The
Writers
Meredith
Arena
is
a photographer who lives and works in Brooklyn. She has taught
photography at the high school level and works on occasion with
Pratt students. She had a showing of her work in the DUMBO Arts
Festival this past Fall.
Go to Meredith's Photographs
by Iraqi Citizens, 2004.
Brian
Boyles
is
co-founder of Running Man Theater Company. His most recent play,
The Pet Goat: A Pentagon Fable was staged at WAX, Williamsburg
in August, 2004. As 2005 broke, Brian served as a curator for
the 11th Annual New Year's Day Spoken Word Extravaganza at the
Bowery Poetry Club, directed by Bruce Weber. Go to Brian's
review of Svejk.
James Comtois
is
the co-artistic director and resident playwright of the Off-Off
Broadway theater company, Nosedive
Productions. He has written plays, columns and articles
about throw pillows. His blog, "Jamespeak," can be found on
Nosedive's website.
Go to James' review of The
Fever.
Eileen Connolly
currently
teaches Voice and Shakespeare at The School for Film and Television
and The New Actors Workshop. She is the founding Artistic Director
of Wallis Knot
Inc., an arts and academic collective. As a painter, she
has had exhibits in New York City and Philadelphia. She was
delighted to paint a cow for New York Cow Parade 2000.
Go to Eileen's reviews of The
Freedom Salon, The
War Room and Peace
Piece.
Alec Duffy
is
a playwright/director who, in nasty political times, moonlights
as The Gentle Troubadour. Plays include America the Beautiful:
Can I get a Sacco & Vanzetti Value Meal, super-sized, with a
Diet Coke to go, please? and The
Top Ten People of the Millennium Sing Their Favorite Schubert
Lieder.
Go to Alec's review of Live
Patriot Acts: Patriots Gone Wiiiiild!
Corrine Fitzpatrick
is
new to New York and is learning the city. She is partially-employed,
volunteers at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's, is auditing
a human rights course and writes poetry/fiction.
Go to Corrine's review of DEMO:
A Demonstration in Words.
Jason Grote
is
a playwright whose work has been presented at Soho Rep, The
Flea, The American Living Room @ HERE, The Ohio, The Makor,
and Chashama, and is widely anthologized, including in the BACK
STAGE BOOK OF NEW AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS 2004. He is currently
co-chair of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.
Go to Jason's convention-spanning
blog.
Zhen Heinemann
is
in the pursuit of yet another degree and will soon be looking
for a job (to pay back student loans) if she doesn't get into
yet another school for yet another degree.
Go to Zhen's coverage of Poems
Across the City, Freedom
of Expression National Monument, Dark
River: Diary of a Nobody, Only
We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy, PATRIOT
Act: A Public Meditation, and The
White Plague.
Donovan King
is
Artistic Facilitator for Canada's Optative
Theatrical Laboratories.
Go to Donovan's convention wrap, Carnival
Meets Kafka: Arbitrary Repression at the RNC.
Aaron Leichter
is
a freelance writer and dramaturg in New York City. He has worked
with the Red Bull Theater and Manhattan Ensemble Theater, provided
freelance dramaturgy for productions around the world, and written
for various websites in New York City.
Go to Aaron's reviews of Electra,
Antigone,
and This Jungle
of Cities.
Victoria Linchon
has
been involved in downtown New York City theater for nearly 20
years as an actress, writer and theater producer. Her most recent
play, Rite of Return, premiered at Theater for the New
City in April 2004.
Go to Victoria's reviews of Guantánamo,
The Trial of God,
Control
Room, About
Baghdad and An
Evening with John Sayles and Friends.
Cameron Peterson
works
as an actor, editor, and teacher in New York City, after receiving
a BA in English from Harvard University. An award-winning actor,
she has worked with companies such as Untitled Theatre Co. #61
and American Globe Theatre. She was happy to play her small
part in the many marches and protests that occurred throughout
the RNC.
Go to Cameron's review of Thalia
Follies: Bring It On.
Howard Pflanzer
Howard's
plays have been performed at La MaMa ETC, Playwrights Horizons,
Symphony Space, Medicine Show and the Kraine Theater (Cocaine
Dreams). As a Fulbright Scholar(2003)in India he directed
the world premiere of his play, The Terrorist, at the
National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Bombay.
Go to Howard's review of I'm
Gonna Kill the President! A Federal Offense and the account
of his street theater troupe's 3
Actions.
Crystal Skillman
is
a playwright whose plays include Flow and Ballad of
Phineas P. Gage, both commissioned by E.S.T/Sloan. Last
summer, 4 Edges was produced by Amphibian Productions,
her musical That's Andy workshopped at Northern Stage
and Warrior won Best Adaptation at the Prague International
Puppetry Festival.
Go to Crystal's review of Dan Piraro's Bizarro's
Politicomedy a Go-Go.
Jessica Slote
is
co-founder of Loretta Auditorium Production Company and a freelance
writer who covers the soul of the anonymous citizen against
the epic backdrop of the city. Her most recent play, The
Whore in Exile (featured in the 2004 Samuel French Off-Off
Broadway Short Play Festival) is the third part of a trilogy,
The Body of Loretta developed and performed in NYC, Berlin,
and Napoli. Whore opened at NYC's Theater for the New
City in January, 2005.
Go to Jessica's reviews of My
Pet Goat: A Pentagon Fable, Operation
Urban Terrain, and The
Line.
Brook Stowe
is
founder and editor of theater2k, staff writer for The
Brooklyn Rail, MLS candidate & adjunct faculty member
at CUNY, Queens College and one of the world's biggest Anton
Chekhov fans. His paper, "Echoes in the Void: Desire
and Longing in a Text-Messaging World" was presented at
the Duke-UNC Chekhov
Centennial Conference (pdf) last Spring.
Go to Brook's review of Entrenched
in the Oath and his Brooklyn Rail preview
of it all.
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