Associate Artists

EMILY ACKERMAN is a playwright and actress based in NYC. Her first play, ReEntry (co-authored with KJ Sanchez), is based on interviews with members of the Marine Corps and is published by Playscripts. ReEntry has received critical acclaim at Two River Theater Company, Urban Stages, Baltimore Center Stage, Roundhouse Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, the Segerstrom Center, and at numerous military bases around the US and Europe (tour produced through a Department of Defense contract with American Records). Ms. Ackerman has been a member of The Civilians since 2006. With The Civilians: This Beautiful City (Original Collaborator/Performer; Colorado Springs, ATL/Humana Festival 2008, Studio Theatre, Center Theater Group, Vineyard Theatre), Gone Missing (Barrow Street Theatre, Off-Broadway Cast Album, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville), developmental workshops of The Great Immensity and Shadow of Himself, multiple cabarets at Joe’s Pub, and at the 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach, CA. Additional performance credits include: Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater, and Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Ms. Ackerman also volunteers with the Writer’s Guild Foundation and Wounded Warriors, teaching writing workshops to veterans, their families, and caregivers. She has also taught workshops in writing and acting at Emerson, Colorado College, Connecticut College, and for international artists through The Kennedy Center.

Associate Artist with The Civilians: Great Immensity, Nobody’s Lunch, Gone Missing, Paris Commune, Canard, Canard, Goose?, You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents’ divorce, The Ladies.

Other Theater: Williamstown Theater festival, New Group, Play Company, Public Theater NYC, Labyrinth, Women’s project, W.E.T., Flea Theater, Kansas City Rep, Olney Theater. Santa Fe Opera.


Fim and TV: various independent films including HBO’s Maria Full of Grace and the TV series In Treatment, Rescue Me on FX network and Outsiders on WGN America.

QUINCY TYLER BERNSTINE: Civilians: (I am) Nobody’s Lunch; The Ladies; Gone Missing.  Broadway: In the Next Room.  Off-Broadway: Our Lady of 121st Street; The Amateurs; As You Like It; Small Mouth Sounds; Peer Gynt; Grand Concourse; 10 out of 12; The Nether; Mr. Burns; Neva; We Are Proud to Present a Presentation…; born bad; Far From Heaven; Red-Handed Otter; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling; Born Bad; Family Week; Ruined; The Misanthrope; A Small, Melodramatic Story; Matt & Ben, ‘nami, others.  Film: Manchester By The Sea, Easy Living, Still Alice, Ned Rifle, Red Hook Summer, While We’re Young, Hungry Hearts, Rachel Getting Married.  TV: “Power,” “High Maintenance,” “The Good Wife,” “The Blacklist,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “Madame Secretary,” “The Leftovers,” “The Strain,” “Chappelle’s Show,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “All My Children.”  Education: Brown University, UCSD.   Obie, Clarence Derwent, Lilly, Audelco, Charles Bowden Awards.

Off-Broadway/Regional Choreography: Pericles and Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theater), Max and Ruby (Lortel/TheatreWorks), Jane Eyre, Tempest (Acting Company), Romeo and Juliet (WTF). NYC Choreography: St. Joan (P.S. 122).

Director: Anatomy of Touch (Ontological Theatre), The Long Christmas Dinner (Lincoln Center Lab). Conservatory: Choreographer, Perfect Wedding (NYU); Director, Blood Wedding (NYU); Green Bird, Measure for Measure (Purchase Repertory); Winter’s Tale (McCarter).

MFA in Directing, Syracuse. Drama League Fellowship.

Marsha Stephanie Blake’s latest project is the Central Park Five miniseries directed by Ava Duvernay, to be released in 2019.  Upcoming film projects include Luce directed by Julius Onah and starring Octavia Spencer and See You Yesterday from director Stefon Bristol and producer Spike Lee.  She was recently seen onstage as Emilia opposite Daniel Craig’s Iago in Othello at NYTW. Shows with the Civilians include This Beautiful City and In The Footprint. Broadway: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and The Merchant of Venice. TV credits: Quantico, Good Wife, Blacklist, Getting On, OITNB (SAG Ensemble Award). She lives in NYC with her husband and two kids.

ucrecia Briceño is a Peruvian artist currently based in Brooklyn.
Much of her work has been in association with artists developing innovative and original pieces. Her work includes theatre, dance, puppetry & opera, as well as collaborations in several non-performance projects.

Her designs have been presented at such venues as Oxford Playhouse (UK), Arena Stage, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dallas Theatre Center, BAM (Fischer), Kennedy Center, Atlas Performing Arts, Berlind Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, La Mama ETC, Birmingham Repertory (UK), Culture Project, Pregones Theatre, Intar, HERE Arts Center, Soho Rep, Ohio Theatre, Irondale Center, ArtsEmerson, among many others.

Internationally her work has been seen in Caracas, Peru, Turkey, Scotland, Seoul, Bogota, Norway, and England. Her design work for “Crime and Punishment” was part of the Venezuelan delegation for the 2015 Prague Quadrennial.

She is an associate artist with The Civilians, a Core Member of Anonymous Ensemble, a resident designer with Pregones Theatre/PRTT and La Micro; she has also been a guest artist/lecturer at NYU, Princeton University, Hunter College and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.

MFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts

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Aysan has been a Civilian since 2002 when she performed in the premiere of Canard, Canard, Goose?. As a Civilian she has appeared in almost every version of Paris Commune (workshop productions at The Public, La Jolla Playhouse, Mazer Theater, readings at NYTW and The Public) and will be in the upcoming world premiere at ArtsEmerson and BAM’s Next Wave Festival. She also performed in This Beautiful City at The Studio Theater in DC, the cabaret series Let Me Ascertain You at Joe’s Pub, and the 10th anniversary concert performance of Canard, Canard, Goose?. Off Broadway highlights: The Black Eyed (New York Theater Workshop), Spinning the Times (1st Irish Festival/59E59), Pericles (Red Bull), Faust (Target Margin/Classic Stage), Turn of the Screw (Acting Company). Off Off Broadway favorites: Hater (Soho Think Tank/Ohio Theater), DR.C, Or How I Learned to Act in 8 Steps (Theater Mitu/3LD), Attempts on Her Life (Soho Rep), A Myth Cycle: Araihsak (Theater Mitu), Malvolio in an all-female Twelfth Night (Queen’s Company). Regional highlights: BOB (Humana Festival), Heather Raffo’s one-woman show 9 Parts of Desire (Actors Theater of Louisville), Antigone in Antigone (American Repertory Theater). Aysan made her feature film debut to critical acclaim opposite Danny Masterson in the award-winning indie comedy The Brooklyn Heist. She recently directed Matthew Francis (a contributor to Gone Missing) in a revival of his hit solo show The Gospel According to Matthew at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco.  Aysan is also a founding member of Theater Mitu and is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, and the ART Institute at Harvard.

Andromache Chalfant (Set Designer) is a set designer for theater and opera.

Theater: Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (A.R.T. upcoming), Christina Anderson’s Inked Baby (Playwrights Horizons upcoming), Jose Rivera’s School of the Americas (Henry Hewes Nomination for Set Design), Stephen Adly Guirgus’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (LAByrinth and The Public Theater), Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist (The Vineyard Theater), Rinne Groff’s Orange,Lemon,Egg,Canary, and The Civilians’ (I am) Nobody’s Lunch (PS122).

Regional: John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Globe upcoming), Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (Cleveland Playhouse), Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing! (Arena Stage), Morris Panych’s VIGIL (Westport Country Playhouse), and Craig Wright’s Lady (Asolo Repertory). Opera: Charles Gounod’s Faust (Minnesota Opera upcoming), Handel’s Semele (Opera Boston), Mozart’s The Abduction From the Seraglio (Opera Omaha), Dominick Argento’s Postcard From Morocco (The Curtis Institute) Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore (The Berkshire Opera Festival).

Andromache is an Associate Artist of The Civilians and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company. She has been a guest artist/lecturer at Sarah Lawrence and NYU. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Bennington College and a Masters in Scenic Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Off-Broadway: Log Cabin, Iow@ (Playwrights Horizons), Wild Goose Dreams, Teenage Dick (Public Studio), The Great Immensity (Public) , Middletown (Vineyard), SPEAK UP CONNIE (self-penned solo show directed by BD Wong, All For One Theater Festival @ Cherry Lane), The Seagull (NAATCO), The Sugar House At The Edge Of The Wilderness (Ma-Yi), Sides: The Fear Is Real…. (Ma-Yi/Miyagi). 

Film: Faraway Eyes, The Sunlit Night, A Kid Like Jake, The Meyerowitz Stories, Roxanne Roxanne, The Strange Ones, The Light of the Moon, Wolves, Mistress America, Obvious Child, Children of Invention, Lady In The Water, Robot Stories.  
 
TV:  Thirteen Reasons Why, New Amsterdam, High Maintenance, Dietland, Kevin Can Wait, The Good Fight, Bull, House of Cards, Madam Secretary, Elementary, The Affair, Homeland, Nurse Jackie, Blue Bloods, Bored To Death, White Collar, Fringe, Sex and the City, all 3 Law & Order’s.  
 
Charles Bowden Award. Member: Civilians (Associate Artist) E.S.T., Actors Center.  
 
MFA from A.C.T. Lives in Brooklyn with husband, novelist Ed Lin, and their son.

Jocelyn Clarke (Dramaturg): is a freelance dramaturg and writer. Currently a creative advisor on the ScreenWriting programme at the National Film School in Ireland – as well as on the artistic staff of the Sundance Theatre Lab -he was the Commissioning and Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre for four years, and lead theatre critic with The Sunday Tribune for nine years. He has taught dramaturgy and criticism at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College Dublin, at Dartington College of Arts, and at Columbia University.

He has written four adaptations for director Anne Bogart and the SITI Company – BOB adapted from interviews with director Robert Wilson, Alice’s Adventures UNDERGROUND from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures Underground, ROOM from the writings of Virginia Woolf, and SCORE, based on the writings of Leonard Bernstein. For the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company in Sligo, Ireland he has written adaptations of Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, and Through The Looking Glass; for The Ark, an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s THE DAY I SWAPPED MY DAD FOR TWO GOLDFISH; for Corcadorca Theatre, two site-specific adaptations of William Shakespeare’s THE MERCHANT OF VENICE and THE TEMPEST; and for the Abbey Theatre, THE LITTLE DEER, THE CRIMSON FLY, AND THE SWAN CHILDREN.

He is currently working on an adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s THE THIRD POLICEMAN for the Blue Raincoat Theatre Company, which will premiere in fall 2007, as well as on FINN for Mabou Mines, which will premiere in fall 2008.

This fall, Matt stars in the new Lionsgate comedy, Dirty 30. Other recent film credits include True Story, Safe, The Quitter, These Hopeless Savages, Casual Encounters, Proud Iza, the upcoming Fits And Starts from Laura Terruso and the new thriller, Ruin Me. TV credits include Blue Bloods, Codes Of Conduct, Person Of Interest, Do No Harm, CSI:NY, Onion SportsDome, and Law & Order. On stage in New York, Matt has appeared in A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm); Too Much Sun (Vineyard); The Tutors (Second Stage); Outside People (Vineyard); The Dream Of The Burning Boy (Roundabout); The Steadfast (Slant Theatre Project); In The Footprint (Civilians); underneathmybed (Rattlestick); Telephone (Foundry); Tender (Public); and Gone Missing (Barrow Street).

Broadway: In The Next Room, or The Vibrator Play.

Off-Broadway: The Drunken City, Eurydice, The Wooden Breeks, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Apparition, Alice the Magnet, Cause for Alarm, Gone Missing.

Regional: Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, Williamstown, Yale Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre, ASF, Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

TV: “Fringe,” “Smith,” “Law and Order,” Law and Order: CI.” Film: Rachel Getting Married, Kiddie Ride, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, A New York Thing.

Associate Artists with The Civilians. MFA, UCSD.

The Civilians: The Ladies, Paris Commune (Public Theatre). 

BROADWAY: Anastasia, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Nominations),Present Laughter (Tony Nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. 

WEST END: All New People. 

OFF-BROADWAY: Playwrights Horizons: Rapture Blister Burn; Second Stage: Lips Together Teeth Apart; Roundabout: The Understudy; Lincoln Center: Chaucer in Rome (Lortel Award). 

REGIONAL: Anastasia and Rear Window: Hartford Stage, Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame: La Jolla and Paper Mill Playhouses. 

TV: Julie’s Greenroom, with Julie Andrews for Netflix. 

OPERA: L.A.Opera: The Ghosts of Versailles; Berlin: Il Trittico; Minnesota Opera: Dinner at Eight; Würzburg: Der fliegende Holländer; Budapest: Lohengrin. 

TRAINING: Yale School of Drama.

Dan’s work with The Civilians: Another Word For Beauty (Goodman Theatre & NY Stage and Film); The Great Immensity (The Public, Kansas City Rep); Let Me Ascertain You (Joe’s Pub). 

Off-Broadway includes: Locusts Have No King (INTAR); Fidelis (The Public); The Jammer & The Cherry Orchard (Atlantic Theater Company); To The Bone (Cherry Lane Theatre); Night Sky (Baruch PAC); His Greatness (Soho Playhouse) and King Lear (LaMaMa). 

His regional theatre highlights include: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Hangar Theatre, Cape Playhouse & Weston Playhouse); The Goldilocks Zone (Passage Theatre Company); It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Long Wharf Theatre); The Real Thing (Studio Theatre); Julius Caesar & A Christmas Carol (Portland Stage Company); When the Sun Shone Brighter (Florida Stage); Amadeus & Othello (Pioneer Theatre Company); Wit & Human Events (George Street Playhouse); Sunrise at Monticello & Flying Crows (Playwrights Theatre of NJ). 

His film work includes the Warner Bros. feature Run All Night with Liam Neeson, the independent features In Stereo and Future ’38 and the award-winning short Suffer The Little Children based on a Stephen King story. 

On television, he’s recurred on The Blacklist and As The World Turns and appeared on Law and Order, Third Watch and Royal Pains. 

He holds an MFA from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at ART/Harvard and is an Associate Artist with The Civilians.

Thomas primarily works on the creation and development of new original works of art and performance. Thomas’ work has been shown worldwide, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

He also serves on the board of Salem Art Works, a not for profit committed to providing a supportive environment for artist to create work. He is very proud to be in his fifth year as an associated artist of the Civilians.

Other company credits include works with HUMAN FUTURE DANCE CORPS, TRAJAL HARREL DANCE STYLE and SENS PRODUCTIONS.

Theater Broadway: Roundabout Theatre: A Man for All Seasons;

Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: The Four of Us; Public Theater: As You Like It; Lincoln Center: Big Bill; Playwrights Horizons: Crazy Mary, Manic Flight Reaction; Vineyard Theatre: The Agony and the Agony; Second Stage: SubUrbia; McCarter Theatre: Me, Myself and I; Trinity Rep; Dublin Theatre Festival: Long Day's Journey into Night.

Film/Television All Good Things, Bittersweet Place, Loggerheads, A Beautiful Mind, Watching TV with the Red Chinese, "Bunker Hill," "Law and Order." Awards Actors' Equity Clarence Derwent Award; Irish Times Best Supporting Actor nomination.

Training: Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University

With The Civilians, Susannah appeared in Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Playwrights Horizons). Other favorite New York projects include Love and Information (New York Theater Workshop), Sylvia in Tribes (Barrow Street Theater); Phoebe in As You Like It (The Public/NYSF); Bird in Hand (Fulcrum Theater); Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb); Okay (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional credits include two seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (including Mayella Ewell in To Kill a Mockingbird and Ophelia in Hamlet); Travesties (McCarter Theater); A Civil War Christmas (world premiere, Long Wharf Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hartford Stage); Quilters (Denver Center Theatre Company); Our Town (Trinity Repertory Company – IRNE nomination for Best Actress); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in Santa Fe); boom (world premiere, Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre), among others. She's a graduate of UC Berkeley and Brown/Trinity (MFA).

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Off Broadway: Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb), Small Mouth Sounds (The Signature), 10 Out of 12 (SoHo Rep), Mr. Burns (Playwrights Horizons); A Man’s a Man (Classic Stage); Red-Handed Otter (Playwrights Realm); Luther (Clubbed Thumb), There Are No More Big Secrets by Heidi Schreck (Rattlestick);Telephone by Ariana Reines (Foundry, Cherry Lane); God’s Ear (Vineyard, New Georges); The Internationalist (The Vineyard, 13p); Heddatron (Les Freres Corbusier); Eat The Taste (Barrow Street) and the original production of Butt-Crack Bingo by Tom Murrin (AKA Jack Bump).  
Regionally: Changes of Heart (Mark Taper); Rough Crossing (w/ Tony Randall); Death of a Salesman (w/ Jack Klugman).   
LA: Founding member, Buffalo Nights (Garland Award, Drama-Logue Award).  
Film: Unsane; The Meyerowitz Stories; Sell By; Inez & Doug & Kira; Drunk Parents; Frances Ha; Illusion (w/ Kirk Douglas); Man of the Century (also co-writer/producer) 
Television: Dietland; The Knick; Madam Secretary; Blue Bloods; The Blacklist; Elementary; The Good Wife; and Law & Order Trilogy.  
 
Associate Artist: The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb. 

As a filmmaker, Gibson co-wrote, produced, and starred in the indie cult hit Man of the Century, (winner of the Excellence in Independent Filmmaking by National Board of Review). 

He was an invited participant to Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School. He will soon be directing a neo-noir thriller called Kill Me All You Want.

Donnetta Lavinia Grays – raised in Columbia, South Carolina - is a Brooklyn based actor and playwright. 

Acting credits: Broadway: In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play and Well. 

Notable NY performance credits: O, Earth (The Foundry Theatre) Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb), Shipwrecked! (Primary Stages),

In The Footprint and Be The Death Of Me with The Civilians as an Associate Artist. 

Regionally she is a 2-time Connecticut Critics Circle Award recipient and Helen Hayes Award nominee. 

Regional credits: American Conservatory Theater, Portland Stage Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Arena Stage, Hartford Theaterworks, Centerstage, The Huntington Theatre, Barrington Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and The Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. 

Film/TV credits include Book of Henry, Wild Canaries, Tje English Teacher, The Wrestler, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, all Law & Order, The Sopranos and A Gifted Man with recurring rolls on Law and Order: SVU, Mercy and Rubicon. 

Plays include Last Night and the Night Before (2015 National New Play Network New Play Showcase. 2015 Todd McNerney National Playwriting Contest Winner. 2014 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist), The Review of How to Eat Your Opposition (2013 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist) The New Normal, The Cowboy Is Dying and The B Factor. And the short story Peaches With King.

She is a member of the Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit, is a Civilians R&D Group and terraNova Collective Groundbreakers Playwright group alum and is the inaugural recipient of the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. Her work has been either produced, developed or read by The Labyrinth Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Portland Stage Company, Pure Theatre Company, [the claque], Naked Angels, Classical Theater of Harlem, Slant Theater Project, terraNova Collective, TOSOS, and Coyote REP. Proud member of The Actors Center Workshop Company, SAG-AFTRA, AEA and The Dramatist Guild of America. www.donnettagrays.com

Rebecca Hart is an actor and singer/songwriter based in NYC. Current/upcoming projects include The Civilians’ The Great Immensity at the Public Theater, and the hip hop theatre piece How to Break (as actor and songwriter) at the Spkrbox Festival in Oslo, Norway. Film: Young Adult (Paramount), Wendell & the Lemon (Imperfect Films). NY Stage: Uncle Vanya (Target Margin/HERE), Son of a Gun (Beckett/Theatre Row), Dead City (New Georges), Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb), Love Sucks (NYMF) and the original rock musical STRUCK (co-written with Bob Saietta) at the 2011 Ice Factory Festival (New Ohio). Regional credits include the premiere of The Great Immensity at Kansas City Rep, the 35th and 37th Humana Festivals at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the 2010 O'Neill Playwrights Conference, and the 2011 O'Neill Music Theatre Conference. She is an alum of Brown University's Theatre department, the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab, and the Maggie Flanigan Studio's two year training program. She ‘plays out’ regularly in collaboration with the folk band The New Students, and co-writes a food blog (A Mouse Bouche: the Hart Sisters Eat Life) with her sister Megan. www.rebeccahart.net

Off-Broadway: The Bald Soprano (Pearl Theatre Company), Dada Woof Papa Hot (Atlantic Theater Company), This Beautiful City (Vineyard Theatre/The Civilians), The Thugs (Soho Rep), (I am) Nobody’s Lunch (The Civilians), Man Is Man (Prospect Theater Company), Paris Commune (The Civilians). Regional: This Beautiful City (Humana Festival/Center Theatre Group/Studio Theatre), The Sweetest Swing In Baseball (Denver Center Theatre Company), 36 Views (Huntington Theatre), Hay Fever (Baltimore Centerstage), Serious Money (Yale Rep), In The Next Room or the vibrator play and The Pitmen Painters (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical), Frost/Nixon (Arkansas Rep), I Am My Own Wife and David Copperfield (Weston Playhouse), A Thousand Clowns (Two River), Amadeus (Syracuse Stage/Virginia Stage/Geva Theatre). Television: “Unforgettable.” Brad is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Richard Rogers Theatre.
Off-Broadway: Aftermath, New York Theatre Workshop (Drama League nomination, ensemble); Masked, DR2; (I am) Nobody's Lunch, P.S. 122 and 59E59 Theatres. Regional: Denver Center Theatre Company; Seattle Repertory Theatre; The Shakespeare Theatre, DC; and The La Jolla Playhouse. 
Film & TV credits: upcoming - Safe, starring Jason
Statham, Sex and the City 2, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Syriana,
Habibi, "Guiding Light," "Tough Crowd" with Colin Quinn, "We are New
York", "Law and Order": Enemy, and Rapture.
Usual Suspect - New York Theatre Workshop.
MFA: University of California, San Diego

Recent Theatre: Amanda in Private Lives at The White Heron Theatre in Nantucket. Other theatre includes: Off Broadway: PERICLES (Theatre For A New Audience, Trevor Nunn Director);10 Out Of 12 (Soho Rep);GREAT LAKES (New Georges & Women’s Project); PARIS COMMUNE (BAM-Civilians); ); THE INTERNATIONALIST (Vineyard –Lortel Nomination); TROUBLE IN PARADISE (Hourglass – Obie Award) Regional: Huntington, South Coast Rep, Geva.
Film/TV: SEARCH PARTY(tbs),WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (Original Film & Netflix, series regular),NURSE JACKIE (recurring), ROLE MODELS, DAMAGES, VENTURE BROTHERS, L&O:CI. Nina lives in Brooklyn NY with her husband, and their 2 children.

CIVILIANS:  Paris Commune, In the Footprint, Be the Death of Me, The Great Immensity, Let Me Ascertain You. BROADWAY:  Oslo, Golden Boy, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliot, Big (Josh - Drama Desk nomination), Wrong Mountain, Angels in America, and Big River (Huck) in 1985 (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Deaf West revival in 2003 (Mark Twain - Tony Honor).  OFF-BROADWAY: To Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, Kid Victory, Oslo, Travels With My Aunt, Sex Lives of Our Parents, Benefactors, Love Child (written and performed with Robert Stanton), Bye Bye Birdie and The Pajama Game (Encores!), Spinning into Butter, Dream True, The Maiden’s Prayer, Triumph of Love, Johnny Pye, Five Visits from Mr. Whitcomb, Feast Here Tonight (composer/performer). REGIONAL:  Borrowed Cash (Written and performed with Melissa van der Schyff), and The Blue Flower at ART, Merrily We Roll Along at Cincinnati Playhouse, title roles in The Education of Randy Newman, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Lee Blessing’s Fortinbras.  Two years with Actor’s Theatre of Louisville; 5 years at the Sundance Playwright’s lab; Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference.  FILM: Upcoming, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.  For Robert Altman, O.C. in O.C. and Stiggs, Willie in The Caine Mutiny Court Marshall and Stringer in Tanner ’88.  Also, Joshua, The Perfect You, Infested, Cradle Will Rock, Five Corners, Glory, In Country, Florida Straits, What Comes Around.  TELEVISION: The Blacklist, Orange is the New Black, Elementary, Veep, Blue Bloods, Law and Order(s), Cracker and Alex in Going to Extremes.

With the Civilians: This Beautiful City (the Vineyard Theatre), Pretty Filthy (workshops). 

Broadway: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Idiot, and Passing Strange. 

Off-Broadway: Murder Ballad (Lilly Award, Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Big Love (Drama League Award nomination); The Fortress of Solitude; and Love’s Labour’s Lost (both composed by Michael Friedman). 

Williamstown: Cost of Living. 

Films: The Big Sick (prod. Judd Apatow), Ratter, Geezer, Passing Strange (dir. Spike Lee), and Broadway Idiot. 

Recent TV: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, Inside Amy Schumer, Limitless, Difficult People, and Blue Bloods. 

BFA in Drama from the University of North Carolina: School of the Arts.

New York: The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Hundred Days (NYTW, Under the Radar Festival/The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, The Know Theater), Mary Jane (Lortel for Direction, NYTW & Yale Rep), Marvin’s Room (Roundabout Theatre Company), Assassins (Encores! Off-Center), Sundown, Yellow Moon (Women’s Project/Ars Nova), A Life (Lortel nomination, Drama League Nomination), Marjorie Prime (Lortel Nomination, Drama League Nomination); Detroit, Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra and Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons); The Nether, Smokefall (MCC); Buzzer (The Public); Belleville (Lortel Nomination, NYTW, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf); You Got Older (Drama Desk Nomination, P73 Productions); The Muscles in Our Toes (Labyrinth Theater Company); Somewhere Fun, God’s Ear (New Georges and Vineyard Theater); Stunning, Slowgirl (LCT3). Regional: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Smokefall (Goodman Theatre); And No More Shall We Part, You Better Sit Down: Tales from My  Parents’ Divorce, Six Degrees of Separation (Williamstown Theater Festival). She is the Artistic Director of Encores! Off Center, Resident Director at Roundabout Theater, a Sundance Program Associate, Clubbed Thumb Associate Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, New Georges Associate Artist, Artistic Council of Soho Rep, and SDC Executive Board Member. Kauffman’s awards include three Obie Awards, including one for Sustained Excellence, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, two Barrymore Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award, and a Lilly Award.

With The Civilians: Brooklyn at Eye Level, Paris Commune, In the Footprint, The Great Immensity. New York: Cheri (Signature Theater), The Designated Mourner (The Public/Tfana), In Darfur, (The Public), The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The School for Lies, The Forest (CSC), Belleville, The Black Eyed (NYTW), We are Proud...., Orange, Hat & Grace (Soho Rep), Orpheus X (Tfana), Garden of Earthly Delights (2 Step), Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick), Angel Reapers (The Joyce Theater), Don Juan in Prague (BAM) Regional: As You Like It (Two River Theater Company), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare on the Sound), Wild Swans (American Repertory Theater/ The Young Vic), Quixote (Stillpoint Productions), Carmen (Madison Opera), I Just Stopped By to See the Man, God’s Man in Texas (Geffen Playhouse), Oedipus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Dispute, The Sound of a Voice (American Repertory Theater), Moscow: Cherry Tree Towers, The Tenderland, Offenbach!!! (Bard Summerscape), The Tales of Hoffman (New Orleans Opera).

Alix Lambert's feature length documentary The Mark of Cain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, received an honorable mention from the French Association of Journalism, and aired on Nightline. She went on to produce additional segments of Nightline as well as 7 segments for the PBS series LIFE 360. She has directed and produced two other feature length documentaries; Bayou Blue (made in collaboration with David McMahon) and Mentor. She is currently directing the feature length documentary, Goodbye, Fat Larry. She has directed numerous shorts and music videos including You As You Were for the band Shearwater (Sub Pop) and Tiffany (POV). Lambert has written for a number of magazines including Stop Smiling, ArtForum, The LA Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine, to name a few. She wrote Episode 6, season 3 of Deadwood: “A Rich Find” (for which she was nominated for a WGA award) and was a staff writer and associate producer on John From Cinicinnati. She was a writer on the video game Syndicate. As an artist Lambert has exhibited her work to international critical acclaim, showing in The Venice Biennale, The Museum of Modern Art, The Georges Pompidou Center, and the Kwangju Biennnale, to name a few. She is the author of four books: Mastering The Melon, The Silencing, Russian Prison Tattoos, and Crime. For theater, she has written and directed Crime, USA, which has been staged at Joe’s Pub in NYC, and the Cairns Festival in Australia and Crime, USA, Hartford, which was staged at Real Art Ways. Lambert co-founded and is co-artistic director of The Brooklyn International Theater Company (with Nelson George and Danny Simmons). She has conceived of and directed two original series for MOCAtv; Crime: The Animated Series and Ambiance Man. Additionally she conceived of and directed the forthcoming Prison Zoo. She produced a segment for This American Life, and is in production on a segment for the podcast series: Theory of Everything. She has received grants from the NEA, NYFA and The Roberts Foundation. Lambert has received residencies and/or fellowships from: The MacDowell Colony, Headlands, The Studios of Key West, The McColl Center, The MIT Media Lab in Cambridge and was The Booth Tarkington Writer in Residence at Butler University for the 2014-15 school year. Hello Fat Larry, won the 2015 POV Hackathon Judges’ Award.

Jo Lampert (lead vox) is a BK-based performer, producer, and DJ. She recently toured the world with the band tUnE-yArDs. 

Selected NYC credits: "Jo Lampert in the Lounge" (a solo cabaret) (Ars Nova); "Rimbaud in NY" (BAM); "New York Animals" (Bedlam); "Iphigenia in Aulis" (CSC); "Good Year for Hunters" (New Ohio); "Dance, Dance Revolution" (Dir. Alex Timbers). 

Regional credits include: "The LaMaMa Cantata" (Tokyo); "The Bengsons' Hundred Days" (Know Theatre, Z Space); "Marie Antoinette" (A.R.T., Yale Rep); "Prometheus Bound" (A.R.T.); "The Last Goodbye" (Williamstown). 

Civilians Associate Artist; BFA, NYU Tisch.

Broadway: Tony and Drama Desk nominations “Best Book for a Musical” for Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Also Broadway Dangerous Games and Off-Broadway Tango Apaisionado (both w/ Graciela Daniele). Opera/Dance: Librettos for Ballet Hispanico’s Nightclub, Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terribles, Paul Dresher’s The Tyrant and Bill T. Jones’ Chapel/Chapter.

Translations: Ionesco’s The Chairs, and Ibsen’s Lady From The Sea.

Production Dramaturg: PastFORWARD w/ Mikhail Baryshnikov, House Arrest w/ Anna Deavere Smith, Lincoln Center’s Woza Afrika Festival, Granville Barker’s Waste and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline (both w/ Bartlett Sher), and Bill T. Jones’ Still/Here (BAM 2003).

Program Director: produced opening season of The American Center in Paris.

Resident Dramaturg: The Guthrie, Second Stage, and INTAR.

Currently: Fela!, a new musical w/ Bill T. Jones which moves to Broadway in 2009.

Mimi Lien (set designer) is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera based in Brooklyn, NY.  Having arrived at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer.  She is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company and the Civilians, and resident designer at BalletTech. 
Recent work includes Elephant Room (Rainpan 43), All Hands (Hoi Polloi), Body Awareness (Wilma Theater), Die Liebe der Danae (Bard Summerscape), Hansel und Gretel (Virginia Opera), Born Bad (Soho Rep), and a building-wide installation for the inaugural Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in Spring 2011.  Her work has been seen in New York at St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Kitchen, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, the Public Theater, Soho Rep, 13P, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, and around the country at Berkeley Rep, A.R.T., Wilma Theater, Longwharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Kansas City Rep, and Playmakers Rep, among others.  Mimi’s designs for dance have been presented in the Netherlands and Russia, and she was a semifinalist in the Ring Award competition for opera design in Graz, Austria.
Her work has also been recognized by an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence, a Barrymore Award (Outrage), four Barrymore nominations, American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award nomination (Queens Boulevard), Bay Area Critics Circle nomination (Strange Devices from the Distant West).  She was a recipient of the 2007-2009 NEA/TCG Career Development Program, and is a 2012 MacDowell Colony fellow.  Her design for Love Unpunished (Pig Iron) was exhibited in the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and her sculptures were featured in the exhibition, LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.

The Civilians: Pretty Filthy (Abrons Arts Center); Times Square (Joe’s Pub); Marie in Tomorrowland (R&D Group); Let Me Ascertain You (Barrow Street and The Met)
Broadway: Disaster, Mamma Mia!. 

Off Broadway: A New Brain (City Center Encores Off Center/Cast Recording PS Classics); NYMF’S Academia Nuts (The Signature NY); Camp Wanatachi (LaMaMa ETC); Shaina Taub’s The Daughters (CAP21); Theatreworks USA’s The Civil War (Lucille Lortel). Regional Faves: Amélie (Berkeley Rep); The Rocky Horror Show (Bucks County Playhouse); NERDS (Phila. Theatre Co.); Spring Awakening (Olney Theatre Center); Pop! Who Shot Andy Warhol? (City Theatre PA).

Mr. Lyford is a Philadelphia based actor, director and creator. He has spent much of the past fifteen years co-creating, producing and performing with theater artist Geoff Sobelle as the duo rainpan 43. Following a world tour of their first piece all wear bowlers (2005 Drama Desk Nomination, Innovative Theatre Award and originally produced by 1812 Productions), r43 followed up performing at the surgical amphitheater at Pennsylvania Hospital with Amnesia Curiosa (2006) and the OBIE award-winning kinetic junk sculpture play machines, machines, machines, machines, machines, machines machines. He continues to work with Mr. Sobelle (and magician Steve Cuiffo) on their absurdist magic trio Elephant Room. In addition to his work with rainpan 43, Mr.Lyford develops and produces works as an individual artist. His new work The Accountant is supported by the PEW Center for Arts and Heritage and premiered at the Philadelphia FringeArts Festival this fall. He is an Associate Artist with the The Civilians (Gone Missing, Paris Commune, Nobody’s Lunch, The Great Immensity) and has created original pieces with various companies both domestically and abroad. Mr. Lyford’s work has received support from the PEW Center for Arts and Heritage, Princeton Atelier, the Princess Grace Foundation, Creative Capital, NYSCA and the New England Foundation for the Arts. Trey has taught workshops in England, Italy and the U.S. as well as courses at UCSD and Princeton. He has been a faculty member of both the SUNY Purchase Conservatory and Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training. MFA: UCSD. For more info visit: www.treylyford.com.

With the Civilians, he co-created and performed in You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents divorce, as well as helped develop Mr. Burns, Pretty Filthy, Nobody's Lunch and Shadow Of Himself, and performed in the tour of Gone Missing.   Other New York credits include Uncle Vanya,  Orange, Hat and Grace, Molly’s Dream and Lear at Soho Rep, Richard III at The Public, Coriolanus with Theater For A New Audience, The World Over at Playwrights Horizons, Have You Seen Steve Steven? with 13P,Hello Failure at PS122, The Small and One Hundred Aspects Of The Moon with Clubbed Thumb, and many others. 
He received an OBIE Award for the Foundry Theater production of The Race of the Ark Tattoo. Regional credits include A Doll's House at Williamstown, 1+1 at New York Stage and Film, The Pillowman at Berkeley Rep, The Communist Dracula Pageant at the American Repertory Theater, A Seagull In The Hamptons at the McCarter Theater Center, and others. Film: It’s Kind Of A Funny Story, The Killer Inside Me, Gone Baby Gone, Jersey Girl, Dogma, Bringing Out The Dead, Vulgar, The Third Wheel, Homecoming,and Downeast. TV: recurring roles on “The Unusuals” (ABC) and “John From Cincinnati” (HBO), as well as guest appearances on “Bored To Death:, “The Jury”, “Deadline”, and all three “Law and Order” shows.

Jordan is an actor and director living in Brooklyn. Most recently he directed The Colored Museum at Columbia University and spent 2011 as the Associate Director to Bill T Jones for his upcoming Broadway production of Superfly. 2011-2012 was also a great time with The Civilians as he worked on two Occupy Wall Street pieces that the company performed at Joe's Pub in NYC, then he traveled to Philly to be a part of The Civilians' awesome show IN THE FOOTPRINT. Jordan also spends a lot of his time volunteering a The 52nd Street Project in Hell's Kitchen where he works with the Teen Ensemble. As an actor: Lynn Nottage's By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (2nd Stage), the acclaimed The Play About My Dad (59E59), Katori Hall's Mountaintop as Martin Luther King, Jr., Tarell McCraney's The Brothers Size (The Public/McCarter), Bradshaw's The Bereaved (Wild Project), Guirgis' Jesus Hopped the A Train (59E59) and Larry Kunofsky's Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary (St.Marks Under)Feature Films: LIFE with Eddie Murphy, Disney's Max Keeble's Big Move. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Nidra Sous La Terre holds an MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School and is also on faculty at Pace University's Film and Television program. She is currently in the Broadway production of Tony Award-winning musical, Book of Mormon. Broadway: Marvin's Room (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off-Broadway: The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW), A Life (Playwrights Horizons), Lost Lake (MTC), Mr. Burns (The Civilians at Playwrights Horizons), Lost Lake (Manhattan Theatre Club), Headstrong (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Good People (The Old Globe), and Fairfield (Cleveland Play House). TV: "Orange is The New Black," "Instinct," "Random Acts of Flyness," "Elementary," "Bull," "Jessica Jones," "Blue Bloods," “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” "30 Rock". IG: @nidrasouslaterre website: https://www.nidrasouslaterre.com

Kelly was last seen with The Civilians performing as The Anal Queen in Let Me Ascertain You at Joe's Pub. Broadway: Passing Strange. Other New York: Perfect Harmony (Theater Row), Precious Little (Clubbed Thumb @ the Ohio Theater), The Curious Case of Shiloh and Zahara (Midtown International Theater Festival, Best Actress Nom.), Serenade (Jaradoa Theater), Couchworks and The Obstruction Plays (Slant Theater). Regional stops include the recent Follow Me To Nellie's at Premiere Stages, Williamstown Theater Festival, Sundance Theater Lab, The Kennedy Center, The Bermuda Festival of the Arts, Centerstage, Stoneham Theater, Merrimack Rep., and Arden Rep. Film/TV: Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, "I Just Want My Pants Back," "Rubicon," "White Collar," "The Electric Company," "Cyberchase." Alumna of Barnard College.

Broadway: Act One; The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Off-Broadway: Timon of Athens (Public); In the Footprint (The Civilians); Roadkill Confidential (Clubbed Thumb); Nikolai and the Others; When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center), Hamlet (NYSF); The Voysey Inheritance (Atlantic); Badge (Rattlestick); The Sea, The Late Christopher Bean, and the world premiere of Noel Coward's Long Island Sound (TACT); Three Cornered Moon (Keen Company); A Tale of Two Cities (Culture Project); Misalliance, School for Scandal, Richard II (The Pearl); The Last Episode (NY Fringe). Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse; St. Louis Rep; Shakespeare Theatre; George Street Playhouse; Humana Festival; Shakespeare on the Sound; Virginia Stage; Kennedy Center. Television: Blindspot; Mozart in the Jungle; Forever; Cupid; Dirty Sexy Money; Law and Order; Law and Order Criminal Intent; Conviction; Guiding Light; One Life to Live. Film: A Walk Among the Tombstones; Synecdoche, New York; Solitary Man; Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You.
Video Games: Grand Theft Auto V; Red Dead Redemption 2.
Education: Juilliard.

Caitlin Miller (actor/co-writer) is an Associate Artist of The Civilians.

Civilians: I Am Nobody's Lunch (59E59; Edinburgh Fringe; Soho Theatre, London); Gone Missing (Tour); Canard,Canard,Goose (Joe's Pub). NY: The Right Way To Sue (New George's); Marge (SoHo Rep); Debbie Does Dallas (Jane St.).

Regional: Hay Fever (NJ Shakes.); Humana Festivals (ATL). TV: Late Night with Conan O'Brien; My Sexiest Mistake.

Improv: Ms Jackson (ECNY winners - Best Improv Group). Caitlin and Jennifer Morris are co-founders of Giant Telephone, a digital media production company who have produced work for ABC/Disney and Fremantle Media.

Caitlin’s solo show about Sacagawea, Way To Go! dir. by Anne Kauffman, was developed at the Orchard Project and performed at the Ignite & Barrow St. Fortnight festivals.

Jennifer is a writer/producer/actor. She is currently working on Buzzer a series of fictional shorts with writer Tracey Scott Wilson and director Anne Kauffman. Buzzer explores the myth of a post-racial American society through the lens of gentrification. Jennifer produced the feature length documentary, Mentor, directed by Alix Lambert. Mentor was an official selection at the 2014 Austin Film Festival and won honorable mention for best doc at the 2014 Woodstock Film Festival. She also produced the shorts Tiffany (PBS) and The Unknown Seven (Official selection 2014 Nantucket Film Festival). Her pilot Art House (which she co-wrote with Robbie Sublett) was chosen for the 2016 BLACKLIST TV Staff Writing book. 

Jennifer is a founding associate artist of the OBIE award-winning theatre company, The Civilians. With The Civilians she has worked on Mr. Burns, I Am Nobody's Lunch, Gone Missing, The Ladies, Canard, Canard, Goose. and You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents’ divorce. You Better Sit Down (of which she co-wrote and conceived) was an interactive theatre piece that had digital partnerships with WNYC and the Huffington Post. Jennifer wrote and hosted shows on TV Food Network and WE and has created digital projects for ABC/Disney, Fremantle Media, and FMX. 

As an actress, Jennifer has worked at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, P.S. 122, Cherry Lane, Barrow Street, Williamstown, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and ART, among others. She has appeared on the NBC shows ER, Profiler, and Law & Order and in numerous national commercials. 

She received her MFA from UCSD. She currently teaches at NYU.

Broadway- Good People: MTC; New York Theatre - The End and The Beginning: Civilians; Be The Death of Me: Civilians; 10 out of 12: Soho Rep; Goldor $ Mythika: New Georges; The Germ Project: New Georges; Apparition: Connelly Theater; Goldstar, Ohio: Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab, Spin Moves: SPF '04, The Seagull: Blue Heron Theater; Regional- Baltimore Centerstage; Yale Rep; Arena; Two River Theatre Co.; Geva; La Jolla Playhouse; Dorset Theatre Festival; Film/TV- The Laramie Project (HBO); The Path (Hulu); Happyish (Showtime); Law & Order (NBC); After You Left (Sundance Film Festival 2011); Goldstar Ohio (Cleveland International Film Festival); Sad Sack Sally (Half Moon Films); Adults (Silent Dog Pictures); My America (Possible Films).

Originally from the Bronx, NY, and dedicated to developing new plays and musicals, the majority of Maria-Christina’s work has been in world premieres.  She has done countless workshops and readings with the Lark, Sundance, EST, Primary Stages, New Dramatists, Ma-Yi, INTAR, NYTW, the Working Theatre, 52nd Street Project, Clubbed Thumb, Women’s Project, the Public, Red Bull, New Georges, Playwrights’ Realm, MCC, MTC, and Page 73, among others.  She is a member of the Actors’ Center Workshop Company, Partial Comfort, serves on the Advisory Committee of Bingham Theatre Camp, and is the recipient of the 2014 Charles Bowden Actor Award from New Dramatists.  She has also served on faculty and is a frequent guest speaker at Yale University, Fordham University-Lincoln Center, NYU, Stella Adler Conservatory, Primary Stages, UC Boulder, University of Iowa, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, & Denver Center Theatre Academy.

Broadway: Machinal and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.                                                                  
Off-Broadway: Pretty Filthy* (The Civilians); Here Lies Love* (The Public Theater-album Nonesuch Records); Romeo and Juliet (The Public Theater); Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson* (The Public Theater); The Really Big Once* (Target Margin); After (Partial Comfort); And Miles to Go* (Partial Comfort); Reading Under the Influence* (DR2); Night Sky (Baruch); Slavey* (Clubbed Thumb); Zorba (City Center Encores).

Janice is a New Jersey-based dramaturg and writer and a Senior Program Associate for the Sundance Institute Theatre Program. She also maintains an active freelance career as a dramaturg and consultant in the support of new work in theatre, dance and opera. She has worked closely with numerous writers and artists, including Annie Baker, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Beth Henley, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Emily Mann, Dael Orlandersmith, Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson, Polly Pen, Regina Taylor, Mfoniso Udofia, Stephen Wadsworth, Tracey Scott Wilson and Doug Wright. She is the recipient of a Bly Creative Capacity Fellowship for her work on Memory Rings, a multi-media theatrical installation created by Phantom Limb Company (BAM 2016 Next Wave Festival). Current and recent projects include dramaturgy for the New York Choreographic Institute, Phantom Limb’s Falling Out (OZ Arts Nashville, BAM 2018) and The Last Dream of Frida and Diego (Fort Worth Opera Festival 2021). She is a Civilians Associate Artist, and she spent 14 seasons as the Director of Play Development at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton NJ. She has taught at Princeton University, Drew University, and NYU, and she holds M.F.A. degrees from Catholic University and the Yale School of Drama.

November 2018

Sam Pinkleton is a New York City-based director and choreographer. With The Civilians he choreographed Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Playwrights Horizons); Pretty Filthy (Abrons); and Rimbaud in New York (BAM). He was Associate Artistic Director to Michael Friedman at City Center Encores Off-Center, where he directed Elizabeth Swados’ Runaways, which later appeared at The Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park. On Broadway, his work as a choreographer includes Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award, as well as Amélie, Machinal, Significant Other, and Heisenberg. Opera includes Trouble in Tahiti (Dutch National Opera); Salome (Opera Cologne); and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Opera National Montpellier). Other theatre work includes Soft Power (CTG, Curran), Burn All Night (American Repertory Theatre), Kansas City Choir Boy (with Courtney Love - CTG, ART, Art Basel); Marie Antoinette (Soho Rep); Stage Kiss and Fly By Night (Playwrights Horizons); and work with Arena Stage, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Kansas City Rep, Roundabout, MTC, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatreworks USA; The TEAM, Rattlestick, Barrow Street, and Theatre for A New Audience. Sam is a frequent collaborator with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Witness Relocation, and The Dance Cartel. He is a graduate of NYU/Tisch.

Broadway: War Horse (Vivian Beaumont). 

Off-Broadway: Dada Woof Papa Hot (Mitzi Newhouse), Snow Orchid (Lion Theater), London Wall (Mint Theater), Now Circa Then (Ars Nova), On The Levee (The Duke), The Orphans' Home Cycle Parts I, II and III (Signature Theater), This Beautiful City (Vineyard Theater), Gone Missing (Barrow Street Theater), The Horton Foote Project (78th Street Theater Lab). 

Film: The Mend, Eugenia and John, Vera, Sina Forma, Half Brother, Care, Rolling on the Floor Laughing.

TV: The Blacklist, Fosse/Verdon, Murphy Brown, Rise, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, Elementary, Mercy, Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

BFA, University of Evansville. MFA, NYU Graduate Acting.

Broadway: Rachel Jackson in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. National Tour: Warhorse. Off-Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public), Somewhere Fun (Vineyard Theatre), The Thugs (Soho Rep), Living Out (Second Stage), Princess Turandot (McGinn/Cazale), Zibaldone (H.E.R.E.), The Skin of Our Teeth (NYSF/The Public). Regional: American Repertory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Guthrie Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Missouri Rep, Geva Theatre. Film: St. Vincent de Van Nuys, Happythankyoumoreplease, The Women, Assassination of a High School President, Personal Velocity. Television: “Person of Interest”, “Unforgettable”, “Army Wives”, “Damages”, “Law & Order”, “Return of Jezebel James”, “The Sopranos”, “Third Watch”, “Guiding Light”. Fox Foundation Fellow. Civilians Associate Artist. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program.

Broadway: Originated the roles of Sir Bedevere, et. al. in Monty Python's Spamalot, Harlan Honn in The Farnsworth Invention and Benny Southstreet in the 2009 revival of Guys and Dolls.

Selected Theatre: Pretty Filthy (The Civilians); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (World Premiere, Woolly Mammoth, DC); CQ/CX (Atlantic Theatre Company) Peter & the Starcatcher (New York Theatre Workshop); The Other Josh Cohen (Soho Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse); Lend Me a Tenor (Bay Street); Company (Bucks County Playhouse); Young Frankenstein (St. Louis MUNY).
He co-wrote the book music and lyrics of the musical The Other Josh Cohen and co-created the improv/variety benefit Don't Quit Your Night Job.
Awards: For his work in the theater, he has been nominated for 5 Drama Desk Awards, 2 Lucille Lortel Awards and an Off-Broadway Alliance Award. He lost them all.
Selected Film and T.V. : Cafe Society (dir. Woody Allen); The Humbling (dir. Barry Levenson); Storytelling (dir. Todd Solondz); Law and Order: SVU; Elementary; Nurse Jackie; Psych; The Good Wife; Person of Interest; Kings.
Education: NYU', Tisch School of the Arts.

ARTIST BIO
Mia Rovegno is a Brooklyn-based director, playwright and puppeteer. She has directed/developed new work for Playwrights Horizons, The New Group, Soho Rep, Women’s Project, NYTW, St. Anne’s Warehouse, Berkeley Rep, The Civilians, INTAR, The O’Neill, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, NYSAF/Powerhouse, The Lark, Playwrights Realm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Labyrinth, Bushwick Starr, JACK, TerraNOVA, Woodshed Collective, New Dramatists, Rising Phoenix, EST, Partial Comfort, The Amoralists, Dixon Place, A.R.T., Prelude and others. Her plays have been developed by The Civilians, P73, New Georges, Culture Project, Perishable and foolsFURY. Recipient: Drama League Film/Television Directing Fellowship (CBS’s Madam Secretary), MacDowell Colony Fellowship, New Georges Audrey Residency, P73 Yale Summer Residency, SDC Observership, Jonathan Alper Fellowship (MTC); Finalist: Drama League Beatrice Terry writer/director residency. Alum: Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Civilians R & D Group (3 years), Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, New Georges Jam, Women’s Project Directors Lab. New Georges Affiliated Artist; Partial Comfort Company Member; 2009 Drama League Fellow. University teaching: Brown, Hunter, The New School, Fordham, LIU, NYU/Tisch’s Atlantic Acting School, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, 2016 Playwright in Residence: Rutgers MFA Playwriting Program; Adjunct professor: NYU Tisch’s Production & Design Studio. BS: Northwestern; MFA: Brown. Recent: Associate Director for Tooting Arts’ Sweeney Todd (Barrow Street Theatre). Upcoming: Miami Motel Stories (Juggerknot), a site-specific, immersive, interview-based performance reflecting on the undercurrent of histories in an iconic Miami motel slotted for imminent construction and development. Mia’s production of The Way They Live (The Civilians) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art was featured in The New Yorker’s Favorite Cultural Moments of 2015. www.miarovegno.com

KJ Sanchez is founder/CEO of American Records, a theater company devoted to chronicling our time (www.amrec.us). As a playwright, she has been produced (select lists) at Asolo Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Two River Theater, Baltimore’s CENTERSTAGE, Round House Theater, Working Classroom, Cornerstone and Off-Broadway at Urban Stages. She has directed plays by Dan Dietz, Kyle Schmidt, Heather Raffo, Jose Rivera, Quiara Hudes, and Kristoffer Diaz. As an actress she has been on stages at The Humana Festival, The Goodman, Berkely Rep, Long Warf, New York Theater Workshop and BAM. She is the voice of many characters in the cartoons Dora the Explorer and Go Diego Go. As the producer, director and co-author (with Emily Ackerman) of ReEntry, a play based on interviews with Marines returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, KJ produced its international tour and contracted with the Department of Defense, taking the play to service members at over thirty military bases and hospitals throughout the US and Internationally. KJ is a former member of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company and has taught extensively. She is a Civilians Associate Artist, a Fox Fellow, Douglas Wollop Fellow, Albert Award Nominee, an NEA CDP recipient and a TCG Doris Duke/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Generations Future Leaders Recipient.

Selected NY credits include: Gloria (Vineyard-Drama Desk nomination, Lucille Lortel nomination-featured actress), Verite (LCT3); Dying For It (Atlantic); The Muscles in Our Toes (Labrynth Theater); The Jammer (Atlantic); Paris Commune (B.A.M); The Maids (Red Bull Theater); Maple and Vine (Playwrights Horizons); Stunning (LCT3); The Glass Cage (Mint Theater); The Misanthrope (New York Theater Workshop, Drama League nomination), The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop, Drama League nomination); Hold Please (Working Theater, Drama Desk Nomination-Featured Actress); Phoebe in Winter, Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb). 

Selected Regional credits include: Uncle Vanya (Weston Playhouse); These Paper Bullets (Yale Rep, Connecticut Critics Circle Nomination-Outstanding Actress in a play); Tartuffe (Westport Country Playhouse, Connecticut Critics Circle Award-Featured Actress). 

Film&TV: Hot Summer Nights, Inside Llewyn Davis, The Abolitionists, No Pay-Nudity, Two Lovers, Across the Universe, Sex and the City, Person of Interest, The Good Wife. 

MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Broadway: The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino, Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia trilogy, and King Lear with Christopher Plummer. 

National Tour: Frost/Nixon with Stacey Keach. 

Off-Broadway: The Iceman Cometh with Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy at BAM, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay about the Death of Walt Disney at Soho Rep, Man and Superman at The Irish Repertory Theatre, Smudge for the Women's Project, Amazons and Their Men with Clubbed Thumb, The Hasty Heart with Keen Company, and Landscape of the Body at Signature Theatre Company. 

 Regional: Prelude to a Kiss at the Huntington, Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play at the Goodman, and The Two Noble Kinsmen at The Old Globe, among many others. 

Television: Unforgettable, Blue Bloods, Law and Order. 

Film: The Word. 

With the Civilians: Original companies of Canard, Canard Goose? Gone Missing, and Paris Commune; 

Philadelphia company of In the Footprint, BAM NextWave company of Paris Commune.

BA: Wagner College. MFA: UCSD.

Public Theater: Hamlet, Cymbeline.

Broadway: The Rivals, Reckless.

Off-Broadway: 100 Saints You Should Know, Hunting & Gathering, Miss Witherspoon, Gutenberg!, Trouble in Paradise, Engaged (OBIE), Observe the Sons of Ulster..., The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Race, The Alchemist, Stranger, Corpus Christi.

Regional: McCarter, Huntington, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, Court Theatre (Chicago) and Williamstown.

TV/Film: Dedication, “Damages”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Hack”, “Stella”.

Training: MFA, NYU Graduate Acting

Tony Torn is an actor, director, and associate artist of The Civilians. Recent Stage: Ensemble in Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus at The Signature Theater; The King in Ben Beckley's Latter Days (Dir. Jess Chayes), with Dutch Kills Theater at Ars Nova; Ubu in Ubu Sings Ubu (Also Co-Dir with Dan Safer) at Abrons Arts Center, American Repertory Theater, B.B. Kings, etc; Ensemble in Rimbaud in New York (Dir. Steven Cosson) at BAM; Ensemble in Private Moment (Dir. David Levine) with Creative Time; Stefano in Tempest (Dir. Karin Coonrod) at La Mama; Porfiery in Platonov, or The Disinherited (Dir. Jay Scheib) at The Kitchen; Rusty Trawler in Breakfast at Tiffanys's on Broadway at The Cort Theater (D: Sean Mathias). Tony manages Torn Page, a event space and classroom in Chelsea dedicated to his parents, the actors Rip Torn and Geraldine Page.

KEN TRAVIS (Sound Designer) Broadway: In Transit, Aladdin (UK, DE, JP, AU, US), Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Story the Musical, Scandalous, Newsies, Memphis, The ThreePenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park and Steel Magnolias.  Regional and Off Broadway: The Public Theater, The New Group, The Civilians, Atlantic Theater Company, Soho Rep, Classic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, Mabou Mines, Old Globe, ACT Seattle, 5th Avenue Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theater, LA CTG, The Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theater, Papermill Playhouse

Anne Washburn's plays include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, Shipwreck, The Small, an adaption of The Twilight Zone, and transadaptations of Euripides' Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, The Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth.

Honors include a Guggenheim, a Whiting, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award for artist in mid-career, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Chochiqq, and is an alumna of New Dramatists.

DAVID WEINER (LIGHTING DESIGNER) Broadway: GODSPELL Revival, THE NORMAL HEART, REASONS TO BE PRETTY, BUTLEY, DINNER AT EIGHT (LCT), BETRAYAL (Roundabout), THE REAL THING.  Off Broadway: MTC, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, NY Theater Workshop, Theater for a New Audience, Vineyard, Atlantic. Opera: DIE VOGEL, DER ZERBROCHENE KRUG, DER ZWERG all for LA Opera. Regional: Center Theatre Group, Guthrie, LaJolla Playhouse, The Alley, McCarter, Huntington, ART, Kansas City Rep, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep. Museum Design: NC State Museum of Natural Sciences Nature Research Center - Raleigh, NC. Awards:  2012 Lucille Lortel Award (THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY), 2011 LA Ovation Award (VENICE), 2011 Drama Desk nomination (SMALL FIRE), 2005 Lucille Lortel Award (RODNEY'S WIFE). www.DavidWeinerDesign.com

Broadway: Coram Boy.

Off-Broadway: This Beautiful City (Vineyard), Gone Missing (Barrow St. Theatre), Aphrodisiac (PS 122).

As an Associate Artists with The Civilians: original collaborator on Gone Missing and This Beautiful City, also The Ladies (Chashama) and The Modern World Project with Anne Kauffman.

Other NY: The Female Terrorist Project (The Committee), Out From Under It and Blue Lila Rising (New Georges).

Regional: Pride and Prejudice (Portland Center Stage), The Cherry Orchard and This Beautiful City (Center Theatre Group), Lyric Stage, ATL, WHAT, and several seasons at the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ.

Film: Marc and Tom, Little Match Boy.

Co-creator of Damian Baldet’s Pugilist.

BA: Harvard.
MFA: UCSD.

Colleen Werthmann is an actor and Emmy-nominated comedy writer, currently working on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central. Her other writing credits include The Academy Awards and Comedy Central roasts. Civilians fans know her from Gone Missing, In The Footprint, Canard, Canard, Goose? And The Ladies. Other theater credits include plays at The Public, Soho Rep, NYTW, The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), and Eliza Clark's Recall (Colt Coeur). She's a founding member of Elevator Repair Service and was recently in the Tina Fey/Amy Poehler comedy, SISTERS.

Ada Westfall is a multi-hyphenate theater artist and proud trans woman. As a musician: performances at Joe’s Pub, The Town Hall, Mercury Lounge, 54 Below, Bowery Electric and many other NYC venues, Joan of Arc: Into the Fire (Public Theater), The Last Goodbye (The Old Globe), Death of a Salesman (BAM), Times Square (NYU). As a composer: Rimbaud in New York (BAM), A Play On War (Connelly Theater), Juárez: A Documentary Mythology (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Remnant (Mitu580). As an actor: Rimbaud in New York (BAM), Songbird (59E59), Remnant (Mitu580). Her original score for NAATCO and Theater Mitu’s A Play On War earned a 2010 Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Music in a Play, and she has composed music for a number of theater companies, including The Civilians, NAATCO, Built For Collapse, and Theater Mitu, with whom she’s been an Associate Artist for 12 years. She has participated in residencies with Mitu at New York Theater Workshop, The Watermill Center, and NYU Abu Dhabi and has also taught as a guest artist at NYU, NYU Abu Dhabi, Mark Morris Dance Center, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (New York City), University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and Tamagawa University (Tokyo). Projects in development include Tony Torn’s Action Kylie (a dance piece based on the poetry of Kevin Killian), and Woyzeck & Herself (Ada’s own queer reimagining of Georg Büchner’s classic). www.adawestfall.com Instagram: @adawestfall

Bess Wohl’s plays include SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (John Gassner Outer Critics Circle Award, top ten lists in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Guardian and others), MAKE BELIEVE, AMERICAN HERO, BARCELONA, TOUCHED, IN, CATS TALK BACK and the musical PRETTY FILTHY with composer/lyricist Michael Friedman and The Civilians (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Musical).  Her play, CONTINUITY, will have its premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in the spring of 2019.

Her plays have been produced or developed at theaters around the country, including Second Stage, Ars Nova, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodman Theater, The Geffen Playhouse, People’s Light and Theatre Company, The Contemporary American Theater Festival, Vineyard Arts Project, The Pioneer Theatre, The Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Northlight Theater, TheaterWorks New Works Fesitval, Ojai Playwright's Conference, the Cape Cod Theatre Project, PlayPenn and the New York International Fringe Festival (Award for Best Overall Production).

In 2015, Bess won the Sam Norkin special Drama Desk Award. Other honors include the Athena Award for her screenplay, VIRGINIA, a MacDowell Fellowship, and inclusion on Hollywood’s Black List of Best Screenplays. She is an associate artist with The Civilians, an alumna of Ars Nova’s Play Group, and the recipient of new play commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Hartford Stage, and Lincoln Center.
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She also writes screenplays and has developed multiple original television projects for HBO, ABC, USA, FOX, Disney, Paramount and others.

She is a graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Drama.

Broadway: Macbeth; Selected theater: Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play (Playwrights Horizons), The Temperamentals (Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble) Paris Commune (Public Theatre, B.A.M./ The Civilians), Bunny Foo Foo (Actors Theater of Louisville), We’re Gonna Be Okay (Humana Festival), The Three Sisters (Yale Rep., Berkeley Rep.), Two seasons at the Old Globe, Nine seasons at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film & Television: Played Dylan Larsen over two seasons on Madam Secretary, Elementary, The Break Diary of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, Black Box, The Beaver, Disposal, Dead Birds, Happy Hour, Law and Order, Law & Order SVU, Rescue Me, Out of Order. M.F.A. U.C.S.D, Certificate L.A.M.D.A., Associate Artist of The Civilians.