He has also managed and produced theatrical productions on and off Broadway and across the United States. His Broadway theatre management credits include Elaine Stritch At Liberty; George Gershwin Alone; A Moon for the Misbegotten; The Price; Death of a Salesman (Broadway and Showtime productions, starring Brian Dennehy); Fool Moon; Freak; and Julia Sweeney’s God Said Ha!.
Since moving to Los Angeles producing and directing theatrical productions in Hollywood such as Moliere’s The Misanthrope receiving six nominations (winning five) from the NAACP Annual Theatre Awards. Also coach and adjunct Acting teacher At NYU TISCH film school and SUNY Purchase University
Previously, project manager for the BBC and the Tate Gallery working on educational and creative projects for Young People in the UK; and for several years producer and director pf the Faraday Science lectures on behalf of the Institution of Engineering & technology. Currently co-founder and director of Naxos Creative offering expressive arts and life skills courses in Greece.
On Broadway, he was Wilson’s dramaturge for Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean and Associate Director of the Tony Award winning revival of Fences in 2010. as well as working with August Wilson on the screenplay adaptation of Fences Together, they conceived How I Learned What I Learned, a solo show that Kreidler directed with August Wilson performing at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 2003, and more recently at Off Broadway’s Signature Theatre and at Pittsburgh Public Theater. He wrote the musical fable Holler If Ya Hear Me, featuring the lyrics of Tupac Shakur that premiered on Broadway. His stage adaptation of the film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner ran at Arena Stage in Washington, DC and premiered at True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta. He has written Apollo 11, The Immersive Live Show and is currently writing a musical with Nikki Sixx, based on Sixx’s music and memoir, The Heroin Diaries.
He has also directed plays at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, and other venues. In 2014, he directed the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun starring Denzel Washington and LaTanya Richardson Jackson and won a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play.
Lecturer (0.4), since 2003 on the MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at the Institute for Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship (ICCE) at Goldsmiths, University of London. Previously (2014-23) project dramaturg to Crossing The Line – a partnership of 6 leading European theatre companies touring professionally with learning disabled and autistic artists. Director of writernet (1994-2009) a UK based grass roots playwright development organisation, where he oversaw a range of black playwright development initiatives, Jonathan originally trained as a theatre director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, advisor to Ambitious about Autism and has extensive board experience.
She directed A Dry White Season (1989), and was the first black woman director of a film produced by a major Hollywood studio (MGM) and the only woman filmmaker to have directed Marlon Brando, whom she brought back to the screen after a gap of nine years and which garnered him an Oscar nomination. She has also produced a three-part documentary Aimé Césaire, A Voice For History about the famed Martinique poet, playwright and philosopher, Since 2013 she has been a member of the comité national pour la mémoire et l’histoire de l’esclavage (CNMHE).
Jack Viertel was also the artistic director of New York City Center’s acclaimed Encores! series, overseeing sixty shows, for some of which he adapted the scripts. He was co-creator of Smokey Joe’s Cafe and creative consultant on shows such as Hairspray, A Christmas Story, and Dear Evan Hansen. He was the Mark Taper Forum’s dramaturg and the drama critic and arts editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and he has spent a decade teaching musical theater at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. In 2023 he received the Bill Irwin Trailblazer award at the Savannah Rep Gala.
In 2020, The New York Times ranked Woodard seventeenth on its list of “The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century”; and Mark Kermode in his Five Star “Alfre Woodard quietly dazzles in this superb death row drama” review for Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency in the Guardian also laments “Woodard is brilliantly measured and understated, a quality that rarely attracts Oscar attention”. She is a founder of Artists for a New South Africa, an organization devoted to advancing democracy and equality in that country; and a board member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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