Cino People at La Mama

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Some photos supplied by James Gossage, Phoebe Wray, John Borske, Lanford Wilson, Joe DeMarco, Keith Carsey, and  Wren DiAntonio.

KEITH CARSEY, probably Off-Off’s first nude, in MICHAEL LOCASCIO’s A Corner of the Morning, La Mama’s first original play, directed by ANDY MILLIGAN. Perhaps the only existing performance photo from La Mama’s first home, the basement on E. 9th St.

MARI-CLAIRE CHARBA, play and date unknown.
Photo: JAMES D. GOSSAGE

PHOEBE WRAY and Lee Powell, David Novak’s The Wedding of the Panda, 1964, director Arthur Gorton.

MAGIE DOMINIC stage-managed & JEFF WEISS read WM. M. HOFFMAN’s narration directed by PHOEBE WRAY for Thunderbird American Indian Dancers’ Three Mask Dances, dir. Louis Mofsie, 1966.

Top: NEIL FLANAGAN and Madeleine LeRoux cavort in HAAL BORSKE’s Honky Tonk Trash, 1972. Below, HAAL himself (front) stage-managed Ross Alexander’s Little Mother, 1964.

WARREN PINCUS, staged by TOM EYEN and upstaged by Bette Midler, Miss Nefertiti Regrets, 1966.

JACQUE LYNN COLTON in Jean Reavey’s WINDOW, 1966, director TOM O’HORGAN.

MAGIE DOMINIC and STEVE DAVIS, Jean Reavey’s WINDOW, 1966, director TOM O’HORGAN

Far left, CLARIS NELSON, third from left in profile, ANN HARRIS in LANFORD WILSON’s The Rimers of Eldritch, 1966

BbAaNnGg!! Benefit, 1965. HARVEY SELSBY, Sharon Ganz, and JEANIE LANSON in LANFORD WILSON’s Miss Williams. Photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

BbAaNnGg!! Benefit, 1965. JOYCE AARON in MICHAEL SMITH, JOHNNY DODD, and REMY CHARLIP’s More! More! I Want More! Photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

BbAaNnGg!! Benefit, 1965. HAAL BORSKE, BOB DAHDAH, and Unidentified in DON KVARES’ Chronicles of Herman. Photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

BbAaNnGg!! Benefit, 1965. CHARLES STANLEY in H.M. KOUTOUKAS’ Tidy Passions. Photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

BbAaNnGg!! Benefit, 1965. STEVE DAVIS and CONNIE CLARK in DANIEL HABEN CLARK’s Big Bad Lula’s Dance of Desire. Photo JAMES D. GOSSAGE.

IRVING METZMAN menaces Joseph Pichette, my Play-by-Play, 1972.

JENNIE VENTRISS and Bill Metzo directed by NEIL FLANAGAN in my Mirage, 1965 (photo CONRAD WARD).

BILL HAISLIP and Madeleine LeRoux in my Tarquin Truthbeauty, 1972 (photo: Wren DiAntonio).

Members of The Open T heatre directed by MICHAEL KAHN destroy a commercial love-nest in JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE’s America Hurrah, 1966, later, as part of a triple-bill also called America Hurrah, retitled Motel.

VICTOR LI PARI, TOM LAWRENCE, MICHAEL GRISWOLD in CLARIS NELSON’s The Girl on the BBC, 1965.

CONNIE CLARK,Unidentified, NEIL FLANAGAN, LUCY SILVAY in DANIEL CLARK’s An Interview, 1964.

MICHAEL GRISWOLD, WALTER HARRIS, JOYCE AARON, JOHN KRAMER in LANFORD WILSON’s The Sand Castle, 1965.

1965: La Mama on 2nd Ave, HELEN HANFT and WARREN PINCUS in TOM EYEN’s My Next Husband Will Be a Beauty.

1966: the first La Mama Troupe: ROB THIRKIELD, VICTOR LIPARI, MARIE-CLARE CHARBA, JACQUE LYNN COLTON, TOM O’HORGAN, Katena Mandas, MICHAEL WARREN POWELL, Marilyn Roberts, and Kevin O’Connor.

1969: Spalding Gray and LUCY SILVAY hover over Rob as PAUL FOSTER’s Tom Paine.

1971: Lucy accepts an award in MICHAEL SMITH’s Tony.

Vain actress Lucy gets cornered by teased boyfriend Harvey Keitel in WILLIAM M. HOFFMAN’s Spring Play, 1967.

LUCY SILVAY and unidentified actor in DANIEL HABEN CLARK’s “Love Me ot I’ll Kill You,” directed by PHOEBE WRAY, 1966.