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Alex Hodgins
(Performer)
is a native of the Northwest and is thrilled to be working with the Drafts. After graduating from Western Washington University with a degree in Acting and Playwriting in 2009, he moved to Seattle where he started a theatre company which toured an original show in 2010. Past works include Outside of a Horse, (toured Washington); various, Twentieth Century Cycle (toured Washington, New York and England); various, Macbeth; Macduff, Oleanna; John, The Trestle at Popelick Creek; Chas.
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Amanda Van Nostrand
(Performer)
is thrilled to be a part of Drafts! Some of her favorite roles include: Natalya in The Marriage Proposal, Sissy in Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and the title role in Dulcy. She is also active in the improv comedy scene and has been seen at Upright Citizen's Brigade and performs regularly with The Red Tie Mafia for which she also coaches. For more info, check out her site www.amandavannostrand.com.
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Ben Kaufman
(Performer)
grew up in Columbus, Ohio. He Interned with Shadowbox Cabaret of Columbus, and then went on to graduate from Ohio University’s School of Theater with a BFA in Acting. During school he spent a summer at Monomoy Theater on Cape Cod. Following graduation he accepted an Internship with Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati where he served as an understudy for regional premieres of Michael Hollinger’s Opus, and Steven Dietz’ Fiction. He is happy to be apart of this iteration of The Drafts, and looks forward to what may come.
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Donya K. Washington
(Director)
a reading of Sound by Don Nguyen (The Civilians), Abby in the Summer by AP Andrews (Playwrights Horizons Theatre School), a reading of Bleedin' Trees by Scott McCarrey (Tisch/NYU), Brooklyn Skank by Fernanda Coppel (Subject Theatre Company), Come Back to Me by Jesse Cameron Alick and Manikato adapted by Jesse Cameron Alick (Shakespeare in Paradise, Bahamas), a reading of Pete the Girl (Rising Circle Collective), Now the Cats with Jeweled Claws (Target Margin Theatre), Spunk (Penobscot Theatre, Bangor, ME), Jump Jim Crow by Jesse Cameron Alick, music and lyrics by Justin Levine (Subjective Theater Company), Bear Market by Kara Manning (Womenís Project Lab), Cold Keener (Target Margin). Work with 52nd Street Project, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, the Public Theatreís Emerging Writers Group, MCC Theatre Youth Company, The Civilians and Williamstown. Training: MFA, Directing - Brown University/Trinity Rep; BFA, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Member of the 2008/2010 Women's Project Lab. Van Lier Directing Fellow 2009, Second Stage Theatre. Member 2010-2011 Civilians' R&D Group.
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Gary Warchola
(Performer)
looks forward to acting with the Drafts again. He
graduated with a BFA in Acting and a minor in Media Arts from the
University of Montana. He has worked with Palissimo Dance Company,
The Montana Repertory Theatre, Looking Glass Theatre NYC, and The
Sterling Renaissance Festival. Gary also writes fiction.
www.garywarchola.com
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Germono Toussaint
(Playwright)
is a playwright, composer, arranger, lyricist, and the founder of A Mile In My Shoes Inc. In 2005, Germono wrote and produced Caged, a theater piece based on interviews he conducted with thirteen women in a halfway house. Caged premiered at the Broadway Theater Center in Milwaukee and was featured in the Not for Broadway Theater Festival in New York City in 2006. Germonoís play The Anointed was featured in The Fire This Time Festival in 2010. As an active composer and arranger, Toussaint has transcribed original music for Katori Hall, Inc, Daniel Beaty Productions, Inc, Dr. Dorothy Productions, and Common Thread Theater. He has composed music for Skylight Opera Theatre, Handful Players, Fishgrease Productions, Diversity Players of Harlem, and New Dramatistís Nocturnal Commissions. Toussaint has a BFA in composition.
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Ilaria Amadasi
(Director)
Born in Parma, Italy, Ilaria Amadasi's introduction into professional theater took place when she co-founded the Theater Company "I 4 Cantoni" at the age of fifteen. Ilaria later attended the prestigious Teatro Stabile di Genova. She was the author and Assistant Director of the stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “The Castle” and was chosen as the female lead in the show “Time of darkness” . She also received a honorable mention from the national playwriting competition "In Punta di Penna" for the piece “Non ho urlato”.
She directed theater therapy workshops for children and seminars of Commedia
dell’Arte at “Teatro Vita” (Parma, Italy). Ilaria moved to the US in 2010. She has collaborated on several productions at the Off-Broadway 45 Bleecker Theater and worked as Assistant Director for the show "American Addict" (Hollywood Fringe Festival). Most recently she worked as Director for the show “Stuck” presented to the Emerging Artists New Works Series.
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J. B. Rote
(Performer)
fell in love with the theatre from her first role as a snowflake in first grade in Vermont. She apprenticed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, majored in Acting at Brandeis University and completed her BFA in London at the British American Drama Academy. She has also studied and performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Magnet and Peoples Improv Theaters. She is enjoying being an active member in The Drafts. Theatre credits include: Crawl For It, Change The Be and Donnie and the Monsters (Horse Trade), Balcony Scene 2010 (MoMA PS1). Come see her this August in LINES (Horse Trade). More info at jbrote.com. Love and thanks to Horse Trade Theater, my darling friends and family.
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Jaclyn Biskup
(Director)
is the Artistic Director and founder of The Mill (fka
Experimental Theatre Chicago.) Born and raised in the south suburbs of
Chicago, she received her MFA in directing from Northwestern
University and a B.A. Theatre Comprehensive from Northern Illinois
University. She recently worked as Karin Coonrod’s assistant on Love’s
Labor’s Lost at The Public. In NYC she has worked with Blue Box
Productions, Hearth Gods, and Horse Trade Theatre. She has directed 13
productions with The Mill, including “The Private Lives of Eskimos,”
"A Dream Play," " Venus," "The Madman and the Nun," "Desdemona: A
Play About A Handkerchief," "Big Love," "The Bald Soprano," "Mexico,"
and "off." She has conceived and directed: "Un-American Activities,"
"An Unenchanted Evening," "The Eve Project," and "Coming and Going."
She has assisted on productions with Steppenwolf, Moving Doc, and
Ravenous Productions.
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Jesse Cameron Alick
(Playwright)
is a poet, playwright, producer and Zen Master. Jesse works as the Artistic Director for Subjective Theatre Company (www.subjectivetheatre.org), Artistic Associate at the Public Theater (www.publictheater.org) and is Assistant to the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Jesse is also the east coast editor of High Contrast Review (www.highcontrastreview.com), freelance journalist and essayist. Jesse studied writing with playwright Adrienne Kennedy and taught a theater course at Lewis and Clark College.
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Juliana Carr
(Performer)
is grateful to join the ensemble of when half the sphere is
visible. Originally from the Pittsburgh area, with credits such as The Glass Menagerie (Prime Stage) and The Ladies Man (SVST), Juliana is glad to be a part of the NY community. She is a company member of the clown troupe, Everybody Nose, NYC and singer/songwriter for Girl in the Yellow Hat. Thanks to everyone who made this production possible. Carpe diem!
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Lauren Kate Morrison
(Performer)
has recently relocated from Pittsburgh, PA to NYC. She graduated from Point Park University with a B.A. in Theater Arts. She has most recently been seen with the Drafts as Hepworth in the reading of The Church of Diminishing Marginal Returns. She has also been seen in the world premier of Time After Time at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Some of her other favorite projects include Visual Head of Phun Chix Productions and Owner of Lauren Morrison Photography.
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Lindsey Moore Sproul
(Director)
is proud to be directing for Horse Trade. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Producer for No Tea Productions, and has directed seven plays for No Tea, including Work: A Play, The Kentucky Goblin Siege, Liars, Plucking Failures Like Ripe Fruit, The Artistical Process of Mark and Andy, Already in Progress, and The Pigeon that Cries in My Heart. The New York Times said that Liars was “staged so nicely by Lindsey Moore,” and the Austin Chronicle said of her production of Steve Martin’s WASP that she “wisely envisions [the] work with restraint.”
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Marchelle Thurman
(Performer)
hails from Chicago and graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Theatre. Some of her favorite New York credits include Kori in Like Us, Mary in The Confession and Melissa in Clean Energy, Clean Conscience. She would like to thank her beautiful friends and family for their constant love and support.
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Matthew Gutschick
(Playwright)
is a director, writer, teacher and producer. Directing credits include Twelfth Night and Anon(ymous) the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Wuthering Heights at the Mint Theatre in New York, and Whacked Fairy Tales at Twin City Stage. His plays have been workshopped/produced by Wordsmyth Theatre Company, Horse Trade Theater Group (NYC), Reverie Productions (NYC), Tri Sate Actors’ Theatre, and Magic Chicago. His company, MagicMouth Theatre, specializes in the combination of theatrical narratives and stage illusion. Matthew’s work for MagicMouth Theatre won a New Horizons Playwriting Award. He is the former artistic director at the Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem. Matthew is the current Managing Director of the Yale Cabaret where he has produced over 14 world premieres. He is the recipient of a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Fellowship in Entrepreneurship, a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf. Matthew holds a BA in Theater from Wake Forest University and graduates with his MFA from the Yale School of Drama this May. Many thanks to Heidi, Lindsey and everyone at Horse Trade.
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Michael R. McGuire
(Playwright)
McGuire A 2005 CT Artist Fellowship recipient for his play THE NEW GIRL, McGuire’s plays have been produced and workshopped by The Lark, Theater for the New City, the Planning Stage, Hygienic Theaterwerks, Valley Rep, Slant of Light Theater, Bridgeport Theater Company, Horse Trade Theater and Heartland Theater. His plays for young actors are published by Brooklyn Publishers. McGuire invites you to “like” him on Facebook.
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Paul Herbig
(Performer)
has worked extensively in Off-Off Broadway theatre, working with Mainspring Collective, Emerging Artists Theatre, Heiress Productions, and the American Theatre of Actors among others. At Horse Trade Paul has acted in the plays Donny and the Monsters and Lines, both directed Heidi G. Grumelot. Paul has also worked in independent film, and just finished shooting The Adventures of Paul and Marian, his first lead in a feature. He would like to thank Horse Trade for always being a wonderful group to work with.
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Reiss Gaspard
(Performer)
is a South Florida transplant and a long time New Yorker who has a great respect for the craft of acting and thought provoking theatre. He is a long time company member of the critically acclaimed Ground Up and Rising theatre and is excited to be working with such dedicated actors and writers here at the Drafts. He received his B.A. at Florida State University and continues to study his craft at the historical HB Studios.
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Sara C. Walsh
(Director)
is a theatre artist living in Brooklyn. Her path to directing has been circuitous.
Her directing debut was in 2001 with the Chicago premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Orlando. After an incredibly successful production, she decided to pursue acting. She starred as Dot in Pegasus Players’ production of Sunday in the Park with George, garnering four Jeff Awards, including Best Production (Musical). She also studied at Second City Chicago, performing there and finishing the conservatory program in 2004. However in 2005, Sara left Chicago to study Scenic Design through NYU’s prestigious MFA program.
Sara is a member of Faye Driscoll Dance Group, having designed There Is So Much Mad in Me (Dance Theatre Workshop), You’re Me (The Kitchen), and 837 Venice Blvd (HERE Arts Center) for which she received a “Bessie” Award in 2010. Other select designs: Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective) and Get Mad at Sin (The Chocolate Factory) which was a NY Times Critic's Pick and will show at the San Diego Museum of Art later this year. www.saracwalsh.com
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