Stuart Warmflash
Title of Play
Shortly After Takeoff
Date and Place of Reading
March 29, 2004
Manhattan Theatre Club Creative Center
New York City
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Director
Lewis Magruder
Cast
Peter Brouwer
Peter Katona
Libby Larson
Nicole Orth-Pallavicini
Daniel Zaitchik
About the Playwright
A native New Yorker, Mr. Warmflash graduated from NYU and subsequently attended the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Returning to the United States he enjoyed a successful acting career appearing on Broadway and off-Broadway, as well as in film and television. During that time, he was also penning TV and film scripts, including Unforgotten: 25 Years After Wilowbrook, a theatrically released, acclaimed documentary following the lives of four families whose members were incarcerated at the infamous mental institution before it was shut down.
While composing corporate communications (CEO speeches,
meeting-based and web-broadcast videos) for Sony, Samsung, Accenture, NYTimes, and Pfizer among others, Mr. Warmflash founded and was the artistic and producing director of The Harbor Theatre, a playwright-centered, non-profit collective of writers, actors and directors. In its ten-year run, the company successfully developed over 100 works for the theatre, produced several full-length plays, an annual one-act festival, and sponsored public readings of members’ works. He currently develops new work with the Playwrights Directors Workshop at the Actors Studio/NYC, The 9th Floor and Berkshire Voices.
Mr. Warmflash also holds two Masters Degrees including one in Special Education/Learning Disabilities and has been tutoring neurodivergent students for over 20 years.
About the Play
During the leaderless 60’s a fatherless teen struggles to escape the chaos of his suburban family via an artistic vision.