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Alley Scott
(Performer)
(Natasha) New York Theater: Adventure Quest (Brick Antidepressant Festival), Everybody Dies (Planet Connections Theatre Festival), Now What (Wings Theatre), Kidnapping Laura Linney (Midtown International Fringe Festival, Nominated Outstanding Leading Actress, Won Outstanding Ensemble), Jon Katzburg (Oracle Theatre Inc.), Soap Opera (Whirled Peas Productions), All Fall Down (Theatre Recrudescence), The Garden Party (Oracle Theatre Inc.) Regional Theatre: Five Years From Now, The Threepenny Opera, Titus Andronicus, The Winter's Tale, Exit the King. London Theatre: The Roaring Girl (Oval House), 4:48 Psychosis, Don Juan Returns from the War (Oval House, dir. Mark Wing Davey), Mountain Language, The Proposal. Film: Days of Joy with Gene Moonfeather, Cash Only, Rooftop, Starring Nathan Sedgwick. Alley studied in London and at Oxford University with the British American Drama Academy.
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Ben Beckly
(Performer)
Ben Beckley (associate artist with the Assembly): Clementine and the Cyber Ducks at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. With Temporary Distortion: P.S. 122, The Chocolate Factory, OHT, and various venues in Canada, France and Austria. Other recent productions include: Los Angeles, dir. Adam Rapp; 'Twas the Night Before, premiere by Christopher Durang; Cato, with Andre de Shields. Twelve Ophelias and The Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective). White Hot and Curse of the Smart Kid (HERE). The Illusion (Berkshire Theater Festival), Ophelia: Opera in Blue (Prospect Theater Company), The East Village Fragments (Peculiar Works). Workshops at SoHo Rep, The Lark, and The Public Theater.
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Brendan McDonough
(Performer)
(Rode, Musical Director/Sound Design) Brendan will be graduating Fordham College at Lincoln Center in May with a BA in Theatre/Performance. Off-Broadway: The Confidence Man with Woodshed Collective (AV, Putnam, Actor). Fordham: Tales of the Lost Formicans (Jerry), Life is a Dream (Musician), The Red in Bedspread (Carson Tanner), The Birthday Girl (Spalla), The Nets (Chef Geoff). UNC Wilmington: Fallen Angels (Maurice DuClos). Brendan will be appearing in a production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman at Fordham Lincoln Center this coming March and can always been found performing original music with friends throughout NYC. He would like to thank Mom, Dad, Matty, Tim, Scruffy, Katy, friends, family, cast and crew for all the instruments, music, love and support.
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Cecil Baldwin
(Performer)
Cecil Baldwin La MaMa, E.T.C.; Emerging Artists Theatre; Studio Theatre; The Shakespeare Theatre; The Kennedy Center; Journeymen Theater; Catalyst Theatre; Rorschach Theatre; Didactic Theatre; The National Players (Tour 54);Cherry Red Theatre; Tantalus Theatre; Hyperworld Theatre; FILM: Open Cam, New People in Six Days.
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Christopher Hurt
(Performer)
Christopher Hurt has appeared off-off-Broadway in Peculiar Works Projects’ 3 Christs, It’s Good Enough for Me, The Beggar’s Opera, and other pieces; and Miranda Theater’s Key West, The Brooch, and A Greater Good. He appeared most recently in Imperia Save the World… with Concrete Temple Theater, Theft of Imagination at The Player’s Loft, and …Longtimeland at the Midtown International Theater Festival (Best Actor nominee). In DC, he was a company member at the Round House Theater, was co-artistic director of Paradise Island Express, and was nominated for 2 Helen Hayes awards. He has recorded several hundred audio books, has received the Alexander Scourby award for narration of fiction, and is an avid solver and creator of crossword and other puzzles. He also works at The Foundation Center as a grants specialist.
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Derek Wright
(Lighting Designer)
Derek Wright (Lighting Design) designs lighting (and occasionally scenery) for theatre, dance, opera and special events. He has designed lighting for nearly 100 live productions. You may have seen his recent NYC design work with these companies and/or venues: Slant Theatre Project, Performance Space 122, Soho Rep, Wolf 359, The Shalimar, Columbia Stages, New York Theatre Workshop, NYU/Tisch, Cherry Lane Theatre, East River Commedia, Teatro Circulo, Steinhart School of Vocal Performance, Anonymous Ensemble and Brooklyn Music School. Regional designs: American Repertory Theatre, Studio Theatre (DC), The Andy Warhol Museum. International designs: Mercury Theatre (UK), Theatre Royal (UK), Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Training: MFA- New York University. BFA- Univ. of Evansville. Apprenticeships at Hartford Stage Company and The Santa Fe Opera. See more of his lighting design work at www.derekwrightlight.com
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Edward Bauer
(Performer)
Edward Bauer (Solyony) is a Brooklyn resident of Maine origins and a founding member of The Assembly. A Wesleyan University graduate, Edward has trained with Yuriy Kordonskiy, Claudia Tatinge Nascimento, Ang Gey Pin, David B. Jaffe, and the Pig Iron Theater Company. A few of his past favorite roles include Creon in Oedipus Rex, Constantine in Big Love, and Brian in the Assembly's Clementine and the Cyber Ducks at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.
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Emily Perkins
(Performer)
(Irina) Favorite credits include: We Are Not Birds (Ars Nova), The Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective), Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (Ontological-Hysteric), F*ing Art (Samuel French Festival Award Winner), Charlotte’s Web (Theatreworks Int’l tour), 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. www.theassemblytheater.com. She also works as a voiceover artist. www.emilylouiseperkins.com.
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Jess Chayes
(Director)
Jess Chayes (Director) is a co-founder and resident director of The Assembly. With The Assembly, she has co-created and directed five original plays including Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (The Ontological Theater), What I Took in My Hand (The Ontological Theater, The Brick Theater), and We Can't Reach You Hartford (Edinburgh Fringe; Fringe First Nominee). Recent assisting includes The Civilians’ Paris Commune (Steve Cosson, The Public Theater) and We Declare You a Terrorist (Niegel Smith, SPF Festival, The Public Theater).
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Kate Benson
(Performer)
Most recent credits: GHOST LIGHT (59E59), CONFIDENCE MAN (Woodshed Collective), QUIXOTE (Stillpoint Productions), DAWN (the Flea), 12 OPHELIAS (Woodshed Collective), ROOM FOR CREAM (Two Headed Calf), RUNNING COMMENTARY NO. 5 (Joyce Cho), ZEIT AF DER KURBISGEISTNACHTEN (Dixon Place), ST JOAN OF THE STOCKYARDS (PS 122), CRIME OR EMERGENCY (Dixon Place), PURITY (PS 122), I [HEART] KANT, THREE AMERICANISMS (Chashama), and KAWAISOO: THE PITY OF THINGS. At the Flea: MRS. FARNSWORTH, BAAL, BENTEN KOZO, Mac Wellman’s CLEVELAND, and Karen Finley’s RETURN OF THE CHOCOLATE SMEARED WOMAN.
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Katy Moore
(Stage Manager)
Katy Moore (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 ASM for “Two Rooms”, the PSM for “The Hypochondriac”. Other work this summer includes part of the SM team for “Confidence Man” and the SM for two different 2009 Fringe Festival shows, “The Green Manifesto” and "Just Don't Touch Me, Amigo." Other Off-Broadway credits include "The Imaginary Invalid" at The Cell Theatre and Andy & Edie" at Shetler Studios.
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Levi Morger
(Performer)
Levi Morger (Vershinin) was raised an Air Force brat, and has lived in New York for the past seven years. His formal education was very informative. Most recently he was seen in Art.Party Theater Company's production of The Duchess of Malfi. Levi has a Mom and Dad who love him, a brother who is a better man than he, and lives a very strange and magical life. Levi also enjoys pizza.
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Moti Margolin
(Performer)
Moti (Tuzenbach) is very excited to be part of The Assembly Theatre Project production of this amazing and wonderful play, with such an outstanding cast and crew. Recent theatre credits include Don Pedro in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" with the Frog and Peach Theatre Company; a broker of religious relics, and ensemble in the "The Confidence Man" by Paul Cohen, with Woodshed Collective; Tony Foote in Ference Molnar's "One, Two, Three" at the Old Castle Theatre Company in Bennington, VT; David O. Selznick in Ron Hutchinson's "Moonlight and Magnolias" at the Cider Mill Playhouse; Vanya in Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" with the Space Ensemble, for which he developed the translation; etc. Recent film credits include "Insecurity" directed by Robert Brink; "Shack Nasty" directed by Jean-Merceau Secheret, written by Zach Carver; "Two" written by Kari Morris, and directed by Ryan Gielen; etc. You can catch him on as the World Turns on Feb 9 and 10 as Gregor, Russian sea captain. Many thanks to the wonderful Assembly Theatre Project, and as always to mamatchka.
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Nick Benacerraf
(Production Dramaturg)
Nick Benacerraf (Co-Founder, Production Dramaturg) is usually the person responsible for the scenery, but is dipping his pen in the dramaturgical ink for the first time with Three Sisters. What's a dramaturg? Glad you asked! Well, it's an outside eye who helps research and makes sure that there's continuity between all the various elements that make a play. If something doesn't make sense, it's at least partially my fault! But then again, does anything make complete sense? When not thinking himself into circles, Nick enjoys working with his many friends, including Pig Iron and Waterwell. He's a graduate of Wesleyan University, and currently attends CalArts, where he is getting an MFA in Scene Design and an MA in Aesthetics & Politics.
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Peter Feliz
(Performer)
(Ferapont) This is Peter Feliz's third production of THREE SISTERS. And he's going to keep doing it until he gets it right.
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Rosalind Grush
(Producer)
Rosalind Grush (Producer) enjoys writing, doing paperwork, and watching tv shows that she doesn’t like that much. She has worked producorially for Wolf 359, Sinking Ship Productions, invisible theatre, Rotozaza, and PearlDamour. She has not acted very often, but will be appearing as a Berlin-themed bridesmaid in the wedding of her first theater-producing partner in February. Rosalind also did props for a movie one time.
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Stephen Aubrey
(Dramaturg)
Stephen Aubrey (Dramaturg) is a co-founder and resident dramaturg and playwright of The Assembly. His work has been produced at The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Flea Theater, The Brick Theater, Symphony Space, the Abingdon Theater Complex, UNDER St Marks, The Philly Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He is a current MFA candidate in Fiction at Brooklyn College.
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Stephen Stout
(Performer)
Stephen Stout (Fedotik) was recently seen in Sheila Callaghan's Recess (directed by Kip Fagan) in The Great Recession at The Flea Theater. Other recent NY: Itamar Moses's Love/Stories, and The Footage (The Flea), Elephant in the Room with Dianne Wiest (Playwrights Horizons), and workshops of Sam Mark's My Gap-Toothed Beauty and Itamar Moses's Yellowjackets. He is the Artistic Director of the New York Neo-Classical Ensemble (newyorkneo.org), having directed their productions of Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, and Twelfth Night (The Wild Project, Theatre Row). Film: Mystery Team (Sundance '09), Checkout (HBO US Comedy Arts Festival), as well as shorts for The Onion News Network and Derrickcomedy.com. Many thanks to Jess and the entire Assembly.
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Susan McCallum
(Performer)
Susan McCallum (Anfisa) was born in Madagascar but was transported to New York City at an early age. She has appeared in many plays in New York and in regional theatre. Favorite experiences include Philadelphia, Here I Come!, The Subject Was Roses, The Hostage, The Sea Gull, Hogan's Goat, King Lear (playing the title role in a rare and exciting transgender experience), The Long Voyage Home, The Dining Room and Frank Hertle's Planets. On film she has been seen in Adam's Holiday and I Think I Love My Wife, among others. She is really happy to be exploring Chekhov with this exciting cast.
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