(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.
(Bill): New York: National Actor’s Theater: St.Joan; Manhattan Theater Club: Boy Gets Girl; Primary Stages: Sabina, Aquila: Agamemnon. Regional: Center Stage: Three Sisters, Blythe Spirit, King Lear, Ideal Husband, Goodman: Boy Gets Girl, Old Globe: Time Flies; Long Warf: Going Native; ACT (San Francisco): Colossus of Rhodes, Misanthrope; George St. Playhouse: Walk in the Woods; Kennedy Center: Darker Face of the Earth; Berkshire Theater Festival (eleven seasons); Law & Order; SVU; The Soaps; Pilot: BlaqJaq (dir. Forest Whitaker); Ben Franklin (PBS).
(Joshua) has performed in Minneapolis with The Illusion Theatre, The Children’s Theatre, Great American History Theatre, among others. Recent New York credits include SIXTEEN WOUNDED (off-Broadway premiere) at the Cherry Lane Alternative, Steven Drukman’s FOXHOLLOW at NYU, and OFFStage: The West Village Fragments with Peculiar Works. As a writer, his play MOVIE GEEK (in which he also performs) has been seen at FringeNYC (award winner: Outstanding Multimedia Production), the Culture Project, and Ars Nova. He has a BFA in Drama at NYU.
(Margaret 1/Joan) Off-B’way/Intl.: SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN (dir. Young Jean Lee); FRAGMENT (CSC, dir. Pavol Liska); SVEJK (TFANA, dir. Dalia Ibelhauptaite); four plays for Richard Foreman (OBIE Award for MARIA DEL BOSCO.) Founding member of the late Reza Abdoh’s DAR A LUZ. Her own plays have been produced and published internationally, and she writes for Killer Films. FILM & TV: THE GIRL FROM MONDAY; SEX AND THE CITY; Marie Losier & Guy Maddin’s upcoming MANUELLE LABOR.
(Victor/Margaret 2) collaborates for the stage as an actor and dancer. Recent work: Betrothed (Ripe Time/Ohio Theater), Death in Vacant Lot! (The South Wing/LMCC), Without (Moving Theater/Dance New Amsterdam), HOWL (The TEAM), The Eliots (Stillpoint Productions), 131 (Kathryn Profeta/PS122) The Blind Watchmaker (Bug Theater, Denver), transFigures (Stillpoint Productions), The Failure of Things: Nietzsche/Orestes (Yale School of Drama Cabaret). He holds a BA in Political Science from Yale University.
(Gene/John Salvi) Some NY credits: MARAT/SADE (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Will Eno’s THOM PAIN (DR2), Anne Washburn’s APPARITION (Soho Rep, Chashama, Connolly), and I HAVE LOVED STRANGERS (Clubbed Thumb), Richard Foreman’s THE GODS ARE POUNDING MY HEAD, and KING COWBOY RUFUS RULES THE UNIVERSE, (Ontological), David Greenspan’s SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY (Playwright’s Horizons), Mae West’s SEX (Hourglass Group), and Glen Berger’s THE WOODEN BREEKS (MCC), and UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL (Soho Playhouse), for which T. received a Drama Desk nomination as Outstanding Solo Performer. Regional: the premiere productions of John Strand’s LINCOLNESQUE (Old Globe), (Winner, Outstanding Lead Performance, San Diego Critic’s Circle), Charles Mee’s BIG LOVE (Humana Festival), and Jeffrey Hatcher’s STAGE BEAUTY (CATF), among others. Film and TV: THE VENTURE BROTHERS, CONVICTION, LAW & ORDER, the cult film BRAINSCAN, and the upcoming experimental feature HORRIBLE CHILD.
(Susan) Broadway: Butley, directed by NicholasMartin. Regionally: Pericles at the Shakespeare Theatre and the Goodman Theatre, (director- Mary Zimmerman), Butley (Huntington Theatre), Antigone and Idiots Karamazov (u.s.) (American Repertory Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, The Play About the Baby, Proof, The Diary of Anne Frank , and Closer (Hippodrome State Theatre), Apple Cove (Todd Mountain Theatre Project). New York: Apple Cove (Lark Theatre), premiere of Neal Bell’s Time/ Unstuck (E.S.T.), One Hit Wonder (NY Fringe Festival) Film/TV: Ed and Going Under. M.F.A.: A.R.T.
(Scenic Designer) is very excited to be working with the Women’s Project in the capacity of scenic designer for the first time. Jenny has been working as a scenic designer and associate scenic designer in New York City for the past 4 years. She is the associate scenic designer to Santo Loquasto on 3 Broadway shows opening this spring Inherit the Wind, Prelude to a Kiss and 110 in the Shade.
(Costume Designer) designs scenery and costumes for opera, theater, dance and film. Recent credits include Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center).Ah Wilderness!! (Baltimore Centerstage), Madras House (Mint Theater), Romania.Kiss Me! (The Play Company), The Onion Cellar (American Repertory Theater), Aunt Dan and Lemon (Merrimack Repertory Theater), Resist/Surrender (Risa Jaroslow and Dancers,) Angels in America ( sets & costumes/Opera Boston), Susan and God (Mint Theater), Trial By Water (sets & costumes/Ma-Yi Theater), Little Willy (sets and costumes/Rude Mechanicals). Other credits : And God Created Great Whales (Foundry Theater / Culture Project), References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Public Theater). Regional : American Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Georgetown Davis Center for the Performing Arts, Opera Boston, Opera Theater of St. Louis, East West Players, Merrimack Repertory, Speakeasy Stage & others. International: DeNederlandse Opera(Amsterdam), Noorland Oper(Stockholm), Stuttgarter Ballet, Kannon Dance (St. Petersburg) Barbican (London) Teatro Pilipino (Manila) and others. Upcoming : transFigures (Women’s Project), The House of Bernarda Alba (NAATCO), The Return of the Prodigal (Mint Theater). Awards: NYTW Design Fellowship, 2 IRNE Nominations, 1 Audelco Nomination, Gary Kalkin Memorial Award and Live Design Magazine’s 2007 List of Designer’s to Watch.
(Lighting Designer) Designs: Off-Broadway: Ahraihsak, Top Gun! The Musical, Black Codes from the Underground & The Hologram Theory. Regional: Raven Odyssey, Dhammashok, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Odyssey, Two Sisters & a Piano, Delicate Balance, Victor/Victoria, Footloose, Evita & Sound of Music. National/International Tours: Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Grand Night for Singing, Les Cenci & the educational program “Bangkok Artist Intensive” in Thailand. Producers: Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre, Lincoln Center, Mark Taper, Alliance, NYMF, Russian National Ballet, Edinburgh Festival, Theatre La Lune (France). In addition to producing & designing; Ryan’s Photography can also be seen around the country including his 14 years of Theater Production Shots and his current project entitled PISTIL a study of Flowers from around the World.
(Sound Designer) Mark has designed for such companies as 2nd Stage Theatre, Stillpoint Productions, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Thursday Problem, Impact Theatre, Theatre B, The Lincoln Center Theatre, The Atlantic Theatre, The Depot Theatre, Classic Stage Company, The Pearl Theatre Company, The New York Theatre Workshop, Alternate Plan Productions, The Civil Company, IMUA! Theatre, VoiceChair Productions, Wash & Fold Productions, Shakespeare & Company, The Wooster Group, Diamondpoint Theatre, Clubbed Thumb Inc., The Roundabout Theatre, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Monster(less) Actors Inc. He won an Outstanding Sound Design award at the 2005 FringeNYC Festival for Go-Go Kitty, GO!, and was a Drama Desk nominee in 2002 for Cressida Among the Greeks. He is an Associate Member of the SITI Co., a graduate of Grinnell College, and the founder of Doggtown Productions.
(Casting Director) Alaine Alldaffer is the casting director for Playwrights Horizons and for “The Knights of Prosperity” (ABC). Credits include “ED” (NBC),”Monk” (USA), “A Raisin in the Sun” ( Broadway) and “Heights” a feature film for Merchant Ivory. She has cast projects for Soho Rep in NYC, The Caldwell Theater in Florida and The Long Wharf Theater in Connecticut. She works along side Associate Lisa Donadio.
(Line Producer) Most recently, Allison was the Guest Director for the 7th Annual Martha’s Vineyard Independent Film Festival. Producing Credits: Mando Alvarado’s THROAT at the 45th Street Theater in NYC, Meade Theater Lab in D.C., Cine el Rey in McAllen, Texas and The Southern Theater in Minneapolis (Executive Producer), Eve Ensler’s THE GOOD BODY for the National Tour/Broadway (Associate Producer), VALIANT at the NY Fringe Festival (Co-Producer) and BONE PORTRAITS directed by Lear DeBessonet. Allison was privileged to be the Associate Artistic Director for V-Day: A Global Movement to End Violence Against Women and Girls founded by Eve Ensler. Allison is a proud member of the Producers Lab at Women’s Project and a graduate of Skidmore College.
(Assistant Director) was born in Toronto, CA, grew up in Shaker Heights, OH, and currently resides in the East Village. She is a performer, director, and all around theater lover. Sari is a graduate of Skidmore College and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Center in Waterford, CT. She has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company during their summer intensive training program and also attended the Williamstown Theater Festival in the summer of 2002. As an actor, Sari has performed in numerous productions at Skidmore College and in New York City. She was a member of the Bat Theater Company at the Flea Theater and has also appeared at the American place Theater and the New Perspectives Theater, among others. As a director, Sari has directed several shows at Skidmore College, including the US and collegiate premier of The Other Shoe by Gao Xingjian. Additionally, she directed pieces by Maria Irene Fornes and produced, conceived and performed in her original work, Suspended Animation. In 2005, Sari was the resident assistant director for the Chautauqua Theater Company in Chautauqua, NY where she had the pleasure of working with Ethan McSweeney, Vivienne Benesch, and Mark Nelson, among others. Recently she assisted Michael Ray Escamilla on the New York premiere of Throat at the 45th St Theater. In New York, she has also worked at PS 122, The Ohio Theater, and New York Theater Workshop. Sari believes in the multi-faceted theater artist and that performance and production should be a collaborative experience.
(Stage Manager) – Recent credits include the Broadway production of Souvenir and Timothy Busfield’s staged reading of Vigil by Morris Panych. He continues to tour nationally with the New York based Silver Brown Dance Company. In New York he has worked for the Symphony Space (A Tribute to Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach), the York theatre (Souvenir), the Pantheon Theatre (’01-02), Bowery Poetry Club (Door Wide Open/Rip Torn), Alvin Ailey (Silver Brown), and the University Settlement (House PSM ’03-’04) among others. A native Californian who came to New York by way of the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Mr. Finch is pleased to be back at The Women’s Project and would like to thank his family, Tim B. and Jack Gianino.
(Playwright) Trista Baldwin is the recipient of two Jerome Fellowships (04-05 and 05-06)and a 2006-2007 McKnight Advancement Grant. Her work has been produced and developed around the country by groups including The Lark, New Georges, HERE, Urban Stages, The Guthrie, Circle X, The Production Company, ESP, The Red Eye, Bloomington Playwrights’ Project, Overlap Production, The Empty Space Theatre, National New Play Network and HB Playwrights’ Foundation. Recent projects include DOE at the Tokyo International Festival in Japan, FALLING UP at Perishable Theatre Company and PATTY RED PANTS at Seattle’s Live Girls!. Her work is published through Playscripts and Heinnemann. Trista is a co-producing diector of the Workhaus Collective, an Associated Artist of New Georges and a Core Member of The Playwrights’ Center. She currently makes her home in Minneapolis where she is a professor of playwriting at St. Cloud State University
(Justin) Off-Broadway: A Feminine Ending (Playwrights Horizons); As You Like It (NYSF/The Public). Regional: Lulu, The Cherry Orchard (Yale Rep); Once in a Lifetime, The King Stag (Williamstown). Training: Yale School of Drama.
(Keisha) Angela Lewis is a native of Detroit, and earned her BFA in acting at the University of Michigan. Among her favorite credits are commercials for McDonalds, Verizon DSL; films Frijolito Go!, Black Sorority Project; choreographing Killa Dilla directed by Andre DeShields , Classical Theater of Harlem’s Caligula (’05 AUDELCO Award Nomination, Best Choreographer); Original cast of Ben Snyder’s History of the Word, Cherry Lane Theatre’s 2006 Mentor Project workshop production of Katori Hall’s Hoodoo Love (’06 AUDELCO Award Nomination, Best Leading Actress), and the 2007 remount of Hoodoo Love for Cherry Lane’s mainstage. Angela recently joined the LAByrinth Theatre Company and thanks all the powers that be for the opportunity.
(Armando/Ahmed) OFF-BROADWAY: Terrence McNally’s “Some Men”, dir. Trip Cullman (Second Stage), Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Cartells” (Drama Dept.), “Macbeth”, dir. Moises Kaufman (NYSF/The Public), “Based on a Totally True Story” and Nilo Cruz’s “Beauty of the Father”, dir. Michael Greif (MTC). REGIONAL: “Hamlet”, “Lorenzaccio”, and “Ghosts” with Jane Alexander, dir. Ed Sherin (The Shakespeare Theatre Co.), “Anna In the Tropics” (Portland Center Stage), “Lobby Hero” and “Gizmo Love” (W.H.A.T.) “Orphans” (International City Theater ) for which he recieved the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and Garland for lead performance. FILM: “I Am That Girl” (upcoming), “Hermanas”, “Burning Bridges”, “Window Shopping”. TV: “Law and Order: CI”, HBO”s “Earth vs. The Spider”, “NYPD Blue”, “Touched By an Angel”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, USA Network’s “G vs E”. AEA member since 2001.
(Set Design) Anita is originally from Freiburg, Germany. She recently designed AMERICAN BUFFALO at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre and the Off-Broadway production of BILL W. AND DR. BOB, New World Stages, NYC. She has designed at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Lowell, MA, Clarence Brown Theatre, Knoxville, TN, Virginia Stage Company, 2006 Summer Play Festival New York City; Opera Boston, Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston, American Repertory Theatre Institute; National Players, Olney, MD and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Boston, MA. Some American directors she has worked with include Melia Bensussen, John Sipes, Marcus Stern, Mark Wilkinson, Charlie Hensley, Evan Bergman, Rick Lombardo, Derek Scott and James Petosa. Internationally she worked on the III. International Christmas Circus Festival, Freiburg, Germany; Kormoran (Premiere) Freie Kammerspiele, Cologne, Germany; Four Elements – Elements of Nature (Photographic Exhibition), Wallstreet Institute, Freiburg, Germany. She holds an MFA in Scenic Design, Boston University and an apprentice diploma as designer of digital and print media, Atelier für Medienprojekte (Media Art & installation Studio) -Egbert Mittelstädt, Cologne, Germany.
(Costume Design) Women’s Project : Transfigures. Current credits include sets and/or costumes for Equus / Blonde Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead ( Asolo Repertory Theater), Edward the Second ( Red Bull Theater),The Tempest( The Acting Company),Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Donnie Darko, Onion Cellar (American Repertory Theater), As You Like It ( Folger Shakespeare)Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center), Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey), The Tempest (Acting Company), Ah, Wilderness!! (Centerstage Baltimore), Angels in America (Opera Boston). Una Cosa Rara (Opera Theatre of St. Louis) and others. New York: Public Theater, Vineyard Theater, The Play Company, Ma-Yi Theater, Mint Theater, Red Bull Theater, Play Company, Women’s Project, PS 122, Foundry Theater, The Culture Project, NAATCO, Juilliard and others. International: De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam), Stuttgarter Ballet (Stuttgart), Rijksteatern & Folkoperan (Stockholm), Teatro Pilipino (Manila), Barbican (London), Kanon Dance (St. Petersburg). Awards and Noms: IRNE, Audelco, Elliot Norton, Gary Kalkin Memorial Award, NYTW Design Fellowship, Live Design Magazine’s list of Designers to Watch for 2007and recently, the American Theater Wing’s Henry Hewes Design Award.
(Sound Design) Off- Broadway: The Atlantic Theater (Scarcity, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow), Cherry Lane Theater (Hoodoo Love), Keen Company (Theophilus North, Tea and Sympathy, The Dining Room, The Maddening Truth), MTC (The Four of Us), The New Group (Everythings Turning Into Beautiful, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Things We Want), SecondStage (The Mystery Plays), Rattlestick Theater (Acts of Mercy, Stay), Women’s Project (The Cataract, Victoria Martin). Regional: Actors Theater of Phoenix, Alley Theater, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Dorset Theater Festival, Geva Theater Center, Huntington Theater, Long Wharf , Portland Center Stage, San Jose Rep, The Shakespeare Theater, Studio Theater, TheaterWorks Hartford , Westport Country Playhouse, Weston Playhouse, and Yale Rep.
