Playwright
Jackie Danziger is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts where she studied with the Atlantic Theater Company. She writes, directs and performs with various companies throughout the city, including Pipeline, E.T.C, and Ars Nova. She has performed comedy at The People's Improv Theater, The Tank, and Gotham Comedy Club. Her 2-man sketch comedy show, People We Thought We Liked was featured in Ars Nova's 2011 ANT Fest, and played to a sold-out audience. Jackie works in the undergraduate drama department at New York University, and proudly teaches with the Future Filmmaker Workshop.
Composer
Ben Bernstein has written compositions for solo instruments and ensembles as well as two operas, Bad Island and Patterns of Inheritance, both recipients of the J P. Adler memorial grant. In 2011, his new collaboration with Yanira Castro is in residency at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn, and his piece Street Music was premiered at Letting Go, an outdoor exhibition in Newark. He has studied and performed with with Alvin Lucier, Anthony Braxton, Andres Levin, and Yonatan Malin.
Director
Reginald L. Douglas is the inaugural Van Lier Directing Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center. Selected directing credits include: NYC: Scared of Sarah, The Secret Life of Ghosts, With the Assistance of Queen Anne, Crossing Verrezano, WOOD, Fold the Close, and several others; McCarter Theatre: Amari’s Tomorrow; Georgetown University: …And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi and others. Reginald has assistant directed for Emily Mann, Sam Gold, Peter DuBois, Sam Buntrock, Ethan McSweeny, Daniel Beaty, Michael Unger, Jo Bonney, Lynn Nottage, Zach Braff and others, and worked at several notable theaters including Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company and McCarter Theatre.
Music Director
Hailing from the sunny isle of Singapore, Hansel Tan has enjoyed a performance career in theater and music spanning some 4 continents. He is a proud graduate of Wesleyan University, studying conducting under Angel Gil-Ordonez and Erik Westberg. To date, he has conducted ensembles such as the Anglo-Chinese Madrigal Choir, the Singapore Youth Choir, the SYCES Singers, the Wesleyan Concert Choir, the Wesleyan University Orchestra, the Pitea Chamber Choir of Sweden and the Wesleyan Ensemble Singers. He is the recipient of the Singapore National Arts Council overseas bursary award for Music and Theatre.
Choreographer
Sanaz Ghajarrahimi is an Iranian-American director, writer, and choreographer. Selected directing credits: Nuclear Love Affair (Ars Nova, Theater for the New City, The Tank, East River Amphitheater); Kill to Eat by Caridad Svich (Hangar Theatre); House (Brooklyn Lyceum); Orpheus and the Plastic Masquerade (Galapagos Art Space); Hamlet (Galapagos Art Space, Grace Exhibition Space); Romeo and Juliet (Access Theater); Jet of Blood by Antonin Artaud (Studio Theater). Recent Assistant Credits: Prima Donna by Rufus Wainwright directed by Daniel Kramer (Manchester International Festival) and Map of the World directed by Robert Moss at New York University. Sanaz is a Drama League Alum, graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Artistic Director of Built for Collapse.
Set Designer
Katie Shelly is a versatile visual artist who gets a thrill from creative polymathy. Since graduating from Wesleyan in 2009, she's crafted handsome/dreamy/unorthodox stuff for theatre, galleries, films, the web and even the old-fashioned newspaper. She works as a video editor and technology expert for the National Design Museum.
Lighting Designer
Jake Fine is a New York based lighting designer. Previous work includes A Lie of the Mind and Top Girls at Stella Adler Studios, Night Windows for The Shelter, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot for Sanguine Theater Company, Peter and the Wolf for Marc Arthur, and multiple shows with St. Fortune Productions. Upcoming productions include Fairy Tale for The Shelter.
Costume Designer
Sydney Gallas is a New York based Costume Designer and Theatrical Director. She is Associate Costume Designer of King Lear, currently at The Public Theater. She has assisted designers including Gregg Barnes, Gabriel Berry, David Farley, Susan Hilferty, and Ann Hould-Ward. Recent designs include: Williamstown Theater Festival (After Robert Hutchens, When the Tanks Break, Map of Virtues); The Flea (Future Anxiety ,#serials@theflea); The Mad Ones ( The Tremendous Tremendous); Columbia University (Ivanov, Ghost Sonata); The New School (The Tempest), Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (Anemone Post Tiger). Sydney is an Alumna of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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