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Neal J. Freeman is a director and writer and the founder of Engine37. In New York he has directed for Engine37, The Gallery Players, Sonnet Repertory, Naked Angels, and Ensemble Studio Theatre, and worked extensively as an assistant with Ridge Theater. Neal is an Associate Artist with the Cornell University Dept. of Theatre where he will soon return |
| for his second stint as a guest director. He comes from Baltimore where he worked for seven years as an actor, director, writer, and teacher. moatedgrange.com |
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Colleen Harris received a BS in Theater Performance from the University of Evansville and an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater. She has spent time as an actor and musical director in theaters across the country and has taught singing and improv to young actors. She is a founding member of Infinite Stage, and appeared in their productions of Chez Moi, Site-Seeing (FringeNYC and Capital Fringe), and Hamlet? That is the Question (Capital Fringe). Other favorite roles include Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and Winnie in Female |
| Transport at the American Conservatory Theater, Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers and Cookie Cusack in Rumors at the University of Evansville, and Patti in Smokey Joe's Cafe at The Main Street Theater. |
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Frederic Heringes is an actor and singer who lives in New York City. Frederic studied acting at The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in California and was a member of the repertory acting company there for five seasons, appearing in over twenty-five plays and musicals. He has performed the role of the tenor Ubaldo Piangi in The Phantom of the Opera with the Broadway, Toronto, San Francisco and American Touring companies. Recent New York City stage roles include: Henry in Mud (Red Room Theater), Alonso in The Tempest (Sonnet Repertory |
| Theatre), Ariste in The Learnèd Ladies (Gallery Players, Brooklyn), and Marty/Sunbarker in Trouble in Shameland, a musical by Bryan Putnam at the 2006 NYC Fringe Festival. You can hear him online at WellToldTales.com as a featured storyteller. Recent film: Harlan in Brutal Massacre, A Comedy directed by Stevan Mena. www.Frederic-Heringes.com |
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GD Kimble is a native of Louisiana where has he appeared in or directed numerous shows for Swine Palace Productions, The Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, Marjorie Lyons Playhouse, Theatre Of Ill-Repute, and Playmakers of Baton Rouge. He is also a founding member of GreenDoor Productions and The Pass-The-Hat Theatre. G.D. holds a BA in theatre performance from Louisiana State University, and an |
| MFA from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, CA. |
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Jill Michael is happy to be collaborating with Engine37. She is a storyteller/puppeteer currently serving as Associate Artistic Director of The Shadow Box Theater. Jill's past puppet designs include life size rod puppets for Once on This Island at The Gallery Players and mask designs for The Jungle Book at Camp Laurel. Jill's acting credits include work at the Berkshire Theater Festival, Connecticut Repertory Theater, The Gallery Players, Nevada Repertory Theater, The Looking Glass Theater and Children's Theater Experience. Jill holds a Bachelor of Arts in |
| Theater Arts from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The University of Connecticut. |
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Anna Olivia Moore - New York credits: As You Like It (Rosalind) and The Learned Ladies (Armande) at The Gallery Players; The Crucible (Columbia Stages); Site-Seeing (Infinite Stage, FringeNYC); Chez Moi (Infinite Stage); and Sky: Nikita Mistkevich (Culture Project’s Impact Festival). Regional credits: A Christmas Carol, Female Transport, Once in a Lifetime (American Conservatory Theater); Of Girl |
| and Wolf (The Guthrie Theater Lab); Site-Seeing and Hamlet? That is the Question (Infinite Stage, DC's Capital Fringe). TV: All My Children. Founding member Infinite Stage (www.infinitestage.org). MFA from American Conservatory Theater. |
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Finnerty Steeves was last seen as Thea Elvstead in Hedda Gabler at A.C.T. in San Francisco. Her New York credits include Almost, Maine (Daryl Roth Theatre), Marion Bridge (Urban Stages), Tumor (Lincoln Center's Directors Lab), and Diary of a Chambermaid (Dramahaus NY). Regionally, she has appeared in Lost in Yonkers (Guthrie Theater), Wonder of the World (Barrington Stage), Picnic (Baltimore Center Stage), The Garden of Hannah List (Florida Stage), The Heiress (Caldwell Theater Company) and will be |
| joining Milwaukee Repertory Theater in October to play Annie in Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests. Her film and television credits include Calling it Quits, The Great New Wonderful, Filmic Achievement, Law & Order, and The Sopranos. Ms. Steeves is a graduate of A.C.T.'s MFA program. |
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Patrick Toon's New York credits include The Merchant of Venice and The Rivals at
the Pearl, The Weir, Sideman, The Learned Ladies and Cmplt Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) at Gallery Players of Brooklyn, and The Tempest with Sonnet Rep. Patrick was a company member at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and has appeared in several productions there, as well as regionally at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, St. Louis Rep, and nine seasons with the Cincinnati Children's Theatre. TV credits include an appearance on Unsolved Mysteries. |
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| John Winn is a singer, saxophonist, and composer
living in Richmond, Virginia. An actor in regional
theater as a child, his heart has remained close to
the theater throughout his professional life. He has
been a frequent pit-orchestra musician for dozens of
touring Broadway shows, and recently contributed
some of his original music to a Virginia stage
production of Flowers For Algernon.
John toured parts of Asia, Russia, and Mexico with his
jazz quartet, Neighborliness, in 2004 as part of the
U.S. Department of State's Jazz Ambassadors program.
He has played the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater and
Millennium Stage and has played with many music and
theater luminaries including Tony Bennett, Aretha
Franklin, Lou Rawls, Doc Severinsen, Ben Vereen,
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Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist whose plays include Topdog/Underdog (Public Theater), Fucking A (Public Theater), Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (1990 Obie Award for Best New American Play), The American Play (Public Theater), Venus (Public Theater, 1996 Obie Award), The Death Of The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, and In The Blood (Public Theater, 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist), among others. Her work is the subject of the PBS Film The Topdog/Underdog Diaries. Her work for film and television includes Girl 6 (directed by Spike Lee) and the adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, for Oprah Winfrey Presents. Her first novel, Getting Mother’s Body, is published by Random House. She is currently writing the book for the Ray Charles musical (for the film producers of Ray). A recipient of a MacArthur Foundaton “Genius” Award, Parks received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Topdog/Underdog.
Bonnie Metzgar is a playwright, director and producer who has collaborated with Suzan-Lori Parks since 1989. Metzgar served for eight years as Associate Producer at the Public Theater under George C. Wolfe and was the Founding Producer of Joe’s Pub. Previously, Metzgar produced Parks’ early plays at the award-winning BACA Downtown where she was Artistic Director. Metzgar is currently Associate Artistic Director of the Curious Theatre Company in Denver, and teaches in the Brown Graduate Playwriting Program.
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