Janice Acevedo[track 1: stage manager] Fresh from a graduation from Mount Holyoke College with a bachelor’s degree in Theater Arts Janice is thrilled to be back home in New York and is looking forward to starting her journey in the theatre with The Confidence Man. Previous credits include Off- Broadway: From the Earth to The Moon. Other projects include: Cabaret, Brecht on Broadway, and Seven Deadly Sins. |
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Ben Beckley[track 1: Lover-Gon/Av-Beg] With Woodshed Collective: Twelve Ophelias. The Flea: Los Angeles, dir. Adam Rapp; ‘Twas the Night Before, premiere by Christopher Durang; Cato, with Andre de Shields. Temporary Distortion: OHT, The Chocolate Factory, P.S. 122, Prelude Festival, touring in Canada, France, and Austria. Also: Berkshire Theater Festival, HERE, Prospect Theater Company, Peculiar Works, and workshops at SoHo Rep, The Lark, and The Public Theater. TV: EWTN, Nippon TV, and Comedy Central. Upcoming: The Three Sisters (The Assembly). |
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Kate Benson[track 2: Woman-Br&Mel/Moth] Most recent credits: QUIXOTE with Stillpoint Productions, ROOM FOR CREAM at La Mama with Two Headed Calf, Thomas Bradshaw’s DAWN at the Flea, 12 OPHELIAS with Woodshed Collective at the McCarron Park Pool, Sibyl Kempson’s ZEIT AF DER KURBISGEISTNACHTEN at Dixon Place, Scott Adkins’s RUNNING COMMENTARY NO. 5, ST JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS at PS 122, Sibyl Kempson’s CRIME OR EMERGENCY at Dixon Place, Thomas Bradshaw’s PURITY at PS 122, Ken Urban’s I [HEART] KANT, and Jason Grote’s one-woman show KAWAISOO: THE PITY OF THINGS. At the Flea Theater: A.R. Gurney’s MRS. FARNSWORTH, BAAL, BENTEN KOZO (Obie winner), Mac Wellman’s CLEVELAND, and Karen Finley’s RETURN OF THE CHOCOLATE SMEARED WOMAN. Other credits include Mac Wellman’s THREE AMERICANISMS at Chashama, and TWO SERIOUS LADIES directed by Ken Schmoll. She is a graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. |
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Teddy Bergman[production coordinator] Please see Teddy’s Woodshed Collective Bio. |
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Lisa Bernier[assistant lighting designer] has worked in lighting and electrics at various venues in New York, including Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, and the Juilliard School. She is excited to be working with the Woodshed Collective for the first time on The Confidence Man. |
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Pepper Binkley[track 1: AV-Gon/Asst] Theater: Woodshed Collective: “12 Ophelias”; Off Broadway: “The Cherry Orchard”, Atlantic Theater; Regional: “The Real Thing”, Huntington Theater; “The Shape of Things”, Stamford Theatre Works Other: “Roxy Font”, Cherry Lane, Fringe Festival ‘07; “Thicker Than Water” YoungBlood, EST; EST One-Act Marathon 2007. TV& Film: “Law and Order:CI” NBC, “The Bedford Diaries” WB, “Lipstick Jungle” NBC, “Arrows of Desire” Channel 4 in London, “Let Them Chirp Awhile”, “Eavesdrop”,”Asylum Seekers”, “Stone”, “Morning Glory”. Training: 3 year degree from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. |
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Felipe Bonilla[track 2: FR/OTH/Man] is excited to be in his first Wood Shed Collective show! Many thanks to Stephen and Jessica and his family and friends. Flea Theater: Love/Stories (by Itamar Moses – Michelle Tattenbaum Dir.), The Happy Sad (by Ken Urban – Sherri Kronfeld Dir.) & Offending the Audience (Jim Simpson Dir). American Clock (Austin Pendleton Dir. – HB Playwrights Theater), Baaahhh!!! (Maria Riboli Dir.- Bleeker Street Theater), God of Hell (Abingdon Theater). Film/TV: Entre Nos (Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival), 30 Rock, Kidnapped, Family Meeting, Helicon. M.F.A. (Acting & Directing) from Conservatorio de la Casa del Teatro Nacional (Colombia). |
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Stephen Brackett[track 2: director] is a New York based freelance theater director – he has developed new plays at The Public Theater, Soho Rep, The Lark, Soho Think Tank, Williamstown Theater Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Dixon Place and Ars Nova. He is a co-founder of the Bushwick Hotel with playwright Rachel Shukert; their collaborations include Johnny Apple@#%*er (Ice Factory), Bloody Mary (nominated for 4 NYIT Awards), Sequins for Satan (Galapagos Art Space) and The Blackstone Hotel (The Culture Project). Stephen was the Assistant Director of Passing Strange at the Public and Belasco Theaters and is a founding member of 425 D Director’s Lab. Upcoming work: FUE at NYMF and The Private Life of Inga Snyder with the Columbia University Graduate Playwriting Program. |
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Zack Brown[lighting designer] Zack Brown is a Professional Lighting and Sound designer and Theatre Photographer. Credits include: The Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective), Expose: The Curious Case of Shiloh and Zahara (Stage 13/MITF), Grace (Rising Circle), WWYLMBG!!! (Catch/PS122), Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Cincinnati Shakespeare, Jackie Award), Romeo and Juliet (Classic Stage Company), Julius Caesar and Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare On The Sound), Six Degrees of Separation and Gem of the Ocean (NYU). Zack received his MFA in stage design from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2008. |
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Rusty Buehler[track 1: SPA/ AV-west/AV-coal] a graduate of NYU, and studied primarily at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Credits include MAN OF LA MANCHA (Room 5001,) SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT (NY Fringe,) THE WILD PARTY (Culture Project,) CATCH THE MOON (Pataplays @The Flea,) ART, RAINY DAY PEOPLE, and SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION. He is currently collaborating with Todd Briscoe on the comedy cabaret TODD AND RUSTY: KARAOKE SUPERSTARS. Love to family and friends. |
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Daniel Carlyon[assistant sound designerer] is a rising junior at Northwestern University, majoring in theatre with a minor in sound design. Favorite designs include The Doctor and the Devils (Rag & Bone Theatre Company, FringeNYC), Copenhagen (Northwestern),Bent (NU Jewish Theatre Ensemble), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Sit & Spin Productions), and Picnic (Buck’s Rock Camp). He is the technical director of Sit & Spin Productions at NU and contributes sound, scripts, and vocal stylings to NURD (NU Radio Drama). Fire is his only weakness. |
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Juliette Clair[track 1: Docent] is thrilled to work with Woodshed again. Past Woodshed credits include: Hedda Gabler (Hedda), Savage in Limbo (Savage), Macbeth (Three Witches), and Mud (Mae). Some other theatrical credits: The Merchant of Venice (Salerio, RADA), and most near and dear to her heart, the role of all five characters and a giant cat in her one woman show, Balls of Yarn, which premiered last year at Los Angeles’s Flight Theater. Her extensive sketch work was also featured on her own webseries, The Sketch Factor, produced by iklipz.com. Film credits include: Mostly Ghostly (Ms. Wright, Universal), and Dragon Lance (Onyx, Paramount Pictures). |
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Eric Clem[track 1: BR/AV-can/Mark-coal] is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His most recent theater credits include Stretch: A Fantasia (New Georges), Mud (45th Street Theater), Blue Man Group (Briar Street Theater, Chicago), Movie Geek (Ars Nova), Communicating Doors and Almost, Maine (Penobscot Theatre Co.), and Life and Limb (Penny Dreadful Theatre Co.). He is currently writing and performing for Naked Radio, a weekly radio show and podcast, produced by Naked Angels. |
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Caley Clocksin[track 2: stage manager] Caley is thrilled to be working with Woodshed Collective for the first time. Previous stage management includes a fellowship with the Atlantic Theater Company, as well as work at Atlantic Acting School, Atlantic for Kids, Babel Theatre Project, and Columbia Gorge Repertory Theatre. She is currently studying at NYU. |
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Paul Cohen[playwright] Paul is a native New Yorker and a product of its public school system. His plays include Cherubina, The 385 Pound Smoker, and Mourn the Living Hector, which won an award for best playwright at the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival. He is pleased to be working with Woodshed Collective on board the Lilac. |
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Dan Cozzens[track 1: AV-west/Rev] is proud to be with Woodshed for a third year, after Twelve Ophelias (RudeBoy/Hamlet) and Never the Sinner. This year he’s played BlackWings in 1000 Wolves (Ontological-Hysteric) and the title role in e.e. cummings’ HIM (Walkerspace), and read with APAC, Vagabond Ensemble, and nyu’s hotINK festival. He has worked at the Flea (Offending the Audience, Bingo with the Indians, Los Angeles, ‘Twas the Night Before), East River Commedia (Magnificent Cuckold, Bath Opera), & the Ontological (Short Form & Incubator Festivals). Dan trained at the A.R.T. in acting and directing and has a BA from Harvard in Biological Anthropology. |
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Todd D’Amour[track 3: Art/AV-Runaway/Rev-Shirt] |
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Gretchen Davis[track 3: stage manager] is a NYC public school teacher, musician and multi-faceted theater artist. She has worked extensively as a director and stage manager. Favorite shows include The Maids, and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (both with the Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco). She has a MA in Educational Theater from New York University. |
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Danny Deferrari[track 1: Henry/Susp-west/GM/Ed] Danny is pleased to be making his Woodshed debut! Williamstown Theatre Festival Credits include: “I Have Loved Strangers” dir. Johanna Mckeon, “Once in a Lifetime” dir. Michael Greif, “God of Vengeance” dir. Gordon Edelstein, “Thujone’ dir. Wes Grantom. New York credits include: “Happy Birthday Wanda June” dir. Rachel Chavkin, “As You Like It” dir. Moritz Von Stuelpnagel. Training: BFA in Drama through NYU Tisch School of the Arts (Atlantic Theater Company and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).To my family: thank you. Seriously. Thank you. |
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Aaron Dias[track 2: Docent] |
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Matt Dickson[track 2: Docent] Broadway: The Coast of Utopia (Lincoln Center Theater, dir. Jack O’Brien). Off Broadway: The House in Town (Mitzi Newhouse Theater, dir. Doug Hughes). Off Off Broadway: How I Won the Campbell Prize (Triskelion Arts, World Premiere), Happy Sauce (Director, FringeNYC). Regional: Wallflower (Stages Repertory Theatre, World Premiere), Romeo and Juliet (Playmakers Repertory Company, dir. Davis McCallum), The Sisters Rosensweig, Sonia Flew, The Rose Tattoo (dir. Nicholas Martin), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (dir. Danny Goldstein) (Huntington Theatre Company), King Lear (Actors Shakespeare Project), Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Television: All My Children, New Amsterdam. BFA Boston University. |
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Gabriel Hainer Evansohn[production designer] Please see Gabriel’s Woodshed Collective Bio. |
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Nicholas Feitel[track 3: Ter/Graham/OSG] is proud to be a born and raised New Yorker, a feature which he assumes makes him naturally a dramatist. He recently received a BFA in Film Production from New York University. Credits include on the Web: She’s Mine and Axial Stones (dir. John Beamer), Commercials for Krazy Glue and Dell and on television on The Late Show With David Letterman. He has also directed short films, some available online, the latest of which LOSER, stars Zephyr Benson and Jay O. Sanders. Thanks to his parents and Grandma and to the director, Michael Silverstone, for the opportunity. |
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Emily Fishbaine[director of development] Please see Emily’s Woodshed Collective Bio. |
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Emmitt George[track 3: Guy/Rev/AV-cracker] has worked with Witness Relocation, The Ridge, The Commonwealth Shakespeare, American Repertory Theater, Atlantic Theater, Soho Rep., Hubbard Hall and the Hasty Pudding Theaters. Favorite shows are Rat vs. The Dancing Experiment, Hypatia, Julius Ceasar, Merchant of Venice, King John, Gailileo, A Lesson from the Aloes, A Midnight Summer’s Dream, The Cherry Orchard and Don Juan. He is a graduate of Harvard’s A.R.T. and Moscow Art Theater School. |
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Chris Gliege[track 1: Docent] is thilled, seasick, and honored to be doing a show with Woodshed Collective. He recently fell off a truck from Chicago and landed gracefully onto the boat and the rest is history. Training: Life and BFA from The University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana…but mostly life. |
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Lara Gold[track 1: Tina/Sis] Lara is a graduate of The University of California, Irvine and The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre. Since graduating, she has performed with The Bridge Theater Company, MTWorks, The Waverly Writers, Theater for The New City, Manhattan Repertory Theatre, The Looking Glass Theater, The Hangar Theatre and she is excited to be working with Woodshed Collective! |
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Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum[track 2: PR, President, Lover] NY Off: Sailor Man (Winner, Outstanding Play, FringeNY, transfer), BOOZY, Guttenberg: the Musical, Hell House; NY Off-Off: Franklin Thesis (LFC), President Harding (LFC), The Fever (LFC), Don Carlos (Prospect), Book of the Dun Cow (Prospect). Upon the close of The Confidence Man, Jacob will be appearing in Oh My!, a new musical about the history of the vibrator. When not acting, Jacob directs and choreographs violence for the stage and screen. He studied at Yale. (AEA/SAG) |
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Laurel Holland[track 3: Mabel] Hailing from the hometown of Walla Walla, Washington, Laurel joins the cast of The Confidence Man for her inaugural collaboration with Woodshed Collective. She is a resident Bat at the Flea Theater and last season appeared in Itamar Moses’ Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It), Joshua Scher’s The Footage, and a workshop of Jonathan Reynolds’ Girls in Trouble. She has also appeared in several films including Heartland, a short conceived and directed by Alejandro Sescosse, which made its debut at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Laurel holds an Honors A.B. degree in French Literature from Harvard University. |
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Lauren Keating[track 1: director] Lauren is a freelance director based in New York City, where her favorite credits include: Al’s Business Cards (At Play, in association with the Old Vic), Real Life Blog (The Public Theatre, Workshop), The Ride (Prospect Theater), MurderCake (Peculiar Works Project), Flight 1/23 (Internationalists), Un(en)titled (Vampire Cowboy Battle Ranch), Measure for Measure (The Sage Theater), Babs the Dodo (The Flea Theater, Workshop). Regional credits include: The Big Come (University of New Mexico, MFA Drama Dept.), Lulu and Learning Russian (Hangar Theatre, Lab Company), Charlotte’s Web (Hanger Theatre), Seagulls, Summer, Pugilist Specialist, Love, Lameece (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Assisting credits include multiple productions with Daniel Sullivan, Walter Bobbie and Jim Simpson. Lauren is a member of 425 D, the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (’07), and a founding member of The Internationalists. She is an NYU: Tisch Alumni and a Drama League Directors Project Fellow. Lauren is the Old Vic/New Voices Exchange American Director, 2009. |
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Daniel Kluger[sound designer] The Temperamentals (The Barrow Group), Jailbait (Cherry Lane), Raised in Captivity (Red Fern Theatre Company), Hardly Wonder (Columbia University), The Greeks Part III (Juilliard), James and the Giant Peach (Arden Theater Company), Melissa Arctic, Heartbreak House, A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage (Two River Theatre Company), The Persians (People’s Light & Theatre), Metamorphoses (Weston Playhouse), The Dining Room and Keen Teens (Keen Company), The Ones That Flutter (SPF/The Public Theatre), Talley’s Folley (Dorset Theatre Festival), Cecilia’s Last Tea Party (Todd Mountain Theatre Project), Platonov and Uncle Vanya (Lake Lucille, dir. Brian Mertes), Running (Milkcan), The Framer (Broken Watch), The Woodpecker, The Young Left, Jailbait (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Couldn’t Say (MITF), New York Innovative Theatre Awards (dir. Jose Zayas). |
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Jocelyn Kuritsky[track 3: Madd] Please see Jocelyn’s Woodshed Collective Bio. |
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Jane Lee[track 3: Gail/Donna/A] Jane is excited to perform on a boat with Woodshed Collective for the next month! She has been an acting apprentice with Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, and performed with The Civilians in Brooklyn at Eye Level. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her roommate and her roommate’s dog. Jane has no pets of her own. |
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Roger Lirtsmanmost recently worked on Christmas is Miles Away at The Connelly with Babel Theater Project and has participated in various readings and workshops around the city. |
Derek MansonDerek previously appeared in Woodshed Collective’s Never the Sinner as State Attorney Robert Crowe. New York credits include Tuesdays with Morrie (Epiphany Theater) and Cloud 9 (Bank Street). Regional credits include the world premieres of Looking for Roberto Clemente (Imagination Stage) and Einstein is a Dummy (Alliance Theatre), as well as Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Arcadia, Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol, Goodnight Moon (Alliance Theatre), Amadeus, Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Sacramento Theatre Company) Ah, Wilderness! (Theatrical Outfit) All in the Timing (Horizon Theatre) and A Few Good Men (Wagon Wheel). Derek has also performed voiceover work for “Saturday Night Live”, The WB, Condé Nast Traveler, Men’s Health, and Kraft Foods. He is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. |
Brendan McDonoughBrendan McDonough is entering his final semester at Fordham University Linoln Center and graduating with a BA in Theatre Performance. Past performances include Tales of the Lost Formicans (Fordham Mainstage), Life is a Dream (Fordham Mainstage), Fallen Angels (UNCW Mainstage), The Red in Bedspread (Fordham Studio) and The Birthday Girl (Fordham Studio). This past June, Brendan worked on an adaptation of The Red Shoes with director Niegel Smith at The Public Theatre. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Friends, Family, Katy. |
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Moti Margolin[track 2: G/AV- rel] is excited to be a part of this crazy boat ride. Recent theatre credits include Harry Foot in Ferencz Molnar’s “One, Two, Three” at The Old Castle Theatre Company in Bennington, VT; David O. Selznick in the Cider Mill Playhouse production of Ron Hutchinson’s “Moonlight and Magnolias”; Vanya in the The 411 Space production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”, for which he created the translation; Ratcliff, and other assorted murderers and henchmen in the Frog and Peach Company’s “Richard III”. Other recent theatre endeavors include an adaptation of Strindberg’s “Miss Julie”; and a translation of three Chekhov one acts entitled “An Evening of Marital Bliss.” Film credits include assorted projects with Dawn of Man Productions such as the psychiatrist in “Robotic Neurotic”, and the Director in “Surreality I”. Moti can also be killed several different ways as Dmitry Rascalov in “Grand Theft Auto IV”. Thanks to Woodshed Collective, and as always, mom. |
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Melissa Miller[track 2: EMP/AV-HL] Broadway: Tartuffe (Roundabout Theatre); Dirty Dancing (workshop). Recent: Bob Clyman’s Secret Order (Alley Theatre, dir. Charles Towers); Heart of the City (Urban Stages, dir. Martha Banta); Guillermo Reyes’ Madison (Premiere Stages); Ariel Dorfman’s Widows (59E59, dir. Hal Brooks); Paul Rudnick’s Regrets Only (Premiere Stages); West Moon Street (Prospect Theatre, dir. Davis McCallum), Charles Mee’s Mail Order Bride (Beckett Theatre), Mark Smith (13P, dir. Ken Rus Schmoll). Plays/workshops/readings with: Flea Theatre, New Georges, New Group, Classic Stage, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, TFANA, Rattlestick, Keen Company and Red Bull Theatre. Other regional: Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Williamstown, Chester Theatre, NJ Rep. Television: Ed, All My Children. Vassar College (Phi Beta Kappa), RADA (Certificate). |
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Colin Miller[production stage manager] New York: The less we talk…, Loaded, Sympathetic Division, Julie from Staten Island, Affluenza!; Regional: The Dreams of Sarah Breedlove, A Christmas Carol, The Trip to Bountiful (The Goodman Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, Villa America, The Physicists, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Williamstown Theatre Festival); I Do! I Do!, Rat in the Skull (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Michigan Shakespeare Festival). Colin is a graduate of The University of Michigan. |
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Katy Moore[track 3: assistant stage manager] recently left the world of wealth management to pursue her long-held dream of being able to pay the rent working as a Stage Manager. Most recently she was the PSM of two different 2009 Fringe Festival shows, “The Green Manifesto” and “Just Don’t Touch Me, Amigo.” Off-Broadway credits include “The Imaginary Invalid” (2009) at The Cell Theatre and Andy & Edie” (2004) at Shetler Studios. |
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Heidi Niedermeyer[track 3: Docent] Spent the summer at The Contemporary American Theatre Festival playing Molly in Farragut North and understudying the role of Janet in Yankee Tavern. Other credits include Antoinette in the Mainstage production of A Flea in Her Ear (Dir. John Rando) at The Williamstown Theatre Festival. Other Williamstown credits include Hungry, Trouble Tales (for boys and girls), Thursday, The Prophet Mohammed, and Help Yourself. Other New York credits include Kraken (WalkerSpace), Actors are F@#king Stupid (Wild Project), Underground (CSC), Twelfth Night (Lake George Theatre Lab), Office Sonata (Irish Arts Center) and Trojan Women (HERE Art Center). She recently played Angela in “The College Humor Show” on MTV. Graduate of Fordham University’s at Lincoln Center, Theatre Department. |
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Caitlin Orr[track 1: stage manager] Caitlin is a recent graduate of Wagner College with a B.A. in Theatre: Design and Technology Management and Production. Credits include: “Winter Journey” for the Undergroundzero play festival (Stage Manager), “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry” for the NYFringe ‘09 (Assistant Stage Manager), “Ophelia” for the NYFringe ‘06 (Assistant Stage Manager), “Dusty and the Big Bad World” a staged reading (Assistant Stage Manager), “Swimming in March” a staged reading (Assistant Stage Manager), and she recently completed a production internship with Blue Man Productions and will be stage managing the upcoming production of “Top of the Heap” for The Gallery Players in Brooklyn. |
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Jessica Pabst[costume designer] Please see Jessica’s Woodshed Collective Bio. |
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Chantel Pascente[track 3: assistant director] Recent directing credits John Cameron Mitchell’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Churchill’s Abortive, Lorca’s The Love of Don Perlimplin…, and MOD, a new musical in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She’s entering her last semester study directing and design at NYU, Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Thanks to Michael for this opportunity! |
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Emily Perkins[track 2: B/1/AV] Favorite credits include: Charlotte’s Web (Theatreworks Int’l tour), F*ing Art (Samuel French Festival Award Winner), 37 Stones (Working Man’s Clothes), Apricot Supernovas (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Punching Hal Improv (Broadway Comedy Club), The Decameron Project (Edinburgh Fringe). Emily is a resident actor for The Assembly Theater Company, recently performing in Clementine and the Cyber Ducks at Page 73 and The Ontological. She also works as a voiceover artist. Mom, Dad, JP, Ashleigh …words cannot describe what you mean to me! Many thanks to Stephen Brackett and the Woodshed Collective for welcoming her into this fascinating project. |
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Michael R. Piazza[track 3: Docent] Recent acting credits for Michael R. Piazza include Richard III (Frog and Peach Theater Co.) Titus Andronicus (Prospect Theater Project), 2b (or Not 2b) (Abrons Art Center), Revenge of the Space Pandas (Atlantic for Kids), and Hamlet (Orpheus Productions @ Atlantic Stage 2). Michael is also a director and a proud teacher, and he holds a B.F.A. in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He is a faculty member at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School and has been a teaching artist with a number of organizations in New York City since 2004. |
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Mallory Portnoy[track 1: Donna/Fact] NY credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with The Public Theater/NYSF (dir. Daniel Sullivan) and new works at New York Theatre Workshop and Theater for the New City. She most recently appeared in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena) and Richard III (Lady Anne) at Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival. Training: BFA University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Circle in the Square. She is thrilled to be working with the Woodshed Collective! |
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Evan Prizant[associate costume designer] Evan Prizant’s local designs include Samuel & Alasdair (The Brick), EndoftheWorld LoveSong (The Flea), Spanish Wives (Looking Glass), The Hairy Ape (Columbia), and Unrestricted Acts (The Kraine). He has also designed extensively in his hometown of Louisville, KY, where he recently assisted every costume designer at the 2009 Humana Festival. His work has also been seen in Cape Cod, and in New Orleans, where he received his Bachelors from Tulane University. |
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Meredith Ries[assistant scenic designer] Meredith is a set designer and props master based in Brooklyn. She has worked with Second Stage Theater, Signature Theater Company, the Public Theater, Elevator Repair Service, Polybe and Seats Theater Company and Target Margin Theater among others. |
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Kate Cullen Roberts[track 3: Mabel (Understudy)] Off-Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public Theater, dir. Alex Timbers). At Williamstown Theatre Festival: Party Come Here (dir. Christopher Ashley), Wing It (dir. Amanda Charlton), Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Paradise Now, The Witching Hour, Tumor, Mom & the Razor Blades, Frenzy for Two. Other NY/Regional: Lucky in Love (NY spork* Festival), Twelfth Night (The State Theatre, dir. Paul Mullins), Sweeney Todd (The Papermill Theatre). Television: Law & Order: CI, Totally 4 Teens (AdultSwim pilot), Awkward NY (upcoming web series). Film: The Rebound, Expecting, The Tragedy of Glady, The Melvin Mills Document. B.A., Wake Forest University, M.F.A.,The University of Texas. |
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Dan Rogers[technical director] is a techie, director, set designer and general jack-of-all-trades. He is thrilled to be working with the Woodshed Collective, and has previously served as a technical assistant for Studio 42, Vampire Cowboys and M-34 Productions. He received a BA in Theatre Arts from Brown University, where he directed productions of Reckless, The Revenger’s Tragedy, The Skin of Our Teeth and many others. You can see him this winter in The Abridged Branded to Kill as part of the Brick’s Fight Festival. |
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Lauren Savitz[track 2: assistant stage manager] This is Lauren’s first official foray behind-the-scenes of a theatrical production. She studied theatre and acting at Sarah Lawrence College and the British American Drama Academy. In the past year she has been part of staged readings at the Drisha Institute and Epiphany Theatre Co. During the day she works full-time at the Metropolitan Opera. A proud resident of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, she is a member and contributor to the homegrown Birdsong Collective (birdsongmag.com) which publishes a bi-monthly literary ‘zine and produces readings throughout the neighborhood. |
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Kate Schroeder[track 1: assistant director] is an actor, director, producer and ensemble member of Tricklock Theatre Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With Tricklock, she has created, performed and directed original work that has toured all over the world, worked as an associate producer and production manager for the Revolutions International Theatre Festival since its inception almost 10 years ago, and was a core instructor and director for the Manoa Project Teen Ensemble Apprenticeship Program. Recently, she was the production manager for the Rubicon International Theatre Festival in Ventura, CA, and the Words Afire! New Play Festival at the University of New Mexico. Acting credits include: Valerie in The Weir, Lady MacBeth in MacBeth, Lucy in Mac Wellman’s Dracula and Harper in Angels in America Parts I & II. Film/TV credits include: The Dry Land, Swing Vote, Beer For My Horses and Breaking Bad. |
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Tara Schuster[associate producer & volunteer coordinator] is a writer and comedienne based out of New York City. Her work most recently appeared in 2008’s New York Fringe Festival, where her play, BE BRAVE, ANNA! received five out five stars from Time Out NYC. When not writing melodramas based on the lives of celebrities, Ms. Schuster works as a Production Assistant at Comedy Central. In the past, Ms. Schuster has worked on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, CRAWL, FADE TO WHITE (13P), and Under the Radar (The Public Theater). Ms. Schuster graduated from Brown University with Honors in Playwriting where she studied under Bonnie Metzgar and Paula Vogel. Her influences include Sheila Callaghan, Lisa D’Amour, Prince, and HBO’s “The Wire,” which she bought super boot-leg from China. |
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Michael Silverstone[track 3: director] has directed new plays at Theater Row, HERE, Williamstown, the Hangar Theater, Under St. Marks, and has worked with EST’s Youngblood Collective and New Dramatists. He has been a guest director at Syracuse University, Fordham University, Atlantic Theater’s Acting School, and upcoming, at NYU / Tisch School of the Arts. He has taught inmates behind bars at Sing Sing, as well as led a theater company of inmates for ten months at Fishkill Correctional Facility, where he directed August Wilson’s JITNEY. Favorite productions: Leslye Headland’s Cinephilia, Adam Bock’s Thursday, and Edward Gorey’s The Insect God. Michael has multiple Assistant Director credits both on and off-Broadway, and is a former SDC Fellow, Drama League Directing Fellow, and an alum of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. |
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Hugh SinclairRecent acting credits include Chuck Chuck Chuck (Immediate Medium), Southern Promises (PS 122), Woodhull (NYC Fringe Festival), The Wasps (Target Margin), Orestes 2.0 (Here Arts Center), Strom Thurmond in Strom Thurmond Is Not A Racist (Brick Theatre), Fast Blood (The Lark), Merton Of The Movies (Atlantic Theatre). Regional credits include A Christmas Carol (Epiphany), The Foreigner (Pennsylvania Stage), The Elephant Man, Amadeus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Taming of The Shrew, and Macbeth (Tennessee Repertory Theatre). Film: Ernest Goes To Camp, Running Mates, and Tree. He has directed theatre (Travels With My Aunt), film (What Men Talk About), and improv shows (Shake It Up, The Natural Coffeehouse Radio Hour, What Women Talk About) as well as corporate and institutional events. Most recent directing credits include New York Theatre Fringe Festival’s award-winning Naked In A Fishbowl. He has been a teaching artist in the NYC public schools, and an adjunct professor of acting at Marymount Manhattan College. |
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Erica Smith[track 2: assistant director] is currently a student at the Atlantic Acting school, where she was props master for NYU’s 2009 production of Balm in Gilead. She has appeared as an actor on stage and screen in her native Canada, most recently in the CBC film Useless Things. Erica is thrilled to be participating in this unique and exciting project. |
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Stephen Squibb[producing artistic director] Please see Stephen’s Woodshed Collective Bio. |
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Gina Vetro[track 3: Mother/ B] a former band member of U.K.’s “Dead or Alive”, Madonna’s Sex Book, Calvin Klein model, sketch-comedy groups “pupu-platter & the dregs”, is hailed in the Village Voice as,“One of downtown’s best kept secrets!” A winner of the Jim Biederman “ GREAT SKETCH COMEDY SHOWDOWN ” and 2010 releases her new film “The Slayer Bureaucrat” with Angie Bowie. |
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Sara Walsh[scenic designer] Previous designs include: Bird House (KNF Co. at The Mint), Do Not Do This Ever Again (video design with Jeff Larson and Karinne Keithley, directed by Maria Goyanes at the Ice Factory ), Rag, Fur, Blood, Bone (TriBeCa Performing Arts Center), Canary (Rattlestick), 837 Venice Blvd. (HERE Arts Center), Othello, Loves Labor’s Lost (Juilliard), Farmyard, Enter the Night, Electra (Bard College), The Great God Brown ( Columbia University), the bird (Bushwick Starr). Currently she is re-designing the Bronx Zoo Children’s Zoo Theatre Space. B.F.A Loyola University, Chicago. M.F.A. NYU Tisch School of the Arts. |
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Brandon Wolcott[sound designer] is a sound designer and music producer. Design highlights include Adam Rapp’s Bingo with the Indians, Love/Stories by Itamar Moses (both at the Flea). He is the resident sound designer for Collaboration Town. Most recently, he produced and designed And Everyone Laughed at the S.L.A.M. Warehouse, a circus extravaganza in the pursuit of liminality. Recent album of thoughtful dance music released on Archipel music. |
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Lee Zarrett[track 2: Jan] Broadway: 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Jane Eyre. Off-Broadway: City Center Encores!, New Victory, Vineyard. National Tour: the Trevor Nunn/Cameron Macintosh production of My Fair Lady. Regional: LaJolla Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, NY Stage and Film, Berkshire Theatre Festival. Concerts:Premiere of Bill Finn’s Innocence/Experience (Williamstown), Bolcom and Weinstein’s Casino Paradise (Lincoln Center). Workshop: Manilow and Sussman’s Harmony. |
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Daniel Zimmerman[scenic designer] is a set designer currently residing in New York City. Recent New York designs include Christmas is Miles Away (Babel Theatre Project) You Will Experience Silence (Dixon Place), The Vanished (Novisi Theatre Co.), Edgewise (The Cherry Lane), Jitney(Fishkill Correctional Facility), Cinephilia (Theatre Row), An Irish Brew (Studio Tisch), Angles in America: Millennium Approaches, Smash, …and the rain, and These Northern Stars all for NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. Associate Designer to G.W. Mercier for two seasons at the O’Neill Playwright’s Festival. Commercial work with Spaeth Design, HERE Television network, and Christopher Young Design for Harry Winston. Upcoming Projects: Request Concert (Novisi Theatre Co.), FUE and Plagued for the NYMF Festival, and La Ronde (Directed by Stephen Bracket). MFA: NYU Tisch. |
