NORTH AMERICAN
PREMIERE
The King's Speech
September 12
October 20, 2019
The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare
by David Seidler
directed by Michael Wilson
September 12
October 20, 2019
The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare
by David Seidler
directed by Michael Wilson
Cosmo Lang
ALAN MANDELL CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE: Debut. BROADWAY: Beth Henley’s Impossible Marriage opposite Holly Hunter and Lois Smith. OFF BROADWAY: The Beard of Avon, Waiting for Godot. TOURING: original productions of Waiting for Godot, Endgame directed by Samuel Beckett; Twelve Angry Men (CIBC Theatre). REGIONAL: No Man’s Land (Odyssey Theatre); Restoration (La Jolla Playhouse/New York Theatre Workshop); The Cherry Orchard, Waiting for Godot, Arthur Miller’s The Price (Mark Taper Forum); Trying (Colony Theatre). FILM: John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Shortbus, the Coen Brother’s A Serious Man, The Marrying Man, Midnight Witness. TELEVISION: Grey’s Anatomy. AWARDS: several Los Angeles Ovation Awards. Mr. Mandell is a founding member of the San Francisco Actor’s Workshop and co-founder of the San Quentin Drama Workshop, which started with a performance of Waiting for Godot inside a prison. He has been a producer on and off Broadway, general manager of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, consulting director at Los Angeles Theater Company, and taught at UCLA’s Graduate School of Management.