Monday, July 31, 2023

Next up for Harold and Maedell - SUITES MYSTERIOUS!

 Here is the information for our next show. We are performing with cellist Harry Clark in the world premiere of  a new piece called Suites Mysterious. Maedell will be playing J.S. Bach's wife Magdalena Bach, and I will be playing Bernard Linicke, the good friend of Magdalena and the estranged friend of Bach. The letters serve as interludes between movements of the Bach cello solos (the first solo pieces ever written for cello), which will be played by Harry Clark.

There is one performance only, Wednesday, September 6, in Green Valley, Arizona, 7:00 PM, at the Community Performance and Art Center, 1250 W Continental Rd, PO Box 1301, Green Valley, AZ 85622 / (520) 399-1750

Follow this link for more information and tickets.

https://performingartscenter.thundertix.com/events/208480

Monday, January 9, 2023

New film role for Harold

Harold will appear in Condition of Return, a new film. It will premiere at the Sedona International Film Festival in February, 2023.

Harold plays the priest in the very first shot of the teaser below.


https://youtu.be/rTU1eIxuxMI 

Friday, February 25, 2022

Harold will be appearing in this show in March!

 


A project of the BRINK Foundation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – February 25, 2022
Press contact: danny@brink.foundation
 

PIDGIN PALACE ARTS & KEVIN BLACK PRESENT
Hamlet: Fine Revolution

March 15 - 19, 2022 at 7:30pm

Kevin Black presents a live, multimedia adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet at Pidgin Palace Arts, the Brink Foundation's new art gallery and headquarters in Tucson, Arizona.

Hamlet: Fine Revolution is an electrifying remix of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as a modern, 4th Industrial Revolution tragedy. Set in a fictional Denmark dominated by artificial intelligence systems, the play is an embodied experience — the audience is literally in the midst of the action, in a mediated, light-and-sound-scaped theatre space, as the story unfolds around them. Social, political, and hyper theatrical, the project is an interrogation of our wired lives: connected or isolated, united or polarized.

Kevin Black, Nikki Crawford, David Andrew MacDonald, Betsy Kruse Craig, and Harold Dixon will lead a professional cast in this modern retelling of Shakespeare's best-known play.

The run is one week only: 5 performances, and seats are extremely limited.

Tickets are $40 General, $20 Student/Seniors

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hamlet-fine-revolution-tickets-275795069477

Hamlet: Fine Revolution contains mature content and language.

Hamlet: Fine Revolution has received funding support from the University of Arizona's College of Fine Arts and through a UA Research, Innovation and Impact Production Grant. 

Mandatory Safety Practices and Procedures

All visitors to Pidgin Palace Arts will need to show proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID test for all performances of Hamlet: Fine Revolution. Guests must provide at least one of the following:

  • Physical vaccination card (original or photocopy)
  • Digital vaccination record (a photo on your phone is permitted)
  • Negative COVID-19 test dated within 72 hours of your visit

Dates

Preview: 
7: 30pm, Tuesday, March 15, 2022 

Opening: 7:30pm, Wednesday, March 16, 2022 

Close: Saturday, March 19, 2022

Venue: Pidgin Palace Arts

Venue Address: 1110 S. 6th Ave., Tucson, AZ

Venue Organization: Brink Foundation

Max. Seating: 30

Ticketing: Eventbrite
 

Project Team
 
Kevin Black: Producer/Director 
 

Featured Cast

Kevin Black: Hamlet
Nikki Crawford: Ophelia
Betsy Kruse Craig: Gertrude
David Andrew MacDonald: Claudius
Harold Dixon: Player King and Gravedigger
Kasey Caruso: Laertes
 

Key Personnel

Matt Marcus, Sound Design
Ron Creason/Todd Polstra, Lighting Design
Ted Kraus, Technical Advisor
Brent Gibbs, Fight Choreographer
Maryann Trombino, Costumes
Alex Leyton, Cinematography
Jason Willis, Editing
Louise Le Hir, Songs

Kevin Black links up media--specifically film and theatre--to deliver stories as visceral sensory experiences. In Hamlet: Fine Revolution, his theme is how our human-to-machine relationships affect our human-to-human relationships. 

A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Drama program, he has acted at The New York Shakespeare Festival, Primary Stages, Theatre for a New Audience, The Pearl Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, and Arizona Theatre Company, and appeared in films selected for the San Francisco International, Seattle International, Venice and Sundance Film Festivals. In addition to his producing, writing, and acting work, he is a Professor of Practice in the University of Arizona's School of Theatre, Film & Television.

Nikki Crawford is an award winning actor, singer and producer whose career spans film, television and live theatre, working with luminaries like Leslie Uggams, Charles S. Dutton, Brian Cranston and Mike Nichols. Nikki has guest starred in numerous television series, from Malcolm in the Middle to Criminal Minds; NCSI; and Netflix's Selena: The Series;  this Spring 2022 she is slated to star in Fat Ham at The Public Theatre, and in the fall play opposite Nora Dunn in Steppenwolf Theatre’s The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington.

Betsy Kruse Craig is an actor, director and educator, working as Associate Managing Artistic Director at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson after nine years in the Bay Area. Betsy was Artistic Director of the Pear Theatre in Mountain View, CA for two seasons and performed extensively in the area in roles such as Hedda Gabler, Veronica in God of Carnage, Morticia Addams in The Addams Family, Barabra Weston in  August: Osage County, Bev/Kathy in Clybourne Park and Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate. She recently played Tallulah Bankhead in Invisible Theatre's production of Looped. Kruse Craig was an adjunct professor of Acting and Voice and Movement at the University of AZ and Pima College. She is also Program Director of the Arts for Stratford Schools in CA.

David Andrew MacDonald

Broadway: SkylightRockyMamma Mia!;Coram BoyTwo Shakespearean Actors. National Tour: An Inspector Calls (Jeff nom., Chicago). Off-Broadway: Paradise Lost with FPA, and Night and Her Starsand The Green Heart with MTC. Regionally: Arena Stage, GEVA, Studio Theatre DC, Old Globe, ATC, The Alley, the Wilma, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Manitoba Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre NJ, The McCarter, and many others. Film: 'Tommy Battles the Silver Sea Dragon’(2018 Winner: Best Performance at the Toronto International H&F Film Festival); ‘Movement and Location’. TV includes: Elementary; Person of Interest, Blacklist; Law and Order; SVU; Sex and the City; and ten years as Edmund Winslow on Guiding Light. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
Press Kit

Harold Dixon  

Off-Broadway: 92nd St Y, Kirk Theatre -Theatre Row.

National Tour: Ella; (Norman Granz)

Regional: The Guthrie, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Geva, Laguna Playhouse, Gloucester Stage, Kingsmen Shakespeare (The Tempest, Measure For Measure, Hamlet, Richard III), Southwest Shakespeare (The Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear, As You Like It), Shakespeare Sedona, Arizona Repertory Theatre (King Lear), Phoenix Theatre, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Phoenix Symphony, and Invisible Theatre. Rogue Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing; ATC: Diary of Anne Frank, King Charles III, Ella, Streetcar Named Desire, Much Ado About Nothing, others.

Most recently, Harold created the role of Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone, in the world premiere of Sax Degrees of Separation at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus and founding artistic director of the Arizona Repertory Theatre at the School of Theatre, Film, & Television at the University of Arizona, where the Harold Dixon Directing Studio is named for him. Proud member of Actors Equity since 1973.

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Thursday, May 27, 2021

AZ Creates interview link

 Here is the link to our interview on the web series AZ Creates. It will be live at 7:00pm tonight, Friday, May 28 and will then be available 24/7 forever!


https://youtu.be/TLZ1pgn4NVI   


Monday, May 24, 2021

HAROLD & MAEDELL TO APPEAR ON AZ CREATES

 


Maedell and & will appear on the web series AZ Creates, interviewed by our friend Laurie Fagen. It will be available on the AZ Creates YouTube channel as of Thursday, May 27.

Friday, March 19, 2021