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Arooj Majid
(Performer)
Arooj Majid was most recently in Ilan Hatsor’s Masked Faces at Princeton University, and a staged reading of A River Pure for Healing by Pia Wilson (The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers) with the Drafts. As a member of the Drafts, he has participated in of series of Monday readings of new plays, in development. Other New York Theater credits include: Between Static (29th Street Rep); In the Zone (Columbia University); Becket (Richmond Shepard Theatre), and regionally: Monstrosity; Almost, Maine (Williamstown Theatre Festival). A native of Texas he received his bachelors degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Training: The Studio New York Conservatory, the Actors Center.
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Bill Barnett
(Playwright)
Bill Barnett has received numerous awards for playwriting, and his works have been performed from coast to coast and in between. Most recently, Woody and the Heeb was produced by The Manhattan Repertory Theater. Bill attended the BMI Musical Theater Workshop and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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Chris Kipiniak
(Playwright)
Chris Kipiniak: Playwriting: Save The World – Roundtable Ensemble, New York; Stalled – Kraine theatre, New York and Hangar Theatre Lab in association with the Drama League Directing Fellowship; the children’s plays Pass the Buck and For the First Time, Together Again for the McCarter Theatre’s First Stage program and The Big Search for the MiddleGround Theatre; also Doppelganger and The Nature of the Beast. He has also helped workshop and develop As Far As We Know with the Joint Stock Theatre Alliance. Other writing: Nightcrawler, Amazing Fantasy and Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man for Marvel Comics; “Magic Carpet Ride,” published in the travel anthology, Encounters with the Middle East. Associate Producer for The Smoking Gun Presents . . . on TruTV. Acting: Broadway: Metamorphoses. Off-broadway: Metamorphoses – Second Stage; Kit Marlowe – Public. New York: Charles Winn Speaks – Living Image Arts, The Wanderer – the Flea, Crackwalker – NYU, Silence – Roundtable Ensemble, and Stalled (also playwright). London: How To Act Around Cops – Soho Theatre (also New York and Edinburgh International Fringe Festivals). Regional: Argonautika – Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, and McCarter Theatre; Metamorphoses – Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Berkeley Repertory and others; Private Fittings – La Jolla Playhouse; Wit and The Odyssey – the Goodman Theatre; The Importance of Being Earnest and My Fair Lady – New Harmony Theatre. Film and TV: Law & Order, The Black Donnellys, The Guiding Light, All My Children, and the features The Secret, Three-Flat and The Poker Club.
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Christopher Diercksen
(Director)
Christopher Diercksen is a passionate director of new works. His previous directing credits include: 70's Mystical Sweetback (NY Neofuturists) Gargoyles (Theatermakers) Miss Julie (Human Group) Throwing the Pebbles (National Theater Institute). He was recentlyseen acting in, like the night, by Katharine Sherman. Christopher studied at Albright College and the National Theater Institute.
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Jennifer Soo
(Performer)
Jennifer graduated in '07 from Tisch, where she trained at the Atlantic Acting School and Stonestreet Studios, and spent her last semester with the Grassroots program in New Orleans. NYC Credits include: the Kraine, CSV, Theater for the New City, and most recently The Wings Theatre in a production of MOONCHILDREN with The Attic Theater Company. She also toured regionally with the Georgestreet Playhouse, where she may have been the first Chinese girl to play Anne Frank.
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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, currently 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 and the Labyrinth studio. Most recently, Kelley was selected to study with the Labyrinth Theatre's company members and will be participating in a performance with her Lab classmates in their first show in New York in Spring 2009.
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Lindsey Hope Pearlman
(Performer)
Lindsey Hope Pearlman is a director, actor, writer, producer, and clown. She is a proud founding member of Up & Down Theatre Co. Favorite projects include: Leap of Faith (SDC Observer), Ships of Sand with Lyrebird Theatre Company (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011), Winning the Future with Up & Down Theatre Co., and Rainbow Funk Squad. She also recently founded The Pearlman Sisters Theatre Co., for whom she produced a sold-out run of Devotedly, Sincerely Yours: The Story of the USO in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2012. Lindsey recently appeared in the Target Margin Yiddish Theater Lab at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and she performs throughout the five boroughs of NYC with the educational touring company Wildlife Theater, sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society. Proud former member of The Drafts Reading Group. She is a graduate of the London International School of the Performing Arts (LISPA) and received her B.A from Hamilton College. Email her at lindsey.pearlman@gmail.com.
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Michelle Pruett
(Performer)
Michelle has worked at The Public Theater, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Theater for the New City, Gene Frankel Underground, New Georges Stages, The New York International Fringe Festival, and The Crown Point Festival on the lower east side. Favorite shows: Mother Courage and Her Children, starring Meryl Streep at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, Pippin at The Deep Ellum Opera Theatre in Dallas, and The Tempest, directed by Joe Morton. Film work includes many short films, the pilot "Walk-Up," and most recently "Right Hand on Red," a dark comedy. Michelle studied at NYU and is a founding alloy theater company member.
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Nicholas Wilder
(Performer)
Nicholas Wilder Nicholas was born and raised in Philadelphia. New York: Breaking In (Strong Kids Playwriting Festival), Romeo & Juliet (Bare Shakespeare/Manhattan Rep), Free Country (Strawberry One Act Festival) Regional: Trio Sonata (Women’s Theater Company) Pericles, Romeo & Juliet (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival), The Shape of Things (SCO Productions), U.S Drag, Autobahn (Flashpoint Theatre Company), Much Ado About Nothing (Delaware Shakespeare Festival), and Baby with the Bathwater (Allens Lane Theater). Tours: Richard II, The Learned Ladies (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) One Night (Equalogy), and The Seeds of Freedom (Family Stages). For more information: www.nicholaswilder.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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Patti Murtha
(Director - Performer)
Patti Murtha studied acting at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University and at the Maggie Flanigan Studio. Past roles include Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, Agnes in Ludlow Fair, Geronte in Scapin, Pulcheria in Crime and Punishment, and local and international tours with The Shoestring Players. Directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing, Once on this Island, Godspell, and several tours for Shoestring. She is also a master ensemble theater teacher and conducts workshops with students aged preschool through adult at schools and organizations throughout New Jersey. She currently works with McCarter Theatre as a teaching artist and will be reprising her role as Telemachus in their tour of The Odyssey Experience in the spring.
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Pia Wilson
(Playwright)
Pia N. Wilson received a 2009 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She is a member of the 2009 Project Footlight team of composers and librettists and a member of the 2008 inaugural Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater. Pia is also a 2009 resident in the Women's Work Lab at New Perspectives Theatre. Her full-length drama, Tree of Life, received a 2007 workshop production at The Red Room Theater. The River Pure for Healing was part of the 2008 Resilience of the Spirit play festival. Short plays and one-acts: Dressed In Your Dreams (Stagecrafter's New Works Play Festival); Do You Proud (Eclectic Theater Company's "Got a Minute?" play festival); Whatever and Delicately (Groove Mama Ink; The Looking Glass Theatre's Spring 2008 Writer/Director Forum); The Rooster Never Crows (OneHeart Productions).
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Randi Rivera
(Director)
Randi Rivera is a director, designer, technician and New Yorker. She is a graduate of Hamilton College with a double concentration in Theater and Hispanic Studies. She is proud to be a founding member of Human Group. Randi recently completed a production internship at Dance Theater Workshop, and worked as a venue technician for the FRIGID NY Festival '09. Upcoming projects include; directing The Geographical History of America by Gertrude Stein, and lighting design for The River Pure For Healing by Pia Wilson. When not rehearsing, Randi splits her time between working for Horse Trade Theater Group and the admissions office at New York Film Academy.
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Sarah Babb
(Performer)
Sarah is a native of Canada. Selected film credits include: Wonder Love, Seven Hours, Calendar Girl and Spademeadow (MTV Spoof finalist.) Selected Stage credits include: Erica in The Water’s Edge, Woman in Purgatorio (New York Premiere) and Claudia in Honour. Sarah is very excited to be working with such a talented group of actors. She would also like to thank her family and friends for their support.
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Shawn Renfro
(Director)
Shawn Renfro is currently the Artistic Director for the Apothecary Theatre Company founded in 2008. His directing credits include Crazy, Sexy, Dead: An Evening of Don Nigro (Apothecary Theatre Co.), Animals (NY Fringe Festival), Dominica: The Big Fat Ho, Scarecrow, Closer, Crackwalker, Suspension, Quick and Dirty (A Subway Fantasy), Red Coat, Black Bird, Fog, Be the Hunter, Closer, Scarecrow, The Blessing, Stop Rain (Rutgers Theatre Co.), Specter, The Lion Tamer (The Project Co.), The Doctor’s Duty (Love Creek Productions) and Its Called the Sugar Plum (Theatre 1050). He recieved his BFA from Mason Gross School of the Atrs at Rutgers University in 2004.
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Stephon Pettway
(Performer)
Stephon Pettway is originally from Bridgeport Ct, but is a native of Durham N.C. He is a Sophomore BFA-Acting major in Pace Universities Theatre Arts department. New York credits include: Osage Avenuereading (Slick Willie, Birdie) at The Algonquin Theatre, Cold Water Flatreading (Eric Burns) & Comes A Pausereading (Narrator) at Under St. Marks. Five Seconds to Air (Charles Kingston) at Theatre Row, and Angels As We Fall (God) at The Manhattan Repertory Theatre. Pace Credits include: A Heartbeat to Baghdad (Dwayne), Tribute: A Black History Month Cabaret (Preacher, Walter Lee Younger, Ensemble), and Hard Times (Boundarby). Outside credits include: Two Trains Running (Sterling) & Tunnels (The Man) at North Carolina Central University, Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Villager 2 Male) which he performed in London, England, Perilous Times (Robert) at The Carolina Theatre and One Voice (Michael Lamar Jenkins) which he wrote and performed in Kenya East Africa. Film/Television credits include: Bushwick League, The Roe Effect, 100 Faces, Law & Order, Gameboyz (Mario) and One Man, One Sound which he directed, produced and edited.
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Suzanne Dottino
(Playwright)
Suzanne Dottino received her MFA at Columbia University, where she studied playwriting with Eduardo Machado. Her plays have been produced at the culture project: women center stage, artists of tomorrow Festival. Her play "All Cued-Up" was a finalist the Samuel French Festival of one-acts.
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Yesenia Tromp
(Performer)
Yesenia is thrilled to be part of this project. She was most recentlyseen in a SHU of "10021: A Modern Tragedy" with "The Milk Can Theatre Company." Previous NYC credits include "Charm" (Lark Play Development Center), "The TenthMan" (The Viking Theatre Company), "Bluff" (Rapscallion Theatre Collective), "Sweet Love Sweet Lines Sweet Life!" (Manhattan Repertory Theatre) and "ThirdChild" (NYC Fringe Festival). She holds a B.F.A in acting from Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus. Much love to her friends, family and "The Drafts."
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