(Director) Lee Sunday Evans is a director and choreographer. Credits Include: Wellesley Girl by Brendan Pelsue at Humana/Actors Theater of Louisville, a workshop production of Miller, Mississippi by Boo Killebrew at Alley All New, D Deb Debbie Deborah by Jerry Lieblich at Clubbed Thumb; A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks… by Kate Benson at New Georges/Women’s Project Theater (OBIE Award), The Play About My Dad by Boo Killebrew at 59E59 Theatres; God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz at Juilliard; Family Play (1979 to Present) by CollaborationTown; and The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht with original music by Nicholas C. Williams. Additionally, her work has been presented/developed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Sundance Institute Theater Program, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, CATCH, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center. She is currently developing new projects with Andy Bragen, Kate Benson and Matthew Paul Olmos among others. As the resident director for CollaborationTown, she is currently developing a new musical as part of New Victory’s LabWorks, and working on a commission from LCT3. Upcoming: Macbeth at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.
(Charles II of England, William Scott, and Lady Davenant) has made a career of developing new works for the stage and screen, including The Laramie Project (Emmy Nomination), Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde by Moises Kaufman, Lucie Tiberghien’s The Quiet Room and Innocents by Rachel Dickstein. As a writer/director Andy created The Fanmaker’s Inquisition, adapted from the novel by Rikki Ducornet. He also developed Goldstar Ohio by Michael Tisdale, directing the stage version at The Cleveland Public Theatre, and the short film starring Michael Emerson. Currently he is writing The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later, an epilogue to The Laramie Project. For Women’s Project, he wrote the text and served as ringmaster for the site specific Corporate Carnival, which was presented in the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center. Andy was invited to participate in The Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2008. As an actor he has performed in countless plays in New York, Regionally, and in Europe. Regionally, he has been seen at Playmaker’s Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Theatre Virginia, Berkeley Rep and La Jolla Playhouse. FILM/TV: “Laramie;” “Law & Order.” He is the recipient of two AUDIE Awards for his audiobook narrations. As an original member of Tectonic Theatre Project, Andy has worked under the mentorship of Mr. Kaufman, and now teaches the techniques which he and Tectonic developed over the past seventeen years. He has taught workshops at New York University, DePaul University, Naropa Institute and in Osaka, Japan, among others. Andy was invited to be a participant in the Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2008. Andy grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and is a graduate of NYU.
(Aphra Behn) –is thrilled to be joining the Women’s Project for this production. Theater credits include: Ruby Sunrise (Public Theater, dir. Oskar Eustis), Frank’s Home (Playwright’s Horizons, dir. Robert Falls), Dollhouse (The Goodman Theater, dir. Robert Falls) for which she was nominated for a Jefferson Award, and Ghosts (The Lantern Theater) for which she received a Barrymore Award for Best Supporting Actress. More recently she has been seen on AMC’s Mad Men as Rachel Menken (2008 Golden Globe Best Drama, 2008 Emmy for Best Ensemble) and FX’s Sons of Anarchy as Tara Knowles. Other TV credits include recurring roles on Life on Mars and Nip/Tuck. Film credits include: Funny People, Push, and the upcoming film Leaves of Grass starring Ed Norton, directed by Tim Blake Nelson. She has an M.F.A. from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program at Tisch and a B.A. in English from Bryn Mawr.
(Set Design) is currently designing a trilogy of plays for Company XIV, a neo- baroque dance company in Brooklyn, and Open The Dark Door (NYMTF). Off-Broadway, Zane designed the costumes for The Brothers Size (dir. Tea Alagic, The Public Theater/Foundry Theater), with tours to The Studio Theater (Washington, D.C.) and The Abbey (Dublin, Ireland). International credits include Macbeth premiering at the Volksbühne Am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin); Bambiland (National Theater of Lithuania; Oskaras Korsunovas Theater); and Sleeping Beauty (Seoul Performing Arts Festival, South Korea). New York credits include costumes and scenery for A Kingdom, (Performance Space 122); costumes for Going Down Swingin’ and scenery for (NYMTF); Cherubina (Fractured Atlas); costumes and scenery for Iphigenia at Alus (Active Eye) and scenery for Food for Fish (The Krain); scenery for Binibon (The Kitchen). Regional/University credits include scenery for Until We Find Each Other (dir. Anna Shapiro, Steppenwolf Garage Theater); All’s Well that Ends Well (dir. James Bundy/Mark Rucker, Yale Rep); Baal (Columbia University); Marat/Sade, Slaves and Prowlers (Bard College); La Bohème (Yale Opera); Flyin’ West and Orange Woman (Princeton University); Hedda Gabler (Yale University Theater); Evita (Northwestern University); Anna Karenina, Don Juan Returns from the War, Selki and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (DePaul University); costumes for MSN Dream, As You like It (Yale School of Drama) and Don’t Look Back (dir. Joe Roach, World Performance Project). Zane is a member of Wingspace, a theatrical design collective.
(Costume Design) designed costumes for the Second Stage Uptown The Butcher of Baraboo, NYU’s Our Lady of 121st Street and Hair, and Alley Theatre’s productions of Black Comedy, Wait Until Dark, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Crucible, After the Fall, Proof, Steel Magnolias, Fully Committed, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Thirteenth Chair, The Woman in Black and And Then There Were None. She also has designed for the Williamstown Theatre Festival Act I (The Trojan Women: A Love Story), Frontera at Hyde Park in Austin (Blood Pudding, David’s Red Haired Death, Deviant Craft, Race of the Ark Tattoo, and Clay Angels), University of Texas (guest designer for Love of the Nightingales). She was art director for the film Mantis by Trey McIntyre and her prop designs have been featured in Yale’s Theater magazine. She has a BA from University of Texas, Austin, and a MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Design for Stage and Film.
(Lighting Design) has designed extensively at Trinity Rep, including Paris by Night, Cherry Orchard, A Delicate Balance, Dublin Carol, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Ruby Sunrise, Homebody/Kabul, The New England Sonata, Dinner with Friends and numerous Christmas Carols. Off Broadway: The Ruby Sunrise (The Public Theater), Green Girl (Summer Play Festival), Play it Cool (NYMF Festival). Regional credits include: Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, (where she was resident lighting designer for two seasons and has designed a dozen world premiers as part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays), Alliance Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, City Theatre Company, and Cleveland Play House. Other theatres include The New Repertory Theatre (Elliot Norton Award), Two Rivers Theatre Company, Gloucester Stage Company, Perishable Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, Opera Providence and Festival Ballet Providence, among the many. Deb is a member of United Scenic Artists.
(Sound Design)—New York credits include the world premiere of Steve Martin’s adaptation of The Underpants, and the premieres of John Patrick Shanley’s Dirty Story and Sailor Song. LAByrinth credits include Stephen Belber’s A Small Melodramatic Story and Robert Glaudini’s Dutch Heart of Man. Other New York credits include Chuck Mee’s Paradise Park with director Daniel Fish (Signature), Philip Roth in Khartoum and Sweet Storm (Public Lab); Future Me with original music by Stew (SPF); The Winter’s Tale with director Barry Edelstein (CSC); Trial By Water (Ma-Yi); A Soldier’s Wife (The Mint); Regional credits include Lee Blessing’s Winning Streak (George Street Playhouse), Stones In His Pockets (Alley Theatre), and The Colored Museum (Crossroads). For more info please visit elizabethrhodes.net.
(Casting Director) ALAINE ALLDAFFER is the Casting Director for Playwrights Horizons and The Huntington Theater in Boston. Theater credits include Deadman’s Cellphone with Mary Louis Parker (PWH), Grey Gardens (PWH and Broadway), Walmartopia the musical, Knights of Prosperity (ABC), ED (NBC). Currently in the works is This with Parker Posey at Playwrights Horizons. She credits Lisa Donadio as co-casting director for Or,.
(Stage Manager) is up, down, all around…Broadway: two dozen, including Souvenir; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Dream; Hughie; Inherit The Wind; Black and Blue; Carrie; The Tap Dance Kid; ‘night, Mother; Lena Horne; Brigadoon; The King and I; and A Christmas Carol (MSG). Off Broadway: Souvenir; Address Unknown; Rounding Third; Love, Janis; Tallulah Hallelujah! Tours: The Sound of Music (Marie Osmond); Hello, Dolly! (Paris); Porgy and Bess (Japan); On Your Toes (Makarova). Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf. Thanks to Julie Crosby, the WP staff, and Norman.
Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to be joining the Women’s Project. Previous credits include The Mirror Rep (Shanghai Gesture), PTPNYC (Therese Raquin), Two River Theatre Company (Mary’s Wedding, A Year with Frog and Toad, ART), The Old Globe (I Just Stopped by to See the Man), Lake George Theatre Lab (Four by Four), Soho Playhouse (A Stone Carver), Passage Theatre (The Deacons, Second Line), Berkshire Theatre Festival (This is Our Youth, Pound of Flesh), Prospect Theatre (Dark Nights Festival), Stage 13 (Elephant in the Room!), Park Performing Arts Center (The Passion Play). Lisa has also worked at George Street Playhouse, Playwright’s Theatre, Shadow Lawn Stage, The Bickford, Charlotte Rep, NJPAC, Algonquin Theatre.
(Playwright) Rachel Axler is a playwright and Emmy-winning television writer. Her play, Archaeology, premiered at The Kitchen Theatre in 2009. Other plays of hers have been developed through The Lark Play Development Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Playwrights Foundation and the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Rachel has held fellowships at The Dramatists Guild and The Lark, and is currently working on commissioned plays for South Coast Rep and Lincoln Center Theater. Humor pieces of hers have been published in The New York Times, In Character and two editions of Monologues for Women, By Women. For television, Rachel wrote for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for several years, where she received the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program and three Writers Guild Award nominations. She now writes for Parks and Recreation, on NBC. Rachel received her BA from Williams College and her MFA in Playwriting from UCSD. Member: Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild of America.
(Director) Pam Mackinnon directed world premieres of Jason Grote’s Maria/Stuart (Woolly Mammoth) and Richard Greenberg’s Our Mother’s Brief Affair (South Coast Rep); productions of Adrian Hall’s adaptation of Penn Warren’s All The King’s Men (Intiman), Lanford Wilson’s Burn This (Juilliard) and Richard Dresser’s Below the Belt (ACT-Seattle). She also continued her longstanding collaboration with Edward Albee directing A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage). New York productions include Edward Albee’s Peter and Jerry (Second Stage); Edward Albee’s Occupant (Signature); Itamar Moses’ The Four of Us (MTC); Itamar Moses’ Bach at Leipzig (NYTW); Sheri Wilner’s Father Joy (SPF), John Fugelsang’s All the Wrong Reasons (NYTW); Adam Bock’s Medea Eats (Clubbed Thumb), Gina Gionfriddo’s U.S. Drag (Clubbed Thumb) and Erin Courtney’s Alice the Magnet (Clubbed Thumb). Other recent productions include the premiere of Roberto Aguire Sacasa’s Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf), Bruce Norris’ The Unmentionables (Woolly Mammoth), David Mamet’s Romance (Goodman), Edward Albee’s The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia? (Alley and Vienna), Edward Albee’s Play About The Baby (Philadelphia and Goodman) and Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest (Juilliard). She most recently directed the world premiere productions in New York of Cusi Cram’s A Lifetime Burning (Primary Stages) with Jennifer Westfeldt and John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo (Juilliard). She is presently directing Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons) and Rachel Axler’s Smudge (Women’s Project). Pam is an Affliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb, a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and a Drama League alumna.
(Casting Director) Alaine Alldaffer is the Casting Director for Playwrights Horizons and The Huntington Theater in Boston. Theater credits include Deadman’s Cellphone with Mary Louis Parker (PWH), Grey Gardens (PWH and Broadway), Walmartopia the musical, Knights of Prosperity (ABC), ED (NBC). Currently in the works is This with Parker Posey at Playwrights Horizons. She credits Lisa Donadio as co-casting director for Smudge.
(Colby): Broadway: The Norman Conquests (u/s). Off-Broadway: The Drunken City (Theatre World Award 2008), Prayer For My Enemy(Playwrights Horizons), Oohrah!(Atlantic Theatre), Playlist 2009(Ars Nova). Regional: Three Sisters (Williamstown Theatre Festival); 43 Plays for 43 Presidents (Actors Theatre of Louisville); All My Sons, Living Out and Be Aggressive (Theatre Works Palo Alto);The Haunting of Winchester (San Jose Rep); 3F 4F (Magic Theatre); Ms. Beck is the former Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theatre Company in San Francisco were she appeared in several productions including Trojan Woman, Top Girls, A-A-America,One Big Lie, Slow Falling Bird, We Are Not These Hands, and Anna Bella Eema.
(Nicholas): Broadway: Uncle Vanya, The Rainmaker. Off Broadway: That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play (Rattlestick), The Seagull (CSC), You Never Can Tell (Roundabout), Telethon (Clubbed Thumb), Reborning (The Public/SPF), Steve & Idi (Rattlestick), Dying City (Lincoln Center). Regional: 33 Variations (Arena Stage) Sick, The Glass Menagerie, This Is Our Youth, Coyote On A Fence, A Dream Play (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Seasons’ Greetings (Denver Center), The Last Schwartz (Florida Stage). Greg holds an MFA in Acting from NYU and is a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School.
(Pete): Broadway: Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia trilogy, directed by Jack O’ Brien, and King Lear, starring Christopher Plummer, both at Lincoln Center Theatre. National Tour: The Donmar Warehouse production of Frost/Nixon, starring Stacey Keach, directed by Michael Grandage. Off-Broadway: Landscape of the Body (Signature Theatre Company-dir. Michael Greif); The World Over (Playwright’s Horizons); The Hasty Heart (Keen Company) and Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb). National: Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Michael Greif, at La Jolla Playhouse; Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play (Goodman Theatre-dir. Mark Wing-Davey); The Two Noble Kinsmen and Antony and Cleopatra (The Old Globe-dir. Darko Tresnjak); The Blue Demon (Huntington Theatre Company-dir. Darko Tresnjak); The Comedy of Errors (Portland Stage Company,) and Oliver! at the Westchester Broadway Theatre. TV: “The Guiding Light”, “As The World Turns”. As an Associate Artist of the Civilians: original companies of Canard, Canard Goose?, Gone Missing, and Paris Commune. MFA:University of Californa San Diego.
(Set Design) — Bio to come.
(Costume Design) — WP: Sand, Transfigures. NY: Public Theater, Second Stage, New York Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Theater, Mint, Red Bull, Juilliard, Clubbed Thumb, Ma-Yi, Naatco, New Georges, PS122, HERE, others. REGIONAL : Alliance, Guthrie, La Jolla, OSF, CalShakes, ART, Williamstown, Denver Center Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Asolo, Kansas City Rep, Merrimack Rep, Chautauqua, Opera Boston, Opera Theater of St. Louis, many others. INTERNATIONAL: Rijksteatern (Stockholm), Thalia (Bucharest), Teatro Pilipino (Manila), Barbican (London), Kanon (St. Petersburg), O’Reilly (Dublin) HONORS: TDF Irene Sharaff, 2 ATW Henry Hewes Award, Drama Desk Award nom, NYTW Design Fellowship, Audelco, IRNE, Elliot Norton. UPCOMING: When The Rain Stops Falling (LCT, directed by David Cromer), Ruined (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).
(Lighting Design) –Broadway: In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play, Lincoln Center Theater/Lyceum Theater; God Said Ha!, Lyceum Theater. Off Broadway: Slugbearers of Kayrol Island, Vineyard Theater; Eurydice, Second Stage; The Four of Us, Yellowman, The Other Side, MTC; as well as productions at The Public Theater, The Promenade Theater, Union Square Theater, Classic Stage Company, New York Stage and Film, Cherry Lane Theater, Primary Stages, MCC, The Zipper, La Mama ETC. Regional: ACT, Mark Taper Forum, Wilma Theater, Berkeley Rep, Trinity Rep, Yale Rep, Long Wharf Theater, McCarter Theater, Old Globe, ATL/Humana Festival, Williamstown Theater Festival, Seattle Rep, CalShakes, Philadelphia Theater Company, The Kennedy Center. PEACE.
(Sound Design) — In the past decade Asa has been the resident sound designer for the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, CT and the audio engineer for New York Theatre Workshop, and has designed for numerous companies in New York, including 13P, Flux Theatre Ensemble, the Assembly, Wolf 359 and the Intentional Theatre Group. His work with Flux Theatre Ensemble won the 2009 NYITA award for Sound Design.
(Playwright) Sheila Callaghan’s plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright’s Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, Woolly Mammoth, and Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre, among others. Sheila is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, a MacDowell Residency, a 2005 Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award. She has received grants from NYFA, NYSCA, and the MAP Foundation. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwright’s Horizons, South Coast Repertory, The Playwright’s Foundation, Clubbed Thumb, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include Scab, Crawl, Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play, and Fever/Dream. Several of her plays are published by Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and her monologues can be found in various anthologies. She has taught playwriting at Columbia University, The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, and Florida State University, and she is currently on the faculty at Spalding University’s MFA program in creative writing. Sheila is a resident artist at HERE Arts Center and a member of the Obie winning playwright’s organization 13P. Sheila is also a resident of New Dramatists. Currently, Sheila is a writer on the Showtime series The United States of Tara.
(Director) NY credits include: Trista Baldwin’s Sand (Women’s Project), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City (New Georges), Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End (Epic Theatre), Susan Yankowitz’s Night Sky (Baruch Performing Arts Center/Power Productions), Nicki Bloom’s Tender (Summer Play Festival), Leslie Ayvazian’s Carol and Jill (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Jakob Holder’s Housebreaking (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Zakiyyah Alexander’s Sick? (Summer Play Festival), Peter Gil-Sheridan’s Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), and Stanton Wood’s Snow Queen (Urban Stages). She has directed readings and workshops for a number of NY companies including the Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, Playwrights Horizons, Primary Stages, the Public, and the Roundabout. Regionally, she has most recently directed productions of Caridad Svich’s Instructions for Breathing (Passage Theatre, NJ), Kim Oler, Alison Hubbard, and Sean Hartley’s world premiere musical of Little Women (Village Theatre, WA) and Trista Baldwin’s Forgetting (Playwrights Center/Workhaus Collective, MN) and has directed workshops of musicals at Goodspeed Musicals and Barrington Stage in conjunction with NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s directing program, Daniella has been the Artistic Program Director at the Lark Play Development Center, the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and the Associate Producing Director of City Theatre. She is a member of the board of the Lark Play Development Center and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and has been a grants review panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NY State Council on the Arts and TCG. She is currently working as a resident artist at HERE developing a new multi-media piece on floods with Sheila Callaghan, Katie Down, Leah Gelpe, Mimi Lien, and Tyler Micoleau. Upcoming productions include: Stretch (People’s Light and Theatre Company), Sarita (Fordham University), and a workshop of Rosa (Richard Rodgers Award Winner – presentations at the Public Theatre and Queens Theatre in the Park).
(August) Rob Campbell has premiered roles on Broadway and off for Caryl Churchill (Mad Forest), David Hare (Ivanov), Brian Friel (Translations), Suzan-Lori Parks (In the Blood and 365 Plays), Craig Lucas (The Singing Forest and Small Tragedy – Obie Award), Steve Martin (Wasp), Theresa Rebeck (Our House), George F. Walker (Tough!), Emily Mann (Cherry Orchard), Tom Babe (Downed American), Jez Butterworth (Mojo), Martin Crimp (The Treatment), David Eldridge (Under the Blue Sky), Chuck Mee (Snow in June), Robert Farquhar (Bad Jazz), David Greenspan and Stephin Merritt (Orphan of Zhao) and the Christopher Walken (Him). Twelve seasons with the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Romeo (Yale Rep), Hamlet (McCarter Theatre), Vershinin (Lake Lucille). Film and TV: Unforgiven, The Crucible, Boys Don’t Cry, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, Ethan Frome, The Stars Fell On Henrietta, Hostile Waters, Liberty, Snow Days, Normandie, Lone Justice, The Photographer, City of Ghosts, Rabbit Hole, “Damages.” “Criminal Intent,” “Sex & the City,” “Law & Order,” “Hope & Faith,” “NY Undercover,” “Brotherhood,” “Law & Order SVU.” BA: Wesleyan. MFA: Yale Drama.
(Liza) — Favorite roles include Marya Grekovna in Platonov, Varya in The Cherry Orchard, Masha in Three Sisters, and Masha in The Seagull with The Chekhov Retreat directed by Brian Mertes and Melissa Kievman. Other favorites with The Atlantic Theater, The Vineyard Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, A.R.T. and New Crime Theater in Chicago. Film/television roles including: “Peter and Vandy”, “The Brave One”, “Cold Creek Manor”, “One Last Thing”, recurring roles on “Brotherhood”, “Prince Street” and “New York Undercover”; and guest roles on “The Unusuals”, The Law and Order Triad, and “100 Centre Street”, among others. Upcoming films: “The Company Men”/ official premiere at Sundance 2010, and “Three Backyards”/ Sundance 2010 Grand Jury Prize Nominee and Directing Award winner for Eric Mendelsohn.
(Boy) — NY : Our Town (Barrow Street Theater); What Once We Felt(LCT) dir. Ken Rus Schmoll; Origin Story (The Public) dir. Hal Brooks; Stunning (NY Theater Workshop ); Regional: Argonautika dir. Mary Zimmerman (Berkelely Rep, Shakespeare Theater of DC, McCarter); TV / Film: Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Guiding Light , Possible Side Effects (pilot) dir. Tim Robbins (Showtime) and Taking Woodstock dir. Ang Lee.
