(Director): NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: LCT3: Luck of the Irish by Kirsten Greenidge; Playwrights’ Horizons: Milk Like Sugar by Kirsten Greenidge ; Classic Stage Company: Orlando by Sarah Ruhl; Music Theater Group/Gotham Opera at John Jay: Dark Sisters music by Nico Muhly libretto by Stephen Karam (world premiere),; Orpheus by Telemann at New York City Opera; Second Stage: The Scene by Theresa Rebeck ; The Ohio Theatre: Menopausal Gentleman (Special Citation Obie Award/world premiere). Upcoming: Gotham Opera:Rappacinni’s Daughter. REGIONAL: Upcoming: Old Globe: Time and the Conways; Yale Repertory Theater & American Repertory Theater: Marie Antoinette (world premiere), by David Adjmi; La Jolla Playhouse; Sleeping Beauty Wakes , Milk Like Sugar (world premiere); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: She Loves Me; Shakespeare Theater Company:A Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play) & Taming of the Shrew; McCarter Theatre: A Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night; Sleeping Beauty Wakes book by Rachel Sheinken, music and lyrics by Groove Lilly; Woolly Mammoth: Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl (world premiere), The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Resident Play); Yale Repertory; The Evildoers by David Adjmi (world premiere), Iphigeneia at Aulis by Euripides; The Huntington: Mauritius by Theresa Rebeck (world Premiere); The Humana Festival: The Scene by Theresa Rebeck (world premiere); The Prince Music Theatre: The Green Violin by Elise Thoron with music by Frank London (2003 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical – world premiere); The Market Theater: Swimming in March by Kate Robin (world premiere); Curently co-creating new piece Vengeance in collaboration with Paula Vogel for OSF and Yale Repertory Theater (As of March 2013).
(Talisha) is thrilled to be making her Playwrights Horizons debut! Ms. Boothe was recently seen performing the role of Talisha in the World Premiere of Milk Like Sugar at La Jolla Playhouse. New York theater credits include Ruined (original cast: Goodman/Manhattan Theatre Club, Intiman/Geffen Playhouse; 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama); August Wilson’s 20th Century (Kennedy Center); Ohio State Murders (TFANA; Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival); King Hedley II (Signature); A Christmas Carol (McCarter); The Blacks (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Huck & Holden (original cast: Cherry Lane); The Book Club Play, Insurrection: Holding History (BTF); Blues for an Alabama Sky (BTF/Actors Theatre). Film/TV: Inside Man (dir. Spike Lee), Then She Found Me (dir. Helen Hunt), The Wool Cap (w/Keke Palmer and William H. Macy), “Everyone’s Hero” (animation), “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Gossip Girl.” NYU Graduate Acting Program. (As of October 2011)
(Annie) is thrilled and honored to be the first to realize Annie in the World and New York Premieres of Milk Like Sugar. Her Off-Broadway credits include: Pidgeon (Ensemble Studio Theater); The Brother/Sister Plays and Unconditional (The Public Theater); Inked Baby (Playwrights Horizons); The Tempest (Brave New World Theatre Company); Sand (Women’s Project); and Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre, Audelco Award Nomination, Best Lead Actress). Ms. Lewis is a graduate of the University of Michigan (B.F.A.) and a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company. (As of October 2011)
(Margie): Her recent credits include the World Premiere of The Brother/Sister Plays: Shun in In the Red and Brown Water and Shaunta Iyun in Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (The Public Theater, McCarter Theatre); Maima in Eclipsed (McCarter Theatre, In Festival); Juliet/Tybalt/Benvolio in The Continuum Company’s Romeo and Juliet (Villa La Pietra, Italy); Latonya in Seed (Classical Theater of Harlem workshop); Maime in Intimate Apparel (Two River Theater); Laura in The Glass Menagerie (New Century Theater); Sliding into the Beast (Continuum Company). Ms. Mathis’s film credits include Compliance and Knucklehead. M.F.A. from NYU Graduate Acting Program. (As of November 2011)
(Antwoine): Broadway: Cymbeline, The History Boys. Selected Off-Broadway: Born Bad, Measure for Measure, Othello, The Good Negro, Oroonoko, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Huck & Holden and In Search of Stanley Hammer. International: Othello. Selected regional: August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Best Actor), Antony & Cleopatra, The Whipping Man, The Good Negro, Blue/Orange, Elmina’s Kitchen, Othello, Trouble in Mind, The Comedy of Errors, Rough Crossing, Richard II, Three Days of Rain, Private Eyes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Like Sun Fallin’ in the Mouth, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella and Twelfth Night. TV/Film: The Happy Sad, “Rubicon” (recurring), The Adjustment Bureau, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Guiding Light” (recurring), Breaking In, The Stage and After. Education: M.F.A. Yale School of Drama, Loyola Marymount University, Royal National Theatre Acting Studio (London). (As of October 2011)
(Malik): Recent credits include: (Film) The Last Keepers, We Need to Talk About Kevin and Recreator (Cannes, 2011), White Sugar in a Black Pot, Real Talk; (TV) “Law & Order”; (Theatre) Samuel K. in Samuel J. & K. (Passage Theatre, NJ); Marcus in Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (Studio Theatre, DC); Victor Tate in Zooman and the Sign (Signature Theatre, NYC); Player in Colored People’s Time (Midtown International Theatre Festival, NYC); Doey in The Etymology of Bird (Summerstage, NYC). Training under the artistic direction of the late Israel Hicks at Rutgers University, J. received his B.F.A. in Theatre Arts. He also received classical training at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England. Member of the Negro Ensemble Company. Many blessings to the cast and crew of Milk Like Sugar! (As of September 2011)
(Keera) is excited to be at PH for the first time. She recently starred as Angel Unaware in Daniel Beaty’s Tearing Down the Walls (Riverside Theatre). Other New York credits include Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days (The Public Theatre); The 24 Hour Plays (Lucille Lortel); Hattie McDaniel in Opening (Sam French Festival; winner, Best Play); Countess of Rossillion in All’s Well That Ends Well; Mrs. Rummel in Pillars of Society; and Tituba in The Crucible. Regional credits include The Women + War Project (7 Stages Theatre). M.F.A., The New School for Drama. (As of October 2011)
(Myrna) Broadway: Radio Golf; Caroline, or Change (Olivier, Tony Award nominations); The Wild Party; Play On (Tony nomination); Chronicle of a Death Foretold; Jelly’s Last Jam (Tony Award); Merrily We Roll Along. New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theater: Caroline, or Change (Obie Award, Audelco Award); All’s Well That Ends Well; Measure for Measure; The Merry Wives of Windsor. TV/Film: “Army Wives,” “24,” Enchanted, “All My Children.” Next Fall, Ms. Pinkins will reunite with Play On playwright Cheryl West for Pullman Porter Blues at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. Founder of The Actorprenuer Attitude, author of Get Over Yourself: How to Drop the Drama and Claim the Life You Deserve. (As of October 2011)
Playwright – The Quiver of Children (Voice & Vision); The Deep Things of God; Muddy the Waters (Women’s Project); Tower In A Garden (Rising Circle); Pete the Girl (Rising Circle and Women Center Stage; Lark Theater Company); Herding Cats. Screenplays: Little Strong Girl, The Great InActor Fantastic: Memoirs of a Blactress. Affiliations: Women’s Project; SAG; AFTRA; Rising Circle. TV / Stage: NYC – 22; Law & Order; Law & Order: SVU; Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Rescue Me; Guiding Light; Luminosity; Caesar and Cleopatra (Playmakers Rep.); Grace (Rising Circle).
Playwright – is a writer from Australia, based in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed at Sydney Theatre Company, New Georges, the Lark and Dixon Place. Recent work includes Underland (STC workshop and Page to Stage, Dixon Place), The Red Letterbox (Weasel Festival, East 13th St Theater), Holy Day (Telephone Festival, Overturn Theatre Ensemble) and Deathless (finalist in SheWrites, Synchronicity Theatre). MacDowell Fellow, Ian Potter Cultural Trust travel grant, Dame Joan Sutherland Award. MFA playwriting, Brooklyn College. www.alexandracollier.com
Producer – is the founder and Co-Artistic Director of Brooklyn based performance collective A Collection of Shiny Objects. Credits include Apple Cove (Associate Producer, Women’s Project), Darling (with A Collection of Shiny Objects at ANT Fest 2011, Ars Nova), The Exile of Petie DeLarge (REDCAT/NOWFest 2010), Silver Years of Dust (Highways Performance Space), One Eye Gone (Edinburgh Fringe 2009) and upcoming: Human Fruit Bowl by fellow Lab Member Andrea Kuchlewska (soloNOVA 2012, TerraNOVA Collective). MFA in Producing, California Institute of the Arts.
Director – is a freelance director and Associate Artistic Director of terraNOVA Collective in New York City. Recent and upcoming new play projects include work at New York Theatre Workshop, Chicago Dramatists, Primary Stages, The New Group, Culture Project, New Dramatists, The Lark, The Playwrights Realm, Red Fern, New Georges, New York Stage & Film/Powerhouse and others. MFA Directing: Yale. SDC. Current and upcoming projects: www.jessidhill.com
Playwright – plays include Complete (FringeNYC & FringeNYC Encore Series), Human Fruit Bowl (soloNOVA Arts Festival; Prague Fringe Festival, winner Creative Award for best production; Amsterdam Fringe Festival; Hong Kong Microfest), among others. Andrea is a recipient of a Theatre Bay Area CA$H Grant as well as the Tournesol Residency for Emerging Playwrights and has been a finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She is currently under commission at Women’s Project.
Playwright – Public Theater EWG alum, Women’s Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop. Upcoming: Detroit ’67 (The Public Theater and Classical Theatre of Harlem), Sunset Baby (Gate Theater- London). Previous credits include: Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages; O’Neill), Paradise Blue (NYTW-workshop). Awards: Jane Chambers Honoree, two-time NAACP Image Award recipient, PONY prize (finalist), Princess Grace Award (2011 runner-up), and Elizabeth George commission from South Coast Rep.
Playwright – Her plays include All the Girls Love Bobby Kennedy (Point of Contention Theatre), The Stray Dog (Rising Pheonix Rep), Local Story (Overlap Productions, Theatre of NOTE, Capital Fringe) and Departures, Something Decent (Blue Coyote). Her awards include a Jerome Fellowship, Dramatist Guild Fellowship, and Connecticut State Artist Grant. Her plays have been developed with New Georges, Circle X Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center, Soho Rep, P73 and The Women’s Project.
Director – Humana Ten-Minute Play Festival (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Chile Pod (La Jolla Playhouse), Crashing the Party, 1001, Red Ink (Mixed Blood Theatre), The Little Prince, DNA, School for Devils (Hangar Theater/Lab). Assistant Director: In the Next Room (Lincoln Center), Associate Director, A Time to Kill (Arena Stage). SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab, The O’Neill, PlayPenn, Playwrights’ Center. 2012 Princess Grace Award, Drama League Fellow, Fulbright. Resident Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab. MFA, UCSD.
Director – has directed new work for Soho Rep, NYTW, The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, Partial Comfort, New Dramatists, Culture Project, The Flea, The Lark, Arena Stage, A.R.T. and others. Her plays have been developed by P73, New Georges and The Civilians. Recent credits: Good Goods (The O’Neill), The Tenant (Woodshed), Love in the Time of Channukah (Ars Nova), Edie and Alexander (Rising Phoenix). Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Lincoln Center Directors Lab Alum. MFA: Brown. Upcoming: Erik Ehn’s Burnt Umber (NYSAF/LaMaMa) and Alexandra Collier’s Underland.
Playwright – screenwriter, 2010-2012 WP Lab Member, affiliate of Rising Circle Theater Collective. Off-Off-Broadway: Refrain (POV Artists). Select new projects: Stageplay about African women’s soccer for which Tien traveled to Cameroon to conduct research; screenplay about a Spanish farmgirl who grows up to be a bullfighter. In development: Familium Vulgare (Rising Circle). Select past: Daughter of Heaven (Theater for the New City), Ginger (EST), The Hiding Place (Theater Masters). Works occasionally with the amazing 52nd Street Project. Stop by www.melisatien.com.
Director – is a freelance director and educator. Credits include Foreign Bodies (Women Center Stage Festival) Two Gentlemen of Verona )The 52nd Street Project) Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers (NYU-Tisch). Nicole was the 2011 recipient of the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Josephine Abady Awardand Nicole is a Co-founder and Curator of Working Theater Directors Salon, and a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. BA History, Yale. MA Interdisciplinary Studies, NYU.
Lead Producer – Stephanie Ybarra is an Artistic Associate at The Public Theater. Previously, she served as Producing Director of The Playwrights Realm. Other New York credits include The Brothers Size (2007 Under the Radar Festival), Billy Witch (Studio 42), One Night With Rael (Ars Nova ANTfest), Cherry Lane Theater’s Mentor Project, and INTAR Theater’s HPRL Writers Lab. She also serves as Casting Director for Two River Theater Company’s Crossing Borders Festival. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
Playwright – Stefanie is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Credits include: The Electric Baby (Quantum Theatre), Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J; Working Theater), Save Me (Phoenix Theatre) and The Fear Project (The Barrow Group). Honey Brown Eyes received the Helen Hayes Award for outstanding new play. Stefanie has received fellowships from Playwrights Realm and Dramatists Guild and commissions from Full Stage USA/OSF, The Working Theater, and Epic Theatre Ensemble. Upcoming: The Electric Baby (Two River Theater). Thanks WP Labstresses!
(Marla) – considers herself the illegitimate child of the legitimate theatre having been discovered on the Bowery fronting a rock band and cast by Milos Forman as Jeannie in Hair, the 1978 film. She was last seen in The Shaggs, at Playwrights Horizons which was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for best musical. On Broadway and off she was seen in Xanadu and created the role of Georgie Bukatinsky in The Full Monty; Sondheim’s original Squeaky Fromme in Assassins at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Jerry Zaks; Ah! Wilderness with Colleen Dewhurst and Jason Robards; On The Town; Little Shop of Horrors as Audrey. Film: Hair; I Love You, Phillip Morris!; Adventures of Power; Twelve Monkeys; Baby Boom; Brooklyn Rules; The Pebble and The Penguin. On the small screen: NYC 22; Law & Order SVU; Law & Order; Cheers; Miami Vice; Third Watch. Visit her facebook fan page to keep up on her progress!
(Simi) – Recent credits include Mission Drift (The TEAM. 2012 Drama League Nominee for Distinguished Production of a Musical), All Hands (Hoi Polloi), Eager to Lose (Ars Nova), Sex on Sunday (BE Company), Banished Children of Eve (Irish Rep), The Octoroon (PS122), and ongoing shows with Reverend Billy and The Church of Stop Shopping. TV/Film: The Burg, Law and Order: SVU, Roger the Chicken, Herkimer Dufrayne, Sissypants, The Weekend, What Would Jesus Buy? Training: MFA NYU Graduate Acting.
(Provocatrix) – previous credits include Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Alliance Theater), Candida* and Taming of the Shrew (California Shakespeare Theater-*Bay Area Critic’s Circle Nomination), Hell House (St Ann’s Warehouse), The Maids (Impure Artists), Fly By Night (Yale Cabaret/ArsNova). She is a founding member of the Good Belly Theater Collective. MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
(Susan) – Previous credits include: Wit (MTC), Estrella Cruz the Junkyard Queen (Ars Nova), Romeo and Juliet (Yale Rep), Master Builder (Yale Rep), After the Revolution and Golden Gate (Williamstown Theater Festival), Amadeus (Chautauqua Theater Company). TV/Film Credits: Gossip Girl, Casi Casi (HBO Latino). She is a graduate from Princeton University and the Yale School of Drama.
