Pictured: George Ashiotis and
Karen Case Cook in a
scene from "
The Unexpected Guest" (2000).
Photo by Carol Rosegg.
IKE SCHAMBELANCo-Artistic Director, Director
Mr. Schambelan has been a theatrical director, teacher, and critic for 40 years. He has a Bachelors degree from Swarthmore College and a Doctor of Fine Arts from Yale Drama School and has directed at the Long Wharf Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, The New Dramatists, Equity Library Theatre, the Pittsburgh Public Theater, and the George Street Playhouse. He has been Artistic Director of the Touring Company and Children's Theatre at Long Wharf, the Woodstock Playhouse and the Austen Riggs Theatre. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and Actors' Equity. He founded Theater By The Blind in 1979. He has had two one acts produced by TBTB, Gus and In The Bin and one full-length, When I'm 64. He credits his interest in theater by the blind to his blind grandmother who lived with the family from the time he was six until she died when he was ten. They went to the movies together and curled up in her bed Monday nights to listen to Lux Radio Theatre.
GEORGE ASHIOTIS Co-Artistic Director
(Egeus, Oberon, Bottom, Pyramus) has been playing around the New York City theater scene for a long, long time. In addition to performing in every TBTB production since the 80's, he has acted in numerous Off-Broadway shows. He performed with Richard Harris in Julius Caesar in Scranton, PA, and worked with Woody Allen in the movie Everybody Says I Love You. His TV credits include, most notably, several episodes of The Guiding Light. Ashiotis sits on the Board of the Alliance of Resident Theatres of New York. "A man's fear of his fate is often his fate. Leaping to avoid it, he meets it."
