(Lisa) – Previous Credits include: on Broadway, The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center), Exit The King, Rabbit Hole (MTC); Off Broadway, Electra In A One-Piece(Good Company), Misalliance (The Pearl), Love’s Fire (The Public/Acting Company),The Glory Of Living (MCC), and more; regionally, The Game’s Afoot (Ken Ludwig World Premiere-Cleveland Playhouse), Little Dog Laughed (Repertory Theatre of St Louis-Best Actress, Kevin Kline Award), etc.; on tv, NYC 22, Law & Order, etc.www.erikarolfsrud.com.
Set Design – Credits include: Crooked and costumes for Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women’s Project), The How & the Why (McCarter), Happy Now? (Primary Stages), Venus in Fur (Studio Theatre), Merchant of Venice, Richard II, Romeo & Juliet, Antony & Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Tamburlaine, and Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre Company), The Sacrifices (Summer Play Festival), Dance of the Holy Ghost (Yale Repertory Theatre), Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Waiting for Godot (Berkshire Theatre Festival).
Costume Design – Named in this year’s LIVE DESIGN Magazine as “A Young Designer to Watch.” Recent credits: La Finta Giardiniera, Down In The Valley (The Juilliard School) Crashing the Party(Mixed Blood) Brundibar (Palm Beach Opera) Hamlet Redux (Asolo Repertory) Crane Story (Playwrights Realm) Boeing, Boeing, Neighborhood 3, and The Betrothed (Wellfleet Actors Harbor Theatre) Notes From Underground, (La Jolla Playhouse, Theatre for New Audiences, Yale Repertory Theatre) 99 Ways to F**k a Swan (Playmakers Repertory-UNC) Electra In A One-Piece (Wild Project) Uncle Vanya, Duchess of Malfi, Woyzeck, and Much Ado About Nothing (Brown/Trinity Rep) Stairs to the Roof (A.R.T. Institute). Graduate of The Yale School of Drama. Info at: www.moriaclinton.com
Light Design – Recent credits include Brooklyn Village (Roulette), Song from the Uproar (The Kitchen), Brooklyn Babylon (BAM), Shen Wei’s Q Confucius performance (Rockbund Museum, Shanghai),West Side Story (El Paso Opera) and Sty of the Blind Pig and The Understudy (Theaterworks Hartford). Upcoming projects include Robert Wilson’s Odyssey (National Theater of Greece) and Clementine Hunter(Peak Performances). Scott teaches at Brown University and is a founding member of Wingspace Design Collective.
Sound Design – Previous credits include: Cafe Variations (SITI Company/ArtsEmerson), Samuel & Alasdair (Mad Ones/New Ohio), The Ding Dongs (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre), Honus & Me (Totem Pole Playhouse), The Tremendous Tremendous (Mad Ones/The Brick). Stowe’s design for Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War won the 2010 NY Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Sound Design.
(Director) For Women’s Project: Sheila Callaghan’s Lascivious Something (in partnership with Cherry Lane), Trista Baldwin’s Sand. Upcoming; Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India (Magic Theatre, SF), Stefanie Zadravec’s Electric Baby (Quantum Theatre, PA). Recent productions include: Catherine Treischmann’s How The World Began (South Coast Rep in association with WP), Carla Ching’sSugarhouse at the Edge of the Wilderness (Ma-Yi Theatre), Rajiv Joseph’s Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51 (Theatre J, DC), Judith Thompson’s Palace of the End (Epic Theatre), Susan Bernfield’s Stretch: A Fantasia(People’s Light and Theatre Company), Caridad Svich’s Instructions For Breathing (Passage Theatre), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City (New Georges), Niko Tsakalakos and Janet Allard’s Pool Boy (Barrington Stage)and the Cherry Lane Mentor Project. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon, Daniella has been the Artistic Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center and the New Works Program Director of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. She is an NYTW Usual Suspect, an EST Member, a member of the Lark’s Artistic Cabinet and Board of Directors and is a WP Lab alum.
(Susan Pierce) – New York City: Circle Mirror Transformation(Playwrights Horizons; 2010 Theatre World Award, OBIE Award for Ensemble, and Drama Desk Award for ensemble), The Language Archive (The Roundabout), Drum of the Waves of Horikawa (Two-Headed Calf at HERE, OBIE Award for performance); and productions with Target Margin, The Foundry, Clubbed Thumb, 13P, The Talking Band, and SPF. Regional: The world premiere of In the Wake (Center Theatre Group; Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Top Ten performances of 2010, L.A. Times), The Old Masters at Long Wharf, and plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Empty Space, Bay Street Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Sundance Theatre Lab, On the Boards, Printer’s Devil Theatre in Seattle, and Theater of War in Japan. Film/TV: The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU, Hedda Gabler, Perfidia. As a playwright, Heidi’s work has been produced by Rattlestick, New Georges, Printer’s Devil, On The Boards, and Page 73; and published by Samuel French, the New York Theatre Review and Rain City Press.
(Micah Staab) recently graduated from Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts with a BFA in acting and is excited to be making his New York debut with Women’s Project. Regional:Twelfth Night as Valentine/Fabian (Westport Country Playhouse directed by Mark Lamos), The Odd Ball as Rick (Mile Square Theater). Favorite MGSA Credits include Marat/Sade as Duperret (Directed by Anders Cato), The Hostage as Leslie (Directed by Sue Lawless) and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rutgers Conservatory at Shakespeare’s Globe/Sam Wanamaker Festival).
(Scenery & Costumes) – 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).
(Lights) – With SITI Company: American Document, Antigone, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, bobrauschenbergamerica (2004 Henry Hewes Design Award), systems/layers, War of the Worlds – The Radio Play. With Rude Mechanicals: The Method Gun, Lipstick Traces, Big Love, Cherrywood, Matchplay. Classic Stage Company: The Age of Iron, Hamlet, Richard II, Richard III, The Tempest. With Playwrights Horizons: Dead Man’s Cell Phone. With NYTW: Songs From an Unmade Bed.
(Sound) – is an award winning sound designer whose work for theater and dance has been heard in over 500 productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway and off. His accolades for sound design include the 2010 Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, the 2006 Lucille Lortel and AUDELCO Awards, the 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award, the Princess Grace, The Village Voice OBIE Award, and the Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY Award. Sound designer and founding member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company. Former Resident Sound Designer Actors Theater of Louisville and the Williamstown Theater Festival.
(Casting Director) is the Casting Director for Playwrights Horizons and The Huntington Theater in Boston. Theater credits includeDeadman’s Cellphone with Mary Louis Parker (PH), Grey Gardens (PH 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 How the World Began.
(Assistant Director) is a member of the WP Lab 2010-2012. Recent credits include: Sladjana Vujovic’s The Tender Mercies (One Year Lease at Teatro Circulo, NYC), Mia McCullough’s Lucinda’s Bed(Chicago Dramatists), Alena Smith’sIt or Her (soloNOVA Arts Festival at PS122, Berkshire Fringe Festival, 2010 Frigid Festival Audience Choice Award, NYC) Jeff Grow’sCreating Illusion (terraNOVA Collective, 2 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, NYC),Johnna Adams’ Angel Eaters (Flux Theatre Ensemble, 6 New York Innovative Theatre Award Nominations, NYC), The Children’s Hour (Astoria Performing Arts Center, NYC), as well as many new plays in development at The New Group, The Lark, The Playwrights Realm, Red Fern, Diverse City, among others. She has recently been Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company, a Director-in-Residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a guest director at Fordham, NYU/Strasberg, NYU/Tisch and Long Island University. Jessi is a transplant to NYC from Chicago where she lived for eight years working as a freelance director and Artistic Director of Stage Left Theatre, an ensemble based company dedicated to developing and producing new plays. She is currently Director of terraNOVA Collective’s Groundbreakers new play development program and an Affiliated Artist of New Georges. Jessi is a recipient of the Denham Fellowship from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and was recently named a finalist for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Visit www.jessidhill.com.
(Playwright) is a recent graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting program, an alumna of the Public Theater’s 2011 Emerging Writers Group, and a new member of New Dramatists. Her play about the foreclosure crisis, Bethany, won the Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers as well as Synchronicity Theatre’s SheWrites award, was published in Methuen’s American Next Wave anthology in the UK, and was chosen by John Guare as runner-up for Yale’s David C. Horn Prize. Bethany and her other plays, Mine and Gather at the River, have had readings or workshops at the Public Theater, Juilliard, the Women’s Project, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf, the Black Dahlia, the Wilma Theater, HighTide Festival Theatre (UK), the Lark, Naked Angels, Partial Comfort et al. Ms. Marks grew up in Kentucky, attended Boston University, Indiana University and the BMI Lehman Engel Composer/ Lyricist Workshop, and currently holds a new play commission from South Coast Repertory.
(Director) Credits include: Off-Broadway: Simon Stephens’ American premiere of Bluebirdwith Simon Russell Beale (Atlantic Theater); Simon Stephens’ Harper Reganwith Mary McCann (Atlantic Theater). NYC: Susan Mosakowski’s Escape (La Mama); Patrick Huguenin’s Paper Dolls(NY Fringe; Outstanding Ensemble Award); Naomi Iizuka’s Language of Angels(Lincoln Center Institute); Charles Forbes’ minor gods (SPF). She has developed new work at New Dramatists, NY Stage & Film, The Kennedy Center, Dixon Place, Playwright’s Center, LCT Director’s Lab, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. She worked with Sam Mendes as Associate Director on The Bridge Project productions of Cherry Orchard, Winter’s Tale, Tempest, andAs You Like It (BAM/Old Vic/international tour). GT is an alumna of UNC School of the Arts, Women’s Project Directors Lab, and The Drama League.
(Shannon) This Beautiful City (Vineyard, Humana 2008, Studio, Center Theatre Group), Gone Missing (Barrow Street, ATL, Cast Album), Stray (Cherry Lane), Precious Little (Clubbed Thumb), Well (as Lisa Kron, Arena), The Constant Wife (American Conservatory Theatre & Seattle Rep), Ghosts (Berkeley Rep), The Seagull, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labours Lost, (California Shakespeare Theater), Clean Alternatives (59E59th/Edinburgh, Fringe First Award), The People’s Temple (Perseverance), St. Joan, The Entertainer, The Weir (Aurora Theatre Company). Upcoming Film: Bert & Arnie’s Guide to Friendship. Co-author of ReEntry (Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Baltimore Center Stage, Roundhouse, Segerstrom Center, Urban Stages, Two River Theater. Published by Playscripts). Associate Artist, The Civilians.
(Crystal) is perhaps best known for her fearless portrayal of “Betty Suarez” on ABC’s hit comedy Ugly Betty. This breakthrough role has earned Ferrera an Emmy®, Golden Globe®, and Screen Actors Guild Award, as well as ALMA and Imagen Awards.
Ferrera recently wrapped production on Diego Luna’s biography, Chavez, which centers on the civil-rights activist and labor organizer, Cesar Chavez. Portraying his wife, “Helen Chavez,” Ferrera stars opposite Michael Peña and alongside an impressive cast including Rosario Dawson and Gabriel Mann.
Ferrera can currently be seen in David Ayer’s crime thriller, End of Watch, also starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Anna Kendrick, Michael Peña, and Cody Horn. The film is set to release September 21st. Also this fall, Ferrera is set to appear in Todd Berger’s comedy It’s a Disaster opposite Julia Stiles and David Cross. The film premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June.
In addition to her fall film lineup, Ferrera participated in Half The Sky, the four-hour television series for PBS. The series, which was shot in 10 under-privileged countries, delivered audiences with an intimate and dramatic portrayal of the women and young girls in the world that live under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable. Ferrera joined reporter Nicholas Kristof, and actresses Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde, in an inspiring program that captivated the struggling and empowering stories of females fighting for change. The series premiered on October 1st and 2nd.
In tandem with her work on the series, Ferrera is currently serving as ambassador on a campaign called, “America4America” joining Voto Latino, the leading non-partisan national youth empowerment organization. The campaign aims to reach people across the country by using online content to engage in conversations with the actress and discusses issues related to voter id laws, education, and immigration. Ferrera will be the face of the initiative for the upcoming 2012 election.
The actress recently starred as “Roxie Hart” in the West End production of the hit musical Chicago for an eight week run that started last November. Ferrera was also recently seen in a recurring role on the second season of the CBS hit series The Good Wife, in which she played an illegal, nanny and object of Eli’s (Alan Cumming) affection.
Prior to this, Ferrera was seen in Ryan Piers Williams’ The Dry Land opposite Melissa Leo and Jason Ritter. Ferrera also executive produced the film, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won Best International Film at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival. The film was released by Maya Entertainment.
Other feature film work includes Fox Searchlights’ Our Family Wedding, Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon and Warner Bros.’ The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, the sequel to the 2005 original. She also starred in the bilingual independent film Towards Darkness, which she executive produced, and Fox Searchlight’s independent film Under The Same Moon. Additional credits include the Brian Jun film Steel City, Catherine Hardwicke’s Lords of Dogtown, and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival entry How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer. America also appeared off-Broadway in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, directed by Trip Cullman.
Ferrera first secured her place as one of Hollywood’s most vibrant young talents with her starring role in the Patricia Cardoso film Real Women Have Curves. Her performance earned her a Sundance Jury Award for Best Actress, an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Debut Performance, and a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance for a Leading Young Actress.
(Ferrera photo by Yu Tsai.)
(Charlie) Broadway: Michael in Dancing at Lughnasa (American cast), Arthur Miller’s After the Fall, Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, the last Wilbur Turnblad standing in Hairspray, Bill Austin in Mamma Mia! (original cast), Spring Awakening, Present Laughter. Recently he originated the role of Uncle Ben in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Off-Broadway: Editor Webb in David Cromer’s Our Town (original cast, Barrow Street), Laurence Olivier in Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street), Stuff Happens (Public Theater, Drama Desk for Best Ensemble), Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day (Public), The Internationalist (Vineyard), Little Fish (Second Stage), When They Speak of Rita (Primary Stages), Bright Lights, Big City (NYTW), Henry V (NYSF). Regional: Long Wharf, ACT, the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, McCarter, Mark Taper, Actors Theatre of Louisville and many others. TV/Film: The Wackness, Bitter Pill, Henry’s Crime, Step Up 3D, “Royal Pains,” “Life on Mars,” “Elementary,” “New Amsterdam,” “Third Watch,” several “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: SVU”. Bay Area Critics Circle Award, Charles Bowden Award from New Dramatists.
(Gary) made his Broadway debut playing “James” in The Miracle Worker. Previously at Women’s Project, he performed in Kathryn Walat’s Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen. He has also played roles in The Cherry Orchard and A Winter’s Tale in Sam Mendes’ Bridge Project (BAM, Old Vic, European and Asian Tour.) Off Broadway Drama Desk and Drama League nominations for From Up Here (MTC); also credits from Playwrights, Atlantic and Second Stage. Film and television: R.I.P.D, Men In Black 3, Petunia, Fringe, Body Of Proof, Golden Boy, Law & Order SVU.
(Toni) Broadway: Nine (Tony Award, Best Revival 2003), Macbeth, Electra, Chronicle of A Death Foretold, MuleBone, and A Streetcar Named Desire. Off Broadway: Love, Loss, and What I Wore, A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, Crazy Mary, Fabulation (Playwright’s Horizons). National Tour: Wicked (Madame Morrible); Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Mary (World Premiere at the Goodman), Going to St. Ives (Barrington Stage), The Old Settler (World Premiere at the McCarter and Long Wharf). International: The Colored Museum (West End), A Winter’s Tale, Pericles (Royal Shakespeare Company). TV: “The Big C”, all three “Law & Order” series. Film: “Mega-Tsunami” (Upcoming), “Silver Tongues”, “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee”, “Changing Lanes”. Myra is a Fox Fellow.
(Scenic Design) Current and upcoming NYC: Hit the Wall (Barrow Street), Totally Tubular Time Machine (Culture Club). NYC: 4000 Miles (LCT3/Lortel Award, LCT), Disgraced (LCT3), Bad Jews (Roundabout Underground), The Best of Everything (HERE), Chimichangas and Zoloft (Atlantic Theater Company), Escape (La MaMa), Desperate Writers (Union Square), BUG (Barrow Street, Obie Award), Kindness (Playwrights Horizons), Four (MTC), The Irish Curse and Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse), Oliver Parker! (stageFARM at Cherry Lane), The Diary of a Teenage Girl (3LD, Hewes nomination), The Amish Project (Rattlestick, regional, tour), None of the Above (New Georges, Hewes Nomination), and the Broadway production of Voices in the Dark. Regional: Blue Man Group/Live at Luxor (Eddy Award), Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Prince Music Theater, Theater J, Anchorage Opera, among others. Lauren is a member of New Georges’ Kitchen Cabinet and a partner in the design firm Luce Group.
(Costume Design) Recent productions include: Doug McGrath’s Checkers (Vineyard Theatre, NYC), Simon Stephen’s Harper Regan (Atlantic Theater, NYC), Susan Mosakowski’s Escape (LaMama, NYC), Simon Stephen’s Bluebird (Atlantic Theater, NYC), Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July (Williamstown Theatre Festival, MA & Bay St. Theatre, NY), Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty (Broadway production & MCC Theatre, NY), Alexander Dinelaris’s Still Life (MCC Theatre), and Robert Altman’s Tanner on Tanner (Sundance Channel).
(Lighting Design) Off-Broadway: Bad Jews, Look Back In Anger (Roundabout); Detroit, The Big Meal, Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons); Uncle Vayna, Elective Affinities (Soho Rep); The Select, The Sound & The Fury, Gatz (Elevator Repair Service); February House, Titus Andronicus (Public); Notes From Underground, Chair (Theater for a New Audience); The Shipment; Church (Young Jean Lee); No Child. (Epic Theater Ensemble/Barrow Street); Thom Pain (DR2). Other New York: Target Margin; New Georges; Clubbed Thumb; P.S.122; Signature Theater. Regional: A.R.T.; La Jolla Playhouse; Yale Rep; Perseverance Theater; Long Wharf; South Coast Rep; Berkeley Rep; Syracuse Stage; Asolo Rep. Many productions with Curtis Opera Theater, Philadelphia. 2012 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.
(Sound Design) – Broadway: The Heiress, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Nom), Impressionism. Select New York: This Is Fiction (Cherry Lane), February House (Long Wharf, Public), Waiting For Lefty (Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute), Fall For Dance 2008-2012 and Grand Re-Opening Gala (New York City Center), Timon Of Athens (Public), Play Dead (Players Theater), On The Levee (LCT3), Heading East (Asia Society in New York), Encores!: Anyone Can Whistle (New York City Center). Select Regional and International: A Christmas Carol (North Shore Music Theater), Pullman Porter Blues (Arena, Seattle Rep), All Shook Up (North Shore Music Theater), Jitney (Two Rivers), Daibolidad (National Theater of Cyprus), Some Lovers (Old Globe), Sleeping Beauty Wakes (McCarter, La Jolla), Woyzeck (Oracle Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Jolla). klaxson.net
(Playwright) who was born in 1946 and grew up in Vienna, now lives in Vienna and Munich. She has received numerous awards for her literary works, which include not only novels but also plays, poetry, essays, translations, radio plays, screenplays and opera librettos. Her awards include the Georg Büchner Prize and the Franz Kafka Prize for Literature. In 2004 she was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature. Click here for a recent and rare interview with Elfriede Jelinek.
