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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 Jacob Burns F…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:32PM
Monday, March 2, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Ryan O'Connor by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Ryan Carpender) Ryan O’Connor is a self-described bon vivant, working successfully in various mediums in entertainment without ever really committing to any one particular vocat…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06PM
Monday, February 24, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Mark Junek by Zack Calhoon

MARK JUNEK. George Street Playhouse debut came as Officer Paul Larkin in 2017's American Son. Other credits include Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus and The Performers on Broadway, Fran…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:42PM
Sunday, February 16, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Paul Schwartz by Zack Calhoon

Paul Schwartz is a writer, director and composer. His work is in the field of dramatic story-telling in all its forms, and encompasses projects in film, theatre, opera and dance. He is a mem…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:18PM
Thursday, February 13, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Cheri Wicks by Zack Calhoon

Cheri Wicks a founding member and Managing Director from 2012 to 2017 joined forces with Erin as Co-Producing Artistic Directors in February 2017.  Growing up in central Montana where prod…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06PM

People You Should Know . . . Ross G. Hewitt by Zack Calhoon

Ross G. Hewitt is an associate member of the American Dramatists Guild and an active member of the Village Playwrights, a group that gives LGBTQ playwrights and screenwriters a voice. His fu…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06PM
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Michaela Escarcega by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Jackie Sasshaus) Michaela Escarcega (Director) is an indigenous Mexican/Latinx director, actor, and divisor of all thing’s performance orient-ed. Michaela has established her eme…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:24PM
Wednesday, February 5, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Zach Simao by Zack Calhoon

Zach Simao is a Los Angeles-based drummer and programmer currently releasing music under his project Bad Mime. Born and raised in Hawaii, Zach spent 4 years at Yale University honing his cra…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:18PM
Thursday, January 30, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Chelsea B. Lockie by Zack Calhoon

Chelsea B. Lockie is a Brooklyn based director who hails from Elko Nevada, 'the home of Cowboy Poetry'. She moved to New York to study directing and quickly became involved in the independen…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:03PM

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

Stephanie Fagan is a Brooklyn based actor and writer. She is an Emerson College alumnus and holds an MFA from The Actors Studio Drama School, where she studied acting, playwriting, and scree…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:03PM
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Kathleen Simmonds by Zack Calhoon

Kathleen Simmonds is an Australian actress, filmmaker and reformed corporate lawyer based in New York. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from the Actors Studio Drama School and is a Lifetime …

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:54PM
Monday, January 27, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Paul Hufker by Zack Calhoon

Paul Hufker (Playwright) has been an AEA actor, playwright and director in NYC for over 12 years. He is a proud graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA playwriting program, under Mac Wellman an…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:06PM
Sunday, January 26, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Molly Rose Heller by Zack Calhoon

Molly Rose Heller is a multi-disciplinary, queer theatre-maker based in NYC. Select directing credits include: Notes from the Basement (Watermill Center Residency, Corkscrew Festival, Cente…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:54AM

People You Should Know . . . Olivia Levine by Zack Calhoon

Olivia Levine is a queer actor, comedian and writer based in NYC. Originally from San Francisco, she moved to NYC for college, and received her B.A. in Theatre from Barnard College. Other t…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:54AM

People You Should Know . . . A.J. Ditty by Zack Calhoon

A.J. Ditty is an actor/writer/slash-mark enthusiast currently living in Brooklyn. NYC: Puffs; or, Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic (New World Stages/…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:54AM
Thursday, January 16, 2020

People You Should Know . . . Nick Mecikalski by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Kevin Bianchi) Nick Mecikalski is a Brooklyn-based playwright originally from Huntsville, Alabama. The world premiere of his play REALLY REALLY GORGEOUS, directed by Miranda Haymon…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 09:48PM
Monday, January 13, 2020

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

GRACE EXPERIENCE is excited to be making her George Street debut. Credits include: Grounded (59E59, directed by Alexander Dinelaris),  The Wolves (Lyric Stage Company), Beauty and the…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:03PM

People You Should Know . . . Miranda Haymon by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Jejomar Erln Ysit) MIRANDA HAYMON is a Princess Grace Award/Honoraria-winning writer, director and deviser of performance originally from Boston. Her recent projects include Mondo …

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:03PM
Saturday, December 21, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Sam Helfrich by Zack Calhoon

Sam Helfrich’s credits include Chasing Rainbows: The Road to Oz, Benny & Joon, Half Time, The Outsider, Annie, New Voices (Paper Mill Playhouse); In The Closet (Theatre Row); Twelfth N…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 04:48PM

People You Should Know . . . Neil Holland by Zack Calhoon

Neil Holland is an award-winning actor and producer, and a voiceover artist. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Knife Edge Productions, an independent theatre and film production com…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 04:48PM
Thursday, December 5, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Nick Amodio by Zack Calhoon

Nick Amodio, is a neurodiverse actor and cartoonist from Queens, NY. He is currently a freshman at Adelphi University’s BFA Theater Arts program. Recent credits include A Night of Too Many…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:42PM
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Xavier Rodney by Zack Calhoon

Xavier Rodney was home grown and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He first started acting as a last minute replacement lead in a kindergarten performance. Since then he has striven to hone and perfe…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:54PM

People You Should Know . . . Will Sarratt by Zack Calhoon

Will Sarratt is a North Carolina raised, New York based actor and resident artist with New Light Theater Project. New York credits include: Everything is Super Great, Omega Kids (New Ligh…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:54PM

People You Should Know . . . Daniel Diaz by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Jon Burklund) Daniel Diaz creates performance works from a queer male perspective to inform audiences and bring clarity on social-political injustices through storytelling, burlesq…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:03PM
Wednesday, November 13, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte by Zack Calhoon

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte (writer / director/ design) is a NYSCA Individual Artist recipient (2019) and a NYC-based writer, director and video-maker dedicated to performance and installat…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:42PM
Sunday, November 10, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Joseph Bricker by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Michael Wolfe) Joseph Bricker is a Los Angeles-based actor/writer. Originally from the midwest, he grew up cornfed, so he got big and strong. Just kidding. He's wiry and from the …

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 05:18PM
Thursday, November 7, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Shabazz Green by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Paul Greco) Shabazz Green - New York Credits: Philosophy for Gangsters (Beckett Theatre); Intruder: The Musical (Hudson Guild).  Regional Credits: Oklahoma (Denver Center for the …

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 02:36PM

People You Should Know . . . Mikhl Yashinsky by Zack Calhoon

Mikhl Yashinsky-Born in Detroit and educated at Harvard, where he studied modern European history and literature. Acting: Nokhum/Mordkhe (Fidler afn dakh), Tankhum (Der goylem), Guildenstern…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 12:06PM
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Kendall Cornell by Zack Calhoon

(Photo by Peter Hurley) KENDALL CORNELL   At the helm of the all-women clown troupe Clowns Ex Machina, Kendall has created, directed and performed in the full-length shows, Oil of Ol…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 11:06PM
Saturday, November 2, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Pascale Roger-McKeever by Zack Calhoon

PASCALE ROGER-MCKEEVER (Actor/Writer) is an actor, playwright, director, poet and fiction writer. Theatre credits include Rosannah in Brilliant Traces, May in Fool for Love, 3 woman in Tenne…

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 10:03AM
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

People You Should Know . . . Melanie Teichroeb by Zack Calhoon

Melanie Teichroeb is the following (in no particular order) - storyteller, playwright, performer, visual artist, mother, partner, friend, co conspirator, feminist, risk taker, nature lover, …

SOURCE: Visible Soul at 08:18PM

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