Love, Bebe
by Jason Martin
Directed by Christopher Mirto
Cast: Lisa Kitchens, Chandler Wild
JASON MARTIN is a recent graduate from Columbia University with an MFA in Acting. He is thrilled to make his playwriting debut with State of Play Productions. His collaborative adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya entitled, Vanya, was produced this Spring by his production company, Paisley in Blue Productions.
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.