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Theatre Brut One Act Festival
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Meet the Company
John Adams is pleased to be back at NJ Rep after appearing in Israel Horowitz’s Sins of the Mother and Gregg Henry's Can't Run Can't Dance last season. He is a NYC actor, Wynn Handman student and Boston native. TV credits include Jessica Jones, Inventing Anna, FBI, Mister Robot, The Blacklist, Law & Order: Organized Crime, and The Beast in Me. NYC and regional theater include, The Late Henry Moss, Much Ado About Nothing, Blizzard and Holiday among others. Big thank you to the Price Group and the Harkness Center for Dance Injuries; much love to my favorite acupuncturist.
Theatre credits include It’s True It’s True It’s True (US Premiere, Marin Theatre), Measure for Measure (In Progress Theatre Co), Tartuffe (RVP, SF Bay Area), Frankenstein (Lifeline Theatre, Chicago). She holds a BFA in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University. @emilyquail www.emily-a.com
Ephraim is an NYC actor/writer, and is so happy to be returning to NJ Rep after his run in A Change of Position this summer. He was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance in Chester Bailey at the Irish Rep. Last fall he starred in Hartford Stage’s world premiere of ROPE. Other stage credits include As Time Goes By (Out of the Box Productions), The Rembrandt (TheaterWorks Hartford) and The Good Person of Szechwan (The Public Theater). You can see him featured in Steven Spielberg’s newest film Disclosure Day. He’s appeared on shows like The Americans, Gotham, and his episode of NCIS: NY is premiering this month. His NY directorial debut of the world premiere First and Last runs at ArtX from November 11th-22nd.
Sandy could not be happier to be back again at NJ Rep and celebrating new works this fall! She is an actor and marketing director currently based in New England and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University. Select recent credits: NJ Rep: A Change of Position, The Vienna Lessons. Lanes Coven Theater Co.: Romeo & Juliet. Theater at Monmouth: Twelfth Night, The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged. Deadword Theatre Co.: No Exit. Studio Theatre Worcester: Proof, The Thanksgiving Play. You can catch Sandy onstage again this December at the BCA Plaza Theater in Girl Crime. Big hugs to her friends and family for their wonderful support! Website: sandyclancy.com.
Christa began working in theatre at an early age in Dallas, Texas' regional theatre scene. Some favorite roles growing up included Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, and Katherine in Taming of the Shrew (Dallas' Shakespeare in the Park). Upon moving to NYC, Christa began working with New York Theater Workshop, Disney's Theater of the Stars, and NYC Fringe Festival. Christa recently worked at NJ Rep as a guest artist in the 2024 production of Proof (Catherine), performed with Magnolia Productions (Co-Founder) and Chaos Theatre. Christa is honored and excited to be back working directly with SuzAnne Barbaras and the amazing NJ Rep team for Theatre Brut.
Gia is a television, film and theater actress, and producer, based in New York. She has appeared in numerous television shows, performed in Off and Off-Off-Broadway productions, and has been seen in major studio movies and independent films. In September 2026, Gia won the Seymour Cassel Award for Best Performance by an Actress at the Oldenburg Film Festival for her lead role in Neil LaBute’s upcoming psychological thriller MURDEROUS. She lives with her husband and her daughter in the Hudson Valley.
NY: The Public (Public Charge, The Tempest, Wild Goose Dreams, The Great Immensity), New World Stages, 59E59, Rattlestick, Abingdon, BAM, INTAR, Atlantic, Sheen, Cherry Lane. Select regional: Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Westport Country Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Pioneer Theater, Virginia Stage, The REP at U of Delaware, Bay Street, George Street, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Guthrie, Goodman, Long Wharf, Portland Stage. Film: Notice to Quit, Run All Night. TV: New Amsterdam, Blacklist, Royal Pains, Law & Order. Training: MFA from A.R.T. Associate Artist: The Civilians. Co-host of the Hot Date Podcast with Dan and Vicky (hotdatepod.com).
Regional: Eden Prairie, 1971, Memories of a Forgotten Man, Broomstick, Donna Orbits the Moon, Evie’s Waltz, Tilt Angel, tempOdyssey, Exposure Time (all at NJ Rep), The Niceties, Good People, Murderers, A View From The Bridge, As Bees In Honey Drown, Italian American Reconciliation, Escape From Happiness, What Every Woman Knows, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Noises Off, Lettice and Lovage, I’m Not Rappaport. New York: Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night, The Respectful Prostitute, Ring Round the Moon. Film and TV: Peaked, Elsbeth, Goosebumps, FBI: Most Wanted, Poker Face, City On A Hill, Law and Order: SVU. Earphones Award recipient for audiobook narration.
Lukas is delighted to make his debut at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre Company and to work with such talented artists. Lukas Jarvi is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University where he obtained a BFA in Acting. His theatre credits include: King Lear (Edgar), Orion and the Goatman (Logan), Your Boyfriend May be Imaginary (Paul Paul), 9 to 5 (Franklin Hart), Grease (Kenickie), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Pharaoh, Levi), Passage (S), Marisol (Homeless man), Machinal (Lover/Prosecution Lawyer), Pericles (Antiochus, Lysimachus, sailor ), The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Julius Caesar/Other Man/ensemble), and a Doll’s House (Torvald).
NJ Rep: The Two Hander, and readings of Are You Still There?, Occupied, and Chemistry. Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library Off-Broadway at 59E59 and WP, regionally at Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse and Luna, and internationally at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre. Off-Broadway: Can You Forgive Her? (Vineyard Theatre), Intimacy (New Group), Card and Gift (Clubbed Thumb), Connected (59E59). Regional: Joy and Pandemic (Huntington), Actually (Aurora), Sovereignty and Thomas and Sally (Marin), You Will Remember Me (Hudson Stage). TV/Film: Phil Spector, The Affair, Two-Bit Waltz, Pitching Tents. Upcoming: God of Earth film, Luna Stage’s The Beautiful Future is Coming. Crossword puzzle constructor.
Nancy is grateful to be back at NJ Rep theater as part of the Theater Brut Short Play Festival! She made her 2024 theater debut at NJ Rep originating the role of Bernie, in Michael Griffo’s Pen Pals, which she reprised for two Off-Broadway runs in 2024 and 2025. As an actress, director, and producer for over 50 years she’s probably best known for her TV/Film work including the role of Jo Polniaczek on The Facts of Life; starring with Jean Smart in the sitcom Style & Substance; and portraying Inspector Jinny Exstead on the police drama The Division. Dog lover!
Michael is pleased to be returning to NJ Rep’s Theatre Brut Festival after taking the previous festival production of BY THE LIGHT to NYC’s United Solo Festival, garnering the “Best Storyteller” award. Most recently he was featured in Ivoryton Playhouse’s (CT) production of ALABAMA STORY. Other regional credits include performances with Lake George Dinner Theatre, Shadowland Stages, Centenary Stage Co., Forestburgh Playhouse, the Adirondack Theatre Festival, the Depot Theatre, the Pioneer Valley Summer Theatre, George Street Playhouse and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park where he was a member of the professional actor training program.
Jonathan is thrilled to be joining the company here at NJ Rep. He recently finished playing Gene Wilder in the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway play Gene & Gilda. Other Off-Broadway / Regional shows include: The Shark Is Broken (North Shore Music Theatre & Martha’s Vineyard); Bump (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Joseph Andrews (Penguin Rep); Please Continue (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Shear Madness! (New World Stages); Red Emma (The Tank); Wizards (La Jolla Playhouse); The Grift (Bay Street); Lenin’s Embalmers (Wellfleet); Animal Crackers (Denver Center); The Fantasticks! (Long Wharf). Film/TV include Keeping the Faith (Touchstone); Nevada (Sundance); Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon); Succession (HBO); The Endgame (NBC); The Knick (Cinemax); Bored To Death (HBO). He is currently a recurring character in CBS’ new show CIA now starting its second season. He’s a proud artistic member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre and an even prouder father of MB & R. More info at JonathanRandellSilver.com.
Select Regional: Comedy of Errors, All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry 6, Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (The Old Globe); A Christmas Carol (Walnut Street Theatre); Hamlet (Luna Stage); Pericles (Shakespeare in Clark Park); Wait Until Dark, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol (Hedgerow Theatre Company). National tour: Peter Rabbit Tales (Enchantment Theatre Company). Education: MFA Acting, Old Globe and USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program (Group 37!); MA Acting, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland; Shakespeare’s Globe Higher Education Acting Residency in London. Lisa just premiered her original one-person show about sled dog racing, Alpha, at Philly Fringe. Ask her about it!
Joelle Zazz (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist, born and raised in NJ. New York: “The Lightning Thief TYA” (original cast; Five Angels Theatre; 1st National Tour), “Tale of Two Cities: the Musical”, (10th Anniversary Broadway concert). Regional: Premiere Stages, Centenary Stage Company, The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Speranza Theatre Company, New Jersey Repertory Company, and more. Representation: The Luedtke Agency NYC.
Gail is a director, producer, educator, and actor, who lives in NYC. She has been an Artistic Associate with NJ Rep since 2006 and is delighted to be producing NJ Rep’s Theatre Brut Short Play Festival in November 2026. (This is her third time producing Theatre Brut Festivals for NJ Rep.) In 2024, Gail originated the role of Mags in “Pen Pals” at NJ Rep, (directed by SuzAnne Barabas), and moved with the production for two Off-Broadway runs in 2025 and 2026. Other acting credits include original roles in “Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women” at 59E59 Theaters in NYC, Actors Centre Theatre in London, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland; “Beyond Gravity” at NJ Rep; and “What I Heard About Iraq” at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. She has also performed in numerous tours throughout the U.S., U.K., and Europe, and in hundreds of live industrial shows for national and international companies. Gail has served as a professor, teaching artist and guest lecturer with/for the Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway, Kean University and Marymount Manhattan College, Circle-in-the Square, Theatre for a New Audience, NYU at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, CUNY Queensborough, American Globe Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Columbia Teacher’s College, Vassar College, the Jakarta International School in Indonesia, and the Starfish Academy in The Gambia, West Africa. She has directed productions for George Street Playhouse, NJ Rep, Kean University, LIU/CW Post, Classics on Tour, American Globe Theatre, Shotgun Productions, and Montclair Kimberley Academy. With Paul Lucas Productions, Gail produced dozens of theater projects including “TimeSlips” at HERE Arts Center in NYC, and multiple Fringe First award-winning productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Gail has an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Academy for Classical Acting/GWU; BFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts; and a certificate from the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain.
SUZANNE BARABAS is the Artistic Director at NJRep. She directed the world premiere of Pen Pals in NYC and NJ with a rotating cast that includes Catherine Curtin, Sharon Lawrence, Nia Vardalos, Mary Beth Peil, Kate Burton, Pauletta Washington, Nancy McKeon and Johanna Day. Also in NYC, at 59E59 Theaters the NY premiere of What Doesn’t Kill You by James Hindman. For NJ Rep, SuzAnne directed the world premiere of The Two Hander (with Jill Eikenberry and Ella Dershowitz), Find Me a Voice (premiere), North Fork (premiere), Immortal Interlude (premiere), Octet (premiere), Till Morning Comes (premiere), Maggie Rose, Getting in Touch With My Inner B*tch (starring Christine Lavin, premiere), The Adjustment, 10% of Molly Snyder, Romulus Linney’s Klonsky & Schwartz, Apostasy (premiere), Women Who Steal, Apple,(U.S. premiere),The Housewives of Mannheim (premiere), Evie’s Waltz, Dead Ringer (premiere), Steven Dietz’s Yankee Tavern, Puma (premiere), Night Train (premiere), Hummingbirds, Just In Time: The Judy Holliday Story, Bakersfield Mist, Annapurna, Happy, Broomstick (premiere), Lucky Me (premiere), Swimming at the Ritz (U.S. premiere), and The Realization of Emily Linder (premiere). SuzAnne directed productions of The Housewives of Mannheim at 59E59 Theater (NYC), Ensemble Theater of Santa Barbara (CA), and Phoenix Theater (Indianapolis). In addition, she directed regional productions of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, The Fantasticks, The Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd, Cabaret, Shaw’s Heartbreak House, A.R. Gurney’s The Perfect Party, Marsha Norman’s ‘Night Mother, Philip Barry’s The Philadelphia Story, Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy, Mark Dunn’s Belles, Lee Blessing’s Down the Road among others. She is a member of Actors Equity Association, BMI, the Dramatists Guild, and SDC.
Michael is an award-winning playwright who has written over 20 plays, 16 novels, and several screenplays. His play PEN PALS, originally produced by New Jersey Rep, was named one of the ten best theatrical events in New Jersey in 2024 by NJArts.net and ran for over two years off-Broadway. PEN PALS is licensed by TheatricalRights.com. PEN PALS: The Novel can be found at Amazon.com. Other plays include NO MORE SUNDAYS, 9th STREET WATER, CAN DINA EVEN SPELL AFGHANISTAN?, a finalist for the Reva Shiner Comedy Award, THE SPOT, Just a Kiss, published at GhostCityPress.com and CLOUDY and 5G/10B, which were both published in Smith & Kraus’s 2005: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two Actors. Michael has published 16 novels with Kensington Books including MURDER IN AN ITALIAN VILLAGE, MURDER ON MEMORY LAKE, and two young adult supernatural trilogies: The Archangel Academy Series and The Darkborn Legacy. His screenplays include HOLIDAY HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, UNCLE MIKE, and THE SILVER REINDEER. For more information visit www.MichaelGriffo.com Other plays include high school plays licensed by TRW: PROMAPOCALYPSE!, MATERIAL GIRLS, and VAMPIRE VALEDICTORIAN; NO MORE SUNDAYS, The Attic Ensemble, Winner Best Original Play, New Jersey Perry Award, 2001; 9th STREET WATER, Altered Stages, NY, 2004; North American Actors Association, London, 2006; SYZYGY, Published online at LodestarQuarterly.com; JUST A KISS published online at GhostCityPress.com; THE DATE, workshop production, Civic Theatre of Allentown, Allentown, PA; CAN DINA EVEN SPELL AFGHANISTAN? - 2016 finalist Reva Shiner Comedy Award; TWO, Theater Artists’ Coop of NY, Connelly Theatre, 2005; Finalist – Brevard Little Theatre New Play Competition, NC; PIECES, Barnstormers Theatre, Tamworth, NH, 2006; THE SPOT, Winner – Identity Theater’s Self-Discovery Reading Series, 2013; CLOUDY, Licensed by Playscripts.com and published in Smith & Kraus’s 2005: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two Actors. Winner of multiple short play festivals including – FusionWorks’ 3rd Annual Mini-Fest, Boston; Emerging Artists Theatre, Short Play Festival 2005, NY; and Heartland Theatre Company, Normal, IL; 5G/10B, Published in Smith & Kraus’s 2005: The Best 10-Minute Plays for Two Actors. Winner – 15 Minute Play Festival, American Globe Theatre, NY; Ten by Ten Play Festival, New Gate Theatre, Providence, RI; and Playwrights’ Circle 2007 National Short Play Festival, Palm Springs CA.
James Hindman is an award-winning actor and playwright who is happy to be back at NJ Rep. His musical, PETE ‘n’ KEELY (Outer Critics Award Nomination, Two Drama Desk Nominations), was performed last season at Carnegie Hall. His solo show, WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU, premiered at New Jersey Rep directed by SuzAnne Barabas, was extended at 59E59 Theatre in New York, was nominated for three Oscar Wilde Awards at the International Gay Dublin Theatre Festival and then was translated to French and performed in Paris and the Avignon Festival. His play, THE EXHIBITIONIST, starring Emmy winner Jeff Hiller (Somebody Somewhere) was winner of Theatre Aspen’s Solo Flight Grant Award. Upcoming projects: a new musical version of MULAN directed by JoAnn Hunter, and DAY TRIPPERS (Berkeley Rep. Ground Floor Residency). His short film “Oxygen” was nominated for many awards and won Best Short Drama at The Stratford Film Festival. Other New York writing credits – POPCORN FALLS directed by Christian Borle, PETE 'N' KEELY, THE AUDIENCE (Drama Desk nomination), I LOVE NEW YORK (Bistro Award), BEING AUDREY (Transport Group, NEA Grant recipient), A CHRISTMAS SURVIVAL GUIDE, THE GORGES MOTEL and ONE CHRISTMAS EVE AT EVERGREEN MALL (NY Fringe Festival) and NOW COMES THE FUN PART (The York Theatre). As an actor: 11 Broadway / National Tours. Many films and television shows including “The Gilded Age,” HBO’s “The Time Traveler’s Wife,” Marvel’s “Iron Fist,”, “Oceans 8”, and “The Blacklist.” Insta: James_Hindman_nyc
Alexis teaches Theatre Arts at Middletown High School South. His one-act, “Two Leopards Climbing a Fire Escape,” was done at NJ Rep as part of the Fire Escape Plays, and his short play “Ponce de León and the Old Dog” is being published in Smith & Kraus’ Best 10-Minute Plays of 2026. He is currently writing Konstantin Gavrilovich Harpooned Himself, or Where is Captain Ahab’s Leg?, a revision of Herman Mellville’s Moby Dick joined by the characters from Anton Chekhov’s The Sea Gull. He is also doing a twelve-month writing project called A Year in the Lives, writing with a different partner once a week. He loves theatre, soccer, reading, and his family…in no particular order. Visit his website at www.alexiskozak.com.
Neil is a writer and director for theater, television and film. Some of his work includes IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, YOUR FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS, SOME VELVET MORNING, BASH, THE SHAPE OF THINGS, FAT PIG, REASONS TO BE PRETTY, THIS IS HOW IT GOES, TEN X TEN, VAN HELSING and BILLY & BILLIE.
Chris is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright and director. Raised in Austin, Texas, Chris found himself starved for authenticity at an early age and related way more to stuff like CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, and A SOLDIER’S PLAY than any sissy-gay-white-boy-pre-teen really should. His plays have been seen on both coasts in venues such as Celebration Theatre, SoHo Playhouse and the Cherry Lane Theater, receiving two GLAAD Media Award nominations, winning the award for Overall Excellence in Playwriting at the New York International Fringe Festival, and receiving a grant from the Robert Chesley Foundation, which supports LGBTQ playwrights. After moving from L.A. to New York City and back again, shifting his focus to film & TV, he directed 7 short films – 4 from his own scripts – screening at festivals such as Outfest Los Angeles and the California Independent Film Festival, where he won Best Director of a Short, and the Austin After Dark Film Festival, where his short won Best Drama. Chris was a Top 50 semi-finalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, a finalist for the Warner Bros. TV Writers Workshop, a semi-finalist for the NBC Universal Emerging Writers Fellowship, and a finalist for both the WB TV Pilot award and the Josephson Entertainment Fellowship at the Austin Film Festival. His first feature-length film, BLEED LIKE ME, is currently streaming.
David has been a theatre professional for over 30 years. A founding member of the B Street Theatre Company, David has written a number of full length plays for the MainStage and for Young Audiences including A Moving Day, The House On Haunted Hill, A Child’s Christmas In Reno and Charade. His latest play, The Art Of War will receive its premiere at NJ Rep in 2027.
Shanti, an actress and playwright, was raised in the Hawaiian tradition of hānai by a Filipino/Hawaiian family on the island of Kauai. She is a graduate of The American Conservatory Theater. Her most recent play, Lehua’s Blood; 2025 Playwrights Foundation’s Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Semi-Finalist), 2026 Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park Arts Foundation (Finalist), is the last in a trilogy set in 1970's Hawaii. The trilogy of plays also includes Yamaguchi Store and Kill ‘Em With Aloha; Or, Da Big Mouth Pidgin English Play. Yamaguchi Store: (Winner) Kumu Kahua Theatre's Hawai'i Prize, The Relentless Award (Honorable Mention), Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference (Semi-Finalist), The Leah Ryan Fund (Finalist), Frank Moffet Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language (Semi-Finalist) Kill ‘Em With Aloha; Or, Da Big Mouth Pidgin English Play: Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference (Finalist), ScreenCraft Stage Play Competition (Quarterfinalist), Austin Film Festival (2nd Rounder) was optioned by CBS Television Studios and is currently in development with producer Lynnette Ramirez and Anonymous Content. Awards and distinctions include Ashland New Plays Festival (Finalist), Futurefest (Finalist), and Parity Development Award (Honorable Mention) for her play, Otis. Otis debuted in a workshop production at The Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, CA. Plays have been produced and/or developed at Great Plains Theatre Conference, NJ Rep Theatre, Theatre of NOTE, The Road Theatre Company, Pacific Resident Theatre, Inner-City Arts, and LA Made series at The Mark Taper Auditorium under a grant from The Los Angeles Public Library. Her play Blunt Force has been adapted into a screenplay, The Hello Kitty Murders (Semi-Finalist) Shriekfest Screenplay Competition. Her critically acclaimed one-woman show (L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly) Hollywood Hanai premiered at Theatre of NOTE and presented at the HBO workshop. Shanti is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Playwrights' Center, New Play Exchange, and Pacific Resident Theatre.
Joel was one of the founding members of New Jersey Repertory Company. In 1998, his play Horrors of Doctor Moreau (published by Samuel French/Concorde Publishing) was NJ Rep’s first script-in-hand reading. Since 2014, he has been the company’s literary manager. During that time, he’s also been an adjunct professor of playwriting at Monmouth University. In 2017, he was commissioned by NJPAC to write The Calling, which debuted at NJ Rep in January of 2018. His two full-length plays, For the Life of Me and Heel Turn, received readings at NJ Rep and B Street Theatre in Sacramento. Joel has directed plays in all of the Theatre Brut Festivals, including his own short works Prairie Dogs (2004), Abilene (2004), Trouble on the PATH (2005), Seven4Seven (2006), The Purgatory of Charlie Hustle (2008), Doodle-lee Doo (2018), and The Hot Roll (2019). The last two were published in play collections by Smith & Kraus. Joel is a Member Emeritus of the Writers Guild of America West, and a member of the Dramatists Guild. On April 15, 2024, he received the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’s Award of Excellence. For NJ Rep’s 2026 season, Joel has booked and produced the Monday night reading series at the West End Arts Center.
Plays directed for NJ Rep’s Theater Brut Festivals include: “SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION” by James Weagly; VERISIMILITUDE and ZOO THEORY by Jacob Zack; and 3 plays by Robin Rice: ADAPT OR DIE; DEJA VU, ALL OVER AGAIN; and LIFE 101. Also Robin Rice’s BRONCO BUSTER for the Sam French Festival. He directed two one-person shows by Monica Bauer starring John Fico: DEMOCRACY SUCKS (for NJRep’s 2023 Pride Festival); and MADE FOR EACH OTHER (for Edinburgh Fringe) “Extraordinary”…ScotsGayArts. Also Ms. Bauer’s TWO MEN WALKED INTO A BAR for Theater for the New City’s “Dream Up Festival”). While in Hawaii, he directed THREE BY TENNESSEE at HPAC; and ANTIGONES for Hawaii Upward Bound. Also Jean Cocteau’s ORPHEE for Jean Erdman’s Theatre of the Open Eye, NYC
JESSICA PARKS has been working for NJ Repertory Company since 2003 and has been the resident scenic designer and prop designer since 2010. Set designs at NJ Rep include: The Promotion, Memoirs of a Forgotten Man, Wolf at the Door, The Jag, Swimming at the Ritz, Happy and Broomstick. NYC credits at 59E59 St. Theaters include: Michael Tucker’s Fern Hill, Butler, The Housewives of Mannheim, Jericho and Poetic License. Other credits include: The End of Hester at Theatre Row NYC, Bretch:Call & Response at Paradise Factory Theatre and Dan Lauria's Dinner with the Boys at Theater Row NYC.
As NJ Rep’s resident costume designer since 2000, Doherty’s work includes: The Housewives of Mannheim, The Color of Flesh, Old Clown Wanted, The Good Daughter, Place Settings, Bookends, Engaging Shaw, Puma, Noir, Broomstick, View of the Mountains, Swimming at the Ritz, Dinner with the Boys (with Dan Lauria), Closure (with Wendy Malick, Gary Cole), Nobody’s Girl, Butler, Mad Love and Iago , Fern Hill (with Jill Eikenberry, Dee Hoty and John Glover) to name just a few. New York: Southern Comfort—The Musical (The Public Theater 2016 Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Award Nominations with Annette O’Toole, Jeff McCarthy); Dinner with the Boys with Dan Lauria (The Acorn Theatre) Academia Nuts (2014 NYMF Best New Musical); The Devil’s Music (St. Luke’s); The Goldman Project (Abingdon Theatre); Freed, Fall to Earth, Poetic License, The Housewives of Mannheim, Butler, Small World (59E59th St Theatres); Love Therapy (DR2) Regional: Alley Theatre (past resident designer), Barrington Stage, Cleveland Play House, Merrimack Rep, Florida Rep, Penguin Rep, Engeman Theatre, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Montreal Jazz Festival , Luna Stage, Playwrights Theatre of NJ, Merrimack Rep (MA), People’s Light and Theatre Festival (PA), Rubicon Theatre of LA, Mosaic Theatre (DC), Cape Cod Playhouse (MA), Weston Playhouse (VT) TV/Video: AT&T, “Unsolved Mysteries,” Pennsylvania Public Television Guest Artist: Monmouth University, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio University, Niagara University, Syracuse University Guest Artist and Instructor: Kent State University, School of Theatre and Dance 1992-95.
JILL NAGLE is the Resident Lighting Designer at NJ Rep. Partial NJ Rep include: Dinner with the Boys, Closure, Butler, Broomstick, Happy, Puma, Night Train, and Noir. Partial NYC designs include: Butler, A Stool at the End of the Bar, Jericho, Poetic License, Housewives of Mannheim, The Man in Room 306, The Dishwashers (59E59), Love Therapy (Daryl Roth), Dinner with the Boys (The Acorn) The Bully Pulpit (Samuel Beckett), Do Not Go Gentle (Harold Clurman), Count Down (Bank Street), In the Parlance (The Pulse), Carrera (La Mama E.T.C.), South Beach Rapture (Dixon Place). Other venues: John Engeman Theatre, Chester Theatre, Luna Stage, Playwrights of New Jersey, Montclair State University, New Jersey City University. www.jillnagle.net
NICK SIMONE has been a performing arts educator in NYC for the past 18 years. He has worked at various music schools for all ages and has been a teaching artist for Roundabout Theatre Company, Apollo Theater, and Sundog Theatre specializing in sound design and musical disciplines. As a musician, Nick plays multiple instruments and has also performed at the renowned Carnage Hall and at the Metropolitan Opera House. Nick has also worked as sound designer and as an audio engineer for many productions such as: US: A Progressive Love Story, The Norwegians, North To Maine, IYOM, Wild Children, Time Travelers Trip To Niagara, The Diorama, Shakespeare's Hamlet at Bryant Park, Extreme Weather, Don’t Dress For Dinner, Villainous Company, Capone, & Romantic Trapezoid. Nick is also affiliated with MTV's production Artist to Watch series as a sound assistant. He is currently the chief audio engineer for Fenix Studios in Staten Island, NY and has credits on multiple albums, films, broadcasts, streaming, music videos and mobile apps. He has worked with up and coming talent and platinum selling artists in different genres from Lorde to Coldplay.
Janey began her relationship at NJ Rep in 2004 as a patron & quickly became a subscriber: “They had me at Whores!” Janey brought close to 30 years of administrative experience to her 5-year role as Managing Director and is thrilled to remain in the NJ Rep family as Artistic Associate. Her previous theater management position was as Operations Director of Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan, NJ. Janey has also been a Quality Assurance Consultant in healthcare since 1988 including 18 years at the Reading Birth & Women’s Center in PA and 10 years at the Frontier School of Midwifery in Kentucky. She served as Chief Financial Officer and then Executive Director of the Institute of Midwifery, Women, & Health, and Clinical Site Coordinator of The Midwifery Institute, both at Philadelphia University. She also served as the Director of Patient Services for a large Planned Parenthood affiliate in Pennsylvania for 2 years and for 11 years prior to that, worked at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, PA as a biology professor; serving as Academic Dean during her last 5 years at the college. Her BA and MS degrees, from East Stroudsburg University, are in aquatic biology.
NYC Credits: Hedwig and The Angry Inch Nat’l Tour (Production Asst.) Opera: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Assistant Stage Manager, Yale Opera) Regional: With George St. Playhouse as Production Stage Manager: Dear Jack, Dear Louise, The Nerd, A Doll’s House Pt. 2, The Fabulous Lipitones. With the NJ Repertory Company as Production Stage Manager: Multiple Family Dwelling, & Juliet, Halftime w/Don, F-Theory, Mutual Philanthropy, The Calling, Wild Horses, Mercy, Apple Season, The Source, Surfing My DNA, Voyager One, Lily, Bone on Bone, The Promotion, Shrinking, Shrinking World, Welcome to Matteson! Kristin is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.
Riccardi has been a NJ Rep Company member since 1998. She has worked on over a hundred productions for the Rep including: The Housewives of Mannheim (Alan Brody), The Little Hours (David Bucknam), Fern Hill (Michael Tucker), Dead Ringer (Gino Dilorio), Naked By The River (Michael Folie), Adult Fiction (Brian Mori), Bookends (Katharine Houghton, Dianne Adams, James McDowell), Whores (Lee Blessing), Donna Orbits The Moon (Ian August), Find Me A Voice (SuzAnne Barabas, Gabor Barabas) Off-Broadway credits include: Songbird by Michael Kimmel and Lauren Pritchard, Butler by Richard Strand, The Violin (Dan McCormick), The Road to Damascus (Tom Dulack), Terms of Endearment (Dan Gordon), Poetic License (Jack Canfora), On A Stool At The End Of The Bar (Robert Callely), A Better Place (Wendy Beckett), Murder In The First (Dan Gordon), Martin Luther on Trial (Chris Cragin-Day), Phoenix (Scott Organ), In The Pocket “A Sideman’s Tale (James Manos Jr. and Mark Rivera) Rose has also been a proud member of Actors’ Equity since 1999.
IAN DUHART is very excited to be a part of this show at NJ Rep. He just finished a run as Sebastian in The Little Mermaid and Gator in Memphis the Musical. He’s honored to be a part of this team, and hopes you all enjoy the show!
Honey started with NJRep in 2025. Shows include Samantha Inside Out, Sins of the Mother, The Vienna Lessons, Change of Position and Nacho Ate Spiderman.
BRIAN SNYDER has been an artist, carpenter, and prop builder since 2003 for several companies in NY and NJ including The Art Department, PVS, Stone Dog Studios, Two River Theater Company, and NJ Repertory Company. After 4 years of teaching Visual Arts and Stagecraft at Lakewood High School he returned to the world of freelance and made his debut as Technical Director and Master Carpenter here at NJ Rep in 2014.
JAMES LOCKHART has the pleasure of working as the Master Electrician for NJ Repertory Company. He is a young, vibrant freelance lighting designer & master electrician that has worked in the tri-state. He has a comprehensive set of skills.
Brad Lemons (Fight Chorographer) Over 25 productions with NJ Rep, including most recently: Welcome to Matteson!, Eden Praire: 1971, The Promotion, and Lily. Broadway: Camelot, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Off-Broadway: Treasure Island, Macbeth, Evil Dead: The Musical, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, The Three Musketeers, Film: Bear With Us, Lies I told My Little Sister. Opera: Romeo et Juliette, Porgy & Bess; Fanciulla Del West, Carmen, Otello, Cosi Fan Tutte, Don Giovani; TV: “All My Children” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” He teaches at The Neighborhood Playhouse and Circle in the Square Theatre School, and is the president of The American Association of Fight Directors.
JORDAN RYDER is a New York-based choreographer, movement director, and dancer known for her innovative blending of storytelling and contemporary movement. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Jordan serves as the Artistic Director of RyderDance, a contemporary dance collective that has performed across the United States. Her choreography has been presented at notable venues including the Martha Graham Studio Theater, Dixon Place, Triskelion Arts, and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, among others. Recently, she choreographed the Off-Broadway productions “White Rose The Musical” (2024) and “Singfeld! A Musical About Nothing” (2023). With a vision that extends across live performance and film, Jordan’s artistic practice is ever-evolving, driven by curiosity, adaptability, and a commitment to learning. She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).
Founded by Joe Trentacosta, JT Public Relations is a full-service entertainment public relations firm. For over 20 years, they have handled over 300 projects on Broadway, Off-Broadway, festival productions, industry readings, films in release, film festivals, non-profit organizations, and special events. Current projects include Anthony Rapp’s Without You, Dog Man The Musical, and the international hit Katsura Sunshine’s Rakugo. Theater companies include AMT Theater, Houses on the Moon, Royal Family Productions, TheaterWorksUSA, Theater Breaking Through Barriers, and Urban Stages. Joe is currently developing a Broadway-bound musical about the Six Triple Eighth Postal Battalion with Holly Garman and Blair Underwood.
JOEL STONE was formerly the artistic director of Off-Off Broadway’s The Theatre Asylum. On May 17, 1998, his play Horrors of Doctor Moreau (published by Samuel French, Inc.) became the first script-in-hand reading to debut at New Jersey Repertory Company. The following year, his short play The Age of Miracles premiered at NJ Rep and went on to be a finalist at the Samuel French Short Play Festival. Also in 1999, NJ Rep presented “Written in Stone”, an evening of Joel’s short plays, including The Speck of Dust in Bugsy’s Eye (featuring the late Kim Hunter). In 2001, he co-produced “One Night With You”, a collection of six short plays about Elvis, created exclusively by NJ Rep playwrights. From 2000-2002, he was the Theatre Education Coordinator for the New York City Board/Department of Education. He has written and directed for all four NJ Rep Theatre Brut Festivals, including Prairie Dogs (2004), Abilene (2004), Trouble on the PATH (2005), Seven4Seven (2006), and The Purgatory of Charlie Hustle (2008). In 2012, Joel directed the acclaimed MainStage production of Gino DiIorio’s Release Point. In 2014, Joel was the Director/Mentor of the award-winning NJ Rep Young Playwrights Project, “Shelter From The Storm”, in which local high school students wrote short plays about Hurricane Sandy. For the past three years, he has been an adjunct professor of playwriting at Monmouth University and recently taught the initial playwriting class for New Jersey Repertory Company’s West End Arts Center. Currently, he is the literary manager for NJ Rep. He was recently commissioned by NJPAC to write The Calling, his first full-length play in decades.
Over the years Evan has directed over 15 productions for New Jersey Rep, many of them world premieres. He has also directed world premieres at many other theater including Ensemble Studio Theater, The Duke, Daryl Roth, Barrington Stage, Jane Street, Playwrights Horizon, Arclight, The Tiffaney and 59E59. His film work includes the recent short film “Day Zero” which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival Dig A Hole, Find A Finger, Palm Springs and Newport Beach International Film Festivals and his Documentary for Warner Music Group featuring Roger Daltry (The Who), Philip Bailey (Earth Wind and Fire). Currently he is in pre-production for a new feature film about the life of Oyster Farmers called “Life on the Flats”
DEE DEE IRWIN joined NJRep in 2022, bringing with her almost 30 years of experience in the performing arts and live events industry. Prior to coming east, Dee Dee spent nine years as the Director of Marketing and Communications/Associate Producer for Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA, and 12 years as part of the Broadway in Hollywood team for Nederlander’s beautiful Pantages theatre in Hollywood, CA. Dee Dee can also be found playing with puppets as part of the gang that produces "Brian Henson’s Puppet Up! Uncensored" at the legendary Jim Henson Company Lot. While in Laguna Beach, Dee Dee served as chair for the Laguna Beach Arts Alliance, celebrated the theatre's 100th birthday, and produced much of the virtual programming during the pandemic. Originally from Los Angeles, Dee Dee holds an MA in Humanities, a BA in Theatre, and is a proud member of IATSE 857. Special shout out to the love of her life, her dog Pickle, who you might see roaming the theatre and giving his opinion on, well, pretty much everything.
For NJ Rep, he has produced over 80 world premieres including Ends, A World I Never Made, North Fork, Octet, The Girl With the High Rouge, In Search of Red River Dog, Naked by the River, An Unhappy Woman, Immortal Interlude, Getting in Touch With My Inner B*tch, Till Morning Comes, Slave Shack, Panama, Big Boys, Winterizing the Summer House, Piaf in Vienna, The Color of Flesh, Emil, Touch of Rapture, Beyond Gravity, A Child’s Guide to Innocence, The Good Daughter, Apostasy, The Best Man, Tilt Angel, Love and Murder, tempOdyssey, October 1962, Place Setting, And Her Hair Went With Her, Engaging Shaw, Poetic License, The Housewives of Mannheim, Dead Ringer, Exposure Time (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), Character Assassins, The Tangled Skirt (nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America), Puma, Night Train, The Judy Holliday Story, Jericho (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), American Stare, Release Point, Esther’s Moustache, Ants, Noir, Happy, Broomstick, Admit One, A View of the Mountains, Butler (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), Lucky Me, Dinner with the Boys, Angels and Ministers of Grace, and the musicals Immortal Interlude,Bookends, The Little Hours (recipient of and Edgerton New American Plays Award), and Date of Lifetime. His book Miklos Radnoti: The Complete Poetry in Hungarian and English was recently published by McFarland.
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