LEADERSHIPNicole Lauren, Artistic Director
Emily Anne Gibson, Managing & Literary Director Caleb House, Advisory Board Courtny Greenough, Advisory Board |
CURRENT ARTISTS
PLAYWRIGHT, FALL 2017
Matthew Kelly studied playwriting at Brown University under the tutelage of Paula Vogel, Oskar Eustis, and Brighde Mullins. He completed graduate research in public health and earned a Ph.D. in the history of medicine from Columbia University. Matthew recently launched Transdemocracy: the Transgender Oral History Project, dedicated to chronicling reminiscences of transgender candidates for public office. Matthew is based in New York City. Playwriting credits include Homegrown Beginnings (Abingdon Theatre), Russian Tea (Metropolitan Playhouse), Turquoise and Cloves (Occupy Wall Street / Occupy the Empty Space), and Pastrami Apparitions (Makor Steinhardt Center). His musical Perfectly Victorian, for which he served as co-librettist and co-lyricist alongside composer Bryan Adam, will receive a production in in Chicago in 2018. 
DIRECTOR, FALL 2017
Jonelle Allen has directed for several theatres in Southern California, including The Blue Sphere Alliance, Gallimaufry Theatre Company, and Saddleback College, where she is currently an Adjunct Faculty member leading the New Works and Staged Reading projects. Jonelle writes and directs new work for the theatre, including Blackbird, a one-woman show developed with writing partners Stevi Meredith and David Jayden Anthony. Jonelle is also a seasoned performer on stage and screen. She has received awards from Drama Critics' Circle, Drama Desk, Theatre World, and Outer Critics Circle, as well as a Tony nomination for her role as Silvia in Broadway's 1971 rock musical Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her most notable screen roles include Grace on Dr. Quin Medicine Woman and recurring roles on American Crime Story: The People vs OJ Simpson and Shameless. |
