(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.
(Stage Manager) Amanda is a proud member of Actors Equity. Recently she has stage managed Sisters’ Dance (Off-Broadway). Other credits include Stoker (Joe Jackson’s first musical), Pretty Chin Up (LAByrinth Theatre Company), Becoming Natasha (Isadora Productions), 365 Days/ 365 Plays (Womens’ Project). She is also the Resident Stage Manager of The Emerging Artist Theatre Company and Isadora Productions.
(Assistant Director) is a director, actor, and teacher. She recently directed Eli and Cheryl Jump for Crosstown Playwrights and Rachel at the Airmid Theatre. She has worked with the 52nd Street Project, The Lincoln Center Institute for Arts and Education, the Working Theatre, and the New York Historical Society. She was a guest artist at Stratham Elementary School in New Hampshire. Currently Nicole is a teaching artist at the McCarter Theatre. She has a BA in history from Yale and is completing her graduate degree at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.
(Assistant Costume Designer) is a recent transplant from Tennessee, trying to find a place in the busy New York costume scene. Her work was recently seen in the Heschel School’s A Night of Shakespeare, just down the street from The Women’s Project. When she’s not working hard for Georgia Lee, she works for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in Chelsea as a first hand and stitcher.
(Producing Artistic Director) joined WP in October 2005. Previously, she worked for over two decades as a manager of Broadway, off-Broadway, and international touring productions, including On Golden Pond starring James Earl Jones and Leslie Uggams, Eve Ensler’s The Good Body, Laurie Anderson’s Songs & Stories From Moby Dick, Black And Blue starring Ruth Brown and Linda Hopkins, and the legendary musical Carrie, among many others. Julie produced New Faces Of ‘04 at Carnegie Hall for Skitch Henderson and The New York Pops, the musical Mankynde at the 2004 NYC Fringe Festival, and the inaugural year of the The Midland-Joffrey Summer Dance Project. A published author and university lecturer, Julie received her Ph.D. in medieval drama from Columbia University.
(Playwright) Bekah received an MFA in playwriting from the New School. She is a two-time winner of the Sam French short play competition and the New York Innovative Theatre Award for best new play. She is currently working on commissions for Ars Nova and the Roundabout Underground. www.bekahbrunstetter.com
(Playwright) Recipient of both a Puffin Foundation Artist’s Grant and a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a former fellow of the Dramatists Guild, Clements’ plays and performance pieces have been produced in both the UK and the US. Recent productions include Your Own Personal Apocalypse (New York, NY); The Interview (Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, UK); and Pieces (Washington, DC, & Iowa City, IA). Her short stories have appeared in a handful of publications, including two anthologies published by UK publisher, Route. She has also written for such magazines as Nature, Aesthetica, and The L Magazine. For more information visit www.alexisclements.com.
(Playwright) Charity Henson-Ballard is an actor and playwright in New York City. She received her MA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and MFA in Acting from New York University. Her first full-length play, The Quiver of Children, was originally developed with the support of Voice & Vision Theater, and was presented through Voice and Vision’s 2009 reading showcase at the Ohio Theatre this spring. Charity is developing the next play in this cycle: The Deep Things of God. Charity is collaborating with the Women’s Project for Muddy the Waters, a fun and rhythmic dialogue about the socio-environmental politics of NYC.
(Playwright) Kara Manning’s plays have been performed or developed via the Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, NYTW, LAByrinth Theater, New Dramatists, the Magic Theater, the Lark Play Development Center and more. She is the recipient of the 2007 Princess Grace award in playwriting and a Jerome Foundation Affiliated Writers grant. Member of the Women’s Project 2008-2010 playwriting lab, MCC Theater’s Playwrights Coalition and Dramatists Guild. Playwright-in-residence with the Royal Court Theatre’s International Residency and Page 73 Productions’ 2008 Yale retreat. Literary manager of the Irish Repertory Theatre. Graduate of Columbia University’s M.F.A. playwriting program.
(Playwright) Lynn Rosen’s plays have been developed or produced at many theatres, including: Centerstage, Baltimore (WASHED UP ON THE POTOMAC 2009-2010 season, PUDDY TAT FirstLook 2008), The Lark (PUDDY TAT Studio Retreat, APPLE COVE BareBones, Writing Fellow), The Working Theater (BACK FROM THE FRONT), New Georges (Affiliated Artist), The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre (Marathon, EST/Sloan commission PROGRESS IN FLYING – Humana Festival finalist), New Harmony Project, Geva Theatre, The Fire Dept. (member), Willow Cabin (NIGHTHAWKS, published Samuel French), Todd Mountain Theatre Project, and The Studio Theatre (NIGHTHAWKS). Member of Women’s Project Lab, EST, The Dramatists Guild. Recently named one of “50 to Watch” by The Dramatist magazine.
(Playwright) Crystal Skillman is the author of Birthday and Nobody, produced this year by Rising Phoenix Rep under the direction of Daniel Talbott. The Sleeping World was read this spring at Rattlestick, Side Project (CH) and was a finalist for this year’s Yale Drama Series. Also this spring, 4 Edges (part of 2008 New Harmony Project) was workshopped @ Seaport; The Vigil or the Guided Cradle at Culture Project and Need Theatre (LA). Her short play Kiss was just produced at Side Project; The Telling Trilogy is published in Plays & Playwrights 2008. Memberships: MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, E.S.T, Dramatists Guild, R.P.R, Women’s Project Playwrights Lab.
(Playwright) Andrea Thome is a playwright and translator whose works have been produced in NYC (the Lark, INTAR, Immigrants’ Theatre Project, NYU) as well as in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Latin America. She is Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center’s U.S.-Mexico Playwright Exchange (now in its 3rd year), which brings Mexican and U.S. playwrights and other theater artists together to create translations of new works from both countries. She also co-founded FULANA, a satirical video and performance collective whose work screens at festivals worldwide and online at www.fulana.org. Andrea has collaborated with artists including Anna Deavere Smith, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Campo Santo, and Culture Clash. In the Bay Area, she co-founded the Red Rocket Theater and was an original member of the Latina Theatre Lab (Yerba Buena Center Artists in Residence 1999). She has worked as a teaching artist in New York City public schools since 2002, and has taught at Dartmouth College and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she also received an MFA in Dramatic Writing.
(Director) “Theatrically and personally I am curious about the border between the surreal and pedestrian worlds.” Carlsen recently returned from Poland on a Fulbright Scholarship, where she premiered, + – INFINITY, a dance/opera collaboration with composer Maciej Markowski. Current projects include: assistant to Karin Coonrod on a Rome premiere of Everything That Rises Must Converge; presenting in Short Form, a curated showcase at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre with collaborators Miranda k Hardy and Adam Saucy; directing a reading of Diana Polansky’s new play House on Kenfield Road. Carlsen has directed, written and performed in numerous productions in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. She is a proud member of the Women’s Project Director’s Lab as well as the collaboration/design focused company TENT. Carlsen received her MFA from CalArts.
(Director) Associate Director of the EST/Sloan Project and Literary Manager of EST. NYC productions include Pierre-Marc Diennet’s Perdita (Lion Theater), Jose Rivera’s Flowers (EST Marathon), Joy Tomasko’s Unfold Me, Catherine Trieschmann’s Crooked, Heather Lynn MacDonald’s Pink (all at SPF), and Anne Washburn’s Apparition (chashama; named one of Time Out New York’s ten best plays of 2003. She is a member of the 2008 – 2010 Women’s Project Lab. She received her M.F.A. from CalArts. Her production of Garrett M. Brown’s Americana can be seen in the 2009 EST Marathon, Series A, from May 22 – June 19 (www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org for details).
(Director) Susanna Gellert’s recent projects include You Can’t Take It With You at the University of Rochester, The Boss in the Satin Kimono at FringeNYC, The Duchess of Malfi at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory, and Marat/Sade at The Fisher Center for Performing Arts. NY directing: The Lacy Project (Ohio Theater), adaptations of Tamburlaine the Great and Valkyrie (Target Margin Theater’s Laboratory), Match and L’Interieur (the American Living Room), and workshops at the Lark, EST, and NYU. Yale School of Drama: The Duchess of Malfi, The Lacy Project, Measure for Measure, The Shoemaker’s Prodigious Wife, Devil Caught Rope, Request Concert, Tuesdays and Sundays, and Two Rooms. Recipient: SDCF’s Sir John Gielgud Fellowship and the Julian Milton Kaufman Memorial Prize. Susanna is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and The University of Chicago.
(Director) New York: SPF at The Public, New Dramatists, New Georges. Regional: The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival of New American Plays, Stages Repertory Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Theater @ Boston Court. Staff positions: Actors Theatre of Louisville, A.S.K. Theater Projects, Mark Taper Forum, Great Lakes Theatre Festival. 2006 New York Coalition for Women in the Arts and Media’s Collaboration Award. Affiliated Artist with New Georges, Women’s Project Directors Lab 2008-2010, member of SSDC.
