





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

"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."
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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."