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Juliette Jeffers
(Performer)
A true artist who lives to heal herself and others by using every creative bone in her body. Juliette is a Caribbean-American who began her journey as an artist at The High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. She went on to earn a degree in Languages from Hofstra University and her studies included programs in both Spain and France. Upon graduation, she moved to L.A. to pursue a career in acting. She has enjoyed a career in Theatre, T.V. and Film. In the theatre world, Juliette was nominated for a NAACP Theatre Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in ‘Ah Ha Moments’ “Butterscotch and Fudge” at the Complex Theatre. She was also a finalist in “15 Minutes of Fem”, a one-woman show competition at The Egyptian Arena Theatre. Her first solo show, “Batman and Robin in the Boogie Down” premiered at The Elephant Theatre to packed audiences and rave reviews. Since then, she has performed at various venues and festivals throughout the country, including the African American Theatre Festival in Dallas and the L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival “Batman...” was nominated for a NAACP Theatre Award for Best Play in L.A. and won for Best Lighting. Juliette had a very successful run last summer at Stage Left Studio in N.Y. and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for outstanding solo performance. Her second solo show, “Looking For a Chocolate Match.com,” premiered in 2008 at the LAWTF and was performed in conjunction with Vanessa Williams’ solo show at the Elephant Theatre in L.A. She received rave reviews for that show as well. Juliette’s recent theatre credits include “Train to 2010” at The Crossroads Theatre and “Breakfast” at The Fire This Time Theatre Festival. A few of her notable T.V. guest star appearances include “Raising The Bar”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “E.R.” and “Without a Trace.” A few of her film credits include “Play the Game “with Andy Griffith, “The Nobel Son”, with Alan Rickman and “Constellation”, with Billy Dee Williams. Juliette has appeared in about 35 National Commercials over the past seven years! For more info go to www.juliettejeffers.com.
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Kelley Nicole Girod
(Playwright)
Kelley Nicole Girod is a 2008 graduate of Columbia's MFA playwriting program where she was named the Stein and Liberace scholar as well as the John Golden fellow for her artistic merit. Kelley hails from Louisiana where she attended Louisiana State University and works extensively with the artistic community of Baton Rouge, most recently serving as a panel judge for Louisiana's artist in residency program. She has had plays produced in Los Angeles, New York, New Orleans, and Columbus, Ohio and has had readings at Primary Stages, the Labyrinth Studio, and Horse Trade Theater where she founded and has served as Executive Producer of The Fire This Time Festival which is going into its fourth year of programming (www.firethistimefestival.com). She was awarded "Person of the Year 2011" by nytheatre.com for her work on The Fire This Time. Other producing credits include "Trayvon Martin: A Call to Action" (Horse Trade Theatre 2012) and "Honoring Excellence in Theatre: An Evening with Woodie King Jr."(NYC 2012). kelleyngirod@gmail.com
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Nick Maccarone
(Performer)
Nick Maccarone is a recent graduate of Columbia University's School of the Arts where he received an M.F.A. in theater. In his final year at Columbia he had the opportunity to work with Diane Paulus in an adaptation of James Baldwin's novel, Another Country. Nick recently completed a two-week workshop at La MaMa exploring an original piece by Fernando Rivas entitled Soul Ascending. A native of Oakland, Calif. he is relieved to have his soul back and thrilled to be exploring original works with the Drafts in the greatest city in the world.
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Nicole A. Watson
(Director)
Nicole A. Watson is a freelance director and educator. Credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona (The 52nd Street Project, NYC and Banff Center, Canada) BlindSight: A Melodic Hypothesis (Women Center Stage Festival) Light Sweet Crude, (Subjective Theatre Company), Homage 3:Illmatic (Black River Performing Arts Center) a workshop of Oyamo’s musical White Hot Black Spice (New Dramatists, NYC) Deconstruction by Anne Phelan (Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn)Reverb by Radha Blank (The Fire This Time Festival), One Minute-Play Festival (Here Arts Center, NYC), Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers(NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, NYC), Foreclosure (NYTE at the Access Theatre, NYC), David Hilder’s Just Exactly Like (The Flea, NYC), Daniel McCoy’s Eli and Cheryl Jump (2009 Fringe Festival, NYC). She was also a co-writer on Indomitable: James Brown, the Music, the Man (Apollo Theater Salon Series) and was an invited artist at the 2011 Voice and Visions Retreat where she worked with Dominique Morisseau on Paradise Blue. A former history teacher, Nicole has been a teaching artist at the McCarter Theatre where she taught The Hamlet Project and the Museum of the City of New York where she taught an interdisciplinary playwriting/history course and lead professional development workshops on arts and education. Nicole is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, the Women’s Project 2010-2012 Directors Lab, and a co-founder and curator of Working Theater’s Directors Salon. BA History, Yale. MA Interdisciplinary Studies, NYU.
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Sarah Stephens
(Performer)
This is Sarah's debut performing at The Red Room. Off Broadway: THE ROVER (New York Classical Theater)
Off Off Broadway: MY FALL OF FALLING (Dixon Place Theatre), PRETTY WHITE ROOM (Snapdragon Theatre Works)
GIRLS IN TROUBLE (The Flea Theater),CLASSIC KITCHEN TIMER (dir. Adam Rapp)
Regional: DOUBT, A PARABLE (Human Race Theatre).
Thanks to her mother and grandmother for all of their love and support.
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Sean C. Turner
(Performer)
Sean C. Turner comes to acting from the world of stand-up, he has appeared on BET’s Comicview and toured nationally. He is a member of the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop (FSWW) and Uptown Playwrights as well as the Harlem 21 playwrights. Sean has performed all over New York he is a member of the Professional company at Black Spectrum Theatre in Queens. Sean Created the role of “Glen” during the Fire Next Time Festival here at The Horse Trade back in January of 2011 and is thrilled to be back in that role. Sean wishes to thank his friends and family for their continued support.
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Yusef Miller
(Playwright)
In 2006, Yusef suspended his acting career to pursue Playwriting. He was accepted as a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwright Fellow at The Juilliard School, mentored by Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang. In 2007, he was awarded the Le Comte Du Nouy Prize for Excellence in Playwriting. In 2008, he was subsidized for the entire year, being awarded the inaugural Frederick Fellowship.
Plays: Breakfast: Lark Roundtable, Horse Trade Theater Group/The Fire This Time Festival; Hookyjook, the Land of...: Lark Roundtable Reading; The Ford Foundation and The Classical Theatre of Harlem’s Future Classics Reading; Arnold Weissberger Nominee (Williamstown); Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab Investigation; Reverie Production’s Next Generation Playwriting Contest Semi-Finalist; The Juilliard School Reading. It Takes a Village. Aaron&Tekla: The Juilliard School Reading; The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc., Reading. The House of Buddy Baines: Lark’s Playwrights Week, Semi-Finalist; The Juilliard School Workshop Reading. Songs of My So-Called Masculinity: NYU Workshop Reading.
Films: Ding-Dong, (Short comedy, 2009), written: Ripfest #10 Short Film Festival Patent Leather Scars, (Short psychological drama, 2009), produced, written, starring
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Zoey Martinson
(Director)
Zoey Martinson is the co-Artistic Director of smoke&mirrors Collaborative in NYC, and the executive director of Bright Future Arts International in Ghana West Africa. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase College and MFA from NYU Grad Acting, and has trained in classical theatre/ mask in London, England. She has been working with young artists for over 10 years, teaching in England, Ghana, South Africa and Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. As an actress, she has performed at the Guthrie, NYSF/ The Public, Shakespeare On The Sound, 365 Plays/Days at The Public, Purchase Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, The Flea Theatre, Broom Street Theatre, Theatre in the Muz, South Africa, the National Theatre of Ghana, and the Diorama theatre in London. She works in physical theatre and mask, as a writer/director/performer. She has directed two short films, one documentary and theatre in Ghana, West Africa, Jo’burg, Cape Town, South Africa. Richmond University, London. Purchase College, and NYU Grad Acting Freeplay and African Mysteries project with Mark Wing Davey. The show "The Skype Duet" in Berlin and NYC, that she co created and directed won an award for it’s performance at the HAU 2 in Germany, and TONY Lounge at New World Stages, “Hell On Me” for the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival.
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