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Cede Prudente is a professional conservationist and photographer. His
photograph of a swinging orangutan won the Best Still Photography Award at the 2007
Wildlife Asian Film Festival.
Robert Wilson was born in Waco, Texas, and educated at the University of
Texasand Brooklyn's Pratt Institute. He studied painting with George McNeil in Paris
andlater worked with the architect Paolo Solari in Arizona. He founded The Byrd
HoffmanSchool of Byrds in 1968, based in Lower Manhattan. In 1970, Wilson
receivedinternational acclaim for Deafman Glance, a silent "opera" created
in collaborationwith Raymond Andrews, a talented deaf-mute boy whom Wilson had
adopted. A recipientof two Rockefeller and two Guggenheim fellowships, he worked
closely with thelate German playwright Heiner Müller on the CIVIL warS (1984),
Hamletmachine(1986), and Quartet (1987). He spends each summer at hisWatermill
Center, a multidisciplinaryarts laboratory located in eastern Long Island, bringing
together an internationalgroup of artists to develop new theatre work.
Fred Newman, a founder of the Castillo Theatre and its Artistic Director,
is one ofAmerica's foremost directors of the work of Heiner Müller. He has
directed The Mission(1998); Hamletmachine (1996, 2002); The Task (1992); Explosion
of aMemory (Description of a Picture) (1992); An Obituary -- Heiner Mü ller:

AMan without a Behind (1997), an original theatre piece featuring writings by
Müller;and the North American premiere of Germania 3 Ghosts at Dead Man
(2001). Hehas written more than 30 plays and musicals, and an anthology of his work,
Still onthe Corner and Other Postmodern Political Plays by Fred Newman, was
publishedin 1998 (Community Literacy Research Project). He is a partner in Five
PointsProductions, and recently directed his first feature-length film, Nothing
Really Happens(2002), based on his 1991 play, The Store: One Block East of
Jerome.