Wallace Norman, Stage Director

drawing by Scott Clugstone

WALLACE NORMAN  is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe. He is an actor, singer, playwright and director. Recently he directed and co-produced Proof  at the STS Playhouse in Phoenicia. 2012 was the 10th Anniversary of the critically acclaimed Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre & Song at the Byrdcliffe Theatre. During this season Norman directed the world premiere of his play It Can't Happen Here. Other recent directing projects include The Great Nebula in Orion by Lanford Wilson at the Judson Memorial Church in New York City, the successful ten-week Off-Broadway run of Jamaica, Farewell, at the So-Ho Playhouse, and Women on Fire by Irene O'Garden. Wallace has written five full-length plays and has a trunk full of shorter one-act plays. Wallace Norman has appeared in more than sixty productions in Regional, Stock and Off-Broadway. Norman has been a soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall, and participated as a singer in the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Cabaret Symposium. As an actor/manager and arts administrator Mr. Norman has produced over 30 works for the stage, and was a founder of The Gilgamesh Theatre Group, part of the At The Beckett Theatre Campaign on 42nd Street in NYC. Norman also has enjoyed a long association with Golden Fleece, Lou Rodgers, Artistic Director as a performer and arts administrator. He has trained extensively at the Herbert Berghoff Studio in NYC and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and has taught acting at Nassau Community College.

This production of HAPPY DAYS has been the most satisfying artistic experience of my career. We began working on this play in July of 2015. The privilege and pleasure of working with Bette and Ric, two devoted artists of the highest caliber is unsurpassed. They are both artists of profound sensitivity, intelligence and humanity.  -- Wallace Norman

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