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Abe Goldfarb
(Performer)
ABE GOLDFARB* studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic, and has worked with such companies as the Jean Cocteau Rep, Studio 42, elsewhere, theatre minima and The Pumpkin Pie Show. He is, with Brian Silliman, co-founder of the Royal Circus. Favorite roles include Pistol in Henry V, Arthur in In Public, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera, the Mascot in Junta High and Jaques in As You Like It. He is also rapidly running out of people to thank.
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AMANDA REHBEIN
(Set Designer)
AMANDA REHBEIN (Set Design) Amanda hails from the Canadian prairies. Most recently she has designed A Marriage of Figaros at the Manhattan School of Music, The Vietnamization of New Jersey at The Beckett Theatre, and The Eaten Heart at St. Mark's Church. She is the resident designer for The Peddie School and is a teaching artist for The Roundabout Theatre Company. Currently she is designing Julius Caesar and As You Like it at the Juilliard School. Amanda has a BFA in Design for the Theatre from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts.
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AMY EHRENBERG
(Stage Manager)
AMY EHRENBERG (Stage Management) is resident Stage Manager for The Debate Society, whose past productions include The Snow Hen, The Eaten Heart, and A Thought About Raya. Broadway: Assistant Stage Manager/Understudy, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Ambassador). Other SM and technical credits, NYC and regional: The Harlequin Studies (Signature), Vienna Lusthaus Revisited (New York Theatre Workshop), The Dying Gaul (Vineyard), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Minetta Lane), A Child's Christmas in Wales (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), and several seasons with The River Rep Theatre Company in CT. Film: Production Manager, Christine. 1403.
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Clay McLeod Chapman
(Playwright-Performer)
CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN is the creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed by its own live soundtrack. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel.
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DREW ST.AUBIN
(Music - Performer)
DREW ST.AUBIN (drums) Andrew St. Aubin lives, works, and plays music in Woodside, Queens, where he is currently mastering his debut album under the moniker "aldenbarton". In addition to his work with HOSTAGE SONG, he plays piano with Jason Anderson & the 57th Street Band and writes and records original music for film and television.
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Emily Owens
(PR)
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Hanna Cheek
(Performer)
HANNA CHEEK* has been a part of The Pumpkin Pie Show since 2002, who's most recent production was the critically acclaimed Junta High at PS122. Other Pumpkin Pie shows include: Cardiac Shadow (PS122), Saint Hanna...the patron saint of the PPS (The Kraine Theatre), Ringside Seats (Belt Theatre), Rise Perverts Rise, Big Top, and The Birds and the Bees (Red Room, respectively). Hanna is also a member of the drama desk nominated Waterwell theatre company with whom she has devised and performed in The/King/Operetta (Barrow St. Theatre), Marco Millions…based on lies (Theatre Row), The Persians…a comedy about war with five songs (Perry Street Theatre), Sweetness & Light (Alternate Stages), & Chill & Serve (Ground Floor Theatre). Other NYC Credits: The Amulet (78th Street Lab), First You're Born (Playwrights Horizons), & Broken Boughs (Blue Heron Arts Center). TV credits include: Titus, MTV's Undressed, & The West Wing
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HANNAH BOS
(Performer)
HANNAH BOS* is a founding member of The Debate Society, co-writing and starring in A Thought About Raya, The Snow Hen, and The Eaten Heart. Her next play will premiere at PS122 in the fall of 2008. Recent performances include Andrei Serban's Lysistrata with
Cherry Jones, The Pumpkin Pie Show: Ringside Seats (The Belt), Cardiac Shadow (PS122) and Junta High (PS122). Regional: Three Farces and a Funeral and Janos Szasz's Marat/Sade (The American Repertory Theatre). She is also the co-creator/writer of The Mimi and Flo Show: a choose-your-own-adventure webseries. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the Institute of Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.
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JONATHAN SHERRILL
(Music - Performer)
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Kyle Jarrow
(Music - Performer)
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MIKE RIGGS
(Lighting Designer)
MIKE RIGGS (Lighting Design) is proud to work with some of the best, and scrappiest, companies ranging from off-off-Broadway to some of the world's great houses. Other projects this season include A Thought About Raya at the Brick, Il Trittico for El Paso Opera, Music of the Silver Screen featuring John Williams and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, and 613 Radical Acts of Prayer with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Laois, Ireland. New York career highlights include The Snow Hen, Iphigenia Crash-Land Falls..., and Machinal. Mike's lighting design for 6969, seen last season at 59E59, was nominated for the 2007 New York Innovative Theater Award. He is a founding member of One Year Lease, a company that creates internationally accessible productions of classic texts; and resident lighting designer for The Debate Society, a company that writes and performs new plays. Please visit www.mikeriggsdesigns.com.
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OLIVER BUTLER
(Director)
OLIVER BUTLER (Director) In New York Mr. Butler has directed The Eaten Heart, The Snow Hen, A Thought About Raya, After, Seduced, Christmas with the Flamingos, Sold Out: The Rock Musical, Real Dramatic, and Day of Reckoning. He was the Assistant Artistic Director of The Berkshire Theatre Festival where he directed The Einstein Project and This is our Youth. He is the co-Artistic Director of The Debate Society, with co-Artistic Directors Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos. Together they have created and produced 3 full-length plays in 4 years and a selection of shorter pieces. Their newest play, Cape Disappointment, will premiere at PS 122 in the fall, after a workshop in Austin, TX in May. Mr. Butler has assisted directors including Jo Bonney, John Rando, and Pam Mackinnon. In 2004 and 2005 he was a participating director in Lincoln Center's Directors Lab.
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PAUL BATES
(Music - Performer)
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PAUL THUREEN
(Performer)
PAUL THUREEN is a founding member of The Debate Society and has performed and toured extensively with the company, co-writing and starring in A Thought About Raya, The Snow Hen, and The Eaten Heart. Recent New York and international performances include Clay McLeod Chapman's The Pumpkin Pie Show at P.S. 122, One Year Lease's tour of Oresteia in Athens and Milan, and Tango 'til They're Sore at The Flea. Regional: The Description of The World, Facade, Pulcinella (Theatre de la Jeune Lune). TV: The Late Show with David Letterman, The Revolution (History Channel).
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RIC CHAVARRIA
(Sound Engineer)
RIC CHAVARRIA (Sound Engineer) is a graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Science in Tempe, AZ. His studio experience has been credited with Paul McCartney (Back in the US), Bob Dylan (Rolling Thunder Review), and AC/DC (Live at Donington). Live sound: downtown performance artists: Murray Hill, Sherry Vine, Jonathan Ames, Freestyle Love Supreme. Sound/Lighting Design for an Off-Off Broadway production of Hipster Cinderella.
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SEAN TRIBBLE
(Costume Designer)
SEAN TRIBBLE (Costume Design) Recent New York Credits: The Lesson set and costume design (Riverside Theatre), Ballad of Baby Doe set design (Chelsea Opera), Because of Beth set design (Small Pond Productions), Illuminating Veronica set and costume design (Atlas Theatre), Boston Marriage costume design (20% Theatre Company), Like Loveset design (NYMF), A Time to be Born costume design (Fringe), The Overwhelming asst. costume design (RoundAbout). Other credits include: CID costume (Divadlo Sedum A Pul, Czech Republic), The Skin of Our Teeth, The Secret Garden costume design
(Peddie Theater), Red Rope costume design (Short Film).
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