Silent witness cast susie franklin1/25/2024 ![]() ![]() His translations of Woyzeck, Ubu Roi, and Pelleas & Melisande have been published by EXIT Press. Rob directed Strindberg’s Svarta Handsken ( The Black Glove) in Stockholm, Sweden at Strindberg’s Intimate Theater. He has a BA in English and Theater from Princeton University and an MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama. He has taught at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, USF, the University of Rhode Island, and Marin Academy. He has directed at The Public Theater, The Guthrie Theater, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Magic Theatre, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Rep, Black Box Theatre, as well as Actors’ Collective, The Gamm Theatre, and Crowded Fire, among others. He was formerly the Artistic Director and co-founder of the Cutting Ball Theater. Rob Melrose is the Artistic Director of the Alley Theatre where he has directed productions of The Servant of Two Masters, Born with Teeth, Sweat, The Winter’s Tale, 1984, and Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and adapted and directed A Christmas Carol. Department of International Arts and Lectures Grant, Eureka Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, and Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship. Sultan was the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fleishhacker Foundation, Guggenheim Fellowship, U.S. Sultan’s work was the subject of a travelling retrospective hosted by Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (2014) and has been widely published, exhibited and held in private and public collections worldwide including the Tate Modern, London th e National Gallery, London Stedejik Museum, Amsterdam Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne Centre Pompidou, Paris The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Museum of Modern Art, NY the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, NY the Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY Institute of Art Chicago, IL Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA San Francisco Museum of Art, CA among many others. Sultan was a beloved and highly influential educator who taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, 1978 – 1988 and served as a Distinguished Professor of Photography and Chair of Photography Department at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1989 – 2009. Sultan was also known for bringing his personal vision to commercial campaigns and editorial assignments, many of which have been collected and exhibited publicly. ![]() ![]() ![]() His groundbreaking book, Evidence, 1977 was produced in collaboration with Mike Mandel. Sultan’s multiple projects include: Swimmers, 1978-82 Pictures from Home, 1983-92 The Valley, 2004 and Homeland, 2009. The effect adds to his famed ability to turn his lens inward, undermining the immunity commonly afforded photographers from their subjects. Acclaimed for his use of color and light as well as his skilled writing, Sultan’s images and accompanying texts are imbued with poignancy, tenderness and a quiet humor. His work, heavily influenced by the post-war, popular culture of Los Angeles, purposefully creates an ambiguity between documentary and staged photographs, complicating the terrain of the suburban everyday. Greenbrae, CA 2009) was raised in California’s San Fernando Valley. ![]()
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