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Kevin Moriarty, the Hangar’s Artistic Director, is thrilled to add Bush’s talents to the Hangar staff. “Jesse is one of the most exciting, talented and dynamic theatre artists in our community,” he explains. “His work as a director at actor at the Kitchen has been thrilling to watch. In the following years Jesse will contribute to the ongoing artistic life of the Hangar by directing and acting in the Hangar’s Mainstage, KIDDSTUFF, and School Tour productions.” Moriarty is equally excited for Bush to engage with the many students and teachers who participate in the theatre’s nationally recognized year-round education programs. “In the classroom and on the stage, Jesse will make a vital contribution to the artistic and educational life of the Hangar,” Moriarty says.
Out of all his many new duties at the theatre, Bush is particularly eager to dig into the work in Tompkins County’s classrooms. “I am thrilled to have the opportunity to be a part of the Hangar Theatre’s Education and Outreach programs,” says Bush. “It will be a privilege for me to be an advocate for arts in our schools and help open our children’s minds to new possibilities of expression. I know how incredibly valuable these programs have been over the years in introducing our local youth to the power and excitement that theater can hold, and I look forward to not only fostering its current offerings, but to expanding its reach and focus into the future.” Bush will be spearheading the Hangar’s Artists in Schools residencies, which include the Project 4 program that begins in January 2007, and the summer Next Generation School of Theatre in July.
Before joining the Hangar staff, Bush appeared locally at the Kitchen as Jim O’Connor in The Glass Menagerie, all the male roles in The Angle of the Sun, Vinny in Tony & the Soprano, Bernie in Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Eatherly in Burning Conscience, and The Reporter in How I Got That Story. At the Hangar he played Lt. Kaffee in A Few Good Men, Lt Cable in South Pacific and Anthony in Sweeney Todd (a role he reprised later that year at the Goodspeed Opera House).
His directing credits at the Kitchen include productions of The Santaland Diaries, Two Rooms, The Drawer Boy, Orphans, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, as well as the Kitchen Sink presentations of Home Again, Home Again, And They Lived Happily Ever After and his own play This Must Be the Place. In New York he directed Down the Road by Lee Blessing at Creative Space Theater and the original NYC productions of Steel Kiss (Kraine Theatre), Reaching Mercy (American Theatre of Actors), Sex and Imagining (American Theatre of Actors) and T & T Music Factory (NY International Fringe Festival). Bush was the assistant director for the original production of Backsliding in the Promised Land by Michele Lowe at Syracuse Stage and directed This Is Our Youth at Syracuse University.
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