Tea Alagic Recent credits include: Sladjana Vujovic's The Tender Mercies (One Year Lease at Teatro Circulo, NYC), Mia McCullough's Lucinda's Bed (Chicago Dramatists), Alena Smith's It or Her (soloNOVA Arts Festival at PS122, Berkshire Fringe Festival, 2010 Frigid Festival Audience Choice Award, NYC) Jeff Grow's Creating Illusion (terraNOVA Collective, 2 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, NYC), Johnna Adams' Angel Eaters (Flux Theatre Ensemble, 6 New York Innovative Theatre Award Nominations, NYC), The Children's Hour (Astoria Performing Arts Center, NYC), as well as many new plays in development at The New Group, The Lark, The Playwrights Realm, Red Fern, Diverse City, among others. She has recently been Staff Repertory Director for The Acting Company, a Director-in-Residence at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and a guest director at Fordham, NYU/Strasberg, NYU/Tisch and Long Island University. Jessi is a transplant to NYC from Chicago where she lived for eight years working as a freelance director and Artistic Director of Stage Left Theatre, an ensemble based company dedicated to developing and producing new plays. She is currently Director of terraNOVA Collective's Groundbreakers new play development program and an Affiliated Artist of New Georges. Jessi is a recipient of the Denham Fellowship from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation and was recently named a finalist for the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. MFA: Yale School of Drama.
Sarah directs new work and re-imagines classics. She recently developed and directed Red Ink, new work by First Nation playwrights from the US and Canada, for Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis and assisted Les Waters on the Broadway production of In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. Selected directing: Jason Grote’s 1001 (Mixed Blood), Chile Pod, a new TYA musical by Rhiana Yazzie & Gary Rue (La Jolla Playhouse), Theater Master’s 2009 Take 10 Festival (Aspen, Co and Rattlestick), Eurydice and upcoming: A Flea in Her Ear (Long Island University), a hurricane Katrina-inspired Twelfth Night, The Skin of Our Teeth (UCSD) Bureau of Missing Persons, Red State Bluegrass, Catching Flight (UCSD Baldwin New Play Fest.) Mac Wellman’s School for Devils, The Little Prince, Christina Gorman’s DNA (Hangar Theatre Lab Co.) and the Chicago Ave. Project in Minneapolis. Selected new play development: Lila Rose Kaplan (PlayPenn, The Lark, New Dramatists), Tommy Smith (The O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Sam Hunter (LIU New Play Fest.) Trista Baldwin (Playwrights’ Center, Black Door NYC) and Mat Smart (Playwrights’ Center). Sarah is the 2010 Phil Killian Directing Fellow at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where she curated and directed Here We Are: Plays by Women, 1916-1937, a staged reading of work by Susan Glaspell, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Dorothy Parker and Clare Boothe, and is the 2010 coordinator of OSF’s 2010 Black Swan Lab. She is a recipient of a Fulbright, Drama League Directing Fellowship and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and SDC. MFA, UCSD.
Mia is a Brooklyn-based director, playwright, and puppeteer who devises, adapts and collaborates with living playwrights. Founding artistic director of HummingbirdWORKS and company member with foolsFURY (SF), she has performed with Redmoon Theater (Chicago), Shadowlight (SF), Bread and Puppet Theater (VT), and Intersection for the Arts (SF), among others. Her plays Kill The Keepers (co-written with Dan LeFranc)and Apartment have been developed by P73, Empire Street Lab/Perishable Theater, and foolsFURY. In New York Mia has directed new work for Soho Rep, New Dramatists, The Civilians, The Flea, and Dixon Place; regionally with Brown University/A.R.T. Institute Bakeoff, Harvard Playwrights Festival, Hangar Theatre, and Brown Summer Playwrights Rep.Recent directing: Science Is Close by Kate E. Ryan (reading, Soho Rep, NYC), The Blind (Lincoln Center Directors Lab, NYC), Origin Story by Dan LeFranc (Hangar Theatre, NY), Love in the Time of Channukah by Joshua Elias Harmon (Hangar), Tartuffe (Brown Dept of Theatre and Performance Studies, RI), Girls on the Clock by Diana Fithian (Brown Summer Playwrights Rep, RI). Brown New Plays Festival productions: Inked Baby by Christina Anderson, Some of the Rooms by Chen Gu, Diagram of a Kidnapping by Brendan Pelsue, fracture/mechanics by Mallery Avidon. Brown/Trinity Rep productions: The Maids, Elektra, Polaroid Stories, 365 Days/365 Plays. Selected assistant directing: Daniel Sullivan (Time Stands Still by Donald Margulies, MTC), Ken Rus Schmoll (What Once We Felt by Ann Marie Healy, LCT3), Chris Bayes (The Servant of Two Masters,Yale Rep) and Anne Kauffman (Dot by Kate E. Ryan,Clubbed Thumb and The Communist Dracula Pageant by Anne Washburn, A.R.T.). Former teaching fellow and guest lecturer at Brown University and adjunct faculty at New College of California; currently assistant professor of acting and directing in the Hunter College Department of Theatre. Recipient of the Jonathan Alper Directing Fellowship with Manhattan Theatre Club and SDC Directing Observership. Nominee for the 2010 Ockrent Directing Fellowship. Alum of the Drama League, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and Lincoln Center Directors Lab. BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern and MFA in Directing from Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium. Upcoming: Associate Director on You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents Divorce (The Civilians, Greene Space/WNYC), Romeo and Juliet (Hunter College), Crossings (reading, A.R.T.), and town and country, a new site-specific devised work coming soon to a suburban front lawn near you.
Nicole is a director and educator. She has a BA in history from Yale and an MA in interdisciplinary studies from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Credits include a workshop of Oyamo’s new musical White Hot Black Spice (New Dramatists, NYC) Deconstruction by Anne Phelan(Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn) Reverb by Radha Blank (The Fire This Time Festival) Traffic Jam, (Secret Theatre, NYC), One Minute-Play Festival (Here Arts Center, NYC), Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers (NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, NYC), Foreclosure (NYTE at the Access Theatre, NYC), David Hilder’s Just Exactly Like (The Flea, NYC), Daniel McCoy’s Eli and Cheryl Jump (2009 Fringe Festival, NYC), Words, Words, Words and Time Flies, (Chelsea Rep Lab, NYC) The Snow Queen (Urban Stages on Tour, NYC), and The Fantastiks (The Cathedral School, NYC) In March 2010 she helped produce a director’s salon as part of Working Theater’s 25th Anniversary Season. For the salon she directed a reading of Crystal Skillman’s Flow which had a second reading in June 2010 at the Brecht Forum. Nicole also served as a director and mentor for the Gallatin Play Development Lab at NYU. She assisted on Signature Theatre’s production of The First Breeze of Summer directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Nicole is the current Shakespeare Director at the 52nd Street Project where she has directed a number of plays written by Hell’s Kitchen youths and served as a director for the 2010 Teen Ensemble One Act Festival. She has also worked at the Lark, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey where she was a teaching artist for The Hamlet Project. A former history teacher, Nicole has taught at Fieldston and the Cathedral School and has also developed and taught theatre workshops at Stratham Elementary School in New Hampshire as well as the Museum of the City of New York where she teaches an interdisciplinary playwriting/history course and leads professional development workshops on arts and education.
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