Evan Cabnet has directed Adam Rapp's Tone Unknown, Mark Schultz's Fun, and Liz Meriwether's 90 Days as part of stageFARM's SPIN (Cherry Lane), Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Long Wharf Theater, East Coast Premiere), The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels/Culture Project, World Premiere), Brooke Berman's Wonderland and Adam Szymkowicz's Hearts Like Fists (Juilliard), Tell Out My Soul (SPF/Public Theater), A Little Soul Searching (EST Marathon 2008), and his own adaptations of Ubu Roi and Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Williamstown). He has developed new works by: Carly Mensch (Playwrights Horizons), Rajiv Joseph (Vineyard), Cusi Cram (MCC), Annie Baker, Nick Jones, Lucy Thurber, Kyle Jarrow, Steven Levenson, Mat Smart, Tommy Smith, Beau Willimon, Louis Cancelmi, Liz Flahive and many others. Associate/Assistant credits include: Edward Albee's Seascape, Chris Shinn's Dying City, and The Rivals (Lincoln Center Theater), As You Like It (Delacorte/NYSF), and Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All The Luck (Roundabout). Five seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival, including the 2003 Boris Sagal and 2002 Bill Foeller Fellowships. Founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group, former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Associate Artist with the stageFARM, and recipient of the 2008 Claire Tow Award for Emerging Artists.
The Brick Theater is located at 575 Metropolitan Avenue (between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on the L & G subway lines (L: Lorimer stop; G: Metropolitan stop). For more detailed directions & further information, see http://www.bricktheater.com. The Brick and its non-profit company, The Brick Theater, Inc. were founded in September of 2002 by Robert Honeywell and Michael Gardner. Formerly an auto-body shop, a storage space and a yoga center, this brick- walled garage was completely refurbished into a state-of-the-art theater complex, with a large sprung floor and professional lighting and sound package.
The Brick has been home to numerous critically acclaimed original productions, including three years of the New York Clown Theatre Festival, The Protestants, The Granduncle Quadrilogy, Lord Oxford Brings You the Second American Revolution, Live!, Richard Foreman's Harry in Love, The Film Festival: A Theater Festival (featuring Death at Film Forum and The Stubborn Illusion of Time), Babylon Babylon, Notes From Underground, Bitch Macbeth, The Debate Society's A Thought About Raya, Secrets History Remembers, The Pretentious Festival (including Every Play Ever Written and Macbeth Without Words), The Present Perfect, Bouffon Glass Menajoree, Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist/Cleansed, The Death of Griffin Hunter, the Havel Festival, Sexadelic Cemetery, Greed: A Musical Love $tory, The Kung Fu Importance of Being Earnest, The $ellout Festival, Adventures of Caveman Robot, Total Faith in Cosmic Love, The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, The Moral Values Festival (featuring Dear Dubya, World Gone Wrong, My Year of Porn), Tupperware Orgy, Bizarre Science Fantasy, Who is Wilford Brimley? The Musical, Jenna is nuts, Habitat, In a Strange Room (based on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying), Fallout Follies, Assurbanipal Babilla's Assyrian Monkey Fantasy and stagings of Chekhov's Three Sisters, O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, Maria Irene Fornes' Abingdon Square and the Brooklyn premiere of legendary Polish playwright Stanislaw Witkiewicz's The Pragmatists.
