(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.
(Director) New York: Cold Keener (Target Margin), The Minstrel Show of Minstrel Shows! (Brown/Trinity Consortium), Poof by Apples Vargas (MCC FreshPlay), Penang by James Larocca (Midtown Int’l Theatre Festival), 30 Patriot Actors by Erin Browne (Columbia); a reading of Menders by Erin Browne (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); an excerpt from Busoni’s Faust and a reading of The Jew of Malta (Target Margin). Brown/Trinity Consortium: The Cure At Troy; Taming of the Shrew; Cloud 9. Brown New Play Festival: Forever Never Comes by Enrique Urueta, Cipher by Cory Hinkle. Williamstown: Before Breakfast, Unwrap Your Candy, Sorry Wrong Number. Work with The Civilians as Assistant Director (Nobody’s Lunch, This Beautiful City) and Research Dramaturg (This Beautiful City). Training: MFA, Directing – Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Member of the 2008/2010 Women’s Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre.
(Director) Meiyin Wang is a Singaporean director based in New York. She served as resident playwright and assocate artistic director of Singapore Repertory Theatre before earning her Directing M.F.A from Columbia under Anne Bogart. Meiyin has directed or developed work at Women’s Project, Classic Stage Company, chashama, Theatre Row, HERE Arts Center, The Ohio Theatre, Joe’s Pub and at non-traditional sites. She assisted Robert Woodruff at American Repertory Theater, Long Beach Opera and Hong Kong International Festival, and Eduardo Machado at INTAR and Premio Dams Festival in Italy. In Singapore, Meiyin directed the national premiere of Betrayal at Singapore Repertory Theatre and her play Postcards from Persephone garnered nominations for best director and script at the national theatre awards. Meiyin is an alumnus of the Women’s Project Directors Lab, a Schubert Presidential Scholarship and Singapore National Arts Council Grant receipient, and served on the NPAC Artists Task Force. She is the co-artistic director of the performance collective Quality Meats. Meiyin Wang is the associate producer of Under The Radar Festival and Symposium, where she has worked under the mentorship of producer Mark Russell since 2006.
(Lead Producer) Heather Cohn is a producer, director, scenic designer and grantwriter. In 2006, she co-founded Flux Theatre Ensemble, and currently serves as the Managing & Development Director. With Flux – Directing: Other Bodies by August Schulenburg (winner of the 2008 FringeNYC Excellence Award for “Outstanding Direction”); upcoming The Lesser Seductions of History (Fall 2009). Set Design: Pretty Theft by Adam Szymkowicz. Heather serves as treasurer of the Board of Directors of The Equus Projects, and has also worked with NYTW, TCG, The Pearl, Fourth Arts Block (FAB), Cornerstone Theater Co., Cherry Lane, and Repertorio Español. Member: 2008-2010 Women’s Project Producers LAB. www.fluxtheatre.org
(Lead Producer) Jennifer Conley Darling is the Artistic Director of terraNOVA Collective. Producing highlights with terraNOVA: Blue Before Morning (DR2 Theatre), An Evening with Linton Kwesi Johnson (The Zipper Theater), Masquerade: calypso and home (Barrow Street Theatre, Center Stage, BRIClab, US tour); Baby Steps on Theatre Row; soloNOVA Arts Festival 2005, 2006, 2008 (Center Stage, NY, The PIT, PS122); Groundbreakers Bi-Annual Reading Series
2006-2008 (Center Stage, NY, PS122, The Culture Project). Jennifer has worked with esteemed companies such as Ensemble Studio Theatre, Naked Angels, Collective:Unconscious, 651 Arts, and Ping Chong & Company. She also served as the HR Manager for The Araca Group and Sr. Exec Associate for American Express.
(Producer) Diane Alianiello is currently producing the Anthropologists’ production of Give Us Bread running at the Milagro Theater through June 21. She works as a producer, company manager, business manager, and general manager. She is presently working at Running Subway Productions. Her past experience includes Richard Frankel Productions, Stuart Thompson Productions and WestBeth Entertainment. BA in Theatre, Florida State University; MFA in Performing Arts Management, Brooklyn College. Women’s Project Producers Lab 2008-2010.
(Producer) Aimee Davis is a founding producer of LiveFeed, a multi-media, site-specific performance company that has brought adventure seekers of the 5 boroughs such extravaganzas as Black Eye Fixer and the “re-imagin-actments” featured in the Old Atlantic Tunnel tour. Aimee will also produce this summer’s Salon Sessions, brought to the streets of New York by the Anthropologists. She is currently a member of the Women’s Project’s Producers Lab and is consistently thrilled by the artistic opportunities this relationship provides.
(Producer) Company Manager of the LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, Secretary of the COMMUNITY DISH, a Producer in the WOMENS’ PROJECT LAB, and a Judge-At-Large with the NYIT AWARDS. She also sits on the board of the award-winning indie theatre company COLLABORATIONTOWN, where she was the Founding Managing Director. Other past credits include: Line Producer, Neighborhood 3 and Unfold me (SPF ’08 and ’07); Producer, Dressing Miss Julie (Fringe Festival 2007); Company Manager, The J.A.P. Chronicles (Perry Street Theatre); Assistant GM Broadway On Broadway 2005 and Broadway Meets Country (with Richards/Climan, Inc.); Facilities Assistant (The Shubert Organization); Production Manager, Finance (Williamstown Theatre Festival, ‘03).
(Producer) Allegra Schorr is a producer, director and an original company member of American Globe Theatre, the longest-running classical theater in Midtown. She currently serves as its Board Co-Chair, and directed Henry IV, Part I last November. Other directing credits include works for New Play Festivals, Timon of Athens for the Bard-a Thon, Spring Dance by Horton Foote, Brothers in Crime by Feydeau and Cold Sweat by Neal Bell. Thanks to Kerry Strong, Elizabeth Ferrer and BRIC Arts for their help on this project.
(Costume Design) Brenda is a New York based costume designer. Most recently she designed for Mark Wing-Davey and Jim Calder on Strindberg Strindberg: NYU. Additional credits include Unrequited: The Public
Theater Shakespeare Lab; The Curious Distance: Ensemble Studio Theatre; I See London I see France: NYMTF, The Dime Show, Keep the Change, and Remembrance: Women’s Project; as well as designing dance and film. Assisting credits; William Ivey Long on 9 to 5(B’way), Young Frankenstein (B’way), Curtains (B’way), and The Kennedy Center Honors. She is currently earning her MFA in Design for Stage and Film at New York University.
(Musical Director, Chorus of Lost Places) has played and/or sung over 40 new musicals at Signature (Queens Boulevard), York (LingoLand,Enter Laughing), NYMF (Austentatious, Gutenberg), NYU (I’ll Be Damned, I Love You Because), Theatreworks/USA (The Giver), North Shore (The Navigator), BMI (Pillars of the Earth, Pride and Prejudice), NAMT (Lucky Lindy), Triad (Amazing Sex)). Broadway: Peter in Company (2006). www.MattCastle.com
(Choreographer, Place ReImagined) is a dancer, choreographer, writer, knitter, and environmental activist. Having grown up on a small farm outside of Baltimore, Maryland, she now attends NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she is pursuing her BFA in dance. She is particularly interested in site-specific work and believes that modern dance has the power to touch people from all walks of life.
(Prop Design) NYC Prop credits include Hip Hop Monologues (J Kyle), Freshwater and Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (WP), Dust (Gindi), Alice’s Phonics Fantasy (PFT). Scenic art credits include Road Show, Taking Over, Hair! and Hamlet (Public). Scene Design credits include Avow (Cardinal Group), Anais Nin Goes To Hell (MTWorks).
(Vitrine Artist) was born to a farmer and a forester in Barre, Massachusetts in 1972. Annie’s work has been exhibited throughout New York, New England, California, Michigan, and in France and Canada. Her work investigates human’s impact on the earth and how the landscape impacts us in return. Annie has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships and distinctions, most recently receiving the Pollock-Krasner Award. Annie lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Visit www.annievarnot.com.
(Vitrine Curation Support) Elizabeth is the Director of Contemporary Art at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, where she curates exhibitions focusing on emerging and mid-career Brooklyn-affiliated artists. A specialist in Mexican and Latino art, she has extensive experience as a curator, writer, and arts administrator. Elizabeth is author of Lola Alvarez Bravo (New York, Aperture Foundation), a monograph on the life and work of the pioneering modern photographer. The book accompanies an exhibition that traveled to the Smithsonian Institution and Notre Dame University among other institutions. In previous years Elizabeth has curated exhibitions on such subjects as contemporary Mexican photography, Dominican art, the Mexican modern painter Maria Izquierdo, and contemporary artists Salomon Huerta, Eve Andrée Laramée, and Paul Laffoley. She co-edited the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark publication Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, and has written for such journals as Art Nexus, Sculpture, Photography, Nueva Luz, and Art News.
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn is a multi-disciplinary arts and media non-profit dedicated to presenting performing, visual, and media arts programs that are reflective of Brooklyn’s diverse communities and to providing resources and platforms to support the creative process. All our offerings are free or low cost to enhance the public’s access to and understanding of arts and media. www.briconline.org
Video writen by Catherine Léger–lives in Montreal, Canada. Her plays include Opium_37, Princesses and Voiture américaine, translated by Chantal Bilodeau and presented at the Lark in a reading directed by Sturgis Warner.
Video directed by Marie-Laure Turmel–In both city and forest, fiction and documentary is searching for ways to find and communicate what’s hiding behind human’s urges.
Filmed by Swati Gupta – Born into Bollywood/Indian culture, Swati Gupta’s work often revolves around investigating our multi-cultural society. She has worked in many artistic mediums including film, painting, and art installations. Bachelors in Fine Arts (Painting) from Delhi College of Art. DNAP from Ecole Supérieure D´arts Paris-Cergy, France. http://swatig.ptibook.com
Video created by Veru Narula (Punjab, India)–Vera Narula is a New York based contemporary artistwith a focus on the global subconscious. “I create art work that juxtaposes 21st century subject matter ranging from technology, religion, sexuality, politics, and metaphysics, in order to relay the unified thoughts and desires of our world.”
Video-poem created and read by Mihaela Michailov (Bucharest, Romania)–Mihaela Michailov is a Playwright and Theater/Dance Critic who writes for various cultural magazines and newspapers. She received the award for the 2006 best Romanian play – Romania Complex. In 2005, she received a scholarship for the play I’m Afraid. Coordinator of the program Theatre and Society at the Odeon Theatre, where her play Offline was produced in 2008.
