(Elise) Betsy Aidem received the 2007 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. Most recently seen in Tender with 13th Night dir. Kevin O’Rourke; Mary Rose at the Vineyard Theater, dir. Tina Landau; Celebration and The Room and Sea of Tranquility at The Atlantic, dir. Neil Pepe; Stone Cold Dead Serious with Edge at Chashama, dir. Carolyn Cantor; Good Thing at The New Group, dir. Jo Bonney; The Butterfly Collection at Playwrights Horizons, dir. Bartlett Sher; The Triple Happiness at Second Stage, dir. John Michael Garces; Luminescence Dating at E.S.T., dir. Will Pomerantz; Sweet Bird of Youth at Williamstown, dir. David Jones;and The Sugar Syndrome at Williamstown, dir. Maria Mileaf. Selected TV and Film credits: Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order: Trial by Jury, The Jury, The West Wing, Sex and the City (Margaret), You Can Count on Me (dir. Kenneth Lonergan), Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants II, Sanaa Lathan, and Winter Passing (dir. Adam Rapp).
(Set Design) Recent designs include sets for The Boy Jumped Into the Sea (Yale School of Drama); costumes for Antony & Cleopatra, Tamburlaine and Richard III (The Shakespeare Theatre, dir. Michael Kahn); Dance of the Holy Ghosts (Yale Repertory Theatre, dir. Liz Diamond); Henry IV (Milwaukee Shakespeare). Jennifer is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
(Costume Design) Recent New York productions include: Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall,) Almost An Evening and Scarcity (Atlantic Theater,) The Piano Teacher (Vineyard Theater,) Emma (New York Musical Festival,) The American Pilot (MTC,) Hot n’ Throbbin’ (Signature Theater), Controversy at Vallalodid and Fucking A (Public Theater), Savannah Bay (MCC), God of Hell, Wit, Swimming with Watermelons, Unwrap Your Candy, Tabletop, Hard Times and Princess Wishes, Disney on Ice. Also, as Associate Costume Designer for Spamalot, The Crucible, Art and the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. Regional: Williamstown Theater Festival including The Autumn Garden, Sweet Bird of Youth, Top Girls and On the Razzle. Europe: Norwegian National Ballet and Saturday Night Fever in Holland. Ilona is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama and recent addition to its faculty.
(Lighting Design) S. Ryan Schmidt is a New York based lighting designer. She has been working professionally in and around the city since 1997. Her New York City credits include The Mystery Plays (Second Stage, Mcginn/Cazale), Port Authority Throwdown (The Working Theater), Critical Darling (The New Group), The Job (WPA), The Abudction Project (HERE), Suzuki (GermanTheater Abroad), and Chamber Dance Company. Regional Credits include Iron Kisses (The Geva Theater), Love for Three Oranges (The Playgrouond Theater), King Lear (Yale Reperatory Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Rivals (Hudson Valleyy Shakespear). Most recently she designed the world premier of The Glass Heart for the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2004 she was awarded teh Connecticut Critics Circle Award for her work on The Mystery Plays at the Yale Reperatory Theater. She has an M.F.A in lighting design from Yale School of Drama, and a B.F.A in theater from New York University.
(Original Music & Sound Designer) Women’s Project: Wapato. New York credits include: Merchant of Venice (with F. Murray Abraham at TFANA), Constant Couple and The Mandrake (The Pearl), Return of the Prodigal (The Mint), Blind Mouth Singing (NAATCO); Killing the Boss (written by Catherine Filloux), Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare on the Sound), and Dracula (with Lorenzo Lamas at Premiere Stages). Regional: Capital Rep, Merrimack Rep, Yale Rep. Dance collaborations include: Big Dance Theater, Susan Marshall, Terry Creach. Current projects include Antony and Cleopatra (TFANA), Liberty City (NYTW), Open House (The Foundry Theater) and The Fifth Column by Hemingway at the Mint. Graduate: Yale School of Drama. Recipient: NEA/TCG Career Development Program, Meet the Composer.
(Casting Director) Alaine Alldaffer is the Casting Director for Playwrights Horizons and The Huntington Theater in Boston. Currently in production at PWH is Deadman’s Cellphone with Mary Louise Parker. Theater credits include Grey Gardens (PWH) and Broadway, Walmartopia the musical, The Knights of Prosperity (ABC), ED (NBC). Currently in the works is She Loves Me for the Huntington and The Williamstown Theater Festival. She credits Lisa Donadio, her Associate and right arm.
(Marco, the Market Tamer) David is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, has a second-degree black belt in Taekwondo and is the frontman for the Texas-Goth rock band MonsterRally. His first job after college was touring the New England coast carnival circuit in a song and dance troupe called Music Dance USA where Dave was known as “Young Elvis of the Midway.” His theater credits include: Night Over Taos (Intar), Aunt Dan & Lemon (New Group); Knives & Other Sharp Objects (LAByrinth); September Shoes (Geva); Richard Scheckner’s Hamlet; Stand-up Tragedy (Joseph Jefferson Award – Apple Tree Theater); Peter Sellars’ Merchant of Venice (International Tour). Film credits include: On The Moon; Capers; Prime; Planet Brooklyn; Man of the Century; Indocumentados.
(Playwright) Her plays include The Bridegroom of Blowing Rock, Crooked, How the World Began, Hot Georgia Sunday and The Most Deserving. Her work has been produced Off-Broadway at Women’s Project Theater, the Bush Theatre (London), Out of Joint at the Arcola Theatre (London), South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Denver Theater Center, and Florida Stage, among others. She has received commissions from South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, and the Denver Theatre Center. She is the recipient of the Weissberger Award, the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award from the Inge Theatre Festival, and the Edgerton New Play Award. Her work is published by Samuel French in the U.S. and Methuen in the U.K. She also wrote the screenplay for the film Angel’s Crest, released by Magnolia Pictures. Originally from Athens, Georgia, she now lives in a small town in western Kansas.
(Director) Upcoming: the world premiere of Catherine Trieschmann’s The Most Deserving (Denver Center Theatre Company), Fox on the Fairway (Penobscot Theatre). Recent credits include This is Fiction by Megan Hart, starring Richard Masur at Cherry Lane (InViolet Rep), The Borrowers, (South Coast Repertory), No Way to Treat a Lady (The Colony Theater), world premieres of Christina Gorman’s Sacred Ground (Stella Adler), Ruth McKee’s The Nightshade Family (SPF), John Glore’s adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time (South Coast Repertory) and Eric Coble’s Straight On ‘Til Morning (Great Lakes Theater Festival). Shelley spent two seasons as artistic associate in charge of new play development for Hartford Stage and three seasons as artistic associate for Great Lakes Theater Festival and is the current Features Editor for the SDC Journal. She is the recipient of Drama League Directing Fellowship, a 2005 Director’s Guild of America Trainee, a member of SDC, the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and is a WP Lab alum.
(Jolene Atkinson) Recently appeared in The Old Friends at Signature and “Two Broke Girls,” “Smash,” “Louie,” and “Pan Am.” Broadway: A Free Man of Color, La Cage au Folles, Caroline, or Change, The Dinner Party, Company (Tony and Drama Desk Award Nominations), Smile. Off-Broadway: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence Damn Yankees (Encores!); Blind (Rattlestick); Paradise Park (Signature, Lucille Lortel Nomination); Spain(Lucille Lortel Nomination); Last Easter (Drama Desk Nomination); The Wooden Breeks (MCC); House and Garden, Labor Day (MTC); The Altruists, The Batting Cage, The Waiting Room, Flora, the Red Menace (Vineyard); Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons); A Question of Mercy (NYTW). Regional:The Beaux’ Stratagem (Helen Hayes Nomination); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, The Way of the World (Shakespeare Theatre Co.); Private Lives (Guthrie).
(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).
