Presented by Old Vic New Voices and hosted in partnership with The Public Theater

‘The river is within us the sea is all around us’

TS Eliot

Thursday 27 May 2010

The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange is a unique program to nurture 100 of the best young British and American theatre practitioners. Supported by the TS Eliot Estate, and hosted in partnership with The Public Theater, the US/UK Exchange provides 18–30 year old artists with the opportunity to develop their skills by engaging with the theatre communities on the other side of the Atlantic.

Selected from over 800 applicants, the talented teams are flown across the Atlantic for a challenging week of activity, including masterclasses, networking opportunities, rehearsals, meetings with senior industry representatives and theatre trips, as well as the opportunity to create new work with their peers. From this week, they are able to develop a greater understanding of their own theatre history, gain inspiration from new ways of working, and create networks within a foreign artistic community.

Following the 50 British artists’ trip to Manhattan last month, we are now thrilled to welcome 50 American artists to London to engage in a week of cultural activity at The Old Vic, the historical home of theatrical legends including Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and now under the artistic direction of Kevin Spacey.

For both Exchanges, the pinnacle of the week is a showcase of work for an invited audience.

For more information, please see www.oldvictheatre.com/usuk

THE TS ELIOT US/UK EXCHANGE

“TS Eliot’s reputation as the great modernist poet of the 20th century is secure but he was also a significant playwright and devoted to the dramatic arts – indeed he and his wife Valerie visited the theatre several times a week. By supporting The US/UK Exchange, and linking Eliot’s name with The Old Vic, we are hoping to commemorate the poet’s love of theatre and work as a playwright as well as helping to underpin the future of the theatre. We are immensely proud to be involved with this venture.“ Clare Reihill, TS Eliot Estate

It is with enormous pride that I welcome you to this showcase for The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange – a programme which encourages young artists to widen their horizons and engage in transatlantic collaboration.

Since becoming Artistic Director of The Old Vic in 2004, it’s been my dream to forge a closer relationship between this historic Theatre and the States. And I’m delighted by what we’ve achieved. Many American classics have graced our main stage, including Lawrence and Lee’s masterpiece Inherit the Wind as well as John Guare’s razor-sharp drama Six Degrees of Separation – the first major London revival in 18 years.

We are already enjoying the second successful year of The Bridge Project – a co-production with Brooklyn Academy of Music and Neal Street Productions, directed by Sam Mendes. The wonder of this project is that although it was born from a US/UK collaboration, the productions go on to tour to seven major cities worldwide. It truly shows that global reach can extend from strong transatlantic bonds.

Finally, we recently celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of a year-round programme for New York-based emerging artists – the OVNV Network. This programme mirrors our highly successful OVNV Club for London-based practitioners and already boasts over 250 members.

The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange is an incredible opportunity for members of The Old Vic’s family to build bonds across the Atlantic at the start of their professional careers. I hope you enjoy the evening and stay to chat to some of our brave young artists afterwards.

Kevin Spacey Artistic Director, The Old Vic

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Old Vic New Voices (OVNV) aims to support emerging talent, inspire young people and open up The Old Vic Theatre to new and diverse audiences.

The OVNV Club offers UK-based actors, writers, directors and producers between the ages of 18–25 (and for some projects, 18–30) the opportunity to participate in our award-winning programme for emerging talent.

Full membership of the Club is via our annual competition The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices, giving you priority access to all Club resources for three years. Associate membership of the Club is free and you can sign up on our on-line portal, www.ideastap.com. Benefits include access to masterclasses and workshops led by some of the most creative minds in the business, lively networking receptions, mentoring support, free rehearsal space and exceptional showcase opportunities. You will also be the first to hear about new opportunities, such as when applications open to The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange.

Recent events have included a panel discussion on coping with theatrical crises, featuring actor Anthony Head, writer Rebecca Lenkiewicz and director David Grindley; a Mentor session with multi-Tony award-winning director Hal Prince and a debate about the role of women in theatre with Old Vic producer Kate Pakenham, Old Vic trustee Joyce Hytner and director Anna Mackmin.

For more information on the programme, see www.oldvictheatre.com/club or e-mail newvoices@oldvictheatre.com.

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Time Warner is the lead sponsor of the OVNV Club. The Club has also received generous contributions from The D’Oyly Carte Charitable Trust, The Fenton Arts Trust, The Idlewild Trust, The Mackintosh Foundation, The Marina Kleinwort Charitable Trust, The Stanley Picker Trust, Bernice Chitnis and other individual supporters of The Old Vic Club.

Photos: Manuel HarlanLeft: Specialism Spa workshop at The Old Vic; Right: Mentor session with Hal PrincePhotos: Ben Carpenter

“Old Vic New Voices has been, and continues to be, completely invaluable to me. Without their advice and guidance I would not be where I am today” OVNV Club member

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Walker Hare Actor Off-Broadway: All Dolled Up (Acorn Theatre); Flanagan’s Wake (SoHo Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (New World Stages); Beard Envy (Barrow Group Theatre) and One Arm (LAByrinth Theatre Company’s TENN ‘99). Film and television: Dawn of Conviction; Echo 49 (www.echo49.com); Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Training: Circle in the Square, Upright Citizens Brigade. Preston Martin Actor Theatre includes: Kaspar in Kaspar Hauser: A Foundling’s Opera (directed by Elizabeth Swados, Flea Theater); his one man show Fun Design with Svelte! [Can You Believe How Fun This Is?!] (Daryl Roth II); Hedwig in Hedwig & the Angry Inch (Tisch); Twelve Ophelias (McCarren Park) and The Conspirators (opposite Kathleen Turner, The Ohio Theater). BFA NYU/Tisch. Jacob PinionActorRoles include: Johnny Baseball (workshop); Art, directed by Diane Paulus); 999 BC (York Theater); The Bacchae (NYU Mainstage, Warsaw Int); Theatre Festival (directed by Kevin Khulke); Sweeney Todd and Kiss Me, Kate (Booth Theatre); Grand Hotel (Connely Theater); Night & Her Stars and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Children’s Theater of Charlotte). BFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Margo Seibert Actor Theatre includes: Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Old Vic New Voices); The Phantom Tollbooth (US tour); A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre); Orestes – A Tragic Romp, Arcadia and School for Scandal (all for Folger Theatre); The Boy Detective Fails and Saving Aimee (both for Signature Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof, Of Mice & Men and Cinderella (all for Olney Theatre Center) and Reefer Madness (Studio Theatre).www.margoseibert.com Tai Verley Actor Tai is a born and bred New Yorker and MFA Graduate of The New School for Drama. Theatre credits include: Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed by Austin Pendelton); Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (directed by Anders Cato); Generation Graffiti (Sam French Short Play Festival 2009, directed by Diana Basmajian & Malinda Sorci). Darren Canady Writer Darren’s work has been seen at the Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fremont Centre Theatre, and Congo Square Theatre. He previously won the Alliance Theatre’s Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award. MFA Dramatic

Writing, New York University. Playwriting Fellow, The Juilliard School. He is a member of Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New Writers’ Group. Jimmy Maize Director Jimmy has worked on numerous projects with Tectonic Theater Project, including: I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Broadway); Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Center Theater Group) and The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (Lincoln Center). He is Artistic Director of The Theater Bureau and an MFA candidate at Columbia University. Kelcie BeeneProducerKelcie is a producer for The US/UK Exchange (AD: Ari Edelson) and The 24 Hour Company with whom she has produced events on and off Broadway since 2007. She is also producer and founding member of At Play, an emerging artists’ group that works to support its peers of all theatrical disciplines.

Walker Hare Preston Martin Jacob Pinion Margo Seibert Tai Verley

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As artists and theatre practitioners, we share an unbridled drive to create work that touches and inspires the widest scope of humanity in the hopes that we can generate conversations among the people. It is this artistic commonality that threads the transatlantic divide and the spark of many discussions had over the past two months between The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange artists. London and New York City, two epicentres of cultural and artistic fervor, brought together by 100 writers, directors, actors and producers. It’s been an incredible journey.

The Londoners’ visit to the US back in April saw the immediate start of what has become an invaluable cross-cultural discussion of theatre and brought with it a diverse array of backgrounds and experience. How is it that UK taxpayers freely accept government-subsidised theatre? Why does it cost three times as much to produce a Broadway show than on the West End? Why doesn’t the US have ice cream at intermission?

In typical New York fashion, we were very eager to get started on our London excursion and, with scroll in hand, met with London’s top theatre experts. Between teatime and pub-crawls, the information gathered is just the start in our efforts to better understand UK’s steeped theatre tradition while melding it with our Americana sensibility.

Today’s presentation is a chance for us to share a slice of the new American theatre and provide a glimpse into the talents of our theatre artists. We hope this is the beginning of many transatlantic collaborations. The US Company would like to thank the TS Eliot Estate, Old Vic New Voices and the Public Theater for providing such an opportunity.

The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange 2010 Company

Welcome from the US Company

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Lauren Hines Actor 99 Ways... (Public Theater, US/UK Exchange); The 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices (Atlantic Theater); The Big Stew and Revenge of the Space Pandas (both for Atlantic Theater Company); (baptism) (Playwrights Horizons, SFF); Work (Ars Nova); Al’s Business Cards (Theater Row); Television includes: Rescue Me (FX Network). Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.laurenhines.com

Danny Mendoza Actor Danny is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (with a BFA in Film & Television Production) and works as an actor, producer, director, and writer in theatre, film, television, and new media. He also does freelance videography and editing and is based out of New York City.

Christina Pumariega Actor Theatre includes: Catch 22 (Lortel); Lotus Feet (Theater for the New City); All Eyes & Ears (INTAR); The Miracle at Naples (Huntington); The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Theatre, DC); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage). Film: Notes on Being Young and The Funeral. Upcoming: Viola in Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Theatre, DC). Training: MFA Acting, NYU. Christina was also an apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Carlton Tanis Actor Carlton is a graduate of Syracuse University. NY credits include: From the House of the Dead (directed by Patrice Chereau, Metropolitan Opera); Surrender and Auto Da Fe (International WOW Company). Regional credits: The Dybbuk (Syracuse Stage) and A Wonderful Life (NYSTI). Tour: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New England Shakespeare Festival).

Nikole Beckwith Writer Nikole Beckwith’s plays have been read at Ensemble Studio Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Rattlestick and Barrow Street Theater, among others. She is a member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers’ Group 2010, EST’s Youngblood and The Story Pirates.

Jesca Prudencio Director Traces of Eruption (The Movement Theatre Company); The Magic Cave of Salamanca, Infancy and BFE (NYU); Balik Puso and The Flipside (International Filipino Association NYU). As Ping Chong & Company’s Production Associate, she has assistant directed I Will Not Be Sad in This World, The Philadelphia Story and The Devil You Know. BFA: NYU Tisch.

Branden Huldeen Producer Branden is the New Works Director and Festival Artistic Director for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. He is also the Managing Director of Dalliance Theater. He was on the producing teams of Kingdom and Maccabeat! at NYMF and Line Producer of Missing Celia Rose and The Sacrifices at SPF. He received a BS and MA at NYU.

Lauren Hines Danny Mendoza Christina Pumariega Carlton Tanis

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Lauren BlumenfeldActorNYC: Sailor Man (Winner 2008 NYC Fringe Award); Real (Abingdon); Man is Man (HERE). We Are Not Birds (Enjoy Your Flight!), Burbach/LuPone and Barack & Me (all for Ars Nova); Anne Kauffman in Six Degrees of Separation, After the Revolution, Golden Gate, Egg-Layers and Chopin’s Preludes (all for Williamstown Threatre Festival) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Nicholas Martin). Film: The Rebound (Bart Freundlich) and A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuaron). Training: Tisch, NYU. www.LaurenLovesYou.com

Laura GourdineActorTraining: New School for Drama (MFA), Brown University (BA). Theatre includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed by Austin Pendleton); Travesties (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Generation Graffiti (Samuel French Festival); A Young Lady of Property and Women in Motion (both for New School for Drama). Voiceover: The Oldsmobiles (The Flea Theater). Cabaret performances at The Cell Theater and Sweet Rhythm.

Franck JusteActorFranck studied theatre at Binghamton University and has been working since 2007. Credits include: Othello in Othello Response (Tealight Productions); Rescue Me (FX Network); Happy Hour (MCTC); Great Goodnes of Life by Amiri Baraka and Slave Ship by Amiri Baraka (both for NuAfrikan Theater) and Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie by Don Peterson (The Dramatist Guild).

Sean O’HaganActorNY theatre includes: Behind All Lines (Theatre Row); Not from Canada (FringeNYC); Compression of a Casualty (The Brick) and The Late Henry Moss (White Horse Theatre Company). Regional includes: The Position (Daniel Arts Center-Great Barrington, MA) and Selling Arnold (The Complex-Hollywood, CA). International includes: W.M.D. (Just the Low Points) (tour of Belgium and the Netherlands). Sean is a founding member of Brooklyn-based theatre company, Sponsored By Nobody.

Josh KoenigsbergWriterJosh’s work has been produced/developed at The Public Theater, The Atlantic Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2econd Stage, Ars Nova, Naked Angels, The Old Vic, Theatre Row, and the 2009

Broadway Pink Campaign at the American Airlines Theater. His play Al’s Business Cards is published in Plays & Playwrights 2010.

Damon KrometisDirectorArtistic Director credits at Examined Man Theatre include: Thinking Makes It So; When in Disgrace; Spaceship to Venus and The Light Inside. NYC: The Treatment; Othello; Sitting on the Edge. Williamstown: Mohammed and the Sleeping Cat; Poison Project; 365 Plays. JMU: Angels in America; References to Salvador Dalí Makes Me Hot and Betty’s Summer Vacation.

Cathy BencivengaProducerGeneral Manager for The Actors Company Theatre and Managing Director of The Internationalists. Producer credits include: The Cocktail Party, The Late Christopher Bean, Incident at Vichy, Bedroom Farce, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, The Runner Stumbles, The Sea and Home (TACT Off Broadway at Theatre Row); Tejas Verdes (THALATTA!); Six Degrees of Separation, The Actor’s Nightmare; Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You and Take Me Out (Gallery Players).

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Lauren Blumenfeld Laura Gourdine Franck Juste Sean O’Hagan

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Ngozi Anyanwu Actor Ngozi ia a proud first generation Nigerian/American. Her training includes Point Park University and British American Drama Academy. She has performed regionally at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Quantum Theater, The City, The McCarter Theater and Off Broadway at the Rattlestick Theater. Ngozi will also be pursuing her MFA in the fall.

Ben Beckley Actor Theatre includes: The Cocktail Party (TACT); The Illusion (Berkshire Theatre Festival); White Hot (HERE); The Confidence Man (Woodshed Collective); Ophelia: Opera in Blue (Prospect Theater); Welcome to Nowhere (Temporary Distortion – US: PS 122; international: Mois Multi, Usine C, Via/Exit Festival, Salzburg Festival); Cato, ‘Twas (premiere by Chris Durang); Los Angeles (Flea Theater); Clementine and The Three Sisters (The Assembly – associate member). Upcoming: The Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Gavin Quinn. Elizabeth A Davis Actor Favourites include: Emily and The Cherry Orchard (Theatre Row Off-Broadway); Of Mice & Men (Urban Stages); Dirty Business (Florida Stage) and A Streetcar Named Desire (Cleveland Play House).

Television includes: All My Children, One Life to Live and Fringe. National Crest commercial and Trident print ad currently out. MFA, The Cleveland Play House.

Adam Kern Actor Tiresias in Phoenician Women (Moscow Art); Callistus in Caligula (Classical Theatre of Harlem); Casca (performed understudy) in Julius Caesar (American Repertory Theatre) and Romero in Elizabeth Swados’ Missionaries (multiple productions). Other credits include: Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar; Deuteronomy in Cats; Dave in The Full Monty and Bohr (understudy) in Copenhagen. Television includes: StartUp (Halogen). Proud member of Actors’ Equity. www.adam-kern.com

Jerome A Parker Writer Jerome, from the Bronx, received a BA in Theatre from Williams College, an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and studied costumes at the Juilliard School. Winner of the Lorraine Hansberry Award, he is proud to be a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group in 2010. www.jeromeAparker.net

Johnson Henshaw Director Johnson Henshaw is a director and founding member of The New Tenants, a conceptual art collective. Previous directing credits include: Privileged White Kids Talk About _______; He Only Knows What He Creates Because He Creates Everything He Knows; Endangered Missing and Pillow Talk. Johnson has developed work at The Public, NYTW, PS 122 and New Georges. Alona Fogel Producer Theatre includes: Fair Harvard (CSC); Coney Island Avenue (NYTW); La Femme est Morte or Why I Should Not F*!# my Son (PS122); Barbarians (Shapiro Theatre); Camino Real (Riverside Church); Waiting for Lefty (Shapiro Theatre); Romeo & Juliet and Taming of the Shrew (both for CSC). She is currently in the MFA Program at Columbia University.

Ngozi Anyanwu Ben Beckley Elizabeth A Davis Adam Kern

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Hannah GaffActorHannah has a BA in Theatre and Classics from Grand Valley State University. She is also a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Theatre includes: Imogen in Cymbeline; Smeraldina in Servant of Two Master’s; Mirandolina in Mirandolina; Rosaline in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Jocasta in Oedipus. Carl HowellActorOff Broadway theatre includes: Twelfth Night (The Pearl). Regional: Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (all with Hudson Valley Shakespeare). As a Collaborating Artist with Shelby Company: Say Say Oh Playmate (New Orleans Fringe); New Beulah (Planet Connections Outstanding Ensemble) and We Men of Science (The Network). Carl trained at NYU. Paten HughesActorTraining: BA from Washington and Lee University, RADA and T Schreiber. Theatre includes Othello, Three Sisters (Old Vic New Voices); The Shape of Things, My Name is Rachel Corrie, The Long Christmas Ride Home and Tits & Blood by Neil LaBute (Edinburgh Fringe). Television includes: CityChat, ZRock and One Life to Live.

Kane PrestenbackActorRegional: Swine Palace (Barry Kyle); Shakespeare & Co. New York: Circle in the Square (Theodore Mann); Public Theater, Old Vic N/V & John Gould Rubin. Notable roles: Bobby Strong in Urinetown; Arthur Robertson in American Clock; Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors and Nathan Leopold in Thrill Me. Training: Circle in the Square. Puppetry- Disney Theatrical. AEA Member. www.kaneprestenback.com Anna MoenchWriterAnna plays include The Pillow Book, In Quietness, and Great Eastern. She has been produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Flea, Dixon Place, Looking Glass Theatre, FringeNYC, and SpokeTheHub. Awards: Jerome Travel Grant, Tennessee Williams Scholarship (Sewanee Writers’ Conference), EST/Sloan Commission. Memberships: 2010 Emerging Writers’ Group (Public) and Youngblood (EST).

David F ChapmanDirectorDirecting: Andrew Muir’s Gaugleprixtown (Studio42); Bekah Brunstetter’s Roberta Laughs (DramaLeague); Sex of the Baby (NYU); Feast in Time of Plague (Metropolis Opera Project); Yes to Everything! (Ars Nova); Suicide/Joke (FringeNYC) and Summer & Smoke (Vietnam). Assisting director: Addams Family (Broadway); Playwrights Horizons, Chicago Shakespeare. Solo Performance: London (Camden People’s Theatre), Edinburgh, Montreal, Budapest. DramaLeague Fellow, DirectorsLabChicago, Fulbrighter in Hungary. Gillian FallonProducerGillian has been working as a performing arts administrator with Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) since 2005. During this time Gillian has served as a marketing manager for productions and presentations of theatre, opera, music, and dance by leading international artists and companies including Trisha Brown Dance Company, The Bridge Project, TR Warszawa, and Deborah Warner.

Hannah Gaff Carl Howell Paten Hughes Kane Prestenback

Axel Avin JrActor Off Broadway: Ruined (original company, Manhattan Theater Club) and Streamers (Roundabout Theater Company). Regional theatre: A Raisin in the Sun (Virginia Stage Company); Fences (Lorraine Hansberry Theater) and A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater). Film: A Brave New Wonderful. Training: American Musical and Dramatic Academy, The Public Theater Shakespeare Lab, MFA American Conservatory Theater.

Vandit Harshad Bhatt Actor Vandit was born and raised in India and holds a BFA in Acting. Credits include: The Pillowman; Red Light Winter; Militant Language: A Play with Sand (World Premiere); The Great Recession (World Premiere, The Flea Theatre) and Damascus (US premiere). Television/film includes: Mercy (NBC) and The Perfect Fix.

Adewunmi M Ogunfowora Actor Adewunmi currently trains at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Finishing her primary training at Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in Method Acting, she plans on continuing her advanced training at the Experimental Theatre Wing. Theatre includes: My Worrisome Heart (Studio Theatre) and From Rodgers to Heart (Joe’s Pub).

Tatiana Pico Actor Trained (MFA) at the Actors Studio Drama School in New York. Credits include: Trickle (EST); Dirt (Theater Row); Every Love Story Ends in Tears (HERE) and 365 Days/Plays (INTAR/The Public Theater). Film includes: Evergreen; Accidents at Home and How They Happen; Manuel y Mariana and Intercambios. Co-Creator of the webcomic, www.BodegaAve.com.

Jesse Cameron Alick Writer Playwright, poet and Zen Master. Artistic Director for Subjective Theatre Company. Playwright with Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood programme. East Coast Editor of High Contrast Review. Freelance journalist and essayist. Studied with Adrienne Kennedy. Writing concentrates on events with major political ramifications, and religious work that takes a latitudarian analysis of the Almighty.

Snehal Desai Director Theater includes: Baal; Laura’s Bush; Booty Fire; Edward II and FOBoeing. Original works include: Finding Ways to Prove You’re NOT an Al-Qaeda Terrorist When You’re Brown; Sita/Sati: Apu A-Sleep and Whaler. Resident Director with Ensemble Studio Theatre. Member of Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. BA: Emory University. MFA: Yale School of Drama. www.snehaldesai.com

Steve Tate Producer Steve has worked in regional and commercial Broadway for over nine years and has since established Tate Theatrics, a full service theatrical producing office. Credits include: The Blue Flower (Diane Paulus’ A.R.T.); award-winning Green Eyes (Fringe); Onward (59E59 Theaters); Prospect Theater Company 10th Anniversary Concert, and The Four (Hudson Guild). www.TateTheatrics.com

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Axel Avin Jr Vandit Harshad Bhatt Adewunmi M Ogunfowora Tatiana Pico

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Stuart LuthActorSelected Theater: Three Sisters directed by Eve Best (Andrey); Speak Truth to Power at The Public; Just Knots (Samuel French Festival Winner). Television: One Life to Live and Dear Harvard. Improvisation: Performance of a Lifetime (Upright Citizens Brigade). Sketch comedy: Slightly Known People. Training: Eric Morris, Anthony Bova, David Marshall Grant.

Stacy Osei-KuffourActorStacy graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and received a BFA at the Stella Adler Studio. Stacy also writes plays; and her play The Painter, was nominated for Best Plays of 2010 at The Strawberry Festival. Previous roles include: Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, (Rada) and Nursie (understudy) in Vieux Carre (Pearl Theatre).

Bianca SamsActorBianca graduated from NYU’s Tisch. She became their first Triple Major: Acting, Play/Screen writing, Africana Studies and a minor in Journalism. Her acting credits include: Ruined; In the Continuum; the motion picture Rent and voiceover role for video games and commercials. For more information go to www.biancasams.com.

Michael-Anthony Souza Actor Credits: Books Cook! (Atlantic Theater); 25th Spelling Bee (Steinhardt Theater); Children of Eden (Robert Moss Theater); El Grito Del Bronx (Fredrick Loewe Theater) and Songs for a New World (Gallatin Theater Troupe). He has performed at Town Hall, Madison Square Garden and Lincoln Center. Trained at the Atlantic Theater Company and CAP 21 and graduated from NYU; Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama.

Fernanda Coppel Writer Fernanda received her MFA from NYU. Her play Chimi-Changas & Zololft was the winner of the Asuncion Festival at Pregones Theater (2010). She’s received the John Holden Playwriting Award and the Le Comte Du Nouy Prize. Fernanda is currently in the Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship Program at the Juilliard School.

Jess ChayesDirector Jess is Co-Artistic Director of The Assembly and a freelance director and producer. Her work has been seen at such venues as The Ontological Theater, The Cherry Pit, The Brick Theater, UNDER St Marks and the Edinburgh Fringe (Fringe First Nomination). Founding member of New Georges’ The Jam.

Jennifer TaylorProducerJennifer is the Marketing Manger for The Living Room for Artists/Summer Play Festival. Producing and marketing credits include: King Hedley II; Iphigenia 2.0; Queens Boulevard (The Musical); Paradise Park, Edward Albee’s Occupant (Signature Theatre Company); Better Not Touch That (Lift Studio); Hello Dolly (Liberty Showcase Theater); A Song in Every Silence (Muhlenberg College).

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Stuart Luth Stacy Osei-Kuffour Bianca Sams Michael-Anthony Souza

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Artistic Director Kevin SpaceyChief Executive Sally GreeneProducer Kate PakenhamProducer John Richardson

Development Director Vivien WallaceFinance Director Vanessa HarrisonMarketing Director Catrin JohnHead of Old Vic New Voices Steve WinterBusiness Director Kate Varah

Project Advisor to Sally Greene Emily BlacksellTheatre Administrator Sarah BoudIntern (AAOV) Cheryl-Lyn BrazaitisDevelopment Assistant Libby BrodieGeneral Manager Ros Brooke-TaylorOVNV IdeasTap Education Officer Shaka BunsieOVTC Intern Amerlia OsbornMembership Manager Katie FathersMarketing Assistant Lucy FaulksOVNV Club Manager Alexander FerrisAdministrative Assistant to Sally Greene Fiona FinlowAssistant Producer Simon FliegnerOVNV Intern Rebecca GoodenFinance Assistant Komal HalaiDeputy Director of Development Natasha HarrisAdministrator (AAOV) Rick HayashiDuty Manager Katy HeavensOVTC Intern Laura HeffesSenior Management Accountant Alex IliopoulosFinance Assistant Sheena JadejaManagement Accountant Kinga JakubowskaProduction Assistant Hamish JenkinsonIntern (AAOV) Clare KellyDuty Manager Daniela KrohmIntern (AAOV) Eric KruegerFoH and Merchandise Manager Dan Kujawski192 Event Coordinator Rosie Marsh Senior Accountant Mike MatthewsManagement Accountant Antony McCoyFacilities Manager Deano McCullaghManagement Accountant Bina Mehta Trusts and Foundations Manager Victoria NealeAssistant to Sally Greene Sophie NetchaefStage Door Keeper Steve NisbetEvents Coordinator Emma OliverMarketing Executive Becky PepperOVNV Project Manager James QuaifeOVNV Education Projects Officer Bryony RobertsStage Door Manager Ned SeagoTheatre Manager Liz Sillett

OVNV Club & Network Manager Rachael StevensOVNV Network Officer Stephen Stout Corporate Manager, Development Lisa SwinneyManagement Accountant Bina TankariaHead of Events Tina Temple-MorrisTheatre Administrator (Maternity Cover) Kimmy Thomas

Box Office (ATG) Jennifer Anderson, Linsey Buchanan, Dominic Byrne, Sophie Hickman, ‘Didi’ Teh Zahirah ZuhuriMedia Consultant Freud CommunicationsProduction Insurance Walton & Parkinson LtdProduction Legal Services Michael Simkins LLPUS/UK Exchange Programme Design Peter Collins

Associates Edward HallDavid LiddimentAnthony PageMatthew Warchus

The Old Vic Theatre Company Board of Directors Sally Greene OBE (Chair)Vanessa HarrisonKate PakenhamJohn RichardsonLady Ann SamuelKevin SpaceyVivien Wallace

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Director of Shakespeare Initiative Barry EdelsteinShakespeare Lab Administrator Ian HerseyShakespeare Lab Associate Jessica Zweiman

Director of Special Projects Maria GoyanesArtistic Intern Johnson Henshaw

Under the Radar Mark RussellUnder the Radar Associate Meiyin Wang

Master Writer Chair Suzan-Lori Parks Native Theater Initiative Fellow Betsy Theobald RichardsDirector of Production & Facility Management Ruth E SternbergProduction Manager John M. Frasco Associate Director of Production and Facility Manage-ment Angela Delaney Kircher Assistant Production Manager Ashley B Delegal Workshop & Festival Production Manager Bethany Ford Workshop & Festival Assistant Production Manager Leighann Snyder Production Administrator Nicole Drespel Assistant to Ms Sternberg and Ms Delany Kircher Nicole M Calcado Scenery Supervisor Jim Szekely Assistant Scenery Supervisor Janene Husband Charge Painter Hugh Morris-Stan Costume Master Luke McDonough Audio Supervisor Tom Painter Assistant Audio Supervisor Gabriel Bennett Properties Master R Jay Duckworth Assistant Properties Master Eric Hart Lighting Supervisor Zach Murphy Assistant Lighting Supervisor Thad Horst Lighting Department Second Electrician Jonathan Grenay Operations and Facility Manager Ishmael (Izee) Figueroa Building Engineer Al Rios Operations Assistants Giordani Collado, Harry Colon, Eric Delgado, Frank Fried, Adonis Garcia, Raymond Harris, Alba Mendez, Aracelis Mendez, Clara Mendez, Javier Morales, Jose Paulino, Ra-fael Paulino, Michael Perkins, Rob Resto, Hector Rivera, Burton Strachan Information Desk Kenneth Leslie, Lorraine Sanchez

Director of Information Technology Robert CohnProgramming and Database Manager Jason DoveIT Associate Ian Malinowski IT Associate Rehmat Qadir

Director of Ticket Services Jimmy GodseyAssociate Director of Ticket Services Alicia ChaissonBox Office Manager Anthony ContyStaff Kaleda Davis, Joya Italiano, Jessie LaGoy, Theresa Pennell, Marvin Rodriguez, Jenny Beth Snyder, Spring Streetman

Music Theater Initiative Readers Merry Loomis, Rob Shapiro, Michael R Jackson, Clea Alsip, Debo-rah Blumenthal

Script Readers Ben Beckley, Lauren Hayes, Tom Herman, Lauren Keating, Pamela Thielman, Siobhan Lockhart, Alex Mallory, Eric Meyer, Michele Travis

2010 Emerging Writers Group Augusto Amador, Nikole Beckwith, Javierantonio Gonzalez, Sevan Greene, Sukari Jones, Aaron Levy, Laura Marks, Anna Moench, Dominique Morisseau, Jerome Parker, Stella Ragsdale

Special ServicesManaging Director of Joe’s Pub Kevin AbbottAssociate Managers Rebecca Elroy, KB Berton, Jersey KatzInstitutional Design Pentagram/Paula ScherPhotographers Michal Daniel, George E Joseph, Joan Marcus, Carol Rosegg, Martha SwopeAttorneys Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison / Charles H Googe, Jr, Esq andCarolyn J Casselman, Esq; Littler Mendelson, PC / Gerald T Hathaway; Dewey & LeBouefHouse Physician Dr Bruce YaffeAccountants Lutz & CarrArchitectural Consultant Polshek PartnershipInsurance Arthur J Gallagher Risk Management Services/AliceFay Prine

PUBLIC THEATER

Artistic Director Oskar EustisExecutive Director Andrew D HamingsonAssistant to the Artistic Director and the Master Writer Chair Jesse AlickArtistic Director’s Intern Kathryn Kozlark Artistic Director’s Intern Rachel Wohlander Assistant to the Executive Director Rosalind Barbour Executive Director’s Intern Bethany BasileGeneral Manager Andrea NellisAssociate General Manager Emily BruceAssociate General Manager Steven ShowalterCompany Manager Kevin Condardo Company Manager Rebecca Sherman General Management Coordinator Jennifer ChappellGeneral Management Intern Maggie DeMarcoTheater Manager Curt LutmanAssistant Theater Manager Ryan AndreasAssistant Theater Manager Sonya LeBrunHouse Managers Delveeta Bullock, Chris Capozzi, Jasmine Ford, Kat Glaudini, Cortney Powell, Mi-chelle Resto, Joni Talisaysay, Teresa WoodallSecurity Greg Allen, Joseph Conty, Greg Garner, Guy Hill, Michael Mele, Jose Paulissen-Dougan, James Ponce, David Rey, Morris Rhodes, Leif Steinert, Kira Stockdale, Michael WatkinsSecurity/First Responder Karen Lichtman

Associate Artistic Director Mandy Hackett Literary Manager Elizabeth FrankelArtistic Associate Jocelyn PrinceLiterary Assistant Lisa KopitskyLiterary Intern Sam Byron, Christopher Chan

Associate Producer Jenny GerstenAssistant to the Associate Producer Eric LouieAssociate Producer’s Intern Samantha BrahmsAssociate Producer’s Intern Benjamin Otto

Director of Development Casey Reitz Director of Individual Giving Meridith Burkus Manager of Institutional Giving Alex Tonetta Corporate Partnership Consultant Rose Polidoro Manager of Special Events Dana Rosen Development Database Coordinator Rey Pamatmat Partners Program Coordinator Tori Scott Development Associate, Institutional Giving Maureen Donohue Capital Campaign Associate Sandra Klass Development Assistant, Special Events Anna Frenkel Development Assistant, Individual Giving Rachel Weiss

Partners Program Assistant Julie Danni Development Interns Liz Grefrath, Amy Grossman, Cassie Newman

Director of Marketing Nella VeraSenior Graphic Designer Katie EstesSenior Marketing Associate Caitlin Fitzwater Audience Development Assistant Adam FrankMarketing Assistant Jasmine FordMarketing Intern Katie Britton Graphics Intern Robert Medkeff

Director of Communications Candi AdamsPress Manager Sam NeumanPress Intern Julie Danni Casting Jordan Thaler, Heidi GriffithsCasting Associate Amber Wakefield Casting Intern Kate Murray Director of Capital Projects & Government Relations Adrienne DobsovitsCapital Projects Administrator David LoewyCapital Projects Consultant Noah Matalon

Director of Finance Daniel C SmithBudget Manager Danny WilliamsHuman Resources Manager Liz SharpPayroll Manager Nicole CarpinoFinance Assistant Megan MarshallFinance Intern Frances O’Connell

Director of Joe’s Pub Shanta ThakeProgramming Manager Sara Beesley Marketing & Communications Associate Alexander Knowlton Artist Relations Associate Jo Lampert Joe’s Pub Assistant Michele Renkovski Production Manager Jon Shriver Lighting Designer KJ Hardy Sound Engineer Jeff Somoya Archival Artist Michael Arthur House Photographer Kevin Yatarola Intern Jessica Felix, Lee Cahill, Ellen Lueck

Director of Music Theater Initiative Ted SperlingMusic Theater Initiative Assistant Royce VavrekMusic Theater Initiative Fellow Gabriel KahaneMusic Theater Initiative Interns Mike Cohen

The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange 2010 Members

US ActorsNgozi AnyanwuAxel Avin JrBen BeckleyVandit Harshad BhattLauren BlumenfeldElizabeth A DavisHannah GaffLaura GourdineWalker HareLauren HinesCarl HowellPaten HughesFrank JusteAdam KernStuart LuthPreston MartinDanny MendozaAdewunmi M OgunfoworaSean O’HaganStacy Osei-KuffourTatiana PicoJacob PinionKane PrestenbackChristina PumariegaBianca SamsMargo SeibertMichael-Anthony SouzaCarlton TanisTai Verley

US WritersJesse Cameron AlickNikole BeckwithDarren CanadyFernanda CoppelJosh KoenigsbergAnna MoenchJerome A Parker

US DirectorsDavid ChapmanJessica ChayesSnehal DesaiJohnson HenshawDamon KrometisJimmy MaizeJesca Prudencio

US ProducersKelcie BeeneCathy BencivengaGillian FallonAlona FogelBranden HuldeenSteve TateJennifer Taylor

UK Actors Sarah Amankwah Abigail Andjel Ian Keir Attard Anniwaa Buachie Kezia Burrows Calum Callaghan Sarah Calver Rob Cavazos Joanna Christie Okorie Chukwu Alistair Cope Simon Darwen Alex Felton Scott Hazell Antonia Kinlay Max Krupski Nico Lennon Phil Matthews Katie McGuinness Jane Murphy Iris Roberts Emmy Sainsbury Ben Sewell Sarah Sweeney Bronagh Taggart Mark Tintner Gary Trainor Jack Wharrier Leah Whitaker

UK Writers Tim Cowbury Omar El-Khairy David Kantounas Duncan MacMillan Erin McMahon Corinne Salisbury Sarah Solemani

UK Directors Simon Evans Gemma Fairlie Des Kennedy Adam Lenson Stef O’Driscoll Caroline Steinbeis Teunkie van der Sluijs

UK Producers Tom Atkins Josh Black Veronica Humphris Emma Laugier Lucy Oliver-Harrison Hanna Osmolska Rachel Tyson

‘We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be

to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time’

TS Eliot

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