DONALD STARK COMPOSER + SOUND DESIGNER

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A festival of 11 original short plays presented by Hudson Theatre Works, including premiers of works by Neil Labute and John Patrick Shanley

Michael Puzzo’s faithful adaptation of Chekhov’s classic, innovatively updated to take place in present-day New Jersey

Michael Folie's one-man exploration of survival and moving forward after a spouse's death. 

Winner of Best Non-Fiction Show at 2015 United Solo and Best Encore Award at 2016 United Solo

Shane Mullery's short play, directed by Chase Newhart, for the Think Fast festival

A reading of 6 true riveting stories about innocence, injustice, and redemption

Winner of the 2017 Think Fast festival

Michael Folie’s one-man drama — a premier production by Hudson Theatre Works — went on to the 2016 NY Fringe Festival and then to United Solo Festival on Theatre Row.  

(Donald's third Fringe production, and second Theatre Row event.)

A fully staged, lit, and sound-designed reading of an original screenplay written and directed by Robert Clem, based on the true story of the turmoil within the family of Emily Dickinson.  Staged at the Rosendale Theatre, Rosendale, NY.

Original drama written and directed by Garage Theatre Group’s Michael Bias.

Garage Theatre Group’s production of this fast-paced, high-energy, exuberant spoof of TV classics, commercials, movies, and commercials.  Staged at Becton Theatre.  Musical arrangements and direction (as well as sound design) by Donald Stark.

Premier of Joanne Hoersch’s play, which explores the consequences of irreplaceable loss on our lives and the disappearance from the world of the ancient touchstones we have relied on for comfort.  Produced by Hudson Theatre Works, directed by Frank Licato.

Jarry’s zany absurdist folly, directed by Michael Bias, mounted at the Black Box Theatre at Bergen PAC

Hudson Theatre Works's mainstage revival of Dale Wasserman’s stage retelling of Kesey’s classic, shifting greater focus onto the character of the Chief.  Directed by Frank Licato.

An early work of Neil LaBute — a trilogy of riveting tales, each alluding to a tragic Greek myth, presented by Hudson Theatre Works at Weehawken’s historic Water Tower, directed by Frank Licato

World premiere play by Adam Siegel, produced by Garage theatre Group, mounted at Becton Theatre in Teaneck.  Directed by Michael Bias.

Garage Theatre Group’s revival of John Guare’s classic, mounted at the Black Box Theatre at Bergen PAC, directed by Michael Bias.

The second and third offerings of Mondo Summit’s Winter ’14-‘15 series of sound-designed readings of short works by John Patrick Shanley, featuring Equity actors, directed by Frank Licato.  The French Waitress, paired with The Dreamer Examines His Pillow.

The first offering of Mondo Summit’s Winter ’14-‘15 series of sound-designed readings of John Patrick Shanley’s works, featuring Equity actors, directed by Frank Licato.  In Defiance, Marine officers — one black, one white — are on a collision course over race, women, and the high cost of doing the right thing.

Garage Theatre Group’s conception of Lucy Prebble’s ever relevant Broadway play, set in a circus venue, directed by Mikaela Kafka

Michael Folie’s one-man bittersweet narrative of four intertwined lives, reflecting on art, life, and death.  Directed by Frank Licato; mounted at Weehawken’s historic Water Tower by Hudson Theatre Works.

Mondo Summit’s Fall ’14 series of sound-designed readings of a pair of Caryl Churchill’s works — Drunk Enough to Say I Love You, and Abortive — featuring Equity actors, directed by Frank Licato

Mondo Summit’s Fall ’14 series of sound-designed readings of Caryl Churchill’s works, featuring Equity actors, directed by Frank Licato

Michael C. O’Day’s original paranormal play about the peril of creative writing in an age of religious intolerance.  Directed by Mikaela Kafka, presented as part of NYC’s 2014 Fringe Festival.

(Donald's second Fringe production.)

The fourth of Mondo Summit’s LaBute series, in which the door blows wide open to circumstances undermining the very foundation of a typical American couple’s relationship.

The third of Mondo Summit’s Spring-Summer ’14 series of sound-deigned LaBute play readings, directed by Frank Licato.

The second of Mondo Summit’s Spring-Summer ’14 series of sound-deigned Neil LaBute play readings, all featuring Equity performers, directed by Frank Licato.

Something dark descended upon Summit, NJ, with a trio of plays directed by Frank Licato and presented as the inaugural installment of Mondo Summit’s Spring-Summer ’14 series of sound-deigned Neil LaBute play readings.

Mondo Summit’s Winter ’14 series of sound-designed readings of Lanford Wilson’s works, featuring Equity actors, directed by Frank Licato

Proered at Garage Theatre, directed by Michael Bias.

Directed by Frank Licato and presented as the second of Mondo Summit’s Winter ’13 three-part series of sound-deigned Lanford Wilson play readings.  The catalyst in this unsettling drama is a menacing, profane, dangerous, yet oddly sensitive presence.

The inaugural event in Mondo Summit’s Winter ’14 series of sound-designed readings of Lanford Wilson’s works, featuring Equity actors, directed by Frank Licato

Directed by Frank Licato, this was the last of Mondo Summit’s Winter ’13 three-part series of sound-deigned Sam Shepard play readings.

The second installment in Mondo Summit’s Fall ’13 series of sound-designed readings of Sam Shepard’s works, featuring Equity actors, directed by Frank Licato.  Buried Child was the play the launched Shepard’s career.

"Directed by Frank Licato and featuring a Sopranos cast member, this was the first
of Mondo Summit’s Winter ’13 three-part series of sound-deigned Sam Shepard play readings."

Written, directed, and acted at Teaneck’s Becton Theatre by the duo Colleen and Jeff Pierce.

A staging of this hilarious mistaken-identity gem, written by Gino DiIorio and Nancy Beemer.  Produced by John Fedele’s Italian American Rep Co., directed by Liz Zazzi.

Michael Puzzo's darkly comic tale of a ragtag crew of outcasts, struggling to keep their dignity intact and their livelihood afloat at a rundown New Jersey strip club/pizza parlor.

Deb Margolin’s imagining of the recesses of Madoff’s mind as he wreaks havoc with trusting colleagues and investors, presented by Garage Theatre Group, with Michael Bias as as the perp, directed by Frank Licato

A revival of Gore Vidal’s ever timely and incisive political drama, stages at Summit Playhouse, relevant today as two presidential hopefuls — one, a socially ethical liberal; the other, an ambitious, self-avowed Christian (but unscrupulous) Southerner — vie for power.

Director Frank Licato’s edgy vision of Genet’s masterwork for the Arclight Theatre

A TRU Voices reading of Derek Murphy's dark comedy, directed by Frank Licato.  "Something added or attached to an entity of greater importance or size." 

Short baseball-themed play by Ken Weitzman, directed by Charlie Kevin, in support of Miles Square Theatre

Jeffrey Sweet’s short baseball-themed, directed by Scotty Watson, in support of Miles Square Theatre

Short baseball-themed play by Peter Ackerman, directed by Warner Sturgis, in support of Miles Square Theatre

Short baseball-themed play by Joshua Dietz Levine, directed by Karen Babcock, in support of Miles Square Theatre

Deborah Zoe Laufer’s short baseball-themed, directed by Mary Kate Burke, in support of Miles Square Theatre

Short baseball-themed play by Chris O’Connor, directed by Bruce Ornstein, in support of Miles Square Theatre

Short baseball-themed play by Tommy Nohily, directed by Julie Fitzpatrick, in support of Miles Square Theatre

Italian American Repertory Company's revival of Eric Bogosian's harrowing play about a talk show host and his troubled callers.

Liz Zazzi’s adaptation of Capra’s classic film, staged as a reading of a radio play, performed in Cliffside Park’s historic Trinity Church.

A setting of Paula Vogel’s holiday fable, set in 1864

A reading of Damien Gray Grimm-like fairy tale where everyone involved is forced to pay the price for a past that never should have been buried.

Alan Ayckbourne’s delicious physical comedy, spiced with classic English farce, directed by Michael Bias and presented by Garage Theatre Group

Hudson Theatre Works's revival of John Steinbeck's classic, directed by Frank Licato

Summit Playhouse's revival of Sidney Howard's comic play, written during the Depression and relevant today, exploring our vulnerability in the face of economic pressures; directed by Frank Licato

Premier staging of a comedy by Gino DiIorio and Nancy Beemer, directed by Frank Licato, mounted at the Arclight Theatre in NY

Garage Theatre Group's revival of John Shanley's stage parable, directed by Michael Bias

Thom Molyneaux's revue imagining an encounter between Dorothy Parker and George S Kaufman

Garage Theatre Group's production of John Gray's musical stage portrayal of the Canadian war hero

A reading of Budd Schulberg's stage play, attended by Mr Schulberg, three days before his death.

Revival of Louis LaRusso’s play about Hoboken residents recalling the glory days when their hometown Hoboken was a movie set, featuring Sopranos cast members

Musical stage adaptation of Grahame's classic by Jeremy Sams and Beyond the Fringe's Alan Bennett, directed by Michael Bias

A Rex Knowles comedy, directed by Frank Licato,

A trilogy of plays of social consciousness — Enough Is Enough, Is It Harassment, and Mirror Mirror — directed by Frank Licato.

Short baseball-themed play by Neil LaBute, directed by Frank Licato, in support of Miles Square Theatre, staged at Monroe Center for the Arts, Hoboken, NJ