The Misanthrope

Marc Vietor is a theater director, actor and voiceover artist. Vietor worked as a theater director at the Bucks County Playhouse, The Red Bull Theater Company, The NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program, and at Yale. His production of The School for Scandal at The Lucille Lortel Theatre received the 0ff-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival 2017.

Vietor has narrated almost 300 books, including 1Q84, The Deptford Trilogy, Pale Fire, Lucifer’s Hammer, and Hyperion. He has been nominated for a SOVA Award and five Audies, and appears on the multicast Audie winning audiobook Dracula (2012). Vietor was also the recipient of five Earphone Excellence Awards from AudioFile magazine, most recently for Second Hand Curses (2019).

As an actor, Vietor has worked on and off Broadway with Mint Theater Company, HERE, NYSAF, The Old Globe, The Roundabout, Huntington Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival), Arena Stage, The Westport Country Playhouse, Ravinia Music Festival, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, The Kennedy Center, South Coast Repertory, The Prince Music Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, Theatre For A New Audience, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Sundance Theatre Lab. Vietor is a graduate of Yale College and the Juilliard Drama Division.

British playwright Martin Crimp (b. 1956) earned international recognition with his 1997 play Attempts on Her Life. Other plays include Definitely the Bahamas (1987), Dealing with Clair (1989), The Country (2000), The City (2008), Men Asleep (2018), In the Republic of Happiness (2012), Cruel and Tender (2004) and The Rest Will Be Familiar to You from Cinema (2013), which had its French language premiere at Théâtre de Gennevilliers and the Festival d’Avignon (2019). Recent productions include When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other: 12 Variations on Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (NT, 2019), Cyrano de Bergerac (London, BAM, New York 2022) and The Country (Théâtre du Rond-Point, Paris, 2023). Crimp’s first collaboration with George Benjamin was Into the Little Hill (Festival d’Automne, 2006), followed by Written on Skin (Aix-en-Provence Festival, 2012) and Lessons in Love and Violence (ROH, 2018). Additional musical collaborations include Zauberland (Bouffes du Nord, 2018) with Bernard Foccroulle, and lyrics for Roald van Oosten’s 2012 EP, 100% Happy. His first solo show as writer and performer was Not One of These People (2022), which opened at the Carrefour international de théâtre in Québec City before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre in London and to Montreal’s Usine C. In 2020 Crimp was awarded the Nyssen-Bansemer Theatre Prize.

“For 20 years, Red Bull has, thankfully, continued to keep many great classic plays alive for contemporary audiences.” – The New York Times

Since its founding in 2003 with a production of Shakespeare’s Pericles, Red Bull Theater (Jesse Berger, Artistic Director; Martin Giannini, Executive Director) has served adventurous theatergoers with Off-Broadway productions, Revelation Readings, and the annual Short New Play Festival. The company also offers outreach programs including Shakespeare in Schools, which brings professional actors and teaching artists into public school classrooms; podcasts, Bull Sessions, free post-performance discussions with top scholars; and Classical Acting Intensives, led by veteran theater professionals.

Red Bull Theater regularly produces a variety of classical work and new works in conversation with the classics, including 25 Off-Broadway productions such as The Alchemist, Mac Beth, Coriolanus, The School for Scandal, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, American Moor, Medea: Re-Versed, and The Government Inspector, plus over 200 OBIE Award-winning Revelation Readings.

“The classics-shaking Red Bull Theater,” as Time Out NY has called the company, serves a community of more than 5,000 artists and provides quality artistic programming to an ever-growing audience. The company’s unique programming has received ongoing critical acclaim and has been recognized with Lortel, Drama Desk, Drama League, Callaway, Off-Broadway Alliance, and OBIE nominations and Awards. www.redbulltheater.com