Oh God Creative

Director

D. Lance Marsh

D. Lance Marsh (he/him/his) is in his sixteenth year at TheatreOCU, where he serves as Head of Performance. As a Professor in the School of Theatre, he teaches many of the upper division acting courses, including Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Comedy/Tragedy. Lance also serves as the Associate Artistic Director for Oklahoma Shakespeare and an Associated Artist at Oklahoma City Rep. He has also taken a number of student productions of his Shakespeare adaptations: Bad Shakespeare and Clowns, Lovers and Women in Pants to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and he took a production of Clowns, Lovers and Women in Pants to the 2019 World Theatre Education Alliance (WTEA) Conference in Beijing, China. His latest classical adaptation, My Dearest Partner of Greatness, was premiered here at OCU earlier this month and a film version of it will be broadcast as part of the 2021 WTEA Festival. He is also an Equity actor, who was last seen as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon at Lyric.

Artistic Director

Roberta Sloan

Dr. Roberta Sloan is a director, actress, teacher, Executive Producer, and administrator. She has served as a Theatre Department Chair at three universities. Originally from Chicago, Oklahoma has been her home for thirty-four non-consecutive years. She received her BA from Northwestern University in Drama Education and her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, in Theatre. She is also a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework Associate. She has taught and served in Administrative Positions at University of Oklahoma, University of Central Oklahoma, Marymount University, University of Central Florida, Temple University and now, at Oklahoma City University. Roberta has directed and acted in over 200 theatre productions, as well as being featured in a number of short films, commercials and music videos. Founding a Jewish Theatre has been a dream of Roberta’s for a long time, and she is pleased to be able to fulfill that goal in the place she considers her home: Oklahoma.

Stage Direction Reader

Brandon Burton

Brandon Burton is an actor who recently moved to the Oklahoma City area from Cincinnati, OH. He received his BFA in Dramatic Performance from CCM at the University of Cincinnati. Past theatrical productions have been involved with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, The KNOW Theatre of Cincinnati and The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati. Some recent roles have been Man from In The Night Time Before the Sun Rises, Oliver Rivers from PUFFS: or Seven Eventful Years from a Certain School of Magic & Magic and Camille Chandebise from A Flea in Her Ear. Brandon is also a martial artist and fight choreographer. He is excited to see what the artistic scene the city has to offer and ready to start the next chapter of his life here in Oklahoma City.

Original Creative Team

Anat Gov was one of the foremost playwrights in Israeli theatre. In the past decade her plays have been performed around the globe, including: Happy Ending , A Warm Family, Househusband, Lysistrata 2000, and Best Friends. Anat Gov was born in 1953 in Tiberias. She was married, and had three children and two granddaughters. She graduated the Theatre Track at the Thelma Yellin High School of the Arts, and did her army service in the Nahal Entertainment Troupe. She studied at the Tel Aviv University Department of Theatre Arts. Writing for television: Zehu Ze (Educational TV, 1981-1991), Yes, What? (comedy series, Channel One), Evening With Gov (Channel Two), and Best Friends (drama series, HOT). Writing for theatre: Love to Death (1991, Jerusalem Khan Theatre), Best Friends (1999, Cameri Theatre), which won the 2000 Israeli Theatre Award for Best Comedy, Lysistrata 2000 (2001, Cameri Theatre), Opposing Sides, a joint project of Israeli and Palestinian playwrights for Theater Heilbronn in Germany (2003), Househusband (Cameri Theatre), which won the 2004 Israeli Theatre Award for Best Comedy, The Troupe, a stage adaptation of the musical (2007, Habima National Theatre), Oh, God! (2008, Cameri Theatre), A Warm Family (2009, Cameri Theatre), Happy Ending (2012, Cameri Theatre). Translations: Via Dolorosa by David Hare, and Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht (Cameri Theatre). She was a columnist for the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, and one of the founders of the Ezrat Nashim organization for victims of sexual assault.