![]() ![]() Mitch holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre & Drama from the University of Wisconsin. He has also directed at Pegasus Players, Stage Left Theatre and Chicago Dramatists. Golob was also a member of Naked Eye Theatre Company, where he assistant directed the Jeff Award winning production of Waving Goodbye, in a co-production with Steppenwolf. premiere of Jump to Cow Heaven at Profiles Theatre, And Then They Came For Me at Apple Tree Theatre, and was associate director of the award winning world premiere of Hannah & Martin at TimeLine Theatre. Other directing projects include 8 By Tenn at Hartford Stage Company, working with Tony Award Winners Elizabeth Ashley and Amanda Plummer, the U.S. Mitch Golob has directed many InFusion productions: the world premieres of The Improv Play, Pluto is Listening, Ghostbox and Créole (nominated for five Black Theatre Alliance Awards), the United States premiere of The Last Supper and the Midwest premieres of Intrigue With Faye, Rhymes With Evil, Soul Samurai, and Fight Girl Battle World and Ithaka. She is writing the books for two musicals with award-winning composer Bobby Cronin: The Concrete Jungle and the musical theater adaption of the film Mary and Max, to be directed by Outer Critics Circle Award-winning Stafford Arima with mask work by Joseph Osheroff. In Chicago her work has also been seen with The New Colony, Collaboraction, DePaul University and LiveWire Chicago Theatre. She is currently at work on a new play, Rain and Zoe Save the World, about two teenage activists on a cross-country mission. Wild earned three 2014 New York Innovation Theater Award nominations for its sold out production at IRT Theater this spring, (following a critically successful run in Chicago with Kid Brooklyn Productions and Off Broadway in MCC Theater’s Playlabs at the Lucille Lortel.) Skillman’s other plays include: The Vigil or The Guided Cradle, winner of the 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script and Drunk Art Love, now a web series directed by Sanjit De Silva. Her three recent plays, King Kirby, co-written with Fred Van Lente, Geek! and Cut, have all earned Critics Picks from The New York Times. Feelgood would release three more studio albums and their acclaimed 1976 live LP Stupidity before Johnson left the group in 1977 to launch his own Wilko Johnson Band.Crystal Skillman is an award winning Brooklyn based playwright. Feelgood, who made their mark performing R&B covers on the British pub scene before releasing their debut album Down By the Jetty in 1975. Johnson was a founding member and lead guitarist of Dr. However, following surgery that removed a massive tumor from his body, Johnson declared he was cancer-free and remained musically active until his death. A decade ago, Johnson announced that he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and even released what he believed was his farewell album, 2014’s Going Back Home. RIP Wilko Johnson.”Ī cause of death was not provided. ![]() Thank you for respecting the family’s privacy at this very sad time. “He passed away at home on Monday 21st November. “This is the announcement we never wanted to make, & we do so with a very heavy heart: Wilko Johnson has died,” Johnson’s Twitter announced Tuesday. Feelgood who was credited with laying the groundwork for the punk movement, has died at the age of 75. Wilko Johnson, the influential guitarist for the British pub rock band Dr.
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