Curt Dempster,
Founding Artistic Director of The Ensemble Studio Theatre and director
of the highly acclaimed Tesla's
Letters world premiere in 1999, passed away on January 19, 2007. This great man's mission
was to
replenish the American theatre with new plays. He created a home for
hundreds of theatre artists and developed literally thousands of new
plays. Over the course of 36 years he built The Ensemble Studio Theatre
into the premiere developmental theatre in the United States. He
will be sorely missed.
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New York, New York |
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TESLA'S LETTERS received its world premiere in New York City on April 5, 1999 at The Ensemble Studio Theatre, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and directed by Curt Dempster.
ORIGINAL CAST
Keira
Naughton as Daisy Archer
Victor
Slezak as Dragan
Grant
Varjas as Zoran
Judith
Roberts as Biljana