How to Be Patient
by Marjorie LeWit
Directed by Christopher Mirto
Cast: Teresa Becker, Ben Bucher, Diana Oh, Daniel Medvidick, Jared Sanchez, Side 2 Side, Imran Sheikh
MARJORIE LEWIT In December 2010, Marjorie produced and wrote original works for an evening of unemployment and job dissatisfaction called Living Wage. Her writing has been featured in several evenings of shorts with AUR’s Project 30 as well as Mixed Tape. Marjorie is currently working on a feature length screenplay as well as an illustrated children’s book. She blogs at http://letmedrawyouapicture.tumblr.com
CHRISTOPHER MIRTO most recently directed L’enfant et les sortileges with the graduate opera students at Manhattan School of Music. While an MFA student at Yale School of Drama, he directed Phèdre, Hamlet, Cygnus and Elijah; he was also co-artistic director of Yale Cabaret’s 42nd season. His Yale Cabaret credits include the musicals Hillbilly Antigone (East Coast Premiere), Missed Connections (an electro-popera), Strange Love In Outer Space (also in the NY International Fringe Festival), and Three Sisters, or The Dormouse’s Tale, for which he also co-wrote the book. At Yale Rep he served as assistant director to Liz Diamond on Happy Now? by Lucinda Coxon. In New York City, he directed the revival of Dionysus in 69 by Richard Schechner, Tough by George F. Walker, and Four Twins by Copi. He directed and produced White Embers by Saviana Stanescu in the 2010 Samuel French OOB Festival; it was a published finalist. Mirto produced Olsen Terror by Chris Wells at Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place, and the NY Fringe Festival. As an actor he has performed in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (Yale Cabaret), One Flea Spare (Columbia University) and in Richard Foreman’s The Gods Are Pounding My Head aka Lumberjack Messiah and Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead. He holds a BFA in acting and English literature from New York University.