Maurice Williams (Devaun). I am beyond excited to be making my hometown debut in Cori’s beautiful love letter to New York City. I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the love & training I received at Temple University (BA) & UCSD (MFA). I have to thank my amazing reps (everyone at Innovative Artists & Matthew Lesher at Insight), my friends who believe in me more than I believe in myself & my family who are simultaneously my support system & my motivation. For every dream ever dreamed in a small apartment in Queens. J.MP.R – 1.Zr.iV – MyN.r – .X. .Doable.
(Siempre Norteada, Her Roommate, The Woman, Chick) Off-Broadway: Dance for a Dollar (INTAR), Don Cristobal Billy Club Man (HERE Arts Center), Pandora’s (Theater Row). Regional: Electricidad (Rose Marine Theater), Peter and the Wolf (Bass Performance Hall), Hotel Juarez (Teatro Dallas). Film: Man in the Mirror, Fandango Sisters.
(Her Mother, Japanese Woman, Tomomi Nakamura, Kid, Viejita) New York: What We Know (One Year Lease Theater Co.). Regional: Far East (Lucille Lortel Award, Stamford Theatre Works), An Infinite Ache (Stamford Theatre Works). Film: Death In Love (Sundance 2008), Smoke and Mirrors (DGA Award Asian-American East Coast, CINE Golden Eagle Award), Behind The Mirror. TV: “Law & Order: SVU.”
(The Stranger, Marco, Jerry Johnson, Dude, Criticon) Regional: The Whipping Man (Portland Center Stage), The White Snake (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Party People, The Imaginary Invalid, The Pirates of Penzance, Hamlet, Henry IV pt. 1 (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Romeo & Juliet (Virginia Stage Company), Black Nativity (Intiman), Sankofa (The Moore Theatre), Youth Ink! Theatre Festival (McCarter Theatre Center), Cymbeline (Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe). B.F.A. from Rutgers University.
(Rudolph Valentino, Kapowski, Shun Nakamura, Radio DJ, Loco-Loca) London: Paper Dolls (Tricycle). New York: Awake & Sing! (NAATCO), A Map of Virtue (13P), Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature), Durango (The Public), Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian Rep), among others. Regional: The White Snake (McCarter), Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana), A Number (NAATF/Northwestern University), Pool Boy (Barrington Stage), American Hwangap (Magic), Durango (Long Wharf), and Citizen 13559: the Journal of Ben Uchida (Kennedy Center). TV/Film: “Veep,” “30 Rock,” “Law & Order: CI,” “The Electric Company,” The Girl in the Book, The Normals, The Rebound, and HBO’s Angel Rodriguez. BFA, New York University.
(Grande Dame, The Girl, Virginia Jackson, Sana) Broadway: All My Sons. NY: Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb), The Mound Builders (Signature), Intelligent Homosexuals Guide….,(Public/Signature), The Wake (The Public Theater), Anon (The Atlantic), Lidless (Page 73), Midsummer… (Continuum Co), The Eyes of Others (The New Ohio), The Ones that Flutter (SPF at Public), Kathleen Turner’s Ear (Samuel French Festival), Big Times (W.E.T), Carrie (Theater Couture), Lascivious Something (Cherry Lane Mentor), Fugue (Cherry Lane), Cressida Among the Greeks, Red-Haired Thomas (The Ohio), The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons), Save The World (Roundtable). Regional: Old Globe, Two River Theater Festival, Humana Festival, The Kirk, Berkeley Rep, The Wilma, ACT/Seattle, The Market Theater, Portland Stage Co, The Lantern, CapRep/Albany, Hartford, StageWorks/Hudson. TV/ Film: “Unforgettable”, “Fringe”, “Mercy”, “Law and Order,” “SVU,” “All My Children,” “As the World Turns,” Hard Sell, 27 Dresses, The Business of Story.
(Playwright – Keep the Change) Plays: Split Wide Open: produced at Summer Play Festival; developed through Ensemble Studio Theatre’s New Voices Program; runner-up, Princess Grace Award (2005). DNA: produced at Hangar Theatre and New York International Fringe Festival; FringeNYC Award for Playwriting Excellence. The Torture Project (collaboration): fellowship, Drama League New Directors/New Works Program; presented in Six Figures Theatre Company’s Artists of Tomorrow Festival. Other: The Juilliard School, Lark Theatre Center, Hallie Flanagan Play Series/Women at Wings. Current member of the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab.
(Playwright – Remembrance) is an award-winning playwright and performer. This fall, her play, Hoodoo Love, will have its world premiere at the Cherry Lane Theatre, where it was developed under Lynn Nottage as part of the theatre’s 2006 Mentor Project. Hoodoo Love received three 2006 AUDELCO nominations (Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, August Wilson Playwright Award), winning for Best Supporting Actress. Hall is a 2007 winner of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Award in Drama, 2006 NYFA Fellow, and a 2006 writing workshop resident at the Royal Court Theatre.
(Playwright – A Peddler’s Tale) Andrea Lepcio’s plays have been developed and presented at Epiphany, Manhattan Theatre Source, Lady Cavaliers, New Shoe, Shalimar Productions, Titans, Williamsburg Art Nexus, Women’s Project, and Vital Theatre and in NY, and at Trustus, Hangar, Bloody Unicorn and Provincetown Theatre Company, regionally. Her plays have been published in Plays and Playwrights, Estrogenius, lichen and by Smith & Kraus. She directs the Dramatists Guild Fellows program. M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University, M.B.A. UC Berkeley, and B.A. in Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic.
(Playwright – The Dime Show) Molly’s work is nationally produced/ published. Residencies: Missoula Colony; Voice and Vision; Hangar Theater. Awards: Weston Award; nominee, Outstanding Original Short Play, New York IT Awards. A two-time finalist for New Dramatists and the Heidemann Award, a finalist & semifinalist for the O’Neill, a finalist for the Jerome, and a three-time semifinalist for PlayLabs, Molly holds an MFA from Brown where she teaches playwriting, and will be replacing Wendy MacLeod for 2007-8 as Visiting Assistant Professor (playwriting) at Kenyon College.
(Playwright – I Want What You Have) is a Romanian-born playwright. Her plays have been produced in Europe and US. Recent New York productions include Waxing West and YokastaS at La MaMa Theater, Lenin’s Shoe at The Lark, and Aurolac Blues at Here Arts Center (published in Plays and Playwrights 2006). Fellowships/Awards: 2007 NYSCA playwright-in-residence with Women’s Project, TCG, Fulbright, Goldberg, Antoine Vitez, Best Romanian Play of the Year 2000. MA in Performance Studies, MFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU, Tisch School of the Arts.
(Playwright – Keep the Change) A member of the Women’s Project Playwright’s Lab, Joy’s play Unfold Me will be produced this July at the Summer Play Festival in NYC directed by Linsay Firman. A recent MFA graduate of CalArts’ Writing for Performance Program, Joy previously worked at The Public Theater/NYSF for six seasons. With a wanderlust of her own, Joy never met a dime she didn’t like.
(Director – Keep the Change) is thrilled to be a part of The Women’s Project Directors Lab. She is a Drama League Directing Fellow and a Directing Associate at the Lark Play Development Center. May received a Van Lier Directing Fellowship and an SDCF Observership. She is a member of the SoHo Rep Writers/Director’s Lab ‘06-07. She also received a New York Theatre Workshop Directing Fellowship for 2006-07. May is an Artistic Associate at The Public Theater. MFA, directing, Yale 2006.
(Director – I Want What You Have): recent credits: Inge’s Picnic, The Bay Theatre, Annapolis, MD., Sheridan’s The Rivals, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Cold Spring, NY., Acts of Mercy, by Michael John Garcés, Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, NYC. , Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Milwaukee Shakespeare, WI. Gia holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from Yale School of Drama. She is a member of the Women’s Project Director’s Lab, an affiliated director The Lark Play Development Center, and a member of SSDC.
(Director – Remembrance) runs the NYC-based theatre company ACTIVE EYE with whom she is currently creating a séance. Most recently she directed Iphigenia at Aulis at City College of New York. Jyana spent 2 seasons at Cleveland Public Theatre as a Future Leaders grant recipient from Theatre Communications Group during which time she directed works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Wallace Shawn, and Adam Rapp.
(Director – A Peddler’s Tale) New York premiere of Charles Mee Jr.’s Fetes de la Nuit, Uncle Vanya (Prague Quadrennial 2007), Paradise Now, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Endgame. Assistant director: Michael Blakemore on Deuce, Roger Rees and Rick Elice on Double Double. Artistic Director of Collective Intelligence Arts, dedicated to the creation and development of new work, dynamic re-imaginings of the classics and the training of artists. Extensive background in Suzuki/Viewpoints and Composition. .For more information:www.kimweild.com MFA Directing-Columbia University.
(Set Design – A Peddler’s Tale) With SITI Company; Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Plowman, bobrauschenbergamerica Systems/Layers, War of the Worlds Radio Play, With Rude Mechanicals: How Late It Was Late, Lipstick Traces, Big Love, El Paraiso, Cherrywood, Matchplay. Classic Stage Company: Hamlet, Richard II.
(Costume Designer – Remembrance) Most recently Brenda assisted William Ivey Long on the Broadway show Curtains. She has also been assisting on various productions on and off Broadway. Brenda earned her Bachelors degree from Northeastern University and will begin earning her M.F.A. in Costume Design from New York University in the fall.
(Costume Design – A Peddler’s Tale) Lisa Renee Jordan’s costume design credits include Suicide, Anyone? (Off-Broadway) The Witching Hour and Triangle (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Neglect, and Thicker than Water (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Dr. Faustus: Occult Remix, Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Uncle Vanya, A Dream Play, Eccentricities of a Nightingale,(Off-Off Broadway) Nights at the Circus (NYC Fringe Festival). Assistant design credits include Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Center Theatre), Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life (Broadway). She received her MFA in Costume Design from Carnegie Mellon University.
(Sound Designer – A Peddler’s Tale): violist, composer, and sound designer, is a founding member of Rachel’s, an instrumental band with six albums on Touch and Go Records. Recent projects: Hanjo at Japan Society; Fetes de la Nuit at Columbia Stages NYC; King Lear at Point B Productions, Nashville, TN; The History of the World in Saratoga Springs, NY. Other credits: The Water Project at Bowdoin College, ME; Violent Delights at the Public Theater; Christina Olson: American Model at P.S. 122. Love to Tara.
(Producer – I Want What You Have) is a founding member and managing director of Stone Soup Theatre Arts, a socially conscious theatre company for whom she has been producing since 2001. She has also worked with Clubbed Thumb, Young Playwrights, Primary Stages, MCC and spent three years with The Pearl Theatre Company. Currently, she is the Finance Associate at HERE Arts Center. Leigh is a proud member of the Women’s Project Producer’s Lab and a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College’s Producing and Management program.
(Producer – Keep the Change and Song)joined the full-time staff at the Public Theater as an Artistic Associate in August of 2004. As a freelancer, she is the Producer for the Obie-winning 13P, also known as 13 Playwrights, Inc. Previously, she was the Associate Producer at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI. She is co-chair of the Soho Rep Writer/ Director Lab, and proud to be a member of the Women’s Project Producer’s Lab under the guidance of incredible Julie Crosby.
(Producer – Keep the Change and The Dime Show) founded the production company Cagey Productions. With Cagey she has produced at HERE, Theatre for the New City, the Ontological, chashama, Metropolitan Playhouse, BAX, The Brick and The Palace of Variety. She has also produced for Shumka Dance/Theater and The Bridge Collective, both in NYC and on tour. She began her career at New York Theatre Workshop and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. Cagey’s ongoing project The Blue Puppies Cycle culminates in winter 2007 at The Chocolate Factory.
(Co-Producer – A Peddler’s Tale) Amy Kaissar is the Producing Director of Epiphany Theater. Directing Credits: Searching for St. Anthony (Samuel French Festival), If You Know You’re Shallow . . . ? (Funny Woman Festival), Pennsyltucky, and Another Round (Epiphany Theater), Crossing Over (Pittsburgh Public Theatre Workshop), You Don’t Miss What You Never Had (WQED). Author of Theater Subscriptions in a Changing World (published in US and Australia). Amy has also worked with NYTW, The Roundabout, and Classic Stage. BFA Carnegie Mellon, MFA Columbia.
(Co-Producer – A Peddler’s Tale) Patricia has produced (with Etcetera Theatre Company) and directed Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls at the American Theatre of Actors; produced, again with E.T.C., George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession in repertory with Mrs. Weinberg’s Profession at Creative Place Theatre. Recent directing credits: Stripped, Starstruck & Monkeys Theatre Company; The Irish Wake, Samuel French Theatre Festival. Patricia is a board member of ShakespeareNYC and is also an actress.
