Winter 2010 Forum

WHO'S WHO IN THE WINTER 2010 WRITER/DIRECTOR FORUM

WEEK 1

ALISHA SILVER (assistant director/stage manager) has worked with small theater companies in San Francisco and New York including the Michael Chekhov Theatre Company where she directed several Sam Shepard plays including Fool for Love, Curse of the Starving Class and Angel City. She won the John Golden Award for playwriting (2007, 2008) the Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwrights Award (2009) and was a finalist for the Julie Harris Playwright Award, (2009) and the Trustus Playwright’s Festival (2010.) She is a member of TOSOS II, The Episcopal Actors’ Guild and SilverLoop Productions.

ABIGAIL STRANGE (assistant director/stage manager) is thrilled to be working with such a talented and enthusiastic group of people! She has worked with various companies such as DiStar Productions, HERE Arts Center, The Hive, Rabbit Hole Ensemble, and Zephyr Rep. Some past credits include Panama (Assistant Director), Summer Shorties Summ... Are Not (Director), Birdhouse (Assistant Director), and Cyrano de Bergerac (Director). Thank you to Jen, Alex, and Melinda for dealing with my insane schedule and for a great experience. Thanks to my friends and family for the constant support, it means the world!

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KARIN DIANN WILLIAMS (Playwright) is an Artistic Associate at Looking Glass where audiences have seen her plays Head, Time Troll, Spirits! and Anna's Perfect Party, among others. Her work has also been produced by San Diego's Fritz Theater (where she served as playwright-in-residence from 1992-2001), the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre Digital Performance Institute, Art House Productions, Lamia Ink!, the Midtown International Theatre Festival, the Strawberry One Act Festival, Collaboraction Theater, Boston Theaterworks, and many others. As a Partner in the motion media company CulpepperWilliams, she wrote and produced The Captive (2010 Webby People's Choice Award Winner) and the independent feature Jordan. Her plays are available online through Original Works Publishing and YouthPlays.

MELINDA PROM (Director) is a New York based theater artist whose work has been seen at the Soho Playhouse, Algonquin Theater, 45th Street Theater, the American Theater of Actors and more. She most recently directed Everybody Gets 15 Minutes as part of End Times Productions’ Vignettes for the Apocalypse 2010 festival and After Easter with the Michael Chekhov Theater Company. Melinda participated in the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab 2010. Her original work the Marriage Bureau will be produced by Pace University’s Director’s Festival this month. Previously at Looking Glass, she served as an AD/SM on Ready, Set, Story! Melinda is a graduate of Carleton College (Northfield, MN) and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (NY).

SUZANNA CHMIELARZ (Katya), a current Looking Glass acting intern, recently graduated from the William Esper Studios Two-YearProgram. She is making her professional debut in tonight's production. Suzanna was born and raised in New Jersey. She hopes to someday migrate over the river, and make New York her permanent residence. She would like to thank her family and friends for all their support. Email Suzanna

MARIA CONCHA (Luz) has been pursuing acting since she was thirteen and her love for the art has continued to grow throughout the years. Recent work includes In The Blood by Susan Lori Parks and The Vagina Monologue; both very intense and empowering. Maria graduated in May of 2010 from Queens College with a BA in Drama and has continued exploring, studying and auditioning, which is her recipe to a successful, fulfilling career! Email Maria

KELSEY RUVOLO (Renee)- TV credits include various guest leads and principal roles on “Uncle Morty’s Dub Shack” and ”Sensing Murder,” and featured roles on ”The Good Wife” and "Boardwalk Empire." She has also appeared in a number of films including I Am Legend. On stage, Kelsey has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Recently she has performed at UCB (Upright Citizens Brigade) Theatre and The PIT (People’s Improv Theatre). She received her BA from Saint Leo University, and has continued to study at NYU, UCB, and The PIT. Kelsey would like to thank her husband Chris for all of his support. SAG, AFTRA, www.kelseyruvolo.com Email Kelsey

RICK J. KOCH (Dr. Daniels) has participated in Manhattan Theatre Source’s Spontaneous Combustion (NYC) and has been cast in several independent film projects. He recently joined Love Creek Productions. Rick moved here from San Diego (by way of Milan) where he performed in various plays (lead in Come Blow Your Horn; Deputy File in The Rainmaker) and film projects. He would like to thank Melissa and his acting instructor Frankie Travis for their encouragement and love. And most especially, Aska, his heart. Email Rick

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DIANA STAHL (playwright) is a Bay Area native who grew up listening to musicals and Neil Diamond. She earned her Acting BFA from Purchase College and has performed in several workshops and readings with the Glass Bandits, New Georges and the LARK (including performing In a workshop of Rajiv Joseph’s Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.) Her written work has been produced with the OTE, Chez Bushwick, Center Stage and now Looking Glass Theatre. She studies privately with Jessica Dickey and is on the Literary Staff of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater where she recently assisted Heidi Schreck on There Are No More Big Secrets. Diana is very excited to be a part of this excellent festival.

ALEX MALLORY (director) - directing credits include Ravel by Samantha Collier (Theater Nyx), Caution by Lauren Yee (35th Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival), Recovery by Mark Jason Williams (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity), Snapshot by Jennifer Barclay (Looking Glass Forum), In Darfur by Winter Miller, Cabaret, and Goliath by Takeo Rivera for which she won the Kennedy Center’s Student Directing Award (Stanford University). She has assisted May Adrales on plays by Lauren Yee and Thomas Bradshaw and has worked with Lark Play Development Center and The Public Theater. www.alexmallory.com

SHANNON ALTNER (Meryl), a current Looking Glass intern, is thrilled to be part of The Forum and her first production with Looking Glass Theate. She graduated from The University of Florida with a minor in Theater and a degree in Television Production. She would like to thank all her wonderful friends and family for their continued support. To life!

ANDI BOHS (Sherly) a recent 2010 CCPA graduate, is thrilled to be performing at Looking Glass Theatre! While earning her degree in The Windy City she has been featured in a number of regional productions, including: a dual-role performance as Mama/Hannah in A Midnight Cry (produced in conjunction with the nationally historic Auditorium Theatre’s Margaret Garner) and Richard III at the 2008 Tony Award-winning Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Post graduation she has been in Revels and Revelations at Ventfort Hall, a staged reading of Tangled, and at Looking Glass Theatre’s The Wonderland Cabaret. A big thank you to all of my family and friends.

MARK VASHRO (Henry) is very happy to have his first New York theatre credit be with Looking Glass Theatre. He studied and acted in Boston, MA (Emerson College '08) for the last six years and after a three-and-a-half month cross-country bicycle ride he moved to New York City continuing his career in theatre, film, and photography. Originally from Boise, ID he continues to be fascinated by where he finds himself. www.markvashro.com

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LYNN SNYDER (playwright) has had her plays produced in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Roanoke, Lansing, Toronto, Edinburgh and Bologna. She has received playwriting fellowships and grants from the University of Massachusetts, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation She has been a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and London and a publicity and speechwriter in Los Angeles for candidates in state and local political races. Lynn holds a bachelor's degree in political science and English literature from the University of Michigan. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, a Stanford professor of biopsychology.

JEN BROWNE (director) is an actor, writer, and director based in New York. She is pleased to be a part of her fourth Looking Glass Forum. She works regularly with collaborator, Irish actor/writer Siobhán Donnellan. Their company, Blue Wren Collective, premiered their play For the Birds in this year’s NY Fringe Festival. She is a regular with the New England Shakespeare Festival’s unrehearsed Shakespeare team and has worked with the Red Door Theatre Company in New York. Her short plays have been well received for the past two years at Learning Stages Play-in-a-Day Festival in New Jersey.

VICTOR ALBAUM (Mitch), a current Looking Glass acting intern, is thrilled to be a part of the Winter Forum! He is an alumnus of Idyllwild Arts Academy and received his B.F.A in Musical Theatre at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Previous credits include Jacques Brel is Alive and Well…, Grease, The Full Monty, The Pirates of Penzance, Footloose, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In his free time, Victor loves being a political junkie and exploring his new home, NYC! Thank you to my family and friends for their love and support.

ELIZA HUBERTH (Carlene) performed in Camp Monster and Drunk this past summer at Williamstown Theater Festival. Other regional theaters include Forestburgh Playhouse and Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. In NYC, she's recently performed in Land Escaping (Prospect Theater Company), Saints Tour (Motherlodge), FOREPLAYS (FullStop Collective), Getting Even With Shakespeare (Manhattan Repertory Theater), Pigs in Space (Pig Iron Theater Company). Other theaters include Skirball Theater, The Producer's Club, and Manhattan Theatre Source. Kenyon College and National Theater Institute Alum.

ASHLEY RUTHERFORD (Joan) is a recent graduate of The Stella Adler Studio Conservatory, where she appeared as Linda in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Agnes in Tracy Lett's Bug, The Actress in La Ronde. Previous to moving to New York Ashley was a working actor on stage and screen in Vancouver, Canada and Artistic Director for Enlightenment Theatre Company. She has appeared Off-Broadway in Sex, Relationships and Sometimes... Love, The Stella Adler Shakespeare Benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids and is delighted to join the many talented writer/director/performers here at Looking Glass Theatre.

MICHAEL WETHERBEE (Frank) is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. New York and regional credits include work at the State of Maine Theater, Theater for the New City, American Theater of Actors, Kraine Theater, Ridge Repertory, Horse Trade Theater Group, and the Roanoke Island Festival Park in North Carolina. Readings at the Algonquin Theater, the Producers Club, and the Hudson Guild Theater. Member of the Drafts Ensemble with Horse Trade Theater Group.

WEEK 2

AVA KELLEY (assistant director/stage manager), a former Looking Glass acting intern, is excited to be taking on a different role in the Winter Forum. Recent acting credits include Marat/Sade (Jacques Roux), Secret Theatre; Summer Rain (Colleen), Theatre for the New City’s Dream Up Festival; and Constriction (Colleen) Spring 2010 Looking Glass Forum. Ava also has a passion for film, dance, and high-flying adventure sports such as rock climbing, trapeze, and aerial silks.

SARAH SIMMONS (assistant director/stage manager) relocated to New York in January to complete a BA in Theatre from Marymount Manhattan College where she just finished serving as production dramaturg on The Bald Soprano and Geography of a Horse Dreamer. Previous credits include The Apple Tree SVC (Co-Dir); Back to the 80s (Choreo) BEHS; Bat Boy: the Musical! (AD) SecondStory Repertory Theatre; Zombie Prom (Co-Dir/Choreo) BEHS; 15 Miles to the Horizon (AD) the Gallery Players Black Box New Play Festival; Quickies 24-Hour New Play Festival (Dir) Tip-My-Cup Productions; Moby Dick on a Date (Dir) “Sin and Style” No Doze New Play Festival Coffee Black Productions.

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MCKENNA DABBS (director) New York/Regional Directing Credits include: Doubt, What the Butler Saw, Rumplestiltskin, 7/10 Split, For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls, Suicide Note, Behind the Scene (Looking Glass Spring 2010 Forum). McKenna is also a producer in the city and recently produced/hosted The Wonderland Cabaret at Looking Glass Theatre.

CLIO DAVIES (Stephanie) has been living in NYC for just over a year. She has just completed a course in Acting for Film at the New York Film Academy. Recently, she has been involved in Joan of Ark, The Spot and outside of NYFA, was in a play at The Tank called Mercury Fur, where she took on the challenging role of The Duchess. In the UK, Clio is a member of London’s National Youth Theatre. Clio is delighted to be involved in this show with Looking Glass Theatre, and would like to thank her family for their love and support while being over here. Email Clio

KEILLY MCQUAIL (Beth) is so happy to be working with Looking Glass Theatre for the first time. She is a graduate of the Atlantic Theatre Company through NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she will be completing her BFA within the year. I love you Mom, Dad, and Mallory for never having any doubts. www.KeillyMcQuail.com

ALLISON WHITTINGHILL (Jess) is currently a Looking Glass intern. She is a New York-based actor, originally hailing from Houston, Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she acquired dual degrees in history and theatre. During that time, she worked with the Gobotrick Theatre Company, New Works and Frontera Festivals. In the spirit of collaboration, she was one of the founding members of the Experimental Theatre Project, in which actors write, cast, and produce original work in a group setting. In New York, she has enjoyed working with the Sanctuary Playwrights group, The Anthropologists, Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, and The Wellesley Project. Thanks to Looking Glass Theatre for such a fun internship and Forum experience!

SHARON ZASLAW (Lisa) is an actress/dancer/singer/model and thrilled to be back after having portrayed several characters earlier on in Looking Glass Theatre’s production of Creatures of the Cabaret. NYC credits include Lara Kruger in Thank You Dark (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity), Who's Got Game/10-wk improv show (The Riant Theatre), A Sure Thing (Gotham City Improv); Hair Wars (Apollo Theatre), "Good Morning Show"(Una Vision Channel 41), "American Salon Magazine,” NY Daily News and BTE TV. Sharon is also a dance/fitness instructor in NYC and teaches Sharqui (The Bellydance Workout) at Alvin Ailey. www.szaslaw.com

No Boundaries

YVONNE DELET (playwright) has been produced in NYC and Philadelphia. She is proud to have No Boundaries be her second production at Looking Glass Theatre. She is also a screenwriter with numerous screenplay contest Finalist credits and a long-time improv/comedy performer who is the now the creator and host of her own BCAT (Brooklyn Public Access) television comedy/talk show entitled “The Unknown Zone Talk Show.” On her down time Yvonne plays poker, softball and watches gaggles of television while drinking her very strongly brewed coffee which her sister Rochelle refers to as “Rocket Fuel.”

EVA SCHELBAUM (director) is so happy to be directing for the Looking Glass Theatre. Eva's recent credits include: Discipline and Remembering Kimberly. Other credits include: From the Kaleidoscope Theater Company - Sex and Violence; Carl & Shelly, Best Friends Forever; End of Summer. Eva can say "I like apples" in ten languages and wants to thank her cast, Looking Glass Theatre and her family for all of their kindness and support.

ADAM AUSLANDER (Bartender) - Garden Street (Oasis Theater, Lucifer), Naked & Hste Free (Naked Angels), Hopped Up on Goof Balls (NYGoofs), Another Person is a Foriegn Country (En Garde Arts, dir Anne Bogart), Pomp Duck & Circumstance (dir David Shiner). Film: The Hoax. TV: “Late Night with Conan O'Brien,” “Letterman,” “Rosie O'Donnell,” ”SNL,” “L&O Criminal Intent.” Directed: Thin Blue Sign, 1st Place Clearwater Short Environmental Film Competition. Training: Ringling Bros. Clown College, Uta Hagen.

KIMBERLY CARVALHO (Suzanne), a current Looking Glass acting intern, is honored to be working with Looking Glass Theatre! She just graduated from college in Connecticut where she graduated with a B.F.A. in Acting. She is very excited to be performing in her first show in New York! She has her family and Peter to thank. Without them, she wouldn't be who she is. She loves them with all of her heart. Beijinhos!

ALEXANDRA HIOTAKIS (Proprietress) is honored to currently be an acting intern at Looking Glass Theatre. Alexandra has spent more than ten years traveling and performing in theaters from NYC to Cali. Some of her credits include lead in Women Behind Bars, lead in Echo's, lead in A Streetcar Named Desire. Her TV credits include “SNL,” local commercials and more. A big thank you for all of your love and support goes out to the best family ever Mom, Dad, big sis Sam. Also to Jillian and Belle the best friends any gal could ask for!

GARY WARCHOLA (Fred) recently moved to New York from Montana. Before making the big move, Gary toured with the Montana Repertory Theatre's production of The Poe Project. Gary served as the Educational Director for the Orphan Girl Children's Theatre and has worked for The Missoula Children's Theatre. Gary received his BFA from the University of Montana. Some of his favorite roles include Giuliano in Big Love, Slender in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Krogstad in A Doll's House.

MICHAEL YOUNG (Poet) is a recent graduate of the Acting program at the University of Buffalo. Recent roles include Phillipeau (Danton's Death), Dallas Winston (The Outsiders), Kevin (Lit401), Rajah Bimmy (On the Town), and Luther/Werner (City of Angels). Thanks to Eva for this opportunity and to my friends and family for their support.

Inside the Three-O-Nine

RUTH TYNDALL BAKER (playwright) is delighted to return to Looking Glass Theatre where her Ancient Curse of the Druid and White Whale were produced as part of The Looking Glass Forum. A reading of Papillons directed by Cat Parker secured Marta Praeger to represent that script. Recently, her play A Christmas Key premiered in her hometown of Fort Wayne, IN and the NY Playsmiths did a reading of her WWII play, Knitters Row. Ms. Baker belongs to Dramatists Guild, Chicago Dramatists, and NYCP.

GRETCHEN FERRIS (director) is an actor/director/casting director working out of New York City. NY directing credits include: Romeo & Juliet, Chains of Dew (Zephyer Rep/Wings Theatre), Lysistrata (Phare Play Productions), Wincing at the Light (Love Creek) and a reading of Dinner Is At Seven with the Manhattan Shakespeare Project. Most recently, she was seen onstage and as a co-producer for As I Am Fully Know with The 8 o'Clocks in FringeNYC. Her casting credits range from film to commercial to theatre, and she holds theatre degrees from Lenoir-Rhyne College, Florida State University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

BOBBY GÁMEZ (Charlie/Trucker), a current Looking Glass acting intern, is super grateful to be part of this amazing group! AMDA graduate, other credits include: Spring's Awakening (The Off Broadway Theatre), Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (Two Beans Productions), Dracula (The Wings Theatre). Bobby hopes that you take from this performance the knowledge that bullying exists in every group and every age and that no matter what you look like, where you're from, or who you love, you’re a person who deserves to be accepted. Mucho thanks to those who've accepted me :) Enjoy the show!

ANDREA LATTANZIO (Bureau Lady/Sales Clerk) is very grateful and excited to be making her debut with Looking Glass Theatre. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Andrea’s recent credits include Dog Sees God, Parallel Lives, and Au Naturale. She thanks Gretchen for this opportunity as well as her family and friends for their never-ending love and support.

GENEVIEVE TARICCO (Sherry) hails from sunny California and currently resides in Sunnyside, New York. She is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch where she studied acting at Stella Adler Studio. She is thrilled to be making her post-grad stage debut as the woman inside the body in this delightful piece of theatre. All my love and appreciation to Gretchen and the cast!

HARRISON UNGER (Troy) makes his New York theatrical debut with Inside the Three-O-Nine. A recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where he performed such roles as Joe Pitt in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd, he's excited to be back in his home state of NY and thrilled to be involved with this production. Many thanks to Gretchen and Looking Glass (plus Laura Hirschberg) for this opportunity, as well as the cast and crew for making it such a wonderful experience!

JILL WURZBURG (Doctor/Voice), a former Looking Glass acting intern, moved to New York last year after having studied at LAMDA in London, ACT in San Francisco, and Stanford University, where she earned her BA in Drama. Her favorite roles include Li'l Bit in How I Learned to Drive, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, The Mute in The Fantasticks, and Kathryn in Splendour. NYC credits include [insert mop here], the Winter 2010 Intern Showcase at Looking Glass, Thank You, Dark at Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, Slice with Snorks and Pins, and the upcoming Taming of the Shrew with Ripple Effects Productions, also at Looking Glass.

WEEK 3

ELIZABETH SWEARINGEN (assistant director/stage manager) is very happy to be working on The Looking Glass Winter Forum! Elizabeth is a graduate of both Circle in the Square Theatre School and Stella Adler Conservatory as well as a member of both AEA and AFTRA. In addition to acting, Elizabeth is also an emerging writer and director. She is working on her first full-scale production, The Waiter Project. Roles include: The Duel (NJ Rep), Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Square Hole Productions), Glengarry Glen Ross (Circle in the Square Workshop), Closer (ReddTale Productions), Guiding Light, Trophy Kids.

ASHLEY SCOLES (assistant director/stage manager) is new to the Looking Glass. She has previously stage managed What I Did Last Summer at the Okoboji Summer Theatre along with Moonlight and Valentino at the Warehouse Theatre. Ashley also directed The Dixie Swim Club at the Warehouse Theatre. Ashley would like to thank the Looking Glass for this wonderful opportunity.

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NANCY GALL-CLAYTON (playwright) is delighted to have her work showcased at Looking Glass Theatre again. Nancy has been a Visiting Artist at Ohio State University and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee Writers' Conference. She won the Streisand Festival of New Jewish Plays and the Eileen Heckart Drama Competition. She was the featured playwright at "Beyond the Borscht Belt: A Jewish Theatre Festival." Her work is published by Motes Books, Dramatic, Smith & Kraus, Meriwether, JAC, and the International Centre for Women Playwrights. Nancy belongs to the Dramatists Guild and the International Centre for Women Playwrights. For more information, please visit www.nancygallclayton.net

YOLEIDY ROSARIO (director) is a jack of all trades and served as AD/SM on the recent Looking Glass Theatre production 70 Million Tons. She graduated Dickinson College February 2010 with a BA in Theater Arts. At Dickinson she directed The Dutchman written by Amiri Baraka and The Conduct of Life by Maria Irene Fornes, and founded Lyrical Bridges whose mission is to enrich the theater world by fusing different styles of writing with various art forms and social justice education. Lyrical Bridges wishes to create a uniformed arts collective and bridge gaps between different social groups in our communities through education, performance, and awareness. For more information, click here.

DELLE IRANI (Ramona) is thrilled to be a part of this production at Looking Glass Theatre. Originally from Australia, she has appeared in a number of film and theatre productions in the city. However, you are most likely to recognize her as a Correspondent for BBC World News. For more information, visti www.delleirani.com

JOSH MAHAFFEY (Todd) is making his New York Theatre debut and couldn't be happier. Just last spring he graduated with a BFA in Acting from Otterbein College where he was seen in The Mousetrap (Christopher Wren), Frozen (Ralph), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ruckly). He would like to thank his family and friends, and his lady Megan. Enjoy the show!

TESSA REYNOLDS (Dora), a current Looking Glass acting intern, is proud to make her NYC acting debut in the Looking Glass Winter 2010 Forum. She recently moved to New York and attended Tarleton State University where she trained in theatre and improv. Some of her favorite roles included Elizabeth in The Crucible and Gilmer in Godspell. Tessa is so proud to have been a featured player in the IMPROV! troupe for three years. She is so grateful for the Looking Glass and the people she has met through the acting internship and forum. She loves her family, friends, Boyfriend and Texas two-stepping. Visit her blog!

Adam's Angels

JACQUELYN PRISKORN (playwright) has been writing plays since she took her first playwrighting course with Kitty Dubin in 1997. She has had several plays and films produced since that first class, including her award winning screenplay The Guest Room (recently shown at the Strasbourg Film Festival in France) and Love & Plutonium, which is currently available on DVD. As an actress, Ms Priskorn began writing to create more roles and audition material for herself and women like her. Check her out at www,jacquelynpriskorn.com.

KATHERINE SOMMER (director) is thrilled to be returning to Looking Glass after working as an AD/SM on the Spring 2010 Forum. She recently worked with the Project Girl Performance Collective as part of the NY International Fringe Festival, and she directed a play for Co-Op Theatre East’s Radio Play Series. Katherine is a graduate of Skidmore College where she directed various productions including Thornton Wilder: The Trivial and the Divine and John Guare’s The General of Hot Desire. She wants to thank her family for their never-ending support and her cast and crew for their hard work and dedication!

SCOTT ANDREWS (Sam) is a graduate of Penn State University's School of Theatre. A former Looking Glass Acting Intern (Summer 2010), Scott was recently seen as Dave in Snapshot, Menaleus in Helen, and Damian in Thank You Dark... He wishes everyone in the Forum a fantastic run!

LEIGH ADEL-ARNOLD (Eve) is thrilled to be working on her first piece at Looking Glass Theatre. Favorite roles include Jacie Triplethree in Comic Potential and Lil Bit in How I Learned to Drive. Much love to her incredible and supportive family. Break legs!

JAKE LASSER (Steve), currently a junior at Columbia University, is totally thrilled to be working with these absolute angels at Looking Glass. His recent roles include Nurse Boll in The Physicists at Barnard College and Kevin in the second season of the webseries Pirates vs. Hobos (look for it on YouTube!). He wishes to thank Laura Hirschberg and her amazing red hair for helping him get involved in this project. But especially for her hair.

JOSH MARTIN (Adam), currently a student at the New York Film Academy, is excited for this opportunity at Looking Glass. He moved to the city a little over two months ago, and since then, he has been in a number of student films and an episodic for The Onion Sports Network that will air on Comedy Central while attending full days of class three days a week. When he's not following his dream, Josh loves working out, listening to metal, and speaking to his English girlfriend over Skype. He would like to thank Katherine for casting him. AFTRA eligible.

CAROLINE RITCHIE (Lucy), a current Looking Glass acting intern, is thrilled to be onstage in her first NYC production. Caroline is also a troupe member with The Actor’s Project NYC. She wants to thank her amazing roommates Anna and Maggie for all their support…Love you girls.

ELIZABETH WESSA (Zadkiel) could most recently be seen in the shows Sex, Relationships and Sometimes . . . Love, as part of the Mysterical Player's Improv troupe series of shows: The Wishing Stone, Trick or Death, and Music Mayhem and Murder, and in numerous performances with the Beechwood Theatre Company where she was a resident actor for two years. Elizabeth's TV and film credits include roles in “Law & Order: SVU,” Running Wilde, and a featured role in The Third Footman--an independent film. Elizabeth would like to thank her family for all their love and support over the years.

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NINA MANSFIELD (playwright) is a CT-based playwright and fiction writer. Her plays have been performed throughout the United States and in Canada and Ireland, and are published by Smith and Krause, One Act Play Depot and YouthPLAYS. Her fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Chick Lit Review. Her YA Mystery novel Swimming Alone was a quarter-finalist in the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel contest. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators, the Short Mystery Fiction Society and Sisters in Crime.

LAURA HIRSCHBERG (director) is delighted to be back at the Looking Glass for her second show in the Forum. Her previous Forum production, Swallow It, won the Forum Award for Best Directorial Debut and tied for an honorable mention as the Forum's Best Production. Other directing credits include The Strongest at the WorkShop Theater and The Fantasticks, Arcadia, and Angels in America: Perestroika at Harvard College. She would like to thank her family, Nina, the Looking Glass staff, the cast, and her fellow directors.

JAKE MILLER (Pastor Tom) is thrilled to have his New York City debut at the Looking Glass Theatre. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, he received his bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia, after which he studied at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta before attending classes at the Stella Adler Studio here in New York. Favorite credits include: Noises Off (Frederick), Into the Woods (The Baker), and Look Homeward, Angel (Ben). Special thanks to Chris, Nicole, Megan, Jason, Adam, Amanda, Mom, and Dad.

TAYLOR MILLER (Harvey) is thrilled to be making his debut with Looking Glass Theatre. He is a recent graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, where he received his BFA in Acting. During and since his time at Marymount, Taylor has worked with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire and Allentown Shakespeare in the Park in Pennsylvania. TV and Film credits include "Law & Order" and and the independent pilot "Rolling" (Official Selection at NY Television Festival). Taylor would like to thank the folks at Looking Glass for this great opportunity, his very supportive family, his tubular roommates, and Alli, for just being Alli.

ERIN NEUFER* (Donna), a current Looking Glass acting intern, is a New York City-based actress. She is thrilled to be a part of Clean. She is a recent graduate of Ball State University, and holds a bachelors degree in Acting. In 2007, Erin received the Irene Ryan Award at The American College Theatre Festival Midwest competition and went on to nationals where she won the Margolis/Brown Fellowship at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Past credits include Quake (Lucy), The Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolen), Camino Real (Marguerite) and The Three Cuckolds (Franchescina). She would like to take an opportunity to thank her friends, family and those who live for the arts. Appearing courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.