(The Comuter, The Man With a Flower In HIs Mouth and Commendatore Squatriglia in Chee Cheé)

WALLACE NORMAN is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of Woodstock Fringe. Beginning in 2002 and for more than a decade. Woodstock Fringe produced the annual Woodstock Fringe Festival of Theatre and Song. The first Festival of Theatre and Song spanned two weeks. Ten years later the festival was six weeks long. Over the course of that decade, Woodstock Fringe was the producer and host of some 400 performances of original plays, solo performance art works, chamber opera, puppet theatre, concerts of new American songs, high-art clown shows, and readings of more than 50 new plays.

IWallace is a playwright, director, actor and singer. He has appeared in more than sixty-five productions in Off-Broadway, Regional, Stock and Hudson Valley theaters. Wallace has been a soloist at Carnegie Recital Hall and participated as a singer in the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Cabaret Symposium. For years prior to moving to Woodstock, Wallace was a denizen of the Off-Off Broadway arena in New York City. In his city days Wallace produced over 30 works for the stage. He was a founder of The Gilgamesh Theatre Group, part of the “At The Beckett Theatre Campaign" on 42nd Street in NYC. Norman also has enjoyed a long and artistically rich association with Golden Fleece, The Composer Chamber Theatre. At the beginning of his theatrical career he was mentored by Lou Rodgers, Artistic Director of Golden Fleece both as a performer and theatre producer.

Wallace trained extensively at the Herbert Berghoff Studio in NYC and at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He taught acting at Nassau Community College.

Plays recently directed in the Hudson Valley include: The Realistic Joneses, by Will Eno (Performing Arts of Woodstock); Breaking The Code, by Hugh Wittemore; Happy Days, by Samuel Beckett, produced by Woodstock Fringe; Proof, by David Auburn; It Can’t Happen Here by Wallace Norman; Old Hickory, by Ric Siler; Women on Fire, by Irene O’Garden, The Great Nebula in Orion, by Lanford Wilson and Oh Virgil!, A Theatrical Portrait by Wallace Norman.  Oh Virgil! was commissioned by the Virgil Thomson Foundation.

Norman’s critically acclaimed one-act play Brother’s Keeper, has been performed in Dublin at the International Gay Theatre Festival, at the Edinburgh Fringe, in Woodstock at the Byrdcliffe Theatre and at the Phoenicia Playhouse.