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Finks at Ensemble Studio Theatre

Nominated for two Drama Desk Awards, Outstanding Play and Outstanding Leading Actress, Miriam Silverman. It also received the Best New Play nomination from the Off-Broadway Alliance.


Based on the True Experiences of Jack Gilford and Madeline Lee Gilford and the Blacklist of the 1950s.

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Director: Giovanna Sardelli

Playwright: Joe Gilford

Cast: Michael Cullen, Ned Eisenberg, Leo Ash Evens, Kenney M. Green, Jason Liebman, Thomas Lyons, Aaron Serotsky & Miriam Silverman 

Set designer: Jason Simms

Costume designer: Sydney Maresca

Lighting designer: Gina Scherr

Sound designer: Jill BC duBoff
Choreographer: Greg Graham

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"Forget blue jokes; the humor in Finks, Joe Gilford’s farsighted yet tender tribute to his blacklisted parents, is distinctly red. But it’s part of what makes this play, directed with vitality by Giovanna Sardelli, a nifty bit of theater. The eight-person ensemble is uniformly strong and as Gilford tries to understand why some of the accused betrayed friends to keep their livelihoods, he demonstrates a pluck similar to that of his parents."

-Time Out New York

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"Giovanna Sardelli, the director, deftly switches the action among locations that include Cafe Society, a famed Greenwich Village nightclub, and a hearing room where the House Un-American Activities Committee pressures assorted entertainment figures to name names."

-The New York Times

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