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CREW:
Writers
Craig Abernethy
Recent productions include "State of the Art" at the Intentional in Waterford, and "Mr. Ali Ali… Outsourcing Torture" by the Subversive of Buffalo. Craig studied dramatic art at UC Berkeley; and worked backstage at venues including the NY Shakespeare Festival, and San Francisco Opera. He is member of the Dramatists Guild of America. See also www.craigabernethy.com.
Ian August
Ian is an actor, lyricist and playwright based in central New Jersey. His full-length play, Missing Celia Rose, received an off-Broadway workshop with the NYC Summer Play Festival in 2007, and is scheduled to be a featured reading at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Playfest - 2008. He was a winner of the 31st Annual Samuel French Inc. Off-Off Broadway Short Play Competition, with his short comedy, Le Supermarché, later published in a Sam French anthology. Several of his short works are currently being produced in festivals around the country (and as far off as Sydney, Australia), and he is a contributing writer for the monologue collection So She Said, currently running at the Abington Theatre in Manhattan. Mr. August has also written several full length plays, including Submitted by C. Randall McCloskey, Natural History, and Missing Celia Rose, which was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Awards in 2005. Publications include Abraham on the Mount (One-Act Play Depot, 2007), How to Survive in Corporate America, Godfrey, and The Title Fight (Smith and Kraus, 2008). Mr. August is one of the founding members of Stage One, a playwriting group developed through the Passage Theater in Trenton, NJ.
Elizabeth C. Bachner
Elizabeth is a writer and sociologist. Her fiction and poetry can be found in the forthcoming anthology Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Writing by Women in the 21st Century (Ed. Nava Renek, Spuyten Duyvil, June 2008), and her articles and reviews appear regularly in Bookslut, Swoon, and various other venues. Her research interests include exiled artists, youth culture, celebrity obsessions, sexual pathology, recent European history, mythology, poetics and death. She plans to write more plays.
Lisa B. Bridgens
Lisa Bonita Bridgens is an emerging playwright living in Boston. She attended the Foothill Theatre Conservatory in California, and also holds her BA degree in English and Comparative Lit. Her full length work "On Thin Ice" received a staged reading in California and is due for another in Maryland in October. She is currently a Research Intern for Boston Theatre Works where she greatly enjoys her work.
Matt Casarino
Paul Cohen
Paul Cohen is a native New Yorker and a product of its public school system. His play Cherubina is playing right now at the Sanford Meisner Theater. He is very pleased to be a part of the end of time.
Adrienne Dawes
Adrienne currently serves as the resident playwright for performance co-operative St Idiot Collective. Upcoming productions include the world premieres of You Are Pretty (St Idiot Collective - Austin, TX) and The Mary Trilogy (Mir Productions, NYC). Thanks to End Times Production for premiering Work Sucks! and my love to any Sadie Louers that made it to the show!
Todd Gebhart
Cryonics is Todd’s first foray into playwriting. He has lived and worked as an actor in New York for three years, most recently appearing in Capital Repertory’s production of Take Me Out. Other regional theater credits include Red Light Winter at the Wellfleet Actor’s Theater and a Barrymore Award-Winning production of Take Me Out at the Philadelphia Theater Company. He is a recent graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he earned their Director’s Choice for Outstanding Overall Performer and their award for Excellence in the Art of English Usage. He would like to thank his friends and family for their love and support.
Ian Grody
Screenwriter, playwright, and author Ian Grody earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch (NYU). He is the recipient of the Artistine Mann Award for Fiction, the Hemingway Society Hinkle Award, the Cinequest Film Festival Award for Screenwriting, the Ivy Film Festival Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay, the Venable Herndon Screenwriting Award, the Bristol Drama Society Playwrighting Award, the Prague Post Audience Award, and the Goldberg Fellowship & Scholarship (Tisch).
Brett Hursey
Brett Hursey's comedies have appeared in theaters across the country including venues in Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Hollywood, San Diego as well as Nottingham (England) and Blacktown City (Australia). He's also had six off/off-off Broadway productions in Manhattan.
Krista Knight
Krista’s, Anaerobic Respiration, won the 2005 Southwestern States National Playwriting Contest and was produced in the 2005 New York Fringe Festival. Her short play, Apricot Supernovas, was published in 14 Hills and was a finalist for the 2006 Humana Festival's Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Another play, Biotintillation, was a finalist for the 2007 Heideman. Her work has been staged at the Ashland New Plays Festival, Dixon Place and The Women's Work Theatre in New York, LiveGirls! in Seattle, The Attic Theatre in Los Angeles, Harvest Theatre in Toledo, Panoply in Huntsville, Alabama, Goshen College in Indiana, the Pan Theatre in San Francisco, and the Bus Barn Stage Company in Los Altos. It has been developed at Abingdon in New York, First Stage in Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and the Magic Theatre and the Playwrights' Center in San Francisco. Krista has been in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and the UCROSS Foundation in Wyoming. She is a graduate of Brown University and the 2007 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow.
Steve Lohse
Steve Lohse studied journalism and literature at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Alongside his freelance writing, he has worked as a chef and commercial fisherman in Washington State and Alaska. His plays have been produced in Bellingham, WA at the Idiom Theater, Los Angeles at the Company of Angels Theater, and in Seattle, where he was a founding member of the Outsiders' Inn Collective.
Anne-Sophie Mondiere
A Paris Native, Anne-Sophie was raised in England, Ireland and the Midwest. After a BA in English, a Dramaturgy internship at the Guthrie Theater, and writing two plays (Clouds, Waves and Taxidermia; On the Rocks) , she enrolled at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts from which she will be graduating in May 2008.
Cindy Pierre
Cindy Pierre thanks God for everything. She is a produced playwright and theater critic. Past productions: "The Burrows of Does", "2D", "Harmony Hiccup", among others. In development: "The Locusts", "Top of the Line", and "Frontline."
S.W. Senek
S.W. Senek’s plays have been produced from Alaska to NYC. He was the winner of the NJ Playwrights Competition and Oglebay Institue Towngate Theatre National Playwriting Competition. He has four short plays published by Smith and Kraus, a compilation of short plays published by Original Works Publishing. He is a member of the Theater Project and the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
Stacy Lane Smith
Lane’s plays has been seen at Orlando Rep with Women Playwright’s Initiative, Long Island City Arts Project, Playwright’s Round Table, Studio Theatre of Wellington, Capital Hill Arts Workshop, Cedar Lane, Run of the Mill Theatre Company, Potluck Productions, Twenty Percent, South Camden Theatre Company, Panoply Arts Festival, Toy Boat, Rossyln Spectrum, Endtime Productions, Harrogate, Insurrection, Bug Theatre, Magnolia Arts Center, Harvest Theatre of Toledo, Brooklyn College, Manhattan Theatre Source, Kaleidoscope, Eclectic Theatre Company, Players Theatre, Classika, Primary Stages at the Shubin Theatre, Ten Grand Productions, Hostile Takeover Theatre, the Hallem Players, Underground Productions, Lincoln Square Theatre, Towne Street Players, Theatre Vertigo, OSU’s Limbo Project, and Oberon Theatre Ensemble. She was a finalist with Firehouse Theatre Project, Intentional Theatre, and the WPI. Lane has been published in Scene4 Magazine and will have her work included in an upcoming Smith and Kraus anthology and in Manhattan Theatre Source’s The Book of Estrogenius 2007. Lane is the recipient of a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico grant for playwriting. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rollins College in 2002. StaceyLanePlaywright@yahoo.com
Andrew W. Turner
Andrew W. Turner is a writer/actor/educator and - according to a random googling of his name - a 66-year-old farmhand with an IQ of 53 who stabbed his sister to death. When he isn't bailing hay or stabbing siblings, he works as a High School English teacher in Queens. He has had several plays produced on the off-Broadway level and is expecting a call at any moment announcing that six-figure deal on his latest screenplay. Thanks to the cast and crew of EndTimes Productions for giving life to his apocalyptic vision of the future of American education.
Jonathan Wallace
JONATHAN WALLACE's plays have been performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival (2006 and 2007), the Flea Theatre, HB Studios, Billerica Minifest, Stephen Talkhouse, Avenue B Gardens and other venues. He has had readings at Abingdon (where his full length "The Shadow-Pier" was a finalist for the 2005 Christopher Brian Wolk award), Subjective Theatre Co., Producer's Club Repertory, and Last Frontier conference in Valdez, Alaska. He belongs to the playwrights' group at Bay Street Theatre and is on the script reading committee for the Naked Stage series at John Drew Theatre, Easthampton.
Directors
Heather Arnson
NYC credits: Buried Child (dir.) Arias Theatre; Girl Meets Boy (dir.) Cherchunin Theatre; Your Title Goes Here (dir.) Theatre Row; 52-PickUp (dir.) Gene Frankel Theatre; Tammy (dir.) Payan Theatre; directing team of A Stone Carver, Robert Kalfin (dir.) Soho Playhouse; Anais Nin (PSM) Beckett Theatre; stage management teams of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Abigail's Party (The New Group) Acorn Theatre, and In The Continuum (Primary Stages) Perry Street Theatre; Big Shot (AD) Trilogy Theatre.
Los Angeles credits include: Dario Fo's, Elizabeth: Almost By Chance A Woman (dir) Ruby Theatre @ The Complex; Steve Martin's WASP (dir) Met Theatre; The Whole Shebang (dir) Met Theatre; Menopause the Musical (P/ASM) Coronet Theatre; Eddie Izzard (PSM) Coronet Theatre; and Gatsby in Hollywood (AD/PSM) Met Theatre.
Heather holds a BA in Theatre from UCLA. She’d like to thank EndTimes Productions for the opportunity to work with them again, her great cast and crew, the gang at lunetta, and a special thanks to Chris for his continued support
Jerrod Bogard
Jerrod Bogard is a puppeteer, playwright and award winning filmmaker who has directed shows for children and adults throughout the U.S. and Europe. His one-act play, "Plays for the Sunni Triangle," was awarded as the Most Outstanding Play at EndTimes' Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2007. Visit him at . www.inkythumbs.com
Russell Dobular
Is a New York native, born and raised in Flushing, Queens. His plays have been presented in New York, and Los Angeles, and he has directed several dozen productions, including the hit comedy Backseats and Bathroom Stalls, and Dianne Spoderek’s The Drunk Monologues. Mr. Dobular also served as the founding Artistic Director of the Horse Trade Theater Group, from 1997-2000. His new play, “Flounder and the Bad Acid”, will be presented by EndTimes this season. Russell would like to thank the Count, the bitch, and all the company members for making it possible to keep on keeping on.
Robert Gonyo: (Assistant Director)(The Party)
Robert is a director, actor and musician residing in Brooklyn, NY. Recent work includes acting and sound design/engineering for the award-winning Team Midas film collective, as well as various performances with The Performance Studies Ensemble. He is currently a student in the Performance Studies Department at NYU and developing several theatrical, musical, and performance pieces.
Kristin Skye Hoffmann
Kristin is a graduate from the Performing Arts school at the University of Northern Colorado where she earned her BA in Acting and Directing. Her most recent project was the acclaimed production of The Medea for WEP. Prior to that she directed the award winning production of Plays for the Sunni Triangle. Other New York credits include; In Sheeps Clothing (Strawberry One Act Fest. Best Director & Best Play Nominee) and Who’s Got Game?, Improv Podcast. She also Co-Directed the acclaimed FringeNYC 2006 production of Hugging the Shoulder. Kristin is Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Wide Eyed Productions, a part time acting coach and full time artist and lover of life. She thanks her mother and the boy. Visit Kristin at www.kristinskye.com
Matthew Kreiner
After many years as an actor, Matthew debuted himself as a director in the UAlbany Theatre Council production of “One Hour to Live” written by his brother, Daniel Kreiner. His is very excited about these two short plays, “The Art of the Pick Up” and “Woo at the Zoo”. He has directed in Albany (“The Zoo Story”, “The Problem”, and self written “The Friend”), and in the New York City area (“Galileo”, “Ninth Circle”, “In Rebel Country”). He would like to thank EndTimes Productions for this opportunity as well as his family and friends, which he loves unconditionally.
Ilana Landecker
Ilana would like to thank you for coming to our humble theatre today. She's very happy to once again be directing with EndTimes Productions. Last year Ilana directed "A Chance Encounter With George W." as part of the vignettes, and this year she directed "Little Misseasonings" as part of the Naked Holidays. She can be seen this coming April at Theatre for the New City as Eugenie Salsafette in an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether". Many, many thanks to EndTimes for this opportunity. Thank you to my awesome cast; you all rock. And thank you all for coming out to take in a some theatre. Enjoy!
Lawrence Lesher
Even though Lawrence Lesher has plied his craft in all 50 states and trod the boards in many a country he is pretty sure you still wouldn't know any of his credits. Suffice it to say that he lives in Astoria, Queens and directs/acts with whoever will pay him to do it. He does reluctantly admit, however, that pay does not always involve money. Don't judge, good people. We all have to eat.
Ashley Marinaccio
Ashley is a Manhattan based director/playwright/performer and social justice activist. She's thrilled to be directing "The Party” and working with this wonderful cast/crew. Selected Directing credits include: Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Dead Man Walking (Theatre Initiative), Johnny Got His Gun, The Vagina Monologues (2005, 2006 and 2007 V-DAY Campaigns at Pace University; LUNA BAR "Outstanding Production Award" recipient in 2006 ), Pulse of the Intifada and ROAR. Ashley is currently a Master's Candidate in the Performance Studies Department at NYU (Tisch). She is a recent graduate of Pace University in theatre directing and sociology/anthropology with dual minors in Middle Eastern and women/gender studies. www.indieflavor.com/amarinaccio .
Bridget McKevitt
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA Recently joined End Times as the Dramaturg. Studied Drama and Art History at Washington College (MD), Music Video and Documentary Production at Bond University (AU), and Acting at both the Stella Adler Studio (NYC) and with the Atlantic Theater Company (NYC). Selected directing experience includes: Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby, Cloud Tectonics, Life, Love & A Semi-Automatic, Speed The Plow, and The Laramie Project.
Judy Merrick
Judy Merrick is really excited about doing some directing for EndTimes. Judy is trying to learn how to do every aspect of theatre. From her first passion acting, to set building, Lighting design, Stage Managing, and just recently produced "Knuckleball" with the Gene Frankel and Meredith Cody. Other directing credits included "Burn This" and "PMS the Musical" Favorite acting credits include Trish in "Knuckleball" and Dede Cooper in "Ladies at the Alamo". Enjoy the show.
Jeremy Pape
Jeremy Pape is a graduate of Philadelphia's university of the arts BFA acting program. His recent work includes directing for EndTimes' 'naked holidays' and lighting design for wide-eyed productions' 'the Medea'. He would like to thank the cast and crew of the festival, who made it so easy to do something so difficult, and his family, without whom, well, there just wouldn’t be much of a point. bork bork!
Tony Macy-Perez
This is Tony Macy-Perez's third production with EndTimes and he's loved it every time. He has had recent Off-Broadway productions of "Social Security" and "Days of Wine and Roses" and a successful run of "Sex on Trial". His play "Requiem for a Life" was recently published and is now being optioned as a film. He would like to thank his incredible cast for making this show such a wonderful experience. He can be reached at Tonezone78@aol.com
Vincent Scott
Vincent is a native Resident of Queens, New York. He has directed plays in London, Los Angeles and New York. Recently he directed Blithe Spirit for Theater Vision- Playtime and it was named Best Play in the series. He is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Vincent would like to thank Krista Knight for her wonderful play and EndTimes Productions for this opportunity to direct her play.
Christopher Shepard
Chris is a recent graduate of Muhlenberg College where he earned his BA in Theatre -- concentrations in Directing, Acting, and Performance Studies -- and minored in English and Dance. Chris is also an experienced choreographer; his piece "re - flex- shun" was chosen for the Gala Performance at the 2007 Northeast Region ACDFA. In March, 2007, Chris presented his first evening-length dance-theatre piece, "Corps", which he wrote, directed and choreographed.
Laurie Rae Waugh
Laurie is pleased to be working with End Times Productions again on Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2008. Laurie recently worked at ATA for the first time directing Trailer Trash Deluxe. Ms. Waugh worked in 2007 with End Times Productions on Vignettes for the Apocalypse, directing Let No Man Tear Asunder. She lasted worked as a Stage Manager with VertaMirandance production of Chosen, a musical at The Producers Club. Laurie has also directed Rage, Inc, The Foursome and Southworth Academy all at TSI/Playtime Series. Ms. Waugh made her directorial debut with the VertaMirandance Brooklyn production of Dreams Forgotten. Laurie is also a Stage Manager for the New York Dinner Theatre production of The Godfather’s Meshuggener Wedding. Ms. Waugh was a production stage manager for over 20 shows from 1980 to 1987. Her most notable credits are: Sisters: Some Theatrical Ritual about the Nunnery, the American Premieres of The Bachelor & The Last Burning. She also stage managed a one night show called Broadway Cares, a performance to benefit STAMP OUT AIDS, dedicated to Michael Bennett.
Liz White
Liz White reigns from Montana and has been involved with theatre her whole life. Last year she co-founded Wide Eyed Productions with Kristin Hoffmann and Sky Seals. Alien to Antiquity has been a ton a fun to work on as well as a lemony breeze of fresh ocean air. She was lucky to have such a great and open cast to direct, and hopes you enjoy the show!
Jason Tyne Zimmerman
Jason is a native Jersey-ite, coming to New York by way of Philadelphia and Chicago, and continues his quixotic spirit as much as the city tries to beat him down. A graduate of Northwestern University's MFA directing program, Jason started out his artistic career wanting to be a painter. With the help of the Tyler Theatre Troupe, special thanks to Joe Spix, Jason was convinced his true calling was in the performing arts. New York credits include adapting The Frogs, Lysistrata, and Così è (se vi pare) for Rising Sun Production Company, acting in the critically-acclaimed off-Broadway revival of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, and directing Spare the Rod/Spoil the Child, The Last Dodo, and Baby with the Bathwater, as well as various invisible theatre projects around the city.
Nicole Brickley - Production Stage Manager
Nicole Brickley is a freelance stage manager/technician living and working in New York City. She graduated from Indiana University with undergraduate degrees in Theater and Journalism. Before moving to New York, she toured as the master electrician with Chamber Theater of Boston for two years. She is happy to be celebrating her first anniversary of being in New York with EndTimes. She sends her love and thanks to Tony.
Mariel Matos - Rehearsal Stage Manager
Mariel is happy to be a part of EndTimes productions once again. She has worked on the EndTimes festival last year. Mariel enjoys working with the creative team, cast and hopes to put 100% in helping in this year's festival become a success. She has worked on numerous productions throughout the New York City area as a stage manager. Mariel's last production "West Bank, UK" performed at the La Mama of Nov./ Dec. 2007.
Brian V. Taylor - Assistant Stage Manager
Brian Taylor graduated from LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts aka "The Fame School" in 2006 with a Technical Theater Degree. After high school he worked at The York College Performing Arts Center until July 2007 as stage hand and light board operator. Brian has also worked on various theater productions as an Assistant Stage Manager for Where Three Roads Meet (2006) and Sampaguita (2007), and as a Stage Manager for several shows in the theater festival Twainathon (2007). He is currently attending Brooklyn College majoring in TV and Radio and minoring in Film.
Writers
Craig Abernethy
Recent productions include "State of the Art" at the Intentional in Waterford, and "Mr. Ali Ali… Outsourcing Torture" by the Subversive of Buffalo. Craig studied dramatic art at UC Berkeley; and worked backstage at venues including the NY Shakespeare Festival, and San Francisco Opera. He is member of the Dramatists Guild of America. See also www.craigabernethy.com.
Ian August
Ian is an actor, lyricist and playwright based in central New Jersey. His full-length play, Missing Celia Rose, received an off-Broadway workshop with the NYC Summer Play Festival in 2007, and is scheduled to be a featured reading at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s Playfest - 2008. He was a winner of the 31st Annual Samuel French Inc. Off-Off Broadway Short Play Competition, with his short comedy, Le Supermarché, later published in a Sam French anthology. Several of his short works are currently being produced in festivals around the country (and as far off as Sydney, Australia), and he is a contributing writer for the monologue collection So She Said, currently running at the Abington Theatre in Manhattan. Mr. August has also written several full length plays, including Submitted by C. Randall McCloskey, Natural History, and Missing Celia Rose, which was a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Awards in 2005. Publications include Abraham on the Mount (One-Act Play Depot, 2007), How to Survive in Corporate America, Godfrey, and The Title Fight (Smith and Kraus, 2008). Mr. August is one of the founding members of Stage One, a playwriting group developed through the Passage Theater in Trenton, NJ.
Elizabeth C. Bachner
Elizabeth is a writer and sociologist. Her fiction and poetry can be found in the forthcoming anthology Wreckage of Reason: Xxperimental Writing by Women in the 21st Century (Ed. Nava Renek, Spuyten Duyvil, June 2008), and her articles and reviews appear regularly in Bookslut, Swoon, and various other venues. Her research interests include exiled artists, youth culture, celebrity obsessions, sexual pathology, recent European history, mythology, poetics and death. She plans to write more plays.
Lisa B. Bridgens
Lisa Bonita Bridgens is an emerging playwright living in Boston. She attended the Foothill Theatre Conservatory in California, and also holds her BA degree in English and Comparative Lit. Her full length work "On Thin Ice" received a staged reading in California and is due for another in Maryland in October. She is currently a Research Intern for Boston Theatre Works where she greatly enjoys her work.
Matt Casarino
Paul Cohen
Paul Cohen is a native New Yorker and a product of its public school system. His play Cherubina is playing right now at the Sanford Meisner Theater. He is very pleased to be a part of the end of time.
Adrienne Dawes
Adrienne currently serves as the resident playwright for performance co-operative St Idiot Collective. Upcoming productions include the world premieres of You Are Pretty (St Idiot Collective - Austin, TX) and The Mary Trilogy (Mir Productions, NYC). Thanks to End Times Production for premiering Work Sucks! and my love to any Sadie Louers that made it to the show!
Todd Gebhart
Cryonics is Todd’s first foray into playwriting. He has lived and worked as an actor in New York for three years, most recently appearing in Capital Repertory’s production of Take Me Out. Other regional theater credits include Red Light Winter at the Wellfleet Actor’s Theater and a Barrymore Award-Winning production of Take Me Out at the Philadelphia Theater Company. He is a recent graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he earned their Director’s Choice for Outstanding Overall Performer and their award for Excellence in the Art of English Usage. He would like to thank his friends and family for their love and support.
Ian Grody
Screenwriter, playwright, and author Ian Grody earned his MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch (NYU). He is the recipient of the Artistine Mann Award for Fiction, the Hemingway Society Hinkle Award, the Cinequest Film Festival Award for Screenwriting, the Ivy Film Festival Award for Best Feature Length Screenplay, the Venable Herndon Screenwriting Award, the Bristol Drama Society Playwrighting Award, the Prague Post Audience Award, and the Goldberg Fellowship & Scholarship (Tisch).
Brett Hursey
Brett Hursey's comedies have appeared in theaters across the country including venues in Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Hollywood, San Diego as well as Nottingham (England) and Blacktown City (Australia). He's also had six off/off-off Broadway productions in Manhattan.
Krista Knight
Krista’s, Anaerobic Respiration, won the 2005 Southwestern States National Playwriting Contest and was produced in the 2005 New York Fringe Festival. Her short play, Apricot Supernovas, was published in 14 Hills and was a finalist for the 2006 Humana Festival's Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Another play, Biotintillation, was a finalist for the 2007 Heideman. Her work has been staged at the Ashland New Plays Festival, Dixon Place and The Women's Work Theatre in New York, LiveGirls! in Seattle, The Attic Theatre in Los Angeles, Harvest Theatre in Toledo, Panoply in Huntsville, Alabama, Goshen College in Indiana, the Pan Theatre in San Francisco, and the Bus Barn Stage Company in Los Altos. It has been developed at Abingdon in New York, First Stage in Los Angeles, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, and the Magic Theatre and the Playwrights' Center in San Francisco. Krista has been in Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida and the UCROSS Foundation in Wyoming. She is a graduate of Brown University and the 2007 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow.
Steve Lohse
Steve Lohse studied journalism and literature at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Alongside his freelance writing, he has worked as a chef and commercial fisherman in Washington State and Alaska. His plays have been produced in Bellingham, WA at the Idiom Theater, Los Angeles at the Company of Angels Theater, and in Seattle, where he was a founding member of the Outsiders' Inn Collective.
Anne-Sophie Mondiere
A Paris Native, Anne-Sophie was raised in England, Ireland and the Midwest. After a BA in English, a Dramaturgy internship at the Guthrie Theater, and writing two plays (Clouds, Waves and Taxidermia; On the Rocks) , she enrolled at the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts from which she will be graduating in May 2008.
Cindy Pierre
Cindy Pierre thanks God for everything. She is a produced playwright and theater critic. Past productions: "The Burrows of Does", "2D", "Harmony Hiccup", among others. In development: "The Locusts", "Top of the Line", and "Frontline."
S.W. Senek
S.W. Senek’s plays have been produced from Alaska to NYC. He was the winner of the NJ Playwrights Competition and Oglebay Institue Towngate Theatre National Playwriting Competition. He has four short plays published by Smith and Kraus, a compilation of short plays published by Original Works Publishing. He is a member of the Theater Project and the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
Stacy Lane Smith
Lane’s plays has been seen at Orlando Rep with Women Playwright’s Initiative, Long Island City Arts Project, Playwright’s Round Table, Studio Theatre of Wellington, Capital Hill Arts Workshop, Cedar Lane, Run of the Mill Theatre Company, Potluck Productions, Twenty Percent, South Camden Theatre Company, Panoply Arts Festival, Toy Boat, Rossyln Spectrum, Endtime Productions, Harrogate, Insurrection, Bug Theatre, Magnolia Arts Center, Harvest Theatre of Toledo, Brooklyn College, Manhattan Theatre Source, Kaleidoscope, Eclectic Theatre Company, Players Theatre, Classika, Primary Stages at the Shubin Theatre, Ten Grand Productions, Hostile Takeover Theatre, the Hallem Players, Underground Productions, Lincoln Square Theatre, Towne Street Players, Theatre Vertigo, OSU’s Limbo Project, and Oberon Theatre Ensemble. She was a finalist with Firehouse Theatre Project, Intentional Theatre, and the WPI. Lane has been published in Scene4 Magazine and will have her work included in an upcoming Smith and Kraus anthology and in Manhattan Theatre Source’s The Book of Estrogenius 2007. Lane is the recipient of a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico grant for playwriting. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Rollins College in 2002. StaceyLanePlaywright@yahoo.com
Andrew W. Turner
Andrew W. Turner is a writer/actor/educator and - according to a random googling of his name - a 66-year-old farmhand with an IQ of 53 who stabbed his sister to death. When he isn't bailing hay or stabbing siblings, he works as a High School English teacher in Queens. He has had several plays produced on the off-Broadway level and is expecting a call at any moment announcing that six-figure deal on his latest screenplay. Thanks to the cast and crew of EndTimes Productions for giving life to his apocalyptic vision of the future of American education.
Jonathan Wallace
JONATHAN WALLACE's plays have been performed at the Midtown International Theatre Festival (2006 and 2007), the Flea Theatre, HB Studios, Billerica Minifest, Stephen Talkhouse, Avenue B Gardens and other venues. He has had readings at Abingdon (where his full length "The Shadow-Pier" was a finalist for the 2005 Christopher Brian Wolk award), Subjective Theatre Co., Producer's Club Repertory, and Last Frontier conference in Valdez, Alaska. He belongs to the playwrights' group at Bay Street Theatre and is on the script reading committee for the Naked Stage series at John Drew Theatre, Easthampton.
Directors
Heather Arnson
NYC credits: Buried Child (dir.) Arias Theatre; Girl Meets Boy (dir.) Cherchunin Theatre; Your Title Goes Here (dir.) Theatre Row; 52-PickUp (dir.) Gene Frankel Theatre; Tammy (dir.) Payan Theatre; directing team of A Stone Carver, Robert Kalfin (dir.) Soho Playhouse; Anais Nin (PSM) Beckett Theatre; stage management teams of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Abigail's Party (The New Group) Acorn Theatre, and In The Continuum (Primary Stages) Perry Street Theatre; Big Shot (AD) Trilogy Theatre.
Los Angeles credits include: Dario Fo's, Elizabeth: Almost By Chance A Woman (dir) Ruby Theatre @ The Complex; Steve Martin's WASP (dir) Met Theatre; The Whole Shebang (dir) Met Theatre; Menopause the Musical (P/ASM) Coronet Theatre; Eddie Izzard (PSM) Coronet Theatre; and Gatsby in Hollywood (AD/PSM) Met Theatre.
Heather holds a BA in Theatre from UCLA. She’d like to thank EndTimes Productions for the opportunity to work with them again, her great cast and crew, the gang at lunetta, and a special thanks to Chris for his continued support
Jerrod Bogard
Jerrod Bogard is a puppeteer, playwright and award winning filmmaker who has directed shows for children and adults throughout the U.S. and Europe. His one-act play, "Plays for the Sunni Triangle," was awarded as the Most Outstanding Play at EndTimes' Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2007. Visit him at . www.inkythumbs.com
Russell Dobular
Is a New York native, born and raised in Flushing, Queens. His plays have been presented in New York, and Los Angeles, and he has directed several dozen productions, including the hit comedy Backseats and Bathroom Stalls, and Dianne Spoderek’s The Drunk Monologues. Mr. Dobular also served as the founding Artistic Director of the Horse Trade Theater Group, from 1997-2000. His new play, “Flounder and the Bad Acid”, will be presented by EndTimes this season. Russell would like to thank the Count, the bitch, and all the company members for making it possible to keep on keeping on.
Robert Gonyo: (Assistant Director)(The Party)
Robert is a director, actor and musician residing in Brooklyn, NY. Recent work includes acting and sound design/engineering for the award-winning Team Midas film collective, as well as various performances with The Performance Studies Ensemble. He is currently a student in the Performance Studies Department at NYU and developing several theatrical, musical, and performance pieces.
Kristin Skye Hoffmann
Kristin is a graduate from the Performing Arts school at the University of Northern Colorado where she earned her BA in Acting and Directing. Her most recent project was the acclaimed production of The Medea for WEP. Prior to that she directed the award winning production of Plays for the Sunni Triangle. Other New York credits include; In Sheeps Clothing (Strawberry One Act Fest. Best Director & Best Play Nominee) and Who’s Got Game?, Improv Podcast. She also Co-Directed the acclaimed FringeNYC 2006 production of Hugging the Shoulder. Kristin is Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Wide Eyed Productions, a part time acting coach and full time artist and lover of life. She thanks her mother and the boy. Visit Kristin at www.kristinskye.com
Matthew Kreiner
After many years as an actor, Matthew debuted himself as a director in the UAlbany Theatre Council production of “One Hour to Live” written by his brother, Daniel Kreiner. His is very excited about these two short plays, “The Art of the Pick Up” and “Woo at the Zoo”. He has directed in Albany (“The Zoo Story”, “The Problem”, and self written “The Friend”), and in the New York City area (“Galileo”, “Ninth Circle”, “In Rebel Country”). He would like to thank EndTimes Productions for this opportunity as well as his family and friends, which he loves unconditionally.
Ilana Landecker
Ilana would like to thank you for coming to our humble theatre today. She's very happy to once again be directing with EndTimes Productions. Last year Ilana directed "A Chance Encounter With George W." as part of the vignettes, and this year she directed "Little Misseasonings" as part of the Naked Holidays. She can be seen this coming April at Theatre for the New City as Eugenie Salsafette in an adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether". Many, many thanks to EndTimes for this opportunity. Thank you to my awesome cast; you all rock. And thank you all for coming out to take in a some theatre. Enjoy!
Lawrence Lesher
Even though Lawrence Lesher has plied his craft in all 50 states and trod the boards in many a country he is pretty sure you still wouldn't know any of his credits. Suffice it to say that he lives in Astoria, Queens and directs/acts with whoever will pay him to do it. He does reluctantly admit, however, that pay does not always involve money. Don't judge, good people. We all have to eat.
Ashley Marinaccio
Ashley is a Manhattan based director/playwright/performer and social justice activist. She's thrilled to be directing "The Party” and working with this wonderful cast/crew. Selected Directing credits include: Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Dead Man Walking (Theatre Initiative), Johnny Got His Gun, The Vagina Monologues (2005, 2006 and 2007 V-DAY Campaigns at Pace University; LUNA BAR "Outstanding Production Award" recipient in 2006 ), Pulse of the Intifada and ROAR. Ashley is currently a Master's Candidate in the Performance Studies Department at NYU (Tisch). She is a recent graduate of Pace University in theatre directing and sociology/anthropology with dual minors in Middle Eastern and women/gender studies. www.indieflavor.com/amarinaccio .
Bridget McKevitt
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA Recently joined End Times as the Dramaturg. Studied Drama and Art History at Washington College (MD), Music Video and Documentary Production at Bond University (AU), and Acting at both the Stella Adler Studio (NYC) and with the Atlantic Theater Company (NYC). Selected directing experience includes: Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby, Cloud Tectonics, Life, Love & A Semi-Automatic, Speed The Plow, and The Laramie Project.
Judy Merrick
Judy Merrick is really excited about doing some directing for EndTimes. Judy is trying to learn how to do every aspect of theatre. From her first passion acting, to set building, Lighting design, Stage Managing, and just recently produced "Knuckleball" with the Gene Frankel and Meredith Cody. Other directing credits included "Burn This" and "PMS the Musical" Favorite acting credits include Trish in "Knuckleball" and Dede Cooper in "Ladies at the Alamo". Enjoy the show.
Jeremy Pape
Jeremy Pape is a graduate of Philadelphia's university of the arts BFA acting program. His recent work includes directing for EndTimes' 'naked holidays' and lighting design for wide-eyed productions' 'the Medea'. He would like to thank the cast and crew of the festival, who made it so easy to do something so difficult, and his family, without whom, well, there just wouldn’t be much of a point. bork bork!
Tony Macy-Perez
This is Tony Macy-Perez's third production with EndTimes and he's loved it every time. He has had recent Off-Broadway productions of "Social Security" and "Days of Wine and Roses" and a successful run of "Sex on Trial". His play "Requiem for a Life" was recently published and is now being optioned as a film. He would like to thank his incredible cast for making this show such a wonderful experience. He can be reached at Tonezone78@aol.com
Vincent Scott
Vincent is a native Resident of Queens, New York. He has directed plays in London, Los Angeles and New York. Recently he directed Blithe Spirit for Theater Vision- Playtime and it was named Best Play in the series. He is a proud member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Vincent would like to thank Krista Knight for her wonderful play and EndTimes Productions for this opportunity to direct her play.
Christopher Shepard
Chris is a recent graduate of Muhlenberg College where he earned his BA in Theatre -- concentrations in Directing, Acting, and Performance Studies -- and minored in English and Dance. Chris is also an experienced choreographer; his piece "re - flex- shun" was chosen for the Gala Performance at the 2007 Northeast Region ACDFA. In March, 2007, Chris presented his first evening-length dance-theatre piece, "Corps", which he wrote, directed and choreographed.
Laurie Rae Waugh
Laurie is pleased to be working with End Times Productions again on Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2008. Laurie recently worked at ATA for the first time directing Trailer Trash Deluxe. Ms. Waugh worked in 2007 with End Times Productions on Vignettes for the Apocalypse, directing Let No Man Tear Asunder. She lasted worked as a Stage Manager with VertaMirandance production of Chosen, a musical at The Producers Club. Laurie has also directed Rage, Inc, The Foursome and Southworth Academy all at TSI/Playtime Series. Ms. Waugh made her directorial debut with the VertaMirandance Brooklyn production of Dreams Forgotten. Laurie is also a Stage Manager for the New York Dinner Theatre production of The Godfather’s Meshuggener Wedding. Ms. Waugh was a production stage manager for over 20 shows from 1980 to 1987. Her most notable credits are: Sisters: Some Theatrical Ritual about the Nunnery, the American Premieres of The Bachelor & The Last Burning. She also stage managed a one night show called Broadway Cares, a performance to benefit STAMP OUT AIDS, dedicated to Michael Bennett.
Liz White
Liz White reigns from Montana and has been involved with theatre her whole life. Last year she co-founded Wide Eyed Productions with Kristin Hoffmann and Sky Seals. Alien to Antiquity has been a ton a fun to work on as well as a lemony breeze of fresh ocean air. She was lucky to have such a great and open cast to direct, and hopes you enjoy the show!
Jason Tyne Zimmerman
Jason is a native Jersey-ite, coming to New York by way of Philadelphia and Chicago, and continues his quixotic spirit as much as the city tries to beat him down. A graduate of Northwestern University's MFA directing program, Jason started out his artistic career wanting to be a painter. With the help of the Tyler Theatre Troupe, special thanks to Joe Spix, Jason was convinced his true calling was in the performing arts. New York credits include adapting The Frogs, Lysistrata, and Così è (se vi pare) for Rising Sun Production Company, acting in the critically-acclaimed off-Broadway revival of An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, and directing Spare the Rod/Spoil the Child, The Last Dodo, and Baby with the Bathwater, as well as various invisible theatre projects around the city.
Nicole Brickley - Production Stage Manager
Nicole Brickley is a freelance stage manager/technician living and working in New York City. She graduated from Indiana University with undergraduate degrees in Theater and Journalism. Before moving to New York, she toured as the master electrician with Chamber Theater of Boston for two years. She is happy to be celebrating her first anniversary of being in New York with EndTimes. She sends her love and thanks to Tony.
Mariel Matos - Rehearsal Stage Manager
Mariel is happy to be a part of EndTimes productions once again. She has worked on the EndTimes festival last year. Mariel enjoys working with the creative team, cast and hopes to put 100% in helping in this year's festival become a success. She has worked on numerous productions throughout the New York City area as a stage manager. Mariel's last production "West Bank, UK" performed at the La Mama of Nov./ Dec. 2007.
Brian V. Taylor - Assistant Stage Manager
Brian Taylor graduated from LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts aka "The Fame School" in 2006 with a Technical Theater Degree. After high school he worked at The York College Performing Arts Center until July 2007 as stage hand and light board operator. Brian has also worked on various theater productions as an Assistant Stage Manager for Where Three Roads Meet (2006) and Sampaguita (2007), and as a Stage Manager for several shows in the theater festival Twainathon (2007). He is currently attending Brooklyn College majoring in TV and Radio and minoring in Film.
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