Writer/director/dramaturg HAL GELB has worked in theater, film, television and print media. For the stage, he translated The Misanthrope and Ghazi Rabihavi's Stoning, told the true story of Bill and Monica in Executive Ardor, scripted & Pigs Can Fly, and collaborated on the Samuel French version of Dario Fo's We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! and the anti-Iraq-war musical, Love Missile, in which a First World country drops shit on a Third World nation and calls it love. Hal's media work has been seen on PBS, Bay Area channels 2, 9 and 20, and been presented by U.N. agencies, the Brussels world conference on the environment and the Museum of Modern Art (NYC). His writings on theater, jazz and roots music have appeared in The Nation, the New York Times, Theatre Week, West Coast Plays and the major Bay Area magazines and newspapers. As a director, Hal staged the work of Mamet, Hare, Pinter, Guare, Bullins, Genet, Horovitz, Mednick, Fugard, Shakespeare and Moliere, as well as many new plays. It was his idea and early work that transformed Theatre Bay Area, the theater support group, from an organization representing individual actors, designers and technicians into an organization that serves the needs of Northern California theaters and those of individual artists. |