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.
(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.
