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.
(Daphne) most recently appeared as Isabella in Theatre for a New Audience’s production of Measure for Measure (dir. Arin Arbus). Other New York: The Tempest (CSC), The Young Left (Cherry Lane), Father Joy (SPF), Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF), Spring Awakening (Prospect Theater Co.), The Beach Plays (HB Playwrights), Talk to me Like the Rain, The Vortex. Regional: Othello (TFANA/Intiman), Uncle Vanya (Long Wharf),
Lady with a Lapdog (A.R.T.), Tonight at 8:30 (Williamstown). TV & Film: “The Practice”, “Law & Order”, “The District”, Good Dick, The Sensation
of Sight, The Prince and Me.
(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 Lascivious Something.
(Scenery) Marsha Ginsberg works in the interdisciplinary overlap between scenic design for theater and opera, installation art and photography. She studied Theater Design at NYU Tisch School of Arts, and Visual Arts at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and Cooper Union, School of Art. Her work for the stage has consistently forged new directions in considering stage space, as well as innovating approaches to re/viewing canonical works or visualizing new texts. Notable work in opera includes collaborations with directors Roy Rallo: Don Pasquale (Nationaltheater Weimar, Germany); La Finta Giardiniera (San Francisco Opera Center); Bluebeard’s Castle and Elektra (Long Beach Opera); and with Christopher Alden: Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Theater Basel, Switzerland); Imeneo (Glimmerglass Opera/NYC Opera); Carmen (Nationaltheater Manheim, Germany); In Mahler’s Shadow, EOS Orchestra, La Serva Padrone, Pauvre Matelot, Rita (San Francisco Opera Center). Recent world premieres: the theatrical installation, Bleakhouse in collaboration with Heiko Kalmbach, for Crash! Boom! BAU! Festival commemorating 90th year of the Bauhaus, Theaterhaus, Jena, Germany; The Obie award winning Telephone by Ariane Reines, dir. Ken Rus Schmoll, Foundry Theater at Cherry Lane, NYC; Kafeneion dir. Dimitri Kourtakis, Athens/Epidaurus Festival, Greece; Knock-Out by Katharina Schmitt (based on Gerhard Richter painting cycle, “October 18, 1977”) dir. Heiko Kalmbach at Theaterhaus Jena, Thalia Theater, Hamburg. Recent solo and group exhibitions: Pavlov’s Lab and Other Rooms, solo exhibit at Magnus Muller Gallery, Berlin, displaying photos, a stage construction and performance series; Design Life Now, National Design Triennial, Cooper Hewitt Museum, ICA Boston and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. She teaches scenic design to architects at The School of Constructed Environments, Parsons School of Design, and is currently teaching in Masterstudiengang Buehnenbild, TU, Berlin, Germany. She has held assistant professorships at Swarthmore College, Wesleyan College and UCLA, Department of Theater, Film and TV.
(Lighting) Broadway: Superior Donuts, Top Girls, 110 In The Shade (Tony nom.), Well, Awake and Sing! (Tony nom.), Rabbit Hole, A Touch of the Poet, In My Life, The Light In The Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics awards), The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars (Tony nom.), The Piano Lesson among others. Recent: KDO! (Foret Nationale, Brussels), Kafeneion (Athens Festival); Garden Of Earthly Delights (Minetta Lane); Orpheus X (TFANA); Kaos (NYTW). Awards: Obie, Michael Merritt Award, etc.
(Costumes) Theresa Squire has been designing costumes in New York for over 10 years. Although she designs mainly for theatre, her work has also been seen in dance, film, print, industrials and commercials. Her costumes were seen on Broadway in High Fidelity and The Lieutenant of Inishmore. She is the resident costume designer for the Drama Desk Award winning Keen Company (Carl Forsman). She has designed for Soho Rep, (Blasted directed by Sarah Benson), The Atlantic Theatre Company (The Lietutent of Inishmore directed by Wilson Milam, The Cherry Orchard, directed by Scott Zigler and The Ionesco’s directed by Carl Forsman), Barrow Street Theatre (Orson’s Shadow directed by David Cromer and Two Men Talking directed by Dan Milne), The New Group (Rafta Rafta, Directed by Scott Elliot, Sin, A Cardinal Deposed, Everything’s Turning into Beautiful, both directed by Carl Forsman and Accomplices directed by Ian Morgan), The Flying Machine/Soho Rep (Frankenstein, Signals of Distress, Utopians all directed by Joshua Carlbach) The Hourglass Group (Trouble in Paradise directed by Elyse Singer, Beebo Brinker Chronicles directed by Leigh Silverman), Merrimack Repertory Theatre (The Fantastiks! Directed by Jonathan Silverstein, Dinah Was directed by Charles Towers and The Breadwinner), Chautauqua Theatre Company (Ah Wilderness directed by Lisa Rothe), New World Stages (Elvis People directed by Henry Wishcamper), Long Wharf (The Good Theif directed by Carl Forsman), Dorset Theatre Festival, (Dulcy, Sleuth directed by Jess Berger) Virginia Opera Company (The Pirates of Penzance directed by Worth Gardner), 2nd Ave Theatre (Hydriotaphia directed by Michael Wilson), Writer’s Theatre of Chicago (Crime and Punishment directed by Michael Halberstam), 2nd Stage (Peter and Jerry directed by Pam MacKinnon). She just finished working on a full length dance piece Remember Me with Parson’s Dance and East Village Opera Company.
(Sound Design and Original Music) Broken Chord Collective composes and designs music and sound for theatre. The sound design and music for Lascivious Something was created by collective members Daniel Baker and Aaron Meicht. Other credits include productions in New York at Atlantic Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Juilliard, Keen Company, La Mama E.T.C., Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Second Stage Theatre, and Women’s Project. Regional credits include productions at Dallas Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, Hartford Stage, The Huntington, Long Wharf Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington DC), Weston Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Passage Theatre Company and Yale Rep. www.brokenchordcollective.com.
(Co-Producer) Cherry Lane Theater originally developed Sheila Callaghan’s Lascivious Something in our Obie-Award winning Mentor Project program, and we are thrilled and honored to be collaborating with the Women’s Project to present the play and these artists’ work to New York audiences. A landmark in Greenwich Village’s cultural landscape, Cherry Lane Theatre serves as a vital lab for the development of new American works and the cultivation of a diverse, multigenerational audience. Our primary focus is the playwright as central to the dramatic event and the text as intrinsic to theatrical innovation and excellence. As New York City’s longest continuously running Off-Broadway theatre, Cherry Lane has helped to define American drama, fostering theatre that is daring and relevant for 85 years. Since 1997, our resident company produces under the leadership of Founding Artistic Director Angelina Fiordellisi and Managing Director James King. Mainstage productions include our Discovery Series, new plays developed within our award-winning programs and our Heritage Series which features groundbreaking off-broadway classics presented at Cherry Lane since 1924. Our 60-seat Studio Theatre, built in 1998, has been the incubator for hundreds of new plays where CLT Company and guests have developed and produced the work of emerging playwrights. Our newest space, the 90-seat Cherry Pit, located at 155 bank street, is home to Solo Fest at the Pit, NY Fringe Festival, late-night, alternative and avant-garde programming, as well as a home for Naked Angels and other not-for-profit companies. Join the Cherry Lane community: support playwriting and the future of American drama. To sponsor playwrights and productions, please call 212-989-2020 extension 26. To view our entire production history, visit our website, www.cherrylanetheatre.org.
LYNN ROSEN (Playwright) Productions include: Apple Cove, (Women’s Project, 2010-2011 season, directed by Giovanna Sardelli; Todd Mountain Theater Project, NY); Washed Up On The Potomac (“Working It Out,” Centerstage, Baltimore; The Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon, NYC); Back From The Front (The Working Theater, NYC; The NY International Fringe Festival; The Fire Dept “At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq”); Ideal Home (New Georges, NYC); Nighthawks (The Studio Theatre, D.C.; Willow Cabin Theatre Company, NYC; published by Samuel French); NEXT! (multiple productions in Germany). Her newest full-length plays Puddy Tat and Washed Up On The Potomac have been developed with many theatres, including: The Lark Play Development Center (Writing Fellow 2003-4), The New Harmony Project, New Georges, Centerstage (FirstLook), and The New Group. She was commissioned in 2003 and 2010 by The EST/Sloan Foundation for Progress In Flying, also workshopped at Geva Theatre and The Working Theater, and she is currently working on a commission for New Georges called Goldor & Mythyka: A Hero Is Born. A member of the Women’s Project Lab (2008-2010), EST, The Dramatists Guild, and The Fire Dept, as well as a New Georges and Lark Affiliated Artist, Lynn was named one of “50 To Watch” by The Dramatist magazine. She is originally from Gary, Indiana.
(Director) Giovanna Sardelli has collaborated with Lynn Rosen on her fringe production of Back From The Front and the Barebones workshop of Apple Cove at the Lark Play Development Center and the Todd Mountain Theatre Project production. Other select credits: West Coast Premiere of The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez (Old Globe), World Premieres of Christopher Wall’s Dreams of The Washer King (Playwrights Realm), Lila Rose Kaplan’s Wildflower, Rajiv Joseph’s plays Animals Out of Paper (Joe A. Callaway Award for Outstanding Director, Lucille Lortel Nomination Outstanding Play), All This Intimacy (all for Second Stage), The Leopard and The Fox (Alter Ego), Huck & Holden (Cherry Lane); Absalom by Zoe Kazan (Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival), Padraic Lillis’ Two Thirds Home (Broken Watch), and Adriana Sevan’s Taking Flight (The Goodman, CTG, San Diego Rep and Sundance Institute Theatre Lab). Giovanna has developed new plays with The Lark Play Development Center (where she serves on the Artistic Cabinet), EST (where she is also a member), Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, TheatreWorks and The Playwrights’ Center among others. She spent two seasons as Director of the Shakespeare Sedona Institute and two seasons as the Artistic Director of Studio Tisch. Giovanna received her MFA in Acting from the Graduate Acting Program at NYU and is a graduate of their Director’s Lab. At NYU she has directed shows and presentations for the Graduate Acting Program, The Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, the Stella Adler Conservatory, and the Dramatic Writing Program. Giovanna is on the faculty of the Graduate Acting Program and the Department of Dance at NYU. Upcoming: The North Pool by Rajiv Joseph (TheatreWorks).
