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| SHEILA
CALLAGHAN’s (Playwright) plays have been produced and
developed with ASK Theatre Projects, Playwright’s Horizons,
South Coast Repertory, New Georges, Annex Theatre, Printer’s
Devil, Moving Arts, and LABrynth, among others. Sheila is the
recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Award for emerging artists,
a 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best One-Act, a 2001-02 Jerome Fellowship,
a 2002 Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwrighting and a 2003 MacDowell
Residency. She is currently working on commissions from Playwright’s
Horizons, South Coast Repertory and EST/Sloan. Her other full-length
plays include “Scab,” “The Hunger Waltz,”
“Crawl Fade To White,” “We Are Not These Hands,”
“Dead City” and her opera “Elemental” with
music by Sophocles Papavasilopoulos. |
JESSICA
KUBZANSKY** (Director) is an award-winning director working
around the U.S. Just named co-artistic director of The Theatre
at Boston Court, Kubzansky’s recent forays include the
critically acclaimed “Toys in the Attic” at the Colony,
the U.S. premiere of David Gow’s “Bea’s Niece”
for MetroStage in D.C., “Measure For Measure” at A
Noise Within, the world premiere of Bryan Davidson’s “War
Music” for the Playwrights’ Arena/Echo Theatre at
LATC (named one of the 10 best productions of 2002 by the Los
Angeles Times, next up at the Geffen Playhouse), David Hare’s
“Amy’s View” (with Carol Lawrence and Susan Egan)
at International City Theatre, the award-winning Salamone/McIntyre
musical “Moscow,” most recently in New York’s
Chekhov Now Festival (as well as iterations in LA and Edinburgh),
the world premiere of Carol Wolf’s “The Thousandth
Night (Monsieur Shaherazad)” with Ron Campbell (in London’s
Old Red Lion; it has toured the world); “Pirates Of Penzance”
for the Publick Theatre (Boston), Tony Kushner’s “The
Illusion” for the American Stage Company in Florida, “Twelfth
Night” for the Grand Canyon Shakespeare Festival in Arizona,
“MacBeth” at Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh and
in Southern California, world premieres for the Mark Taper Forum
New Works (plays by Diana Son, Paula Weston Solano, et al),
“A Servant To Two Masters” at International City Theatre,
“Moon For The Misbegotten” at Laguna Playhouse, “Lulu”
at Pacific Resident Theatre, “Dancing At Lughnasa”
at McCoy/Rigby/La Mirada, Vaclav Havel’s “The Memorandum”
and “Burn This” at the “Odyssey Theatre, “The
House Of Blue Leaves” at West Coast Ensemble, “Heartbreak
House” at Colony Theatre, Arthur Schnitzler’s “Anatol”
at Buffalo Nights, among many others. Kubzansky and her productions
have received numerous awards.
**Member of SSDC |
| JAY
MCADAMS (Executive Producer) is a co-founder of 24th Street
Theatre and has been its Executive Director since 1999. He has
produced many successful shows and events since his beginning
in Los Angeles theatre nearly 20 years ago. Though most of Jay’s
theatre work now is behind the scenes, he began in theatre as
an actor, having graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic
Arts. Jay is the winner of the prestigious University of Southern
California School of Education's 1999 Innovation and Leadership
Award for his work in Arts Education. (The previous year’s
winners were President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.) |
| DEBBIE
DEVINE (Executive Producer) is a co-founder of 24th Street
Theatre. She is also a writer and a director and is currently
working on the second show of the season, "Schneewittchen/Snow
White." As 24th Street's Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA)
Director, Debbie creates professional mainstage TYA productions
and educational theatre programming for all ages. Debbie also
heads the Theatre Department at the prestigious Colburn School
of Performing Arts and at the Poseidon School for at-risk teens.
Debbie won the USC School of Education's 1999 Innovation and
Leadership Award and has LA Weekly Awards, Dramalogue Awards,
and Robbies on her wall. |
| DANNY
FRESH (Producer): In May, Mr. Fresh will complete his MFA
in Producing from CalArts. He is the founder of the East Lansing
Shakespeare Festival (East Lansing, MI) and served as Artistic
Producer from 1998 – 2001. He is currently producing "The
Sandman" in the 2003 Edge of the World Festival. He Assistant
Produced a number of wonderful productions, most recently on
the Center for New Theater’s international touring production
of "King Lear" and the forthcoming "Peach Blossom
Fan" set to open the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. "Kate
Crackernuts" marks his first production with the great
24th Street Theatre. |
| The
scenic designs of SUSAN GRATCH (Scenic Designer) have
been seen in theaters large and small throughout Los Angeles,
including: International City Theatre (“Visiting Mr. Green,”
“Amy’s View,” “The Servant to Two Masters”
and “Swinging on a Star”), The Colony Studio Theatre
(“The Man Who Came To Dinner,” “Putting It Together,”
“Heartbreak House” and many more), Los Angeles Theatre
Center (“War Music, “A Knight Out in Los Angeles”
(Ian McKellan)) and the Ivy Substation (for Bottom’s Dream
Theatre Company and Singular Productions). Susan’s upcoming
projects include “War Music” at the Geffen Playhouse.
She is the faculty designer at Occidental College. |
| YING
LE (Graphic Designer) is the graphic and web designer for
24th Street Theatre and has been with the company for three
years. |
| MARAH
MORRIS (Assistant to the Director) is a recent graduate
of the USC School of Theatre and is thrilled to be back in the
neighborhood and working on this amazing show. She directed
many productions while at USC, including her own adaptation
of “Lysistrata” and Ellen McLaughlin’s “Tongue
of a Bird.” She recently directed Stoppard’s “Dogg’s
Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth” for the Blue House Theatre
Company. |
| ERIC
NOLFO (Technical Director) is in his second year at California
Institute of the Arts M.F.A. Technical Direction program. He
earned a B.F.A. from Stephens College for Women. Recently, Eric
was the Technical Director for "Le Temps Mechant"
and "Strung," Assistant Technical Director for "The
Visit" and was a carpenter for "King Lear" in
Dijon, France--all for CalArts. He would like to thank his family,
Amber and their dog Finnegan for all of their support. |
| ELIZABETH
PALMER’s (Costume Designer) costume credits include
two Broadway shows, “The Goodbye People” and “Quilters,”
off-Broadway productions and numerous regional theatre productions.
Her television credits include the PBS mini-series “Concealed
Enemies” and the series “Any Day Now” for which
she received an Emmy Award nomination. “Kate Crackernuts”
marks the second production with this design team directed by
Jessica Kubzansky. Their previous collaboration was “War
Music,” soon moving to the Geffen Playhouse. |
| HEATHER
LOUISE PARKER (Production Stage Manager) is foremost a director
and is addicted to trial by fire: having just AD’d with
Jessica Kubzansky on “Toys in the Attic” at The Colony,
she is proudly breaking her SM teeth on “Kate’s”
tech cues. Her favorite directing include: “Fool for Love,”
“The Maids” and the musicals “We Are Not Good
Girls,” “I’m Getting My Act Together” and
“Taking it on the Road.” Her special love include:
creating new physical-theatre work like “Lucky Sorrow”
at Printers’ Devil, and writing “Blue Sky Blue Screen”
which was read at ACT in Seattle (FringeACT). She is a graduate
of Andover, Oberlin and soon UCLA. |
| JEREMY
PIVNICK’s (Lighting Designer) recent Kubzansky collaborations
include “Toys in the Attic” at the Colony Theatre,
“Bea’s Niece” at Metrostage in D.C., “Moscow”
at LATC and in NYC, the world premiere of “War Music”
at LATC and “Burn This” at the Odyssey Theatre. His
other recent credits include “A Clockwork Orange”
at the Greenway Court Theatre, “Gretty Good Time,”
“A Christmas Carol King,” “Happy Days—The
Musical” (dir. by Garry Marshall) at the Falcon Theatre
and “Communicating Doors” at the Odyssey Theatre.
Jeremy is a graduate of the USC School of Theatre. |
| CATHY
REINKING, C.S.A. (Casting Director) graduated magna cum
laude from UCLA with a degree in theatre arts and was the Casting
Associate on “Frasier” for eight seasons. She was
also the Casting Director on “Baby Bob,” “Movie
Stars” and the films “Sin” (starring Gary Oldman
and Ving Rhames), “Bad City Blues,” “Jackie’s
Back” (Robert Townsend, director), “Screenland Drive”
and the Associate on “A Night At The Roxbury.” Her
other credits include “According To Jim,” “In-Laws,”
“Charlie Lawrence” (starring Nathan Lane), “Dag,”
“Stark Raving Mad,” “Wings,” “The Naked
Truth,” “Encore! Encore!,” “Almost Perfect,”
“Nothing Sacred,” “Newsradio,” “Early
Edition” and many, many pilots for all the major networks.
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| AUSTIN
SWITSER (Video Designer) is a finishing his final year at
Cal Arts studying video design for performance. He has designed
video pieces for installations, dance and theater including
Suzan Lori-Parks’ “In the Blood.” He has also
been involved in the Cal Arts Center for New Theater’s
recent production of “King Lear” that was mounted
in Los Angeles last year and France this past summer. This is
Austin’s first show at 24th Street Theatre. |
| JOHN
ZALWESKI (Sound Designer) was born-again to theatre in the
later works of Reza Abdoh. He’s the resident designer at
Evidence Room, Playwright’s Arena artistic associate and
a TCG/NEA Design Fellowship Recipient. He’s worked extensively
with The Actor’s Gang, Bottom’s Dream, the Taper,
24th Street Theatre and others in LA, on “War Music,”
“Mayhem,” “Mapa Mia!” “Cringe,”
“Pentecost,” “Delirium Palace,” “Saved,”
“The Berlin Circle,” “Chokecherry,” “One
Flea Spare,” “Salomé,” “Sleepwalk,”
“Slide,” “Poe” and on. His NYC work includes
“Speed Hedda” with Fabulous Monsters at LaMama, “Pandora’s
Last Xmas” at chashama and Juliana Francis’ “Saint
Latrice” at PS122. Recently, John designed “Jewtopia”
and “Sneaux” with Andy Fickman, “Bea’s Niece”
at Metrostage in DC with Jessica Kubzansky and “Slide Glide”
at TaperToo. He’s received one Ovation Award (seven nominations),
four LAWeekly Awards (five noms) and nine BackstageWest Garlands.
All last week. A “shoutout” to Jezkub and all the
“sick” people at 24th Street, “yo.” |
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