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“For LAFM, we’re always trying to celebrate films that feel personal and are clearly going against the grain of commercial filmmaking in some way,” said Micah Gottlieb, LAFM’s co-founder and artistic director, via email from Los Angeles.

Geffen Playhouse Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney, who was payne’s teacher at Yale, has described the play as a search for “utopia in a world that has a criminal justice system that is far from perfect.”

As well as acting in TV and film, Cumming is artistic director of Pitlochry Festival Theatre.

Directed by the Echo‘s artistic director, Chris Fields, “One Jewish Boy” tightly focuses on the conversational push and pull between Jesse and Alex as they try to work through their points of conflict.

For more than 50 years, Sossi’s admirers said, the Odyssey artistic director provided a platform for those committed to reimagining what a theater could be, no matter the prestige or pedigree of an artist.