(Original Music) The Broken Chord Collective is a collaborative partnership of musicians that compose, produce, and design music for theater, film. For this production, The Broken Chord Collective is Aaron Meicht (Composition), and Daniel Baker (Production).
(Fight Director) N.Y. Theater: Almost an Evening, (NY premiere) Ethan Coen one acts, Atlantic Theater, Neil Pepe dir.; Spring Awakening, Atlantic Theater and Broadway, Michael Mayer dir.; Come Back, Little Sheba, (MTC revival) Biltmore Theater, Michael Pressman, dir.; Blackbird, (NY premiere) Manhattan Theater Club, Joe Mantalo dir.; Our Leading Lady, (NY premiere) Manhattan Theater Club, Lynne Meadow dir.; The American Pilot, (NY premiere) Manhattan Theater Club, Lynne Meadow dir.; The Lieutenant of Inishmore, (NY Premiere) Atlantic Theater and Broadway, Wilson Milam dir; Sore Throats, Theater for a New Audience, Evan Yionoulis dir; Bug, (NY premiere) Barrow St. Theatre, Dexter Bullard dir.; Women of Lockerbie, St. Clement’s Church, Scott Elliot dir.; Killer Joe, 29th St. Playhouse (NY premiere) & Soho Playhouse, Wilson Milam dir.; Blood Wedding, Joseph Papp’s Public Theater, Melia Bensussen dir.; Richard II, NYSF, Stephen Burkoff dir.; Revenger’s Tragedy, Culture Project, Jesse Berger dir.; Eat The Taste, Barrow St. Theatre, John Clancy dir.; Bare, ATA, Kristin Hanggi, dir.; Hiding Behind Comets, 29th St. Rep, David Mogentale dir. Touring/Regional: Jekyll & Hyde, National Tour, David Warren dir.; The Taming of the Shrew, Dallas Theater Center, Richard Hamburger dir.; Othello, Hartford Stage, Karin Coonrod dir.; Camelot, Shubert Theater, Boston, Gabriel Barre dir.; Pacific Overtures, North Shore Music Theatre, Kent Gash dir.; Speed the Plow, Center Stage, Daniel Fish dir.; Indian wants the Bronx, Edinburgh Festival, Bill Balzac dir.. A Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors, David is also the creator and current instructor of the Stage Combat Program at Tisch School of the Arts, and has taught at Yale Schools of Music and Drama, The Stella Adler Conservatory, The Lee Strasberg Institute, Atlantic Theater, and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (Guest Instructor). He has also had the pleasure of working with Stella Adler, Franco Zeffirelli, Joe Chaikin, JoAnne Akalaitis, and Joseph Papp. “…walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” G. Fox
(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.
(Director) Liz is a Resident Director of Yale Repertory Theatre, and serves as Chair of the Directing Department at the Yale School of Drama, where she has taught since 1992. At Yale Rep, her productions have included Marcus Gardley’s Dance of the Holy Ghosts, Richard Nelson’s translation of Strindberg’s Miss Julie; Sunil Kuruvilla’s Fighting Words and Rice Boy; Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy; Paul Schmidt’s translations of Moliere’s School for Wives, and Brecht’s St. Joan of the Stockyards; Suzan-Lori Parks’ The America Play; and Parks’ The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World. A longtime collaborator of Parks, Liz also directed the world premieres of Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third at BACA Downtown, Betting on the Dust Commander at the Working Theater, and The America Play at the Public Theater in New York. National credits include Lisa Loomer’s Distracted, Octavio Solis’ Gibraltar and Kenneth Cavander’s new translation of Euripides’ The Trojan Women at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Racine’s Phedre at the American Repertory Theatre; and Of Mice and Men at Arena Stage. Liz is a winner of the OBIE Award and Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Direction, and has won fellowships and grants for her work from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council and the SDC Foundations. She currently serves as Artistic Advisor to the Women’s Project.
(Maribel) New York credits include: The Piano Teacher (Vineyard Theatre), The Thugs (Soho Rep), columbinus (NYTW;Drama League Nomination for Ensemble), The House of Bernarda Alba (NAATCO), Misterioso 119 (Act French/Lark), Romeo and Juliet (RTW), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, HamletMachine, Ahraishak (Theater Mitu) London: Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Vagina Monologues. Regional: Hartford Stage, Berkshire Theater Festival, McCarter, RMT, Mark Taper Forum, NCT. TV and FILM: Cold Case (CBS), Six Degrees (ABC), 2007ABC Diversity Showcase; and the upcoming films, Tiny Dancer (Dir. Eva Husson), The Trouble with Cali (Dir. Paul Sorvino),Two Lovers (James Gray) and Burn After Reading (Dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen) Training: BFA NYU Tisch; ETW Amsterdam; The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.
(Laney) Broadway: Coram Boy, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Off-Bway: The Devil’s Disciple (Irish Rep),Other NYC Theater: History of Tears, TV/FILM: The Sopranos (recurring role), 3 LBS, various commercials.
(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.
