(Erica) Select theatre: The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature); Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra, The Whale, The Retributionists (Playwrights Horizons); Too Much Too Much Too Many (Roundabout Theatre Company); La Brea, Roadkill Confidential (Clubbed Thumb); Red-Handed Otter (Playwrights Realm); Autumn Sonata (Yale Rep.); The Collection, A Kind of Alaska (Atlantic Theater Company); Spin, U.S. Drag, Vengeance (the stageFARM); bobrauschenbergamerica (American Repertory Theater). Film and Television: Mistress America, True Story, Actresses, The Mend, Appropriate Behavior, Diving Normal, Compliance, East of Acadia, Meskada, Little Horses, A Lone Star State, “The Impossibilities”, “Wallflowers”, “The Good Wife” and “Grand Theft Autor IV & V”. MFA, Columbia University.
Rachael Holmes (Vicky) just made her Yale Rep debut in the world premier of War by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz). Other credits include Ruined directed by Kate Whoriskey (Manhattan Theatre Club); Persephone’s Cowboy: A Musical directed by Alex Timbers, 365 Days/365 Plays with directors Michael Greif, Leigh Silverman, and Hal Brooks (The Public Theater). Regional credits include: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Broadway World nomination for Best Supporting Actress) directed by Jonathan Moscone (Alley Theatre); Good People directed by Kate Whoriskey (Huntington Theatre); Ruined (Helen Hayes Award for Best Ensemble) directed by Charles Randolph-Wright (Arena Stage); The Book Club Play directed by Molly Smith (Arena Stage); Richard II directed by Michael Kahn, Julius Caesar directed by David Paul (Shakespeare Theatre); and Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet directed by Timothy Douglas (Studio Theatre); She recorded Lady Macbeth and Titania for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Luminary Shakespeare App. Television: The Mysteries of Laura, The Good Wife, Dirt, as well asnational commercials and voice-overs. She received her MFA from NYU and teaches at New Victory Theatre and New York Film Academy. rachael.biz
(Everywoman) Jessica Almasy is a co-founder of the TEAM and a member of the wook taut majesty. She is an actress and a writer. BFA Acting: NYU Tisch. MFA Playwriting: Brooklyn College.
(GrandDada) Gerry Bamman received Obie and Drama League awards and a Drama Desk nomination for best featured actor for his performance as Richard Nixon in Nixon’s Nixon. He was a founding member of the Manhattan Project, one of the foremost experimental theater companies of the 1970’s, directed by Andre Gregory. His most recent work includes Keen Company’s The Film Society, Jen Silverman’s Phoebe in Winter and Merchant of Venice, and Enemy of the People on Broadway. Films: Runaway Jury, Two Family House, Passion of Mind, Home Alone 1 and 2, Lorenzo’s Oil, Secret of My Success, Bodyguard, True Believer, Pink Cadillac. Many appearances on Law and Order.
(Everyman) Christian Felix is originally from Evanston, IL, which sits on the shores of the greatest of the Great Lakes. Past theater credits: Blacken the Bubble (Liberation Theater), The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley (Vital Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater), Take Me Out (Barebones, Pittsburgh). Film credits: Sardines Out of a Can, Waiting Room. TV: Guiding Light. BA: Dartmouth College. Thanks to my Family and Friends for their support!
(Trifle) New Georges: Great Lakes (Jam on Toast Fest). Off Broadway: Paris Commune (BAM – Civilians); The Internationalist (Vineyard – Lucille Lortel Nomination – featured actress); Trouble in Paradise (Hourglass – Obie Award); Curmudgeons in Love (EST Marathon); The Ladies, In The Footprint (The Civilians); Boozy, Heddatron (Les Freres); Once in a Lifetime (Atlantic). Regional: Huntington, South Coast Rep, Geva. Film/TV: Nurse Jackie (Season 7 – recurring), Wet Hot American Summer (Upcoming Netflix series – recurring), Role Models, The Ten, Wet Hot American Summer, Damages, Venture Brothers, L&O:CI. Wainy Days (web series). Affiliated artist: Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, Les Freres Corbusier.
(Cheesecake) NY: Good Person of Szechwan (Public, La MaMa), Trade Practices (HERE), Help Me To Make It (CTown), Takarazuka!!! (Clubbed Thumb), Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G (Ma-Yi, Vampire Cowboys), Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower (Ars Nova, Zipper). Workshops/readings: Vineyard, La Jolla Playhouse, Lark, Lincoln Center, New Victory, Prelude, Clubbed Thumb, HERE, PEN World Voices, 2G, NAAP, Pan Asian, Music-Theatre Group, Leviathan Lab, Maltby & Shire’s Behind The Painting & BD Wong’s The Post Office. Concerts: Highline Ballroom, Joe’s Pub, City Winery. Brooke is developing an independent feature, a pilot treatment for TV, & a musical solo show. brookeishibashi.com
(Snapdragon) Recently seen in NYTW’s Scenes from a Marriage. Other NYC: Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Foundry Theater, Civilians, Ma-Yi, Target Margin, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Women’s Project, Pan Asian Rep and NAATCO, of which she is Artistic Producing Director and co-founder. Regional: Berkeley Rep (CA), Swine Palace (LA), Guthrie (MN). International: Philippines, Abu Dhabi. Awards: Obie (NAATCO’s Awake and Sing!, 2014); Lucille Lortel, Lee Reynolds Awards (League of Professional Theatre Women); AEA’s Rosetta LeNoire Award; New Dramatists’ Charles Bowden Actor Award. Founding director, CAATA (Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists). BA: Barnard College. MA: Columbia University.
(Gumbo) Kristine Haruna Lee is a playwright, director, and performer living in Brooklyn, NY. She’s a founding member of harunalee theater company. She has performed nationally and internationally with artists such as Taylor Mac, NAATCO, Jim Neu, Yubiwa Hotel, Andrea Geyer’s Comrades of Time at the Whitney Biennial, Mettawee, and Antony and the Johnsons. Her work as part of harunalee has received a Dixon Place Artist Residency and Commission for War Lesbian, an LMCC Grant for Drunkfish Oceanrant, and she’s a recipient of the New Dramatists Van Lier fellowship. She teaches Theatre at York College. BFA: Tisch. MFA: Brooklyn College.
(@ color commentary) Previously appeared in Nightlands with New Georges. A Fable (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), The Model Apartment (Primary Stages), A Map of Virtue (13P), Angels in America (Signature Theatre Company), The Tempest (Target Margin Theater), The Brother/Sister Plays (The Public Theater, u/s), The Gentleman Caller (Clubbed Thumb). Regional credits: The Two Gentleman of Verona (The Old Globe), A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Phylicia Rashad (Westport Country Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Blue Door (Seattle Repertory Theatre). TV credits: The Good Wife (CBS), happyish (Showtime), Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU (NBC), Over/Under (USA), Black Jack (Comedy Central). Film credits: James White and SWEEP (SAG short). Training: New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. YoungArts awardee.
(Cherry Pie): Broadway: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; A Raisin in the Sun; Gem of the Ocean, VSMS. Other Theater: The Rattlestick, Soho Rep, The Public, Playwrights Horizons, McCarter, Berkeley Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse. TV: The Good Wife, Life Support, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, Whoopi, Third Watch and Homicide. Film: Red Hook Summer, Broken Flowers, The Nanny Diaries, You Belong to Me, Head of State. Heather is the recipient of an Audie Award for the audiobook Upstate. Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship through TCG. BA: Tufts University. MFA: Columbia University. www.heatherasimms.com
(# in charge of action) Ben Williams is an actor and a sound designer. With Elevator Repair Service: Arguendo; Fondly, Collette Richland; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); Shuffle, The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928); No Great Society; and Gatz. Other collaborators include: Julia Jarcho, Christina Masciotti, Sibyl Kempson, Suzanne Bocanegra, The Wooster Group, New York City Players, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Awards for Sound Design: 2012 Obie, 2012 Lucille Lortel, 2013 LADCC. Ben is the Editor of Performance Texts for BODY, an online literary journal, where you can read an excerpt from this play: www.bodyliterature.com.
(Costume Design) Kathleen Doyle designs costumes and puppets for theater, opera, dance and animation. Recent projects include Sunfish – Daegu Opera House – South Korea, The Magic Flute – Boston Symphony Orchestra, Lollapalooza – Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Light Princess – American Repertory Theater, The Snow Queen – Here, Sassy Swings Tokyo – La MaMa, Gideon’s Knot – 59E59, Cendrillon -Manhattan School of Music, Fireweather – The Joyce Theater, Girl of The Golden West – New Ohio Theater. Doyle is the recipient of many awards and grants, including two Fulbrights. Her artwork was recently exhibited in a solo show called Criacoes in Brazil. MFA in Theatrical Design, NYU. www.kathleendoyledesign.info
(Lighting Design) Select Designs Include: Seagull dir. Brian Mertes, co-designed with Dan Scully (The Lake Lucille Project); Various projects with Portia Krieger, Jess Chayes, Lee Sunday Evans, and Morgan Gould; Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters dir. Richard Gammon (Manhattan School of Music, NYC); Grimly Handsome dir. Julia Jarcho (Incubator Arts Project, Obie Award); The Pits dir. Sarah Krohn and The Valley of Fear dir. Lila Neugebauer (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Previous Projects with New Georges: Great Lakes, The Vaults, Primal Play. Other: 13P General Manger emeritus. Education: Fordham University, BA; NYU Tisch, MFA.
(Scenic Design) Sara designed JAM on Toast for New Georges last year! Previous other designs include: Get Mad at Sin! with Andrew Dinwiddie and Jeff Larson (The Chocolate Factory, The San Diego Museum of Art), Confidence Man with the Woodshed Collective, Faye Driscoll’s You’re Me (The Kitchen, UCLA, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston), There Is So Much Mad in Me (Dance Theatre Workshop), and 837 Venice Blvd. (HERE Arts Center – Bessie Award Winner). She was Head of Design for Queen of the Night. This year Sara will be designing and performing in The Kioskers, a suitcase band show of astounding proportions. Written by Scott Adkins, directed by Meghan Finn with music by the sublime Alaina Ferris. Next up: Social Security by Christina Masciotti directed by Paul Lazar at the Bushwick Starr. www.saracwalsh.com
New Georges, founded in 1992, is one of New York City’s premiere downtown theater companies, a home and a playground for some of the most adventurous theater artists (who are women) working today. New Georges supports the largest ongoing working community of women theater artists in New York City (made up of playwrights, directors, actors and designers) and has advanced the careers of more than 80 women playwrights and directors by providing them with productions, often their first in New York. The adventurous, boundary-pushing aesthetic that makes “a New Georges play” is recognized nationwide. www.newgeorges.org
Rattlestick Playwrights’ Theater is a multi-award-winning, 501(c)(3) organization and recipient of the 2007 Ross Wetzsteon Memorial OBIE Award, which recognized us for work and our mission: developing and producing innovative new plays. Rattlestick is also the recipient of the 2014 OBIE award for The Hilltown Plays. Now in our 20th Season, we have introduced new writers and received critical acclaim for our innovative work. The 2014/2015 season includes outstanding writers such as Keith Josef Adkins, Robert Boswell, Sheila Callaghan, Laura Eason, Laith Nakli, Scott Organ, Rubén Polendo, and Daniel Talbott. as well as Martín Zimmerman, Michael Laurence and Charlotte Miller in Los Angeles. Although there are other companies that showcase new playwrights, there are very few who can match our focus, achievement and the continuing support from a play’s inception to its final production. www.rattlestick.org
Cori Thomas (Playwright) is a lifetime artist member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and has participated in most programs at Page 73. She is thrilled that her two artistic homes are co-producing When January Feels Like Summer. Her plays have been developed or produced by: EST, Going To The River, P73, City Theatre Co. Pittsburgh, Sundance Theatre Lab, The Goodman Theatre, Pillsbury House Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Mixed Blood, Playwrights Realm, Partial Comfort, New Black Fest, New Georges, Penumbra….She has been a Sundance Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. Commissions: NYSCA, The Sloan Foundation, P73, EST, Pillsbury House Theatre, South Coast Rep.This play received the 2011 American Theatre Critics Osborn Award for best new play. Chuck Patterson directed its first readings at EST, Sundance, and directed the World Premiere at Pittsburgh City Theatre Co. His indelible enthusiasm, encouragement, and playful spirit will live forever in this play which is lovingly and gratefully dedicated to him.
(Playwright) Jessica Dickey is most known for her one woman show The Amish Project, which premiered at the New York Fringe before transferring to Cherry Lane and then opening at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater to great acclaim from audience and critics alike. The Amish Project has gone on to be produced around the country and the world, and is published by Samuel French. Jessica’s play Charles Ives Take Me Home is currently running at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (who nominated it for the Susan Blackburn Prize), for which Jessica was hailed as “a talent to watch”. Charles Ives Take Me Home is already slated for the City Theatre in Pittsburgh next season. Jessica was a Writer in Residence at the New Harmony Project for her new play about Civil War re-enactors, Row After Row, which had a production in Tucson and is slated for its official world premiere with the Women’s Project in NYC in 2014. Jessica is also an actor, and most recently appeared in the Broadway production of Wit and the Barrow Street Theatre’s production Hit The Wall, as well as The Big C and several episodes of Law & Order. www.jessicadickey.com.
(Director) For Women’s Project Theater: Jessica dickey’s Row After Row, Catherine Trieschmann’s How the World Began (in association with South Coast Rep), Sheila Callaghan’s Lascivious Something (with Cherry Lane), Trista Baldwin’s Sand. Off-Broadway: Jessica Dickey’s Charles Ives Take Me Home (Rattlestick Productions), Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India (MaYi Theatre & Magic Theatre, SF), Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End (Epic Theatre), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City (New Georges). Regional world premiere credits include: Rajiv Joseph’s Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Stefanie Zadravec’s Electric Baby (Quantum Theatre, PA). Ari Roth’s Andy and the Shadows (Theatre J), Caridad Svich’s Instructions For Breathing (Passage Theatre), Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard’s Pool Boy (Barrington Stage). A graduate of Carnegie Mellon, Daniella has been the Artistic Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center and the New Works Program Director of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. She is an NYTW Usual Suspect, an EST Member, a member of the Lark’s Board of Directors and a WP Lab alum.
(Director) Daniella Topol’s NYC productions include: Sheila Callaghan’s DEAD CITY (New Georges), Peter Gil-Sheridan’s TOPSY TURVY MOUSE(Cherry Lane Theatre), Stanton Wood’s SNOW QUEEN (Urban Stages), Zakiyyah Alexander’s SICK (Summer Play Festival), David Simpatico’s MARY (NYC Fringe), and she has directed numerous readings and workshops at a number of theaters including: The Lark, New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, The Public’s New Works Now Series, Rattlestick, Roundabout Theatre, among others. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s Directing Program, Daniella was previously the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and the Associate Producing Director at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, and is currently the Artistic Program Director at the Lark Play Development Center. She is an NYTW Usual Suspect and a HARP artist at HERE developing a new epic piece on floods with Sheila Callaghan and William Cusick. Other upcoming productions include: Kim Oler, Sean Hartley and Alison Hubbard’s musical LITTLE WOMEN (Village Theatre, WA), Judith Thompson’s PALACE OF THE END (Epic Theatre), and Sheila Callaghan’s LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING (Cherry Lane Theatre).
Dion Graham (Joe). Broadway: Machinal, Not About Nightingales (also London’s Royal National Theatre); International: The Gospel At Colonus (Edinburgh Int’l Festival), Pillars (Ibsen Conference, Norway); Off-Broadway: On The Levee, Lobby Hero (Lortel nom.), 10 Things To Do Before I Die, A Hard Heart, Washington Square Moves, 2, A View Of The Dome, Watbanaland, Elliot Loves among others. Premieres and classics at numerous leading regional theatres. Film/TV: The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Asbury Park, “The Wire” (Rupert Bond), “The Good Wife”, “Gossip Girl”, “NYPD Blue”, “Homicide”, “Hoop Life”, “Hack”, “Law & Order” (all three) and more. Series narrator for A&E’s “The First 48”.
Mahira Kakkar (Nirmala) NY credits include: Ragged Claws (Cherry Lane), Clive (The New Group), Harper Regan (Atlantic Theatre), Opus (Primary Stages), Ms. Witherspoon (Playwrights Horizons). Has worked regionally at Hartford Stage, The Magic Theatre, Denver Center, Baltimore CenterStage, McCarter Theater, Guthrie, Arden Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Film and TV: Hank and Asha (Audience Favorite- Slamdance 2013, Best Actress-Napa Valley Film Festival), “Blue Bloods”, “Law and Order:CI”, “The Big C”, Hechki, Life of Pi. Proud member of Hero Theater Company and The Actors Center. Training: Juilliard.
Carter Redwood Carter (Jeron) is thrilled to be joining EST for When January Feels Like Summer after having done the World Premiere at City Theatre in Pittsburgh 4 years ago! A Pittsburgh native, Carter is a Princess Grace Theater Honorarium and a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where he was the recipient of the prestigious John Arthur Kennedy Acting Award. He has also trained at the Drama Centre London. Off-Broadway: Gertrude Stein Saints (FringeNYC, La Mama, Abrons Arts Center) Film: Underdogs, Blood First, Not Cool. Check out his web-series “Redwood Time” on YouTube! Many thanks to his team of superheroes!www.carterredwood.com
Debargo Sanyal (Ishan/Indira) Stage: NYC- Invasion! (The Play Company), Bunty Berman Presents (The New Group), Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre Company), Bird in the Hand (Fulcrum Theater), Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary (The Management), After (Partial Comfort Productions), Telethon (Clubbed Thumb), Women of Trachis (Target Margin), Port Authority Throw Down (Working Theater), Bumbug-The Musical (Laughistan), Looking for the Pony (Vital Theater), I_NY (Ma-Yi), Commedia Dell Smartass (New Georges), Barriers (Desipina), Millicent Scowlworthy (SPF), Indian Ink (Alter Ego Productions). Chicago- Disconnect (Victory Gardens). Pittsburgh- When January Feels Like Summer (City Theatre). Minneapolis- Brahmani (Mixed Blood). Feature film: The Magic of Belle Isle (opposite Morgan Freeman, director: Rob Reiner), Everybody’s Fine (opposite Robert De Niro), The Normals, Today’s Special, Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship, Made for Each Other, Drawing with Chalk, Red Hook, Fort Tilden, Sita Sings the Blues. Television: Guest appearances on “Law & Order”, “Blue Bloods”, “Damages”, “NYC 22”, “L&O: Special Victims Unit”, “The Sopranos”, “Running Wilde”, “All My Children”, “L&O: Criminal Intent”, “The Unusuals”, national commercials.
