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Friday, October 1, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Bahni Turpin by Zack Calhoon

Bahni Turpin is a Los Angeles based actress who has appeared on many local and national stages including the Mark Taper Forum, The Kirk Douglas Theater, The Taper Too (at The Ivy Sub Station…

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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Orietta Crispino by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Gaia Squarci) Orietta Crispino is the Artistic Director of Theaterlab. Born in Italy, she graduated from the prestigious Piccolo Teatro School in Milan, where she worked with the m…

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Friday, September 10, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Zulivet Díaz by Zack Calhoon

Zulivet Díaz graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a BA in Theatre and continued her studies at the Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre in Los Angeles. She relocated to…

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Monday, September 6, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Jeanne Lauren Smith by Zack Calhoon

JEANNE LAUREN SMITH is an actor, collaborator, playwright and trauma-informed meditation facilitator. In 2021 she had the pleasure of performing in several installments of Dorothy Lyman's vi…

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People You Should Know . . . Griffin Stanton-Ameisen by Zack Calhoon

Griffin Stanton-Ameisen is an NYC based, Philly area born actor, writer, producer, and teaching artist. Most recently, he's been at home writing plenty of haikus, a new short film, and co…

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Sunday, August 1, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Michael Alvarez by Zack Calhoon

Michael Alvarez (Director) Michael's directorial work has been seen internationally at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End, Arcola Theatre, Westminster Library, Royal Academy of Music, Roy…

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Saturday, July 31, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Peter Gray by Zack Calhoon

Peter Gray (Playwright) has studied Buddhism on a North Carolina goat farm, philosophy in the ruins of Socrates' jail cell, and fairy tales in Copenhagen. His most recent play Salem: Post-Mo…

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Thursday, May 13, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Helen Banner by Zack Calhoon

Helen Banner (she/they) is a playwright and librettist and an associate artist at New Georges. They grew up in the British Channel Islands and studied at Cambridge and the Tisch School of…

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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Grace Oberhofer by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Justin McCallum) Grace Oberhofer (composer/librettist) is an award-winning choral composer, who has particular expertise in writing for treble voices and making non-traditional…

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Elinor T Vanderburg by Zack Calhoon

Elinor T Vanderburg is a Black-American writer, performer and voice artist born in Washington, D.C. She writes plays for and about misfits, creating troubled chimerical landscapes to call he…

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Monday, May 3, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Tess Howsam by Zack Calhoon

Tess Howsam is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist who curates and directs ekphrastic shows that blend theater, installation art, and performance. Howsam seeks to subvert theatrical ex…

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People You Should Know . . . Emily Krause by Zack Calhoon

Emily Krause is a Brooklyn-based playwright, songwriter, and performer. Her plays have been produced at Whitman College, the Center for Performance Research, and the IRT 3B Development Serie…

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People You Should Know . . . Porcia Lewis by Zack Calhoon

Porcia Lewis started her career in the arts at the tender age of 5. She was in theatre productions from elementary school throughout college. After dropping out of college, Porcia began to w…

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People You Should Know . . . Leah Barker by Zack Calhoon

Leah Barker's plays have been developed or performed by Hartford Stage, Troy Foundry Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Dixon Place, Spark Creative Works, Mount St. Mary's University, and E…

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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Ryan McCurdy by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Jody Christopherson) RYAN McCURDY is a multi-disciplinary performer, writer, and producer who has worked extensively on both coasts and across the United States. As an actor-mu…

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Monday, March 1, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Eli Batalion by Zack Calhoon

  ELI BATALION is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage. Eli began his career in musical theatre with the hit the award-winning internati…

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People You Should Know . . . Eli Battalion by Zack Calhoon

ELI BATALION is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage. Eli began his career in musical theatre with the hit the award-winning internationally …

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Saturday, February 6, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Bill Connington by Zack Calhoon

Bill Connington is an actor and filmmaker. His feature film LOVE, REPEAT recently started streaming on platforms including Amazon and iTunes. His next film, POUGHKEEPSIE IS FOR LOVERS, is in…

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Monday, January 4, 2021

People You Should Know . . . Anna Cherkezishvili by Zack Calhoon

Anna Cherkezishvili was born in Georgia. As a child, she experienced a civil war in her country. The war caused poverty and despair in Georgia. Her family had to go through hard social times…

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Sunday, December 6, 2020

People You Should Know . . . November Christine by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by PJ Norton) November Christine holds a degree in Cellular Biology and Molecular Genetics from the University of Maryland, as well as a BM in Musical Theatre from the East Caroli…

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Kurt Johns by Zack Calhoon

KURT JOHNS, as a 20-year resident of New York, had a great performing career in regionals, Broadway and national tours before repatriating to Chicago to concentrate on directing and writing.…

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Tuesday, September 1, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Joshua Morgan by Zack Calhoon

Joshua Morgan is an actor based in NYC. He founded and ran the first dual city theatre company that was based out of Washington, DC and Winston-Salem, NC before returning to work as an actor…

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Friday, August 28, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Stephanie Streisand by Zack Calhoon

Stephanie Streisand is a Los Angeles based writer born and raised on Long Island, NY. She is an accomplished writer who has written and performed sketch comedy at UCB Theater, Magnet Theater…

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Friday, August 14, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Genevieve Simon by Zack Calhoon

GENEVIEVE SIMON's plays include Bloom Bloom Pow, Sister/Friend, Guarding, Delivery, and Romeo + Juliet + Anybodys. Her work has produced and developed in New York at The Tank, The People's I…

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Thursday, August 13, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Cinthia Chen by Zack Calhoon

Cinthia Chen is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in theater and film. She was a SUITE/Space artist at Mabou Mines, Fresh Ground Pepper BRB Resident Artist, Creators Collective's…

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Monday, August 10, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Andrew Siañez-De La O by Zack Calhoon

ANDREW SIAÑEZ-DE LA O is a Boston-based Mexican-American playwright from El Paso, Texas. He is currently a Huntington Playwriting Fellow at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, Mass…

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People You Should Know . . . Serena Berman by Zack Calhoon

Serena Berman is a writer, performer, and producer. Her work has been developed with Ars Nova (Play Group 2019-2021), Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Corkscrew The…

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Sharrell D. Luckett by Zack Calhoon

Sharrell D. Luckett, PhD, is Director of the Helen Weinberger Center for Drama and Playwriting and Associate Professor of Drama and Performance Studies in the Department of English and Compa…

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Dorothea Gloria by Zack Calhoon

Dorothea Gloria is an actress from the Philippines. She is a resident actor at the award-winning company, The Flea Theater in Tribeca and a founder of TeamTheatre LLC. She has performed p…

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Saturday, May 30, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Eliza Kingsbury by Zack Calhoon

Eliza Kingsbury is a comedy writer, actor, and musician based in New York City. She composes and writes original musical parody sketches in the style of different artists, and was a performe…

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Monday, March 16, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Dominick Balletta by Zack Calhoon

Dominick Balletta was named Executive Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF) in November 2019, following an 11 ½ year stint as Managing Director of the Jac…

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