Prince William Sound Community College

The Twenty-Second Annual Last Frontier Theatre Conference Valdez, Alaska June 8-14, 2014 PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND COMMUNITY COLLEGE PRESENTS THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL LAST FRONTIER THEATRE CONFERENCE

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MPANY BIOS...... MPANY TIST BIOS...... TIST BIOS...... TIME ENTERTAINMENT...... TIME BENEFACTORS...... FEATURED AR FEATURED CO PRODUCING PLAYWRIGHT BIOS...... READER PLAY LAB PLAY EVENING GALAEVENING ...... JUNE 14 DAY JUNE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS...... OF SCHEDULE COORDINATOR’S WELCOME...... COORDINATOR’S LISTS...... CAST REHEARSAL SCHEDULE...... PHILOSOPHY...... 4 Welcome to the Twenty-Second Annual Last Frontier Th eatre Conference. Prince William Sound Community College (PWSCC) and the community of Valdez are excited to share this week with you.

PWSCC has been in leadership transition for what seems like half a decade now, with two diff erent presidents and four diff erent temporary presidents. It is warming to me that despite all of this transition, there has been no change in the support for this Conference. Both the college community in specifi c and the broader community of Valdez take great pride in what happens here every year, and we are glad you are with us.

Th is year, we are very pleased to honor local icons Stan and Mary Helen Stephens with the Jerry Harper Service Award. Th eir annual donation of a cruise to Shoup Glacier means that everyone who attends is aff orded the opportunity to get out into nature, even if they don’t have the fi nancial ability or aren’t willing to take time away from the theatre. It’s become an annual ritual for many of us, an essential part of how we remember we were here. Stan’s passing earlier this year was a loss to the community, but he left behind a legacy of philanthropy that will endure for a long time through Mary Helen, his children, and his business.

Th is year I attended our conference’s parent event, the William Inge Festival in Kansas. It was great to see how they carry on the traditions that started ours. Regular Play Lab respondent Kia Corthon was just the honored playwright at our equivalent of scrappy younger sibling, the Great Plains Th eatre Conference. It is exciting to see how these similar events all perform the duty of honoring playwrights in diff erent ways.

Th anks for being a part of our Conference family for this week. Have a great time, and let us know if you need anything: we’ll try to help. Welcome to Valdez!

Dawson Moore Conference Coordinator INTRODUCTION 5 For the most up to date schedule, check the video display at the front desk or the signage in front of the rooms.

10:00 a.m. Registration Desk open 8:00 p.m. Th e PWSCC Drama Department presents Eric Coble’s Bright Ideas SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 2014 6 Room A Room B 10:30 a.m. How the Play Lab Works, from Practicality to Philosophy, with Kia Corthron, Erma Duricko, and Dawson Moore 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break 1:30 p.m. Improv for the fun 1:30 p.m. Choice and Consequence: Alternatve History, with Sherry of it with Scared Scriptless Kramer 3:00 p.m. Gone in 600 Seconds with Craig Pospisil 3:00 p.m. Monologue 4:30 p.m. Delving into Character with Cassandra Medley Workshop with Laura Gardner and Frank Collison, Part One 6:00 p.m. Welcome Reception & Fish Fry for Conference participants 8:00 p.m. From the Heart, an evening featuring the panelists in the Play Lab giving short readings from their work and work that inspires them. Directed by Erma Duricko. Designed by Gregory Pulver and Timothy Brown

9:45 p.m. (approximate) Fringe Festival at the Fat Mermaid

How the Play Lab Works, from Practicality to Philosophy, with Kia Corthron, Erma Duricko, and Dawson Moore An overview of the Play Lab process, covering everything from its overarching philosophy to the nitty-gritty details of where you go to rehearse.

Improv for the fun of it - It’s not all laughs, but it is all fun Th is workshop introduces participants to the fundamentals of improvisation. Th rough exercises and games, participants will learn the basic skills of improv and have fun developing their spontaneity, playfulness, imagination, and confi dence. Improv is an essential skill for any actor, and it’s a useful one for life, as well.

Choice and Consequence: Alternative History , with Sherry Kramer Explore alternative history as it applies to your characters.

Gone in 600 Seconds with Craig Pospisil A workshop on techniques and principles for writing short plays in general and with an eye towards overnight or 24-hour theater projects. Participants are invited to bring in short plays for possible discussion and take part in writing exercises during the class.

Delving into Character with Cassandra Medley. Exercises and suggestions for creating in-depth and emotionally layered characters.

Th e Monologue Workshop with Laura Gardner and Frank Collison How to research, rehearse, and make a monologue come to life for both you and for the writer. Th e Workshop gives actors the tools and hands on experience to fully inhabit, create, and bring themselves to the work. Actors come with memorized pieces and preliminary work done using the preparation sheet provided prior to the Conference. Work takes place over two classes and by individual appointment, and features memorized monologues written by this year’s participating playwrights. SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 2014 SUNDAY, 7 8 Room A Room B Room C 9:00 a.m. Morning Warm-Up Yoga with Meg McKinney 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Barry 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Mollie Ramo’s 10:00 a.m. Monologue Workshop Levine’s Scene From a Coff ee Snowmageddon Individual Appointments Shop 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: Rand 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: Nicholas Higbee’s Shaula: Queen of the Walker Herbert’s Martyr’s Kiss or Universe Out of Love 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break 1:30 p.m. Connecting with 1:30 p.m. Don’t Be Afraid of Your Your Scene Partner with Designer, Part One, with Gregory Scared Scriptless Pulver 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Karyn 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Clint Jeff erson Traut’s Th e Man He Loves or Farr’s Th e Kindness of Strangers Italian Sunset 3:45 p.m. Play Lab: Tom 3:45 p.m. Play Lab: Ashley Rose Moran’s God On Our Side Wellman’s Living Creatures 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Acting for Singers Workshop, Day One, in the Sugarloaf Learning Hall at the College 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break 8:00 p.m. Cyrano’s Th eatre Company presents Dick Reichman’s Th e Audition 10:15 p.m. (approximate) Fringe Festival at the Fat Mermaid

Connecting with Your Scene Partner - Improv tools for success on stage Every performance that requires more than one performer needs one thing. For a connection between the scene partners and an emotional response. Th is workshop will help you in every performance by teaching you ways to stay connected to your scene partner which will help you connect with the scene and the script, even if there is no script!

Don’t Be Afraid of Your Designer with Gregory Pulver A two-day workshop for directors and playwrights to understand the language of design and how to communicate and collaborate successfully. MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2014 MONDAY, 9 10 Room A Room B Room C 9:00 a.m. to Noon: Monologue Workshops Individual Appointments in Lunch Room 9:00 a.m. Morning Warm-Up Yoga with Meg McKinney 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: John 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Mathilde Hendel’s W.E.A.R. H.O.R.S.E. Dratwa’s Escape from Garden Grove 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Amy 11:15 a.m. Play Lab: Bennett Toft e’s Broken Panda Fisher’s Campo Maldito 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break 1:30 p.m. Creating Character 1:30 p.m. Don’t Be Afraid of Your with Scared Scriptless Designer, Part Two, with Gregory Pulver 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Joy Cutler’s 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Michael Nightshift (ing) Parson’s Sumner Falls 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Acting for Singers Workshop, Day Two, in the Sugarloaf Learning Hall at the College 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break 8:00 p.m. UAA’s Th eatre on the Rock’s presents Ashley Rose Wellman’s Gravidity, directed by Kalli Randall 10:00 p.m. (approximate) Fringe Festival at the Fat Mermaid

Creating Character - Find your character and keep it using the tools of improv Create characters and discovering how those characters and their points of view aff ect a scene. Using improv and its ability to quickly create characters you’ll learn how those characters see the world (scene) and are aff ected by it. You’ll also learn tools to help you stay in character or get back into character quick. Useful if you’re performing multiple characters, or characters that change over the course of a performance. TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 2014 JUNE 10, TUESDAY, 11 12 Room A Room B Room C 9:00 a.m. Morning Warm-up Yoga with Meg McKinney 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Kate Guyton’s Ghosts in the Field 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: Gregory 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: David 10:45 a.m. Play Lab: Christian Ely’s Aldrich’s Beheading Vampire MacGregor’s Th e Antichrist Cometh More Th an Kin, Less Th an Kind Puppies 12:45 p.m. Lunch Break 1:30 p.m. Th e Script is Not the 1:30 p.m. Basic Unarmed Combat Play with Eric Coble Techniques for the Actor with Michael Hood 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: AJ Knox’ 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Michael T. 3:00 p.m. Play Lab: Mark Muro’s Pissed Smith’s Th e Critics Nocturne on 166th Street 4:15 p.m. Play Lab: Kelly 4:15 p.m. Charlie Canning’s The 4:15 p.m. Antoinette F. Winstead’s Younger’s Gerty Pays For It Cranial Equity Loan Ivy and the Vine 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Acting for Singers Workshop, Day Th ree, in the Sugarloaf Learning Hall at the College 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break 8:00 p.m. Joy Barrett and Th eatre Daedalus present Jaclyn Villano’s Unanswered, We Ride, followed by a reception at the Valdez Museum 10:15 p.m. (approximate) Fringe Festival at the Fat Mermaid

Th e Script Is Not the Play with Eric Coble Getting from the seed of an idea to a fully staged production is a twisting path with countless unpredictable turns. How do you prepare for that? For that matter, any ideas one may have about how one’s career (or even life) will play out are bound for even more insane plot twists. How do you ride the unexpected for maximum eff ect?

Basic Unarmed Combat Techniques for the Actor with Michael Hood; An Introduction to Stage Combat Participants will be taught safe techniques for basic stage combat, including falls, pushes, pulls, strangles, chokes, slaps, punches, and kicks. Special attention will be given to the theory of attack upon invitation and a four step method for rehearsing and performing stage violence. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014 WEDNESDAY, 13 14 Room A Room B Room C 9:00 a.m. Morning Warm-up Yoga with Meg McKinney

10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Linda 10:00 a.m. . Play Lab: Linda Ayres- 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Lisa M. Billington’s A Duct Tale Frederick’s Blizzard at the Mountain Konoplisky’s Time Will Tell Top 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Sarah 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Vince 11:00 a.m. Jill Bess’ Simple Melody Ilyse Jacobson’s Catch Th e Melocchi’s Nice Th ings Spider 12:45 Lunch Break 1:30 p.m. Monologue 1:30 p.m. When Should the Words 1:30 p.m. Bonus Improvisation Workshop with Laura Gardner Stop Working So Hard? Writing Workshop with Scared Scriptless & Frank Collison, Part Two the Pictures with Elena Araoz and Justin Townsend, Part One 2:45 p.m. Play Lab: Ron Radice’s 2:45 p.m. Play Lab: Paul Braverman’s Won’t Happen Again Pete’s Place 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Siobhan 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Dick 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Tim Foley’s Best Gilbert’s Spotlight Reichman’s Bruckner’s Last Finale Seller 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Acting for Singers Workshop, Day Four, in the Sugarloaf Learning Hall at the College 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Dinner Break 8:00 p.m. TBA Th eatre presents Absolution, featuring four plays from the fi rst decade of the Alaska Overnighters, with work by Arlitia Jones, P. Shane Mitchell, Mark Robokoff , and Schatzie Schaefers 10:00 p.m. (approximate) Fringe Festival at the Fat Mermaid

When Should the Words Stop Working So Hard? Writing the Pictures with Elena Araoz and Justin Townsend How do we write strong visuals when we are developing a play in reading workshops where visual storytelling is not available? How can a script steer the design of a production without limiting the visual expertise of the designers? And should the playwright even be thinking about how his or her play will be designed while he or she is writing? Th rough a series of exercises, each playwright will explore practical methods to strengthen the visual possibilities in his or her writing and trust those emerging images to speak just as loudly as the spoken text.

Writing for Adventure Film with Meg McKinney and D.B. Palmer Join Adventure Film School Alaska as they explore and showcase the genre of Adventure Filmmaking. Experience the visual and visceral nature of this media, and learn a few of the pragmatic particulars in the pitch process. THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2014 THURSDAY, 15 16 Room A Room B Room C 9:00 a.m. Morning Warm-up Yoga with Meg McKinney 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Chip 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Catherine 10:00 a.m. Play Lab: Andrew Joseph Bolcik’s Th e World’s Worst Weingarten’s Donkin Donuts Brown’s Th e Testicle Testimonies Puppeteers Th emed Life Choices 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Daniel 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Barbara 11:00 a.m. Play Lab: Arthur M. Jolly’s Guyton’s Th e Mother of God Shepherd’s Ghost Stories Mission: Colusa Visits Hell 12:45 Lunch Break 1:30 p.m. Acting Shakespeare: 1:30p.m. When Should the Words 1:30 Basic Unarmed Combat Scene Work with Bruce Rogers Stop Working So Hard? Writing Techniques for the Actor with the Pictures with Elena Araoz and Michael Hood, Part Two Justin Townsend, Part Two 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Joe Barnes’ 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Jaclyn 3:30 p.m. Play Lab: Terence Shavetop Mountain Villano’s Th e Company We Keep Anthony’s Euphrates 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Acting for Singers Workshop, Day Five, in the Sugarloaf Learning Hall at the College 6:00 to 8:15 p.m. Dinner Break 8:15 p.m. Boarding at the docks next to the Best Western for a 2-hour cruise to Shoup Glacier on Stan Stephens Cruises

Acting Shakespeare: Scene Work with Bruce Rogers Let the meter be our guide. Actors can bring any Shakespeare scene or pick one at the workshop. Scenes will be worked with focus on using meter. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014 FRIDAY, 17 Saturday, June 14 8:45 a.m. Monologue Workshop performers called for tech through 9:15 a.m. Acting for Singers Workshop performers called for tech through 10:00 a.m. Monologue Workshop Final Presentation 11:00 a.m. Acting for Singers Workshop Final Presentation Noon Lunch; Ten-Minute Play Slam performers called for tech through 12:45 p.m. Ten-Minute Play Slam 5:00 p.m. Reception on the Civic Center lawn 6:00 p.m. Group photos for playwrights, actors, and featured artists 6:30 p.m. Gala dinner, featuring the presentation of the Jerry Harper Service Award to Stan & Mary Helen Stephens.

Get in this SATURDAY, 2014 JUNE 14, year’s picture at 6:00!

Sunday, June 15 10:00 a.m. National Advisory Board Meeting (invitation only)

No other Conference events scheduled for Sunday. Th e Civic Center is closed and locked, so please remove all personal items on Saturday. 18 10:00 A.M. Monologue Workshop Final Presentation A collection of monologues written by writers from this year’s Play Lab, workshopped over the week with Frank Collison and Laura Gardner. 11:00 A.M. Acting for Singers Workshop Final Presentation.

12:45 P.M. Th e Eighth Annual Ten-Minute Play Slam Readings of short plays by Play Lab playwrights. Directed by Carrie Yanagawa

Paul Braverman’s United We Stand Daniel Guyton’s Death of a Snowman Rand Higbee’s Moon in a Barrel David MacGregor’s New Year’s Eve Tom Moran’s WYWH Kelly Younger’s Let’s Get Physical SATURDAY DAYTIME ENTERTAINMENT ENTERTAINMENT DAYTIME SATURDAY 19 Join us on the closing Saturday of the Conference as we gather at the Civic Center for a dinner and awards cer- emony, featuring the presentation of the Jerry Harper Service Award to Stan and Mary Helen Stephens.

Schedule 5:00 Reception on the Civic Center Lawn. 6:00 Cast and Playwright Group Photo 6:30 Dinner Served 7:30 Benefactor Recognition by PWSCC President Dan O’Connor 7:45 Jerry Harper Service Award Presentation

Jerry Harper is a hero of theatre in Alaska, renowned for his talent, kindness, and work ethic. More than one thousand people attended his memorial at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium in Anchorage. At the Conference, he was a fixture in the evening perfor- mances and the Play Lab. At the University of Alaska Anchorage, the Studio Theatre was renamed in his honor. The annual Jerry Harper Service Award has been created to honor people who have supported the Last Frontier Theatre Conference the way he did, heart and soul.

The Last Frontier Theatre Conference is the creation of many people. While credit is rightly given to its founders, PWSCC President Emeritus Jo Ann C. McDowell and Edward Albee, and to its staff, there are hundreds of people each year who play a role in its creation. From the producers of the evening shows to the caterers, from the playwrights to the actors, from the financial benefactors to the people at the high school who loan us the music stands… it belongs to all of us.

The Jerry Harper Service Award exists to annually recognize someone who has gone above and beyond the call of duty over the life of the event. The first year’s award was given to Michael Warren Powell, the father of the Play Lab. The next year it was given to the only Technical Director in the history of the Conference, Jim Cucurull. In 2009, it went to long-time Valdez Star reporter and participant Ron Holmstrom. In 2010, TBA Theatre Artistic Director Shane Mitchell was the recipient, and in 2011, powerhouse director and Conference supporter Erma Duricko was honored. We celebrated our 20th year by honoring the event’s founder, PWSCC President Emeritus Jo Ann C. McDowell, and the year aft er we recognized her long time producing partner Gail Renardson. EVENING GALA

2009 winner Ron Holmstrom 2008 winner Jim Cucurull 2011 winner Erma Duricko. accepts the award with the with emcee Ben Brown. Coordinator looking on.

Michael Warren Powell receives the first award in 2007.

2010 winner P. Shane Mitchell. 2012 winner Jo Ann C. McDowell. 2013 winner Gail Renardson. 20 Valdez pillars Stan and Mary Helen Stephens have been selected to receive the 2014 Jerry Harper Service Award. The Stephens are being honored for their long- me support of the event, which started in the Conference’s fi rst year, 1993. They were instrumental in wooing many of the leading voices in American theatre who visited the Conference such as Arthur Miller and August Wilson by providing free day cruises into Prince William Sound for the featured ar st staff . In 2001, they began providing a two-hour, two-boat cruise for all the par cipants to Shoup Glacier; this event has become a centerpiece event for the Conference, providing conversa ons that change lives and memories that last life mes. While the award is specifi cally aimed towards recipients’ contribu ons to the event, the Stephens’ generosity to PWSCC and the surrounding communi es are also a part of what is being recognized. JERRY HARPER SERVICE AWARD HARPER SERVICE JERRY 21 ON GIVING FEEDBACK • Pose observations, don’t offer solutions. • A writer needs to know when you were engaged, and when you were not. • A writer needs to know what you got out of a play. • Your positive response is most helpful, while your negative response is not. • This is a nurturing environment, though you do not need to coddle the writers. • Do not offer rewrite suggestions. Do not rewrite the play. Do not make it what you think it should be. • Whether you liked or disliked the play is irrelevant to your response.

The above guidelines were provided in the first year of the Play Lab by Lanford Wilson to Michael Warren Powell and the Lab panelists.

ON RECEIVING FEEDBACK It is very important for each of you to know that you are the God of your own plays. These are the worlds you have created, and no person can tell you what your world must be.

When you receive the feedback on your play in the Play Lab and elsewhere, it is essential that you keep your ears open to everyone’s comments. Be grateful that the person speaking has taken time to think about your work and state their opinion in front of a room full of people. It is a gift that they are giving you... be appreciative and gracious. PLAY LAB PHILOSOPHY

That said, they are responding immediately after seeing a reading that’s had one rehearsal, at least here in Valdez. They know their immediate, gut response, which may not be perfect, but can be a great barometer.

Personally, when my work is being responded to critically, I write furiously on a note pad, smile, and nod. I non-verbally encourage people to keep telling me what they think. When it’s all over, 60% of what I am given does not apply to the play that I am writing. I discard these responses, not damaged by them.

About 20% of what is given is also off-base, but the fact that they have had the reaction they did leads me to further understand how to clarify what I am trying to achieve.

And to the final 20% of the responses I say “wow, good idea, thanks!” I then write their idea into my play and act as if it was my good idea. How great a deal is that?

No one can rewrite your play, unless they have access to your computer files. Be strong in what you wrote. Be strong in what was your initial impulse to put this play on paper, to see it on stage, to have people sit and watch it. By being here, by being involved in this process, you have clearly said “I am a writer.” Be one, and believe in yourself.

At the same time, take the time to humble yourself before the craft. There is an amazing amount of great thought about what goes into good story-telling. Open yourself to it, then pick what works for you, what you agree with, and continue the journey into creating and understanding your own aesthetic.

- Dawson Moore 22 Sunday, June 8 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. 9:45–10:30 a.m. A. Linda Billington’s A Duct Tale A. Barry Levine’s Scene From a Coff ee Shop B. Linda Ayres-Frederick’s Blizzard at the B. Mollie Ramos’ Snowmageddon Mountain Top 10:40 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. C. Lisa M. Konoplisky’s Time Will Tell A. Rand Higbee’s Shaula: Queen of the Universe 11:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. B. Nicholas Walker Herbert’s Martyr’s Kiss or A. Sarah Ilyse Jacobson’s Catch The Spider Out of Love B. Vince Melocchi’s Nice Things 1:10 to 1:55 p.m. C. Jill Bess’ Simple Melody A. Karyn Traut’s The Man He Loves or Italian 1:00 to 1:45 p.m. Sunset A. Ron Radice’s Won’t Happen Again B. Clint Jeff erson Farr’s The Kindness of B. Paul Braverman’s Pete’s Place Strangers 2:00 to 5:15 p.m. 2:10 to 5:00 p.m. A. Siobhan Gilbert’s Spotlight A. Tom Moran’s God On Our Side B. Tim Foley’s Best Seller B. Ashley Rose Wellman’s Living Creatures Thursday, June 12 Monday, June 9 9:45 to 11:00 a.m. 9:45 to 11:00 a.m. A. Chip Bolcik’s The World’s Worst Puppeteers A. John Hendel’s W.E.AR. H.O.R.S.E. B. Catherine Weingarten’s Donkin Donuts B. Mathilde Dratwa’s Escape from Garden Themed Life Choices Grove C. Andrew Joseph Brown’s The Tes cle 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Tes monies A. Amy To e’s Broken Panda 11:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. B. Benne Fisher’s Campo Maldito A. Daniel Guyton’s The Mother of God Visits Hell 3:00 to 5:45 p.m. B. Barbara Shepherd’s Ghost Stories A. Joy Cutler’s Nightshi (ing) C. Arthur M. Jolly’s Mission: Colusa B. Michael Parson’s Sumner Falls 2:15 to 5:00 p.m. A. Joe Barnes’ Shavetop Mountain Tuesday, June 10 B. Jaclyn Villano’s The Company We Keep 9:45 to 10:30 a.m. C. Terence Anthony’s Euphrates A. Kate Guyton’s Ghosts in the Field 10:40 a.m. to 12:50 p.m. Instruc ons A. Gregory Aldrich’s Beheading Vampire Cast meets with the playwright in front of the Puppies registra on desk. The Conference staff will help B. David MacGregor’s The An christ Cometh make sure everyone is there and assist with C. Chris an Ely’s Boss Man fi nding anyone who’s missing. 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. A. AJ Knox’ Pissed A er the full cast is assembled, rehearsals take B. Michael T. Smith’s The Cri cs place underneath the stage in labeled rooms. 2:40 to 4:30 p.m. A. Kelly Younger’s Gerty Pays For It B. Charlie Canning’s The Cranial Equity Loan C. Antoine e F. Winstead’s Ivy and the Vine

Wednesday, June 11 PLAY LAB REHEARSAL SCHEDULE LAB REHEARSAL PLAY Monday June 9 10:00 A.M. Monday June 9 10:45 A.M. 23

Room A Room A SCENE FROM A COFFEE SHOP SHAULA: QUEEN OF THE by BARRY LEVINE UNIVERSE by RAND HIGBEE

Stage Instructions Doreen Ransom Darryl Erick Hayden Stage Instructions Theodore C. Hooker II Jay Jeff Brion Captain Brick Jones Jamie Nelson Skippy Jeremy Gaunt Shaula Annie McCain Engman Computer Gabrielle Savrone Two relatives meet again after several years and attempt to fully reconnect over Moggie Gigi Lynch hot chocolate, music, and celebrity.

Captain Brick Jones and his intrepid companion Skippy crash land on a previously unknown planet. Once there they meet the world’s lone inhabitant: Room B Shaula, who guards the most important secret in the universe. SNOWMAGEDDON by MOLLIE RAMOS Room B MARTYR’S KISS OR OUT OF LOVE Stage Instructions Joyce Eriksen by NICHOLAS WALKER Virgil Stu Eriksen HERBERT Maxwell Frank Collison Thelma Martha Wollner Leah Megan Harty

Stage Instructions Mark Muro Allen Mark Robokoff Ham Erick Hayden Old Man Winter and Mother Nature join forces to throw a one-two punch Diamondback Danny Randall Parker II directly at Valdez, snow capital of Alaska, during the winter of 2011-12, Reb Jill Sowerwine aff ectionately dubbed Snowmageddon. Th e question is which will cave fi rst: Bonnie Daniels Calvin Virgil’s pride or the roof above his local eatery? Lina Andrea Staats Guido Eric T. Miler

After a successful heist, two jewel thieves hide out in a backwoods town with their stolen goods. While Allen tries to lay low and plan their next move, he discovers his bumbling partner Ham has kidnapped a baby... to try and pick PLAY LAB up chicks.

Chip Bolcik’s 2013 Play Lab reading of Blizzard, featuring Kalli Randall, Jeff Aldrich, and Raegan Payne. 24 Monday June 9 3:00 P.M. Monday June 9 4:00 P.M.

Room A Room A THE MAN HE LOVES, OR, GOD ON OUR SIDE ITALIAN SUNSET by TOM MORAN by KARYN TRAUT

Stage Instructions Nancy Pearson Stage Instructions/Intercom Reagan James Brady Hobbs AJ Knox Liza Nancy Caudill Kyle Benjamin Ryan Buen Ted Bruce Rogers Alicia Hobbs Laura Crow Larry Kevin Bennett Coach Bill Elton Mark Robokoff Reverend Jacob Benjamin/Radio Host #3 Aaron Wiseman Mandee Lyle/ Female Radio Show Janna Shaw Callers/Reporter #2 Announcer #1/Reporter #1/Radio Host #1 Jay Stevens A cabaret singer relates the story of her father, a gay WWII vet who couldn’t Announcer #2/Radio Host #2/ ESPN admit his sexuality, even to himself. Alternately conducting dialogues with his Announcer/ Chiefs Lineman Don Gomes imagined self and narrating stories he told her of his WWII experiences, she Opposing Lineman/ Male Radio Show works back to Italy, where against all odds and despite the horrors of war, he Callers/ Running Back Jeremey Gaunt fell in love.

Room B Brady Hobbs is a resolute atheist and a starting NFL quarterback – until he’s injured, and his fundamentalist backup reels off a string of improbable THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS victories. Now Brady is determined both to win back his job and to show his by CLINT J. FARR teammates and the football world that talent, not faith, is what wins and loses the ballgame.

Room B Stage Instructions Kate Rich LIVING CREATURES Dan Stranger Harold Fergus ASHLEY ROSE WELLMAN Martha Stranger Sarah MacMillan by Connie Stranger Sarah Shipp Jim Jones Don Gomes Phyllis Jones Doreen Ransom Maggie Jones Teanna Hutchison

Stage Instructions Kalli Randall Julia Amy Tofte How do you defi ne the perfect family? Luke Issac Fannin Kevin Erick Hayden Mr. Thermond Jamie Nelson

Two parents’ lives are ripped apart when their 10-year-old son Luke unexpectedly dies from an allergic reaction to shellfi sh, leaving them alone and overwhelmed by grief. As they try to navigate through the surreal world of their grief, Luke’s mother accidentally stumbles into her son’s afterlife— a strange world called “Th e Other Place” that looks exactly like their home, only diff erent… stranger. She wants nothing more than to bridge the gap between the world of the living and the strange world of the dead, and will do anything to bring her young son back with her.

Bostin Christopher terrifi es the audience with his 1998 performance of Eric Bogosian’s Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. PLAY LAB PLAY Tuesday June 10 10:00 A.M. Tuesday June 10 11:15 A.M. 25

Room A Room A W.E.A.R. H.O.R.S.E. BROKEN PANDA by JOHN HENDEL by AMY TOFTE

Stage Instructions Meg McKinney Stage Instructions Catherine Weingarten Reginald Frost Taran Haynes Ellen Annia Wyndham Erica Lottin Reagan James Jay Bostin Christopher Patty Frances Sarah MacMillan Lina Lala Araki Mike John Hendel Adele Antoinette Winstead RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES: A young man and his nude performance artist friend purchase a horse for a novelty slaughter. He wants to eat it, but she has other plans.

A white woman and a black man want to call it quits after ten years of Room B marriage. Th ey worry about the potential damage to their two young children. Tricked into submitting themselves to an absurd therapy treatment, the two ESCAPE FROM GARDEN GROVE are reminded how they fi rst came together... before the outside world told by MATHILDE DRATWA them they were black and white.

Stage Instructions Lindsay Lamar Room B Sophie Teanna Hutchison Faye Jan Richmond CAMP MALDITO by BENNETT FISHER

After a shocking discovery at home, 15-year-old Sophie is kidnapping her grandma from the assisted living facility, and they’re running away to Belgium. If only the bus would come. If only grandma knew where Belgium was.

Stage Instructions Rod Mehrtens Hieronymo Acosta Brian Wescott Ken Ingersoll Ryan Buen PLAY LAB

When a young CEO at a San Francisco tech startup hires a Santeria priest to purify the offi ce, he gets a lot more than he bargained for. A darkly comic fable about the cost of gentrifi cation, the casualties of capitalism, and the price you pay when you piss off the dead.

Teanna Hutchison performing Ryan Buen’s Now Boarding in the 2012 Monologue Workshop. 26 Tuesday June 10 3:30 P.M.

Room A NIGHTSHIFT(ING) by JOY CUTLER

Stage Instructions Sarah Bethany Baird Quinn Josh Schmidtlein Jena Colby Bleicher Tom/Kris/Body 1/Transporter 1 Theodore C. Hooker II Tess/Intercom Voice Female/ Patient/Body 2/Transporter 2 Kelly Wilson Nurse/Offstage Voice Jacqueline Hoffman Joss/Female Voice Behind Curtain/Goat Andrea Staats McGill/Lou/John Doe Mark Muro IN MEMORIAM

Overworked and sleep-deprived intern Dr. Quinn stumbles through the everyday madness of a hospital emergency department when his deceased sister shows up demanding her release from his memories. Told in the form of Th is year we lost three members a music-fueled comic hallucination, Nightshift(ing) is an investigation into loss and sibling relationships. of our Conference Family

Jeanne Stapleton Stan Stephens Room B Frances Tolbert SUMNER FALLS by MICHAEL PARSONS We appreciate the time they spent with us, and mourn their loss.

Stage Instructions Annie McCain Engman Lawrence Stu Eriksen Young Woman Karina Becker Brian Nicholas Walker Herbert Mel Michelle Gardner James/Jimmy Mark Stoneburner

Winner of the 2014 Rosa Parks Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center. On the day a convicted murderer gets released from prison, a miracle rocks sleepy Sumner Falls, a Cape Cod tourist town. Th e town’s sheriff seeks to get to the truth behind the “miracle” -- but that truth may cost her everything she holds dear. PLAY LAB PLAY Wednesday June 11 10:00 A.M. Wednesday June 11 10:45 A.M. 27

Room A Room A GHOSTS IN THE FIELD BEHEADING VAMPIRE PUPPIES by KATE GUYTON by GREG ALDRICH

Stage Instructions Annie McCain Engman Stage Instructions Danielle Rabinovich Davis Theodore C. Hooker II Rob Nicholas Walker Herbert Vivian Gregory Stefan Langer Donna Simone Johnson Clara Bernadette Lala Araki Megan Harty Chris Josh Schmidlein Mrs. E Doreen Ransom On a frigid Alaskan night, Vivian leads her recently dumped best friend Clara to an eccentric loner’s cabin to confront him about the untimely death of her A pair of ghost hunters who try to make contact with two reported ghosts, but sister 7 years ago. In one ninety minute scene, Vivian plays a cat and mouse when someone unexpected shows up who knew the two men in life, things get game of identity and morality until she must play judge and jury against that complicated. man who has directly or indirectly ruined the lives of her entire family.

Room B THE ANTICHRIST COMETH by DAVID MACGREGOR

Stage Instructions Bill McAllister John Mark Robokoff Leah Christine A. Eagleson Duncan Erick Hayden Holly Tamar Shai

John is an advertising exec who’s having a bad day. While examining his receding hairline, he notices what is either a very strange birthmark or the numbers 666 emblazoned on his head. When an old fraternity brother arrives with his evangelical fi ancee in tow, the conversation turns to “revelations” about John’s past, and all hell breaks loose – just in time for dinner.

Room C MORE THAN KIN, LESS THAN KIND by CHRISTIAN ELY PLAY LAB

Stage Instructions Kevin Bennett Phoebe Tarah Pollock Michael Timothy Brown Scott Michael Noble Sam Sara Shipp Carson Jay Stevens

Shane Mitchell and Aaron Wiseman in TBA Th eatre’s 2012 Lies, duplicity obsession and greed lead to murder as a modern day Midas is production of Eoin Carney’s Th e Rendering of Conor McShea. confronted by his gilded past. 28 Wednesday June 11 3:00 P.M. Wednesday June 11 4:15 P.M.

Room A Room A PISSED GERTY PAYS FOR IT by AJ KNOX by KELLY YOUNGER

Stage Instructions Susan Niman Stage Instructions Laura Crow Mike David MacGregor Gerty Sarah MacMillan Danielle Andrea Staats Paul Aaron Wiseman Bobby Linda Ayres-Frederick April Lindsay Lamar Van Justin Stewart Octogenarian Bobby pissed herself this morning, and on the day of her sister Susan’s wake, no less. During the ceremony, she, her son, and her Gerty has everything she ever wanted (except that her husband is dead, her granddaughter confront the truth about growing old and falling apart, and son is a wuss, her daughter-in-law is a cheat, and her sex-drive drove off ). But hopefully they can also discover how Susan died. when she begins a May-December romance with a young hustler, she learns what you want always comes with a price. Luckily, Gerty is willing to pay for it. Th is sex-farce was written in 48 hours for Paula Vogel.

Room B Room B THE CRANIAL EQUITY LOAN THE CRITICS by CHARLIE CANNING by MICHAEL T. SMITH

Stage Instructions/Track Announcer Julia Cossman Stage Instructions/Furniture Mover Janet Stoneburner Stephen Murray Bostin Christopher Owen James Jensen Dave Mathers Frank Delaney George Rob Lecrone Carol Mathers Rachel Marquez Sal Bruce Rogers Ms. Louisa Thompson Gabrielle Savrone Chris Justin Oller Mr. Conover Sally Kevin T. Bennett Gigi Lynch Pamela Lindsay Lamar Chad A three-act satire of modern life, the banking industry, and consumer credit Clive Frank Collison played against the backdrop of the Melbourne Cup, the most prestigious horse 3 or 4 furniture movers Thomas Korn race in Australia and possibly the biggest fashion event of the year. Horseplay in three acts.

As a group of writers work on revisions, their criticisms seem to alter the world in some very real ways. Room C IVY AND THE VINE Room C by ANTOINETTE F. WINSTEAD NOCTURNE ON 166th STREET by MARK MURO

Stage Instructions Stacy Miller Dr. Daniel Stephens Mark Robokoff Tammy Stephens Danielle Rabinovich Courtney Evans Tiffany Cooper-Allen Stage Instructions Barry Levine Aaron Grant James Jensen Gloria DeFelice Joyce Eriksen Mrs. Tully Linda Ayres-Frederick Renata DeFelice Jan Richmond Marty DeFelice Bill McAllister Unrequited love, entangled in friendship, proves to have devastating Francesca Rossi Kristen Fernandez consequences for Daniel, Courtney, and people they love.

A man goes back home to visit his family and is forced to confront a bizarre mystery. PLAY LAB PLAY Thursday June 12 10:00 A.M. Thursday June 12 11:00 A.M. 29

Room A Room A A DUCT TALE CATCH THE SPIDER by LINDA BILLINGTON by SARA ILYSE JACOBSON

Stage Instructions Jan Richmond Stage Instructions Mathilde Dratwa Callie Gabrielle Savrone Jessie Zoey Grenier Julian Jamie Nelson Fred James Jensen Aiden Mark Stoneburner Morgan Taylor Campbell

A pudgy, basement-offi ce wage slave and a homeless, duct-dwelling teenager meet and clash in a tale of dysfunction, deferred dreams, and DIY Callie has been in love with Julian since they were kids. When her best friend Scandinavian furniture. takes up with Julian, past, present, and Celtic myth intertwine as Callie examines the ways in which memory informs behavior. Room B BLIZZARD AT THE MOUNTAIN TOP Room B by LINDA AYRES-FREDERICK NICE THINGS by VINCE MELOCCHI

Stage Instructions Nancy Guiley Arden Waltham Harold Fergus Stage Instructions Nancy Pearson Shira Waltham Laura Gardner Amy Lalal Araki Voices Mark Stonburner Justin Ryan Buen Staff Sgt. Bobbie Jo Gunning Karina Becker Sandy Devon Delaney Home is where the heart isn’t for Arden – half-blind with only his dog, memories and cornbread to keep him company. In his isolated cabin with no snowplow within earshot, how will he weather the domestic emergency? Blizzard at the Mountain Top explores survival strategies both comic and Neither Staff Sergeant Bobbie Jo Gunning or Amy Mellinger sleep well these touching. days. In order to move on with their lives, they will need to come to terms with the past and deal with the present.

Room C Room C TIME WILL TELL by LISA M. KONOPLISKY SIMPLE MELODY by JILL BESS PLAY LAB

Stage Instructions Rees Miller Stage Instructions Sierra Ileta Halberg A Rob Lecrone Mary Sarah Bethany Baird B Anthony Lounsbury Abby Reagan James Frank Justin Oller Reverend Barton Paul Braverman Mr Lunkes Stefan Langer Bradley Don Gomes Two guys in a room. Th ey may be hit men. Th ey may be middle management. Ellen Nancy Caudill Time will tell. Kyle Taran Haynes Meagan Teanna Hutchison

Family secrets are revealed when three adult children reunite at the memorial service of their mother, Melody Simmons. 30 Thursday June 12 2:45 P.M. Thursday June 12 3:30 P.M.

Room B Room A WON’T HAPPEN AGAIN SPOTLIGHT by RON RADICE by SIOBHAN GILBERT

Stage Instructions Ron Holmstrom Ralphie Dick Reichman Stage Instructions/Announcer Annia Wyndham Siona O’Malley Paulie Rod Mehrtens Michelle Gardner Ben Korman Anthony Lounsbury

Two men in their 60s, Ralphie and Paulie, have lived across the street from each other in a working class city for the last 35 years, never said more than a casual hello to each other, and now through mutual dependencies begin Th e story of a decomposing relationship between New York comedians to learn about themselves and each other. Ralphie has a tendency to leave Ben Korman and Siona O’Malley. As the scenes of love and destruction are his garbage at Paulie’s curb, and while this bothers Paulie, it is the action intercut with actual stand up as the play travels backwards in time to the that allows both men to talk to each other, discover each other, and discover couple’s fi rst meeting, Spotlight asks the audience: “Is it worth getting involved themselves. with someone you’re competing with professionally? Is love worth it at all in comedy?”

Room C Room B PETE’S PLACE PAUL BRAVERMAN BRUCKNER’S LAST FINALE by by DICK REICHMAN

Stage Instructions Daniels Calvin Pete Leo Grinberg Th e Jan Welt fi lm of the Cyrano’s production of Dick Reichman’s Bruckner’s Maude Jacqueline Hoffman Last Finale A play about the creative life of a divinely-inspired genius: classical Benny/Husband Stefan Langer composer Anton Bruckner.

Maude doesn’t know exactly how she fi nds herself in Pete’s Place, a rundown little bar that lies somewhere between life and…someplace else. Now she must Room C determine the way: forward...or back. BEST SELLER by TIM FOLEY

Stage Instructions Christine A. Eagleson Thomas Kingfisher Jamie Nelson Claire Biscoe Annie McCain Engman Norman Delaney Brian Wescott Teresa Kingfisher Tamar Shai Stephanie Gordon Tarah Pollock George Meredith Christian Ely

Novelist Th omas Kingfi sher has seen his sales and reputation fade, but when he vanishes, the publishing industry goes into a frenzy and his books sell like never before. His agent, his wife, and his best friend must deal with the consequences, all the while wondering whether Th omas is dead or alive. Dick Reichman with Play Lab founder Michael Warren Powell and Conference founder Jo Ann C. McDowell in 1997. PLAY LAB PLAY Friday June 13 10:00 A.M. Friday June 13 11:00 A.M. 31 Room A Room A THE MOTHER OF GOD THE WORLD’S WORST VISITS HELL PUPPETEERS by DANIEL GUYTON by CHIP BOLCIK

Stage Instructions Rachel Marquez Stage Instructions Lala Araki God Harold Fergus Frankie Jason Martin Mary Michelle Gardner Eddie Mark Muro Michael/Murderer/Soul #1 Jay Stevens Kirsty Jill Bess Satan Bruce Rodgers Uriel Devin Freye Gabriel/Margaret Tarah Pollock Two brothers fi ght valiantly to make their niece’s birthday special, but their Azrael Gregory Aldrich entertainment plans go down the toilet, so to speak. Abaddon/Cobbler Jeremy Gaunt Moloch/Smithee/Soul #2 Randall Parker II

Based on a poem described in Dostoyevsky’s Th e Brothers Karamazov, and Room B written in (mostly) rhyming Iambic pentameter, the Virgin Mary travels to hell to comfort the souls in torment. While there, She becomes so moved by their plight that She condemns her own soul to save those of all mankind - DONKIN DONUTS THEMED much to God’s dismay. What erupts is a war between Heaven and Hell, with LIFE CHOICES all of our souls in the balance. by CATHERINE WEINGARTEN Room B GHOST STORIES Stage Instructions Colby Bleicher by BARBARA SHEPHERD Huey Iam Cabitac Fauna Andrea Staats Donkin Donuts Waitress Teanna Hutchison Stage Instructions Shonti Elder It is the one year anniversary of Huey and Fauna as a couple and they have Granny Joyce Eriksen a super adorable and sweet and perfect and adorable day planned, starting Crystal Sue Ellen Howard with a morning coff ee at one of their faves, “Donkin Donuts” coff ee shop. But Anastasia Megan Harty when Fauna tells Huey she doesn’t feel comfortable anymore with the physical Macy Sara Shipp aspects of their relationship, one of the most perfect couples in the world is Mitzi Tamar Shai forced to confront if they are still heading in the same direction... Tommy Bill Frey Book Readers Voice Kalli Randall

When the generations gather at Granny’s lake house, myth and memory Room C merge until no one is quite sure what is true and what isn’t. In this dark comedy, only young Macy is able accept it all in stride: that frogs will arise THE TESTICLE TESTIMONIES each spring from the muddy lake bottom as if from the dead; and that a lady, ANDREW JOSEPH BROWN who disappeared into those same waters long ago, will resurface to be seen by by those who care to look.

Room C PLAY LAB Stage Instructions Kelly Wilson MISSION: COLUSA Black Cock Down Bill Frey by ARTHUR M. JOLLY Size Matters Justin Stewart Confession Rod Mehrtens The Standing Ovation Jeff Brion My Dick Is Scared Of The Coochie Jeremy Gaunt Stage Instructions Gigi Lynch Snorcher Michael Noble Captain Jameson Wood Aaron Wiseman I Never Had A Choice First Officer Abigail “Abby” Hoyt Sarah MacMillan Born This Gay Erick Hayden Also First Officer Bostin Fowler Jason Martin Uniballer Bill McAllister Warrant Officer Steven Chen Brian Wescott I Never Had A Choice Redux Brian Wescott Random Blob Meg McKinney Man Up Devin Frey Dr. Dana Owens Julia Cossman Inspired as a response to Th e Vagina Monologues, “Th e Testicle Testimonies” gives men the chance to refl ect on societal pressures, common misconceptions, Can four volunteer astronauts stay sane in the confi nes of a mock spaceship on and their penises in a safe environment. a multi-year simulated mission? Uh... no. 32 Friday June 13 3:30 P.M.

Room A SHAVETOP MOUNTAIN by JOE BARNES

Stage Instructions Gabrielle Savrone Graham “Mac” McDonough Stu Eriksen Dougie McDonough Mark Robokoff Bonnie Weintrab Jill Sowerwine Nicole McDonough Sierra Ileta Halberg Louella Jackson Danielle Rabinovich Cal Fogarty Bill McAllister Wolfgang Steiner Erick Hayden

Mac McDonough, patriarch of the McDonough family, is dying and his relatives have descended like vultures for their share of his fortune. Mac confounds them by announcing that he plans to disinherit them all. His relatives – every bit as greedy and amoral as Mac himself – will do anything, including murder, to make sure this doesn’t happen. Tony Williams and Keith Arthur Bolden in Terence Anthony’s Blood and Th under, produced by Moving Arts at the 2010 Conference. Room B THE COMPANY WE KEEP by JACLYN VILLANO

Stage Instructions Reagan James Harry Aaron Wiseman Ellie Laura Crow Greg Nicholas Walker Herbert Katherine Joy Barrett

New to Georgetown with a law professorship and a freshly renovated home, attorneys Harry and wife Ellie are having diffi culty settling their 12-year-old Dawson Moore, Jaron Carlson, Corey Ann Haydu, Jay Stevens, son into his new school. When their best friends Katherine and Greg come to and Sarah Shoemaker in Joe Barnes’ Th e Workshop, part of the the housewarming with surprises of their own, what ensues tests the bonds of 2009 Ten-Minute Play Slam. friendship, marriage, and parenthood in this vicious comedy of manners.

Room C EUPHRATES by TERENCE ANTHONY

Stage Instructions Taylor Campbell Kira Johnson Donna Simone Johnson Jackson Kemper Ryan Buen Ione Marceau Sarah MacMillan Ellis Nambu Kevin Bennett Bruce Phillips Mark Muro Michael Parsons and Rachel Marquez watch as Bostin Christopher does something to Joyce Eriksen at the 2010 Conference. Twenty years ago, the Children of Euphrates cult was destroyed in a fi ery shoot-out with government agents and their prophetic leader was killed. Miriai House, the former compound of the now-obscure cult, presently stands as a Bed & Breakfast and is rumored to be haunted. As the date the cult leader predicted he would return from the dead approaches, a ghost hunter, a former cult member, and a mysterious young woman arrive at Miriai House, each with their own secrets and motivations. PLAY LAB PLAY Nancy Caudill has appeared at leading domes c and adapted from Christopher Logue, staging the bloodiest 33 interna onal venues as a featured scenes from the Trojan War; FirstWorks Fes val, New York soloist in works by Vaughan Williams, Ins tute for the Humani es, Chicago Humani es Fes val). Vivaldi, Mendelssohn, Mozart, New play workshops include Tiny People by Christopher Barber, Dvorak, Handel, Bernstein, Oscar Peña (Two River Theatre), River of Gruel by Sibyl Strauss, and others. As mezzo- Kempson (New Drama sts), Madame Ho by Eugenie Chan soprano soloist, she performed (Great Plains Theatre Conference) and Hilary Be s’ Dakota in Venice and Florence, Italy; St. Atoll (New York Theatre Workshop). Mexico (Project Y), and Petersburg, Russia; the Rudolfi num Alligator (Great Plains Theatre Conference). Elena is a 2050 in Prague, Czech Republic; Carnegie Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop (2014-2015) and a Hall in New York City; and with Time Warner Founda on Fellow for the Women’s Project various musical organiza ons and (2012-2014). As an actor New York ac ng credits include orchestras throughout the United States. She has sung with Amelia in House of Bernarda Alba (Pearl Theatre Company), the Anchorage Opera, the Cincinna Opera Associa on, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (American Globe), the Cincinna Symphony, and with renowned conductors, and Diana in All’s Well That Ends Well (New York Classical including Leonard Bernstein, Robert Shaw, Thomas Theatre). Regionally, Johnna in August: Osage County Schippers, and Pablo Zinger. Nancy has received cri cal (Arden Theatre Company), Aouda in Around the World in praise for her roles as The Mother in Amahl and the Night 80 Days (Triad Stage), Lila Mahnaz in The Rant (InterAct Visitors; Suzuki in Madama Bu erfl y; Cherubino in Le Nozze Theatre). Currently screening worldwide, Araoz is featured di Figaro; Cenerentola in La Cenerentola; Hansel in Hansel in the award-winning green screen feature fi lm Mars by and Gretel; and Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, as well as her Geoff Marsle . She holds her MFA in ac ng from University concert engagements. Her oratorio appearances include of Texas-Aus n www.elenaaraoz.com Dvorak’s Stabat Mater; Mozart’s C-Minor Mass; Vaughan William’s Serenade to Music; Vivaldi’s Gloria; Handel’s Bos n Christopher, Coordinator of Messiah; Bach’s B-Minor Mass and St. Ma hew Passion; the Conference’s Late Night Fringe and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. She is also an acknowledged Fes val, is an Ar s c Associate at expert in performing Art Song recitals. Nancy is a graduate Perseverance Theatre where his of the University of Cincinna College-Conservatory of du es include ac ng, direc ng, and Music, where she earned a degree in Opera, Oratorio, and working in the literary/new play Art Song Performance. She completed addi onal studies at development arenas. He has served the Cur s and Cleveland Ins tutes of Music. She is a winner as a guest ar st, and/or workshop FEATURED ARTISTS of the District Metropolitan Opera Council Audi ons and leader, at the Last Fron er Theatre a Regional fi nalist. She con nues her training by studying Conference (LFTC), the Great Plains privately with David Jones in New York City, as well as Theatre Conference (GPTC), and working with several performance coaches. Nancy currently the William Inge Center for the Arts. He’s worked on resides and maintains a voice studio in Anchorage, Alaska. new plays with NYSF/Public Theatre’s New Work Now!, Manha an Theatre Club, Theatre for the New City, Moving Elena Araoz directs theater and Arts, Perseverance Theatre, and Northwest Playwrights opera. Recent produc ons include Alliance/Sea le Rep. He most recently directed the Mac Wellman’s Wu World Woo and world premiere of Arli a Jones’ Rush at Everlas ng for Horrocks and Touta s too (Sleeping Perseverance this season; Rush at Everlas ng had its fi rst Weazel at ArtsEmerson), Architecture reading here in Valdez in 2011. Some previous direc ng of Becoming by Kara Corthron, Sarah credits: Harold Pinter’s Betrayal and Alfred Hitchcock’s Gancher, Virginia Grise, Dipika Guha, The 39 Steps at Perseverance, world premiere of Arli a Lauren Yee (Women’s Project), Jones’ Make Good the Fires, Dawson Moore’s The Tie, and Natalia Naman’s Lawnpeople A.R. Gurney’s Sylvia, which played at the LFTC a billion years (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), La ago. As an actor, his most recent credits are Long John Silver traviata (New York City Opera at in Treasure Island, Leonard in Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar and BAM, original produc on by Sir Jonathan Miller), Lucia di fulfi lling a life-long dream playing Lennie in Of Mice and Lammermoor (Opera North), Midsummer Night’s Dream Men. Previous ac ng credits include a couple new plays (Prague Shakespeare Fes val), Carl Djerassi’s Phallacy and Off -Broadway (Kit Marlowe, Ice Island) and too many shows Three on a Couch (Redshi Produc ons), Falstaff (Brooklyn to count where he had to wear his own clothes and bring Philharmonic at BAM), The Price (Northern Stage), Jaclyn in his spatula as a prop. If you really need more Bos n, Villano’s The Company We Keep (Boston Playwrights’ you can have him in your face any me by watching the Theatre) and Unanswered, We Ride (Edinburgh Fringe), movies Unbreakable, O s,Scorpion King 3, or In My Pocket. Li Tong’s The Power (Beijing), La n Lovers (Glimmerglass You might also accidentally catch him in old reruns of Law Opera), Raquel Almazan’s Café, War Music (which Araoz & Order and Ed among others, and you might be able to get 34a few laughs if you can fi nd some of his commercials online. helped establish Pinecrest Theatre in the Sierra Nevadas. Bos n Christopher received his BA from University of He then went on to earn an MFA in ac ng at UC San Alaska, Anchorage and his MFA from the Professional Actor Diego. Appearing in over 150 stage produc ons, Frank has Training Program at PlayMaker’s Repertory Company/UNC- worked Off -Broadway, with the New Jersey Shakespeare Chapel Hill. His complete mess of a website can be found Fes val, Chamber Repertory Theatre in Boston, Denver online at h p://www.bos nchristopher.com Center Theatre Company and Pacifi c Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Solvang, California. His theatrical roles Eric Coble was born in Edinburgh, have ranged from Puck in A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream Scotland, and raised on the Navajo and to Miss Havisham in Great Expecta ons. In Los Angeles, Ute reserva ons in New Mexico and Frank has acted in produc ons at the Bilingual Founda on Colorado. Mr. Coble’s fi rst full-length of the Arts, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Los Angeles Theatre play was produced in 1996; he has Company, The Rogue Machine and Pacifi c Resident had a play in produc on or rehearsal Theatre where Frank is a founding member. The LA Weekly somewhere in the world every week honored his performance as Mr. Peachum in PRT’s The since 2006. His scripts include The Beggars’ Opera as best suppor ng actor. Frank’s fi lm work Velocity of Autumn, Bright Ideas, includes Hitchcock, Radio Free Albemuth, The Happening, The Dead Guy, Natural Selec on, The Village, The Whole Ten Yards, Hope Springs, Hidalgo, For Be er, and The Giver, and have Suspect Zero, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Majes c, been produced Off -Broadway, in all Mobsters, The Last Boy Scout, Buddy, Alien Na on, fi y states of the U.S., and on several con nents, including Diggstown, The Blob, My Summer Story and David Lynch’s produc ons at Manha an Class Company, The Kennedy Wild at Heart, which won the Golden Palm Award at Cannes. Center, Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville Frank is best known to television audiences as Horace Humana Fes val, Denver Center Theatre Company, Arena Bing, the bumbling telegraph operator on CBS’s Dr. Quinn, Stage, New York and Edinburgh Fringe Fes vals, Alliance Medicine Woman. His extensive television appearances Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Alabama Shakespeare include guest-starring roles on Monk, Stargate Atlan s, Fes val, South Coast Repertory, Asolo Repertory, Indiana HBO’s Carnivale and Luck, Seventh Heaven, NYPD Blue, Repertory, Coterie Theatre, Great Lakes Theater Fes val, Star Trek: the Next Genera on, and Hill Street Blues. In May Stages Repertory, and The Contemporary American Frank worked with Lily Tomlin on Grandma, a feature fi lm. Theatre Fes val. Awards include the AATE Dis nguished He recently shot a pilot for Runestone, a television series Play Award for Best Adapta on, an Emmy nomina on, that imagines Vikings explorers mee ng Na ve Americans. the AT&T Onstage Award, Na onal Theatre Conference Contact Frank at www.frankcollison.com. Playwri ng Award, an NEA Playwright in Residence Grant, a TCG Extended Collabora on Grant, the Cleveland Arts Kia Corthron’s Life by Asphyxia on, Prize, and four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence previously produced by Playwrights Grants. Horizons, inaugurated the Public Theater’s monthly Drama Club series Frank Collison is thrilled to return to in October. Other plays include A the Conference, with his wife, Laura Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick Gardner, for an eighth summer. Since (Playwrights Horizons co-produc on last year Frank traveled to Michigan with The Play Company and the to star as Admiral Joseph Ironsides, a Culture Project), Trickle (Ensemble megalomaniacal pirate in the feature Studio Theatre’s Marathon), Moot fi lm The Adventures of Mickey the Messenger (Actors Theatre of Matson and The Pirate’s Code, due Louisville’s Humana Fes val), Light out next spring. In October Frank Raise the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop), Snapshot guest starred on Criminal Minds. He Silhoue e (Minneapolis’ Children’s Theatre), Slide Glide also traveled to the Mojave Desert the Slippery Slope (ATL Humana, Mark Taper Forum), The to shoot What You Can Burn, a short Venus de Milo Is Armed (Alabama Shakespeare Fes val), fi lm in which he played a mysterious fortune hunter. Frank Breath, Boom (London’s Royal Court Theatre, Playwrights recurred as Vern on Disney’s Good Luck Charlie. He has also Horizons, Yale Repertory Theatre, Hun ngton Theatre, and branched off into video games (Tomb Raider), commercials elsewhere), Force Con nuum (Atlan c Theater Company), (a Hallmark Christmas ad this year) and anima on Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (New York Stage and voiceovers, voicing the roles of Grandpa and Mr. Bojenkins Film, Bal more’s Center Stage, Yale Rep, London’s Donmar in a Cartoon Network show called Mr. Pickles. Frank is Warehouse), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theatre, proudest of his par cipa on in BookPALS, a program run Manha an Theatre Club), Digging Eleven (Har ord by the SAG Founda on which allows him the privilege Stage Company), Wake Up Lou Riser (Delaware Theatre of reading to school children in neighborhood schools. Company), Come Down Burning (American Place Theatre, Frank fi rst appeared on stage as a baby in a summer tent Long Wharf Theatre), Cage Rhythm (Sightlines/The Point in theatre, trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in the Bronx). Awards and fellowships include the LPTW’s Lee San Francisco, earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco Reynolds Award, Rockefeller Founda on’s Bellagio Crea ve State University where he performed street theatre and Arts Residency (Italy), Dora Maar Residency (France),

FEATURED ARTISTS FEATURED MacDowell Colony, Siena Arts Ins tute Visi ng Ar st (Italy), Playwrights Center’s McKnight Na onal Residency, and the play was published as one of The Ten Best of 35 Masterwork Produc ons Award, the Wachtmeister Award, 85/86. Through most of the 80s, he toured with Tracers Columbia College/Goodman Theatre Fellowship, Barbara na onally and interna onally. Tracers con nues to be Barondess MacLean Founda on Award, AT&T On Stage produced around the country. In the 90’s he directed Award, Daryl Roth Crea ve Spirit Award, Mark Taper several plays locally , including Hair, White People, Avenue Forum’s Fadiman Award, Na onal Endowment for the Arts/ X, Joan and the Zulus, Will Strip for Food, Ali, and Rounds. TCG, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, New Professional Theatre Playwri ng Award, Callaway Award, He appeared in all three plays of Jovanka Bach’s Balkan and in television a Writers Guild Outstanding Drama Series Trilogy. The 2000s have included appearing in Murray Award and Edgar Allan Poe Award for The Wire. Most Mednick’s Charles Story and numerous solo/spoken recently Kia has wri en a novel. She is currently a member word performances at such events as Rant and Rave, La of the Drama sts Guild Council and of the Writers Guild of Lupa Fest, Wai ng for Jack, and Library Girl. In 2007, he America, and an alumnus of New Drama sts. performed his autobiographical piece Walk’n thru the Fire at The Hayworth Theatre. The play made LA Weekly’s Ten Timothy Daly is one of Australia’s Best of the Year list. He a ended the Last Fron er Theatre most interna onally-produced Conference for the fi rst me in 2009. 2010 began with playwrights, with a string of na onal direc ng Willard Manus’ Just A Song at Twilight at The and interna onal produc ons to Write Act Repertory. In November, John played the lead his credit. Actors such as Academy- Award winners Cate Blanche and in Nightsong for the Boatman at the Odyssey Theatre. The Geoff rey Rush have appeared in his show was remounted in New York at The Barrow Group in plays. His 2008 play, Derrida In Love, January 2011. In November 2012, John performed his solo was wri en expressly for the 2011 piece, The Long Way Home – (Refl ec ons on the Tracers & 2013 Academy Award nominee Journey), directed by John Perrin Flynn and co-produced Jacki Weaver, which she performed by Roguemachine Theatre and The US Veterans Ar sts in a sold-out produc on in Sydney. Alliance, featuring live music by Al. Keith. He made the best His play Ka a Dances has won over a dozen na onal solo performance list in Backstage West: “With his hear elt and interna onal awards since its première, and with and dynamic performance recalling the incredible journey thousands of performances all over the world is the most of Tracers, he once again proves himself able to share the interna onally-performed Australian play of all me. Its purifi ca on of crea on, the embodiment of Shelley’s belief most recent produc on was in August-October 2013 at Theatre Grybowski in Warsaw, Poland. Timothy Daly’s play that, ‘Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the Richard III (ou presque) premiered at the 2011 Fes val of World.’” In 2013, he directed an All Veteran Cast (including Avignon, followed by a season in Paris in Oct-Nov, 2012. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets) in a revival of Tracers, which ran FEATURED ARTISTS His play The Man in the A c was awarded Australia’s in repertory with The Long Way Home at the US Veterans most pres gious award for a new play, the Patrick White Ar sts Alliance in associa on with Rogue Machine Theatre Playwrights’ Award. It received a Paris season in February Company. Mr. DiFusco is a member of The Actors Studio of 2012, and was performed in a sold-out season at the Playwrightr/Directors Unit, The LA Writers Center, and 2013 Fes val of Avignon, the third of Timothy Daly’s plays Rogue Machine Theatre Company, and The US Veterans to be performed at France’s most pres gious theatre Ar sts Alliance. He has received The NY Drama Desk fes val. The produc on has been invited back to the 2014 Award, The LADCC Award, LA Weekly, NAACP Theatre, Avignon Fes val. Timothy Daly is the 2013 recipient of a Drama-Logue, Robby Awards, and Valley Theatre League Paris Studio Residency Award by the Australia Council for the Arts, and spent fi ve months in Europe during 2013, Awards. In 1968, he was awarded the USAF Commenda on wri ng and seeing produc ons of his work. He advises on Medal for Meritorious Service in Vietnam. He has appeared over 100 scripts and produc ons a year. in numerous fi lms and television shows. Go to www. johndifusco.com for a full biography. A er discharge from the military, John DiFusco a ended Riverside Peter Ellenstein was Ar s c Director City College and Cal State U, Long of the William Inge Center for the Beach, as a theatre major. He began Arts from 2001-2014. For over thirty-fi ve years, Peter has worked his professional career in Los Angeles extensively in professional theatre, at The Odyssey Theatre in the fi lm and television as a director, 70’s, ac ng in several produc ons, producer and actor. For seven years including Peer Gynt, The Kid, The he was Producing Director of the Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Balcony, Los Angeles Repertory Company, and Mother Courage. In 1980, he where he directed the acclaimed created and directed the landmark Los Angeles Premiere of Sondheim Vietnam play Tracers, which had its world premiere at and Weidman’s Assassins. Peter has OTE. He directed the NY Premier at The Public Theatre, worked in theatre across the country from Los Angeles to New York, San Diego to Alaska, Broadway and Off - 36Broadway. His produc ons have received numerous outstanding playwrights including premieres by Tennessee awards and nomina ons. At the Inge Center, he aided Williams, Craig Lucas. Kara Corthron, Lanford Wilson, Annie the development of more than fi y full-length plays and Evans, Arli a Jones, Lisa Humberston, John Yearley, Craig hundreds of short plays. Peter oversaw the development of Pospisil and many, many others. She has received Drama a hybrid professional/academic theatre using the ensemble Cri c Awards for outstanding direc on, a Cervantes Grant, theatre mentorship/appren ceship model to develop new a Meredith Harless Visi ng Ar st Endowment, The Harper plays and new talent. He frequently lectures about William Service Award, and is the recipient of the Tennessee Inge and Theatre, and conducts workshops on a variety of Williams Award for Outstanding Contribu ons Preserving, theatrical topics for na onal theatre organiza ons. He has Promo ng and Perpetua ng the Work of Mr. Williams. Her taught ac ng, direc ng, voice, Shakespeare and musical current project for the stage, Tom’s Children, is a group of theatre professionally and academically. Peter sat on the short plays inspired by the poetry of Tennessee Williams Governing Council of the Associa on of Theatre for Higher (by Kara Corthron, Richard Co rell, Gary Giovanne , Educa on and served two terms on the Board of Governors Dawson Moore, Craig Pospisil, Tom M Wolfe and John of Theatre LA, (now LA Stage Alliance). He served as a Yearley) recently workshopped at the Abingdon Theatre. panelist for the Na onal Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the Erma teaches professional scene study classes for working Kansas Arts Commission, the Mid-Atlan c Arts Founda on, actors; presents workshops for writers, directors and and as a Site Visitor for the NEA and the California Arts actors; and guest directs at universi es across the country. Council. He comes from a theatrical family: His father was She is teaching this year at East Stroudsburg University actor/director Robert Ellenstein and his brother, David, is in Pennsylvania. Ms. Duricko is on the na onal advisory an Ar s c Director. Peter a ended American Conservatory boards for this Conference, the Delta Tennessee Williams Theatre and received his Masters of Fine Arts Degree from Fes val in Mississippi, a member of the First Look Theatre Minnesota State University, Mankato. Peter was pleased Company at Tisch/NYU, and The Drama League. Currently, to serve twice on candidate Barack Obama’s na onal arts she is co-authoring a scene study book with Kenneth policy commi ee. He is a member of AEA, SAG and the Holditch (co-author with Mel Gussow of the Library SDC. Peter will soon be leaving Kansas with his wife and of America volumes on Tennessee Williams). She is a three dogs. member of Minneapolis Playwright Center and a reader for them. Currently is the ac ng teacher at East Stroudsburg Erma Duricko, director, is a long me University and a professional ac ng coach in NYC. Erma member of the Society of Stage is married to Dr. Allen Duricko and the blessed mother Directors/Choreographers, founder of Marissa and Jeff and deeply indebted and devoted to and Ar s c Director of Blue Roses her collaborator of 23 years, Tim Brown and her mentor, Produc ons, Inc., and Ar s c Marshall W. Mason. Associate for Circle East Inc. Off - Broadway, she has directed at the Laura Gardner is delighted to return Lion Theatre and The American Place; for her eighth Conference with her Off -Off at Neighborhood Playhouse, husband, Frank Collison. In the last manha an theatresource, LaMama, few months she shot Castle and Goldberg Theatre, Ensemble Studio appeared in Lake Anne at The Road Theatre, Chasama, The Abingdon Theatre where she had an ADA Theatre Complex, Baruch Center, The Drilling Company, nomina on for her performance Polaris North, Laurie Beecham Theater; Libera on in Idle Wheels. She was nominated Theatre; regionally at Arkansas Rep, William Inge Fes val, for Best Suppor ng Actress by the White Birch, Sag Harbor, Pocono Playhouse, Long Wharf, LA Weekly for her performance in Har ord Stage, Scranton Public, Fernwood and others. She Figh ng Words, which opened at the conceived and directed In Their Own Words, Des na on Cel c Arts Center in Los Angeles and Valdez, and Flights of Fancy for the Last Fron er Theatre then transferred to the Millennium Center in Wales. Laura Conference. Her recent professional career is devoted appeared on Broadway in Smile. Her Off -Broadway credits to direc ng and producing new American plays and the include The Cocktail Hour with Nancy Marchand and Bruce work of Tennessee Williams. She has conceived and Davison, Other People’s Money, and Welded, directed by directed Tennessee Williams compila ons, including The Jose’ Quintero. She toured na onally with Showboat, Broken World of Tennessee Williams, Happy Birthday Mr. Doonesbury, Oliver, and My Fair Lady. Her extensive Williams, Derelicts and Dreamers, in addi on to many regional credits include the Arena Stage, Hun ngton TW full-lengths and one-acts. She also curates the NYC Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, and the Tennessee Williams Birthday celebra on produced by North Carolina Shakespeare Fes val. LA credits include The Blue Roses Produc ons annually. Erma was privileged to Road Theatre, The Rogue Machine, Pasadena Playhouse, direct Camino Real for Cyrano’s in Anchorage in honor Will Geer Botanicum, Westwood Playhouse, Greenway of the 100th birthday of Tennessee Williams and Bus Stop Court, Tiff any Theatre, Fountain Theatre, Deaf West, in Independence, Kansas in honor of the 100th Birthday Road Theatre Company and the Rogue Machine Theatre of William Inge. She curates, produces and directs the C. Company. You may have seen Laura and Frank recurring Douglas Stephens Infusion Series in NYC - developing new on the NBC hit My Name is Earl. Laura also shot the pilot plays. Ms. Duricko has helped to develop, produce, and/or Shredd, as Jason Lee’s rather wacky mother. Some of her

FEATURED ARTISTS FEATURED direct hundreds of new plays by some of the country’s most other TV and fi lm credits include Castle, Law and Order LA, Torchwood, The Forgo en, Crash, ER, Close to Home, the Nanjing University of the Arts in Nanjing, China. Hood 37 Criminal Minds, and The West Wing. Watch for her in the currently serves as Secretary and Board Member for the pilot Merryland, and the features Sunland, God’s Country, Na onal Theater Conference. Finding Red Cloud, Truth Never Lies, Callback the Movie, and the full-length pre-Broadway musical, Eclipse of the Sherry Kramer’s work has been seen Heart, with music of Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler. You can at theaters across the country and catch her in three roles in Grammy and Audie award- abroad, including the Humana Fes val winning The Maltese Falcon, with Michael Madson, Sandra at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oh,and Ed Hermann. Laura trained at Boston University, InterAct Theatre, Yale Repertory Rutgers, and Herbert Berghof Studio, where she studied Theater, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio with Uta Hagen and Carol Rosenfeld. She has been on the Theater, New York’s Second Stage, faculty of The Howard Fine Ac ng Studio, known as one The Woolly Mammoth, The Tokyo of the best professional ac ng schools in LA, for over 17 Interna onal Arts Fes val, and The years and is now teaching at the Howard Fine Ac ng Studio Theater of the First Amendment. in Melbourne, Australia. “Whilst” in Australia she shot 2 Her most recent plays are The Dream episodes of the wacky webisode Chris and Josh as Mum House, commissioned by the Moscow and will shoot more next me she gets down under! Laura Arts Theatre and the Interna onal Wri ng Program at the teaches actors with disability for Media Access in Los Angeles University of Iowa, and How Water Behaves, the second of and in San Francisco and was honored for her over 20 her plays in conversa on with the American idea of charity. years of work with that community. She is a frequent guest She is a recipient of N E A, New York Founda on for the Arts teacher in New Mexico, teaching in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Playwri ng and Alamogordo. She has taught in Wales at The Actors Award and a New York Drama League Award (What A Man Workshop and theAcademy of Musical Theatre, in NYC at Weighs), the LA Women in Theater New Play Award (The HB Studio, Stella Adler Ins tute, and the American Academy Wall of Water), The Jane Chambers Playwri ng Award of Drama c Arts. Laura also taught at the North Carolina (David’s RedHaired Death, nominated for a Helen Hayes School of the Arts, Palm Beach Community College, and the New Play Award), and a commission from A.S.K (The Mad George Street Playhouse. In Los Angeles, she has taught at Master). Other plays include: When Something Wonderful Santa Monica College, Actors’ Center Interna onal, West Ends, A Thing of Beauty, Things That Break (nominated Coast Ensemble, Women in Theatre, the Road Theatre and for a Helen Hayes New Play Award), About Spontaneous for the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory in LA and Santa Combus on, The Master and Margarita (music theatre Fe. Laura resides in Los Angeles with Frank Collison, her 3 adapta on with composer Margaret Pine), The Release of step-kids and their 2 large puppies. a Live Performance, Par al Objects, The World At Absolute Zero, The Long Arms of Jupiter, The Ruling Passion, The Michael Hood was professor of Law Makes Evening Fall, and The Bay of Fundy. She was FEATURED ARTISTS theatre at the University of Alaska the fi rst na onal member of New Drama sts, and teaches Anchorage for 22 years prior to playwri ng at Bennington College, and regularly in the taking his current posi on as Dean MFA programs of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and of the College of Fine Arts at Indiana the Michener Center for Writers, UT Aus n. Her plays are University of Pennsylvania. He was published by Broadway Play Publishing. awarded the President’s Award of the Northwest Drama Conference in Jason Mar n is a third genera on 1994, and received the UAA Alumni Alaskan with one wife, one son, and Award for Dis nguished Teaching more pets than Noah. Jason has been in 1998. Six of his produc ons have ac ng since 1990 and thoroughly won regional recogni on from the enjoys being laughed at. In the KC/ACTF, most recently The Gentleman Dancing Master for summer of 2000, Jason decided IUP in 2012. Mr. Hood has worked professionally on stage, that he was red of people laughing in fi lm, on radio and television, and has twice directed at him in scripted shows because professionally in the Russian Far East. His produc on Jason was constantly being laughed of True West, mounted in Yuzhno-Sahkalinsk in 1994, at in all the wrong places. Jason is traveled to acclaim in Khabarovsk and later to Moscow, one of Scared Scriptless Improv’s where it played the new stage at the Moscow Art Theatre founding members. Feel free to in the fall of 1995. In 1997, his UAA produc on of A Piece laugh at Jason now. Jason really hopes you remember of My Heart was performed by invita on at the PODIUM Jason’s name.... Jason. Jason has been seen all over Alaska Fes val in Moscow. He con nues to direct for IUP and for and has performed with The Anchorage Opera, Anchorage Unseam’d Shakespeare Company in Pi sburgh (Othello Community Theatre, Kokopelli, Anchorage Symphony, Noir, 2006; Macbeth 3, 2009, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Brown Eyed Girls, Cyrano’s Theater Company, TBA Theatre, Isle, 2013). His most recent publica on (2000) appeared and Scared Scriptless Improv, to name a few. With Scared in Theater sans fron eres, a collec on of cri cal essays on Scriptless Improv, Jason has performed with and opened the work and process of Canadian director and animateur for Joel McHale, Broken Lizard, Ranger Danger and the Robert Lepage. An SAFD cer fi ed teacher of stage combat, Danger Ranger Improv, 21st Century Men, Princeton New Hood recently taught an unarmed combat workshop for Money A$$ Clowns, and more. Scared Scriptless has helped 38raise over 1.5 million for non-profi ts in Alaska. Jason can wri en more than 50 one-acts and short plays, including also be seen in an episode of Monk, playing the Doctor on Dissonance, It’s Not You, There’s No Here Here, and On Wild West Guns, in the feature fi lm Big Miracle, and in too the Edge, which are published by Playscripts, Vintage, many shorts to list. When you see him at the Last Fron er Smith & Kraus and others. His work has been seen at Theatre Conference, he’ll likely be wearing shorts then too. Ensemble Studio Theatre, New World Stages, Bay Street, NY Fringe, West Coast Ensemble and Barrington Stage Cassandra Medley’s most recently produced plays include American Company, performed in more than a dozen countries, and Slavery Project, 2012-13; Cell, translated into Danish, French, Greek and Cantonese. He 2013, Ensemble Studio Theatre works as the Director of Nonprofessional Licensing for Marathon 2011; Daughter, Ensemble Drama sts Play Service, overseeing licensing to over 60,000 Studio Theatre Marathon 2009; theater groups around the country and interna onally. He Noon Day Sun, August, 2008, Diverse is the editor of anthologies Outstanding Men’s Monologues City Theatre Company—Theatre and Outstanding Women’s Monologues, Volumes I & II, Row, New York City; and Rela vity, and Outstanding Short Plays. A na ve New Yorker, Craig a commission from the Alfred P. received an MFA from New York University’s Drama c Sloan Founda on, Ensemble Studio Wri ng Program. He is a member of the Drama sts Guild. Theatre, 2004. Rela vity has been www.CraigPospisil.com produced by Kuntu Rep. of Pi sburg, Southern Rep. of New Orleans, 2007, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, May, 2006, the St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre, 2006, Gregory Pulver is currently an and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in 2004. Cell is Associate Professor of costume pending publica on in the anthology Outstanding One-Act design, make up and choreography, Plays—2012 from Drama sts Play Service. Daughter was and the Program Director, for published by Broadway Play Publishing in 2012. Rela vity the University of Portland Drama won the 2006 Audelco August Wilson Playwri ng Award Department. He moved to Portland and was featured on Science Friday, Na onal Public Radio, a er a successful run as an Associate and published by Broadway Play Publishing. Rela vity was Professor of Costume Design at featured in an online radio broadcast of the play by the Western Washington University for 12 Los Angeles Repertory Theatre in 2008. Noon Day Sun was years and Chair of the WWU Theatre nominated for the 2008 August Wilson Playwri ng Award, Department for three and a half of and is published by Broadway Play Publishing. Marathon those years. Mr. Pulver holds an MFA 2004-06 is also published by Broadway Play Publishing. Ms. in costume design and choreography from Humboldt State Medley has also the received the 2004 “Going to the River University, CA. He is the 1993 Kennedy Center American Writers” Life Achievement Award, 2002 Ensemble Studio College Theatre Fes val Na onal Costume Design Winner Theatre 25th Anniversary Award for Theatre Excellence, for his work on Three Penny Opera. He is a regional theatre the 2001- Theatrefest Regional Playwri ng Award for Best designer and the owner of Purpose Design in Portland. Play, the 1995 New Professional Theatre Award, and the Among designing both sets and costumes for Bag and 1995 Marilyn Simpson Award. She was a 1989 fi nalist for Baggage Theatre, and costumes for ART and Broadway the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in Playwri ng, and won Rose Theatre, in Portland, Gregory has also designed for the 1990 Na onal Endowment for the Arts Playwright several short films and TV spots in Washington including a Award. She was 1986 recipient of the New York Founda on dance for the camera film. Gregory is also an accomplished for the Arts Grant and a New York State Council on the Arts director, singer, actor, and dog owner. Grant for 1987. She teaches playwri ng at Sarah Lawrence College, has taught at New York University, and has also Bruce Rogers, Fairbanks Shakespeare served as guest ar st at Columbia University, the University Theatre’s Ar s c Director, is a of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and Sea le University. founding member of FST and has Cassandra worked as a staff writer for ABC Television: One been ar s c director for 18 years. Mr. Life to Live – 1995-97. She is a playwright member of the Rogers has been a major contributor Ensemble Studio Theatre, and New River Drama sts. to Alaskan theatre for over 30 years. He has directed and performed for theatres around the state, including Craig Pospisil is the author of Months eight shows at Perseverance Theatre on End (Purple Rose), Somewhere and twenty two Shakespeare plays in Between (Detroit Rep), The for FST. Mr. Rogers has been, o en Dunes (Theatre Conspiracy) and the literally, the driving force behind collec ons Life is Short and Choosing FST’s successful tours statewide and to the Fringe Fes vals Sides, all published by Drama sts of New York, Edinburgh and Brisbane. Mr. Rogers has Play Service. He wrote the book been commi ed to an eco-friendly theater and a “reuse for the musicals Dri (NY Musical and recycle” ethos since FST’s start. Rogers has a unique Theatre Fes val), and Dot Comet gi for the procurement of materials and talent, which has created an incredible theater company in the boreal FEATURED ARTISTS FEATURED (New Musical Founda on). Craig has forests of interior Alaska. Jus n Townsend’s Broadway Juliana Osinchuk has performed 39 credits include Casa Valen na; A interna onally to great cri cal Night with Janis Joplin; Vanya and acclaim. Her “superior technique, Sonia and Masha and Spike; The discipline and talent” (Los Angeles Other Place; Bloody Bloody Andrew Times) have dazzled audiences Jackson (Outer Cri cs Circle Award and cri cs in solo and orchestral nomina on). Other NYC credits appearances. Musical America include Here Lies Love (Drama Desk selected her as a “Young Ar st to Award, Lortel Award, Henry Hewes Watch” a er her solo debut recital at nomina on); Juan and John (Public Lincoln Center, NY. The Washington Theatre); Mr. Burns, a Post Electric Post called her recital “spectacular” Play and Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights and the New York Times called her a Horizons); A Man’s a Man, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Unnatural “skillful and scrupulous ensemble player.” As a champion Acts (Lortel Award nomina on), and Galileo (Classic Stage of American composers, Dr. Osinchuk has premiered Company); Monstrosity (13P); On the Levee (Audelco Award numerous works including the European premiere of nomina on) and Luck of the Irish (LCT3); Architecture of Lowell Liebermann’s 2nd Piano Concerto, and the world Becoming (Women’s Project); Opus (Primary Stages); Speech premiere performance of the Piano Concerto # 1 by and Debate (Roundabout Underground); Beauty on Alaskan, Philip Munger, with the Anchorage Symphony. the Vine, Palace of the End, and Mahida’s Extra Key She was 1995 recipient of a solo recitalist grant from the to Heaven (Epic Theatre). Regionally, he has designed for Na onal Endowment for the Arts. Her recent solo recitals American Repertory Theatre (Elliot Norton Award for The were dedicated to Mendelssohn Chopin, Schumann, Onion Cellar, IRNE and Elliot Norton Award for The Blue and Liszt celebra ng their 200th birthdays, and included Flower), Alliance Theatre, Arden Theatre, Arena Stage concerts at West Point, NY, Long Island, Washington (Helen Hayes nomina on for One Night with Janis Joplin), DC, and Arizona. She also is widely in demand as a Bal more Center Stage, Bard SummerScape, Boston Court, chamber pianist with singers & instrumentalists alike. Cincinna Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Commonwealth Among Juliana’s teachers were Nadia Boulanger, Rosina Shakespeare Company, Folger Shakespeare Library (Helen Lhevinne, and Nadia Reisenberg, and she received her Hayes nomina on for Hamlet), Georgia Shakespeare formal educa on from the Conservatoire de Musique in Fes val, Har ord Stage, Hun ngton Theatre, In man Paris and the Juilliard School where she graduated with a Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre (Ova on nomina on bachelor’s, master’s and doctor of musical arts degrees. for Apollo), La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, The Dr. Osinchuk is ac ve as a music educator, developing and Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Fes val, and PlayMakers presen ng music workshops for young students, adults Repertory. He is a member of the Theatre of a Two Headed and professional groups. She was honored as a YWCA Calf and serves on the faculty at Brooklyn College as an Woman of Achievement for her community service. FEATURED ARTISTS assistant professor. jus ntownsend.com Osinchuk’s recordings include Tchaikovsky’s Piano Music, The Sorcerer’s Piano, Growing Babies Bright, Nothing but Carrie Yanagawa is an Anchorage- Singing to Do with singers Kate Egan & Marlene Bateman, based Director, Scenic Designer, a solo CD to benefi t cancer projects Keys to Recovery, and Painter who currently serves and is featured on Lawrence Moss’ New Paths. Her as the Scenic Charge Ar st for the Happy Birthday, Wolfgang Varia ons were published by Anchorage Opera. Recent direc ng Alfred. She is director and founder of the Young Alaskan credits for new one act plays Ar st Award program in its 15th year and ar s c director include: Fourplay: Four Short Plays emeritus of the Anchorage Fes val of Music. by Alaskans (Three Wise Moose) and many installments of the Alaska Overnighters (3WM/TBA). Recent design credits include: La cambiale di matrimonio (Anchorage Opera); A Gulag Mouse (TossPot Produc ons); The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe; An gone (TBA); Fourplay; Rounding Third (3WM); Come to Me, Leopards; Pinkalicious; It’s a Wonderful Life (Cyrano’s). Recent pain ng credits include: Die Fledermaus; Lucia di Lammermoor; Pirates of Penzance; Tosca; Mrs. President; The Sound of Music; Macbeth; La Bohème (AO); Rush at Everlas ng; the road weeps, the well runs dry; Betrayal; The Blue Bear (Perseverance Theatre); The Producers (Earl Cameron Theatre, Bermuda); Beauty & the Beast (Elgiva Theatre, England); The Veil; The Kitchen; Collaborators (Na onal Theatre, London); as well as the feature fi lm Big Miracle. 40 Cyrano’s Theatre Company is celebra ng its 22nd anniversary and con nues to do an eclec c mix of contemporary, classic, and original works all year round. Cyrano’s mission is to cul vate and nurture Alaskan theatre ar sts. Cyrano’s Off Center Playhouse, a black-box 89-seat theatre located in the historic 1915 building, is the home venue of Cyrano’s Theatre Company. Our 2013 season included a play-in-progress by Arli a Jones called Come To Me, Leopards, directed and dramaturgy by Jayne Wenger. During our 2013 season, six of our plays gave opportuni es to women directors, with A Wrinkle in Time being the directorial debut for Ka e Strock. Resident playwright Dick Reichman’s Audi on is the ninth of his works produced by the company. Cyrano’s Theatre Company also hosted Yussef El Giundi, author of Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes. Krista M. Schwar ng is direc ng two plays for Cyrano’s this season, including All the Great Books (abridged) and the Pulitzer Prize-nominated 4,000 Miles, which will be at Cyrano’s in September. Next up at Cyrano’s is Bob: A Life in Five Acts, directed by Steve Hunt, which is a laugh-out-loud play somewhere between Brech an epic theatre and vaudeville. Our summer musical is Das Barbecue, directed by Regina MacDonald, which is Wagner’s Ring Cycle set in Texas, with fi ve actors playing thirty characters and featuring a variety of musical styles from Texas swing to jazz. In October, Cyrano’s will produce John Robin Baitz’s adapta on of Hedda Gabler, featuring Annia Wyndham in the tle role. This will be Tamar Shai’s directorial debut, with an (almost) all-women suppor ve crea ve team. In 2015, Cyrano’s will be developing a series of theatrical town-halls depic ng each decade of the last one hundred years, celebra ng Anchorage’s history from the founding in 1915 to 2015. Cyrano’s also con nues to be ac ve in the community with special projects, such as the partnership in late-June with the Alaska Veteran’s Museum, who is honoring Mary Louise Rasmuson’s military career as the leading WAC during World War II; Cyrano’s is honoring Mary Louise Rasmuson as a major catalyst for the arts in Alaska, and on June 26, there will be a special recep on event in partnership with the Anchorage Museum. Cyrano’s con nues to receive kudos, which include being regularly voted Anchorage’s “Best Live Theatre” by ADN readers and “Best Live Theatre in Anchorage” by Anchorage Press readers. CTC has also been the recipient of the Governor’s Award for Arts Organiza on, the Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Arts Organiza on, and a cita on by the Alaska State Legislature, “A Standing Ova on.” CTC has been featured in American Theatre Magazine and First Alaskans Magazine and was most recently cited by Kiplinger’s Magazine as one of the reasons to live in Anchorage! CTC is also ac ve as a civic member in Anchorage and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Visit Anchorage, and the AEDC. CTC’s founder, Jerry Harper, also has been the recipient of the Governor’s Award for Individual Ar st, the Lorene Harrison Life me Achievement Award, and an Honorary Doctorate of Le ers from UAA. The Harper Studio Theatre at UAA is named a er Jerry, as is the Harper Travel Grant administered by the Alaska State Council for the Arts. A scholarship to TBA’s Summer Conservatory is named in his honor. And, of course, the Jerry Harper Service Award at the Last Fron er Theatre Conference is named in his honor. The now and future Cyrano’s Theatre Company is lovingly dedicated to theatre visionary, Jerry Harper, and the high standards he established.

Theatre on the Rocks is a Student club at University of Alaska Anchorage. Their goal is to put on shows and give students more opportuni es to act, direct, design and stage manage. In the fall, they staged Ashley Rose Wellman’s Gravidity, which ended up being a huge success for the club. They hope you enjoy it here at the Last Fron erTheatre Conference.

Scared Scriptless Improv is Alaska’s longest running and most experienced improv troupe, entertaining sold-out audiences all over Alaska since 2000. Scared Scriptless Improv performs the second, third, and fourth Saturday of every month in downtown Anchorage at Snow Goose Restaurant & Brewery. Their performances are a comedy powerhouse of improvised theatre that typically involves one to four characters in a rumpus 3-5 minute one-off scene. Similar to the hit TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” but much much... more local. Scared Scriptless is returning to Valdez for improv workshops… This is your chance to learn improv with Alaska’s longest running improv troupe!

TBA Theatre’s mission is to enrich our community by providing innova ve and comprehensive theatre arts experiences through which ar sts of all ages can develop their crea vity and self-expression; and in so doing s mulate human poten al. In addi on to staging numerous produc ons each year and collabora ng with Three Wise Moose to produce the Don’t Blink One-Page Play Marathon and Alaska Overnighters, every summer they produce summer theatre academies in Anchorage and around the state, providing fun and safe environment where young ar sts learn crea ve expression alongside professional actors, designers, and technicians. This marks their ninth year presen ng evenings of entertainment at the Conference. Presented works have included Jacob Holder’s Dirge for a Failed Bris, North to Alaska, Beyond The Veil, THE END, An Evening of Short Plays (Alaskan Plays from the Play Lab), Four From The 49th, Nothing In Common, I Want to Believe, Eoin Carney’s The Rendering of Conor McShea, and Rand Higbee’s The Head That Wouldn’t Die, which was remounted in Anchorage at Cyrano’s Off -Center Playhouse. In the spring of 2007, they won na onal acclaim to be the fi rst Alaskan theatre company to be invited to present plays at The Samuel French Off - Off Broadway Short Play Fes val. The works selected for presenta on were Arlita Jones’ Grand Central and 42nd and P. Shane Mitchell’s The Resurrec on of Humpty Dumpty, both of which started as Alaska Overnighters produc ons and have subsequently been presented here at the Last Fron er Theater Conference. TBA Theatre was named by readers of The Anchorage Daily News as Alaska’s “Best Non-Profi t” and “The Gold Standard in Family Fun.” PRODUCING COMPANIES PRODUCING 41 Gregory Aldrich (Beheading Vampire last year at LFTC). In 2013 at the Marsh Theatre in San Puppies) is a New York City based Francisco, and at the Hanlon Arts Center in Marin, she philosophical, poe c playwright. Award- performed an earlier solo version of Blizzard. Her full- winning plays include The Blue Hotel length play Kiska Bay was read at the Tides Theatre (Winner, City Lit Theater Company’s as part of the Drama sts Guild Footlight Series. She is Second Annual Art of Adapta on Fes val) currently working on several full-length plays including and In the Octopus’s Garden (Audience Black Swan, The Umbrella Play, and One Foot on the Choice Award, Rhythm Sec on’s MixTape Water. In 2011, The Mav Mum Murder was read in 2010). His plays The Ridiculously Sweet Dream Apartment, the Play lab, where her work has been given readings Pertaining to Those Things that Happen in Vegas and seven mes over the last nine years. Two of Linda’s Elsewhere, and The Blue Hotel were fi nalists for the Region plays (Dinner with the Undertaker’s Son and Wai ng II KCACTF. His play Epulosia was also a Semi-Finalist for the in the Victory Garden) were performed and published Princess Grace in 2010. Other produced and developed by Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company as part of plays include Beheading Vampire Puppies, The Moment the Bay One-Acts Fes val. She has had over 20 pieces A er, The A ack of the Ladybugs, Typing Lear, The Body produced and over 30 pieces read publicly. Her work Snatcher, Looking Long Into the Abyss, The Principle of also appears in the recently published Monologues from the Thing, and Is It Supposed to Bleed This Much. Greg the Last Fron er Theatre Conference. Blizzard at the received his MFA in Playwri ng from Ohio University, Mountain Top will be performed in September 2014 in his BA in English from Benedic ne College in Atchison, the SF Fringe Fes val on the Exit Theatre Mainstage. Kansas, and has trained with Chicago Drama sts, Victory For the last several years, Linda has been one of the Gardens, and UAF. Monday Night Playwrights, the longest running group of Playwrights in San Francisco. She also serves as Terence Anthony (Euphrates) has been a Member of the Board of Custom Made Theatre PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS awarded wri ng fellowships to the Virginia Company. Center for the Crea ve Arts, Ragdale Founda on, and the Santa Fe Art Ins tute. Joe Barnes’ (Shavetop Mountain) fi rst He is a member of the Drama sts Guild, play, Happy Hour, premiered in 2006 the Playwrights Union, Moving Arts, and as part of the Edward Albee New the Chicago Drama sts. Euphrates was Playwrights Series. He has had a number awarded the Max K. Lerner Playwri ng of plays produced since then, including Fellowship in 2013. His play Tombolo was a 2012 Finalist The Black Dog, Second Chances, The for the O’Neill Na onal Playwrights Conference. Blood Tragedy of the Tragedy of King Lear, The and Thunder (2011 LA Weekly Award Winner for Best Schiffl et Project, The Workshop, Inventory Performance – Candice Afi a) was a World Premiere of Eff ects, Quality Time, The Surgeon General’s Warning, produc on at Moving Arts, where it enjoyed a successful Just Like That, and Sister Fred. Seven of his plays – six month run in 2009-2010. Terence’s plays have been Summer Friends, Acts of Faith, Remembering Rory, The produced and workshopped across the country; they Unicorn, The Call, Tastes like Chicken, and Riding the include Ci zen Bernie, Tangled, Choke, and the green Elephant – have been read at the Last Fron er Theatre fl ash. Conference. Barnes is a resident of Houston, Texas.

Linda Ayres-Frederick (Blizzard at Jill Bess (Simple Melody) an Alaskan for the Mountain Top), Phoenix Theatre’s nearly 30 years now, is originally from Ar s c Director since 1985 (www. Southern California, where she received phoenixtheatresf.org), has enjoyed a her BA in Drama from the University of diverse career as an actor, producer, California, Irvine. Originally trained as director, cri c, and playwright in the San an actress and director, Jill fell in love Francisco Bay Area with related work travel with playwri ng when she began raising to NYC, Edinburgh, France, and Alaska. her family, and was inspired to write her A member of the SF Bay Area Theatre Cri cs Circle (VP) fi rst play, the na onal award winning one-woman show and the Drama sts Guild of America, Linda is twice a The Mommy Dance. Other works include This Stranger Shubert Playwri ng Fellow with numerous produc ons My Friend, No More, Confessions of a PK, Overboard, and publica ons in Bay Area Fes vals including Best of Tinkle Bells, The Rapunzel Syndrome, and several other SF Fringe 2010 & 2011 (for her play Afi eld) and Best Play short one-acts. Jill is regularly involved in the Anchorage of Marin Fringe 2012 (for her solo Cantata #40 also read Overnighters and recently par cipated in the One- 42 Minute Play Fes val with dozens of other Alaskans. Jill The next chapter in Frankie’s story, The Apple Never was just awarded a Teaching Fellowship in Playwri ng Falls, premiered at The Pear in February 2013 and had from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and will be a sold out run. The trilogy concludes in 2015 with the studying in NYC this summer at the Teacher Training fi nal chapter, Birds of a Feather. Paul is a member of Ins tute for Young Playwrights, Inc. The Drama sts Guild of America, Theatre Bay Area, The Playwright Center of San Francisco, and The Pear A er 26 years of wri ng and edi ng Avenue Theatre Playwright Guild. for the Anchorage Daily News, Linda Billington (A Duct Tale) re red and, Andrew Joseph Brown (The Tes cle much to her astonishment, turned Tes monies) was born and raised in into a playwright. Her fi rst play, Bear, Raymore, Missouri, a suburb located just was chosen for the Play Lab at the Last south of Kansas City. He fi rst discovered Fron er Theatre Conference, and several his love for theatre at eight years old. As more have since been read here. Her there were no suitable roles for his age plays have also been accepted for the 8x10 Fes val of group, he began wri ng his own shows New Alaskan Plays in Fairbanks, and she has stayed to star in, and forced his friends and up all night numerous mes to write for the Alaska family into par cipa ng as well. The desire to create Overnighters. Linda is a member of the Drama sts Guild soon overcame his need for the spotlight. While ac ng of America. is s ll a favorite pas me, he maintains that there is no greater feeling than watching your words brought to life Chip Bolcik (The World’s Worst on the stage. Puppeteers) has wri en 31 short plays and two full-length plays. His one-act Charlie Canning (The Cranial Equity The Blizzard was chosen as Best Play at Loan) spent a year working at Tao House, the Winter 2013 Strawberry One-Act the Eugene O’Neill Na onal Historic in Fes val in NYC. It was also featured Danville, California, and seven years as in the 2013 Play Lab and was a fi nalist a faculty advisor to college Shakespeare at the 2013 Hurricane Season Theater produc ons in Japan. The Cranial Equity Fes val in Los Angeles. His one-act In The Third Person Loan was wri en while Canning was was chosen as best play at Manha an Repertory enrolled in the PhD program in crea ve Theater in New York City. His play The Writer won wri ng at the University of Adelaide. He has published the 2013 Fusion Theater’s “The Seven” Fes val in one novel (The 89TH Temple) and has a second Albuquerque, New Mexico, was a fi nalist at the 2013 forthcoming later this year called The Sign of Jonah. Unchained Theater Fes val in NYC, and will be featured at this year’s InspiraTO Fes val in Toronto. The End Of Joy Cutler [Nightshi (ing)] has worked Times (or How Becky Got Lucky) was part of L.A. Fresh as a writer and performer with the Produce’d in February of this year, and Staten Island San Francisco collabora ve ensemble Fairy Tale was mounted at the Sundog Theater in New Elbows Akimbo, and with Berlin theatre York in March. His short play Breaking Out Is Hard To Do companies The Berlin Play Actors, Out was a fi nalist at the recent Strawberry One-Act Fes val To Lunch Theater Group, and The Flying in NYC. Chip’s plays are regularly performed at The Bu resses. Her stage plays, radio plays, Ruskin Group Theater in Santa Monica, California. and solo performances have been produced in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Paul Braverman (Pete’s Place) is a Bay Berlin, Amsterdam, and Jakarta. Joy was a resident Area playwright and actor whose work playwright in the 2011 Philadelphia Drama sts Center’s has received dozens of readings and Residency program and she’s currently Playwright in produc ons in Bay Area venues, as well Residence at Luna Theater. In 2013, Happy Birthday as na onally and interna onally. His Kim Hunter appeared in the Philly Fringe, and as part short play The Alpha Bindleman was a of the Philadelphia Interna onal Fes val of the Arts. fi nalist for the 2009 Heideman Award. The Big Crunch won the “Audience Choice Award” in Paul’s fi rst full-length play, No Good Luna Theater’s Future Fest. In January 2014, Joy’s full- Deed, introduced the gin-soaked detec ve Frankie length play Pardon My Invasion, seen in last year’s Play Payne during a successful world premiere at The Pear Lab, had an excellent run at Phoenix Theater in San Avenue Theatre in Mountain View, California, in 2011. Francisco. She will be performing her one-person show, Anatomy Lesson, in the Philadelphia SoLow Fes val PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS PLAY 43 in June. Joy received her BFA from The California would appear along side “epidemiologist” on his Linked- College of the Arts and an MA in Experimental Art and In profi le, a er this conference, it might). Performance from San Francisco State University. Benne Fisher (Campo Maldito) is an Something of a nomad, Mathilde Dratwa MFA Playwri ng candidate at UC San (Escape from Garden Grove) has lived Diego. He is the resident playwright at and worked in France, Belgium, England, Fishtank, a company member of Campo Spain, the United States, Russia, and Santo, and an associate ar st with the Sri Lanka. Along with Duncan Thomas, Cu ng Ball Theater. His other plays she co-wrote and co-directed the mul - include Hermes, Don’t Be Evil, Devil lingual, full-length play Balconies, which of a Time, The Dark Backward, Whoa was produced by the Malaprops is Me, Virus, Chronus, No Bull, and Dis/Connected. Company at the Theatre du Pave in Toulouse, Benne ’s work has been workshopped and produced by France. Mathilde is a Teaching Ar st at the Roundabout Sleepwalkers Theater, No Nude Men, New Conservatory Theatre Company and the New Victory Theater. She also Theatre Center, San Francisco Theater Pub, Custom works as a fi lm producer, director, and screenwriter, Made Theatre Company, the Bay One-Acts Fes val, and co-leads the Brooklyn chapter of the FilmShop and elsewhere. As an actor, director, and dramaturg he collec ve. She holds a BA in English Literature and a has collaborated with California Shakespeare Theatre, Post-Graduate Cer fi cate of Educa on as an English Stanford Summer Theatre, Just Theater, Crowded Fire, and Drama teacher, both from Cambridge University, as Sponge Theater, the Pear Ave Theatre, Adirondack well as a Master’s in Classical Ac ng from Drama Centre Shakespeare Company, Marin Shakespeare Company, London. and many others. Benne wrote the screenplay for the fi lm S.E.R.P., produced by Diamond in the Rough Films. PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS Chris an Ely (Boss Man) is a director, playwright, and theatre teacher. His Tim Foley (Best Seller) lives in plays have been performed at Actor’s Sacramento, California. His wri ng has Theatre of Louisville, NY Stage and appeared or is forthcoming in various Film, the New Jersey Performing Arts journals and litmags, including West Center, and schools in New Jersey. Marin Review, Supernatural Tales, He has directed for the Cherry Lane Wormwood, All Hallows, and Dark Theatre, 12 Miles West, The American Hollow. He holds an MFA from the Globe, Montclair State University, The Shakespeare University of San Francisco and a JD from Theatre of New Jersey, The Turnip Theatre 15-Minute Harvard Law School. He is thrilled to be returning to Play Fes val, (where he won awards as Best Director Valdez. in 2004, 2005 & 2012), The Public Theatre of Kentucky, The East Tennessee Shakespeare Fes val, The Nashville Siobhan Gilbert (Spotlight) has worked Shakespeare Fes val, The Darkhorse Theatre, The for NBC and The Late Show with David Midtown Interna onal Theatre Fes val, The Actor’s Le erman. She has also worked as a Co-op, The Win Atkins Memorial Theatre, and The Research Associate in Development at Williamstown Theatre Fes val. the local PBS affi liate, WNET. She is a graduate of Columbia University. Her Clint Jeff erson Farr (The Kindness of work has been featured in Primary Strangers) three passions: his family, Stages’ Deten on series, and several Alaska, and wri ng. Clint is low-key about reading series/performances at Columbia University, his passions though, so don’t expect New York University, and through 1020 produc ons. much emo ng. Clint was born in Atlanta, Her ten minute play The Interview has been published raised in Anchorage, and now lives in by Indie Theater Now. She has studied long-form Juneau. Clint appreciates the fl exibility improvisa on at the Upright Ci zens Brigade Theater Alaska engenders. Alaskans do not wait and the Magnet Theater. She is also a member of the all- for the perfect day to head out and enjoy; the wait female improv team Cake Walk, performing throughout would be too long. An Alaskan’s ability to be happy, the Northeast since 2011. She is currently ge ng her under a wide variety of condi ons, makes them unique. MFA in Drama c Wri ng from NYU’s Tisch School of If Clint is convinced of one thing, it’s this: he is a be er the Arts, where she has been awarded the Department father, husband, and writer by the accident of living in Fellowship. She is a member of the Drama sts Guild. Alaska. (And though he never imagined “playwright” 44 Daniel Guyton (The Mother of God Visits Nicholas Walker Herbert (Martyr’s Kiss or Hell) is an award-winning playwright and Out of Love) is thrilled to be returning to screenwriter. He won the Best Horror the Conference. He is an award-winning Screenplay Award from the Los Angeles playwright and theatre ar st born in Film and Script Fes val in 2013, and was California and based in Brooklyn. Martyr’s a Top 5 Finalist in the Eerie Horror Film Kiss or Out of Love is the fourth part of the Fes val, for his screenplay A Woman’s Jerkwater Play Cycle, the fi rst three parts Touch (co-wri en with Marilisa Walker). of which were presented in the Play Lab: His team also won the Best Wri ng, Best Ensemble A Simple Mistake (2011) Wild Saints (2012), and Kings of Ac ng, and an Audience Choice award from the Atlanta Jerkwater (2013). His full-length solo performance The 48-Hour Film Fes val in 2013. His plays A c, Where’s Alien Baby Play was produced in the Fronterafest Long Julie?, Daff odils, Georgie Gets a Faceli , Death of a Fringe at the Salvage Vanguard Theatre in Aus n, Texas, by Snowman, and more have all won awards, including two Tu o Theatre Company in 2012. His one-act plays I Want from the Kennedy Center/ACTF fes val. His plays and You (The Other Man), Marie, and The Doc Elliot Show were short fi lms have been produced and shown throughout produced by Full Circle Theater Company in New York City the world. He has 27 publica ons under his belt. For at the Triple Crown in 2011 and 2012. In 2011, his full- more informa on, please visit www.danguyton.com. length drama Solitude received a staged reading at New Drama sts. In 2007, his full-length play A Flag Touched Kate Guyton (Ghosts in the Field) is an the Ground: The Blood Ties received the Dharma-Grace actress and playwright who lives just Founda on Crea ve Wri ng Award in Santa Cruz. He south of Atlanta with her handsome a ended the Playwri ng Intensive at the Kennedy Center husband, two dogs and a cat. She in Washington D.C. in 2007 and as alumni in 2008. He began her career as a journalist with was the co-founder of Full Circle Theater Company, which her college newspaper, and later with produced over 14 new plays from 2011 to 2012 in New “Griffi n Daily News.” She studied ac ng York City. His monologues Coming Clean and Teddy Berg’s in high school and began wri ng plays Story were published by Focus Publishing Spring 2013. in her mid-20s while interning with Atlanta’s Horizon He has a BA with honors in Theatre Arts, and a minor Theater. However, she stopped wri ng en rely a er in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz. leaving “Griffi n Daily News” in 2005 to care for her Special thanks to his friends, family, and Chris ne Byrne family. She only began wri ng again in 2013 with for all their love and support. her husband’s encouragement. Talley O’Malley, the Unlucky Leprechaun was her fi rst fi nished play, and it Rand Higbee (Shaula: Queen of the is published through Heuer Publishing. To date she has Universe) grew up in Spearfi sh, South 5 fi nished plays and is working on several others. She Dakota, and obtained an MFA in Playwri ng is delighted to be included in the Last Fron er Theater from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Conference. While at UNLV, his fi rst full-length play, Sir Isaac’s Duel, was named an alternate to John Hendel (W.E.A.R. H.O.R.S.E.) is a the Na onal American College Theatre writer based in Los Angeles returning Fes val held at the Kennedy Center. for his second Conference. His play from Conference goers were fi rst introduced to him through last year, Pulling Off Procrea on, went a reading of The Head That Wouldn’t Die at the 2006 on to win the Founder’s Pick of the Conference which was then given a full produc on by Fringe at the Cincinna Fringe Fes val Anchorage’s TBA Theatre at the 2007 Conference. Rand a er being developed in Valdez. His had another full produc on at last year’s Conference plays Fame Confusions (2009) and The when the Anchorage Community Theatre performed At Greatest Play Ever (If You Don’t Think So, You’re a Basket Home With The Clarks. In 2012, Rand’s play A Girl Named of Farts) (2010) have been produced by NY Ar sts’ Des ny debuted at the Venus Theatre in Laurel, Maryland. Unlimited Interna onal Cringe Fest, the la er being The produc on was named by DC Metro Theatre Arts as part of a night winning Best Director and Best Night. one of the best plays of 2012. So far in 2014, Des ny had He has also been produced by the Ohio University its second produc on at the Madlab Theatre in Columbus, Undergraduate Playwri ng Fes val (The Adjustment, Ohio, while Rand’s play The Lightning Bug (reading at the 2007; Don’t Hurt Yourself!, 2008). John wrote and 2009 LFTC) was published by Next Stage Press. fi lmed 64 plays in 64 days which can be seen at 64plays. wordpress.com. He is a graduate of the Ohio University School of Theater (BFA Playwri ng, Performance). Follow John on Twi er @hendyhendel. PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS PLAY 45 Sara Ilyse Jacobson’s (Catch The Spider) A graduate of Lafaye e College, Lisa full-length plays include The Heart is Konoplisky (Time Will Tell) was a Thomas J. Hollow, Shadows Dark and Watson Fellow at Sussex University. In New Deep, and Catch The Spider. Sara’s plays York, she studied with Anthony Mannino, have received staged readings and Jeff rey Jacobi, and Dale Worsley of Mabou produc ons at the Capital Fringe Fes val, Mines, as well as at Upright Ci zens and Planet Connec ons Theatre Fes vity, The Cooper Union (photography). Lisa is Kennedy Center Page-To-Stage Fes val, comple ng her MFA at Columbia College Chameleon Theatre Circle, Shelterbelt Theatre, Where in Chicago where she taught undergraduate wri ng. Eagles Dare Short Play Lab, Source Fes val, Mergatroyd Direc ng credits include Rhinoceros, True West, Stop Produc ons, Kathie Rasmussen Theatre, Arizona Kiss, Hamlet, Careless Love, The Vagina Monologues, Women’s Theatre, Altruis c Theatre Company’s Bare- and Paradise Lost. Lisa’s plays have appeared at the Knuckle Theatre Fes val, DC SWAN Day, Life and Death Lyceum Theatre and Blue Box World (NY); Camanea Ma ers Fes val, Flush Ink Produc ons’ Asphalt Jungle, Theater, Stockyards Theatres, and Speaking Ring Theater Paw Paw Village Players, Modern Day Griot Theatre (Chicago); Theatre Limina (Minneapolis); and Icarus Company, Ticket 2 Eternity Produc ons, Barhoppers, Falling (Lansing). She won Chicago’s fi rst annual Wri ng and Estrogenius Fes val. Short plays Nephrology and and Drinking Fes val, and her play was performed by The Alimenta on refl ect Sara’s interest in human anatomy Neo-Futurists and Factory Theatre. Lisa was a resident and physiology. Sara is the recipient of a 2010 Individual playwright at Annex Theatre Hothouse Project (Sea le). Ar st Fellowship from the D.C. Commission on the Arts Lisa has edited several documentary fi lms in Los Angeles and Humani es. and Chicago and is currently working on a documentary about the Mississippi Delta and comple ng her fi rst novel. Arthur M. Jolly (Mission: Colusa) was A monologue from that novel appears in Monologues PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS recognized by the Academy of Mo on By Women For Women (Heinemann, 2005). She teaches Picture Arts and Sciences with a Nicholl ac ng at Green Shirt Studio in Chicago. Fellowship in Screenwri ng. Published plays include A Gulag Mouse (Finalist Barry Levine (Scene From a Coff ee Shop) Woodward/Newman Drama Award, has a ended the Conference every year 2013 LFTC Evening Performance), Trash since 1998. He lives in Los Angeles where (2012 Joining Sword and Pen winner, he got his MFA in Theatre from USC in LFTC 2012 selec on), Past Curfew, Long Joan Silver, The 1999, and a Master’s in Professional Christmas Princess, How Blue is My Crocodile, Snakes Wri ng in 2004. He grew up in New York in a Lunchbox, What the Well Dressed Girl is Wearing, City and a ended Wesleyan University, Bath Time is Fun Time, The Four Senses of Love, The a erwards working at places like Circle Bricklayer and a collec on of ten-minute plays, Guilty Repertory (Lab member 1995-96), The Next Stage Moments. His LFTC 2013 play A Very Modern Marriage Company, Chain Lightning, and the West Coast Ensemble. is currently in the IATI development program, was a At USC, he helped found Brand New Theater, which semi-fi nalist for the O’Neill Conference and a fi nalist produces student work. He has also worked for many for the Nuart Fes val, and will premiere in Ashland, years at KXSC, USC’s student radio sta on where he Oregon in 2015. Jolly is a member of the WGA, The promotes new and unknown bands on his show “The Drama sts Guild, and is represented by The Brant Rose Bear’s Den.” Two years ago he began hos ng the fi rst Agency. Upcoming produc ons at www.arthurjolly.com. “Bear’s Den Live” club dates at the Viper Room and Busby’s Mile High Club. From 2002 to 2006 he was the AJ Knox (Pissed) is thrilled to return to singer for the band The L-10 Project, which included a pair the Conference for the second me as a of dates on the Vans Warped Tour in 2006. Nowadays he playwright (third me in general). He is performs solo around L.A. and has released a demo e.p., the founder and Ar s c Director of an a live album, and two music videos. He also writes for emerging ensemble theatre company online music ‘zine “Big Smile Magazine.” He is a member in San Diego, and is working with local of the Drama sts’ Guild. His long plays include N.Y.H.C., playwrights to develop new works and Chasing Minor Threat, Righ ul Heir, and Freedom’s adapta ons of exis ng works by and for Mohawk. Shorter plays include The Wai ng Room, local Southern California communi es. He is currently Autumn Foliage, In A World of His Own, Used Cars and developing an adapta on of Macbeth in conjunc on Bicycles, I Love Dexter, Sex With Bre ’s Mom, Slices, One with a number of writers and ar sts that will serve as Big Lost and Found, and A Cosmic Touchdown. one of his company’s fi rst major projects. 46 David MacGregor (The An christ of Humpty Dumpty was performed as part of the Samuel Cometh) was born in Detroit and is a French Short Play Fes val in 2007. The Cactus Gulch Opry lifelong Michigander. His plays have been House and his musical Rockin’ Red Riding Hood have both performed from California to New York performed at The Fringe Fes val in Edinburgh Scotland. to London and Sydney, Australia. He is a Locally his works have been performed and commissioned resident ar st at the Purple Rose Theatre by Cyrano’s Playhouse, Anchorage Community Theater, (Chelsea, MI), where fi ve of his plays Alaska Dance Theatre, Anchorage Classical Ballet, the have been produced: The Late Great Anchorage Symphony, Campfi re Boys and Girls, the Alaska Henry Boyle, Vino Veritas, Gravity, Consider the Oyster Na ve Tribal Health Consor um and TBA Theatre, where (just published by Playscripts), and Just Desserts. His he serves as Ar s c Director. Shane is a member of the holiday play, Scrooge Macbeth, recently premiered Drama sts Guild of America. at Theatre B in Fargo, North Dakota. He wrote the screenplay for the feature fi lm based on his play Vino Tom Moran (God On Our Side) received his Veritas, which stars Carrie Preston (from HBO’s True Bachelor’s degree from the University of Blood, and recent Emmy winner for The Good Wife) and Notre Dame, which he fi gures makes him was just released to Video-On-Demand and other on- eminently qualifi ed to write about both line pla orms. He likes his comedy the way he likes his football and religion. He also has an MFA chocolate—dark. from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, which qualifi es him to write about polar Vince Melocchi (Nice Things) is an bears, darkness, and large fi rearms. His award winning writer / actor based plays have been produced on 23 stages in 11 states, and in Los Angeles and a member of the his short play Duo was published in 2013 by Smith & award-winning theatre companies Kraus. This is his eighth Last Fron er Theatre Conference. Rogue Machine Theatre and Pacifi c Resident Theatre. At Pacifi c Resident Mark Muro (Nocturne on 166th Street) Theatre his cri cally acclaimed, Ova on is a poet, playwright, and performer. His award nominated play Lions was born. one-act play Pickle Days (Revisited) was Published work includes Lions (Samuel French), The recently staged in Salt Lake City by the Best Men’s Stage Monologues and Scenes - 2010 (Kraus SLC Ar st’s League. His one-person show and Smith), and Excep onal Monologues 2 for Men and Apocalypse When I Get Around To It, or Women (Samuel French). He followed Lions with his LA Civil War III, part 1, was performed at Weekly award nominated Julia. A er a sold-out run at Out North Theater in Anchorage. Other Pacifi c Resident Theatre, Julia moved to Off monologues include Dingoes On Velvet, No Where Broadway (59e59 Theaters). This fall his new play Fast, Saint Albans, Three Con nents, Alaska: Behind Nice Things will receive its world premiere as part of the Scenery, A Very Muro Christmas, and Love, Sex Rogue Machine’s 2014 season. His other full-length and All That Comes Between. Mark most recently saw plays include Welcome to Santa and Figures; one-acts his work included at the One-Minute Play Fes val in include Bully, The Last Linen Day, Riding with the King, Anchorage. This is Mark’s 11th play to receive a reading The End of the World, and Making Moves. Vince is a in the Play Lab. As always, Mark is delighted to be here in proud member of the Drama sts Guild of America. Valdez for this year’s Conference. For more informa on, please visit his website, www. vincemelocchi.com. Michael Parsons (Sumner Falls) is excited to return to the Last Fron er P. Shane Mitchell (Veritas) is one of Theatre Conference. A writer and Alaska’s most prolifi c playwrights. Plays alumnus of Boston Playwrights Theater, Magazine publishes his original works he is a two- me winner of the Rosa The Enchanted Pajamas and Half a King Parks Playwri ng Award for his plays Is Be er Than None, and his collabora ve Sumner Falls and Homeland. His work Jolly Roger King of the Pirates is plays include: Sumner Falls (Reading, published by Pioneer Drama c Services. Theaterlab, NYC; 2012 Boston Playwrights Theatre His awards for playwri ng include the Ground Floor Series); Homeland (workshop produc on, Bard Fellowship For Emerging Playwrights for his play A Room to Live Plays, Boston); The Lighthouse (Winner, Card for Mr. King (1996) and a Panelists Choice Award KCACTF 2013 John Cauble Award for Outstanding for Fractured at the 1998 Conference. The Resurrec on Short Play; workshop produc on, Know Theatre); Fire PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS PLAY 47 Dance (workshop produc on, Cleveland Public Mollie Ramos (Snowmageddon), a Theatre; Last Fron er Theatre Conference; Tongues Valdez teacher and playwright, is thrilled Reading Series, Cherry Lane Theatre); 29 Bells (World to be part of this year’s Last Fron er Premiere, Theatre Daedalus, Columbus, OH); Chasing Theatre Conference. Her plays have Ozymandias and White Russian. Michael’s ten-minute been performed in Alaska, California, play Deja Nous was produced by the Hun ngton Theatre Colorado, Mississippi, and New York. in 2012. His one-act play House Rules was a 2012 John Cauble Short Play Award nominee from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Fes val. Michael is co-founder and Managing Director of Theatre Daedalus, Dick Reichman (Bruckner’s Last Finale) and a founding member of The Bessemer Project in lived in Valdez when the Theater Cleveland. He holds MFA degrees from the Northeast Conference began, and he presented Ohio Master of Fine Arts (NEOMFA) via Kent State his play The Alaskan Roadhouse at University and Boston University, and has studied with the very fi rst one. His The Book was playwrights Michael Geither, Kate Snodgrass, and Ronan shown at the second. Since then he Noone. Michael is a member of the Drama sts Guild has taken part in almost every year and and resides in Aus n, TX with his wife, Jaclyn Villano. had the opportunity to bring and act in other plays. In the late 90s he moved to Anchorage to While taking courses in theatre at Bard work with Cyrano’s Theater where he is Playwright in College, Ron Radice’s (Won’t Happen Residence, and also a director and an actor. The Audi on Again) fi rst play, Pickpocket, was is the ninth of his scripts to be done there. It is a play produced by the Performing Arts of about the art of ac ng. It is also about actors’ dreams Woodstock, NY. In 1972, it was produced for a life in the professional theatre. It performs at the PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS by the New York Theater Ensemble. Conference this year on Monday evening. He wrote two other plays which were produced and then he stopped wri ng for theatre. Since returning to playwri ng in 2007, Barbara Shepherd (Ghost Stories) Ron has been fortunate to have plays of his performed returns to Conference with her play in ten diff erent states. Bricks took fi rst prize at the Ghost Stories. She has wri en several Heller Theatre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and produced in plays, including And It Was So, which was the January 2010. His short play The Wheelbarrow, presented in the 2013 Play Lab and which wri en at an Arthur Kopit workshop in Kansas City, made it to the fi nal selec on round has now been produced in four diff erent theaters in for the 2014 Seven Devils Playwright four diff erent states, has been published in a collec on Conference. Ms Shepherd has published of short plays, and was read on live TV in Lowell, poetry in na onal literary journals and exhibited her oil Massachuse s. A recent monologue, Kelly’s Corner, was pain ngs in Alaskan galleries and juried shows. She lives selected for inclusion in a compendium of monologues in Juneau, Alaska. to be published in 2014. The Climbing received Second Place in the 79th Annual Writer’s Digest Michael T. Smith (The Cri cs) just Wri ng Compe on Stage Play Script category, was a recently received his doctoral degree in semi-fi nalist in the 2011 O’Neill Na onal Playwrights English from Purdue University in West Conference, and was fi nalist in the 2011 Maxim Lafaye e, Indiana. In the past few years, Mazumdar New Play Comple on with Alleyway Theater, his work has been published in Bright where it went on to month long produc on under the Lights Journal, SONUS, Renascence, tle To The Top. Lulu’s Last Ride was in produc on at the Kinema, and the Asahi Network. He’s Provincetown Theater in May, 2012. At the Playwrights also won the Brian Mexico Award and Pla orm Fes val in Boston Do Like Papa Says was in the Brian Lamb Award for playwri ng. Most recently, produc on in 2012, Where’d You Go? in 2013, and Pick his work has had readings at the “Worst Possible One in 2014. Scenario” Play Fest in West Lafaye e, IN and at a ten-minute fes val in Chicago. Currently, he teaches introductory composi on, introduc on to fi lm, and business wri ng courses. He aspires to one day write much be er bios. 48 Amy To e (Broken Panda) is a South Jaclyn Villano (The Company We Dakota na ve currently living in Los Keep) is thrilled to return to the Last Angeles. To e was a semi-fi nalist for Fron er Theatre Conference with her Washington DC’s 2013 Source Fes val play Unanswered, We Ride appearing in with her play Relentless Pursuit of a the evening produc on line-up. A er the Lady. She was also named a semi-fi nalist 2010 Play Lab, Unanswered went on to for the 2013 Princess Grace Playwri ng further development at 59E59, Bridge Fellowship for her play FleshEa ngTiger Rep of Boston, and Sea le Rep (with and a quarter-fi nalist for the 2013 Big Break Northwest Playwrights’ Alliance), and had its World Screenwri ng compe on with a spec script for Mad Premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Fes val. This week’s Men. Her plays FLOOZY and FleshEa ngTiger premiered produc on reunites the Edinburgh Fringe crea ve at the Edinburgh Fringe Fes val (2010 and 2011, team. Jaclyn is also excited to bring her play The respec vely). Tiger was remounted at the Hollywood Company We Keep to the Play Lab. Company’s workshop Fringe in 2012 where it was named “Best of Fringe” produc on at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre received and nominated for Best Play. This is her fi h year as a both IRNE & Broadway World Boston nomina ons for par cipant writer in Valdez. She has two monologues Best New Play. Other plays include: Shoe Baby, The published in the Conference’s 2009 - 2012 anthology. Rain Fell Up (KCACTF John Cauble Short Play Award To e developed her play WhiteDevil-LovingMother Na onal Semi-Finalist), Wave, The Game, and The at both the Kennedy Center (2009) and on a Visi ng First Time. Upcoming: The First (Burning Coal Theatre). Scholar Fellowship at the Autry Na onal Center (2012). Jaclyn is co-founder of Theatre Daedalus and an alumna She has been invited to develop work at Sea le of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. She holds an MFA Repertory’s reading series hosted by the Northwest from Boston University. www.jaclynvillano.com. Playwrights Alliance in both 2013 and 2014. She is a founding member of the play development company Catherine Weingarten (Donkin Donuts Fierce Backbone in Los Angeles and a proud member of Themed Life Choices) is a recent The Drama sts Guild of America, Inc. MFA – Wri ng for graduate of Bennington College in Performance, California Ins tute of the Arts (CalArts). Vermont where she was lucky enough BA – Theater, University of Iowa. www.amyto e.com to study drama c wri ng with the WONDERFUL Sherry Kramer as well the Karyn Traut (The Man He Loves or Italian super young and hip Samuel D. Hunter. Sunset) is delighted to be returning to During her freshman year, her one-act Conference. Her short play The Realm play inspired by A Midsummer Night’s of Love of Folding Laundry, presented in Dream, Venus Mars and Torturous Change Your Life the 2010 Play Lab, premiered to cri cal Intense Idealis c Love, was selected as a fi nalist in the acclaim at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe school’s playwri ng compe on. Ms. Weingarten’s Fes val where actor Brian Wesco trashy, super feminine plays have been showcased at reprised his role. Veterans of the 2012 such theaters as Ugly Rhino Produc ons, Wishbone Conference may remember her Fringe piece Annie’s Theater Collec ve, Poe c Theater Produc ons and Guns or Bu erfoot. Her play The Spirit of Frances Wright Piper Theater Produc ons. She is also a board member/ (Love is an Ac on Verb) premiered at the Edinburgh playwright in residence for “Realize Your Beauty, Inc,” Fringe in 2012. Karyn received her MFA from UCLA in which uses theatre workshops to promote posi ve body 1970. Performances and readings of her plays have image for kids. She is currently a member of Abingdon been held throughout the U.S., including L.A. and New Theater’s Playwrights Group and a 2014 member of York City. PBS affi liate UNC-TV aired her play Alligator New Perspec ve Theater’s “Women’s Work” Short Play and Ellis in 1993. She is an alum of the Headlands Lab. Catherine is thrilled and very thankful for this Center of the Arts in Sausalito, and is Founder of opportunity! Perihelion Theater Company in Chapel Hill. Her research on Thomas Jeff erson for her play Saturday’s Children led to her being a consultant to the Jeff erson-Hemings Scholars Commission in 2000. In 2013, she produced 2 celebra ons for her 50th wedding anniversary. (She was married when she was 10.) perihelionproduc ons.org PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS PLAY 49 Ashley Rose Wellman (Living Creatures) Kelly Younger’s (Gerty Pays For It) plays is a Los Angeles playwright and current include Banished Children of Eve (Off - MFA in Drama c Wri ng candidate at Broadway, Irish Repertory Theatre); This the University of Southern California. World We Know (Naked Angels/Furious Her plays produced on the USC campus Theatre, winner of the 2013 Fes val of include student workshop produc ons of New American Plays); In the Fold her full-length plays Gravidity and Living (Finalist for the Joanne Woodward/Paul Creatures, one solo-performance show, Newman Drama Award; LFTC Playlab and four one-acts produced by student playwright- 2013); Tender (Off -Broadway, Manha an Theatre focused company Brand New Theatre. In the past Club’s “7@7,” Finalist for the Laurents/Hatcher Award, year, her play Gravidity received a reading at the Last Gloucester Stage Company, IRNE Nomina on Best New Fron er Theatre Conference, and went on to receive a Play); Once a Marine (PlayFest at Orlando Shakespeare full produc on at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Theater, The Blank Theatre); I Think You Think I Love Scenes from her play Living Creatures were performed You (Playscripts; Smith and Kraus anthology “Best as part of Pi sburgh’s Throughline Theatre Company Plays of 2005”); Forgive Me, Father (JAC publishing); New Works Showcase. Ashley’s short play And Only the Lady Gregory’s Ingredients (JAC publishing, winner of Moon Howls received a produc on as part of Brand the Ireland Na onal Lady Gregory Playwri ng Award); New Theatre’s spring one-act play fes val this April, and Off Compass (Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, winner her play That Long Damn Dark received a staged reading of the John Gassner New Play Award); Epiphany Cake at Pasadena Playhouse this May. She’s so excited to be (Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, Moving Arts); and Why returning to the Last Fron er Theatre Conference! Wyoming (Three Graces NY, Cri cs’ Choice Samuel French Off -Broadway Fes val). Film and tv development Antoine e F. Winstead (Ivy and the Vine) include DreamWorks Anima on, Mandeville Films, PLAY LAB PLAYWRIGHTS is a playwright, director and actor. She Junc on Entertainment, Cinefl ix Studios, Sierra/ earned her MFA in Film from Columbia Affi nity. He is represented by The Gersh Agency (LA/ University and her BFA in TV/Film NY) and Washington Square Arts and Films (NY). www. Produc on from New York University. KellyYounger.com Her plays have been performed at Jump Start, The Steven Stoli Playhouse, San Pedro Playhouse, and The Over me Theater. She is currently a tenured full-Professor at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas, where she teaches fi lm and theatre courses and serves as the Mass Communica ons and Drama Program Chair. She a proud member of the Drama sts Guild of America and the Associa on of Writers & Wri ng Programs.

Lindsay Lamar, Todd Glidewell, and Elle Janecek in TBA Th eatre’s 2007 production of Rand Higbee’s Th e Head Th at Wouldn’t Die.

Aaron Wiseman and Mark Robokoff in the 2013 Ten-Minute Play Slam reading of Kelly Younger’s Mandate. 50 Gregory Aldrich is a NYC based actor O’Hanlon. In September she will perform in Blizzard at who has performed across the country. the upcoming SF Fringe Fes val. In January, the affi liated Favorite past roles include Vladimir in Brisk Weather Produc ons presented Joy Cutler’s Wai ng for Godot, Hora o in For nbras, Pardon My Invasion (seen in the 2013 Play Lab) at the Lord Alfred Douglas in Gross Indecency, Phoenix Theatre to cri cal acclaim. Baron Skansborg in The Ghost Sonata, Sarah Bethany Baird is thrilled to and Yepikhadov in The Cherry Orchard. return to Valdez a fourth me. Born in He originated the roles of Barney in Alaska, she has appeared on Anchorage Greg Machlin’s Bloody Lies, Exael in Jason M. Nelson stages since 1995. Sarah last played & Chris an Holmes The Sunfl ower Journal, and played Charles Wallace in A Wrinkle in Time. Benji in the Midwest premiere of Joe Jennison’s A Some favorite produc ons include The Beau ful Man. Glass Menagerie, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Bruckner’s Last Finale, Lala Araki was born and raised in Alaska, Reefer Madness, and Cabaret. She lives but now resides in LA with three other in Anchorage with Mark Robokoff . Don’t miss David AK-to-LA transplants, pursuing a life Rambo’s The Ice-Breaker, playing in January at Cyrano’s. fi lled with art. Since living there, she has appeared in several fi lms, is one of the Joy Barre is so excited to be back at singers for the new musical therapy app the Last Fron er Theatre Conference “SingFit” on the iPhone, and is expected with the fi rst play she read and fell in to have some of her famed paper bag love with here in 2010, Jaclyn Villano’s puppets appear in an art gallery later Unanswered, We Ride. As an actor, she this summer. Lala also enjoys the healing arts as well, has worked in New York with Hybrid working as a massage therapist at a spa in Beverly Hills. Theatre Works, 59E59, Les Freres She feels so incredibly blessed to once again have the Corbusier, Cherry Lane Theatre, The opportunity to perform with all of the ar sts of the Flea Theater, Thirteenth Night Theatre Theatre Conference, and can’t wait to see what this Co., and Chekhov Theatre Ensemble. She has worked week will hold! regionally at Sea le Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Book- It Rep, Northwest Shakespeare, The Empty Space Linda Ayres-Frederick has been Phoenix Theatre and Sitka Fine Arts. As a producer, she has Theatre’s Ar s c Director (www. worked for Francis Ford Coppola’s reading series phoenixtheatresf.org) since 1985. Zoetrope Live Story, and taken Unanswered, We Performing in the San Francisco Bay Ride to New York, Edinburgh, Boston, Sea le, and now Area, na onally and interna onally since back to where it all started! 1972, she has enjoyed a diverse career as an actor, producer, director, cri c, and Karina Becker has been a par cipant playwright. A member of AEA, AFTRA/ in the Theatre Conference since SAG, ATCA, the Drama sts Guild, VP of SF 2006 as both a performer and stage Bay Area Theatre Cri cs Circle (wri ng for forallevents. manager. She was most recently com and the Westside Observer), Linda is twice a seen on the Civic Center’s stage at last Shubert Playwri ng Fellow with numerous produc ons, year’s Conference as Be y in the world publica ons, and awards in Bay Area Fes vals including premiere of Rand Higbee’s At Home Best of SF Fringe 2011 (for her play Afi eld) and Best With The Clarks. Her other notable stage of SF Fringe 2010 (for Best Short Plays Zero to Ninety credits include Rose in A Shayna Maidel in 90 Minutes). In 2013, Linda received an SFBATCC (ACT); Spring Awakening (Out North); Kenni in Becky’s nomina on for Outstanding Achievement in a Major New Car and Esmerelda in Camino Real (Cyrano’s Role and Best Produc on and Best Ensemble Awards for Theatre Company); Honey Raye in Christmas Belles and her performance in Albee’s The Play About the Baby at Nora in A Doll’s House (UAA). She holds a BA in Theatre Custom Made Theatre. Her other favorite roles include from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Edna in The Oldest Profession (nominated by SFBATCC for Best Ensemble) and several roles in the Ensemble of Kevin T. Benne has been quietly Machinal, both at BRAVA, Helen in Road to Mecca at the involved in the theatre, fi lm, television, Phoenix, and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and radio businesses since the 70s. at Sea Theatre. She performed her solo piece Cantata He has served on ACT’s Board of #40 at Marin Fringe, 2012, receiving a First Place Award Directors since 2006 and remains a for Best Script, and at the O’Hanlon Art Center in Mill dedicated patron of the arts. His ac ng Valley, California. Last season she performed Blizzard credits include well over one hundred at the Mountain Top as a solo at both the Marsh and at produc ons. He directs both theatre PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 51 and fi lm, and is known to wear the producer’s hat from Ryan Buen is a 27-year-old actor, director, me to me. For Kevin, the Conference has been a and playwright currently residing in Los welcome retreat in the company of many dear friends Angeles. He holds a BA in Theatre from and associates. The Conference has provided a wealth the University of Alaska Anchorage, and of exposure to promising new works and numerous recently obtained his Master’s in Ac ng opportuni es to par cipate in great theatre like Dawson at the Birmingham School of Ac ng in Moore and Lindsay Marianna Walker’s Six Dead Bodies England. Ryan grew up in Valdez, and is Duct-Taped to a Merry-Go-Round. proud to have been a part of the vibrant Alaskan theatre community. He has worked Jill Bess has acted for the original with numerous theatre companies including TBA Theatre, Alaska Repertory Theatre, Alaska Three Wise Moose, Cyrano’s, UAA Theatre, Anchorage Light Opera, Anchorage Opera, Out Opera, Out North, and PWSCC. Favorite roles include North, Alaska Theatre of Youth, Toast Jonathan Harker in Dracula, Jus n in Dolly West’s Kitchen, Theatre, TBA, Kokopelli, Anchorage and Witwoud in The Way of the World (BSA); Romeo in Community Theatre, the Main Stage of Romeo and Juliet, Robin Hood in Robin Hood and the the Last Fron er Theatre Conference, Lady of Sherwood (TBA Theatre), and Raleigh in Last Train and Cyrano’s, plus scores of shows in to Nibroc (TBA Theatre); Jacques in As You Like It and Southern California and the West Coast. Jill teaches Buddy Layman in The Diviners (UAA Theatre); Miles in high school theatre at East Anchorage High School The Drawer Boy (Cyrano’s Theatre Company), Jasper in and recently completed cer fi ca on for teaching Craig Pospisil’s Somewhere in Between and Eric Benson in the Meisner method of ac ng a er studying the last Rand Higbee’s Past Perfect (PWSCC). Past direc ng credits two summers at the True Ac ng Ins tute with Larry include A Midsummer Night’s Dream with PWSCC, and Silverberg. You can see Jill in her fi lm debut in the James and the Giant Peach, Fractured, The Canterbury recently released The Frozen Ground, starring Nicolas Tales, The Death of Edgar Allen Poe, Robin Hood and the Cage and John Cusack. Lady of Sherwood, and Mr. Spider’s Extra Scary Halloween, all with TBA Theatre. His plays that have been presented Colby Bleicher is a graduate of NYU’s at the Conference include Riding Towards Bethlehem, The Tisch School of the Arts, where she Pigeon Play, Hey Judae, and Now Boarding. studied ac ng at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Ins tute and everything Iam Cabitac is an actor from Valdez. He else theatrical at Playwrights Horizons starred in his fi rst play as Demitrius in A

Theater School, the la er being home to Midsummer Night’s Dream in November PLAY LAB READERS one of very few undergraduate direc ng 2012, directed by Ryan Buen, then went on programs in the country. NYC direc ng to appear in mul ple roles in the college’s credits include The Author’s Voice by produc on of A Wind in the Willows. In Richard Greenberg and Dreams of Home by Migdalia addi on to ac ng, Iam par cipated in the Cruz. Favorite local performance roles include Tzeitel high school choir, producing original songs in Fiddler on the Roof, the Stepmother in Hansel and for the school to perform. He is currently Gretel: A New Musical, and Beatrice in Much Ado About a ending Prince William Sound Community College. Nothing. Colby is excited to be a ending the Conference for the fi rst me. Daniels Calvin is a computer engineering student based in Fairbanks. She Paul Braverman is a Bay Area accidentally wandered into the university playwright, actor and improviser. His theater during the Fall 2012 audi ons, plays have received dozens of readings and wouldn’t leave un l they cast her and produc ons, na onally and in something. Since then, Daniels has interna onally. As an actor, Paul has developed a completely healthy, all- appeared in many produc ons, both consuming obsession with theatrics. She in the Bay Area and his hometown of has worked in both fi lm and theater as an Boston. Favorite roles include Roberts actor, playwright, director and most importantly, cra in Mister Roberts, Lank in Crazy For You, services. Neil Degrasse Tyson is her soul animal. She has and the Greek Chorus in The Measures Taken. Paul no idea what that means; she overheard some hipsters has also been a member of Bay Area Theatresports use it once. She gets her pick-up lines from boy band Sunday Players and several other improv/sketch groups, lyrics, #swag #girl #swag #yolo. She hopes everyone on specializing in long form improvisa on. Earth fi nds their passion, and sincerely thanks you for your support of the arts. 52 Taylor Campbell is an Environmental Tiff any Cooper-Allen is a professional Conserva on major at UAA, hoping to veteran actress-singer whose career pursue marine animal conserva on spans over 20 years in the entertainment and advocacy programs. She has been industry in fi lm and on stage. Her credits ac vely involved in the theatre for nearly include Broadway, Broadway na onal a decade, appearing in shows around tours, fi lm, television, commercials, town. Her most recent appearances world tours, regional theaters, voice- include Marianne Dashwood in Sense overs, recordings, concerts, cruise ships, and Sensibility and Jenny in Gravidity. and live industrials. Some of her favorite She is thrilled to be able to par cipate in the Conference Broadway and theatre works include Andrew Lloyd this year. Webber’s Bombay Dreams, Fences, Guys and Dolls, The Tempest, When Shakespeare’s Ladies Meet, Grease Das Nancy Caudill (bio in featured ar sts Musical, Porgy and Bess, South Pacifi c, Clybourne Park, sec on) The Buddy Holly Show, and Jesus Christ Superstar. A few of her television and fi lm credits include Salon Stories, Shampoo, All My Children, Macy’s Day Parade, Italian MTV, Good Morning America, Regis and Kelly Show and Emeril’s Table. She studied the Stanislavski and Meisner technique in New York City, and has a BS Speech, Theater and Dance from Murray State University. Tiff any is a cer fi ed teaching ar st, inspira onal speaker and professional talent and pageant adjudicator in Frank Collison (bio in featured ar sts Anchorage and across the country. Tiff any had the sec on) dis nct pleasure of hos ng the TEDx Anchorage this year. Tiff any gives thanks to God for blessing her with an extraordinary career in the arts and giving her the best gi in the world, her loving husband.

Laura Crow’s favorite thing about herself is being from Ketchikan, Alaska. Her second favorite thing is the Conference. She was last seen on stage in Julia Cossman is a trained singer and Los Angeles in A Bright Room Called Day, holds degrees from University of Oregon with her theatre company, Coeurage and CSU Humboldt. She has performed Theatre Company. She recently moved extensively in the Anchorage area with from LA and has taken on the role of most of the City’s music and musical professional ski bum in Aspen, Colorado. theatre organiza ons since 1986. She She’s heading to the Hamptons for the summer taught voice at UAA for many years. immediately a er the Conference to check out the At Cyrano’s, Julia was seen as Lane in other 1% (because they have the best scraps). Future The Clean House, Kate in Sylvia, Sarah residence unknown, but eventually Sea le. Theatre Bernhardt in Ladies of the Camellias, and Mother/ Conference, for life. Thank you, Dawson, for hos ng Witch in the opera Hansel and Gretel. Other favorite the most refreshing, inspiring constant we all can look roles include Desiree in A Li le Night Music, Eva Peron forward to. Watch out for Knox & Crow, a crime fi gh ng in Evita, Philia in A Funny Thing…, Emma in Song and saga wri en and directed by Kelly Younger. Dance, Narrator in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor As an actress, Erin Dagon Mitchell has Dream Coat, Anna in The King and I, Magenta/Janet appeared in such varied roles as M’Lynn in The Rocky Horror Show, Kate/Nora in Working, and in Steel Magnolia’s, Rhe a Cupp in Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Pump Boys and Dine es, Kate Keller in With Anchorage Opera she has performed Johanna in st The Miracle Worker, Nora Flood in The Sweeney Todd, 1 Lady in The Magic Flute, Narrator Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Titania in in Sweet Betsy from Pike, Inez in Il Trovatore, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Frenchy Juno in Orpheus in the Underworld. Julia con nues in Grease, and Bunny Byron in Babes in to coach singers and conduct master classes in vocal Arms. Valdez audiences may remember performance. her for her performances in Rand Higbee’s The Head That Wouldn’t Die, Schatzie Schaff er’s Sabbatron, and P. Shane Mitchell’s Straight-line. As a director, Erin has enjoyed many accomplishments including cri cally acclaimed produc ons of Into the Woods, Dracula, PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 53 Sweeny Todd, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Boyfriend, Diverse Resident Ar st & Soprano Chris ne Bark!, Les Miserables, The Sound of Music and Fiddler A. Eagleson has been performing for on the Roof. Her produc on of Should Old Acquaintance nearly 20 years, appearing with Eugene was selected as a special performance for the KC/ACTF, Symphony, Eugene Opera, Oregon State her produc on of Soapy Smith’s Alaskana Extravaganza Gilbert & Sullivan Fes val, Pacifi c Repertory appeared at the Olympic Arts Fes val in Sydney, Opera, Pentacle Theatre, Opera San Australia and this past summer she directed Rockin’ Red Luis Obispo, Willame e Concert Opera, Riding Hood, which played at the Edinburgh Fes val Working Title Opera, and Anchorage Opera Fringe. She also directed two produc ons Off -Off - in operas including MacBeth, The Grapes Broadway for the Samuel French Short Play Fes val. Erin of Wrath, Eugene Oniegin, Madama Bu erfl y, Le Nozze holds a Master Degree in Theatre Communica ons from di Figaro, Fidelio, La Traviata, Der Fliegende Hollander, Wichita State University and is the Associate Ar s c Un Ballo in Maschera, La Boheme, Die Fledermaus, Director for Anchorage’s TBA Theatre as well as the Turandot, Orfeo ed Euridice, Tosca; Oratorio credits Drama Director for South Anchorage High School. include Beethoven no. 9, Mozart’s Corona on, Verdi Requiem, Daphnis et Chloe, Mahler no. 8, Mendelssohn’s Devon Delaney had her fi rst musical Midsummer Night’s Dream, Brahms Requiem; musical experience this past spring as a player theatre credits include South Pacifi c, The Pirates of in the cast of Pippin for Theatre Ar sts Penzance, The Mikado, West Side Story, Guys & Dolls, United in Anchorage. She moved to Fiddler on the Roof. A fi erce advocate for the fi ne arts, Alaska three years ago from Portland, Ms. Eagleson serves in many areas of administra on Oregon. Originally a California girl, she and produc on, as Director of Marke ng, Director fell in love with musicals since the fi rst of Development, Designer, Produc on Manager, and me her grandmother took her to see an more. Current projects include the new community Andrew Lloyd Webber show in LA. Devon connec vity concept company, Arts Alaska, and recently, has a decade of experience singing in choirs up and Synesthesia Ar st Collec ve, Anchorage Community down the Pacifi c Coast. This is her opportunity to get Theatre, and Alaska Dance Theatre. Chris ne was last her feet wet in ac ng. :) seen in Anchorage Opera’s 2012 produc on of The Sound of Music as Liesl and Perseverance Theatre’s First One- Frank Delaney is from Anchorage, Alaska, Minute Play Fes val. where he was a frequent performer, teacher, designer, and choreographer. Shon Elder is a professional musician who An award-winning stage and voice actor, has hosted a radio show on public radio PLAY LAB READERS Frank received a BA in Theatre from UAA, KSKA in Anchorage since 1977. Her most and recently earned his MFA in Ac ng recent CD of original songs and tunes, is from Western Illinois University. His Bow Drawn, which includes twenty-four many fi ght direc on credits include work other talented folk musicians in a variety for the Anchorage Opera, TBA Theatre, of styles from Cel c to swing. For Valley Anchorage Community Theatre, and Cyrano’s/Eccentric Performing Arts in Wasilla, she was music Theatre Company. This summer he will be in Bloomfi eld director for Co on Patch Gospel, and was Indiana as fi ght choreographer and performing as in community theatre for several years in Minnesota. Her Rochefort in Shawnee Summer Theatre’s produc on bands have toured Alaska and beyond. of The Three Musketeers. He is excited to join the ensemble of Cincinna Shakespeare Company for their Chris an Ely is a director, playwright and upcoming 21st season! theatre teacher. His plays have been performed at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Mathilde Dratwa’s recent NYC theater NY Stage and Film, the New Jersey credits include Paris Syndrome at Here Performing Arts Center and schools in New Arts Center, The Ophelia Landscape at Jersey. He has directed for the Cherry Lane Mark Morris, The Municipal Aba oir for Theatre, 12 Miles West, The American Target Margin, and The Diary of a Globe, Montclair State University, The Teenage Girl (video only) at 3LD, in Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The collabora on with New Georges and Turnip Theatre 15 Minute Play Fes val (where he won The Essen als. Mathilde has appeared awards as Best Director in 2004, 2005, & 2012), The Public onstage in England (Shakespeare’s Globe, Theatre of Kentucky, The East Tennessee Shakespeare Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cochrane Theater), Russia Fes val, The Nashville Shakespeare Fes val, The (Vakhtangov Ins tute), France (Theatre de la Digue) and Darkhorse Theatre, The Midtown Interna onal Theatre Belgium (La Monnaie - Na onal Opera House). She plays Fes val, The Actor’s Co-op, The Win Atkins Memorial leading roles in six short fi lms. Theatre, and The Williamstown Theatre Fes val. 54 Annie McCain Engman has put Valdez Stu Eriksen has been ac ve in California permanently on her annual map since and Orange County Theaters for more 2010, as it is not only her favorite years than he cares to admit, both in summer camp for big kids, but it has musical comedy and drama. He has also become clear that it dictates had great roles in some of his favorite inspiring work throughout the year with plays: Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, following the roles and rela onships Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid, G.B. Shaw’s into produc on. Among these, she is Heartbreak House and You Can’t Take It co-authoring a book of interviews with playwright With You. Stu has also appeared in such Timothy Daly (also having read evolving versions of his classics as The Real Inspector Hound, Holiday, A er the Bad Guy with actor Kevin Pollack), she performed in the Fall, Love Le ers, and then as Sir Thomas More in A Man 2012 run of Damon Chua’s 1969 (2010 Play Lab under for All Seasons, as well as twice in The Crucible. He has a working tle), has kept in touch with the possibility also appeared in such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof, of future produc ons of Feedback (Jane Miller, 2011 Gypsy, Crazy For You, The King and I, The Music Man, Play Lab), was cas ng director on Kevin Armento’s Oliver and My Fair Lady, but is par cularly pleased to fi lm Killer Granny, and has cast our Frank Collison in have appeared with wife Joyce in Hume Cronyn’s Foxfi re other works. A Chicago-na ve actor/singer/dancer, and again with her as the Thayers in On Golden Pond. Annie has performed on stage, screen, and with dance Most recently he has appeared in My Three Angels, The companies across North America, South America and Philadelphia Lawyer, Guys and Dolls, and Bell Book and Europe. Amidst performance work, she also designed Candle. a collegiate degree focused on social work, poli cal ac on, and wilderness expedi on. Now based between Kim Estes (bio in featured ar sts sec on) Los Angeles and New York, she has principled a range of fi lms, webisodes, music videos, plays, and originated a ground-breaking warehouse opera directed by O-Lan Jones of Sam Shepard familial fame. Having nurtured an addi onal love for cas ng and coaching, she as well spends me in cas ng studios and college classrooms. Her full history can be found through the extended ‘View Resume’ tab within her lis ng on IMDb.com. Isaac Fannin is a performer currently Joyce Eriksen has been involved in a ending school in Valdez. His previous theatre for over 20 years. In the Orange appearances with TBA Theatre include County area, she was a member of the The Keeper of the Tales, Canterbury Vanguard Theatre Ensemble in Fullerton Tales, Jolly Roger, The Jungle Book, Alice along with husband Stu for 11 years. She in Wonderland, and Disney Dazzle; with credits her “late” entry into theatre to the college, he fi rst appeared in their all the great shows her church produced. produc on of Charlo e’s Web, and later Stu never passed up a role, and she appeared in The Lion, the Witch, and the decided to keep the family together. She Wardrobe, The 13 Clocks, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, worked with Karen Henzel at South Coast Repertory’s and A Wind in the Willows. With the school district, he Professional Conservatory in Costa Mesa over several appeared in The Phantom of the Opry House and Annie years. Favorite produc ons she’s appeared in include as Daddy Warbucks. The Gin Game, The Diviners, and A er the Fall, to name a few. She especially enjoyed working with Stu Clint Jeff erson Farr’s ac ng is not what it in Foxfi re, The Four Poster, On Golden Pond, and Love should be. With li le formal training and Le ers. She has credits in fi lm, regional and na onal a memory like catching minnows with work. She has been a reader at the Last Fron er Theatre a dip net, Clint has staggered through a Conference for the past twelve years and is delighted to few performances over the last decade. be back. Clint defended Santa’s honor as Comet in a Second Stage produc on of The Reindeer Monologues at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau. Clint mourned for the loss of his son in A Cure for the Common Cold as part of for the Juneau Douglas Li le Theatre’s produc on of one-acts in 2009. Clint has also performed a number of his own monologues as part of Juneau’s Mudrooms storytelling event. And last Spring, Clint somehow managed to score a small part in a credit union commercial. PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 55 Harold Fergus has performed extensively Michelle Gardner is thrilled to make it back throughout Washington County with the to Valdez and thanks Dawson Moore and Center Stage Players, Li le Lake Theatre, his incredible crew for once again crea ng Washington & Jeff erson College, and this magical environment for us to share the Washington Community Theatre. in crea vely. Originally from Arizona - His roles have included such diverse although o en mistaken for a New Yorker portrayals as Homer (at a younger age) - Michelle studied theater at Emerson and David (later) in Mornings at Seven, College and the Lee Strasberg Ins tute. Harry Brock in Born Yesterday, Snout in A Some of her most noteworthy stage Midsummer Night’s Dream, Murray Burns in A Thousand roles include Anita in West Side Story, Claudia in Blown Clowns, Teddy Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and Sideways Through Life, Aldonza in Man of La Mancha, and most recently Mr. Lundee in Brigadoon. He has re red she is one of the few women to have performed all 42 a er being a workers compensa on appellate judge for roles in the one-man comedy Fully Commi ed. On your 30 years in Pennsylvania. Now, his day is his law offi ce TV set, she has been seen in House MD, Six Feet Under, from 9 to 12, lunch with cronies, nap, and the hard Criminal Minds, The Closer, The Mentalist, Bones and later decision, where to go to dinner with his wife, Jane. The this year, Horrible Bosses 2. Her unique Sign Language lip Valdez experience is one of the highlights of his year. sync has been growing in popularity and has covered all types of music from Linkin Park, Van Halen and Eminem Tim Foley lives in Sacramento, to Katy Perry, Bruno Mars and the soon to be released California. His wri ng has appeared or Pharrell Williams. She currently resides in Los Angeles, and is forthcoming in various journals and you can learn more about her at www.MichelleGardner. litmags, including West Marin Review, com or follow her on Twi er @BrassyLoudMouth Supernatural Tales, Wormwood, All Hallows, and Dark Hollow. He holds an Marisa Garrigues (Mo) grew up in MFA from the University of San Francisco Anchorage ge ng the neighborhood kids and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is to put on shows in her backyard, and her thrilled to be returning to Valdez. love for theatre has only grown since. Her For over two years, Bill Frey was a fi rst performance was as Jim the zookeeper program producer and announcer for in Miracle on 34th Street at Anchorage Monday Morning Blues on KABN Radio, Community Theatre in 2010. Shortly a er

Big Lake Alaska. His most recent stage that, she moved to London to work with PLAY LAB READERS adventures have been with the family YWAM, and has just recently returned ready to take on band, Three Fish in a Tree, featuring his whatever may come her way. This is her second me at wife Shon Elder and children Devin the Conference. and Kluonie Frey. They’ve played at the Alaska Folk Fes val in Juneau, the Jeremy Gaunt is a born and bred Alaskan Anchorage Folk Fes val, and the Alaska State Fair for the actor and has been a regular a endee of last fi ve years or so. He’s a lifelong Alaskan with a deep the Conference since 2011. He is nearing voice who likes to hunt, fi sh, travel, and drink good beer. the end of his BA in Theatre at University Laura Gardner (bio in featured ar sts of Alaska Anchorage, where he has been sec on) a part of Taming of the Shrew, Spamalot, and just recently M. Bu erfl y. He has also worked with Theatre on the Rocks, the UAA theatre club, on Mr. Marmalade and Broken Hearts, Broken Dreams - A Night of One-Acts, which he made his debut as a director. He is a cer fi ed actor combatant with Dueling Arts Interna onal, as well as loving to pick up the violin to prac ce a jig. 56 Siobhan Gilbert is a graduate of Nancy Guiley has been “treading the Columbia University. During that boards” since high school, when she me, she was a member of the King’s played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Crown Shakespeare Troupe, where she Other roles have included Aldonza in performed in The Merchant of Venice, Man of La Mancha, the Dream Girl in Richard III, As You Like It, Much Ado Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the About Nothing, and Julius Caesar. She Crowd, Grandma Tzeitel in Fiddler on the has performed in several sketch shows Roof, Papagena in The Magic Flute, the including LateNite and Egg and Peacock 24-Hour Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Bloody Mary Fes val. She has performed off Off Broadway in A in South Pacifi c, and Sally Spencer in Christmas on the Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Looking glass Theater Yukon. A former winner of the NATS vocal compe on and Macbeth at Chashama. Siobhan has studied long- and past fi nalist in Anchorage’s Metropolitan Opera form improvisa on at the Upright Ci zens Brigade and Regional Audi ons, she sings with Anchorage Opera and the Magnet Theater in New York. Her indie improv is a founding member of Bel Canto Alaska. team, Cake Walk, has been performing around the Northeast since 2011. Sierra Ileta Halberg moved to Anchorage from Portland, Oregon, in November of Don Gomes is Execu ve Director of 2011. With her husband on deployment Anchorage Community Theatre (ACT). and lots of down me, she turned to theatre and has been involved in the He has acted in and directed more shows Anchorage theatre scene ever since. over more decades than he is willing to Sierra has worked on shows such as admit. In the past 5 years in Anchorage, Steel Magnolias and Proof at Anchorage his character portrayals have ranged from Community Theatre. She also stage overbearing to addled to evil, performing managed Into The Woods and the 2013 produc on of in Lend Me a Tenor and Inspec ng Jesus Christ Superstar with Theatre Ar st United at the Carol at ACT and Superior Donuts at Cyrano’s. Don Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, where she has directed My Three Angels and Nunsense at ACT. Don is just recently received her Stage Manager Qualifi ca on. the former Execu ve Director of the Utah Nonprofi ts Sierra is the newest member of the Cyrano’s family as Associa on. His background includes many years as an Produc on Manager, and she is very happy to put her award-winning public radio broadcaster and as founder touch on the Cyrano’s experience. and execu ve of theatre groups in California and Utah. He completed a Master’s in Theatre at the University of Megan Harty is originally from Utah and also holds an MBA. This is Don’s second visit to Anchorage, but currently lives in Los the Conference. He is constantly impressed by the talent Angeles. She moved to LA a year ago to and passion of the Alaska theatre community. pursue ac ng and music. Her most recent works include the lead role as Abby in the short fi lm Fa y and the guitarist Leo Grinberg was born and raised Amber in the feature fi lm Helicopter in Magadan, Russia. He traveled to Mom. If she is not ac ng or making the U.S. ten years ago to pursue his music you can fi nd her working as a nanny, dog si er, or life me dream: singing American cas ng assistant. She is very excited to be at her third music. His recent credits include Roger Conference. in TAU’s 2012 produc on of RENT; the Baker in TAU’s 2012 Into the Woods; Erick Hayden is a professional actor, Curly in Perseverance Theatre’s 2012 sound designer, and director living in Oklahoma!, Jesus in TAU’s 2013 Jesus England. His recent credits include Christ Superstar; Jesus in Theatre Winter Haven’s 2013 24: Live Another Day, Kill Your Friends, Jesus Christ Superstar (Winter Haven, FL); Hedwig in City Stage’s 2013 Hedwig And The Angry Inch (Wilmington, Discovery ID’s How NOT to Kill Your NC), where he received a 2013 Wilmington Star Award Husband & Obsession: Dark Desires, Nomina on for Best Actor in a musical; Riff Raff in City BBC’s Legacy, ITV’s Marple: Endless Night Stage’s 2013 Rocky Horror Show, Pippin in TAU’s 2014 & Lucan and commercials for Staples Pippin, and Alex in Dick Reichman’s The Audi on. Film and Cvent. He is the former coordinator for credits include Big Miracle, The Frozen Ground, and the Valdez Fringe Fes val. Wildlike. PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 57 Taran Haynes, a student-actor studying Anchorage, Alaska. A love of performance, theatre at the University of Alaska music, and crea ve passion was ins lled in Anchorage, enjoyed his most recent her at an early age from growing up around role as Anthony in the Synesthesia Ar st other musicians and creators going back Collec ves’ produc on of The House of four genera ons. Recent projects include Yes. Though rela vely new to the theatre Fiddler on the Roof (TBA Theatre), Macbeth community, Taran is eager to learn and (TBA Theatre), and Hamlet 2 (ACT). She is has taken every opportunity to expand honored to be in the Last Fron er Theatre his knowledge and experience in ac ng. This drive has Conference a er par cipa ng for the fi rst me in 2013 earned him several roles at UAA, such as Tom Sawyer and hopes to be a part of it for many more years. from Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Not-Dead-Fred from Spamalot, as well as roles in the Ron Holmstrom has a ended the Anchorage community, such as the Apostle Andrew in Conference every year since its incep on the Theater Ar sts United produc on of Jesus Christ in 1993, par cipa ng in many capaci es. Superstar. He has worked on the Play Lab as an John Hendel has been ac ve in actor, director, and one of the people in developing new works for some me. charge of deciding which of the hundreds In 2008, he traveled to Prague with of plays submi ed will be presented at Limehouse Theater Collec ve for the the Conference. He has served as the world premiere of The Hallucinogenic reporter on the event for the Valdez Star since 1997 and Toreador, named one of the fi ve best has worked in some capacity with nearly every Alaskan entries in the Prague Fringe Fes val. In theatre company. Ron serves on the Sea le Board of SAG- 2009, he helped develop a short play for AFTRA and is a member of the Alaska Film Group and the Accokeek Founda on in Maryland, the Anchorage Cultural Council. His most recent job was presented at the Museum Educators Conference. He has playing John Cusack’s a orney in The Frozen Ground, and a BFA in performance from Ohio University, where he read many new plays wri en by graduate playwrights will be seen as Frank Larson in the upcoming Proper Binge. and par cipated in their annual Seabury Quinn, Jr. He also keeps Alaskans aware of what is happening in the Playwrights’ Fes val. ‘lively arts’ community through his work on television,

radio, his own web pages and newspapers, such as The PLAY LAB READERS Nicholas Walker Herbert is thrilled to return to the Turnagain Times. Conference. He is a California-born, Brooklyn-based theatre ar st. Although Theodore C Hooker II is a theatre major primarily a playwright, he started in and fi lm minor coming down from UAF. He theatre as an actor when he was 8 years has recently been experimen ng with work old. His favorite roles include Michal in front of the camera. His most recent from The Pillowman, Frank Strang from stage roles include Maxim in A Li le Hotel Equus, Emil from The Duck Varia ons, on the Side, The Duke in The 13 Clocks, and Pridamant from The Illusion, Henry Katurian in The Pillowman. This is his third Packer from Vinegar Tom, Lance from year ac ng for the Conference. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Jed/Efran from Aloha! Say the Pre y Girls, Walter Mi y from The Secret Life of Ronnie Houchin was never much of an Walter Mi y, Creon from An gone, Mushnik from actor un l he moved to Valdez and was Li le Shop of Horrors, Puck from A Midsummer Night’s harassed into audi oning by Dawson Dream, and Cyrano from Cyrano de Bergerac. He was Moore. He’s since appeared in The 13 the co-founder of Full-Circle Theater Company from Clocks and Prelude to a Kiss, and can be 2011 to 2012 in New York City. As a playwright, his plays seen at this year’s Last Fron er Theatre have been produced and developed around the country. Conference in Eric Coble’s Bright Ideas While not in the theatre, he plays guitar, and draws the comics The Uh Oh Landscape, Brand Comix!, and The Sue Ellen Howard presently teaches digital S ckmen. He graduated with honors from the University photography at PWSCC here in Valdez. She of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in Theatre Arts and was born in Rochester, New York, and a minor in History. is a graduate of Mansfi eld University in Pennsylvania and holds her Master’s Degree from Michigan State University. At Jacqueline Hoff man is a performing ar st from beau ful 58 home, she is a mother of fi ve grown children and Mima Reagan James is a theatre junkie that to six beau ful girls whom she aff ec onately refers to as recently relocated from Anchorage to her ‘grand beau es.’ Sue Ellen started ac ng when she Houston. This is her fourth Conference was six years old in her sister’s high school produc on of and she is excited to spend a week Oliver. Growing up, music and ac ng were a vital part of completely immersed in incredible her life. She was a member of her church choir, school theatre and discussion with great friends. chorus, select choruses, and she competed in district A er begrudgingly leaving the UAA and state compe ons for voice, piano, and was concert Glee Club her senior year at UAA, she mistress on the violin. She was ac vely involved in her was able to play Miss Watson in Big River. Some of her school’s drama department and played various roles in other favorite roles include Joan in Sexual Perversity many plays and musicals. As an adult, she has stayed in Chicago, The Cat in the Hat in Seussical the Musical, ac ve in the theatre in many ways. She played the part and Frankie in Christmas Belles. She can’t wait to jump of Tessie Tura in Gypsy, soloed in a produc on of The into this week and get new characters, see incredible Big Apple, acted in More Fantas c, The Christmas Story, theatre, fan-girl over Valdez celebri es, and laugh and more. She also worked at the Clemens Center as an her ass off at the Fringe. I hope to one day be able to audio engineer, make-up ar st, and as part of the stage perform in a full produc on of a Conference script, not crew for touring produc ons such as RENT, Annie Get be a waitress, and pull off a headshot with her leg in it. Your Gun, and Cabaret. Sue Ellen was known for her posi on as keyboard player, front woman, and back- James Jensen spent more than a decade up singer in Northeast Pennsylvania’s favorite Country studying art as a single unifying concept Rock band, Heart and Soul. She was also credited as from every point of view available such the voice for South West Bell’s directory assistance and as wri ng, direc ng, ac ng, fi lm edi ng, has appeared in numerous voice overs for Television pain ng, music, dance, sculpture, and Radio. Recently, she made her fi rst short fi lm for psychology, etc. His theatre experience PWSCC’s Alaska Adventure Film School and will con nue includes work as a director, stage to work on a full-length fi lm this summer that will end manager, and set designer, as well as an fi lming in Mexico in October. Although she says that she actor in roles such as the leads in Big, Bad Mouse, The misses the sound of her children in the house, she looks Prisoner of Second Avenue, and The Odd Couple. Other forward to sharing with them the many new ar s c roles include bobrauschenbergamerica (Wilson) and ventures in her future. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Mrs. Gloop). James has also been in a music video and several short fi lms, Teanna Hutchison just fi nished her fi rst one of which won second place in its category at the year as a theatre major at the University Bi-na onal Independent Film Fes val in El Paso, Texas, of Alaska Anchorage. While there, she garnering James a miniscule lis ng on IMBD.com. performed in the ensemble for their fall musical, Big River: The Adventures AJ Knox is an actor, director, writer, and of Huckleberry Finn, worked backstage designer. He holds his PhD in Drama for their spring produc on of Night of from Tu s University, his MA in Theatre the Iguana, par cipated in their student Educa on from Emerson College, and direc ng scenes as Jillian in I Hate Hamlet, took part his BA in Theatre Arts from Loyola in a UAA independent fi lm Hooked, and was an actor Marymount University. He recently in the Alaskan Overnighters. Throughout her teenage founded an emerging ensemble theatre years growing up in Valdez, she appeared in numerous company in San Diego. Performance produc ons. Roles include Helena in A Midsummer credits include The Reluctant Doctor Night’s Dream, Princess Saralinda in The 13 Clocks, Lucy (Jacqueline, ensemble), bobrauschenbergamerica in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Violet in A (Bob), Pterodactyls (Arthur), Li le Shop of Horrors Li le Hotel on the Side, a cop in Arsenic and Old Lace, (The Den st), Fuddy Meers (Millet), Six Degrees of and Molly in Where There’s a Will, There’s a Murder. She Separa on (Rick), Hamlet (Rosencrantz), and Rumors has also interned for TBA Theatre Company, taking on (Ken). Direc ng credits include The Taste of Fears, Mr. the role of Aunt Sponge in James and the Giant Peach. Marmalade, The Alchemist, Endgame, The Laramie This is her third me par cipa ng in the Conference. Project, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 59 Thomas Korn fi rst a ended the Rob Lecrone is an actor from Anchorage Conference in 1993, its fi rst year, and currently residing in Los Angeles. He has been a ending on and off since studies with Laura Gardner and Howard then. Plays he has appeared in include Fine at the Howard Fine Ac ng Studio in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Li le Hollywood, and also enjoys the occasional Hotel on the Side, The 13 Clocks, Born class with the Upright Ci zens Brigade. Yesterday (Cyrano’s), Hot L Bal more, Rob also wants you to know that he was a and A Man for All Seasons. His play worker on the 1989 cleanup of the Exxon Potatoe was performed at Cyrano’s in 2001, and his Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound. He is happy to more recent work has been read as a part of PWSCC’s be back in Alaska for the Conference and among so many Empty Bowl Project, raising money for the Valdez Food wonderful people. Bank. Barry Levine comes from New York City Lindsay Lamar is an actor residing in where he fi rst studied ac ng at USDAN Anchorage, Alaska. Over the years she and HB Studios, and later at Wesleyan has been able to perform regularly at University. He was a Circle Rep Lab home, but also New York, Minnesota, Member in the mid-1990s. Since coming to and as far away as Haifa, Israel. At the LA in 1996, he helped found USC’s Brand Conference, you may have seen her in New Theatre, and also did solo work under last year’s More Than Words (as part of the guidance of monologist Eric Trules. He Kevin Six’s The Art of Love and Dawson performed his one-man show Chasing Minor Threat at Moore’s Love’s Lumberings Remembered), Fourplay (as LA’s fabled Al’s Bar just before it closed in 2001. Between part of Arli a Jones’ Shoe Story and Schatzie Schaefer’s 2002 and 2006, he was the singer for the L-10 Project, The Cross), and perhaps in her personal favorite, as performing in LA, the Bay Area, New York City, and even Penny in Rand Higbee’s The Head That Wouldn’t Die. a couple of dates on the Warped Tour in 2006. He’s been In Anchorage, she has recently performed as Catherine playing solo shows since 2008 and has been seen at such in Proof (Anchorage Community Theatre), Maria in The LA clubs as The House of Blues, the Viper Room, Busby’s, Sound of Music (TBA Theatre), and Golde in Fiddler on and DiPiazza’s in Long Beach, among others. He also the Roof (TBA Theatre). She’s thrilled to be a part of this

hosts the long running radio show “The Bear’s Den” on PLAY LAB READERS year’s Conference, and proud that it happens in this KXSC, USC’s student sta on. He’s been a reader for the beau ful state! Conference since 2004, although he has been coming as a playwright since 1998. Stefan Langer is thrilled to be performing in the AKDT me zone for the fi rst me! Anthony Lounsbury is a lifelong Alaskan. At A na ve of Central Ohio (EDT), he hasn’t 26 years old, he has now been a part of the crossed this many meridians in the theatre half his life! Anthony has an affi nity name of theatre since traveling with for music and can be found playing ukulele Unanswered, We Ride to the Edinburgh or accordion to accompany his tenor. Fringe Fes val (BST). Recent credits Favorite roles include Claude Bukowski in (in his na ve me zone) include The Hair, Mark in Rent, and Sir Galahad (among Schmürz in The Empire Builders (Shepherd Produc ons/ others) in Spamalot. He is happy to bring MadLab), Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom, Sleeper his more drama c side to the Conference, and is honored (Available Light Theatre), Leonato in Much Ado About to perform Gravidity by Ashley Rose Wellman, which was Nothing (Actors’ Theatre), 29 Bells (Theatre Daedalus) read in the 2013 Play Lab. and Murray Burns in A Thousand Clowns (Curtain Players). Behind the scenes, he designs websites, Like a lot of actors, Tom Lucido’s roots posters and publicity material. Look for him in the are in high school and college drama forthcoming 2nd season of the award-winning sci-fi where he performed Tommy Albright in series, Aidan 5. Thank you, Theatre Daedalus. Brigadoon, Billy Bigelow in Carousel, and Harold Hill in The Music Man. The Vietnam Ross Langley was born in the United War interrupted his thespian pursuits. States and moved to Australia at a young Returning as a US Navy nurse, he con nued age, where he eventually graduated from his educa on at UCLA Westwood where the ac ng course at Sydney’s pres gious he was discovered by a talent scout and landed a Gille e Na onal Ins tute of Drama c Art. He’s a playwright and actor now living and working in Los Angeles. 60 Foamy and Tang commercial. From there he enjoyed a has played Gertrude Blum in The Sea Horse; Big Mama short run on Mary Hartman Mary Hartman in a repeat in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Marilla in Anne of Green walk-on role. He also served as a summer intern on Gables; Bloody Mary in South Pacifi c; Rheba in You the wri ng staff of the Carol Burne Show. Family and Can’t Take It With You; and Mary in the new musical educa on took center stage early on and Dr. Lucido Gateway. Kim holds a BA in Theatre/Religion with a did not return to the stage for another thirty years. music minor from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, While in Houston, Texas he joined two local theatre and a Master of Divinity from University of Dubuque groups as Charley in Death of a Salesman and George Theological Seminary. in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. In 2002 he wrote and directed the successful Alaskan traveling venue Alaskan Sarah MacMillan is thrilled to be back in Leopard Comedy Tours, ending its run in 2010. Tom Valdez! Sarah lived in Alaska for twelve returned to community theater following his re rement years and had several memorable roles and is enjoying volunteer work with the Anchorage including Nurse Ratched in One Flew Community Theater, Mabel T. Caverly Senior Center, and Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Eleanor in The world travel. He is currently and ac vely audi oning for Lion in Winter, Mary Tyrone in Long Day’s his next live performance role. Journey Into Night, and several roles with Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre. In 2013, Gigi Lynch returned to She par cipated in the Conference three mes, last community theatre in Anchorage in seen in the role of Debra in The TiVo Tribe, wri en by Theatre Ar st United’s (TAU) produc on Anchorage playwright Schatzie Schaefers. Sarah spent of Jesus Christ Superstar. For many years, three years in Arizona a er leaving Alaska, con nuing she was a director and choreographer to pursue her ac ng career. Favorite roles there include for Brandon Youth Community Theatre Denise in Savage in Limbo and Marc Antony in Julius and she also developed choreography Caesar. Moving on to Denver, Sarah has been blessed to for many award-winning show choirs work with several companies including Germinal Stage in Tampa, Florida. She is an accomplished fl u st and of Denver, And Toto Too, Equinox, Byers Evans, Spotlight was a high school band and choir director. Recent Theatre, and Firehouse Theatre Company. She was last performances include Berthe in TAU’s produc on of seen in Lend Me a Tenor playing the role of Maria with Pippin and A Wrinkle in Time at Cyrano’s, where she was Vintage Theatre Produc ons. Alaska will always hold a the Mother, Mrs. Who, and Aunt Beast. She is a member special place in her heart and is grateful to be here! of the Board of Directors of Theatre Ar st United. Rachel Márquez obtained her BA in Film While David MacGregor generally prefers at Vassar College in New York, during to spend his me hidden underground which she also completed courses at wri ng plays and screenplays, the the Royal Academy of Drama c Arts in London, the American Conservatory occasional plague or natural disaster Theater in San Francisco, and Tisch has some mes compelled him to bring School of the Arts in NYC. While working his prodigious ac ng talents before the as an ar st for Evergreen Films in unsuspec ng public. He has essayed Anchorage, she had the good fortune a variety of roles, including the Angel to par cipate in many plays and crea ve projects with Gabriel, Sherlock Holmes, the An christ, and lovable her fellow Alaskans. In 2011 she returned to London outdoor host Marty Springfi eld. When his 12-year-old and began pursuing her dreams with her husband Erick daughter saw his feature fi lm, Vino Veritas, she asked Hayden. They now live just outside of London and keep him, “Which one of the characters is most like you?” He busy with many exci ng projects in fi lm, TV, theatre, leaned down and whispered into her elf-like ear, “I’m all and modeling. For credits and more informa on, please of the characters.” Suitably terrifi ed, she no longer asks visit: www.rachelmarquez.com him ques ons about his work. Jason Mar n (bio in featured ar sts Kim MacInnes-Green has been ac ve in sec on) theatre her whole life. She has traveled and performed mostly in the Midwest. Kim has been a student of Marcel Marceau and Colleen Dewhurst. In her more recent theatre experience, Rev. Kim PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 61 Bill McAllister is an award-winning Eric T. Miller’s theater credits include Anchorage-based journalist who has Wink (TerraNova), rogerandtom (HERE), appeared in produc ons for Cyrano’s and The Last Seder (Mint Theater), Safe Anchorage Community Theatre, including Home (RFP), Sweet Storm (LAByrinth), performances at the Conference in 2012 Broken Hands (Fringe Fes val Encore) and 2013, respec vely. McAllister is an and Betrayed (Culture Project), with occasional playwright, contribu ng Jack workshops and readings at NYTW, LARK, of Spades, LIES, and twentysomething to New York Stage and Film, LAByrinth, recent Alaska Overnighters. In the 1980s, he formed Public, EST/Youngbloods and Ra les ck. Television and the Inverted Pyramid Theatre Troupe in St. Cloud, Film credits include Person of Interest (CBS), Elementary Minnesota, off ering all original material, including the (CBS), The Unusuals (ABC), Kings (NBC), Law & Order world premiere of Simon’s Night by Jon Hassler, based (NBC), Shame (Dir: Steve McQueen), Reaching Home, on the best-selling novel. McAllister also performed his The Wai ng Room, Pieces, My Secret Friend, Home:_, one-man play The Black Glove and directed Glengarry and the upcoming feature Tom’s Dilemma. Glen Ross for the Alaska Community Theatre Fes val (ACTFEST) in Haines in 1997. As an ac ve theatre ar st for the past twelve years, Morgan Mitchell has Meg McKinney is an actress/yoga worked with nearly every company teacher/documentary fi lmmaker/social in Anchorage. Recent credits include jus ce ac vist residing in Valdez, off and Clybourne Park (Cyrano’s), Steel on, for the past fi een years. She has Magnolias (ACT), The Lion, The appeared in the college produc ons of Witch, and The Wardrobe (TBA), and Dimly Perceived Threats to the System, Macbeth (TBA), as well as the award- The Crucible, The Master Builder, Free winning shorts Missed Connec ons, Contained, a nd Space, Popula on Growth, Crimes of Resurrec on Bay. the Heart, and most recently A Midsummer Night’s Dream playing Puck. She has also acted in six Alaska Shane Mitchell is the founding ar s c Overnighters and the past seven years in the Play director of TBA Theatre Company in Anchorage. He earned his BA in

Lab. She teaches French as an adjunct instructor at PLAY LAB READERS the college, and is in fi nal, absolutely last stages of Theater from the University of Alaska post-produc on for the documentary fi lm Breathe in Anchorage and his Master’s of Theatre the Light, which follows the journey of four survivors Communica on from Wichita State of sexual assault on a healing trek into the Alaskan University. As an actor, he has received wilderness. numerous awards and honors including a Presiden al Cita on for Drama and two Patricia Rod Mehrtens grew up as a Navy brat Neil Ac ng Awards. He was selected as an American in California, Louisiana, Alaska, and representa ve to the Olympic Arts Fes val in Sydney, Hawaii. A er gradua ng from San Diego Australia. He has been honored by the UAA Alumni State, he taught English (and drama from Associa on with the Community Service Award and me to me) for twenty years; then he by the Conference with the 2010 Jerry Harper Service moved to Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996. He Award. He has appeared at the Conference in such fi nally earned his Master’s at Bread Loaf, shows as Six Degrees of Separa on, Providence, Magic becoming a cer fi ed egg-head at 49— Valley, Dirge for a Failed Bris, Happiness Hun ng, The always an awkward age. Since then he has been ac ve Rendering of Conner McShea, and The Art of Love. onstage and off , ac ng, direc ng, designing and rigging. Over the last seventeen years Rod has been part of 114 A na ve Massachuse s-ian, Tom Moran produc ons in one capacity or another. He performed at has lived in Fairbanks since 2000 for the Conference in 1997 as the fi ve-character Other Men some reason. He holds a Bachelor’s from in A.R. Gurney’s Later Life, in 2010 as Bert in Judd Lear Notre Dame and a Master’s in Crea ve Silverman’s Heart, and in 2012 as the Savage in Dawson Wri ng from the University of Alaska Moore’s Living with the Savage. Fairbanks, where he now holds a job bluffi ng his way through Na onal Science Founda on grant proposals. This is his eighth Conference. He spends a lot of me on bicycles. 62 Mark Muro is a poet, playwright, Originally from the Florida Panhandle, and performer. His most recent one- Michael Noble got his start in the person show, Apocalypse When I Get Anchorage theatre as the props master Around To It, or Civil War III, part 1, for The House of Yes. He transi oned into was performed at Out North Theatre in ac ng this year playing Mr. Biddle in Debbie Anchorage. Other monologues by Mark Does Dallas: The Musical at Mad Myrna’s. Michael is a senior at the University of include Dingoes On Velvet, No Where Alaska Anchorage. He studies Film, Theatre, Fast, Saint Alban’s, Three Con nents, and Journalism. Alaska: Behind the Scenery, A Very Muro Christmas, and Love, Sex and All That Comes Between. His stage Jus n Oller is a 2010 graduate of roles include Ed Nolan in Judd Lear Silverman’s Heart, Dimond High in Anchorage and is Johnny in Johnny’s Girl, Mor mer in The Fantas cks, currently working on his Bachelor of and Sam in Cemetery Club. Mark has appeared in Arts in Theatre at UAA, having also numerous short fi lms and several features, and has just studied at the University of Southern completed the pilot for a television dramedy, Bad Cop, Oregon in Ashland and the University Bad Cop. As always, Mark is delighted to be here in of East Anglia in Norwich, UK. This is Valdez for this year’s Conference. his fourth year at the Conference. Past performances here include I Want to Believe and the Jamie Nelson lives with his resplendent tle role in The Rendering of Conor McShea, both wife and adorable son in Soldotna. produced by TBA Theatre. Other credits include Fyedka His wife teased him relentlessly for in Fiddler on the Roof (TBA), Enfi eld in Dr. Jekyll and the heavy air me Jamie’s Sadler’s Mr. Hyde (UEA), Malcolm in Macbeth (TBA), Jonathan commercials received during the Winter Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility (UAA), and Oberon Olympics this year. He has worked with in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dimond High School), Cyrano’s Theatre Company, TossPot as well as The White Rose and Anouilh’s An gone which Produc ons, Edgeware Produc ons, he directed at Dimond. In 2009 he performed All in the TBA Theatre, Three Wise Moose, Triumvirate Theatre, Timing at the Edinburgh Fringe Fes val and received a Kenai Performers, and Theatre on the Rocks. His favorite four star ra ng for his work. He returned to the fes val recent performances have been Felix Unger in The in 2012 where he assistant directed an original P. Shane Odd Couple, Russ/Dan in Clybourne Park, and George Mitchell work, The Cactus Gulch Opry House. His fi rst fi lm Verendt in Gravidity, which will be performed here credit, Trial By Fire, is set to release in summer 2014 in Tuesday evening. He’s appeared in the last six Alaska The United Kingdom. Overnighters. Other favorite plays include It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (George Bailey), One Juliana Osinchuk (bio in featured ar sts Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Randle P. McMurphy), sec on) Arsenic and Old Lace (Mor mer Brewster), Bus Stop (Bo Decker), Sylvia (Greg), Ten Chimneys, 44 Plays For 44 Presidents, Mind Over Ma , Insane With Power, Over the River and Through the Woods, Wait Un l Dark, and Completely Hollywood: Abridged. His fi lm credits include Big Miracle, The Frozen Ground, Hooked, and Edit the Sad Parts. Randall Parker II has an aversion to wri ng third-person bios, and hopes that you will not hold this against him. Susan Niman began in theatre playing Theodore Hertzle in a scratchy beard at age 13. Her theatre career includes playing the Irish maid in Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness!; a dancing, singing, cackling witch in Macbeth; and fi nally making it to the big me: Dawson Moore’s 24-hour theater, the Alaska Overnighters in Anchorage, where she played a cold blooded killer and a lady truck driver. Susan had such fun as a room monitor last year at Conference, she applied to be a reader and have addi onal fun! PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 63 John Parsi is a member of Scared Danielle Rabinovitch, an Alaska-born actor Scriptless Improv and Urban Ye Improv. and singer, most recently appeared as He performed in the Inaugural Alaska Catherine in TAU’s 2014 produc on of Pippin. One-Minute Play Fes val. He is a three Selected recent credits include: Come to me American Forensics Associa on Me, Leopards (Cyrano’s); A Gulag Mouse; Na onal Champion and a collegiate Dog Sees God (Out North); Into the Woods; and high school speech and debate All- RENT (TAU); Fourplay (Three Wise Moose); American. He has trained with instructors The Sound of Music (TBA Theatre); Singin’ from iO, iO West, Upright Ci zens Brigade, Second in the Rain (UAA); Macbeth; La Boheme (Anchorage City, Chicago City Limits, and a various other improv Opera); Paper Bag Princess; and Li le Shop of Horrors organiza ons. He is a lawyer and earned both a JD and a (UHM). Film credits include Skedadle Me, Sweetly, Truth PhD in Poli cal Science. or Homecoming, Blind Date, ABC’s LOST, and various commercials. She has performed in concert with the Jeanne Passin has lived in Valdez for the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra in One Vision; the Music past 30 years and has been involved in of Queen, Step! Afrika, and Champagne Pops. the Last Fron er Theater Conference since its incep on. She is a former Kalli Randall just graduated from the teacher, now a half- me acupuncturist/ University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) with half me adventurer and her current role her BA in Theatre. Kalli has been in many of being a snowbird seems to suit her produc ons throughout the years, and just fi ne! you may have seen her in in Anchorage produc ons including Christmas Belles Nancy Pearson graduated from the (UAA), The Marriage Proposal (UAA), University of Alaska Anchorage in 1994 The Count of Monte Cristo (TBA Theatre), with a degree in Theatre. She also Bring Back the Sunshine (UAA), and Sordid Lives (Mad spent a year at Southern Oregon State Myrna’s). Kalli is most proud of her work as the lead College in Ashland, Oregon, studying role of Charlo e Dwyer in Hot ‘n’ Throbbing on the UAA theatre and taking Meisner-technique Mainstage.

ac ng classes on the weekends. She PLAY LAB READERS has acted in college, community, and Actor and playwright Doreen Ransom dinner theatre. Nancy impersonated Charlie Chaplin at has had several public readings of her the Apple Computer Fair at the Sheraton in Anchorage plays, two of them in this Conference, for an ac ng gig. Away from theatre for several years, and an Alaska Overnighters produc on. A this is the year she is coming back, and there couldn’t be former news host/producer for the Alaska a be er way to do it than as a reader at the Last Fron er Public Radio Network and KSKA-FM, and Theatre Conference. a former fi lm and theatre reviewer, she loves local theatre and opportuni es Tarah Pollock is a recent graduate of the to do voice work. She acted in high school and college MFA Ac ng program at the University produc ons, has been a Conference actor several mes, of Southern California, where she and played the lead in a dinner theatre produc on last performed in a 3 Play Repertory last year. spring. She played Marianne in Tartuff e (dir. Andrew Robinson), Andromache in Trojan Women (dir. David Bridel), and Dick Reichman is a playwright who also acts Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town (dir. Cameron and directs, mostly at Cyrano’s Theater in Watson). Originally from Dallas, Texas, Tarah now Anchorage. His play Bruckner’s Last Finale, resides in Los Angeles. This is her fi rst trip to the Last about classical composer Anton Bruckner, Fron er Theatre Conference and she is thrilled to be played at Cyrano’s last year. His play about part of it. the Valdez oil spill, The Big One, toured Alaska and played in Sydney, Australia. His latest, The Audi on, will be seen at the Conference this year. 64 Kate Rich is a huge fan of Conference and Bruce Rogers (bio in featured ar sts sees it as the springboard from which her sec on) eff orts at playwri ng are launched each year, as well as it being a ridiculously fun me. A resident of Homer, Alaska, she is grateful for opportuni es to write and perform in her local community theatre. This past January, she co-wrote the through-line, acted, and sang in the variety show called Steppin’ Out at the Mariner Theater, and in March helped Gabrielle Savrone is a Melbourne-based create an evening of staged readings that included her actress who has trained at Melbourne ten-minute piece Braking Distance at the Homer Council Actors Lab. Previous credits include on the Arts. She is currently working on her fi rst full- Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, Rush, length play. Blue Heelers, Sylvia Plath’s 3 Women, and most recently a play she co-wrote, Jan Richmond is returning to the Painted Pictures. She is currently starring Conference as a reader a er a hiatus in the remake of Sancia Robinson and of several years. In 45 years of theatre Wendy Harmer’s one-woman play What is the ma er experience, she has worked as director, with Mary Jane?. She is the proud co-founder of actor, costumer, box offi ce manager, and Combus on Theatre Collec ve. almost every other job in the theatre. At fi rst theatre was just hobby, then it slowly Joshua Schmidtlein is a Sea le-based became a way of life and for a few years actor and regular Conference par cipant. a paying job. Now in her semi-re rement, it has become He has a history of college and a way of life. Her training was mostly “on the job,” but community theater, having been involved she does hold an MA in Theatre and has taken classes with produc ons of Harvey and Greater in both Sea le and L.A. She is affi liated with Westside Tuna at Prince William Sound Community Players Group in West Sea le, and is always ac vely College, in addi on to a variety of looking for plays to stage inexpensively. The opportunity student-wri en and directed shows at to par cipate in the reading of new plays gives her a week the University of Puget Sound. of joy! Kate Schwarzer is a singer and actress Mark Robokoff is a frequent contributor from Alaska. Besides her 4+ years as at LFTC, performing last year as Mark an employee of Anchorage Opera, she Rothko in John Logan’s RED. He produced, has been a chorus member in AO’s directed, wrote and performed in 2011’s produc ons of South Pacifi c, La Boheme, Mountain Shack Theater Alaska, and Tosca, and The Pirates of Penzance, as performed with Aaron Wiseman in well as Verdi’s Macbeth (witch)¸ and The 2010’s Rounding Third. His fi lm credits Sound of Music (Sister Sophia). Kate sang include The Frozen Ground, Beyond, Baby the tle role of UAA Opera Ensemble’s Les Mamelles des Geniuses III, and Big Miracle. He is seen most frequently Tiresius and was the She-Cat in L’Enfant et les Sor leges. at Cyrano’s Theatre Company in Anchorage, where he She has also performed in local produc ons of You’re directed Clybourne Park in 2013 and has appeared in RED, a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Lucy), Kismet (Ayah), La Bete, It’s a Wonderful Life-The Radio Play, Bruckner’s The Marriage of Figaro (Marcellina), Babes in Toyland Last Finale, Helen, Our Town, Sylvia, The Imaginary Invalid, (Contrary Mary), Bye Bye Birdie (Nancy), Sweet Charity, Hamlet, Dinner with Friends, The Seagull, FourPlay, Ka a and Guys & Dolls. Most recently she made her debut Dances, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Mark lives with Triumvirate Theatre (Kenai, Alaska) in the fi rst in Anchorage with fellow Conference actor Sarah Baird produc on ever in their beau ful brand-new theatre. and is o en seen roaming the surrounding hills with their She was honored to play the role of Be y Haynes in greyhounds and whippets. White Christmas, and she looks forward to seeing and par cipa ng in Triumvirate Theatre’s growing presence in Alaska. PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 65 Tamar Shai is very excited to return to Jill Sowerwine is cofounder of TossPot the Conference. A card-carrying Toss Pot, Produc ons and a graduate of the UAA Tamar had the wonderful opportunity Theatre Department. Her most recent to perform in Arli a Jones’ directorial roles include Elena Verendt in Ashley debut, playing Svetlana in Arthur M. Rose Wellman’s Gravidity (Theatre on Jolly’s A Gulag Mouse at last year’s the Rocks); Jolianne in the workshop Conference. Other favorite roles include produc on of Arli a Jones’ Come to Nina in The Seagull and Uta Hagen in Me, Leopards (Cyrano’s); and Anastasia Ten Chimneys, during which she had the great luck in Arthur Jolly’s A Gulag Mouse (TossPot Produc ons). to work with David Edgecombe and Elizabeth Ware. Past stage roles include Well and Sweet (Out North); She performed her last two roles at Cyrano’s, playing Cikiuteklluku (Alaska Na ve Heritage Center); Superior Veronica in Miss Witherspoon and Evelyn in Come to Donuts and The Time of Your Life (Cyrano’s); The Me, Leopards, wri en by Arli a Jones and directed Odd Couple (Brown Eyed Girls); Landscape of the by Jayne Wenger. She is very much looking forward to Body, A Man for All Seasons, and Top Girls (UAA); The mee ng up with old friends and fi nding new ones in Mousetrap, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Ladyhouse Valdez this summer. Blues (ACT); Hair and The Rocky Horror Show (TAU); Private Eyes (TTR); and three diff erent edi ons of Janna Shaw was not born in Alaska Fourplay (Three Wise Moose). Her direc ng credits but she got here as soon as she could. include Boysenberry Pie (Three Wise Moose) and A Through the long winters, she occupies Bright Room Called Day (TTR). When not in the theater, her me with theatre and travel. Though Jill is o en out running on the Coastal Trail, training for summers are generally reserved for her next marathon. spending as much me playing outside as possible, the Theatre Conference is her Andrea Staats grew up in Anchorage, most an cipated venture every year, not where she gained her passion for only because of the many amazing scripts, but because theatre. She has performed at UAA’s Mainstage and Harper Theatre, Out of the intriguing people involved. She is incredibly happy North Contemporary Art House, and to be returning to her role in helping make the beloved Anchorage Community Theatre. She

Fringe Fes val happen! Other projects locally have was most recently seen playing Jackie-O PLAY LAB READERS included work in both short fi lms and big budget Pascal in Synesthesia Ar st Collec ve’s movies, wri ng for the Alaska Overnighters as well as produc on of The House of Yes. personal endeavors, and stepping onstage at ACT and Cyrano’s. Janna would like to thank her beau ful dogs Jus n Stewart is a student at the for making every moment of everyday be er and the University of Alaska Anchorage. At UAA, best mother anyone could ask for - without whose some of the roles he has played include support so many things would seem impossible, or at Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew least not worth it. and one of the Jurors in Twelve Angry Jurors. Outside of the University, he has appeared in several commercials, such Sara Shipp has been an ac ve performer as a spot for an an -methamphetamines in Alaska for several years. She has campaign. This is his second me at the performed the roles of Chloe in Arcadia, Conference. Curley’s Wife in Of Mice and Men, Helga in M. Bu erfl y, and Louise in The Fox on the Fairway. Musical theatre credits Janet Stoneburner is a long-standing include Maria in The Sound of Music, par cipant in the Theatre Conference. Charity in Sweet Charity, Adelaide in She has appeared on or backstage Guys and Dolls, and Fiona in Brigadoon. Many of her with almost every theatre company in summers have been spent bringing opere a to the Anchorage. Some of her favorite roles greater Anchorage area with The Character Workshop, include Dinah in The A erlife of the Mind performing as Pi -Sing in The Mikado, Vi oria in The (TAO Produc ons), Ki y in Taking Steps Gondoliers, and Tarara the Public Exploder in Utopia, (Brown Eyed Girls Theatre Co.) Beline in Limited. Ms. Shipp currently owns and operates a The Imaginary Invalid (Cyrano’s Theatre Co.) and Miss private voice studio in Anchorage and serves as an Shields in A Christmas Story (Alaska Theatre of Youth). adjunct professor of voice at the University of Alaska, Janet is the resident stage manager for VivaVoom Brr- Anchorage. 66 lesque, where she also performs as a Talking Woman. Henry Weaver graduated from the When not on stage, Janet skates as Buster Good, part University of Missouri, Columbia, with of the Derby Intelligence Compliance Squad (the DICS) a BA in Vocal Performance, where he with the Rage City Rollergirls. She would like to thank her minored in Theatre and Dance. While husband, Mark Stoneburner, for everything. there, he appeared in produc ons of Cabaret, Pippen, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Mark Stoneburner has taken part in the School for Scandal, and Toys in the A c. Conference many mes over the years, A er receiving an Associate’s in Liberal both as an actor and a playwright. The Arts from St. Louis Community College, he moved to highlight of his me at the Conference L.A., where he studied under the late Phil Moore. During came in 2009, when his play Bear this period, he did several dinner shows at Marla’s Varia ons: 11 Short Plays about A Bear Memory Lane and The Rose Ta oo. He worked for seven was presented by TBA Theater on the years with Orange County Black Actors Theatre as a mainstage. Although Mark has acted performer, costumer, make-up ar st, choreographer, with many of the theater companies in Anchorage, for and assistant stage manager in produc ons including several years his primary gig has been burlesque comic Eubie, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and Lady Day at Emersons. He was very pleased to be introduced to the Anchorage with VivaVoom Burlesque. He lives in Anchorage with theatre community in ACT’s produc on of Mousetrap backstage goddess Janet Stoneburner, who makes all and Cyrano’s Time of Your Life, as well as performing in things possible. the Alaska Overnighters. He has appeared in Theatre Ar sts United produc ons of The Who’s Tommy, RENT, Sarah Tapp was born and raised in the and the 2013 produc on of Jesus Christ Superstar, along San Francisco Bay Area. Since moving to with his performances in bobrauschenbergamerica Valdez 13 years ago, Sarah has go en and American Night: Ballad of Juan Jose at Cyrano’s. married and had three adorable children. Henry has also worked as an extra on such fi lms as Baby She has appeared in the Valdez produc on Geniuses III, Big Miracle, and On Frozen Ground. BoomTown! and the college produc ons of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Lion, the Catherine Weingarten studied drama at Witch, and the Wardrobe, and The Wind in Bennington College where her mainstage the Willows. Sarah enjoys homeschooling her three children, and loves being involved in youth credits include The School for Lies ministry. (Dubois/Basque), directed by Kathleen Dimmick, as well as in a devised piece While a ending PWSCC, Corey Taylor called Ghost Light, directed by Abi Basch. appeared in their produc ons of The 13 Since ge ng to NYC, she has become Clocks, A Li le Hotel on the Side, Future of an affi liated ar st of the experimental the Female, The Fears of Harold Shivvers, collec ve Small Claims Court, and wrote and performed and as Rita in Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss. in their one-act The Parent Trap Play. Catherine was This Spring she played mul ple roles in Eric previously an ac ng appren ce at Williamstown Coble’s Bright Ideas, which plays as the Theater Fes val, and also completed summer theater opening show this year. She is the Assistant conservatory programs at Northwestern University, Coordinator of this Conference for at least another week… CMU, and University of Minnesota.

Amy To e has acted professionally for the Brían Wesco [pronounced Bree-un] stage and screen for more than 20 years. was born and raised in Fairbanks, where Her stage credits include everything from he fi rst studied ac ng with Molly Smith the experimental LaMAMA, Etc. in NYC to at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Fes val. touring the Deep South with New Stage This year marks his fi h run as Sidney Theatre Children’s Company as Tigger, as Hun ngton in Anne Hanley’s The Winter well as several regional theater roles from Bear Project (original direc on by Jayne Shakespeare to transgender musicals. Wenger). Other stage roles include John She studied ac ng with her mentor Trish Ross in Art Shulman’s Not One More Foot of Land in Hawkins before training at Bill Esper Studio, Circle Rep Lab and studying voice with Shane Ann-Younts (all in NYC). North Hollywood and the male lead in Karyn Traut’s She moved to Los Angeles in 2000 where she studied The Realm of Love or Folding Laundry at the Edinburgh Stanislavski technique with Jack Stehlin and has regularly Fes val Fringe in Scotland in 2011. Film credits include par cipated in new play development as an actor with The Four Quarters (shot this past December), It’s Dark various LA theater companies. Amy is SAG/AFTRA. Here, and Christmas in the Clouds. In LA, he has studied PLAY LAB READERS PLAY 67 with Laura Gardner, Charles Carroll, and Randy Reinholz. Martha Wollner has led a varied crea ve An enrolled Alaska Na ve, he serves on the Na ve life as an actress, writer, director, and American commi ee at SAG-AFTRA and has run actor as a Story Producer/Unit Director for workshops around the country He spends most of his documentary fi lms. A er earning a me in Alaska but can o en be found in LA working and MFA in Ac ng, Wollner spent her early studying. professional years in NYC and regional theater. Somehow, she fell into the Kelly Wilson a ended the University documentary fi lm community and spent of Alaska Anchorage as a music major. twenty-fi ve years there working with acclaimed Maysles Favorite produc ons include Nunsense Films, Inc., founded by documentary fi lm ground (ACT), Annie (Hingham Civic Music breakers Albert and David Maysels. She is proud to have Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Anchorage worked with the leading names in documentary fi lm. Concert Chorus), The Who’s Tommy Following her tenure with MFI as a producer, cas ng (Theatre Ar sts United), The Sound of director, and 2nd Unit Director on feature documentaries Music (Anchorage Opera), Jihad Jones (Awards: Academy Award nomina on; GLADD/ HOT and the Kalashnikov Babes (Cyrano’s), Project Petoskey DOC/ Dupont; Sundance, Tribeca, Berlin, Toronto, (Once A Year Theater), and Fiddler on the Roof (TBA). and Venice Film Fes vals), she returned to her fi rst Kelly went to Orlando in 2012 to par cipate in the passion, the theatre. She is a proud company member ARTS showcase, where she won third place for her TV of the New York Labyrinth Theater and (Your Name commercial. She is thrilled to be par cipa ng in her Here) Queer Theater. Her wri ng has been featured in fourth Conference! Labyrinth’s developmental reading series, The Barn, and at New Orleans’ Southern Rep Bacchanal Play Aaron Wiseman has made a habit of Series. As an actress, she has worked with Labyrinth, a ending the Conference for most of Royal Shakespeare Company, Nickelodeon television, its illustrious history. Highlights include fi lm, and mul ple Off Broadway produc ons. She is performances in A Gulag Mouse by currently workshopping a produc on for presenta on Arthur M. Jolly (TossPot), The Rendering during 2014 NYC Pride Week, and a one-woman show of Conor McShea by Eoin Carney (TBA which she co-wrote and directed, The God Box, will be

Theatre), and Rounding Third by Richard traveling to the ’14 Edinburgh Fringe Fes val. Wollner PLAY LAB READERS Dresser (Three Wise Moose). He has also is proud to be a member of the Unanswered, We Ride been co-Technical Director of the evening performances ensemble and to par cipate in the Last Fron er Theater alongside the legendary Jim Cucurull for several years Conference. and designed and built sets for produc ons such as Schatzie Schaefers’ Fourplay (3WM) and Arli a Jones’ Born in Los Angeles and raised in Texas, Sway Me, Moon (3WM & Out North). He is grateful Carl Young has been involved in theatre and privileged to associate directly with Dawson prac cally his whole life. His various Moore, Schatzie Schaefers, and Carrie Yanagawa as produc ons include Nazi Karl Heinz in Edith Stein, award winning role Nicholas Three Wise Moose Produc ons over the years. When in The Boy Who Stole the Stars, Claude not on or backstage, he can be found offi cia ng NCAA Frollo in Quazimodo, the Father in Meet volleyball or fl ying around on helicopters producing Me in St.Louis, Kinickie in Grease, Aslan the documentary TV series Coast Guard Alaska on The in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Weather Channel. Barne e Lloyd in Crimes of the Heart, the Evil Dr. Kasady in Rand Higbee’s The Lightning Bug, Bas en in A Li le Originally from Stockholm, Sweden, Hotel on the Side, Peter in Prelude to a Kiss, and most Annia Wyndham has spent the last 16 recently Rat in A Wind in the Willows. Carl is excited to years abroad pursuing new friends, new be par cipa ng in the Last Fron er Theatre Conference rou nes, and new ac ng opportuni es and plans on being a part of the Valdez community for a wherever she lands. She was schooled long me. in the drama c arts in Sweden and Switzerland. Some of her stage credits include God of Carnage, A Gulag Mouse, Love Loss & What I Wore, Absurd Person Singular, and Miss Julie. Currently residing in Oklahoma City, she works as a freelance graphic ar st. PATRONS ($10,000+) City of Valdez SUSTAINERS ($5,000 – $9,999) Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Era Aviation Stan Stephens Glacier & Wildlife Cruises Totem Inn Valdez Harbor Inn First National Bank Alaska CONTRIBUTORS ($1,000 – $4,999) Alaska Airlines Valdez U-Drive Headhunter’s B&B Alaska Public Media SUPPORTERS ($100 – $999) Blessing House Bed and Breakfast Copper Valley Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Erma Duricko Catherine Stadem Rand Higbee Peter Pan Seafoods Valdez Fisheries Joe Barnes Kevin Bennett Barry Levine Arlitia Jones Focus Publishing