Lewis Flinn

Lewis Flinn is a New York-based composer for theater, film and television. His musical Lysistrata Jones, with Douglas Carter Beane, recently played on Broadway. In 2013, he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for the music he created for Tribute Artist, an Off-Broadway play by Charles Busch. His other musicals and songs have been performed at theaters such as The Dallas Theater Center, La Jolla Playhouse, and Hartford Stage, among others. In the world of television, he has written themes for the TV shows The Power of 10, Million Dollar Password and The Newlywed Game. These programs now air in more than 50 countries. He has also written scores for commercials for the AFL/CIO, Life Cereal and Saab. A graduate of Princeton University, he has been a guest artist at Cornell, Dartmouth and Boston Conservatory.

Douglas Carter Beane

Douglas Carter Beane is an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Beane now lives in New York. His works include the screenplay To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and several plays including The Country Club and The Little Dog Laughed (nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play) and As Bees in Honey Drown, which ran at New York's Lucille Lortel Theatre in 1997. Beane often writes works with sophisticated "drawing room" humor.

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Ilene Starger (Casting Director)

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Judy Bowman (Casting Director)

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Liz Ortiz (Casting Director)

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Yudelka Heyer (Director/Producer)

Yudelka Heyer is an award-winning, multi-disciplined director, writer, and actor from San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. She attended Prometeo Theatre and New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. Yudelka is also a member of The Actors Society and a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Yudelka recently finished co-writing, with filmmaker Maite Bonilla, Camerino Times, a series that will start shooting this October. She is currently in post-production for her most recent written and directed short film Honey Cycle, a film about the post-trauma of domestic violence.

Barbara Bernardi (Playwright)

Barbara Bernardi is an actor and singer from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She came to New York to study acting at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she graduated in 2017. Her most recent credits include her Off-Broadway debut in Knights of the Square Table, Ximena in The Thalia Festival, Rachel in Baltimore, Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing and a Bud Light commercial. She is very excited to be back again playing Natalia in this amazing run at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Barbara is a proud member of H.O.L.A. (Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors) and The Actors Society.

Nigel Semaj B. (Director)

Nigel Semaj B. is a New York City based director/movement director/choreographer from Washington, D.C. Notable directing credits include, For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf, which won awards from the Kennedy Centerl in Direction, Ensemble and Excellence in Costume Design, columbinus, The Baltimore Waltz, Sarah Kane’s 448 Psychosis, Argonautika by Mary Zimmerman, as well as new works such as Black Hollow, by Aeneas Sagar Hemphill, and wolfchildren runslowly through a Bruegel landscape, 1558 by Ruth Tang,  Nigel has choreographed for Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera, Hansel and Gretel, Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, select numbers in Lorca’s Blood Wedding, and most recently a new play by Karina Amalia, Ah Sweeter Lyme. Recently Nigel has served as assistant choreographer for Constatine Baecher on The Wilma’s production of Passing Strange directed by Tea Alagic. He recently adapted, designed and directed a five female adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.  www.nigelsemaj.com

jeremy o’brian (Playwright)

jeremy o’brian is a Mississippi-born, Brooklyn-based playwright and educator. His full-length plays include: Under One Roof , anything dipped in egg gone soften, and a curious thing. Short plays include boys don’t look at boys and sway. In 2016 he received the Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voice Fellowship for Playwriting under the tutelage of Robert O’Hara, and 2018 he was an Athena Writes Playwriting Fellow where he developed his play: egg: or anything dipped in egg gone soften. His work has been produced or developed with Tectonic Theatre Company, Athena Theatre Company in collaboration with the Symphony Space in New York City and The New School for Drama where he currently studies Playwriting. Jeremy holds a Masters in African and African Diaspora Studies from UT-Austin and a BA from Tougaloo College.

Mac Rogers

Philip George

Hope Garland

Sharon Fogarty

Christopher Bailey

L M Feldman (Writer)

L M Feldman is a queer, feminist playwright who writes theatrically adventurous, physically kinetic, intimate, inquisitive, ensemble-driven plays – usually about outsiders, often about searchers, always about the human connection. Plays include Thrive, Or What You Will (New Georges Audrey Residency); Another Kind of Silence (Magic Theatre Virgin Play Festival, PlayPenn Conference, Playwrights Realm Fellowship); Amanuensis (Georgetown University); A People (Orbiter 3, Jewish Plays Project); The Egg-Layers (Jane Chambers Honorable Mention, New Georges/Barnard College commission); Grace, or the Art of Climbing(Denver Center, Art House Productions, Nice People Theatre, ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award Nomination, Barrymore Nomination, Kilroys List); ensemble-devised works, including Gumshoe (New Paradise Labs + Free Library of Philadelphia + Rosenbach Museum), War of The Worlds: Philadelphia (Swim Pony + Drexel University), And If You Lose Your Way, Or a Food Odyssey (The Invisible Dog, New York Innovative Theatre Award Nomination), and others; and a baker's dozen of short plays. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the New England Center for Circus Arts, L is also an educator (Bryn Mawr College, PlayPenn, Jefferson Medical School/Lantern Theatre), a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a Foundry mentor, and a performer & dramaturg of contemporary circus. She trains & coaches at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, and teaches dramaturgy to circus artists at Circadium and around the country.  L has lived in seven cities and is now based in Philadelphia – where she is an InterAct Core Playwright and a proud member of Orbiter 3 (Philly’s producing-playwrights collective). 
 

Vanessa Claire Stewart (Actress and Writer)

Vanessa Claire Stewart is an actress, producer, and writer, who penned the smash hit Stoneface for Sacred Fools Theatre, which went on to win the LA Weekly Award for Best Production 2012. Stoneface (starring Academy alum French Stewart), about the rise and fall of Buster Keaton, garnered glowing reviews during its 2014 run at Pasadena Playhouse. In addition, Stewart co-wrote and starred as Keely Smith in Louis and Keely: Live at the Sahara (Ovation for best musical, LA Weekly Award for best musical, LADCC for best musical), which became the longest-running show at the Geffen Playhouse and was directed by Academy Award-winning director Taylor Hackford. Stewart wrote and starred in the feature film Chase the Slut (Edinburgh Film Festival) and was a writing contributor to the film anthology Girls Girls Girls starring Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer (San Diego Film Festival, LA Femme Film Fest). Her film and TV credits include: Alex & The List, Girls Girls Girls, and appearances on Rules of Engagement, The Wanda Sykes Show and Sensitive Men.

Neil LaBute (Writer and Director)

Neil LaBute is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. His films include In the Company of Men (New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film and the Filmmakers Trophy at Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends & Neighbors, Nurse Betty, Possession, The Shape of Things, a film adaptation of his play by the same title, The Wicker Man, Dirty Weekend, Some Velvet Morning, and Death at a Funeral. His plays include bash: latter-day plays, The Mercy Seat, The Distance from Here, Fat Pig (Olivier Award-nominated for Best Comedy), Some Girl(s), This Is How It Goes, Filthy Talk for Troubled Times, In a Dark Dark House, reasons to be pretty (Tony Award-nominated for Best Play), In a Forest, Dark and Deep (London's West End), The War on Terror, The Money Shot, and The Way We Get By. His latest, How to Fight Loneliness, premiered at Utah Shakespeare Festival in 2017. LaBute's writing for television includes Van Helsing, Hell on Wheels, Billions, Full Circle, and Billy & Billie. He is also the author of several fiction pieces that have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar and Playboy, among others.
 

Daniel Goldfarb (Writer and Producer)

Daniel Goldfarb made his Broadway debut with Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. His Off-Broadway credits include Cradle and All and Sarah, Sarah, both at Manhattan Theatre Club; The Retributionists at Playwrights Horizons; Modern Orthodox at Dodger Stages; and Adam Baum and the Jew Movie at Blue Light (which won the Oppenheimer Award for Best New York Debut, and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Best Play), and most recently the musical Piece of My Heart at Signature Theatre. Goldfarb’s regional credits include Legacy and Party Come Here at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Radio Girl at Goodspeed. On television, Goldfarb was an Executive Story Editor on F/X’s Tyrant and DirecTV’s Rogue, and has developed pilots for Showtime, CBS, and Sphere Media. His film credits include screenplays for HBO, Maven Pictures, and Chicago Films. Goldfarb is a graduate of The Juilliard School and NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, where he is an Assistant Arts Professor and Area Head of Playwriting. He serves on the council of the Dramatist’s Guild, and represents the guild as a Tony Award Nominator for The Broadway League.

Nandita Shenoy (Playwright)

Nandita Shenoy is a New York-based actor and playwright who enjoys hearing an audience laugh. Her play Washer/Dryer was produced Off-Broadway by Ma-Yi Theater in New York, where she also played the leading role of Sonya. Washer/Dryer premiered at East West Players in Los Angeles and in Chicago at Rasaka Theater. Her first play, Lyme Park: An Austonian Romance of an Indian Nature, was produced by the Hegira in Washington, DC. Shenoy was the winner of the 2014 Father Hamblin Award in Playwriting for her commissioned one-act, Safe Haven. Her plays have been read at the Kennedy Center, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Bleecker Street Theater, and The Lark Play Development Center. Notable acting credits include world premieres of Eric Pfeffinger’s Some Other Kind of Person, Richard Dresser’s Trouble Cometh, and Adam Szymkowicz’s Marian, or The True Tale of Robin Hood, as well as a season at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the Dramatists Guild, and the Lincoln Center Director's Lab.

Keelay Gipson (Playwright)

Keelay Gipson is an activist, teaching artist, and award-winning playwright whose work includes #NewSlaves, CRH, or the placenta play, and What I Tell You in the Dark. He is the recipient of the prestigious Van Lier Fellowship at New Dramatists, as well as writing fellowships with Lambda Literary, The Amoralists, Page 73, Dramatists Guild Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Gipson has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of New York, the Administration of Children’s Services of the City of New York, as well as a residency at New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater Season at Vassar. His work has been seen/developed at HERE Arts Center, National Black Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Lark, The Fire This Time Festival, Classical Theater of Harlem, and New York Theatre Workshop.

Derek Ahonen (Playwright)

Derek Ahonen is a playwright, director, and founder of the award-winning Amoralists Theatre Company in New York City. Notable works include The Transcendents, The Pied Pipers of the Lower East Side, Happy in the Poorhouse, The Bad and the Better, The Cheaters Club, Pink Knees on Pale Skin, Amerissiah, Pokin’ the Bears in a Zoo, While Chasing the Fantastic, and The Qualification of Douglas Evans. Ahonen has been profiled in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The New Yorker, Backstage, and Time Out New York, and his work is regularly named to New York Theatre Top Ten lists. In 2012, he was named as a NYtheatre.com Person of The Year. Ahonen collaborated with actress Sarah Roy on Catherine And Anita, which earned raves at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and later transferred to the King's Head Theatre in London. He premiered the film adaptation of The Transcendents at the Sarasota Film Festival, marking his feature directorial debut.

Sandy Martin (Director)

Over the course of her remarkable career, Sandy Martin has appeared in more than 70 stage productions, including A House Not Meant to Stand, where she was nominated for multiple awards as Best Female Lead in a Play. She got her start at the age of 15 touring with Martha Raye in Good-Bye Charley, and has performed at Lincoln Center, La MaMa, Playwrights Horizons, and The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Martin was a founding company member of both the WPA Theatre and the Perry Street Theatre. She also co-founded Hothouse Stage Company in Los Angeles, producing the award-winning The Killing of Sister George (Best Revival of the Year winner) and East/West Game. In addition to her stage work, Martin’s TV credits include regular roles on Transparent, Playing House, Hand of God, Big Love and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. On the big screen, Martin was featured in Martin McDonagh's Academy Award-winning Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and appears in Tim Burton's live-action Dumbo.

John Cariani (Playwright)

John Cariani is a Tony Award-nominated actor and accomplished playwright, most recently appearing on Broadway as Itzik in the critically-lauded musical The Band's Visit. He made his Broadway debut in the 2004 revival of Fiddler on the Roof as Motel the Tailor and received the Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony nomination for his performance. Cariani was also nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance in Something Rotten!  Notable television and film credits include a recurring role on Law & Order, as well as Homeland, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Showtime (with Robert De Niro), Scotland, PA (with Christopher Walken), and Elephant Sighs. As a writer, John is best known for his first play, Almost, Maine, which is one of the most frequently produced plays in the country and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. His plays, Last Gas and LOVE/SICK, are published through Dramatists Play Service.

Lewis Flinn (Composer)

Lewis Flinn is a New York-based composer for theater, film and television. His musical Lysistrata Jones, with Douglas Carter Beane, recently played on Broadway. In 2013, he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for the music he created for The Tribute Artist, an Off-Broadway play by Charles Busch. His other musicals and songs have been performed at theatres such as Dallas Theater Center, La Jolla Playhouse, and Hartford Stage, among others. In the world of television, he has written themes for the TV shows Power of 10, Million Dollar Password and The Newlywed Game. These programs now air in more than 50 countries. He has also written scores for commercials for the AFL/CIO, Life Cereal and Saab. A graduate of Princeton University, he has been a guest artist at Cornell, Dartmouth and Boston Conservatory.
 

Douglas Carter Beane (Playwright and Screenwriter)

Douglas Carter Beane is a five-time Tony Award nominee whose show, Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure, made its world premiere at Dallas Theatre Center, where it won the top prize from the Dallas-Fort Worth Critics Forum Awards. His plays include the world premiere of his autobiographical Shows for Days, starring Patti LuPone, which ran at Lincoln Center Theatre. It followed his acclaimed production of The Nance, starring Nathan Lane, which was nominated for five Tony Awards. Other works include the revised book for Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella; Xanadu, for which he won a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award and was nominated for a Tony; Sister Act, Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical; Lysistrata Jones, Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical; The Little Dog Laughed, nominated for the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play, an Olivier Award and recipient of the GLAAD Media Award; and As Bees in Honey Drown, which received the Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Playwriting Award and the Drama Desk Best Play Nomination. He is also the screenwriter of the cult classic To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, and his musical, To Wong Foo, based on that screenplay, was developed and debuted at The Academy featuring the third year Company. Two previous original works, Me and the Girls and Fairycakes, were also premiered at The Academy.
 

Adam Fitzgerald (Director)

Adam Fitzgerald is a director, filmmaker, writer and content creator whose work has been recognized with an Emmy Nomination, Critic's Picks from The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, TimeOut Chicago and TimeOut New York, Best of the Year nods in The Advocate Magazine and The Contra Costa Times, a Jeff Award Nomination, and San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award nominations. His PSA Think Before You Speak (director/writer) for GLSEN won a national contest judged by Brett Ratner and The Ad Council (and screened at the LA Respect Awards) and his film, Occupy Me (director/writer), was an official selection screening in multiple festivals across Europe, Asia and North America. Adam directed Resistance Radio for Man in the High Castle (Amazon Studios, Campfire), which was nominated for an Emmy Award and received two Silver Lions and three Bronze Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Adam is currently the Main Stage Live Program Coordinator at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he curated and directed workshops of new plays by John Cariani, A. Rey Pamatmat and Keelay Gipson, as well as the Directeur Général for Pascal Productions in Paris to produce Wendy Beckett's Claudel in the spring of 2018. directorfitz.com

A. Rey Pamatmat (Playwright)

A. Rey Pamatmat’s latest play Here Are Our Monsters premiered in January 2018 at Philadelphia’s InterAct Theatre. His work includes House Rules at Ma-Yi Theatre Company, after all the terrible things I do for About Face's 25^th Anniversary Season, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them at the Humana Festival, Thunder Above, Deeps Below, and DEVIANT. Recent short works include This Is How It Ends as part of 59E59’s Summer Shorts, and Gratuitous Nudity and the Undisclosed Costs of Questioning Surveillance Rather Than Bad Broccoli for Actors Theatre of Louisville. Rey’s work has been developed at The Public Theater, South Coast Repertory, The McCarter Lab, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, Playwrights’ Horizons, Ars Nova, The Lark, Rattlestick, and New Dramatists. Pamatmat is Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, teaches at Primary Stages/ESPA and SUNY Purchase, and was a Hodder, PoNY, and Princess Grace Fellow. It was recently announced that he will be part of The 2018 Working Farm, SPACE on Ryder Farm's resident writers’ group.