![]() …I approached John Heimbuch and asked if he wanted to be the writer in the room and take on the job of being a collaborator and he said, which I thought was very revealing, “I’ll read the book and I’ll let you know.” We got together a month later, and he said that halfway through reading the book that it really inspired him. The is an American piece and I thought it’d be great to make in Minneapolis and do it at the Southern. When I came to America, I saw so many good American actors. I’ve always wanted to direct it again, make it again. We played three shows there and won a Sunday Times ensemble award. It was selected to be one of ten shows to go the National Student Drama Festival in England. There were men and women, and the women played all the elements-the weather, sea, ocean, fish, birds, people at home, and they sang as well. ![]() We ended up doing a 14-person production, which I co-directed and produced. A friend of mine thought it would be hilarious to do a three-person version of Moby Dick. Jon Ferguson: When I was a student in England at Middlesex University studying to be an actor, one of the final things we did in our course was an intensive clown workshop and encouraged us to come up with ideas for a show. Jaime Kleiman: How did you come up with a play based on Herman Melville’s Moby Dick?
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