rep) Triangles for Two and Heaven Can Wait (Westport Playhouse) The Frugal Repast (Abingdon Theater) and Max Frisch's Firebugs (Colleagues Theater). He has an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama.
RUTH KRESHKA (Production Stage Manager) feels graced to have been able to help bring the words and works of Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin, Eugene Lee, Beth Henley, George Walker, John Patrick Shanley, David Henry Hwang, Reinaldo Povod, Adrian Hall, Truman Capote, and many others to the New York community. She has been with Columbia University's School of the Arts Theatre Program since 1998, where she is Director of Production and heads the MFA Stage Management concentration.
STEVEN MEYER (Co-Producer)is an award winning director and producer. He began his career in theater working with directors Liviu Ciuli, Garland Wright, Allan Schneider, Richard Foreman, and Marshall Mason as well as actors David Warrilow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Patti LuPone, and Val Kilmer. He toured with performance artist Laurie Anderson, produced commercials and visual effects for Nike, Benetton, the Biosphere in Arizona, Dennis Earl Moore, Edwin Schlossberg, Pink Floyd, and Janet Jackson. He also produced the Revolutionary War Theater 4D Experience for the George Washington Museum at Mt. Vernon, and VFX for the Sundance winner "The Believer" directed by Henry Bean and "Game 6" directed by Michael Hoffman. He directed the documentary "Buried Prayers" and is on the advisory board of Off-Broadway Audience Builders, promoting Off-Broadway and independent feature film projects.
THE NYU PARKINSON AND MOVEMENT DISORDER CENTER was founded in the summer of 2007 with generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation to help individuals and families living with Parkinson disease and other movement disorders to achieve the highest possible quality of life. The Center values excellence in service and a humanistic, empathic and compassionate approach to healthcare delivery that emphasizes the individual, rather than just the disease. In their view, the patient-healthcare provider relationship is as important as the availability of the most appropriate treatments and supports.
ALESSANDRO Di ROCCO, M.D. is Chief of the Division of Movement Disorders, the Director of the NYU Parkinson and Movement Disorders Center and Professor of Neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Di Rocco's main academic interest is in developing more effective treatments for Parkinson's disease and its motor, cognitive, and neuropsychological complications.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER JONES (CLOV/Subject) made his Broadway debut in Simon Gray's Otherwise Engaged (1977) directed by Harold Pinter. Also on B'way, Hurlyburly, The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice, A Month In The Country, The Suicide, London Assurance, Democracy, The Goodbye Girl, Tom Sawyer, Beauty and the Beast, Absurd Person Singular, Heartbreak House, and Jose Quintero's revival of The Iceman Cometh starring Jason Robards. Other New York highlights include Quartermaine's Terms, Aristocrats, Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Fuddy Meers, Sight Unseen, Golden Child, Don Juan, The Forest, and The Seagull. A founding member of Shakespeare & Company, Mr. Jones has performed Troilus, Antipholus of Ephesus, Hal, Proteus, Mercutio, MacBeth, Cloten, Lavatch, Gravedigger, Grumio, Elbow, and is slated to do the Porter this season. His films include Moonstruck, Awakenings, Desperate Hours, The Hurricane, and The Village. An Associate Director of the Depot Theatre in upstate New York, he has adapted for the stage Shaw's novel, An Unsocial Socialist. Currently he is translating The Cherry Orchard for a production at the Classic Stage Company.
JIM BERNFIELD (Film Director/Producer) has written, directed, and produced award- winning films that have been broadcast and exhibited nationwide. Rally Behind the Virginians, a television documentary, aired on PBS. Two short films have won awards at film festivals around the country. His pilot, The Second Oldest Profession, won the Creative World Awards competition as the best television comedy. He wrote the teleplay It's Best Not to Know for an Italian production company's two-part miniseries based on the true story of two young sisters who survived the Holocaust at Auschwitz. Jim has also written, produced, and directed thousands of issue and advocacy advertisements for public interest groups and political campaigns, including media for the campaigns of the last four Democratic Presidential candidates. He earned his MFA in film directing at Columbia University's School of the Arts. He lost his father to Parkinson's ten years ago.
JOE GRIFASI (Theatrical Director) Broadway: Dinner at Eight, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Memory of Two Mondays, Boy Meets Girl, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Happy End. Off-B'way: Conversations in Tusculum, The Boys Next Door (Drama Desk Nomination), Once Around the City, Golden Boy, Filumena, Says I Says He. Other theatre: Hughie (Stratford Festival, Trinity Rep) My Fair Lady (NY Philharmonic), Privates on Parade, (Long Wharf), Once in a Lifetime (Williamstown). Over fifty feature films including: Presumed Innocent, The Deer Hunter, Big Business, Beaches, Matewan, Naked Gun, Natural Born Killers, One Fine Day, F/X, Benny & Joon, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Brewster's Millions, Batman Forever, The Flamingo Kid, Ironweed and Splash. Television: The Bronx is Burning (as Yogi Berra), 61* (as Phil Rizzuto), Law & Order, ER, LA Law, Chicago Hope, Hill Street Blues, SCTV, Rosanne and The Practice. He has directed: The 39 Steps (Weston Playhouse) A Slight Hitch by Lewis Black, Cup of Coffee (Yale Rep) Triangles for Two and Heaven Can Wait (Westport Playhouse) The Frugal Repast (Abingdon Theater) and Max Frisch's Firebugs (Colleagues Theater). He has an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama.
RUTH KRESHKA (Production Stage Manager) feels graced to have been able to help bring the words and works of Samuel Beckett, Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin, Eugene Lee, Beth Henley, George Walker, John Patrick Shanley, David Henry Hwang, Reinaldo Povod, Adrian Hall, Truman Capote, and many others to the New York community. She has been with Columbia University's School of the Arts Theatre Program since 1998, where she is Director of Production and heads the MFA Stage Management concentration.
STEVEN MEYER (Co-Producer)is an award winning director and producer. He began his career in theater working with directors Liviu Ciuli, Garland Wright, Allan Schneider, Richard Foreman, and Marshall Mason as well as actors David Warrilow, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Patti LuPone, and Val Kilmer. He toured with performance artist Laurie Anderson, produced commercials and visual effects for Nike, Benetton, the Biosphere in Arizona, Dennis Earl Moore, Edwin Schlossberg, Pink Floyd, and Janet Jackson. He also produced the Revolutionary War Theater 4D Experience for the George Washington Museum at Mt. Vernon, and VFX for the Sundance winner "The Believer" directed by Henry Bean and "Game 6" directed by Michael Hoffman. He directed the documentary "Buried Prayers" and is on the advisory board of Off-Broadway Audience Builders, promoting Off-Broadway and independent feature film projects.
THE NYU PARKINSON AND MOVEMENT DISORDER CENTER was founded in the summer of 2007 with generous support of the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation to help individuals and families living with Parkinson disease and other movement disorders to achieve the highest possible quality of life. The Center values excellence in service and a humanistic, empathic and compassionate approach to healthcare delivery that emphasizes the individual, rather than just the disease. In their view, the patient-healthcare provider relationship is as important as the availability of the most appropriate treatments and supports.
ALESSANDRO Di ROCCO, M.D. is Chief of the Division of Movement Disorders, the Director of the NYU Parkinson and Movement Disorders Center and Professor of Neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Di Rocco's main academic interest is in developing more effective treatments for Parkinson's disease and its motor, cognitive, and neuropsychological complications.
When the body gives way, all that's left is heart.
