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Greg Dean

 

Greg Dean is a Catastrophic company member.  He was most recently seen as A in Catastrophic Theatre's production of Sarah Kane’s Crave. Other work with Catastrophic includes directing and designing Richard Foreman’s Paradise Hotel, multiple roles in Bluefinger, Richard in Hunter Gatherers (twice!), Jack in The Designated Mourner, and Lewis in Our Late Night, for which he also served as scenic designer.  He recently appeared in Moonlite Filmwerks’ Persistence of Vision, for which he received the Best Actor Award at Splatterfest Houston 2011. He also appeared as a diabolical travelling salesman in MF’s full-length feature film BACKROAD.  Other work includes Davies in Stagger Lee Presents' production of Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, and Kreon in Antigone for the Classical Theater Company. With Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company he was director, sound and scenic designer for The Marriage of Bette and Boo, scenic designer for The Flu Season, sound designer and videographer for Triptych, and director, designer and actor in Things Being at the Worst, Tomorrow Morning, and Mac Wellman’s Dracula, among others.  He has also worked as an actor, director and designer with Urban Theater (Macbeth, Oedipus, Waiting for Godot, Josef [K]), West-Mon Repertory Theater (Loot, Edmond, Talk Radio), The Houston Shakespeare Festival (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor, Titus Andronicus), Infernal Bridegroom Productions (Endgame, Waiting for Godot, Eddie Goes to Poetry City, Quartett, Samuel's Major Problems, Woyzeck, Guys and Dolls, Cherry Orchard and others), Bobbindoctrin Puppet Theatre (Crime of the Assistant Master Butler) and the Alley Theatre (Our Lady of 121st Street).

Last Updated: 
Feb 8 2012

Shows

 

DOOMSDAY REVUE

Tamarie Cooper et al

7/12/12 to 8/25/12
 

Endgame

Samuel Beckett

2/17/12 to 3/3/12
 

Crave

Sarah Kane

5/20/11 to 6/4/11
 

Paradise Hotel

Richard Foreman

2/11/11 to 2/26/11
 

Bluefinger

Songs and concepts by Black Francis, created by Jason Nodler from an idea by Josh Frank

11/12/10 to 12/18/10
 

Hunter Gatherers

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

6/25/10 to 7/17/10
 

The Designated Mourner

Wallace Shawn

5/14/10 to 6/5/10
 

Our Late Night

Wallace Shawn

3/19/10 to 4/3/10
 

Hunter Gatherers (2009)

Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

4/1/09 to 4/11/09

Press

Catastrophic’s production of the very funny and terribly unhappy “Endgame” is another masterpiece in the company’s ever-mounting stack of successes.

Nancy says: "'You're on earth, there's no cure for that,' Hamm says to to Clov. Beckett is back thanks to those wonky word geeks over at Catastrophic Theatre with their uber tight production of Endgame, starring Greg Dean as Hamm, Troy Schulze as Clov, Joel Orr as Nagg and Mikelle Johnson as Nell. Directed by Jason Nodler, Endgame's title says it all. If you love language, wordplay, divine banter and humor with a falling off a cliff edge, this is a play for you.

No one in Houston creates this multilayered, nonlinear type of theatre better than The Catastrophic Theatre.

I think it helps that Catastrophic’s Artistic Director Jason Nodler, who directs here, is a goddamn genius by every definition of the word.Only a genius can take the complexly simple Endgame and make it sing, dance, and soar to new heights, exploding into so many pieces simultaneously, satisfactorily, and splendidly that we marvel at its many magnificent manifestations.

Catastrophic Theatre’s stark, unflinching production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame demonstrates exactly why this company and its artistic director Jason Nodler are so important to the city’s cultural life.

If man's wretched existence ever needed a finer hand to paint comic despair, look no further than director Jason Nodler with his quartet of superlative interpreters all in the service of the apocalyptic vision from Samuel Beckett.

Sex, drugs, and rock ’n roll Dutch-style pretty much sums up the monumentally epic life and times of Herman Brood and Bluefinger, boldly and masterfully brought to the stage by visionary Jason Nodler, artistic director of The Catastrophic Theatre.

Bluefinger is so good that it could and should run for years, whether here or Off-Broadway or both.  It is better than American Idiot, which I reviewed on opening night, and could make a huge splash in a smaller New York venue.

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Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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