Bob McGrath
Bob McGrath is the Artistic Director of Ridge Theater and is the winner of three OBIE awards for: Direction, Jennie Richee (2001), Best New American Work, The Carbon Copy Building (2000), and another for Sustained Achievement. He has directed all of Ridge Theater's productions. McGrath has directed at venues including the American Repertory Theater, The Kitchen, Lincoln Center, La MaMa, ETC., MASS MoCA, The Kampfnagle (Hamburg, Germany), The Carignano (Turin, Italy), and St. Ann's Warehouse. Bob has worked with writers and composers including Mac Wellman, Ben Katchor, Susan Sontag, Robert Coover, Michael Gordon, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Bang On A Can, and Cynthia Hopkins. As an actor and a writer, McGrath has collaborated on the Scott Saunders films The Headhunter's Sister (Winner, Independent Spirit Awards, 1998) and The Lost Words. In January 2004, he will be directing a production of Jennie Richee at the Tanz/Theater in Darmstadt, Germany and a new work, Gotham at the new Zankel Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in February 2004. Mr. McGrath was awarded a fellowship from The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and has taught at NYU and the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.