David Fuller (Co-Producing Artistic Director and Treasurer) is an actor, director, producer, writer, teacher, designer, fight director, puppeteer, technician, theater critic, and arts advocate. Training: Dartmouth College, magna cum laude; LAMDA (Diploma in Acting, MFA Equivalent); Brooklyn College (MFA Directing). Former: Producing Artistic Director, Cocteau Rep.; Executive Director, Theater Ten Ten. Teaching: NYU, CUNY, Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha, Bridgewater State (stage combat, audition technique, acting, puppetry). Producing: 73 plays and musicals produced in NYC plus 22 tours. Directing: 45 shows directed in NYC and regionally. Most recent directing: “A Little Night Music,” “Sunday in the Park with George,” “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow,” “Sondheim on Sondheim,” “The Cradle Will Rock,” “Into the Woods,” “As U Like It,” “Assassins,” “Macbeth,” “The Singapore Mikado” and “Candide” (all for Theater 2020). “Into the Woods,” Mikado,” and “Candide” were nominated for Best Musical by the NY Innovative Theater Awards. Among Past directing highlights: “The 103rd Annual Performance of Ruddigore or the Witch’s Curse Presented by Murgatroyd’s Hospital for Mental Rehabilitation, Ruddy Gore, Maine” (Gilbert & Sullivan, adapted by Fuller), Theater Ten Ten production, NY Innovative Theatre Award Nomination, Best Musical; “Happy End” (Brecht/Weill, trans. Feingold), Theater Ten Ten production, NY Innovative Theatre Award Nomination, Best Musical; “Mother Courage” (Brecht/Dessau, trans. Blitzstein), World Premiere, Cocteau Rep.; “The Threepenny Opera” (Brecht/Weill, trans. Blitzstein), Cocteau Rep.; “Lysistrata” (trans. & adapted David Jiranek), World Premiere, Cocteau Rep.; “Pericles, Prince of Tyre”, Hudson Classical Theater; “The Fantasticks,” Texas Shakespeare Festival.

 

Among many of Shakespeare’s works for Theater 2020:  he adapted “The Tempest” into a 75-minute family-friendly show; he adapted “Macbeth” into a Polynesian Macbeth (also composing/performing the percussion accompaniment) and he adapted A Midsummer Night’s Dream into A Midsummer Hour, which was commissioned by the Brooklyn Arts Council and was performed in Cadman Plaza Park as part of the Restart NYC program to bring back the Arts post-pandemic; he adapted “The Merry Wives of Windsor” into “THE Real MERRY HouseWIVES OF WINDSOR, Ct!. He has also adapted and directed Marc Blitzstein’s musical “No for An Answer,” which had its first reading in Summer 2022. He has also adapted the G&S classic, “The Mikado” into “The Singapore Mikado,” set in Singapore in 1941. “A Radio Christmas Carol,” David’s radio play adaptation of the Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” has been performed for the past thirty years in three different theaters, including a current annual presentation at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library under the Theater2020 banner.

 

Holding a “Recommended” Certificate from the Society of British Fight Directors, David has taught Stage Combat at The National Theater Institute and was Adjunct Professor of Stage Combat at Brooklyn College. He was resident fight director during stints as company member for both The Boston Shakespeare Company and Jean Cocteau Repertory. For Theater 2020 he staged the violence for “The Tempest,” “A Midsummer Hour,” “A Comedy of Errors,” “Romeo and Juliet,” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (NY Innovative Theater Award Co-Nomination for Choreography with Judith Jarosz.

 

Acting (AEA & SAG/AFTRA): 70 plays and musicals on and off Broadway, regionally, London; many TV roles; audio books narrator. Most recent acting: Prospero in “The Tempest,” Nick Bottom in "A Midsummer Hour," Mr. Mister/Gent/Bugs in “Cradle,” The Proprietor in “Assassins,” Sweeney Todd in “Sweeney Todd”, Fredrik Eggerman in “A Little Night Music,” Falstaff in “THE Real MERRY HouseWIVES OF WINDSOR, Ct!” Pooh-Bah in “The Singapore Mikado,” and Lear in “King Lear,” all for Theater 2020. Among past acting highlights: Pericles in Pericles (The Acting Company, National Tour), Frid in A Little Night Music (NYC Opera).

 

Member, The National Theatre Conference, for which he served ten years on its Board of Trustees as Past President, President, Vice President and as Treasurer. David resides in Brooklyn Heights with his wife and partner Judith Jarosz. To date they have received 2 Off Off-Broadway Review Awards, 2 New York Innovative Theater Awards, 23 New York Innovative Theater Award nominations, a National GLADD Award Nomination and The New York Theater Experience Award for “Outstanding Theater Company” 2005 and “Persons of the Year” 2010. David is featured in Building the Successful Theater Company by Lisa Mulcahy (Allworth Press.)

 

Judith Jarosz (Co-Producing Artistic Director) Judith is an actor, producer, director, choreographer, writer, editor, photographer and theater geek, who has been in the “biz” (Theater, Radio, Television) professionally since the age of five, under various names. She has helped to helm several theater companies in NYC and is currently Co-Producing Artistic Director of Theater 2020 “Visions for a New Millennium” based in Brooklyn Heights. For the 2023-24 Season, she choreographed “A Little Night Music” and directed our 75-minute “The Tempest.” In the 2022-23 Season, she choreographed both “Sunday in the Park with George” and “You’re Gonna Love Tomorrow.” She directed the October 2021 and June 2022 outdoor Theater 2020 productions of "A Midsummer Hour” in Cadman Plaza Park. During the pandemic, she produced multiple online Zoom readings, many of which were hosted in partnership with the Brooklyn Public Library, garnering audiences from all around the globe. Prior to the pandemic, she served as choreographer for Theater 2020’s “Sondheim on Sondheim” in winter 2020, “The Cradle Will Rock” and “Into the Woods” in 2019, “As You Like It” and “Assassins In 2018. Previously she choreographed the dance/movement for the Polynesian “Macbeth,” using styles drawn from several Pacific Island nations. She is a New York Innovative Theatre Award Nominated Director/Choreographer and both directed & choreographed Theater 2020’s hit run of “Sweeney Todd” in winter 2017 (IT Award nom Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Supporting Actor) and “A Little Night Music” in winter 2016 (IT Award nom Outstanding Prod. of a Musical). Previous seasons include directing “THE Real MERRY HouseWIVES OF WINDSOR, Ct!,” and “King Lear,” and choreographing “The Singapore Mikado” and their 40th anniversary revival of the Hal Prince version of the Leonard Bernstein musical “Candide” (directed by David Fuller). Judith directed and choreographed Theater 2020’s 2013 production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” for which she received nominations from NY Innovative Theatre Awards for both Directing and Choreography/Movement.

 

As a performer, Judith has had leading or featured roles on Broadway (Workshop) and Off. She was Principal Soprano at the New York City Opera, where she was also an Assistant Director and the only person at NYCO to simultaneously hold positions & contracts in both the artistic and administrative departments. With the New York City Opera, she performed at Lincoln Center and on tour, including The Kennedy Center in Wash DC, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles CA, SPAC in Saratoga NY, ArtPark in Lewiston NY, Orange County Performing Arts Center Costa Mesa CA, Wolftrap Performing Arts Center, Vienna VA, and the National Arts Center in Taipei Taiwan. She was also featured in multiple televised PBS Great Performances with NYCO. She has performed at regional theaters (including The Goodspeed Opera and Brooklyn Academy of Music), and as far OFF Broadway as London, England and Taipei, Taiwan. She is a member of multiple performance unions & organizations as well as a charter member of the League of Independent Theater and a volunteer for the Brooklyn Women’s Exchange. Judith lives in beautiful Brooklyn Heights with her spousal unit & partner in life, work & fun, David Fuller. As a producing team, to date they have received 2 Off Off-Broadway Review Awards, 2 New York Innovative Theater Awards, 23 New York Innovative Theater Award nominations, a National GLADD Award Nomination and the New York Theater Experience Award for “Outstanding Theater Company” 2005 and “Persons of the Year” 2010.

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