(Actor, Bear Market) is co-founder and co-producer of SHSTRNG PRDCTNS, who present annual one-minute play festival and new, as of yet untitled, project written by Ashlin Halfnight. He has performed at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Public, Walt Disney World and Vermont Stage Company. He’s excited to be getting this important message out.
(Actor, Place ReImagined) hails from Northern California and credits is dance training, which began at the age of fourteen, to Marin Dance Theater and Idyllwild Arts Academy. He has previously worked on one sight specific work with Stephan Koplowitz.
(Actor, Call Your Mother Earth) New York acting credits include; Target Margin Theatre, Vortex Theatre Company, FringeNYC, Classic Stage Company, chashama, Peculiar Works and the Metropolitan Opera. She has worked regionally at the Ko Festival of Performance, Luna Stage and The Seattle Public Theatre. She is co-artistic director of PL115 and has produced and performed in all of their productions. She is a proud member of both AEA and SAG. MFA Columbia 2005.
(Actor, Place ReImagined) began her dance training at 12, studying primarily classical ballet with the Westchester Ballet Company. She received a scholarship to the Taylor School this summer, and just finished her first year at NYU Tisch, discovering a love for modern dance. She is thrilled to be working on this project.
(Actor, Muddy The Waters) is an actress and writer with numerous credits, including: The Mountaintop (Lark Theatre), Remembrance (Women’s Project), Unspeakable (SoHo Playhouse), The Bridge Party (with Ruby Dee), and Breath, Boom (MCC Theater). As a playwright, she’s received two NAACP Image Awards, a Jane Chambers Playwriting Award Honor, and a Wendy Wasserstein Prize nomination.
(Actor, Chorus of Lost Places) — Credits include: Steppenwolf, McCarter, Chicago Shakespeare, Asolo Rep, Northlight, Court, Marriott Lincolnshire, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ and Off Broadway at the Mint and New World Stages. He has worked with directors Tina Landau, Gary Griffin, David Cromer, JoAnne Akalaitis and Susanna Gellert. Company member, Striking Viking Story Pirates.
(Actor, Chorus of Lost Places) – Credits include: 1st National Tour: Footloose. Off Broadway: Mark Twain’s Blues, Naked Boys Singing!, and most of the Gilbert & Sullivan cannon with the NY G&S Players (at City Center and Symphony Space). Regional: The Kennedy Center, Seattle Rep, Weston.
(Actor, Place ReImagined) is a dancer entering her second year at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Originally from North Carolina, she studied with Daniel and Rebecca Massey Wiley at Piedmont Dance Conservatory. She is excited to be working with Women’s Project.
(Actor, Bear Market) was last seen performing with Kirsi’s Minstrels. Regional: As You Like It (Commonwealth Shakes), A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep). Other: Learned Ladies, Working, …Edwin Drood (SRT,Santa Rosa); Williamstown Free Theatre. MFA Brown/Trinity (‘08), favorites include Hydriotaphia, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew, and adaptations of Dido, Queen of Carthage and Figaro. AEA.
(Percussionist, Place ReImagined and Muddy the Waters) was born in 1954 in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. He is a consultant, educator, organizer, performer and producer who teaches music and cultural workshops for students of all ages from all over New York and beyond. From initiatives like Mambo to Hip-Hop (DVD documentary, permanent exhibition, theater, and live events), the Living Legends Series, to teaching percussion, his contributions to our communities are unparalleled.
(Actor, Place ReImagined) was trained in dancing and acting at Princeton Dance and Theatre studio with Susan Jaffe. She currently trains as a contemporary dancer at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she has appeared and choreographed in several dance concerts. She is an aspiring dancer, choreographer, and singer.
(Actor, Muddy The Waters) was last seen as Abbey in Bella Via at EST. Regionally she has worked at The Seattle Children’s Theatre as Addy in the world premiere and national tour of Cheryl West’s Addy: An American Girl Story. She has also worked with German Theatre Abroad and the Beliner Haus Festiple as Liz in the world premiere of Start-UP. She thanks God, family, friends, and Women’s Project.
(Actor, Chorus of Lost Places) — is delighted to be a part of Global Cooling. Film: Freedomland (with Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore). TV: “The Chappelle Show,” “Third Watch.” B’ way: Avenue Q. Off- B’ way: 365 Days/ 365 Plays (The Public), Only Children (Lincoln Center), Zanna Don’t. Reg’l Favorites: Dreamgirls, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Violet. CCM grad. Much love!
(Production Stage Manager): Chair (ASM, Theater for a New Audience); The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island (ASM, The Vineyard Theater); Old Comedy (Target Margin); The Lacy Project (SoHo Think Tank); Hamletmachine, Myakovsky: A Tragedy, Roberto Zucco (The Cutting Ball Theater); The Unmentionables, The Cherry Orchard (Yale Repertory Theater); Mickey Mouse is Dead (with Spankin’ Yanks at 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival); The Taming of the Shrew. (ASM, Shakespeare & Co). Thanks to Mom & Dad.
(Assistant Stage Manager) has trained at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts and Atlantic Theater Company. Acting: The Love of the Nightingale, Balm in Gilead, Twelfth Night, Six Character’s in Search of an Author and Baby with the Bath Water. ASM: Hudson Stage Company’s After All. Founding member, Pipeline Theater Company.
(Production Assistant, Muddy The Waters) is nineteen and was born in raised in New York, but has spent the past two years studying at Mount Holyoke College in Western Massachusetts where she’s a Theatre Arts major and an English minor. Lesley is very interested in performance and creative writing.
(Production Assistant, Chorus of Lost Places)
(Production Assistant, Call Your Mother Earth) moved to NYC five minutes ago. After graduating with a B.A. in Theatre and a B.A. in French from Centenary College, she worked in the film industry in northwest Louisiana as both cast and crew. Charity has appeared in and worked backstage on many college, community theatre, and Equity productions. Currently an Artistic Associate at Women’s Project, Charity is thrilled to be a part of Global Cooling and is excited to begin her adventure in New York.
(Playwright) Saviana is one of the most prominent writers to have emerged from Eastern Europe after the fall of communism. She was born in Bucharest, Romania, on a cold February morning during Ceausescu’s dictatorship, and “reborn” in New York in the hot days of 2001. Her plays have been widely presented internationally and in the US. Recent New York productions include Waxing West (2007 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-length Script) and YokastaS Redux at La MaMa Theatre, Flag Stories at TBG Theatre (part of Myth America Project, a collage of texts by Arthur Kopit, Theresa Rebeck, Israel Horowitz, Jason Grote, etc), Suspendida at the Ontological Theatre, Balkan Blues at the NYC Fringe Festival and the site-specific I want what you have as part of Women’s Project’s Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ at the World Financial Center.
Saviana won the 2007 Marulic Prize for Best European Radio-drama for Bucharest Underground. Her short play Aurolac Blues, performed at HERE Arts Center, was published by Smith & Krauss and Plays and Playwrights 2006. Two monologues have been published in the Playwrights’ Center’s Monologues for Women, and Final Countdown was produced and published in France. She has also published six books of poetry and drama including Google me! (poetry), Black Milk (four plays) and The Inflatable Apocalypse (Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award in 2000).
Saviana co-edited the anthology of plays Global Foreigners (with NYU professor Carol Martin) and roMANIA after 2000 (with CUNY professor Daniel Gerould).Her plays have recently received readings and workshops at New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage&Film, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Playwrights’ Foundation, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Immigrants Theatre Project, CUNY Grad Center, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, and Theatre Gerard Philipe de Saint-Denis, Gare Au Theatre etc. She was a 2005-2007 TCG fellow with the Lark Play Development Center, where her plays Waxing West and Lenin’s Shoe had barebones productions. Currently, Saviana is a NYSCA playwright-in-residence with Women’s Project and writer-in-residence for East Coast Artists. She holds an MA in Performance Studies (Fulbright fellow) and an MFA in Dramatic Writing (John Golden Award for excellence in playwriting) from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, where she now teaches in the Drama Department.
(Director) Tea is a director, writer, and actor. Her directing credits include Events with Life’s Leftovers by Alberto Villarreal Diaz (Mexico City, Dramafest), Laughing Pictures a Hollywood Odyssey by Matthew Maguire (Fordham University, New York), St. Joan
by George Bernard Shaw (NYU), Zero Hour by Tea Alagic (Yale University Theater), Speaking Our Mind
(New Theater New Haven), The Brothers Size by Tarrel Alvin McCraney (The Public Theater in NYC, The Studio Theater in Washington D.C, and The Abbey Theater in Dublin), Book of Daniel by Daniel Alexander Jones (Austin University), The Donny Hathaway Story (Yale Cabaret), Marcus Brutus by Tea Alagic (Yale Repertory Theater), and Chiang Kai Chek by Charles Mee (Yale Cabaret). During her tenure as Associate Artistic Director of the Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts (ECPA), Tea directed Woyzeck by George Buchner, Piano Plays by Friederike Roth, Self-Accusation by Peter Handke, Preparadise, Sorry Now by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Baal by Bertolt Brecht. Tea also wrote and directed The Filament Cycle, which toured internationally.
As an actor, Tea has worked with Theatre du Soleil in Paris, Robert Lepage in Quebec City, and Richard Foreman in New York. She has worked on theater productions around the world, including New York, Zurich, Vienna, Cairo, Edinburgh, Toronto, Jerusalem, Singapore, Italy, Lisbon, Paris, the Royal National Theater in London, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and many others. She received a BFA in acting from Charles University in Prague, and a MFA in directing from Yale School of Drama, where she also received the Julian Milton Kaufman Prize for Best Director in her graduating class. Tea has been honored with a Soros Fellowship, CEC ArtsLink Performing Arts and Literature Award, and received awards at both the Cairo International Festival and the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival for Al – Hamlet Summit by Sulayman Al- Bassam, in which Tea played role of Ophelia.
(INS Officer) Debut with Women’s Project.Off Broadway: Single Black Female directed by Colman Domingo. NYC Credits include: You Can’t Take It With You, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), A Role Once Played (AUDELCO Nominee). London: Widows. Regional includes: Twelfth Night (Olivia), Measure for Measure (Isabella), Omnium Gatherum (Julia). TV: “All My Children”, Optimum LightPath. Thanks D., Mom and the ladies that I hold such sentimental attachments to, thank you for your love and support.
(Borat) Broadway:Tom Stoppard’s Rock’N’Roll, Julius Caesar. Regional: Noah Haidle’s Persephone (Huntington); Big Wyoming (New York Stage and Film); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Huntington). Film: Death In Love, Feeling Tall, A Walk in the Park, The Wine Bar. Television: The WeddingAlbum, All My Children, As the World Turns. Training: Carnegie Mellon. Love to Shani.
(INS Officer) New York: Stitching (Wild Project), Paradise Park (Signature), Eurydice (Second Stage), Radio Macbeth (The Public), Bone Portraits (SoHo Rep), Psyche (Ohio Theatre), bobrauschenbergamerica (BAM), Crave (TheatronInc/XOProjects). Regional: BTF, Yale Rep, Arena Stage, ATL, Provincetown Rep. and with Anne Bogart’s Siti Company, Humana Festival, Stamford Performing Arts, Athenaeum, Krannert, Walker, Wexner, Bobigny, Bonn Biennale, Dublin Theatre Festival. Film/T.V.: “Painting Abby Long”, “Dead Canaries”, “Tale of Two Corners”, “Hospitality”, “Up to the Roof”, “Law and Order: SVU”, “All My Children”. B.A.: Wesleyan University.
(Bob) Broadway: Brooklyn Boy (Manhattan Theatre Club). Off-Broadway: Trust (The Kirk Theatre), The World Over, The Water Children (both for Playwrights Horizons), Twelfth Night, Venus, Wasp and Other Plays (all for NYSF/ The Public Theater), Everett Beekin (Lincoln Center), The New Bozena (Cherry Lane Theatre). Regional: King Lear, As You Like It (both for Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), The Glass Menagerie (The Old Globe), Brooklyn Boy (South Coast Repertory Theatre), As Bees in Honey Drown (Provincetown Repertory Theatre), The Rainmaker (Center Stage), The New Bozena (The Hudson Theatre), Venus (Yale Repertory Theatre). Film: Frank The Rat, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Uninvited, 24 Nights, Academy Boyz, The New Yorker. Television: “Damages”, “Boston Legal”, “Law and Order”, “The Summer of Ben Tyler” (Hallmark Hall of Fame), “Viva Variety”, “All My Children”. MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program.
(Lupita) Theater credits: Anna in the Tropics (American Stage); A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (The Shakespeare Theater); The Clean House (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater); The Cook (Seattle Rep); Romeo and Juliet (Theatreworks USA). Film: Illegal Tender, Pride and Glory, Off Jackson Avenue. Television: “Law & Order”, “Law & Order SVU”, “Third Watch”. Training: High School of the Performing Arts NY; American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NY). Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jessica thanks friends and family for their support.
