(Scenery) – Recent designs: Incident At Vichy (The Beckett Theater), Eurydice (Second Stage), All My Sons and Prelude To A Kiss (both at The Huntington Theater), She Loves Me (Oregon Shakespeare Theater), The Glass Menagerie (with Rita Moreno at Berkeley Rep), The Bluest Eye (Hartford Stage). Selected designs: August Wilson’s Seven Guitars and Joe Turner’s Come And Gone (Broadway), The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci (Second Stage), Silk, and Journey To The West (the Goodman) written and directed by Mary Zimmerman.
(Costumes) – Dramatis Personae, Cherry Lane; Dreams of the Washer, Cherry Lane; Taming of the Shrew, Hudson Valley Shakes; Love Song, Hudson Stage; Marrying Meg, The Theatre at St. Clements; Animals Out of Paper, Second Stage; All this Intimacy, Second Stage; Jayson with a Y, Lion, Theatre Row; Baby by Tere O’Conner, DTW; In Case You Forget, New York Stage and Film; Dangerous Beauty, New York Stage and Film; Choke by Tere O’Conner; Cinderella, a new musical, Lyric Stage. Amy is a member of United Scenic Artists local 829 and has an MFA from NYU Tisch School for the Arts.
(Lights) – Recent designs: Tigers Be Still (Roundabout). Other New York: Public-NYSF, Lincoln Center, Labyrinth, Ma-Yi, Soho Rep, City Center, and Juilliard Opera Center. Regional: ACT, Berkeley Rep, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington, Kansas City Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, and Westport. International: West End, RSC-Stratford, Nederlandse Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, Epidaurus-Greece, LaScala, and Opéra de Lyon. Awards/Nominations: Drama Desks, Lortel, Hewes, Craig Noel Award, Bay Area Critics Award. www.japhyweideman.com
(Sound) – Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Huck and Holden (Cherry Lane), All This Intimacy and Animals Out of Paper (Second Stage) dir. Giovanna Sardelli. Other NY: Playwrights Horizons, The Public, Primary Stages, The Atlantic, MTC, New Group, LAByrinth, The Play Company, P73, Les Freres, Juilliard, Fordham, SPF, NYMF, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick. Regional: Williamstown, Barrington Stage, NY Stage & Film, Philadelphia Stage, Yerba Buena PAC, Berkshire Theater Festival. underground International Tour, Screwtape Letters National Tour, Rash at Edinburgh Fringe.
(Assistant Director) Nicole Watson is a member of the WP Lab 2010-2012. She has a BA in history from Yale and an MA in interdisciplinary studies from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Credits include a workshop of Oyamo’s new musical White Hot Black Spice (New Dramatists, NYC)Deconstruction by Anne Phelan(Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn) Reverb by Radha Blank (The Fire This Time Festival) Traffic Jam,(Secret Theatre, NYC), One Minute-Play Festival (Here Arts Center, NYC), Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers (NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, NYC),Foreclosure (NYTE at the Access Theatre, NYC), David Hilder’s Just Exactly Like(The Flea, NYC), Daniel McCoy’s Eli and Cheryl Jump (2009 Fringe Festival, NYC), Words, Words, Words and Time Flies, (Chelsea Rep Lab, NYC) The Snow Queen (Urban Stages on Tour, NYC), and The Fantastiks (The Cathedral School, NYC).
(Associate Producer) Elizabeth R. English is a member of the 2010-2012 WP Lab. Before coming to New York, Elizabeth has produced theater in Los Angeles, Chicago, and at the Edinburgh Fringe. Recently she co-produced with award-winning LA based Rogue Artists Ensemble their workshop production ofHYPERBOLE: origins at the inaugural Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her developmental production ofThe Exile of Petie DeLarge by Jennifer Barclay has been presented at Son of Semele Theater and REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. She worked with Big Dance Theater during their residency at the Getty Villa, and produced Silver Years of Dust, three shorter dance theater pieces by members of that company at Highways Performance Space. In 2009 she produced Erik Ehn and Katie Shook’s object theater and multimedia adaptation of “Godzilla”, One Eye Gone, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She produced the Chicago premiere of John Patrick Shanley’s The Big Funk, nominated for two Joseph Jefferson Awards, and the Los Angeles premiere of Thomas Bradshaw’s Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist for Blank-the-Dog. Elizabeth founded her own production company, A Collection of Shiny Objects, to explore alternative models for the development of theatrical and multidisciplinary live performance. She has a BS in Theatre from Northwestern University and an MFA in Producing from the California Institute of the Arts. www.collectshinyobjects.com.
(Director) – Anne Bogart is the Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. Works with SITI include American Document, Antigone, Under Construction, Freshwater, Who Do You Think You Are, Radio Macbeth, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, La Dispute, Score, bobrauschenbergamerica, Room, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, War of the Worlds—The Radio Play, Alice’s Adventures, Culture of Desire, Bob, Going, Going, Gone, Small Lives/Big Dreams, The Medium, Noel Coward’s Hay Fever and Private Lives, August Strindberg’s Miss Julie, and Charles Mee’s Orestes. She is the author of three books: A Director Prepares, The Viewpoints Book and And Then, You Act.
(Adaptation) – Jocelyn Clark is a freelance dramaturg and writer. He is a member of the artistic staff of the Sundance Theatre Lab and has taught dramaturgy at the Kennedy Center (D.C) and at Columbia University. He has written five plays for Anne Bogart and SITI Company – Bob, Alice’s Adventures, Room, Score and Antigone. Here You Are Human, his new project with the Tiger Lilies, premiered in the Archa Theatre in Prague in September.
(Actor) – Associate artistic director for SITI. Company credits include: Under Construction, Radio Macbeth, Who Do You Think You Are, Hotel Cassiopeia, Death and the Ploughman, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Room, bobrauschenbergamerica, systems/layers, War of the Worlds, Cabin Pressure, The Medium, Culture of Desire, Going, Going, Gone, Orestes, and American Document with Martha Graham Dance Co. National and international venues include: Bonn Germany, Iberoamericano Bogota, BAM Next Wave, Humana, Bobigny, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Singapore Festivals; Wexner, Krannert and Walker Center for the Arts; In NY; Dance Theater Workshop, NYTW, CSC, Miller, Public, Joyce Theater. Regional credits with SITI include: San Jose Rep, ART Cambridge, Court Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville: (including Picnic, Adding Machine, Hay Fever, Miss Julie, Private Lives). Ongoing classes and residencies in the US and abroad over 18 years. Additional credits include The Women (Hartford Stage), Seven Deadly Sins, New York City Opera -(Kosovar Award for Anna II) Marina, a Captive Spirit, all with Anne Bogart. Resident company member: StageWest, Mass., The Milwaukee Repertory, The Alley Theatre, Houston. Associate artist for The Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), under the direction of Tadashi Suzuki; Venues include, Moscow Art Theatre, Toga Festival, Alexandrinksky Theatre, RSC, Theatre Olympics Athens and Shizuoka Japan, Buenos Aires Festival, Vienna Festival, Istanbul Festival, Festival Mundial Chile, Teatro Olympico Italy, Montpelier France, Hong Kong Festival. Ongoing faculty member: The Juilliard School of Drama; Associate Director Summer Training Program, Toga, Japan. Fox Fellowship recipient for Distinguished Achievement 2008.
(Playwright) is the author of the plays Bossa Nova (Yale Rep); The Luck of the Irish (Huntington Theatre Company); Rust (Magic Theatre); The Curious Walk of the Salamander, Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land (Actors Theatre of Louisville); 103 Within the Veil and The Gibson Girl (Company One, Moxie). She has developed her work at Sundance (Utah and Ucross), Magic Theatre, National New Play Network, Cardinal Stage, South Coast Repertory, Madison Rep, Page 73, Hourglass, Bay Area Playwrights, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, The Mark Taper Forum, A.S.K., The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Guthrie Theater, Mixed Blood, McCarter Theatre Center, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Moxie Theatre and New Georges. She is the recipient of a Huntington Theatre Playwriting Fellowship, an NEA/TCG residency at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and was recently Playwright-in-Residence at Company One. Ms. Greenidge has also received Sundance’s Time Warner Award for Bossa Nova. She attended Wesleyan University and The Playwright’s Workshop/University of Iowa and is a member of New Dramatists and Rhombus. Recipient of Aspen Theater Masters’ Visionary Playwright Award. (As of October 2011)
(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.
