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A COLLAGE-THEATRE PIECE EXPLORING THE LIFE AND WORK OF SERGEI DIAGHILEV.


Conceived and created by director Nadia Foskolou and playwright Nathan Wright, MANIFESTO is part docu-theatre, part musical theater, part dance concert, part electro pop-light show and most of all part play.

 Directed by Foskolou, written by Wright and starring Marc Sinoway as Diaghilev, the piece was performed by 9 actor-dancers playing over 40 different roles with live music by classical pianist and experimental composer, Dustin Gledhill and choreography by Brad Landers. 

MANIFESTO: The Diaghilev Project was presented as a developmental production in New York City at The Robert Moss Theater July 24-28, 2018.

The Diaghilev Project

MANIFESTO

Conceived and created by director Nadia Foskolou and playwright Nathan Wright, MANIFESTO is part docu-theatre, part musical theater, part dance concert, part electro pop-light show and most of all part play.

Was one of the most significant and often controversial figures of the early 20th Century. He founded and led the Ballet Russe, an itinerant ballet company, which provided a platform and launch-pad for such avant-garde icons as Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Coco Chanel, and dance phenome Vaslav Nijinsky.

Sergei “Serge” Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872-1929)

Was one of the most significant and often controversial figures of the early 20th Century. He founded and led the Ballet Russe, an itinerant ballet company, which provided a platform and launch-pad for such avant-garde icons as Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Coco Chanel, and dance phenome Vaslav Nijinsky.

Meet Our Team

playwright

director

Nathan Wright

Nadia Foskolow

Nadia Foskolou is a director, dramaturg, translator, and producer working in New York and in Athens, Greece. She holds an MA in Theatre Studies from the Sorbonne University, a Diploma in Acting from the ‘Florent’ Acting School (Paris), a BA in Theatre Studies from the University of Athens and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University.

She directed, translated and produced the Greek premiere of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s Address Unknown, which was voted Best Short-term Production of 2015 and is currently reprised for a 5th year.

Her staging of Nathan Wright’s Peninsula won an Outstanding Ensemble Award at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival and was selected for the Fringe Encores.

Nathan Wright is a New York based playwright, actor, and director. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre and English from Weber State University. 

Most recently he has directed Charles Gershman’s The Waiting Game which premiered at 59e59 Theatres and subsequently at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning Best Over Seas Production.
He has written the book for In The Light, a musical with composer/lyricist Michael Mott and directed by Jeff Whiting.

He was a collaborator on the TEAM’s Architecting (directed by Rachel Chavkin, Winner 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, PS 122 and the Public Theatre Under the Radar).

His own plays include Peninsula (Winner of the 2013 Fringe Award at NYC Fringe and subsequently produced at The Player’s Theater in New York), Naked Fish (Winner 2007 National Playwriting Award, produced by Theatre Masters, Aspen, and EgoPo Productions, Philadelphia), Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope (Card Table Theatre, Lawrence, Kansas) Distance (Plan-B Theatre, Salt Lake City), and HomoRapture (Kenyon College).

Additionally, he has translated Russian playwright Katia Rubina's Family Happiness (O'Neil Playwright's Center).

Visit: www.nathanwrite.com

sergei Diaghilev & Associate Producer

Marc Sinoway

Marc most recently portrayed Paolo in The Waiting Game at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and 59E59’s East to Edinburgh. Marc played Tommy in Seasons 1 & 2 of Hunting Season, which appeared on LOGO and Vimeo On Demand. Marc is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and William Esper Studio. Marc likes diamonds. Marc is always looking to collaborate. Marc is too old for Snapchat, but his Twitter and Instagram are lit: @marcsinoway Website: marcsinoway.com

composer

Dustin Gledhill

Dustin Gledhill is an international prize-winning classical pianist, experimental composer and educator. Hailed by London’s Musical Opinion as “thoughtful yet passionate, finely nuanced but exciting”, Dustin is a laureate of the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Jr. Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Music Teacher’s National Association and many others.

Gledhill holds performance degrees from The Juilliard School, Royal Academy of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and is currently pursuing Doctoral studies at Stony Brook University. 

In 2005, Dustin appeared on stage with Pina Bausch and company in Palermo Palermo, at Saddler’s Wells Dance Theater in London. In 2009, Dustin was featured as pianist and recording artist for the world premier of AfterLight, produced and performed by the Russell Maliphant Company, and nominated for a Lawrence Olivier Award for Best Dance Production.  

In 2014 she directed Hôtel Méditerranée, a new theatre piece based on Matisse’s Self Portrait by Charles Mee (world premiere) and on the film documentary Yiannis Moralis by Stelios Charalambopoulos, at Between the Seas Festival in New York.

Other NYC directing credits: Nathan Wright’s Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), Anna Forsythe & Michelle Vugmayster’s Opus D’Amour (Baryshnikov Arts Center, Theaterlab), Euripides’ The Madness of Hercules (Roy Arias Stage II Theatre), Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear, Bergman’s Best Intentions, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Havel’s Protest (Columbia Stages).

Athens credits include: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Bremer Freedom, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Alain De Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Venedikt Erofeev’s Moscow to the End of the Line, Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Journey to the Netherlands, Marius Ivaskevicius’s The Neighbor, Sotiris Dimitriou’s Summer in the Bodies. 

In April, 2015, Dustin premiered an original work for piano, Under A Glass Bell, commissioned by the Marigny Opera House Dance Company in New Orleans and choreographed by Maya Taylor. The work also received England and New York premiers in 2015.

Dustin is a published singer/songwriter, releasing two albums A Gentle Touch (2001) and Always(2002). Dustin also works in collaboration with singer/songwriter, Mindy Gledhill and producer Eric Robertson of Pleasant Pictures. Their project, Hive Riot, an 80’s inspired synth-pop duo, released their self-titled album in January of 2016.
Gledhill holds performance degrees from The Juilliard School, Royal Academy of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and is currently pursuing Doctoral studies at Stony Brook University. 

In 2005, Dustin appeared on stage with Pina Bausch and company in Palermo Palermo, at Saddler’s Wells Dance Theater in London. In 2009, Dustin was featured as pianist and recording artist for the world premier of AfterLight, produced and performed by the Russell Maliphant Company, and nominated for a Lawrence Olivier Award for Best Dance Production.  

Nathan Wright

playwright

Nathan Wright is a New York based playwright, actor, and director. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University and a BA in Theatre and English from Weber State University. 

Most recently he has directed Charles Gershman’s The Waiting Game which premiered at 59e59 Theatres and subsequently at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning Best Over Seas Production.
He has written the book for In The Light, a musical with composer/lyricist Michael Mott and directed by Jeff Whiting.

He was a collaborator on the TEAM’s Architecting (directed by Rachel Chavkin, Winner 2008 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, PS 122 and the Public Theatre Under the Radar).
His own plays include Peninsula (Winner of the 2013 Fringe Award at NYC Fringe and subsequently produced at The Player’s Theater in New York), Naked Fish (Winner 2007 National Playwriting Award, produced by Theatre Masters, Aspen, and EgoPo Productions, Philadelphia), Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope (Card Table Theatre, Lawrence, Kansas) Distance (Plan-B Theatre, Salt Lake City), and HomoRapture (Kenyon College).
Additionally, he has translated Russian playwright Katia Rubina's Family Happiness (O'Neil Playwright's Center).

Visit: www.nathanwrite.com

Nadia Foskolou is a director, dramaturg, translator, and producer working in New York and in Athens, Greece. She holds an MA in Theatre Studies from the Sorbonne University, a Diploma in Acting from the ‘Florent’ Acting School (Paris), a BA in Theatre Studies from the University of Athens and an MFA in Directing from Columbia University.
She directed, translated and produced the Greek premiere of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor’s Address Unknown, which was voted Best Short-term Production of 2015 and is currently reprised for a 5th year. Her staging of Nathan Wright’s Peninsula won an Outstanding Ensemble Award at the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival and was selected for the Fringe Encores. In 2014 she directed Hôtel Méditerranée, a new theatre piece based on Matisse’s Self Portrait by Charles Mee (world premiere) and on the film documentary Yiannis Moralis by Stelios Charalambopoulos, at Between the Seas Festival in New York. Other NYC directing credits: Nathan Wright’s Lake Full of Iron; Sky Full of Hope (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), Anna Forsythe & Michelle Vugmayster’s Opus D’Amour (Baryshnikov Arts Center, Theaterlab), Euripides’ The Madness of Hercules (Roy Arias Stage II Theatre), Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear, Bergman’s Best Intentions, Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Havel’s Protest (Columbia Stages).
Athens credits include: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Bremer Freedom, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Alain De Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life, Venedikt Erofeev’s Moscow to the End of the Line, Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Journey to the Netherlands, Marius Ivaskevicius’s The Neighbor, Sotiris Dimitriou’s Summer in the Bodies.

director

Nadia Foskolow

Dustin Gledhill is an international prize-winning classical pianist, experimental composer and educator. Hailed by London’s Musical Opinion as “thoughtful yet passionate, finely nuanced but exciting”, Dustin is a laureate of the New Orleans International Piano Competition, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Jr. Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Music Teacher’s National Association and many others.

Gledhill holds performance degrees from The Juilliard School, Royal Academy of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and is currently pursuing Doctoral studies at Stony Brook University.  In 2005, Dustin appeared on stage with Pina Bausch and company in Palermo Palermo, at Saddler’s Wells Dance Theater in London. In 2009, Dustin was featured as pianist and recording artist for the world premier of AfterLight, produced and performed by the Russell Maliphant Company, and nominated for a Lawrence Olivier Award for Best Dance Production. In April, 2015, Dustin premiered an original work for piano, Under A Glass Bell, commissioned by the Marigny Opera House Dance Company in New Orleans and choreographed by Maya Taylor. The work also received England and New York premiers in 2015. 

Dustin is a published singer/songwriter, releasing two albums A Gentle Touch (2001) and Always(2002). Dustin also works in collaboration with singer/songwriter, Mindy Gledhill and producer Eric Robertson of Pleasant Pictures. Their project, Hive Riot, an 80’s inspired synth-pop duo, released their self-titled album in January of 2016.

Gledhill holds performance degrees from The Juilliard School, Royal Academy of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and is currently pursuing Doctoral studies at Stony Brook University. 

composer

DUSTIN GLEDHILL

Marc Sinoway is an NYC-based actor. On stage, Marc recently played Alan Turing in The Heresy Machine and Sergei Diaghilev in MANIFESTO: The Diaghilev Project.

Marc most recently portrayed Paolo in The Waiting Game at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and 59E59’s East to Edinburgh. Marc played Tommy in Seasons 1 & 2 of Hunting Season, which appeared on LOGO and Vimeo On Demand.

Marc is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and William Esper Studio. Marc likes diamonds. Marc is always looking to collaborate.

Marc is too old for Snapchat, but his Twitter and Instagram are lit: @marcsinoway

Website: www.marcsinoway.com

serghei diaghilev & associate producer

Marc Sinoway

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