(Edie Kelch) Women’s Project Theater: Bethany, Irish Repertory Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life, Ernest in Love, The Master Builder; The Mint Theater: Mary Broome, The Charity That Began at Home, Mr. Pim Passes By, The Truth About Blades. Broadway: A Texas Trilogy: The Oldest Living Graduate; LuAnne Laverty Oberlander. Off Broadway: Lucy Thurber’s Bottom of the World and Marriage, Jody’s Mother, (The Atlantic Theater); Stretch: A Fantasia (Ohio Theater, The Living Theater); The Countess (Greenwich Street Theater, The Beckett, The Lambs); The Holy Terror, written and directed by Simon Gray (Promenade Theater) and many Marathons at Ensemble Studio Theater, where she is a member. Regional: The Wild Duck (Bard Summerscape); Snow Falling on Cedars, An Enemy of the People, Three by Thornton Wilder (Baltimore Center Stage); Widower’s Houses, Great Catherine, Thark (The Shaw Festival, Ontario). Film: Woody Allen’s Interiors, Merchant/Ivory’s The Europeans, Steven Soderbergh’s King of the Hill, Rose Hill, with Jennifer Garner, The Long Way Home, with Jack Lemmon, and upcoming films Drawing Home, Cold in July, and I Smile Back. TV: Guest Star on “Blue Bloods,” “New Amsterdam,” “Third Watch,” and all franchises of “Law & Order.”
(Dwayne Dean) Broadway: Devil’s Disciple; Our Country Good; Summer and Smoke; Footloose; Mamma Mia; Guys and Dolls; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Off-Broadway: Old Friends (Signature Theatre); Him (Primary Stages); How the World Began (Women’s Project Theater); Doctor Dilemma, Cyrano, the Marriage of Bette and Boo, (Roundabout); Goose and Tomtom and Henry V (NYSF). Regional: Alley, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Huntington Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Capital Rep, La Jolla, Westport, Wiliamstown, Yale Rep– new plays and classics. Film: Featured in over 75 films, among them The Return of the Secaucus 7, Only You, The Ref, Fool’s Gold, She’s Out of My League, The Lucky One. TV: “Recount”, “Empire Falls”, HBO; “Storm of the Century”, ABC mini-series; “No Ordinary Baby”, Lifetime, and guest-starring roles in numerous episodics. Writer: Everything All At Once, Wesleyan University Press; Ghost Light, Finishing Line Press; A Swindler’s Grace, forthcoming in 2015 from New Issues Press.
(Liz Chang) Broadway: Chinglish (Theater World Award & Drama Desk Nom). NY: Cry, Trojans! (The Wooster Group), Golden Child (Signature), Vengeance Can Wait (P.S.122), Young Jean Lee’s Songs of The Dragons (HERE Arts, U.S./European tour), Yokastas Redux (La MaMa E.T.C.). Regional: Chinglish (Goodman Theater – Jeff & Chicago Theater Critics’ Beat Nom). Int’l: This Isn’t Romance (Soho Theatre, London), The Medea (Turkey), Hamlet (Shanghai Experimental Theatre Festival & Grotowski Int’l Theatre Festival, Wroclaw). Film/TV: The Savages, 27 Dresses, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, Elementary, Blue Bloods, Law & Order (all three), Royal Pains. Member of GF&Co. MFA from YSD. jenniferlimonline.com
(Ted Atkinson) Broadway: Machinal (Roundabout), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: Bill W and Dr Bob (Soho Playhouse), Falling (Minetta Lane), Passion Play (Epic), King Lear, Measure for Measure, Henry V, Henry VI (NYSF/Public), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Irish Repertory), A Mother, a Daughter, and a Gun (New World Stages), Love’s Fire (Public), Romeo and Juliet (New Victory). London: Love’s Fire (Barbican). Regional: La Jolla, Long Wharf, McCarter, Guthrie, Chautauqua, Geva, ATL, Shakespeare Theater DC among others. Film/TV: Salt, An Invisible Sign, Clowns, Godzilla, “Law and Order: All Flavors,” “Chapelle’s Show,” “Queens Supreme.” MFA from NYU.
(Everett Whiteside) is a member of the Atlantic Theatre Company, where he has appeared in Human Error, Distant Fires, and The Lights. He was last seen on Broadway in Raceby David Mamet, and he was in the original production of Water by the Spoonful, (2012 Pulitzer for Drama.) Favorite credits include: August Wilson Century Cycle for NPR (Fences and Jitney), Topdog/ Underdog, The Exonerated, and Volunteer Man (for which he received an OBIE for Performance.) Recent films include: Trouble with the Curve, Shutter Island, Pariah, and Sleepwalk with Me. And his TV credits include “Law and Order” (6 episodes), “The Sopranos,” “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” and “Oz”.
(Set Design) NY credits include The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature), The Vandal (The Flea), Women Beware Women (Red Bull), TOKIO Confidential (Atlantic Stage 2), A Simple Heart (CSC) and set and/or costumes for HERE, The Ohio, Rattlestick, Actors’ Studio, Chashama, Gabrielle Lansner Dance and others. Regional includes The Denver Center, Baltimore Centerstage, Hartford Stage, ART, Pittsburgh Public, Two River, Dorset Festival, Barrington Stage, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Idaho Shakespeare, Great Lakes Theater, others. Television includes art direction for “E! Network News”, “The TODAY Show” and “Football Night in America” and production design for Tyra Banks’ MTV pilot “Fashion Mega Warrior”. Film includes production design for It’s All Relative, Hearts and Minds, Double Header. Awards include Drama Desk, Henry Hewes Award, Innovative Theatre Award, Denver Ovation Awards, Westword’s “Best of Denver”, Connecticut Critics Circle Award and inclusion in the Prague Quadrennial (1999). David is resident designer and an ensemble member of Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant and currently serves as E! Network’s NY Art Director.
(Lighting Design) NY theatre credits include: Sand (Women’s Project); The Asphalt Kiss (59E59, Drama Desk nomination); Broadway production of Prune Danish starring Jackie Mason (Royale Theatre); Four (MTC, Lucille Lortel nomination); One Ride (Queens Theatre in the Park); Now Circa Then, Core Values and 2 Girls For 5 Bucks (Ars Nova); The Irish Curse (Soho Playhouse); Based On A Totally True Story (MTC). Regional credits include: Hartford Stage, Virginia Stage Co., Two River Theatre Co., Asolo Repertory, Maltz Jupiter, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Capital Repertory, City Theatre. Traci is the owner of the design firm Luce Group that specializes in museum, architectural, exhibit and event lighting design. Current Luce project includes: Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
(Leah) Broadway: Stick Fly, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Roundabout Theatre), Accent on Youth (MTC). Off-Broadway: Saturn Returns (Lincoln Center), Temporal Powers, Wife to James Whelan (Mint Theatre), Howard Katz (Roundabout Theatre). Regional: One Slight Hitch (George Street Playhouse), A Time to Kill (Arena Stage) Stick Fly (Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre), Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage), The Night Season, Dissonance (Bay Street Theatre), Betrayal (Hangar Theatre) Film: Return, Bridge to Bourne, Angels in Stardust, Flood. TV: “Vegas”, “Law & Order, SVU”. M.F.A. from NYU.
(Tom) Broadway: Metamorphoses. NY credits include Tamar of the River (Prospect Theater), Melancholy Play (13P), February House (Public Theatre), The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (Second Stage), But I’m a Cheerleader (NYMF), Powerhouse (NY Fringe Festival). Regional: Hamlet (Yale Rep), Candide (Goodman, Shakespeare and Huntington Theatre), Ethan Frome (Lookingglass), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Hartford Stage) Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Intiman), The Glass Menagerie, The Pillowman (Berkeley Rep), as well as work with Long Wharf, The O’Neill, Cincinnati Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Cal Shakes,Two River Theatre, McCarter, Seattle Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Chicago Shakespeare and Williamstown among others. TV/Film: All My Children, Third Watch, Law&Order.
(Cal) Select stage: Coney (Blue Coyote); Jonathan’s Blaze ( Summer Shorts 4), The Jazz Age (World Premiere – Ernest Hemingway) @ 59East59 ; Serendib (EST) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (R.P. McMurphy), Sometimes A Great Notion (Hank Stamper) @ Portland CenterStage; Rounding 3rd, Orphans @ Penguin Rep; : Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick) –The Folger; Spike Heels (Syracuse Stage) ; Angels In America (Joe Pitt) –The Hangar and Reentry (which was performed at urban stages, Baltimore centerstage, and in front of thousands of our military at bases like Quantico and Paris Island.) TV-Person of Interest, Unbreakable, Gravity, Law & Order, Royal Pains, Guys in a Hot Tub Talking –Webseries (co-creator) Film- Cured (currently filming), Premium Rush ,Whaling City (2013), Paul Sorvino’s Looking for Cali, Allan Knee’s Film Noir, Betrayed, A Jersey Christmas, The Standard Man, Company K, and The Reunion (1st Run & Avignon Film Fesitval winner) . http://www.hyreviews.com/pjsosko.htm
(Svetlana, the Sultress of Spin) New York theatre includes performances at The Public, Women’s Project, the Ontological Theater, The Chocolate Factory, HERE, chashama, Theater for the New City, GAle GAtes et al., BAX and Aisling Arts. Film: Matt Lambert’s Rockville. Regional: Hangar Theater. She co-wrote the 80’s teen dramady Wuthering High. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and trains with The SITI Company.
(Simon, the Scourge of Stagflation) is an Associate Artist with Active EyE theater and has appeared in its productions of Hard Lovin’ Ever After (Sam Nash), Woyzeck (the Doctor) and Senjo (Ryu), and wrote the adaptation of Dojoji, which premiered at the Cleveland Public Theater in 2004. He is also a founding member of Split Knuckle Theatre, and helped create and perform their production of John Steinbeck’s The Pearl at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006 (“five stars,” The Scotsman) and Bucharest Festival of International Theater 2007. In New York, credits include The Voyage of the Carcass (Stage 13), Misogamy (HERE), Life is a Dream (Edge Theater Co.), and the Noh drama Izutsu (HERE/Lincoln Center Directors Lab). His regional work includes The School for Scandal and The Odyssey at the McCarter Theatre, Arabian Nights at Connecticut Rep, and Proof, Stones in His Pockets and Rough Crossing, all at Northern Stage. He has taught Dramatic Techniques as part of the US Performing Arts Camps. Andrew is a graduate of Yale University and of the London International School of Performing Arts.
(Text Writer and Talker Tipper McGee) most recently played all the male roles in the World Premier of Melanie Marnich’s new play A Sleeping Country at The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. As a member of Tectonic Theatre Project, Andy co-created and performed in both the stage play and HBO movie of The Laramie Project (2002 Emmy nomination for Best Writing for a Movie or Miniseries), directed by Moises Kaufman. Andy also worked with TTP and Mr. Kaufman on the development of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and performed in the original cast. Regionally, he has been seen at such prestigious houses as Playmaker’s Rep, Hartford Stage, Theatre Virginia, Berkeley Rep, The Rep Theatre of St. Louis and La Jolla Playhouse. His favorite roles include Berowne in Love’s Labours Lost, Pisanio in Cymbeline, Hal in Proof, Jason Posner in Wit (directed by Josaphine Abady), Burt in The Quiet Room (directed by Lucie Tiberghien), Grez in Red Noses (directed by Melissa Kievman) and Mercy/Titivillus in Nancy Magarill and Julie Crosby’s Mankynde (directed by Louis Scheeder). Andy has narrated numerous audio books for Recorded Books Productions (AUDIE Award Winner 2005 and 2007). As a director, Andy is currently working on Goldstar, Ohio, a play by Michael Tisdale, which will have its World Premier in October (www.goldstarohio.com). Also as a writer/director, his play, The Fanmaker’s Inquisition, based on the novel by Rikki Ducornet, which he co-wrote with his lovely wife Anushka Carter, has been seen in Six Figures Theatre Company’s Artists of Tomorrow Festival as well as NYU’s hotInk Festival. Andy has been invited to take part in The Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2008.
(The Marvelous Herman Wilkins, Scaler of Heights) recently moved to New York after working as a clown in Shanghai (KimTom Clown Festival). Since then his NYC Theatre credits include performances at BAX, The Pearl Theatre Company and The Bruce High Quality Foundation. He has studied improvisational comedy extensively in Chicago (IO Training Center, formerly ImprovOlympic). He holds a BFA from Bard College.
(Ultra Equilibrium Yvette) has an MA in Physical Theatre from Royal Holloway, University of London and the University of Surrey. She co-founded Viva La Vulva, a collaborative theatre company in Austin TX. Since coming to NYC, she has mainly performed as a puppeteer: Exploding Puppet Productions’ Die Hard: The Puppet Musical (New York Musical Theatre Festival); Drama of Works’ curiouser and curiouser (HERE) and Sleepy Hollow (International Festival of Children’s Theatres – Serbia, Abrons Art Center, HERE); Tami Stronach Dance’s Pinchas, the Fish People and the Great Flood (DNA, HERE, Galapagos, LaMama); Mabou Mines’ Red Beads (Skirball Center for Performing Arts).
(The Temps: Performer) Lisa is a performer, writer, and theater creator. She earned her B.A. from Bard College, and completed a professional apprenticeship with The Theater de la Jeune Lune, where she has continued to perform in over eight productions. In Minneapolis, Lisa worked with The Park Square Theater, Stages Theater Company, Ten Thousand Things Theater, The Children’s Theater Company, Red Eye Theater, MN Fringe Festival, The Mixed Blood Theater (The Clean House, honored with Outstanding Female Performance of 2007- Minneapolis Star Tribune). In 2005, she received the Rimon Society Norman Ackerberg Travel Study Grant for travel to Locarno, Switzerland to study physical comedy with Pierre Byland at the Burlesk Center. Twin City, City Pages named her a “Top Ten Performer of the Year” and “Artist of the Year- Playwright” for her original piece Jake-a-Dee Myer.
(The Temps: Performer) Prudence is very happy to be working with the Women’s Project again. She was seen in WP’s night of Suzan Lori Park’s 365 Days/365 Plays Fall 2007. Prudence was also most recently in Chekhov’s Chicks at the Manhattan Theater Source. Her film credits include: Neal Cassady, which is coming out this summer with IFC Films, and Say That You Love Me, which received the Silver Medal at the Park City Music Film Festival and was part of the official selection at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. Prudence may also be seen in M. Night Shyamalan’s American Express commercial. She is a graduate of the William Esper Studio and Skidmore College.
(The Temps: Performer) Megan is a graduate of Emerson College and a past member of The Bats, The Flea Theater’s resident acting company. She was last seen in newFangled TheatReR’s Harm’s Way, the Audience Choice Award winner at Frigid Festival 2007. Megan will continue filming the independent The Moment After this summer. Special thanks to Megan Carter for this opportunity.
(The Temps: Performer) Austin is thrilled to be making his NYC stage debut with Women’s Project! He is currently enrolled as a student at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre studying long form improvisation and holds a BA in speech and theatre from Middle Tennessee State University. Favorite past roles include Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Emcee in Cabaret, Pony in subUrbia, Johnny Appleseed in American Tall Tales, Byron in The Pillbox, and Dromio of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors. Austin would like to thank his friends and family for their constant support!
(The Temps: Performer) (Member AEA) earned his BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he studied fight choreography under David Leong and directing under the late Dr. Kenneth Campbell. As a professional actor, Jeff continues his studies in physical theatre and circus, including Suzuki, Viewpoints and acrobalance. He appeared last summer in the NY Fringe Festival’s As Far As We Know, and has performed in numerous shows in NY and in the regions; favorites include Henry IV, Part One (Porthouse Theatre, OH), A Lie of the Mind (Manhattan Theatre Source), Glass Menagerie (The Northeast Theatre, PA), and Summertree (Signal & Noise Productions, NH). He is a founding member of the circus/theatre group, Kirkos, and the commedia dell’arte troupe, Zuppa del Giorno, as well as a member in good standing of NYU’s acting troupe, First Look. Visit www.JeffWills.net.
(Director) is happy to return to the World Financial Center after directing Remembrance for last year’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$. She is the Artistic Director of NYC-based ACTIVE EYE (www.activeeye.org), a highly physical theatre company that focuses on East-West fusion performance. For ACTIVE EYE she directed Hard Lovin’ Ever After, Dojoji, Woyzeck, and Senjo. She recently directed the premiere of Evan Hause’s new opera Man: Biology of a Fall (Kumble Theatre). Other credits include Iphigenia at Aulis (City College),Your Nightgown is Jealous When You Dream (mugwumpin, SF & Denver), Venus (Cleveland Public Theatre), The Designated Mourner (Cleveland Public Theatre), Siegfried’s Nerve (Target Margin), Izutsu (Lincoln Center Directors Lab), and Kaspar (Blueprint Series, Ontological Theatre). In 2003, Jyana was a recipient of Theater Communications Groups’ Future Leaders grant. She has assisted Chen Shi-Zheng, David Herskovits, and Diane Paulus and worked for Richard Foreman. A graduate of Yale University, Jyana is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the Women’s Project Directors Lab. Her next project is a séance.
(Dramaturg, Associate Artistic Director) Prior to joining WP in September 2006, Megan worked as a dramaturg and educator in Seattle and New York, where her credits include Mac Wellman’s Harm’s Way, aTack and the AmerikAn trip, tik (newfangled theatReR); Burial at Thebes and Sincerity Forever (New Workshop Theatre). In 2005, Megan curated the Building Bridges New Play Festival, which included works by Stephanie Fleischmann, Sibyl Kempson, and Erin Courtney. She has also worked with ACT Theatre’s Young Playwrights Program, Intiman Theatre’s award-winning Living History program, and Brooklyn College. Megan is a founding member of newFangled theatReR and is a collaborator on Lynn M.Thomson’s work-in-progress, Parlor Song. She received her MFA in Dramaturgy from Brooklyn College.
(Scenic and Costume Design) Born in South Korea, Junghyun Georgia Lee started designing for theater in Canada. Now based in New York, she often collaborates with directors and choreographers in US and Korea. Her designs includes: Ariadne auf Naxos (Seongnam Art Center, Korea), Sunday,Again! (Cedar Lake premered in Oslo), Max and Ruby (Lucille Lortel), The Water’s Edge (Second Stage), The Misanthrope (Dallas Theater Center), The Attic (The Play Co.) Gem of the Ocean (Milwaukee Rep,IRT,Syracuse Stage and Geva), The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar, Candida (American Players Theater) The Price (Center Stage, Baltimore), O Lovely Glowworm (Portland Center Stage, 2005 Drammy Award, Best Costume). She also designed for productions at Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival, The Juilliard School and Humana Festival. She also designs for her Korean natural clothing label, Willow Tree. Ms Lee holds MFA in design from Yale School of Drama.
(Original Music and Sound Design) BROADWAY: As Long As We Both Shall Laugh, Back on Broadway. OFF-BROADWAY: This Is How It Goes, Fran’s Bed, Manic Flight Reaction, Modern Orthodox, A Soldier’s Play, Barbra’s Wedding, The Voysey Inheritance, Trip to Bountiful, Dirty Tricks, Guinea Pig Solo, Matt and Ben, The Butter and Egg Man and A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop, Primary Stages. REGIONAL: Crime and Punishment (Cincinnati Playhouse), Brendan (Huntington Theatre Company), Blithe Spirit (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Some Men (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Things of Dry Hours (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Dallas Theater Center, American Conservatory Theater, Arizona Theatre Company, The Acting Company, New York Stage and Film, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse. ORCHESTRATIONS: The Araboolies of Liberty Street (Imagination Stage). ORIGINAL MUSIC: Cinderella (published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide). Mr. Patton has been commissioned to compose Fox Spirit, a modern Kunju Opera.
(Production Stage Manager) is an Actors Equity Association Stage Manager. He is the Production Manager and Lighting Designer for the touring dance troupe, GALUMPHA. Howard is a founding member of newFangled theatreR. Most recently, Howard has also started to dabble in costume design. www.galumpha.com; www.myspace.com/newfangledtheatrer.
