(Performer – I Want What You Have) most recently wrapped shooting THE PROJECT. In the last 365 days or so: Performance: The Faith Project: Beyond Belief , Center Stage/Genesis Salon; Black Snow, Yale Rep; Huntington Theatre’s Breaking Ground Festival; After All, Hudson Stage; Slovaks!,Galapagos Art Space. Directing: Toni Morrison at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Fresh Play Festival, Manhattan Class Company, Here.This.Now at NY International Fringe Festival and Symphony Space; Mr. Hoover’s Tea Party, Off World Theatre, Valiant, Greenway Arts/Los Angeles, Impact Festival/Culture Project and Urban Stages.
(Assistant Director, The Dime Show, Keep The Change) Directing credits include: Louder Than Words (Kids With Guns), Chuck Mee Challenge (Six Figures), Orson’s Shadow (Outrageous Fortune), HAMLET/machine (Blue Rose Theatre), Frankie & Johnny…(Otterbein College). She frequently stage manages for LAByrinth and the Public Theater. A graduate of Otterbein College, and a member of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.
(Production Stage Manager) Howard is an Actors Equity Association Stage Manager. He is the Production Manager and Lighting Designer for the dance troupe, Galumpha. Howard is also a founding member of newFangled theatreR, an ever-evolving ensemble theatre company dedicated to the production of affordable, audience-centric and provocative theatrical events. www.galumpha.com; www.myspace.com/newfangledtheatrer
(Assistant Stage Manager) recently returned from the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska where she stage managed the world premier of Raven Odyssey. She is an Adjunct Artist with Theater Mitu and is a recent graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
(Production Assistant – I Want What You Have) is thrilled to be a part of such an exciting project. As an actor, she was most recently seen as The Stripper in the critically acclaimed American premiere of Hanoch Levin’s Job’s Passion, presented by Theatre for the New City last fall.Some other favorite roles include Julie in Le Wilhelm’s Bubbling, Suzanne Gold-Stein in Twilight of the Golds, and Mariette in Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Colleen is currently a student at Weist-Barron Studios, and a member of the 2006-2007 New Perspectives Theatre Apprentice Company. She holds an MFA in Stage Management from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a BA in Theater from SUNY New Paltz. Thanks to Leigh for the opportunity!
(Production Assistant – Remembrance) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at New York University. Dan has produced and directed several shows in New York City, and has also assisted Jeff Calhoun on the Broadway productions of Big River and Brooklyn. He is excited to be working with Jyana again.
(Production Assistant – A Peddler’s Tale) Brand new to town and a veteran of the stage, Sorrell is thrilled to be involved with Women’s
Project. A graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design film and theater departments, Sorrell loves to tell a story. Look for her in lights – she’ll be there
someday.
(Playwright) Neena Beber’s plays include Jump/Cut at Woolly Mammoth, Hard Feelings at Women’s Project, Thirst at The Public, The Dew Point at the SPF/ Summer Play Festival, A Common Vision at Magic Theatre and Tommorowland at New Georges. She has received commissions from Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Playwright’s Horizons (Amblin), and Otterbein College, among others. Her one-acts have been included in the anthologies The Best American Short Plays 1996-1997 and Facing Forward. Ms. Beber has received the A.S.K. Exchange to the Royal Court Theatre, Distinguished Alumni Award from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and Paulette Goddard and MacDowell Colony Fellowships. She has written extensively for film and television, receiving several Emmy and Ace-Award nominations for her writing for children’s television and contributed articles to American Theatre, Theatre, and Performing Arts Journal. Her fiction has been published in The Sun and the film Bad Dates (Touchstone) was based on her one-act, Food. Neena graduatated magna cum laude from Harvard University, with a B.A. specializing in Latin American Literature. She holds an M.F.A.from N.Y.U.’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a Paulette Goddard Fellow and recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award.
(Director) At 31, Leigh will be the youngest director on Broadway later this season when she will helm Lisa Kron’s Well opening March 30 th at the Longacre Theatre. She has staged plays for The Public Theatere and ACT. Leigh directed the world premiere of Jump/Cut for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre and Theater J co-production. Her recent credits include: Oedipus at Palm Springs written by The Five Lesbian Brothers at New York Theatre Workshop, Wit on London¹s West End and at the Geffen Theatre (Los Angeles), Bad Dates at the Cleveland Playhouse, Big Times with Women’s Expressive Theatre, How I Learned to Drive at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan at Theatre J, as well as shows at the Adirondack Theatre Festival, EST and Rattlestick. Workshops include: Sundance Theatre Lab (2001 and 2003), Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Stage and Film, New Dramatists, Dixon Place and Epic Theatre. She holds a duel degree in directing and playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University.
Off-Broadway: A Few Stout Individuals (Signature), Carson McCullers (Women’s Project/Playwright’s), Ivanov (Mint), Saved or Destroyed (Rattlestick), Sueno (MCC), Tartuffe (NYSF/Delacorte), Unwrap Your Candy (Vineyard), wAve (Ohio). Regional: Arena, ART, Berkeley Rep, Brava!, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Intiman, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, McCarter, Portland Stage, Seattle Rep, Sundance, and Williamstown. Film and television credits include independent features I will Avenge You, Iago (opposite Giancarlo Esposito and Larry Pine), Personal Velocity, Pursuit of Happiness, and Welcome to Purgatory. Appearances on ATWT, Cosby, Law and Order, Third Watch and One Life to Live. Michi holds an AB from Stanford University and an MFA from NYU. Fox Fellow 1999. She wishes to thank Neena, Loretta and Leigh (all 3 are saints).
Luke Kirby performed the role of Morgan in the Factory theater’s production of Geometry In Venice in Toronto, a performance which garnered him a nomination for Best Actor at the Dora Mavor Moore Awards. This was quickly followed by the role of Patroclus in theater for a New Audience’s production of Troilus and Cressida directed by Sir Peter Hall in New York City. He then booked a lead role in the recently released Halloween 8: Resurrection after which he returned to the world of theater, first in Judith Thompson’s premiere of Habitat at Canadian Stage followed by Daniel Brook’s premiere of The Good Life at the Tarragon theater. In the summer of 2002, Luke shot the lead role in Peter Wellington’s feature film, Luck, in Toronto immediately followed by the lead role in Mambo Italiano, shot in Montreal working alongside such stars as Sarah Polley and Paul Sorvino. Luke ended the summer with a part that was written for him in the feature film Shattered Glass produced by Cruise/Wagner.
BROADWAY: Reckless (Manhattan Theater Club/ Second Stage).OFF-BROADWAY: This Is Our Youth, Gemini (Second Stage); Where We?re Born (Rattlestick); The General From America (Theater For A New Audience); Thunderbird (Cherry Lane); Man Measures Man (The Lark) REGIONAL: Moonlight & Magnolias (Alliance Theater); The General From America (Alley Theater); Left (NY Stage & Film); The Waverly Gallery (Long Wharf); Street Scene, The Skin Of Our Teeth, Hot L Baltimore, Rodney?s Wife (Williamstown Theater Festival). FILM/TV: Loser; Happy Hour; Company K; Winter Solstice; As The World Turns, Law & Order. Thomas has worked extensively helping to develop new works at The Lark, New Dramatists and the Sundance Institute. He is a graduate of Circle In The Square Theater School in New York City.
(Playwright) Lisa D’Amour is a playwright, solo performer and multidisciplinary theater artist. Recent projects include LANDMARK: 24 HOURS @ THE STONE ARCH BRIDGE, a site-specific performance on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis; NITA & ZITA, which received a 2003 OBIE Award and toured in 2005 to the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) the Walker Arts Center (Minnneapolis) and HERE Arts Center (NYC); and DREAM OF A WEST TEXAS MARSUPIAL GIRL, a musical for children which will premiere at Children’s Theatre Company (Minneapolis) in 2007. Lisa has received fellowships from the Jerome and Mc Knight Foundations, as well as grants from the Multi Arts Production Fund and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She is the recipient of a 2005/6 NEA/TCG Playwright’s Residency to work on a new play with Infernal Bridegroom Productions (Houston). She received her M.F.A. in playwriting from UT Austin. She is a core member of the Playwright’s Center, a resident artist at HERE and a resident playwright at New Dramatists.
(Director) As both theater director and performer, Pearl collaborates with writers, musicians, and visual artists on new plays and site specific performance events. Recent projects with nine year collaborator Lisa D’Amour range from LIMO, an indoor performance installation in a corporate atrium (Performance on 42nd Series/Whitney Museum of Art at Altria), to their self produced Nita & Zita (Village Voice OBIE Award, 2003), to LandMARK, an outdoor 24 long interactive art event at the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis (the same bridge that Cyrus and Dan are building during THE CATARACT). Other recent directing credits include Sheila Callaghan’s Crumble /Lay me down, Justin Timberlake (Clubbed Thumb @ the Ohio), Steve Moore’s Nightswim (State Theater, Austin TX), and Sally Oswald’s The Painful Adventures (Labapalooza Puppet Lab @ St. Ann’s Warehouse).
Pearl has developed work with writers at the Playwright’s Center (MN), New Dramatists and Soho Rep (NY), and University of Texas/Austin. She has led workshops at Amherst College/ Ko Performance Festival, Dartmouth College and Brown University (with D’Amour), Shonto Prep/ Navajo Nation, and taught classes for the Long Wharf and Hangar Theaters. She is an alumnus of the Drama League of New York (directing fellow, 2000) and a Roothbert Fellow, 2004. Pearl is a proud member of Physical Plant Theater of Austin TX, and continues to be part of both the Austin and NYC theater communities while intermittently pursuing a graduate degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
(Dinah) Ms. Aspillaga is currently in the LAByrinth Theater Company workshop production of ALL THE BAD THINGS by Cusi Cram at the Joseph Papp’s New York Public Theater. Last summer she played “Audrey” opposite Richard Thomas in the New York Public Theater Shakespeare Festival production of AS YOU LIKE IT, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. She played “Marela” opposite Jimmy Smits in the 2003 Pulitzer Prize winning play ANNA IN THE TROPICS taking it from the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, to the Royale Theater on Broadway. She has originated numerous roles in Off-Broadway, regional, and workshop productions by diverse writers including Philip Courtney, Cusi Cram, Nilo Cruz, Migdalia Cruz, Rogelio Martinez, Lynn Nottage, Adam Rapp, Joe Sutton, Liz Swados, Heather Woodbury, and Brooke Berman. Film and TV credits include: Petty Crimes aka Aller- simple pour Manhattan, My Best Friend’s Wife, Stringer, Pyrite, Exiles in New York, Mr.Wonderful, The Jury, Law & Order, Deadline, As the World Turns, and PlayStation 2 Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (voice of Michelle Cannes). She is also a playwright whose play hush was produced by INTAR Theatre’s New Works Lab 2002. Ms. Aspillaga is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and an INTARTISTA at INTAR Theatre.
(Cyrus) Off Broadway: Humble Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme and Far East ( Lincoln Center). Other New York credits include Don’t Lose Your Head (Women’s Project, The Culture Project, Timsloft), The Bigger Man (Center Stage) and The L-Curse (New Perspectives Theatre). Regional: Proof (Arena Stage), Top Ten People of the Millennium (Victory Gardens Theater), Far East (Westport Country Playhouse), A Baltimore Waltz (Henlopen Theater) and The Importance of Being Earnest (La Jolla Playhouse) for which he won a Drama-Logue Critics Award. Film and TV: Shuffle (upcoming), Conversations with ID, Young Indiana Jones Chronicle and American Gothic. Barnaby received a B.A. from Duke University and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego.
Tug makes his Off-Broadway debut with TheCataract. Other New York credits include Dear Vienna (Vital Theatre Company) and Broken Window (Theatre’Trouve). Regional credits include: A MidsummerNight’s Dream and Snow in June (American RepertoryTheatre); Take Me Out (Studio Theatre, WashingtonD.C.); You Can’t Take it With You (Capitol RepetoryTheatre); Medea and Frenzy for Two, or More(Eastenders Repertory Company), Baby (A.C.T. StudioTheatre), and Cervantes’ Gaze (Moscow Art Theatre). His television credits include “Guiding Light”, “All My Children” and the NBC pilot “NY-70”. Mr. Coker holds an MFA degree from American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Institute for Advance Theatre Training at Harvard University.
(Lottie) is thrilled to be working on The Cataract with the Women’s Project . Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (with Ned Beatty and Jason Patric). Off-Broadway: Book of Days (Signature Theatre); Down the Garden Paths (Minetta Lane). Recent regional credits include: Three Sisters (ART), Eugene’s Home (Berkshire Theatre Fesitval), Proof (George Streeet Playhouse), Talley’s Folly (Rep. Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse), The Miracle Worker and The Great White Hope (Arena Stage) and Holiday (Olney Theatre) for which she was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award for Best Actress. Kelly has also worked with The Arizona Theatre Company, the Pioneer Theatre, Shakespeare on the Sound, The Unicorn Theatre and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. Film/TV: As the World Turns, New Guy, Company K, Out of the Darkness. Training: MFA University of Missouri, Kansas City. Proud member AEA
Playwright Kathryn Walat’s plays include Connecticut, Greenspace, Know Dog, and Johnny Hong Kong. Her work has been produced at Salvage Vanguard (Austin), Perishable Theatre (Providence), The Hangar Theatre (Ithaca), and developed at Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Boston Theatre Works, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, The Lark, and New Georges, where she is an affiliated playwright. She has been commissioned for Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Anthology Project/Humana 2007, and her newest play Bleeding Kansas will premiere this summer at The Hangar Theatre. Ms. Walat is a member of the Women’s Project’s Playwrights Lab, and Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen first appeared in the Women’s Project’s 2005 Women’s Work new play reading festival. She received her BA from Brown University and MFA from Yale Drama School. She lives in New York.
Director Loretta Greco‘s New York premieres include: The Story (Public Theater Audelco nom/Kesselring Prize), Meshugah (Naked Angels), Lackawanna Blues (Public Theater), Two Sisters and a Piano (Public Theater/Kesselring Prize), Mercy (Vineyard), A Park In Our House (New York Theater Workshop). For Women’s Project: Rinne Groff’s Inky, Toni Press Coffman’s Touch, Karen Hartman’s Gum, and Amparo Garcia’s Under a Western Sky (with INTAR). Ms. Greco directed the National tour of Emily Mann’s Having Our Say in addition to the international premiere at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her regional work includes Courtney Baron’s Morbidity/Mortality(Magic Theater), Romeo and Juliet and Stop Kiss (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Dirty Blond (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Gross Indecency (Playmakers Rep) in addition to productions at ACT, Intiman, Williamstown, LaJolla Playhouse, McCarter, Long Wharf, South Coast Rep, St Louis Rep, Coconut Grove Playhouse, and Cleveland PlayHouse. Developmental work at Sundance, ONeill, New Harmony, and Mark Taper Forum. She is the author of Passage: Stories of the Cuban Balseros which received its premiere at AREA Stage in Miami and ran for over six months. Upcoming work includes David Harrower’s Blackbird (ACT) and a revival of Claire Chafee’s Why We Have A Body (Magic Theater). Ms. Greco is the recipient of two Drama League fellowships, the Princess Grace Award, and holds an MFA from Catholic University.
(Creator and Director) The founder and artistic director of Stillpoint Productions, has assisted Martha Clarke, Anne Bogart, and Marianne Weems and was recently featured in Time Out New York’s “25 People to watch 2006.” New York devising/directing credits include Bone Protraits (Walkerspace), Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (a site-specific work performed at an abandoned bank next to the NY Stock Exchange), Flying on the Wing (NY Fringe, Outstanding Solo Show), The Eliots (Center Stage), transFigures (Calvary Church), The Female Terrorist Project (HERE Arts Center, American Living Room), L’Histoire du Canard (NYU Graduate Acting Freeplay), Equus (Hangar Theatre), Whisky Girl (Hangar Theatre), and A Short Time After (by Caridad Svich, Six Nights). Internationally, Lear directed a new tri-lingual musical for the National Opera Theatre of Kazakhstan (In the Dark Ages), and a workshop of Revisions in Dublin. She has trained with DAH Theater of Yugoslavia and the SITI Company and was co-director of the Collaborative Theatre Intensive with The International WOW Company. She is a member of the Women’s Project Directors Lab and an alumnus of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a Drama League Directing Fellow, and a Jefferson Scholar. Most recently, she created the TICKETS FOR THE PEOPLE program at the Culture Project, and her next project will be Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards at PS122 in June 2007.
(Writer) Plays include Living Room in Africa (off-Broadway) 2 Soldiers (various, published), The Parents’ Evening (Cherry Lane) Until Morning (BBC Radio 4) and adaptations of Maeterlinck’s The Blind (CSC), Peer Gynt (dir. Andre Serban) and Great Expectations (off-broadway with Kathleen Chalfant at the Lucille Lortel) Her new play Nest opens at at Signature Theater in in DC this spring. Doran was born in the UK, but moved permanently to the States on a Fulbright scholarship in 2000. She is the recipient of three Lecomte du Nouy Lincoln Center playwriting awards, and her work has been developed by the O’Neill Playwrights Center, the McCarter Theatre, and Sundance among others. She is a former playwriting fellow at Juilliard. She has worked as a comedy writer for VH1, BBC TV and radio and The Cambridge Footlights. She is currently under commission from Atlantic Theater.
(Writer) is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and the author of two previous books: Gospel Truth, about the search for the historical Jesus, and Saints and Madmen, about psychiatry and religion. The hub of his research forThe Island at the Center of the Worldwas the New Netherland Project at the New York State Library, where the archives of the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan are being translated. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife and their two daughters.
(Writer) is an award winning writer/director/producer who has spent the better part of her adult life documenting the far reaches of society, both emotionally and culturally. From the Middle East, to Europe to the United States, subjects in her films range from an examination of American attitudes towards death and dying (by looking at American rituals of embalming, dressing and casketing the dead)…to the inner workings of the Texas Prison System. She is the recipient of numerous grants including most recently the National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Texas National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, an Israeli Cultural Arts Grant and the Belgium Production Foundation. Her films have been screened at film festivals around the world, as well as broadcast both in Europe and the Middle East. She has lectured on her work both as a panelist for conferences, as well as a visiting artist for institutions such as The Chicago Art Institute and the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2000 her film Jerusalem Syndrome received the Grand Prize at the World Religion Festival in Italy and has been the subject of numerous articles, school courses and most recently and a play. See Jerusalem Syndrome and meet Erin Sax Seymour on Saturday, May 5th at 5:00 p.m.
(Choreographer) New York-based Swiss-born choreographer, visual artist, and dancer Andrea Haenggi is the Founder/Artistic Director of the dance company AMDaT. Haenggi creates thought-provoking works that cross boundaries between art disciplines to find new possibilities of presentation in theaters and nontraditional sites. Her work has been presented and commissioned in many diverse venues, from Dance Theater Workshop to MASS MoCA to an abandoned Cigar Store in Lower Manhattan to the lobbies and public spaces of the World Financial Center in Downtown Manhattan. AMDaT has toured internationally and Haenggi has given master classes/workshops in Switzerland, Canada and Russia. Find out more about her & her projects at http://www.amdat.org.
