The Cast and Crew |
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Joshua Conkel (Director) is a playwright and director. Directing credits with The Management include The Long Christmas Dinner, Self-Obsession in Blue, and the hit production of his own play, The Chalk Boy. He previously assistant directed the premiere of The Light in the Piazza at Seattle’s Intiman Theater, which went on to Lincoln Center and garnered six TONY Awards. His plays have been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Washington D.C., and Baton Rouge. |
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Dorothy Fortenberry (Playwright) is a playwright from Washington, DC. Her work has been developed at Arena Stage, Ars Nova, Geva Theatre, Perishable Theatre, Studio 42, and The Tank, and produced by EST/Youngblood, The Management, and Vital Theatre Company. She is the winner of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize in Playwriting. Her play Good Egg won the Jane Chambers Student Playwriting Prize, and was a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award. She is a member of Youngblood. MFA, Yale School of Drama. |
Meg Sturiano (Assistant Director)’s recent directing projects include Julia Brownell's Extraordinary Circumstances, Lia Romeo's Yog Sothoth at manhattan theatre source, and her own adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges at Hunter College High School. Her one act play One for More Options was recently produced at the Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis. Meg currently teaches and directs at Hunter in Manhattan and at Acting Manitou in Maine. She is very grateful to be working with The Management. |
Croft Vaughn (Choreographer) is a Brooklyn based downtown performance artist. He wrote and performed Stinky Flowers and the Bad Banana, and garnered rave reviews at the Indianpolis and Edinburgh Fringe. His Theatre Company, WTE, specializes in producing new works for International Fringe Fesivals. WTE's new show, SportSexDeathPorn, will premiere at the Montreal Fringe this June. Croft is a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing. He adores The MGMT. www.wtetheatre.org. |
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Jake Aron (Bastian) From the summit of Washington Heights to the underbelly of St. Marks Place, Jake gladly undertakes the role of Bastian with this swell bunch! He otherwise makes music (myspace.com/moloqmusic), designs sound, and studies at Columbia University. Theatre credits: Larry, The Photograph (dir./wr. Anne Moriority-Lev); Lance, Chumming the Water (dir. Birgita Victorson, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Youngblood); Bellhop/Waiter, Plaza Suite (dir. Alexios Shaw, Columbia University); Various roles, A Ridiculous Boldness (EST); Angelo Lasca, Leonardo's Last Supper (dir. Erin Watts, Fordham University). |
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Brian Robert Burns* (Doug) was most recently seen as the Earl of Southampton (The English Channel, The Abingdon Theatre). Yale Rep: Percy (Richard II). Yale New Theatre: Pericles (Pericles), Cressida (Troilus vs. Cressida), Chiron (Titus Andronicus), Yakov (The Seagull), Charlie/Jason (If Found Please Return to Charles Darwin by Maddie Brickman), and Clark (Bibles and Candy by Dorothy Fortenberry). Other credits: Pale (Burn This), Young Larch/Angel (Cider House Rules part I/II) and Osric (Hamlet). MFA Yale School of Drama. |
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Marguerite French* (Caitlin)’s notable roles include Juliet, Antigone, Lucia in Mad Forest (NYIT Nomination), and readings of Jailbait at The Cherry Lane (Emmy) and Everything is Ours at EST (Elsie). She is a founding member of The Management, with whom she co-produced the East Coast premier of Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls (Vivian) and Joshua Conkel's The Chalk Boy (Trisha.) She has studied with Wynn Handman and William Esper, among others. Love to Adam. |
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Elliott T. Reiland (Pig / Swan) hails from the great state of Wisconsin and holds a BFA in Dance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has danced as a member of Raw Delivery Dance Company, Patricia Noworol Dance, and has performed works by Ron K Brown, Brook Notary, Jim Sutton, and various other artists. Elliott has also pursued his interest in choreography, and has taught/choreographed for First Stage Children's Theater, Milwaukee's Skylight Opera Theatre, and Dance Theater Workshop. |
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Shetal Shah* (Priya) A Maggie Flanigan Studios graduate, Shetal is the 2005 South Asian Media Awards Best Actress recipient for her role in Arya and is the host and co-producer of the hip TV show, INScene. Shetal is particularly proud of her roles as Barsha in the play Barsha Badal (Spork Festival) and her latest film performance in Loins of Punjab Presents. Shetal also performs poetry throughout NYC, most recently at Lincoln Center. As well, Shetal is an educator in Manhattan.
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Teresa Stephenson (Rachel) is from New Orleans. This is her first production with The Management. Theater: Up With (Some) People (EST); June Moon (Dorset Theater Festival); The Tempest, As You Like It (STNJ); Baby Boom, Therese Raquin Desire (N.O. Fringe Festival); Trash Bag Tourist (New Orleans Fine Arts Center); and W/M (Urban Stages). TV: Evan and Gareth are Trying to Get Laid (Comedy Central). Training: BA, Vanderbilt University; MFA in Acting, Rutgers University. |
