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Playwright N. Richard Nash. Nash's The Rainmaker runs July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe. |
Director Maria Mileaf. Mileaf will direct N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe. |
N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker runs July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe. |
Cast and Creative Team
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N. Richard Nash (Playwright) was born Nathaniel Richard Nusbaum on June 7, 1913, in Philadelphia. He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1934. While in school he directed plays at Bryn Mawr, a nearby women’s college, and received great reviews for a play he wrote featuring only female characters. Nash received the Maxwell Anderson Verse Drama Award for Parting at Imsdorf (1940). His other notable theatrical plays include Second Best Bed (1946), The Young and Fair (1948), See the Jaguar (1952), Girls of Summer (1956), Handful of Fire (1958) and the musical Wildcat (1960). During the 1950s, Nash was one of six writers selected by producer Fred Coe to create serious drama for television. His most famous play, The Rainmaker, appeared in all three mediums: on Broadway in 1954, as a motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in 1956 and as a television production in 1982. A musical version of The Rainmaker, entitled 110 Degrees in the Shade, debuted on Broadway in 1963. Among Nash’s screenplay credits are Nora Prentiss (1946), Dear Wife (1950) and Top of the World (1955). Adapting the works of others, he wrote the script for The Sainted Sisters (1948) and Porgy and Bess (1959). Later in his career, Nash focused on writing novels. East Wind, Rain (1977), inspired by his time serving with the Office of War Information during World War II, took seven years to research. Other novels include Cry Macho (1975) and Radiance (1983). Nash also lectured on drama and philosophy at colleges and universities throughout the United States. He died on Dec. 11, 2000, in New York City at the age of 87. |
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Maria Mileaf (Director) has directed the New York productions of Lee Blessing’s Body of Water (Primary Stages) and his Going to St. Ives (Outer Critic Circle Award for Best New Play, 2005), Alexandra Gerston-Vassilaros’ The Argument (Vineyard Theatre), Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice (Playwrights Horizons), Vijay Tendulkar’s Sakharam Binder and Eric Emmanuel-Schmidt’s Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (The Play Company), Brooke Berman’s A Perfect Couple (DR2 Theatre), Oren Safdie’s Private Jokes, Public Places (Center for Architecture), Erik Ehn’s ‘Maid (Lincoln Center Festival), Neena Beber’s Hard Feelings (Women’s Project), Julia Cho's 99 Histories (Cherry Lane Theatre) and Dawn Saito's HA (Dance Theater Workshop). Regionally, Mileaf’s favorite directing credits include Patricia Wettig’s F2M and Joanna Murray-Smith’s Ninety (New York Stage and Film), Going to St. Ives (La Jolla Playhouse), Lucy Prebble’s The Sugar Syndrome, John Belluso’s A Nervous Smile and Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty and Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Story (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (Berkshire Theatre Festival) and Wasserstein’s Third with Christine Lahti (Geffen Playhouse). On the West End, Mileaf directed Richard Schiff in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel. She received her M.F.A. from UC San Diego. She lives in New York City with her husband, set designer Neil Patel, and their two children. |
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