Project History

June 2009: Workshop production of Yury Klavdiev’s I Am the Machine Gunner at WordBRIDGE. June 13, 2009, at 8:00pm
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May 2009: Rehearsals begin at Generous Company in Baltimore, Maryland.

April 2009: The Center for International Theatre Development, under Philip Arnoult, invited and provided funding for David White and James Knight to travel to Russia. White and Knight joined a larger CITD team, including Kate Moira Ryan and Noah Birksted-Breen, to attend the Golden Mask drama festival and continue work and research on I Am the Machine Gunner.

January 2009: Rehearsal retreat at Towson University and at Generous Company in Baltimore. Rebecca Eastman (costume designer) and Iaeden Hovorka (sound designer) join the team.

October 2008: White and Freedman meet at Towson University and finalize details on the working translation.

August 2008: Rehearsal retreat at Yale University and 78th Street Theatre Lab (NY). Mike Vandercook (technical director) and P. J. Escobio (producer) join the team. White and Freedman meet in Baltimore for initial talks on translation revisions.

June 2008: James Knight (actor) is featured in the first reading of John Freedman’s translation of I Am the Machine Gunner at WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory.

May 2008: David M. White (director) attends a production of Yury Klavdiev’s I Am the Machine Gunner at the Nova Drama festival in Bratislava, Slovakia with Philip Arnoult and the Center for International Theatre Development. White meets with Yury Klavdiev and commissions a translation of the script from Russian translator and theatre critic for the Moscow Times, John Freedman.