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Lary-Opitz CV -2021 Lary Opitz E-mail: [email protected] Janet Kinghorn Bernard Theatre, Room 237 (518) 580-5432 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 https://academics.skidmore.edu/blogs/laryopitz/ Current and Recent Positions: Professor, Skidmore College Department of Theatre 2001-2021 Artistic Director, Saratoga Shakespeare Company 2012-2019 Chair of the Skidmore College Dept. of Theater (most recent term) 2006-2016 Council Member, Albany Liaison, Actors’ Equity Association 2012-2013 Education: Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Studio Art, 1970 Queens College, City University of New York The Studio and Forum of Stage Design, New York City Certificate of Distinction awarded 1980 Professional Affiliation: United Scenic Artists, IATSE Local Union #829, NYC Actors Equity Association (Principal Actor) Dramatists Guild Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Shakespeare Theatre Association Literary Managers and Dramagurgs of the Americas Previous Experience in Higher Education: Skidmore College Associate Professor 1989-2001 Assistant Professor 1980-1988 Instructor 1978-1980 Lecturer and Technical Director 1974-1978 Theatre Department Chair 1991-1994 Theatre Department Chair 1988-1989 Director of The Shakespeare Programme (Skidmore College) 1994-2006 Queens College Department of Theatre (CUNY) 1973-1974 Associate Technical Director Columbia University, NYC – Instructor, designer 1970-1972 Teachers College Theatre and Dance, Graduate Departments Lary Opitz CV Page 1 Directing: Julius Caesar (Skidmore Theater) 2018 Love Letters (Saratoga Shakespeare Company) 2016 Love’s Labour’s Lost (Saratoga Shakespeare Company) 2014 If All the Sky Were Paper (Skidmore Theater) 2014 Ajax in Iraq (Skidmore Theater) 2012 Almost Maine (Skidmore Theater) 2012 Romeo and Juliet (Skidmore Theater) 2011 Metamorphosis: A Slapstick Tragedy (Skidmore Theatre) 2009 Blood Relative (Skidmore Theatre) 2007 Macbeth (Skidmore Theatre) 2004 The Comedy of Errors (Skidmore Theatre) 2002 The Merchant of Venice (Skidmore Theatre) 2000 RAB (for national tour) 1999 Arcadia (Skidmore Theatre) 1998 The Trial (Skidmore Theatre) 1997 Bloomsday: Dublin, 16 June (Skidmore Theatre) 1994 The Threepenny Opera (Skidmore Theatre) 1992 Woyzeck (Skidmore Theatre) 1988 Producing Artistic Director - The Saratoga Shakespeare Company 2012-2019: The Merry Wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing Love’s Labour’s Lost The Comedy of Errors Macbeth The Dogs of War The Winter’s Tale Gravedigger’s Tale (with The Folger Theater) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2) King Henry IV parts 1 & 2 Cyrano! Love Letters Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare: The Remix The Tempest (with SPAC) Shipwrecked! As You Like It Lary Opitz CV Page 2 Acting and Performance Shylock (Jon Davies), Live streaming webcast 2021 King Lear (King Lear), Saratoga Shakespeare 2019 Romeo and Juliet (Capulet, Chorus, Friar Lawrence), Lionheart Brass 2019 The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff), Saratoga Shakespeare 2013 The Fighting McMarters (Fred McMarter) Independent short film 2013 Peter and the Wolf (narrator) Skidmore Orchestra 2013 The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Saratoga Shakespeare 2011 Hamlet (Polonius), Saratoga Shakespeare 2010 The Tempest (Gonzalo), Saratoga Shakespeare 2009 Diaghilev (Stravinsky, et alia), dir. Sheryl Kaller, w/ Thom Sesma 2007 Blood Relative (David), Skidmore Theatre 2007 As You Like It (Duke Senior/Duke Frederick), Saratoga Shakespeare 2008 What I Heard About Iraq, LaMaMa NYC, 2006 What I Heard About Iraq, NY state & Canada tour 2006 What I Heard About Iraq, documentary film 2006 Tubby the Tuba (Narrator) Skidmore Orchestra 2006 The Skeptic, (Attorney), Independent feature film 2005 Dada Soirée, with Mark Ludwig (BSO), Skidmore College 2005 National Museum of Dance, poetry reading 2005 Saratoga Casino (Big Winner), TV commercial 2005 Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence) Saratoga Shakespeare Co. 2004 Macbeth (Duncan, Porter, Scottish Doctor) Skidmore Theatre 2004 Titus Andronicus (Marcus), Instant Shakespeare Co., NYC 2003 Taming of the Shrew (Gremio), Instant Shakespeare Co., NYC 2003 Sonnet Readings, Instant Shakespeare Co., NYC 2003 The People’s Theater, NYC – Readings of New Plays 2003 The Comedy of Errors (Aegeon) Saratoga Shakespeare Co. 2002 Seabiscuit (Crony), Universal Films, Gary Ross dir. 2002 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Peter Quince) Saratoga Shakespeare 2001 The Three Sisters (Ferapont) Skidmore Theatre 2001 Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch) Saratoga Shakespeare Co. 2000 The Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Skidmore Theatre 2000 Carnival of the Animals (Narrator) Skidmore Orchestra 1999 Disoriented (Professor) Independent Feature Film 1998 DADA (Grandfather), Celebration of New Jewish Plays 1997 The Trial (Lawyer Huld), Skidmore Theatre 1997 Tonight We Improvise (Pirandello), Skidmore Theatre 1996 Machinal (George H. Jones), Skidmore Theatre 1995 In the Boom Boom Room (Club Owner), Skidmore Theatre 1994 The Music Man (Charlie Cowell), Rochester Music Theatre 1970 Show Boat (Backwoodsman), Rochester Music Theatre 1970 Lary Opitz CV Page 3 Writing: Julius Caesar – adaptation 2018 Romeo and Juliet – edited text for Theater Institute at Russell Sage 2015 Metamorphosis: A Slapstick Tragedy 2009 Shakespeare of A Certain Age 2008 The Trial – stage adaptation of Der Prozeß by Franz Kafka 1994 Bloomsday – Stage adaptation of Ulysses, by James Joyce 1994 International Photometrics Guide 1993 The Threepenny Opera 1992 Translation and adaptation based upon The Threepenny Opera and other writings of Bertolt Brecht Woyzeck in Auschwitz – Adaptation of Woyzeck by Georg Büchner 1988 Theatre Crafts Magazine (TCI, now Live Design) – Technical Editor 1985-1986 Editing and Adaptation of William Shakespeare’s plays including: Measure for Measure (work in progress) 2020 King Lear 2019 Julius Caesar (set in contemporary United States) 2018 Love’s Labour’s Lost (set in 1914 Saratoga Springs) 2013 Romeo and Juliet (set in 1960’s Buenos Aires featuring the tango) 2011 Macbeth (set in Soweto) 2004 The Comedy of Errors (set in 1940’s Casablanca) 2002 The Merchant of Venice (set in 1938 Vienna) 2000 Web-based writing (web pages and blogs) Shakespeare in Performance Acting Shakespeare’s Monologues Acting Shakespeare Shakespeare Was Jewish? Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia Arts and Politics in Weimar Germany Introduction to Theatre From Page to Stage Stage Lighting Parliamentary Procedure Senior Seminar Dramaturgy Self-Taping Auditions and Voice Overs Lary Opitz CV Page 4 Scenic and Lighting Design (selected credits – additional credits on pages 15-17): Saratoga Shakespeare 2012-2019 The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost , Cyrano, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear Marathon by Eduardo Erba (translated by Israel Horovitz) 2003 The People’s Theater, NYC Invited to assist Broadway lighting designers and Tharon Musser and Ken Billington 2003 Skidmore College, Department of Theatre 1974-2005 Over one hundred productions (see list below) Madame Butterfly, Lake George Opera/SPAC (lighting design consultant) 2000 The Book of Tink (world premiere), lighting designer. Written by Erik Ehn 1999 Chez Sophie Bistro - Saratoga Springs, lighting designer 1995 Two by Bellows (world première), lighting designer 1993 Empire State Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY Limón Dance Company 1984-1993 Resident lighting designer - hundreds of performances in over twenty countries including many New York and world premières Limón Dance Company 1990 Reconstructed Jean Rosenthal’s scenic designs for Ritmo Jondo The Hollow Lady – Lighting Design for NYC Premiere 1990 Alwin Nikolais, Choreographer; Nina Watt, soloist Woyzeck in Auschwitz (Skidmore College) 1988 Scenic, Lighting, Costume and Sound Design Heart to Heart (world première), Joyce Theatre, NYC 1988 Heinz Poll, Choreographer, Lighting Designer with Tom Skelton Capital Repertory Company (LORT), Albany, NY 1981-1987 Lighting Designer for Sea Marks, Table Manners, Jupiter and Elsewhere (world première), Translations, What the Butler Saw, The Dining Room, November (world première), The Wake of Jamey Foster Saratoga Performing Arts Center 1981-1985 Lighting designer, The Swan, Sleeping Beauty, Witness for the Prosecution, José Limón Dance Company, Story Theatre Empire State Institute for the Performing Arts 1978-1984 Lighting Designer, Beauty and the Beast, The Diary of Anne Frank, Spoon River Anthology, The Swan, Fiddler on the Roof, Wind in the Willows (world première), Sleeping Beauty, Witness for the Prosecution, Story Theatre, The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew Nureyev and Friends, Broadway (Asst, to Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1984 Show Boat, Broadway (Assistant to Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1983 Lary Opitz CV Page 5 Dance a Little Closer, Broadway (Asst. to Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1983 The New York Acting Unit, New York City 1983 Lighting designer, As You Like It, directed by Robert Smith The Magic Circle Opera Company, New York City 1982 Lighting designer, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (world première) Proctor’s Theatre, Schenectady, NY 1982 Lighting designer, Fiddler on the Roof and Encore The Kennedy Center, Washington, D. C. 1981 Lighting designer, Sleeping Beauty My One and Only, Broadway 1981 Assisted scenic designer Peter Gould for Tony Walton Sister/Sister (world première), starring Vinie Burrows 1981 Lighting designer, National/International tour The November People, Broadway (Asst. Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1978 Invited to assist Liviu Ciulei as lighting designer 1978 Dance Festival, Delacorte Theatre, NYC (Asst. Tom Skelton, lighting designer) 1978 The Acting Company, assistant
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