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PRODUCTION BIOS
JACLYN VILLANO (PLAYWRIGHT) Plays have been performed around the country, including Penobscot Theatre (Northern Writes Festival, Winner, Best Short Play), New Vision Theatre (Summer Shorts Festival, Winner), Cleveland Public Theatre, Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Camino Real Playhouse, Raconteur Theatre, Curtain Players Theatre and the University of Notre Dame. Upcoming stagings: Seattle Repertory Theatre and The Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Playwright in Residence of Theatre Daedalus.
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ELENA ARAOZ (DIRECTOR) directs theatre and opera internationally, Off-Broadway and regionally. The Power (Beijing,) Off-Broadway's Phallacy and Three on a Couch, The Price (Northern Stage), Falstaff (BAM), Thirst, The Fever Chart, Titus Andronicus, War Music, Geva Theatre, Pearl Theatre, Negro Ensemble Company, Chekhov Theatre Ensemble. Choreographer: Steven Blier's "Latin Lovers" (Glimmerglass), Jonathan Miller's La traviata (Vancouver Opera). Regular Associate Director to Jonathan Miller. MFA UT/Austin. www.elenaaraoz.com
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JOY BARRETT (REESE) NEW YORK: Les Freres Corbusier, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Flea Theater, Thirteenth Night Theatre Company, Chekhov Theatre Ensemble, original workshop performances with playwrights from Labyrinth Theater Company. REGIONAL: The Empty Space Theatre, Book-it Repertory Theatre, Northwest Shakespeare, Sitka Fine Arts. PRODUCER: Off-Broadway production of Tender with Thirteenth Night Theatre Company, Francis Ford Coppola's reading series Zoetrope Live Story. Graduate of Drama Studio London.
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JOE TIPPETT (MAN) Most recently: Fish Eye with Colt Coeur and Seven Minutes in Heaven at Huntington Theater Company and Here Arts Center. NEW YORK: Cherry Lane Theatre, NY Spork Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source. REGIONAL: Three Sisters, The Corn is Green, Romeo & Juliet, Double Double at Williamstown Theatre Festival Mainstage, Washington Shakespeare Company, Triad Stage. FILM: All Saint's Day, Last Ride Of The Raven. B.F.A. West Virginia University.
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MARTHA WOLLNER (WOMAN) is a proud member of New York's Labyrinth Theater Company. She has performed in many Labyrinth projects, including Knives and Other Sharp Objects by Raul Castillo. In the company's TN99, a 72 hour marathon celebration of the works of Tennessee Williams, Wollner played Big Mamma in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Aunt May Rose in Baby Doll, Flora in The Rose Tattoo and Beulah Bennings in Orpheus Descending. She has just completed filming on Love Magical, an independent comedy to be released next year. Heal Me Television, the first full length play in Wollner's Atwater Three Trilogy, was among twelve plays selected to be featured in the Labyrinth Theater's 2011 Barn Reading Series of work in development. Wollner has also written six one act plays.
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JUSTIN TOWNSEND (PRODUCTION DESIGNER) Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Outer Critics Circle nomination). NYC work includes: Dance Dance Revolution with Alex Timbers; The Other Place at MCC; Monstrosity by Lucy Thurber and 13P; Opus at Primary Stages; Speech and Debate at Roundabout; Eve Ensler's The Treatment at the Culture Project; Food Project with Lightbox; Drums of the Waves of the Horikawa with Theatre of a Two Headed Calf; Beauty on the Vine, Palace of the End and Mahida's Extra Key to Heaven with Epic Theatre. Regionally: American Repertory Theatre (Elliot Norton Award for The Onion Cellar and IRNE for Blue Flower), Arden Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Bard SummerScape, Baltimore Center Stage, Boston Court, Cleveland Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Folger Shakespeare Library (Helen Hayes nomination for Hamlet), Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas Theatre (Ovation nominee for Apollo), Playmakers Rep, Portland Center Stage. Mr. Townsend is the 2006 USIT Rising Star Award winner and is a member of the Obie-winning Theatre of a Two Headed Calf. His MFA is from California Institute for the Arts. Mr. Townsend is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University.
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JAYLENE HENDERSON (STAGE MANAGER) is a designer, producer, stage manager and the Technical Director for Theatre Daedalus. Upcoming: Inventing Van Gogh with Theatre Daedalus. Most recently: Caught in the Act...Again! and 29 Bells with Theatre Daedalus. Other productions include: Dinner With Friends, Songs For The Soul: A Benefit Concert, Boy Gets Girl, The Sunshine Boys, Communicating Doors, Our Town, Cactus Flower, Mauritus, All In The Timing, Two By Two, Ghosts. Studied at The Ohio State University.
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NATHAN LEIGH (SOUND DESIGNER) Off-Broadway: White's Lies, The Duchess of Malfi. Resident Designer for the Debate Society, and WHAT. Composer of Big Money, The Consequences, and Song of Songs.
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