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ANDREA CIANNAVEI
Contact: andrea@labtheater.org

andrea photoAndrea Ciannavei is an actor, writer and producer in New York City. Her first full-length play Art Outside was produced at CenterStage NY. She co-wrote Gypsy: Wanted for UnAmerican Activities with Laura Somers which premiered at the Mexican American Cultural Theatre in Austin, TX (Dirigo Group). Short plays include Murasaki at The Women's Project Festival (dir.
Nancy Chu) and The Deep End which premiered at City Center's Summer City Shorts Festival in Miami, FL this summer. Her second full length play Pretty Chin Up (directed by Michele Chivu) will receive a development production at LAByrinth in Spring 2007 at The Public Theater. Acting credits include:
Kristensen, Slipped Disc (GTA/HERE); Understudy, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (director, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Public); Phyllis, Art Outside (CenterStage NY), April White in Savage in Limbo (HERE). Television:
100 Centre Street, The Sopranos, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Film:
Pigeonholed. Winner - New York Independent International Film and Video Festival's Grand Jury Prize - Best Supporting Actress. Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts' Dramatic Writing Program. Member and Literary Manager of LAByrinth Theater Company and a member of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab.

Plays:
Art Outside
Pretty Chin Up


CHRISTINA GORMAN
Contact: riki1229@hotmail.com

gorman photoChristina Gorman's play SPLIT WIDE OPEN was produced at the Summer Play Festival in New York City and was developed with a fellowship at Ensemble Studio Theatre through its New Voices Program. The play was also runner-up for the 2005 Princess Grace Award. Her play DNA was produced at the Hangar Theatre, as well as at the New York International Fringe Festival, where it received the award for Overall Excellence in Playwriting. She is the co-writer of KEEP THE CHANGE, part of The Women's Project's "Girls Just Wanna Have Funds" production which will appear in May 2007 in the Word of Mouth Festival at the World Financial Center. She is a member of The Torture Project Ensemble, and together with them is collaborating on a play. THE TORTURE PROJECT (working title) has received a fellowship from The Drama League as part of its Directors Project New Directors/New Works Program and was presented in Six Figures Theatre Company's Artists of Tomorrow Festival. Her first play, WRECKAGE was produced at the University of Notre Dame, her alma mater. Christina's work has also been presented and/or developed at The Juilliard School, Lark Theatre Center, and in the Hallie Flanagan Play Series/Women at Wings. She is a current member of The Women's Project Playwrights Lab. Her other works include SACRED GROUND and DIARY OF AN ADMAN.

Plays:
SPLIT WIDE OPEN
DNA
SACRED GROUND
DIARY OF AN ADMAN
WRECKAGE
THE TORTURE PROJECT (working title) (collaboration)

 

KATORI HALL
www.katorihall.com
Despina Crassa
The Gersh Agency
232 North Canon Dr. #201
Beverly Hills. CA 90210
310.274.6611

katori photoKatori Hall is an award-winning playwright/performer. She is a 2006 recipient of the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, 2007 winner of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, and a recent writing resident at the Royal Court Theatre. Her play, Hoodoo Love, received a workshop production through the
2006 Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project under the mentorship of Lynn Nottage and was included in the 2006 Voice and Vision ENVISION Retreat at Bard College. Hoodoo Love received the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award and 2nd place for the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at the 2005 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Katori is a member of the Women's Project Playwrights' Lab in New York City. She is currently working on a new play called Hurt Village slated to have a reading at the 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers Conference in Chattanooga, TN.

Other plays include: Freedom Train, Awake, and Diaspora, a one-woman show fused with music and poetry that was performed in South Africa. Her new works, a short play called On the Chitlin' Circuit and a one-woman show entitled Oreogirl: The Miscegenation of Miss Emma Brown, were given readings at the 2005 Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference where she was a Kennedy Center Playwriting Fellow.

Education:
Columbia University-B.A. African-American Studies and Creative Writing.
American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University-M.F.A. in Acting.



ANDREA LEPCIO

Contact: lepcio@igc.org

lepcia photoAndrea's plays have been presented and read at HERE, Chashama, Manhattan Theatre Source, Vital Theatre, New Shoe, Shalimar Productions, Three Chicks, Titans Theatre, Williamsburg Art Nexus, and Women's Project in NY, and at Trustus Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Bloody Unicorn and Provincetown Theatre Company, regionally. Her screenplay, A September Spring, won the Sloan Foundation Dramatic Writing Award. Hook & Eye won the Trustus Playwrights Festival where it was produced. In addition to the Women's Project Playwrights' Lab, she is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettist Workshop and alumnus of the Lark Playwrights' Workshop. A Dramatists Guild Fellow, she currently directs the Fellows program. A two-time finalist for the Heideman Award, her short plays and monologues have been published in Plays and Playwrights 2003, Estrogenius, lichen and by Smith & Kraus in 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Men and the upcoming Best Ten Minute Plays with 3 or more characters of 2006.  Upcoming: a workshop of Looking for the Pony at Vital Theatre and The Immediacy Project, an ensemble created dance-theatre collaboration with Zach Morris.  She is a founder of the Mint Theatre Company where she produced the World Premiere of Austin Pendleton's Uncle Bob. Though theatre was her first love, life has provided many detours: Andrea has worked on farms, at coops, for universities, in Congress and on Wall St. She is currently a teaching artist and economic consultant. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, New Shoe, New York Theatre Experience Advisory Committee, and International Centre for Women Playwrights. M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing, Carnegie Mellon University. M.B.A. UC Berkeley. B.A. Human Ecology, College of the Atlantic.

Musicals
The Ballad of Rom & Jules
The Bronx Casket Company

Plays
Looking for the Pony
One Nation Under
Bottom of Nine
Antigone's Cycle
Tartuffed
Eclipse
Hook & Eye

MEGAN MOSTYN-BROWN
Agent: Seth Glewen
The Joyce Ketay Agency
630 Ninth Ave. Suite 708
NYC 10036
212 354-6825
seth@joyceketay.com

meg picMegan Mostyn-Brown: Plays include: Girl, The Secret Lives of Losers, 4th of July, Going After Alice and The Hawk Has No Home. Her plays have been read and performed at: The Actor’s Theater of Louisville, The Women’s Project and Productions, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Playwrights Center, The Public Theater, The Warehouse Theater, Barrington Stage Company, The NYC International Fringe Festival, The Tribeca Theater Festival and The HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, CO. She won an honorable mention for The Secret Lives of Losers in the 2004 Herrick Theater Foundation New Play Competition. Megan is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company and The Women’s Project Playwrights LAB. She has been a guest playwright at New River Dramatists and the 24/7 Lab. Megan is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Plays:
Girl.
The Secret Lives of Losers
Going After Alice

 

MOLLY RICEmolly Rice Photo

Molly Rice’s plays have been developed and produced in Austin, Dallas, Providence, Ithaca, Montana, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Aspen, and New York (Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, Atlantic Theater, Women’s Project, Mint Theater, Drilling Company, New Georges). Her work has been published by Heinemann Press,the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press, Salvage Vanguard Press, Perishable Press, Austin Script Works Press, and the Austin Chronicle, with upcoming publications in American Theater Magazine, Kenyon Review.com, and DEVICE. Residencies include Yale/ P73 Residency (2008), Missoula Colony (2007), Voice and Vision (2006), and Hangar Theater (2005); awards include the Weston Award for Graduate Playwriting (Brown University); Women’s International Playwriting Festival (Perishable Theater); and nominations for the Kesselring Fellowship, Cherry Lane Mentor Project, and New York Innovative Theater Award (Outstanding Original Short Play). She has been a finalist for New Dramatists (2006-2008), the Actors Theater of Louisville Heidemann Award (2003, 2007), the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference (2006, semifinalist 2007), and the Princess Grace Award (2004). Recent projects: BLOOD: OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS, a play written for and produced by Kenyon College. Upcoming projects: book, lyrics and music (with musician Ray Rizzo) for the new musical CANARY (showcase at Rattlestick Theater, June 2008); an adaptation of Maeterlinck’s The Blue Bird, with EgoPo Productions and Orchestra 2001 (production exp. May 2009); and FIREHOUSE 17, in development with director Kara Lynn Vaeni. She is a member of America-In-Play Residency and Commissions, Women’s Project Lab, and the Playwrights’ Center. She has taught playwriting and dramatic literature at Brown University, the Brown/ Trinity MFA Acting Program, and the University of Rhode Island, and last year she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at Kenyon College, standing in for Wendy MacLeod. She currently teaches at Brown University and Rowan University. Molly was a Lucille Lortel fellow at Brown (2004-2006), where she earned her MFA in Playwriting.

Plays:
LINE
DON'T STOP
HIROSHIMA 2006: THE APOLOGY MODULE
BAPTIST OF THE SEVENTH SINK
THE GHOST OF DON JUAN
THE MERCURY SLOOP
THICKET OF THE LAME
SAINT ENID AND THE BLACK HAND

 

PEGGY STAFFORD
Contact: peggystafford@yahoo.com

Peggy Stafford PhotoPeggy Stafford has written for the Soho Rep (NYC), The Empty Space Theatre (Seattle), New Georges Theatre (NYC), The Playhouse (Northern Ireland), and The Seattle Repertory Theatre, among others. Her plays have been produced by P73 at HERE (NYC), On the Boards (Seattle), Dixon Place (NYC), Bottom's Dream (Los Angeles), and Annex Theatre (Seattle). Her short film, A Problem with Sharks, premiered at The Seattle International Film Festival, screened nationally, and was an Official Selection at The Hamptons International Film Festival. She was a member of the Soho Rep's Writer/Director Lab and Phase
2 Program. An Affiliated Artist with Obie Award-winning New Georges, she is also a member of the Women's Project Playwright's Lab. Peggy holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and has studied playwriting with Maria Irene Fornes, Jeff Jones, Paula Vogel, and Mac Wellman through 'pataphysics at The Flea Theater (NYC).

Plays:
Little Miss 1565
Wapato
Three Miracles and a Giant
Trunk & Net
The Middle Window
Katherine's Jar

 

SAVIANA STANESCU
Contact: savianas@yahoo.com

savianaphotoSaviana Stanescu has published books of poetry and drama including: The Inflatable Apocalypse (Best Romanian Play of 2000), Diary of a Clone and GOOGLE ME! (poems), Black Milk (four plays), and Final Countdown (a play, Antoine Vitez Center Award, Paris).
Her artistic work has been shown in the U.S., U.K., France, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Romania. New York productions include "Waxing West" and “Yokastas” (directed by Richard Schechner) at La MaMa Theater, “Balkan Blues” at the New York Fringe Festival, “Lenin’s Shoe” at The Lark,
“Jelly-Love and Peanut-Butter” at Manhattan Theatre Source, “Suspendida” at Ontological Theatre and “Aurolac Blues” at Here Arts Center (published in Plays and Playwrights 2006). Her plays have received readings and workshops at Lark Play Development Center, New York Theatre Workshop, Women's Project, Playwrights' Foundation, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Immigrants Theatre Project, CUNY Grad Center, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center etc. Together with Prof. Carol Martin she has edited the anthology of new plays “Global Foreigners”. Saviana holds an MA in Performance Studies (2001-2002 Fulbright fellow) and an MFA in Dramatic Writing (John Golden Award in Playwriting), from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. She was a TCG fellow with The Lark, and currently is writer-in-residence of East Coast Artists (director Richard Schechner), NYSCA
playwright-in-residence with Women's Project, and adjunct faculty at NYU, TSOA, Drama Department.

JOY TOMASKO
Contact: portablejct@gmail.com

joy photoJoy Tomasko, current member of the Women’s Project Playwrights Lab, recently earned an M.F.A. in playwriting from California Institute of the Arts. While at CalArts, she developed several plays including Arden; My End; The Tragedy of Kelly Green; Underbelly, Underheart; and Unfold Me. She also wrote
the short narrative screenplay The Dinner Hour, which was produced as part of CalArts' Flixus and co-created the installation Up Against the Wall for the Interactive Media Art show. For playwright Thersya Lukito, she directed The Moment Before at HERE's American Living Room Series. Prior to CalArts, Joy worked at The Public Theater/ NYSF for six years in the Producer's office. Among her obsessions is amassing frequent flyer miles to help fuel her wanderlust. Recent voyages oversees include the Czech Republic, Serbia, Rwanda and Uganda. She is currently working on a new piece titled The Closest Farthest Away with composer Sage Lewis, videographer Aleigh Lewis and Director Chi-wang Yang that once again is sending her flying.

KATHRYN WALAT
Agent: Val Day
William Morris Agency
1325 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
Email: VDay@wma.com
Fax: (212) 632-1283

Kathryn Walat's Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen first appeared in the Women's Project's 2005 Women's Work reading festival. Her play Know Dog premiered in 2004 at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, and her latest work Bleeding Kansas was recently developed in a workshop at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca. Other plays include Connecticut (readings at MTC, Playwrights Horizons), Greenspace (Boston Theatre Works Unbound Festival), Johnny Hong Kong (Perishable Theatre; Actors Theatre, Santa Rosa), Rotten State (Bay Area Playwrights Festival), Spy Speak Spy (New York Fringe Festival). Her work has been developed in Women's Project's Playwrights Lab, at the Lark Play Development Center, and at New Georges, where she is an affiliated playwright. She received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Yale Drama School, and is currently working on a commission for Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana 2007 Anthology Project.