Golda's Balcony: Cast and Crew

David Fishelson (Producer) founded Manhattan Ensemble Theater to develop and produce new works of theater ‘mined’ from the rich ore of such diverse narrative sources as fiction, journalism, film, biography and memoir. Now entering its third full season as a nonprofit company, MET produced two plays last year that enjoyed critical and commercial success Off-Broadway. Golda’s Balcony (opened 3/14/03) earned a “Best Play” nomination from the Drama League, and garnered for its star, Tovah Feldshuh, the Drama Desk Award for “Best Solo Performance”, the Lucille Lortel Award for “Best Lead Actress” and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for “Best Solo Performance.” Hank Williams: Lost Highway (opened 12/9/02) earned an OBIE Award, as well as nominations from the Outer Critics Circle (“Best Off-Broadway Musical,” “Best Actor in a Musical”, “Best Director of a Musical”), the Lucille Lortel Awards (“Best Musical,” “Best Actor in a Musical”) and the Drama Desk (“Best Actor in a Musical”), as well as citations from The New York Times and The New York Sun as one of 2002’s best Off-Broadway productions. In April 2003, Hank Williams: Lost Highway moved commercially to the Little Shubert Theater on 42nd Street, and in October 2003 Golda’s Balcony moved to the Helen Hayes Theatre on Broadway. In its first full season in 2001-2002, MET produced three plays that won critical acclaim: Death In Venice (cited by Time Out as one of the “Ten Best Plays of the Year”), The Castle (which earned a Drama League nomination for “Best Play,” as well as Outer Critics Circle nominations for “Best Off-Broadway Play” and “Best Director”) and The Golem (Outer Critics Circle nomination for “Best Featured Actor”). Both The Castle and The Golem (co-authored by Fishelson) were published by Dramatists Play Service in 2003. Before founding MET, Fishelson was Jean Cocteau Repertory’s managing director from 1989-1992, its associate artistic director from 1992-1994, and a resident director there from 1994-1997, where he wrote and directed two dramatizations of Dostoyevsky’s novels: The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. Both were published by Dramatists Play Service in 1995, and broadcast as radio plays on “National Public Radio Playhouse.” For the screen he wrote and directed the award-winning independent feature City News, which was broadcast on PBS’s “American Playhouse.”


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