La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club

74A East 4th Street
(btw Bowery & 2nd Ave)
New York, NY 10003
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Coffeehouse Chronicles

George Ferencz (#105)

January 28, 2012 at 3pm


George Ferencz is celebrating his 30 year association with La MaMa. As a resident director he has directed 32 productions and is in his 14th season as curator of the Experiments Playreading Series. Ferencz’s first production was MONEY (a jazz opera) and his most recent was CONJUR WOMAN (a blues opera). In between were THE TOOTH OF CRIME, SHEPARDSETS (with Max Roach) and GHOSTS (with Genji Ito). As curator of Experiments, he conducted 140 concert readings of new plays, directed Experimenta, a festival of 6 plays from the Experiments Series and heads for a 4th season the Shadow festival celebrating Black History Month.