Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of "rest area," a collection of short stories, and "miss corpus," a novel. "Miss corpus" was recognized in part of The New Yorker's "Reading Glasses" series in 2003.

Currently, he is writing a trilogy of children's novels titled "The Tribe"—book one, "Homeroom Headhunters," hits the shelves in 2013 on Hyperion books.

Recently, Chapman's story “the battle of belle isle” was featured in Akashic Books’ regional-noir anthology “Richmond Noir.” He was a contributing author on “The Rolling Darkness Revue,” a roaming reading-series of horror writers created by Glen Hirshberg and Pete Atkins, culminating in the anthology At The Sign of the Snowman’s Skull. He was a contributing author to One Ring Zero's "As Smart As We Are" album, featuring such writers as Paul Auster and Jonathan Lethem. He will occasionally write from time to time for his geek-gods Marvel Comics and Fangoria Magazine.

FRANK ZILINYI has performed in Radiotheatre's THE TIME MACHINE; FRANKENSTEIN;DRACULA; THE INVISIBLE MAN; THE WAR OF THE WORLDS; KING KONG; THE HAUNTING OF 85 E 4th STREET; THE OBLONG BOX; THE TELL TALE HEART; THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM; THE BLACK CAT; HOP FROG; THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH; THE OVAL PORTRAIT; THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO; THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE; BERENICE; THE PREMATURE BURIAL; THE SPHINX; THE SYSTEM OF DR.TARR AND PROF. FETHER; THE CASE OF M.VALDEMAR; DRACULA'S GUEST; THE CALL OF CTHULHU; REANIMATOR; THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH; THE MOON BOG; THE LURKING FEAR; THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER; THE EVIL CLERGYMAN; THE HORROR AT MARTINS BEACH; THE NAUGHTY VICTORIANS; THE HAUNTING OF ST.MARKS PLACE. He has toured with GHOST STORIES; FRANKENSTEIN and THE TIME MACHINE.

DAN BIANCHI (Script/Director/Music/Sound/Art Production/Graphics/PR) has spent over 40 yrs in theater, film and fine arts. Awards include: 3 times BEST DIRECTOR Off Broadway; Billy Rose Musical Theater Award; ASCAP Musical Theater Award; National Endowment Grant; MacDowell Fellowship, The Beckett Prize (twice), The National Writers Guild Screenwriting Award. He's founded four international theater companies, written/directed over 60 plays/musicals, worked as screenwriter in Hollywood, directed 7 motion pictures with members of the Royal Shakespeare Co.. In 2002/3 he founded and ran VIDEOTHEATRE, NYC's only DV dedicated venue screening independent features and shorts. Dan is also a Fine Artist who has exhibited his works at MOMA NYC; MOMA Australia; Brazil; Germany; Museum of Non Conformist Art-Russia, etc. A born NYer, he lives in Greenwich Village with his wife and daughter.

He founded RADIOTHEATRE in 2004 and has since produced over 40 live shows, over 240 performances at NYC venues. Since 2004, Dan has been nominated for a 2010 Drama Desk Award, won 2 NY Innovative Theater Awards for Best Sound and Best Music. Radiotheatre has been nominated for 13 NYIT Awards including Best Performance Group five yrs in a row. He is the most produced living writer in NYC.

HANNA CHEEK is a member of the Drama Desk nominated theatre company Waterwell, as well as the critically acclaimed Pumpkin Pie Show. Described by TONY as a “downtown superstar” Cheek was named one of Time Out New Yorks "Future Legends of NYC Theatre" in 2013. NYC:Happy Birthday (with TACT at the Beckett Theatre), Sovereign (The Secret Theatre), Artifacts of Consequence (Wild Project). With Waterwell, she’s divised and performed in: GOODBAR (Public Theatre),The Persians…a comedy about war with five songs (Perry St. Theatre), Marco Millions (Theatre Row),The/King/Operetta (Barrow St.), and #9 (59e59). With The Pumpkin Pie Show: Junta High (PS122), Hostage Song (The Kraine), Commencement (NY, US, & Canada), among many others. REGIONAL: Other Desert Cities (Idaho). TV:The West Wing, Titus, MTVs Undressed, Ugly Americans.

received his B.F.A. in Theatre from Montclair State University. Along with playwright Ben Clawson and a handful of irresponsibly creative individuals he co-founded StrangeDog Theatre in 2008. In just six years StrangeDog has produced over 30 evenings of mild mayhem and honest to goodness pieces of theatre. NYC: Writopia Worldwide Playwriting Festival 2014, Basic Help by Ben Clawson (FRIGID NYC 2014, Sell Out Award), Israela Margalit’s Night Blooming Jasmine (Under St Marks), The Virilogy (Horse Trade), The StrangeDog Eat Dog and Pony Show (The Tank). NJ: Kitty Kitty Kitty by Noah Haidle (Tierney’s Tavern), Omnivores by Ben Clawson (PTNJ, World Premiere). Artem will be seen next on stage the Edmonton and Winnipeg Fringes alongside Antonia Lassar (The Godbox; Tina and Amy: Last Night In Paradise) with the World Premiere of Pair of Animals want to marry YOU! – a two-person musical-comedy co-written with Ms. Lassar.

Christopher Burris New York directing credits include Kevin R. Free's A RAISIN IN THE SALAD: BLACK PLAYS FOR WHITE PEOPLE, which was a FringeNYC 2010 hit. He also directed Dennis A. Allen IIIís THE MUD IS THICKER IN MISSISSIPPI, a winner in the 2010 Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival. He has directed several short plays for Sticky at the Bowery Poetry Club, including FALLING OUT WITH GREGARIAN TUNKS, A SHADOW WITH NO FORM, LIFEíS TERMS, ...IN WHICH BISHOP EDDIE LONG LOSES HIS BATTLE WITH THE DEMONS, and GAGA OF THE DEAD. In addition to a series of staged readings for Freedom Train Productions, (including Derek McPhatter's BRING THE BEAT BACK) he has directed numerous projects for Phare Play, Unconscious Collective, and The Fire This Time Festival (EXODUS, BY THE BANKS OF THE NILE). He holds a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill, and an MFA from UC San Diego. Twitter: @christopherbnyc

HEIDI GRUMELOT (Director) is co-creator and producer of the monthly storytelling show TOLD. She is the founding director of The Drafts, an acting ensemble responsible for development of over ninety original plays to date as part of a monthly reading series. She is the Resident Coordinator for Horse Trade's six resident companies. New York directing credits include punkrock/lovesong at The Brick Theater, Dido and Aeneas with The New York Collective of Performing Arts at The West End Theater and The Boston Early Music Festival, Donnie and the Monsters at UNDER St Marks Theater, and Accidents Do Happen, Tom's Things, LINES, The Flower Thief, and Turning the Glass Around in The Red Room. New York staged reading credits include The Flower Thief in The Red Room, A River Pure for Healing, and An Absolutely Perfect Life at UNDER St Marks Theater. Assistant director credits include Antony and Cleopatra, Love's Labour's Lost, and A Christmas Carol for the American Shakespeare Center. She has directed productions in Michigan, Virginia, and Mexico.

Peter Aguero is a host and instructor for The Moth. He's toured with The Unchained Tour and Grant's True Tales. In NYC, he's produced Bare., and is the lead singer of The BTK Band, NYC's Hardest-Drinking Improvised Storytelling Rock Band.

Abe Goldfarb studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic, and has worked with such companies as the Jean Cocteau Rep, Studio 42 and The Pumpkin Pie Show. Favorite roles include Ben Franklin in We the People, the Frontman in Hostage Song, Pistol in Henry V, Arthur in In Public, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera, the Mascot in Junta High and Jaques in As You Like It. He also emcees burlesque in NYC and nationwide under the pseudonym Bastard Keith. Thanks, Rosebud.

Jenny C’est Quoi is the co-producer of Brooklyn’s Indie Girls Burlesque (where the audience suggests the theme!) and founding member of Storybook Burlesque. Hailing from below the Mason-Dixon, she has since performed throughout New York City and beyond. With a five-year improv comedy background and array of absurdist acts, Jenny lives up to her moniker, "The Sexy Non-Sequitur of Burlesque."
Photo by Leland Bobbé

KELLEY NICOLE GIROD (Producer) is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of NYC based The Fire This Time Festival (www.firethistimefestival.com) for which she was awarded “Person of the Year 2011? by nytheatre.com. Other producing credits include Outcry (Horse Trade Theatre 2012, Jack 2013), Israela Margalit’s reading of Night Blooming Jasmine (Horse Trade Theater 2013), and Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victim’s of Fate: An Evening of Work by Kelley Nicole Girod (Horse Trade Theater 2013).

Akia (Director/Founding Artistic Director) is an active member of the flourishing Off-Off/Indie & Off Broadway theatre communities having produced, directed, and performed with numerous NYC companies since 1997. Akia is the Company Manager for the international sensation, The Blue Man Group at the Astor Place Theater.  Proudly, she is the Founding Artistic Director of the Rising Sun Performance Company, now in entering its ninth season, and has been involved on all levels with each of its 35+ productions.She is a Board Member of The Paul Butterfield Fund & Society, and Company Manager for The New York Innovative Theatre Awards & Foundation, where she serves on their honorary awards committee as Sub-Committee Chairman and as an At-Large Judge. Past notable credits include working on staff at Horse Trade Theatre Group, serving as General Manager for FRIGID New York’s inaugural year, and returning as Volunteer Coordinator in 2009; she also served as Production Coordinator for nationally acclaimed Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, overseeing the playwrights unit and INSIGHT 13 production series. Most recently Akia directed the remount of “Goodnight Lovin’ Trail” at the Best of Strawberry Fest and the Inaugural Wilmington FRINGE festival. This past summer she was the recipient of the NewYork Innovative Theatre Awards “Founders Award” for her contributions to the organization. Thanks to this amazing family of theatre artists, Erez, Heidi and Horse TRADE, to Frank, friends & family for putting up with her long absences from the world around her in pursuit of theatre, and especially to Tiffini, David, Tiffany & Lindsay her brilliant partners in crime, for their faith and belief in this merry band of lunatics.  Merde’!!

Amy Overman has been performing & producing with Dysfunctional since 2001. Sheappeared in the Dysfunctional productions: The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Comet2007, Dancer 2006, Vixen 2005), Bite (Millie/Barbarella),Please Please Please Love Me (Linda), Whispers in the Wood (Lucy), Real Live Sexon Stage (Maggie), I Am Star Trek (Paramount) and How to Have the Ultimate Orgasm Each and EveryTime (The Redhead). Other NYC credits include: Clue - Live on Stage(Miss Scarlet) for Flying Blind Productions, several staged readings with W-WOWRadio and the touring children's show, On the Road to Reading, in whichshe played a singing pig and a dancing book. Amy has a BFA in Acting from Syracuse University.

Bastard Keith is a burlesque MC, singer, writer and gadabout. With his partner Madame Rosebud he founded The Sophisticates, the only burlesque show to be thrown out of the Plaza Hotel for indecency. He hosted Revealed Burlesque for its entire run, and MCs frequently for The Floating Kabarette at Galapagos Arts Space, The Rhinestone Follies, Pink Room Burlesque, D20 Burlesque, The Slipper Room, Wasabassco Burlesque, Burlesque Nouveau, Le Scandal Cabaret, and many others.

B.B. Heart is a Brooklyn-based artist and a founding member of Storybook Burlesque. She graduated with a BFA in studio art, but has since taken her art out of the studio and onto the burlesque stages of New York City, Boston, San Francisco and beyond. She loves bringing her expertise in movement, dance and vocal training to the burlesque stage and fusing the art of strip tease with her love of the dramatic. Photo by Leland Bobbe

received his B.F.A. in Theater from Montclair State University. He is the author of numerous full-length plays, short comedies, and evenings of thematically connected one acts. His plays have had professional productions, readings, and workshops throughout New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C. and New Orleans. He has written commissioned works for the Luna Stage Company, The Montclair State University School of the Arts, and the Contagious Drama Theatre Workshop. He has been an evening winner and finalist in the Samuel French Short Play festival, national finalist for the American College Theater Festival's John Cauble One-Act Award, finalist for the Princess Grace Award in playwriting, and recipient of the Kennedy Center's David Mark Cohen award. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild, and a founder of the StrangeDog Theatre Company, with whom he has produced many of his plays.

Brad Lawrence: Performer / Producer
Brad Lawrence is the host of Best In Show. He has also hosted And I Am Not Lying and The Moth StorySLAMS. He was the first storyteller to win back-to back Moth GrandSLAMS. He is both a member and featured storyteller with the BTK Band and a regular at such shows as The Liar Show, Adam Wade’s Super Stories, Seth Lind’s Told, The Soundtrack Series, The Risk Podcast and How I Learned. In addition, his solo show, “Monsters In The Wood,” was presented in the 2008 New York International Fringe Festival to critical acclaim. He performs burlesque as Handsome Brad and works in burlesque productions throughout NYC including Epic Win Burlesque, Hotsy Totsy Burlesque and Kitty Nights Burlesque. He has co-produced and performed in storytelling and variety shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, South By Southwest Interactive, and in conjunction with WBUR, USA Network, and Grant’s Whiskey.

Since 2005, GiGi La Femme has been named one of New York City’s sultriest striptease stars and is the producer of Revealed Burlesque. A Golden Pastie Award winner for Best Booty Shaker 2009, Perfect Posterior 2011 and Miss Coney Island 2010, the multi-talented bump ‘n’ grinder, go-go girl, chanteuse and pin-up model has traveled the nation with the ladies of Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque on the Go-Go.In October 2011, she will be leaving her hometown of New York City with sights on Nashville, TN. To keep track of this Yankee gal's fun-loving adventures in Dixieland and around the world, check GiGi out online and catch her if you can ?

Jeff Sproul (Mayor) is the co-founder of No Tea Productions with his amazing wife Lindsey. He has performed in each of No Tea’s previous shows, as well as having written The Kentucky Goblin Siege, The Artistical Process of Mark & Andy, and “Evacuation Plan” from the show Liars. He has appeared in numerous stage productions in New York and Colorado, the independent films Flowers and Rehearsal, and the short films In Transit and Straphanger. Many thanks to Heidi, Nicole, Terrence and the rest of the cast and crew of Lines for being so helpful and welcoming during his rather late arrival to this fantastic show.

Jennifer Gill (Lois Marvis – Porcelain & Pink, Ghost – Purgatory, Mrs. Peters - Trifles) has been performing with Dysfunctional Theatre since 2003. She became an official company member in 2004. In that time she's appeared in: Arsenic & Old Lace (Elaine), The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss and Passionate Hot Romance (Ensemble), Orange Murder Suit (Lynn), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Hollywood 2009, Vixen 2007, Blitzen 2006, Dancer 2005), Bite (Annabelle), Hoover: A Love Story (Jackie Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, a Japanese Warplane and others), Please Please Please Love Me (Nina), and Untitled Farce (Ms. Guest). Other favorite performances include Emelia in Comedy of Errors, Beatrice in The Voysey Inheritance and Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet. Jennifer has a BFA in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. You can find her at www.jennygill.com and also on Twitter.com as nycjenny.

JUSTIN PLOWMAN (Director) was the director of the original hit horrorcomedy Brew of the Dead. Other directing credits include Robosaurusand Fancy Eating You Here for A Cavalcade of Curiosities and Porcelain& Pink for A Voluminous Evening of Brevity. As an actor, he recently appeared in GeminiCollisionworks's ObJects and DMTheatric's Plan9 from Outer Space, both at The Brick, has appeared in numerousDysfunctional shows over the last decade and also appeared in and co-produced Clue- Live on Stage (Wadsworth the Butler). Justin is Dysfunctional Theatre’s Director of Development.

KAT YEN is the Co-Artistic Director and Resident Director of Spookfish Theatre Company as well as a Resident Director at The Flea Theater. Recent NYC directing credits include (all World Premieres with Spookfish): Advance Guard (Horse Trade), Pornography for the People (Theater for the New City, The Kraine, HERE Arts), The ABC's Guide to Getting Famous (The Red Room, C.O.W. Theater - FringeNYC), Relax! Alice (UNDER St. Marks, June Havoc Theater), WABI SABI! Not Wasabi (Theater for the New City). Other projects by Kat include Homeless Kitty, a guerilla puppet show performed on NYC subways. She is also a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

learned to read at 3 years old; the nudity came even earlier. An internationally-renowned neo-burlesque star and "The Girl With The 44-DD Brain," Nasty is the host and producer of Naked Girls Reading NYC; the impresario behind Sweet & Nasty Burlesque; the reigning Cheese Queen of Coney Island; the real-world avatar of bio-mechanical beauty Kobayashi Maru; and the 2nd runner-up for Miss Exotic World 2010.

is a 2011 Heideman Award finalist for her short play, TURNING THE GLASS AROUND and a semi-finalist in the 2011 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She is a member of the 2008 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater and a 2009 playwriting fellow with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She is also amember of The Passage Theatre Play Lab and a member of the 2009 Project Footlight team of composers and librettists.

Her full-length drama, RED ROOSTER, was a part of The Classical Theatre of Harlem's Future Classics reading series as well as the Emerging Writers Spotlight Series at The Public Theater. ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS was featured in The Looking Glass Theatre's Spring 2009 Writer/Director Forum. THE RIVER PURE FOR HEALING was part of the 2008 Resilience of the Spirit play festival. Her play, TREE OF LIFE, received a 2007 workshop production at The Red Room Theater.

Alicia Barnatchez (ensemble) has performed improv and theatre in various venues around the city and can also be seen performing weekly with ComedySportz New York at the Broadway Comedy Club. This is her seventh show with No Tea; most recently she portrayed Geraldine Lankford in The Kentucy Goblin Siege.

D. Robert Wolcheck (ensemble) has worked on or behind the stage on each of No Tea’s eight previous shows. Previous roles have included Dwight in The Kentucky Goblin Siege, Small Man in Harold Pinter's Request Stop, Man/Waiter/Doorman/ Cabbie in Daniel McCoy's Peek, and James/Robert/La-La in Christopher Durang's Nina in the Morning. Outside of No Tea, he has worked with Piper Theatre in Brooklyn. D. Robert also works as a photographer. drobertwolcheck.com

Dangrrr Doll is the cutest little rapscallion in burlesque. With a BA in English literature and a name that hints at the literary rule of three, it's clear that if Dangrrr loves anything as much as she loves being naked, it's a good book!
Photo by Malgorzata Saniewska

"The Five-Alarm Fire of Burlesque," is a former Miss Coney Island and a current instructor with the New York School of Burlesque. Gal likes to be naked and knows how to read - all of which makes her very excited to be a regular part of Naked Girls Reading.

Jeremy Mather (ensemble, writer) is a writer, filmmaker and comedian. No Tea's production of the farce Poppycock last season marked his debut as writer/director for the stage, and this is his eighth show collaborating with No Tea Productions, two of which (Already in Progress, Liars) he co-wrote in addition to acting. He's screened several short films at Sundance and has performed as a stand-up comedian.

is a poet, playwright, producer and Zen Master.  Jesse works as the Artistic Director for Subjective Theatre Company. Artistic Associate at the Public Theater and is Assistant to the playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Jesse is also the east coast editor of High Contrast Review, freelance journalist and essayist. Jesse studied writing with playwright Adrienne Kennedy and taught a theater course at Lewis and Clark College.

This is Kevin's second directorial collaboration with Kelley Nicole Girod, having directed her Straight on 'Til Morning at the Classical Theatre of Harlem's Future Classics series. He assisted Martha Banta on Barbara’s Blue Kitchen in readings in Florida and NYC, and went on as Assistant Director in the show’s Off-Broadway run. Most recently, he directed 30 Plays in 60 Minutes as a guest director at Bloomsburg University, and 4 works by Nathan Yungerberg at the Bed-Stuy Playwright Series. He directed Adrienne Dawes’s Am I White at Blackboard Plays Reading Series, Tracey Conyer Lee’s Poor Posturing and The First Time for The Fire This Time Festival, and Michelle T. Johnson's Wiccans in the 'hood for the Midwinter Madness Festival. Passionate about the solo show format, he also developed and directed Elizabeth Stewart’s Racist is My Middle Name for the Estrogenius Festival (2010), and Tracey Conyer Lee’s Standing Up: Bathroom Talk and Other Stuff We Learn From Dad (2010). The former Artistic Director of Educational Programming for Queens Theatre in the Park, Mr. Free has also directed several productions performed or written by young people, including several plays in Writopia Lab’s Bestival of New Plays, The Wiz, The Robber Bridegroom, Godspell, Barnum, The Big Bad Musical, Dear Edwina and A Year with Frog and Toad. He is also an accomplished performer, writer, and audiobook narrator. More info: www.kevinrfree.com, @kevinrfree

Lisa Nussbaum (stage manager) is marking her seventh No Tea production, having assistant managed and puppeteered in The Kentucky Goblin Siege, co-stage managed Poppycock, assistant stage managed Liars, assistant directed Plucking Failures, stage-managed Mark and Andy, and co-produced video for Already in Progress. Lisa also heads The ‘Lab, a collaborative learning environment allowing members to experience all angles of video production. She is currently producing a documentary, Defending Marriage, which focuses on gay civil rights.

Madame Rosebud is Burlesque's Girl Who Fell to Earth and a co-producer with The Sophisticates. After an early career in fine art and many years of expensive and prestigious dance/acting/vocal/fine art training Rosebud opted for debauchery and now funnels all her creativity into Burlesque. Rosebud's solo career has encompassed performances from coast to coast and overseas, with stops at the London Burlesque Festival, the New York Burlesque Festival, and competing at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend.

Ming Peiffer is the Co-Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of Spookfish Theatre Company and a working actress based in NYC. Her critically acclaimed works include: Pornography For The People (HERE Arts Center, Kraine Theater, Theater for the New City), RELAX! ALICE (June Havoc Theater, Nominated for 5 Midtown International Theater Awards including "Outstanding New Script"), WABI SABI! Not Wasabi (Theater For The New City, described by the New York Times as "Aware...") The ABC's Guide To Getting Famous (The Red Room, "Brilliant"-Cultural Capitol, "Ingenious"- The Local East Village) The Privilege of Death (Co-Writer, Gene Frankel Theater). Ming was 1 of 6 female playwrights selected for New Perspectives Theater Company's 2012-2013 Women's Work Project where she developed the play CEREAL. She wrote and performed Spookfish Theatre Company’s Guerilla Theater Series: "HOMELESS KITTY", an ongoing public puppet show aimed at raising the awareness of homelessness in NYC. She is a co-author of the play, "The Privilege of Death: or how everything went from bad to good" (Gene Frankel Theater, The Doctorow Center of the Performing Arts). Upcoming plays include: "ADVANCE GUARD" (The Kraine Theater, May 2013), "Netizens: a trio of plays", and "Lotus Girls". Ming is an active member of the Asian American Arts Alliance and a Sponsored Artist at The Field. She has training from both the Stella Adler School of Acting, and the Shanghai Theatre Academy where she lived abroad studying Traditional Peking Opera. She studied poetry at The New School and holds a BA with Honors in both Theater Arts and Mandarin Chinese from Colgate University. Ming will begin her Columbia University MFA Playwrighting candidacy this Fall '13.

Peter Schuyler (Chance – Two Slatterns & a King, director - Purgatory) A proud company member of Dysfunctional, Pete was most recently seen as Comet in The 8: Reindeer Monologues (he appeared in previous productions as Dasher, Donner, & Cupid). Recent credits include a (very brief) appearance in DMTheatrics production of Titus Andronicus as Quintus, one of the idiot sons who crawls into a hole with a corpse, Teddy Brewster in Dysfunctional’s production of Arsenic & Old Lace, and Captain Phaidrig O’Neill in TheatreRats revival of the completely unheard of King O’Neill, where he lived out a lifelong fantasy of being a drunken Irish soldier in a skirt for two hours. In NYC: Titus X (Titus Andronicus, NYIT nominee), Strom Thurmond is Not a Racist (Strom’s Father, NYIT nominee), Brew of The Dead (Craig), Romeo & Juliet (Nurse), Orestes 2.0 (Menelaus), The Front Page (Endicott), and Frankenstein (Clerval). Peter is a staff writer for NYtheatre.com and a director/producer for their Cable Access TV show Indie Theatre Now!. He is also a raconteur for the Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl (www.bakerloo.org). Peter has a BS in Theatre Performance from Northern Arizona University.

Rob Hille (Actor, Mike) is one of the founding members of Amios and has worn several hats in the company: actor, director, Artistic Director, producer, elf, hobo, Walt Disney, Dr. Seuss, zombie elephant...the list goes on and on. Rob's been seen professionally at the Denver Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Actor's Theatre of Columbus, and a bunch of industrials you've probably never heard of. As Amios approaches its 4th birthday, Rob wants to thank all the artists and audiences that have come together to form this crazy little family. He would be lost without them. Rob holds a BFA from Otterbein College, an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory, and a Food Handlers Certificate from the New York State Department of Health. Rob's favorite color is green. www.amiosnyc.org
*Rob Hille is a proud member of the Actor's Equity Association

Robert Brown joined Dysfunctional Theatre back in January of 2004 after doing Please Please Please Love Me. Since then he has performed in Hoover, A Love Story (Clyde Tolsen) Bite (Dr. Oliver Greenmeadow), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Cupid, Comet) and the workshop of Chosen with Dysfunctional.Some of his favorite roles include Touchstone from As You Like It, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, Banquo fromMacbeth, and Mr. Green in Clue - Live on Stage with Flying Blind Productions.He has a BFA from Webster University in St. Louis.

Sabrina Farhi (ensemble) has appeared recently in The Kentucky Goblin Siege,
Poppycock, Liars, Plucking Failures Like Ripe Fruit, and The Artistical Process of Mark & Andy (all with No Tea Productions), LA 8AM (Renegade Redhead Productions), Viva Las Vegas (2009 Chester Horn Short Play Festival), ManEater (2008 Estrogenius Festival), The Trojan Women: A Love Story (Laurie Theatre), The Wake of Jamey Foster (Laurie Theatre), Murder on the Nile (Dorset Theatre Festival), The Rimers of Eldritch (Theatre Unplugged), and the short films Au Revoir, Malady & In Transit. www.sabrinafarhi.com

Scott Cagney (Actor, Loudjack) is a New York/New Jersey actor with a BA in Theatre from Montclair State University where he served as Artistic Director/President of a student run theatre group, MSU Players, for two years. Scott is a Founding Member of StrangeDog Theatre and has performed in many of their productions, including: Buff -SubUrbia, Loudjack - Bootstraps, Ray -Spilling Stuff and Breaking Things, Lewis - Omnivores, Brian - The Virilogy, Mr. Person - Kitty Kitty Kitty, and Dog - Claire Went to France. Other credits: Kaffee - A Few Good Men, Bottom - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Larry - Anna Christie, Heinz - Clothes Encounters and Attention Span of a Fly (Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ). Scott frequently works with Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey as an actor and an educator. In 2008 Scott was the recipient of the ACTF Region II Best Partner Award. More at strangedogtheatre.com

Suzanne is thrilled and honored to be Bob's co-conspirator in Spitting In The Face Of The Devil . Suzanne just directed her play, We Call Her Benny , to critical acclaim, as part of the first-ever FRIGID New York Festival. Other directing credits include Frank D. Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses at The Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles and her cult hit, Icons & Outcasts , which ran for six months at The John Montgomery Theatre and The Duplex. Suzanne's award-winning play, Circle , ran for five months Off Broadway, was produced nationally and optioned for production in Australia . Her plays have been seen at PS NBC at HERE, 20 th Century Fox at the Coronet Theatre in LA, The Raw Space, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and The National Arts Club, among others. Plays include Don't Let Destiny Push You Around, Screwdrivers & Sunday Brunch , Alexandra Triptych , Jump Start, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Sex Ed and BITE . Film and screenwriting credits include the short films Snapshot (Film Threat's Best of 2002), Jennifer Monroe, P.I. (Flicks on 66), The Apartment (Blue Barn Productions for Canon), and a feature, Love Seat (Kipp Miller Productions). Suzanne studied playwriting with Romulus Linney (MFA, first graduating class of The Actors Studio Drama School at The New School). She is a resident artist at Horse Trade, has received four OOBR Awards and is a member of The Dramatists Guild .

Zoey Martinson is the co-Artistic Director of smoke&mirrors Collaborative in NYC, and the executive director of Bright Future Arts International in Ghana West Africa. She holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase College and MFA from NYU Grad Acting, and has trained in classical theatre/ mask in London, England. She has been working with young artists for over 10 years, teaching in England, Ghana, South Africa and Bed-Stuy Brooklyn. As an actress, she has performed at the Guthrie, NYSF/ The Public, Shakespeare On The Sound, 365 Plays/Days at The Public, Purchase Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, Penobscot Theatre, The Flea Theatre, Broom Street Theatre, Theatre in the Muz, South Africa, the National Theatre of Ghana, and the Diorama theatre in London. She works in physical theatre and mask, as a writer/director/performer. She has directed two short films, one documentary and theatre in Ghana, West Africa, Jo’burg, Cape Town, South Africa. Richmond University, London. Purchase College, and NYU Grad Acting Freeplay and African Mysteries project with Mark Wing Davey. The show "The Skype Duet" in Berlin and NYC, that she co created and directed won an award for it’s performance at the HAU 2 in Germany, and TONY Lounge at New World Stages, “Hell On Me” for the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival.

originally from New Hampshire, is a record fifteen-time StorySLAM Champion, and two-time GrandSLAM Champion at The Moth ("New York's hottest and hippest literary ticket" by The Wall Street Journal). The Moth has given him the opportunity to perform alongside the likes of Garrison Keillor, Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Gopnik. He’s also been featured on their popular podcast (500,000 downloads a month) with Jonathan Ames. Adam has been performing his stories in New York City for the past ten years at renowned venues such as Joe’s Pub, the Highline Ballroom, Caroline's on Broadway, and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. He is a regular at the New York City comedy and storytelling shows The Nights of Our Lives, The Liar Show, Speakeasy Stories, Mortified, The Rejection Show, Stories at the Creek, The BTK Band Show, and Stripped Stories, among others. For the past year, Adam has produced and co-hosted a very successful monthly storytelling show in the city called True Tales of College at Comix in New York City. On August 16th, 2009 Adam and True Tales of College were featured in the Sunday New York Times ‘Style’ section’s piece on The Moth. Video of his winning slam story from August 11th was also posted on NYTIMES.COM. His writing has been featured in the New York Press, Glamour Magazine and the New York Times.

AMANDA VAN NOSTRAND (PERFORMER) Some of her favorite roles include: Natalya in The Marriage Proposal, Sissy in Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, and the title role in Dulcy. She is also active in the improv comedy scene and has been seen at Upright Citizen's Brigade and performs regularly with The Red Tie Mafia for which she also coaches. For more info, check out her site www.amandavannostrand.com.

Amy Beth Sherman is very pleased to be back in the Dysfunctional fold after a several year hiatus. Past company credits include Brew of the Dead (Nexus), Chosen (Chancellor/Ensemble), Vampire Stewardesses From Hell (Tatiana), and Sodom (Swivia). Other favorite roles include Irina in Three Sisters, Nina in The Seagull and Abby in the independent film Desperation, for which she won Best Actress at Microcinemafest 2006 and Best Acting Performance at Shriekfest 2006. She has a BA in theatre from American University and has been kicking about New York for the past decade.

Anita Cookie is dedicated to bringing quality burlesque to the masses, and she hopes to do this by always finding new and exciting ways to showcase jokes as well as jiggling bosoms. Along with Anita’s Underground, she co-produces a LIVE late night talk show in Williamsburg called The Night Cap, and she is the drunk in The Drunk ‘n’ Dirty Duo who can be seen monthlyat the Palace of Wonders in Washington, DC.
Anita Cookie is the most intoxicated - oops - I mean intoxicating pastie-donner this side of the Rio Grande. Sun-baked off the shores of the pacific, she has taken The Big Apple by storm and her love of tequila, being the product of those San Diego origins, is nothing compared to her insatiable hunger for cookies.
She is a character with the curves of Marilyn Monroe, the helium pipes of Betty Boop and the wit of Mae West. The Cookie drinks like Dean Martin, is usually involved in antics reminiscent of Lucille Ball, and in most cases her glitzy costumes seem to some how inevitably find there way on to the floor.
Anita’s bubbly voice and sultry dance moves have graced the stages of such fine New York and Brooklyn establishments as the Cutting Room, South Paw, Rafifi, Galapagos, BB King’s, Don Hill’s, Mo Pitkins and The Derby (LA).
When Anita’s not mesmerizing the masses she’s whipping up her Saucy Sweets! She makes cookies, hot sauce, decorative items and much, much more

Ben Kaufman’s recent works include It comes from Beyond, and Attack of the Nearly Dead Russian Children. Join him in June for The Second Life of Gideon Finn at USM. Ben has a BFA in Theater Performance from Ohio University, and spent a year as an Intern at Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati.

Bob was born in Allentown , Pennsylvania and he received a scholarship to The Young Actors Studio when he was in High School. He came to New York to attend the Tisch School of the Arts, working with the Stella Adler Conservatory. Some of his New York Theatre roles include Girls School Vampire playing the roles of Harold Kumel and Johnny , Salome as Herod, Impromptu playing Ernest, Bitch Macbeth as Rbiter , Who in the Hell is the Real Live Lorelei Lee? Playing Burgess Link, and playing Caesar in the OOBR award-winning production of DMTheatric's Antony and Cleopatra . He just finished a five month run of BITE playing Parker Lyman followed by Peter in We Call Her Benny as part of the first-ever FRIGID New York festival, both with The John Montgomery Theatre Company, of which he is Artistic Associate.

Christopher Diercksen specializes in developing and directing new plays. Recent Production credits: Christopher Marlowe's Chloroform Dreams by Katharine Sherman; The Henchmen by Bryce Norbitz; Othello, by William Shakespeare; Ampersand: A Romeo and Juliet Story By Mariah MacCarthy. As Literary Manager for Lunar Energy Productions, he runs MOONSHINE: a quarterly play development reading series: In Antarctica, Where It Is Very Warm by Jona Tarlin, Dreams Of The Penny Gods by Callie Kimball. In October, he is directing By Rights We Should Be Giants presented by Lunar Energy Productions. New World premiere directing work includes: MASTODON JUAN (Bowery Poetry Club) and wreckless (Theater For A New City), by Katharine Sherman; Crawl For It, by Joshua Conkel (Horsetrade Theater Group); Parabolas, by Kelley Girod (Horsetrade/Aery Theater - Best Director). He has worked extensively with the New York Neo-Futurists production of Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind. Christopher trained at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and is a graduate of Albright College.

David L. Williams is a graduate of the theatre department of Cornell University, where he was a four time award recipient in the Heerman’s-McCalmon Playwriting contest. Since then, he has written more than twenty-five plays and musicals. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild and has won the Riverside Stage Company’s Founder’s Award and the EBE Ensemble’s “You Fill In The Blank” festival. Additionally he has been named a finalist in Inkwell Theatre’s Inkubator Festival (Washington, D.C.) and a two-time finalist in (and one-time winner of) HotCity Theatre’s GreenHouse New Play Festival (St. Louis). His career highlights include having four of his plays and musicals selected for the New York International Fringe Festival. His work has also been produced in Illinois, California, Massachusetts, Florida, and Washington, D.C. He recently moved to Bellefonte, PA with his wonderful wife Kathleen.

Born in Parma, Italy, Ilaria’s introduction into professional theater took place when she co-founded the Theater Company "I 4 Cantoni" at the age of fifteen. Ilaria later attended the prestigious Teatro Stabile di Genova. She was the author and Assistant Director of the stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “The Castle” and was chosen as the female lead in the show “Time of darkness” . She also received a honorable mention from the national playwriting competition "In Punta di Penna" for the piece “Non ho urlato”. She directed theater therapy workshops for children and seminars of Commedia dell’Arte at “Teatro Vita” (Parma, Italy). Ilaria moved to the US in 2010. She has collaborated on several productions at the Off-Broadway 45 Bleecker Theater and worked as Assistant Director for the show "American Addict" (Hollywood Fringe Festival). Most recently she worked as Director for the show “Stuck” presented to the Emerging Artists New Works Series.

is the Co-Artistic Director of Less Than Rent. Writing credits include WORDS, RAZORS, AND THE WOUNDED HEART (Less Than Rent/Horse Trade), MONEY$HOT (premiering at Orlando Rep in May), LITTLE TOWN BLUES (The Wild Project), VOICES IN CONFLICT (Vineyard Theatre, collaboration with Bonnie Dickinson), and FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS (Walkerspace). In 2010, he was awarded the FringeNYC Outstanding Director award for his musical adaptation of Richard III at the age of 19. He is the recipient of the 2013/14 Dramatists Guild Fellowship (with partner Alexander Sage Oyen) for Musical Theatre writing for their musical OUTLAWS, which will continue its development at the 2014 ASCAP workshop.

Has appeared in all 20 of Radiotheatre's SUNDAYS WITH POE. Also, FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA, and DRACULA'S GUEST. He graduated MFA, Rutgers. Recent credits include; Miss Witherspoon, Amphibian Stage Prod; The Crucible, Northern Stage; The Darker Face Of The Earth; Educating Rita, New London Barn Playhouse; Much Ado About Nothing; Romeo and Juliet. Princeton Rep; Othello, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ; On TV - Law & Order;Criminal Intent; All My Children.

JOSHUA CONKEL(Playwright) is a playwright, director and occasional actor. He is also the Co-Artistic Director of The Management, now in their sixth season. His playshave been performed all over the country and include MilkMilkLemonade, TheChalk Boy, and I Wanna Destroy You among others. His play, The Sluts of Sutton Drive will have a workshop production at Ensemble StudioTheatre in January of 2011. Josh is a member of EST's Youngblood as well as The Dramatist's Guild.

Lindsey Hope Pearlman is a director, actor, writer, producer, and clown. She is a proud founding member of Up & Down Theatre Co. Favorite projects include: Leap of Faith (SDC Observer), Ships of Sand with Lyrebird Theatre Company (Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2011), Winning the Future with Up & Down Theatre Co., and Rainbow Funk Squad. She also recently founded The Pearlman Sisters Theatre Co., for whom she produced a sold-out run of Devotedly, Sincerely Yours: The Story of the USO in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2012. Lindsey recently appeared in the Target Margin Yiddish Theater Lab at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and she performs throughout the five boroughs of NYC with the educational touring company Wildlife Theater, sponsored by the Wildlife Conservation Society. She is a graduate of the London International School of the Performing Arts (LISPA) and received her B.A from Hamilton College. Email her at lindsey.pearlman@gmail.com.

Lindsey Moore (director, writer) is proud to be directing her seventh show for No Tea Productions, having previously directed The Kentucky Goblin Siege, Liars, Plucking Failures Like Ripe Fruit, The Artistical Process of Mark and Andy, Already in Progress, and The Pigeon that Cries in My Heart. The New York Times said that Liars was “staged so nicely by Lindsey Moore,” and the Austin Chronicle said of her production of Steve Martin’s WASP that she “wisely envisioned [the] work with restraint.” Lindsey founded No Tea Productions in 2006 with her husband, Jeff Sproul.

Matthew Kreiner (Media/Film Direction) has been working with Rising Sun Performance Company for three to four years now. He has worked on previous productions of DeCADEnce, A’Spress, the one-acts, and just recently completed a three month workshop of his play, That’s Politics. Other companies Matthew has worked with is End Times Productions, where he is the General Manager; Sweeter Theatre; and Sweet Sweet Motherhood Productions.

Nathan is a New York City based actor, director, designer and creator. He is the co-artistic director of AnimalParts which most recently produced Tenderpits at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (**** -The Times of London). Tenderpits has been performed at Dixon Place, 59E59 Theaters, United Solo @ Theater ROW, and FrigidNY. Selected directing credits: Miranda Huba's Dirty Little Machine for at The Red Room (NYC); Ragnarok Out! for Nuit Blanche 2009 at The Theatre Centre (Toronto) and the HATCH 2009 hit: It Takes Two Men To Make A Brother, at the Harbourfront Centre (Toronto); Art’s Heart at FringeNYC 2009 (awarded Outstanding Solo Show) and Bass Bugs (Walking Fish Festival, Vancouver). Nathan has won 'Best Director’ two years running at Ottawa's Youth Infringement Festival. Selected design credits: Lighting design for Deathscape at Theatre For The New City; sound design for Hospital City at Incubator Arts Project. Nathan wrote and performed And Now a Message From Mr. Mr. (Toronto Festival of Clowns 2009), and Messiah Ayeland (2005 Chutzpah Festival, Vancouver). He won the Jessie Richardson Award for 'Best Artistic Achievement' with the cast of The Big League (Carousel Theatre, Vancouver). As an actor, Nathan has worked in theatres across Canada, and Israel.

Nick Maccarone is a recent graduate of Columbia University's School of the Arts where he received an M.F.A. in theater. In his final year at Columbia he had the opportunity to work with Diane Paulus in an adaptation of James Baldwin's novel, Another Country. Nick recently completed a two-week workshop at La MaMa exploring an original piece by Fernando Rivas entitled Soul Ascending. A native of Oakland, Calif. he is relieved to have his soul back and thrilled to be exploring original works with the Drafts in the greatest city in the world.

Paul Romano (Actor, Skipper) is an actor, writer, freelance translator, language instructor and a proud native Brooklynite. He studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, and holds a BA in English from The New School and an MA in Spanish from Middlebury College. Paul spends his summers at Middlebury, where he pursues his MA in French. At Middlebury, he has had the unique opportunity to work in French with acclaimed francophone playwrights/directors Sonia Ristic, Gustave Akakpo, and José Pliya.

R.PATRICK ALBERTY is happy to be back at Radiotheatre! Past productions include: THE HAUNTING OF ST.MARKS PLACE; KING KONG, SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH, THE MOON BOG; THE LURKING FEAR; THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER; THE EVIL CLERGYMAN; THE WAR OF THE WORLDS; THE ISLAND OF DR.MOREAU; DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN. He has toured with FRANKENSTEIN and GHOST STORIES. Patrick is the Director of Literary Arts at Mind The Art Entertainment and is the founder and film editor at Fly-Over Country Productions.

Rachel Dart received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her directing work has been featured at companies such as The Culture Project, The 52nd Street Project, Amios, Emerging Artists Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, and Prospect Theater Company. She has also directed in various festivals, such as the Estrogenius Festival, the West Village Musical Theatre Festival, and the Manhattan Shakespeare Project’s Emerging Female Voices Playwrights Fest. She has been a Jonathan Alper Directing Fellow and an SDCF Observer.

Randi Rivera is a director/designer/stage manager/native New Yorker. She holds a BA in Theater and Hispanic Studies from Hamilton College. She studied Technical Theater at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Production Management at Universidad San Pablo (CEU) in Madrid, Spain. Randi has proudly worked with many performing arts companies such as Dance Theater Workshop, HERE Arts Center, Atlantic Theater Company, DanceNOW NYC, New York Film Academy, Venue13 at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and of course Horse Trade Theater Group. Recent projects include: There is so much mad in me by Faye Driscoll and The Lily's Revenge by Taylor Mac. Her NYC directing debut, The Geographical History of America by Gertrude Stein, was named Critic's Pick by Backstage Magazine. She is thrilled to be directing in the Red Room once again.

Rob Richardson (Todd, [pwnd]) was born in Baltimore, Maryland and is a graduate of the American Musical & Dramatic Academy. His recent works include the new play All Types of Shifty Villains & A-spress.

Miss Ruby Valentine, Burlesque's sweetheart, has been performing in New York since 2003. She performs regularly with Big Apple Burlesque, and appeared in the hit TV show "Madmen", in which she plays a 1960's burlesque bombshell. Her hobbies include reading the collected works of Emily Post, eating truffles whilst sipping champagne, and refining her nuanced technique. She claims "My occupation is Burlesque, my preoccupation is to be wonderful."

TANYA O’DEBRA is a writer/performer/funny lady. One half of the ECNY Award nominated comic sister duo, The O'Debra Twins, Miss O’Debra has spread mirth and filth all over NYC. Their annual O’Debbie Awards garnered a Best of New York Award from The Village Voice. Her play Fuck You won The Excellence Award in Overall Production at Fringe NYC. Published by Original Works, her play Radio Star has been produced all over the world, receiving numerous awards and accolades. Winner of the Miss Fag Hag Pageant, other theater credits include Patrice O’Debra in Straight Up Vampire (Joe’s Pub), The Evil Queen in Snow White (The New Acting Company) and Amanda McCloud in The Ultimate Stimulus (Dixon Place).www.tanyaodebra.com

(Playwright/Rita Vance) Todd is the founding Artistic Director of Gracye Productions. Plays he’s written and performed with them include Bad Dames Go To Hell (The Red Room, 2003), Poverty Row Double Horror Show (The Red Room, 2004), The Greatest B-Movie Ever Told (FringeNYC, 2005), Vice Girl Confidential (FringeNYC Outstanding Ensemble Award, 2006; 2008 revival at Under St. Marks), Say Your Prayers, Mug (The Red Room, 2007), Tough Guys Don’t Shoot Blanks (FringeNYC, 2008) and Buddy Becker’s Big Uncut Flick (FringeNYC, 2009). Looking forward to acting out of drag in Apple Core’s upcoming production of William M. Hoffman’s As Is. Thanks to Walter, Allison, and this perfect cast and crew. Love to Peter, Mom and Gracye – 101 years old and still going strong!

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Alexia is a performer, educator, speaker, and life/business coach. She is touring her performance piece The Joy of Lex, most recently to HERE Arts Center’s TALR Festival, Initiation International in Singapore, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Alexia produces the New York City Student Shakespeare Festival and is an adjunct professor at John Jay College and New Jersey City University. She is published in Melody Berger’s book, We Don’t Need Another Wave and featured in Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards’s book, Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism. Alexia holds an MA in Experimental Theatre and Gender Studies from NYU.

A composer with over 15 years of experience including his studies at Berklee College of Music, Mr. Mauriello has been incorporating his songwriting into a variety of settings with a vast spectrum of musical styles. He has performed at Boston's Symphony Hall, crowded basements in Philadelphia, sold out shows at the late CBGB's in New York City, and seemingly everywhere in between. His music for Radio Star garnered a New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for Outstanding Original Music.

Aviva graduated from Swarthmore College and received a Masters in Public Health from Columbia. Her endeavors include origami, knitting, web and graphic design, and electing progressively-minded musicians to Congress. She brings her eclectic interests and skills to the tasks of stage management and graphic design.

Chris Caporlingua (Graphic Design) is currently a MFA candidate working on a degree in Media Arts Production and Emerging Practices program. He maintains the web site and has done much of the graphic design for StrangeDog since New.Tricks! on Tour in NJ in 2008 In addition, Chris has worked as stage manager on SubUrbia and Bootstraps, sound and lighting for New.Tricks!, Bootstraps, Claire Went To France (Hamilton Stage, NJ 2012)and crerated the graphics, sets and props for the StrangeDog./Rhesus production of The Montana Ranch for the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe Festiva . Since 2004, Chris has been creative director of The Spectrum, an independent student newspaper in Buffalo. In April, he won the Mary Louise White Grand Prize at the first SUNY-Wide film festival for his short film Gates, Doors which was also featured in the 2009 Topanga Film Festival.

Chris Kipiniak (Change the Bee) is an actor, writer and playwright. Plays include Stalled, which played at the Kraine Theatre in New York City and later as part of the Hangar Theatre Lab in association with the Drama League Directing Fellowhip; Pass the Buck and For the First Time, Together Again!, two children’s plays commissioned by the McCarter Theatre’s First Stage Company; The Big Search, a children’s play commissioned by the Middleground Theatre; and The Nature of the Beast, a modern-gothic, zombie-romance; Save The World, which played at the American Theater of Actors, produced by the Roundtable Ensemble. Most recently his short play, IIIINSAAAAAAAANE! was part of Horse Trade Theater Group's evening of, "6 Short Plays About Hope." He is also a freelance writer and has worked with Marvel comics writing Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man, the limited series Nightcrawler and for the anthology Amazing Fantasy. His first piece of travel-writing, “Magic Carpet Ride,” was published in the travel anthology, Encounters With the Middle East. As an actor he has appeared on Broadway in Mary Zimmerman’s Tony-winning adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which he also performed off-broadway and at regional theatres such as the Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, and Berkeley Repertory. Other New York acting credits include Stalled, Kit Marlowe at the Public Theatre, Silence with the Roundtable Ensemble, Baby Girl with Partial Comfort Productions, Gift with Rising Phoenix at the New York International Fringe Festival, and How To Act Around Cops with Singularity company at both the New York and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and at the Soho Theatre in London.

NEW YORK: 23 Year Old Myth (Dream Up Fest); Puppet Hamlet (Wrinkled Coyote Productions); W.A.S.P. (Access Theatre); Grey or What Do You Do… (KPA Productions). FILM: Hippie Ninja Chick (dir. Drew Magner);Men At Work (College Humor). UNIVERSITY:A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Cascando;Springtime; Bringing it all Back Home. Cory is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and company member of LTR.

Cyndi Freeman (AKA Cherry Pitz) - Performer / Producer
Cyndi Freeman is a two-time FringeNYC award winning performer, playwright, theatrical producer and a Moth Slam winning storyteller. She has created and produced several solo shows which have toured internationally, and is a recipient of a grand prize playwriting fellowship award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (with collaborator Ellen Groves). Her storytelling credits include Seth Lind's Told, The Liar Show, Stripped Stories, Story Collider, Risk, And I Am Not Lying and The BTK band. Ms. Freeman is also a teacher for The Moth in their outreach program MothSHOP. Other credits include HBO, Comedy Central and Showtime. http://www.heroicsinhotpants.com

As her alter ego Cherry Pitz, she is the host and producer (with Joe The Shark) of HOTSY TOTSY BURLESQUEwww.hotsytotsyburlesque.com: New York’s only ongoing monthly burlesque soap opera. Each month (every 3rd Tuesday at R-Bar), in other burlesque credits include: The New York Burlesque Festival, Slipper Room, And I Am Not Lying, Kitty Nights, Bedlam Burlesque, Sharkbite Side Show and upcoming, Naked Girls Reading with Nasty Canasta.


Little Motown

Hailing from Detroit, the "heat wave lighting up the night," Little Motown, began bumping and grinding as soon as she reached the Big Apple in 2011. She quickly won over the hearts and groins of fans and fellow performers in NYC and around the country, performing both neo and classical burlesque.
She's known for her ass and antics, which have delighted audiences at The Slipper room, Coney Island, Webster Hall and other NYC hotspots. She's performed at the New York Burlesque Festival and the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
http://littlemotown.com/
She's half of the hot new duo, Lil Bunz, grabbing NYC by the balls since September 2012. They're silly, super hot and a little mischievous. Their tagline says it best; "we'll fuck with you.”
https://www.facebook.com/LilBunzBurlesque

Nasty Canasta
Internationally-renowned neo-ecdysiast Nasty Canasta is frequently hailed as a genius of the contemporary burlesque scene. A "burlesque queen" (The NY Times) and Runner Up at the 2010 Miss Exotic World Pageant, Nasty is host and producer of Naked Girls Reading NYC, a regular performer with Wasabassco, and was an original co-creator of Pinchbottom Burlesque. She spent the summer of 2010 as a snake charmer and contortionist with the world-famous Coney Island Circus Sideshow in Brooklyn, NY.

A full-time burlesque performer, producer and costumer since 2004, Nasty draws on her years of experience in theatre to create acts and shows that combine tease, humor, and spectacle. Best known for her 'burlesques on burlesque’ - subtle and surprising twists on classic striptease – and equally at home with classic tease and contemporary pop culture, her numbers range from the sublime to the silly, and have been a favorite with audiences around the world.
http://nastycanastaburlesque.blogspot.com/
http://nakedgirlsreadingnyc.blogspot.com/

Mary Cyn
Miss Mary Cyn is a classically trained actor who takes off her clothes in bars. Sexy and nerdy, creative and wacky, Miss Mary Cyn is known for doings acts that surprise, inspire and arouse. She is the founder and co-producer of Original Cyn, New York's craziest burlesque show. She's also a founding member and former co-producer of Epic Win Burlesque. Her production company, The Cyn Factory, is bringing New York City a fun blend of theatre, burlesque, art, and partying.
http://www.missmarycyn.com/

Big Heath
Heath has appreciated live performances all his life. Big Heath became a member of New York's burlesque community in 2005 and has attended many hundred neo-burlesque shows since. Considered a connoisseur of the art form by some, Big Heath's insight has been sought by both performers and producers. During daylight hours Heath can be found overeating, perusing the city's various art museums, and occasionally at his job as a Project Engineer in Northern New Jersey, this is his debut as a storyteller.

Danaher Dempsey (Ghost – Purgatory, Hale – Trifles) is pleased to be working with Dysfunctional. He has previously been seen as Cupid in The 8: Reindeer Monologues, as "The Big Fella" in Chosenand as Little Ike Johnson in Untitled Farce.

This is Deondra Lyonne moved from hometown San Diego to New York to pursue her singing and acting career. Her previous training includes San Diego Youth Theatre, Wreckio Theatre Company, Circle in the Square Summer Intensive, Stella Adler Academy , and Lee Strasberg. Memorable performances are Grease, Annie, Beauty and the Beast, Oliver, Evita, Godspell, Bye Bye Birdie, Dear Maudie , and in Edge of Insanity's last production as Jamie Lee in Galaxy Video I & II . She spends her spare time at Broadway Dance Center working on her Jazz and tap skills. Deondra was currently attending Circle in the Square Theatre Conservatory. She would like to thank her family for their guidance and unselfish sacrifice in helping her pursue her dream.

Emily is a dramaturg, musician, and composer based in New York City. Past dramaturgy credits include Dido, Queen of Carthage, directed by Neil Bartlett, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Martha Clarke, both at the American Repertory Theatre, and the world premiere of Philip Glass's Appomattox, directed by Robert Woodruff, at the San Francisco Opera. Emily holds an MFA in dramaturgy from the American Repertory Theatre/Moscow Art Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

(publicity) is a NYC based public relations agency specializing in Off-Off Broadway Theatre. Clients include Horse Trade Theater Group, FRIGID, Sponsored By Nobody, Theatre of the Expendable, and Disgraced Productions. www.emilyowenspr.com.

Felicia Blum (Bookstore Volunteer) – Felicia is THRILLED to be reprising her role of Bookstore Volunteer in this production of LLO. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory. Felicia earned an IRNE nomination for her portrayal of Mary Phagan in Parade at Speakeasy Stage Company. Other roles include: Beck (NYMF’s Tess: A New Rock Opera,) Theo (Pippin,) and Goth Girl (Perks- a new musical web series.) When she isn’t on stage, Felicia enjoys spinning, yogaing, shopping, playing with dogs, drinking a nice IPA/glass of red wine, and crocheting stuffed animals (lilknitterscritters.blogspot.com.) She can also talk with her mouth closed. To the parents, bboy, family, awesome friends, Kim and Will, and the rest of the cast and crew....XXOO and MEOW!

HANNAH BOS* is a founding member of The Debate Society, co-writing and starring in A Thought About Raya, The Snow Hen, and The Eaten Heart. Her next play will premiere at PS122 in the fall of 2008. Recent performances include Andrei Serban's Lysistrata with
Cherry Jones, The Pumpkin Pie Show: Ringside Seats (The Belt), Cardiac Shadow (PS122) and Junta High (PS122). Regional: Three Farces and a Funeral and Janos Szasz's Marat/Sade (The American Repertory Theatre). She is also the co-creator/writer of The Mimi and Flo Show: a choose-your-own-adventure webseries. She holds a BA from Vassar College and an MFA from the Institute of Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.

Isaac Butler is a director and writer based in Brooklyn. Previous directing credits at Horse Trade theaters include The Rapid Response Team, the world premieres of Dan Trujillo's The Honest-to-God True Story of the Atheist (which went on to the Capitol Fringe Festival in Washington, D.C.) and Clay McLeod Chapman's volume of smoke (which he also directed at The Firehouse Theatre Project, The 14th Street Y Theatre and Virginia Commonwealth University as a guest artist). Other credits include Trujillo's Talk of the Walk-Up and Chapman's redbird as well as George Hunka's In Private, In Public, Sustaining and All The Ships At Sea. He also directed the first production of a contemporary Danish play in English in the United States with First You're Born by Line Knutzon at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Isaac is a two time member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, a graduate of Vassar College, a lover of dogs and the writer behind Parabasis (http://parabasis.typepad.com) which has been featured in the New York Times, Time Out New York and the Wall Street Journal.

JB ROTE (PERFORMER) fell in love with the theatre from her first role as a snowflake in first grade in Vermont. She apprenticed at Williamstown Theatre Festival, majored in Acting at Brandeis University and completed her BFA in London at the British American Drama Academy. She has also studied and performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade, Magnet and Peoples Improv Theaters. She is enjoying being an active member in The Drafts. Theatre credits include: Crawl For It, Change The Be, Donnie and the Monsters, and when half the sphere is visible (Horse Trade), Balcony Scene 2010 (MoMA PS1). More info at jbrote.com.

Jenna Panther is an Artistic Director of aMios where she works as an actor and director. She is a mighty proud graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory where she performed extensively with the Denver Center Theatre Company. She received a B.S. in Theatre (yes, it’s a real degree) from the University of Evansville and is a native of Louisville, KY--”home of the most exciting two minutes in sports”. Recently Jenna has been working with the Group Lab, an artistic home and an incubator for new work. In her free time Jenna is slowly but surely learning to play the mandolin, does a little yoga, and swings on the trapeze.

Jennifer Harder (Shy)
Jennifer Harder first started acting with the Flint Youth Theatre in Michigan and received a BFA with honors from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Companies she’s worked with include: Target Margin, Les Freres Corbusier, EST Youngblood, The Beggars Group, WTE Theatre, and the Dublin, Capital, and Montréal Fringe Festivals. She is a founding member of The Management and was last seen as Linda the Chicken in MilkMilkLemonade. www.jenniferharder.com

Jerome A. Parker’s play Miracle On Monroe received the Lorraine Hansberry Award from the Kennedy Center. Other works include Origins Of Us (Tim Robbins Playwriting Award), Ballad Of Sad Young Men (Francis Ford Coppola One act Series, Best Short in the Downtown Urban Theater Festival), and House Of Dinah (Faces of the World Festival – Los Angeles Theater Center). Jerome received his BA in Theatre from Williams College, his MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and studied costumes at the Juilliard School. In 2008, he participated in the Eugene O’Neill Playwriting Conference as a fellow.

Jess Chayes is a co-founder and resident director of The Assembly Theater Project and a freelance director. With The Assembly, she has co-created and directed “We Can’t Reach You, Hartford” (Edinburgh Fringe First Nominee, The Scotsman), “Daguerreotype” (The Abingdon Theater), “What I Took in My Hand” (The Ontological Theater, the Brick Theater), “Clementine and the Cyber Ducks” (The Ontological Theater, reading at P73), “The Dark Heart of Meteorology” (UNDER St. Marks), “The Three Sisters” (The Red Room, The Cherry Pit), and the upcoming “Weather Underground Project”. Jess is a New Georges affiliated artist and founding member of The Jam.

Jon has co-created and directed all of Stolen Chair's productions since he co-founded the company in 2002. He has trained with Thomas Richards at the Grotowski Workcenter, Anne Bogart and The SITI Company, Antonio Fava, and The Roving Classical Commedia University, and in the techniques of Jacques Lecoq. He teaches playwriting, directing, acting, and physical theatre techniques throughout the tri-state area and is a commentator and teaching artist for the NYC Student Shakespeare Festival. He holds a Theatre Studies BA from Swarthmore College.

Julie Bain is Originally from Colorado Springs, CO, and has been living and performing in NYC for the past seven years. Most recently, Julie was seen in the opening number of the New York Innovative Theater Awards where she got to sing, rap, and bust some really sweet dance moves. A graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, she happily joined the Rising Sun Performance Company 3 years ago. Julie would like to thank Jason Tyne for the opportunity to be a part of this unique project. Favorite past roles include the title role in Lysistrata and Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. Julie is also married to a very cool and patient guy named John who she loves very much.

Justin Sturges has lit theater, dance, spectacle, rock, and choir in New York, London, and Istanbul, including The Beggars Group's Glass Houses Mr.Sturges is currently the resident lighting designer for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and the technical director of the New York Downtown Clown Revue.

KATIE PALMER (Choreographer) originally from San Diego, California Katie graduated from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama. She began dancing at age 3 and never stopped, eventually supplementing her love of dance with theater, training as an actor, singer/musician, director, designer, and ultimately, a choreographer. In addition to serving as THEATER IN ASYLUM’s co-artistic director, she has been involved with every TIA production since its inception: NIJINSKY IN ASYLUM (Choreography), TIA’s FRANKENSTEIN (Choreography/Performer), Revolution in 1 (Concept and Choreography). Recently, she has also musically staged Sweeney Todd and Falsettos, and created the original solo piece Everybody Dance Now. Katie also continues to perform not only in THEATER IN ASYLUM productions but also with regional musical theater companies. Very passionate about arts education, Katie works as a teaching artist in New York City and California.

KIM KRESSAL (Book/Lyrics Writer/Director) is a director and playwright living in New York City. She is an Artistic Associate for Wreckio Ensemble for whom she directs and writes regularly. Most recently she directed Bail Out The Musical by Wreckio Ensemble and Rooftops by Karly Maurer. She conceived, directed and co-authored The Ladies Aide Society Invites You to A Poverty Party to Benefit The Foundation for Ethical Art and Culture, for which Wreckio was granted a Chashama Performing Arts Residency and an opportunity to travel the show to Dublin, Ireland. In 2007 she received the "Best Director" award at The Wonderland Festival for her direction of Sandwich by Jessamyn Fiore. She is a Founder and former Artistic Director of the New York City based women's theatre company, the estrotribe. Kimberlea has worked with activist groups creating and performing site-specific street theatre. She is the recipient of the Robert Moss Directing Award. She received her BFA in Directing from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts where she currently serves as a Directing Mentor for 3rd and 4th year undergraduate directing students. In June 2009 Kimberlea was featured in GO Magazine’s “100 Women We Love” issue.

Kyle Jarrow is a Brooklyn-based writer and musician who creates work for the stage, film, and television.  His plays include AVery Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (for which he won an OBIE Award), Hostage Song (with Clay McLeod Chapman), LoveKills, Gorilla Man, The Consequences (with NathanLeigh) and Whisper House (with Duncan Sheik).  Kyle wrote thefilm Armless, adapted from his play of the same name, which was an official selection of Sundance Film Festival 2010.  Kyle also plays in the rock bands Super Mirage and Sky-Pony.  More on Kyle at www.landoftrust.com.

Amios productions: IN THE MEANTIME, NYCYCLES 2-4, LONGSHOTZ and numerous SHOTZ. Other NY credits: SACRED WATER with Rag and Bone, ST. CRISPIN’S DAY at Rattlestick, DOWN THE ROAD with Carbin Lane. An accomplished voiceover artist, Berst can be heard on numerous commercials and promos including Cheerios, Verizon, Fancy Feast, Discovery Channel, Sho, HBO, A&E and Bravo. BFA from the University of Evansville and MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory. www.laurenberst.com

is thrilled to be playing Angela in this beautiful, poetic play that is The Flower Thief. A Philadelphia native, Lisa has worked regionally with The Intiman Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Artist Repertory Theatre, The Attic Ensemble, The Fifth Avenue Theatre and The Walnut Street Theatre. New York credits includeBrokeology (u/s) at Lincoln Center Theatre, The Etymology of Bird with Summer Stages, Amarie with the New Federal Theatre, and 365 Days/365 Plays with The Public Theatre and The Classical Theatre of Harlem. She has also been seen in Law & Order:SVU in the recurring role of Tanya Majeski, ACS. Lisa is an MFA graduate from the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program in Seattle, and a proud member of Actor's Equity Association.

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MARTIN DOCKERY (Playwright & Actor) is a frequent performer in New York’s storytelling scene. Over the past three years, he’s created five monologues and one play, performing them across North America and Australia.
His four autobiographical, theatrical monologues Wanderlust, The Surprise, (both directed by Jean-Michele Gregory), The Bike Trip, The Holy Land Experience, and his newest fictional monologue, Bursting Into Flames, have enjoyed successful runs in New York City, San Francisco, Orlando, London, Toronto, Winnipeg, Fresno, Charleston, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Victoria, Vancouver, Bellingham, Seattle, New Orleans, Phoenix, & Adelaide (where he won the 2011 Critics Circle Award). He also headlined the 2011 London Storytelling Festival. In 2012, he will be performing Wanderlust in the Ottawa Fringe and The Melbourne Comedy Festival. He will be returning to Orlando, Vancouver, and Adelaide with Bursting Into Flames. He will be performing The Surprise in Winnipeg and The Holy Land Experience in the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC.
In 2011, Martin performed Oh, That Wily Snake! with actress Vanessa Quesnelle in Fresno, Orlando, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Vancouver. The play also appears in the McGraw-Hill anthology textbook Literature.

Miss Mary Cyn is a classically trained actor with a BFA from NYU who takes her clothes off in bars. She is the founder and co-producer of Original Cyn, 'the partyingest show in New York', and its offshoot production company The Cyn Factory. She's also a member of Epic Win Burlesque: burlesque FOR nerds, BY nerds. She has been performing burlesque since 2005 and stunning audiences all over the city with her singular style of dance, kinky sense of humor and creative twists on the art of burlesque.
Photo by Burke Heffner

Matthew Wise (Doc) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Atlantic Acting School. Some NY Theater Credits include; 365 Days/365 Plays (The Public Theater), Grief (Brooklyn Lyceum), Donnie and the Monsters (Horse Trade), and Pericles (Atlantic Stage 2). Some TV Credits include; "Rescue Me" (FX), "The Freshmen" (MTVU), "Celebrity Ghost Stories" (Biography Channel), and "Mysteries At The Museum" (Travel Channel).

MEG STURIANO (Director) is a teacher and director. Some recent directing highlights include Joshua Conkel's I Wanna Destroy You for EST'sBloodworks '09, the world premier of Julia Brownell's Extraordinary Circumstances, Pia Wilson's End of the World for New Perspectives, and her own adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges. Meg is currently part of the Women's Work Lab at New Perspectives Theatre and is returning for her second year to direct in Manhattan Theatre Source's Estrogenius Festival. Additionally, her one act play One for More Options was recently produced at the Bedlam Theatre in Minneapolis. Meg studied theater at Connecticut College, the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, the Lee Strasberg Institute, and the Moscow Art Theatre School. She holds an MA in English Literature from Hunter College. Currently, Megteaches and directs at Hunter College High School in Manhattan and at Acting Manitou in Maine. For The Management she has assistant directed Dorothy Fortenberry's Caitlin and the Swan, directed Joe Tracz’s Song for a Future Generation and the first episode of Joshua Conkel’s soap opera, Sinking Hearts. From there, she went on to direct for their Salon Series. She is now proud to be considered Management Material.

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Nate Faust (At Sleepies for the Rest of Your Life) is a graduate of the MFA Acting program at The New School for Drama. His New School credits include: Max, Extinction; John Proctor, The Crucible; Johan Toennesen, The Pillars of Society; Man, The Blue Room (59E59); Lord Dumaine, All’s Well That Ends Well. NYC credits include: Nan Duke, Punk Rock/Love Song (Horse Trade Theatre Group); Ferd, American Royal(Samuel French Play Festival); John, His Daddy (E.S.T. River Reading Series); Konrad, Waking Up With Strangers (Horse Trade Theatre Group); Mark, Bar Story (American Theatre of Actors). Other credits include: Anton, Summer of My German Soldier (World Premier, Encore Theatre Company)

Nicole A. Watson is a freelance director and educator. Credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona (The 52nd Street Project, NYC and Banff Center, Canada) BlindSight: A Melodic Hypothesis (Women Center Stage Festival) Light Sweet Crude, (Subjective Theatre Company), Homage 3:Illmatic (Black River Performing Arts Center) a workshop of Oyamo’s musical White Hot Black Spice (New Dramatists, NYC) Deconstruction by Anne Phelan (Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn)Reverb by Radha Blank (The Fire This Time Festival), One Minute-Play Festival (Here Arts Center, NYC), Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers(NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, NYC), Foreclosure (NYTE at the Access Theatre, NYC), David Hilder’s Just Exactly Like (The Flea, NYC), Daniel McCoy’s Eli and Cheryl Jump (2009 Fringe Festival, NYC). She was also a co-writer on Indomitable: James Brown, the Music, the Man (Apollo Theater Salon Series) and was an invited artist at the 2011 Voice and Visions Retreat where she worked with Dominique Morisseau on Paradise Blue. A former history teacher, Nicole has been a teaching artist at the McCarter Theatre where she taught The Hamlet Project and the Museum of the City of New York where she taught an interdisciplinary playwriting/history course and lead professional development workshops on arts and education. Nicole is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, the Women’s Project 2010-2012 Directors Lab, and a co-founder and curator of Working Theater’s Directors Salon. BA History, Yale. MA Interdisciplinary Studies, NYU.

Nicole Gehring is happy to be invited back to work with Horse Trade's Drafts Ensemble. Off-Broadway: Company Manager for Ken Davenport's The Awesome 80s Prom, House Manager for Webster Hall's NYC Dueling Pianos. Regional: assistant director to John Shepard on The Rep's Buried Child. Horse Trade: Director Derek Lee McPhatter's A Better Destiny for Bethany, assistant director to Heidi Grumelot on Terence Patrick Hughes'LINES and Robert J. Gibbs' Donnie and the Monsters. Further credits: assistant to Michael Rau on Wolf 359's Righteous Money, assistant to Kymm Zuckert on Wings Theater's Dulcy, and assistant to Gretchen Ferris on Wings Theater's Chains of Dew.

P. William Pinto (Lighting Designer/Technical Director) Graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in '03 with a degree in playwrighting, minoring in Directing. He has been a member of RSP (and later a staff member) since '04, and has since created and co-directed four of RSP's past musical shows: Let's Just Be Friends, Love Me! Love Me!, Growing Up is Hard to Do, and Love & Money, he also appeared in Beneficial Bawdiness and Full Moon Follies. Past plays produced in New York City include his works A Night at the Party, Triptych: A Study in Fear, and RadioPlay '34. He is thrilled to have worked with such a dedicated cast and crew, and wants to extend a special thanks to the Directing Team, and his partner Joey

PATRICK DOOLEY (Co-creator) is the Literary Manager for Less Than Rent Theatre. New York performance credits include High Upon the Gallows Tree (Manhattan Rep), Beckett in Benghazi, Words, Razors, and The Wounded Heart, and Philadelphia, Here I Come! for the NY/New Belfast conference under the direction of Geraldine Hughes, The Language Archive (dir. Tamilla Woodard, Fordham University), and For a Barbarian Woman, co-produced with Ensemble Studio Theatre (dir. Niegel Smith). Directing credits include Craig Lucas' Reckless and Brian Friel's Winners.

Patrick J. Egan (Reverend Gerald) a native NewYorker, is a graduate of William Esper Studios. Credits include The Crucible asGiles Corey at the Krane Theatre; The Tempest as Prospero at the ImpactTheatre; Loyalties and Memorial at the Pelican Theatre; the original play, TheLast Man Standing as the Last Man at the Samuel French Theatre.  He hasdone independent films including Herman Bolster as Buck; Red Midnight as Joseph/ Announcer; Hangman’s Noose as Charles, a Film Festival winner andBehind the Eyes of a Hitman, as Paulie. He has been a member of Rising Sunfor five years.  He has also works as a voice over artist.

PAUL BEDARD (Director/Adapter) is a theater artist hailing from Hartford, CT, and is a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch with a focus in theater directing. Paul is the co-founder and artistic director of THEATER IN ASYLUM. Past directing credits include ¡Olé! (Horse Trade), Revolution in 1 (Horse Trade), TIA’ s FRANKENSTEIN (Looking Glass Theater), and NIJINSKY IN ASYLUM (Steps Theater).

Paul Herbig (Pete) has worked extensively in Off-Off Broadway theatre, working with Mainspring Collective, Emerging Artists Theatre, Heiress Productions, and the American Theatre of Actors among others. This is his second show with Horse Trade, having played the roles of Tommy and Sock Puppet in last summer's production of Donny and the Monsters. Paul has also worked in independent film, and just finished shooting The Adventures of Paul and Marian, his first lead in a feature. He would like to thank Horse Trade, and the entire cast for being a wonderful group to work with, and come back to.

PAUL THUREEN is a founding member of The Debate Society and has performed and toured extensively with the company, co-writing and starring in A Thought About Raya, The Snow Hen, and The Eaten Heart. Recent New York and international performances include Clay McLeod Chapman's The Pumpkin Pie Show at P.S. 122, One Year Lease's tour of Oresteia in Athens and Milan, and Tango 'til They're Sore at The Flea. Regional: The Description of The World, Facade, Pulcinella (Theatre de la Jeune Lune). TV: The Late Show with David Letterman, The Revolution (History Channel).

Peekaboo Pointe, "The Fastest Tassel-Twirler from East to West," has graced the stage of nearly every burlesque show in NYC. Peekaboo started out as a classically trained modern dancer studying under Bill T. Jones, Mark Morris Dance Group and more, eventually venturing off on a tour of Cuba studying Afro-Cuban Dance with the group Cutumba. Since then, Peekaboo has applied her extensive knowledge of dance to the nightlife of New York City and turned it into striptease gold. Peekaboo's talented tassels spin not only on stage but also on a higher level - adoring audiences are left breathless as she performs her rare and impressive shows of skill on the trapeze!
Photo by Ted D'Ottavio

Porsche McGovern (Lighting Designer) Previously, she designed Relax! Alice, The ABC's Guide to Being Famous, and Pornography for the People for Spookfish Theatre Company. Porsche holds an MFA in Lighting Design from California Institute of the Arts and a BA from St. Lawrence University. www.PorscheLighting.com

Reiss Gaspard (Bullet) is a South Florida transplant and a long time New Yorker who has a great respect for the craft of acting and thought provoking theatre. He is a long time company member of the critically acclaimed Ground Up and Rising theatre and is excited to be working with such dedicated actors and writers here at the Drafts. He received his B.A. at Florida State University and continues to study his craft at the historical HB Studios.

Is a New York native representing East New York, Brooklyn. He has performed recently with the Castillo Theatre, New Federal Theatre and Primary Stages. He has also appeared in film projects with the Discovery Channel, Pearson Education, New York Magazine and Chai Lifeline. Reynaldo is looking forward to his journey with The Drafts!

Rob Brown* (F. Scott Fitzgerald – Porcelain & Pink, County Attorney – Trifles, Director – Two Slatterns & a King) is very pleased to be returning for his fourth trip to the North Pole. His previous incarnations have included Cupid ('05), Comet ('06), and Dasher ('07). His most recent trip to the boards was this past summer, where he had the thrill of playing one of his dream roles (Mortimer Brewster) in Arsenic and Old Lace with Dysfunctional Theatre. He also had the honor of playing Andrew Rally in I Hate Hamlet this past summer as well with the Fire Island Shakespeare Rep. He would like to thank his friends and family for their support. And he would especially like to thank Nicole for all her love. Rob is a board member and secretary for Dysfunctional Theatre. Yeah, that's right. Secretary.

Rory was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys with the 11th selection in the first round of the 1988 NFL Draft. After numerous arrests for drug possession, he left the team and helped to found The BTK Band.

Sabrina Braswell Previous lighting design credits include Waterwell’s The Persians (Under St. Mark’s, Perry St. Theater), many different iterations of The Pumpkin Pie Show including Ringside Seats at The Belt and Junta High at PS 122, The Debate Society’s A Thought About Raya at The Red Room, and The Amulet, volume of smoke and In Public, directed by Isaac Butler. Thanks to Andy and Juan Valdez.

Storyteller
Sam Dingman is a podcaster and storyteller in New York. He is a winner of the Moth GrandSLAM and a 2013 MLB Fan Cave finalist, and his work has been featured on RISK!, SplitSider, UCB

Sapphire Jones is a sweet and sexy burlesque dancer with a flare for the comedic. A regular with Naked Girls Reading NYC, she has performed all over New York City and the East Coast and can be seen regularly at City Winery and hosting once a month for Doc Wasabassco's Saturday Night Burlesque at Union Hall.
Photo by Beau Allulli

Sean Patrick Monahan is a member of Less Than Rent Theatre and a graduate of Fordham University. LTR credits include Little Mac, Little Mac, You’re the Very Man! (co-writer), DIVA! (Playwright/Performer, Winner of USolo Awards for Best Musical and Audience Favorite), Words, Razors, and the Wounded Heart (Joseph), Though Soft You Tread Above Me (Playwright), and Little Town Blues (Chet).

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Theresa Unfried has been working with Dysfunctional since she first moved to New York in 2001. She has been seen in The Dysfunctional Guide to Home Perfection, Marital Bliss & Passionate Hot Romance (actress/writer), Chosen (Bernadette), Orange Murder Suit in the first-ever Frigid Festival (Joy), The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Blitzen, Vixen, Dancer), Bite (Natalie O'Reilly/ Mistress Corbeaux), Please Please Please Love Me (Def girl and various roles), Untitled Farce (Angie Conroy), Whispers in the Wood (Jude Ascot) and I Am Star Trek (DC Fontana and various roles). Her other New York credits includes Clue - Live on Stage (Mrs. White) with Flying Blind Productions.

"The Original King of Boylesque" is a Stripperformance Artist/Actor/Dancer who has performed in New York & abroad since 1988. A Pioneer in the 90s burlesque revival who has been stripping since 1992 & remains a leading influence in the international scene. Won the 1st-ever King of Boylesque title at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas 2006. Won several Golden Pastie Awards, including "Most Likely to Get Shut Down by the Law" & "Most Unpredictable Performer." His act was banned in Rome's Gay Village in 2011. Called "the Boylesque King...a heart-pounding climax" by LA Weekly, "hysterical and acrobatic" and "wickedly arch" by The New York Times, "disturbing, funny and oddly riveting all at once" by Vancouver Sun, "delightful...simultaneously hilarious and titillating" by TheaterMania, "a brilliant satirist" by examiner.com, "the taboo-defying dynamo" by NEXT Magazine. He has acted in Shakespeare, Apollinaire, Wedekind, Horváth, Williams & numerous original works with Taylor Mac, Julie Atlas Muz & other geniuses. Recently performed in: Australia, Italy, Denmark, Cyprus, England, Hungary, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, France, Mexico, Canada & all around the U.S.
www.tiggertiger.com

Timothy Mather (light and sound):is excited to be working on the directorial team at No Tea Productions for the first time (after working as either an actor or lighting designer on almost every other No Tea show!). Since graduating from the New Actors Workshop in the late ‘90s, Tim has directed a few shows, produced a feature film (Flowers, 2004), several short films (including Blue Hole, 2007), and production managed/coordinated several other films (including Made For Each Other, 2009). He has also kept busy producing events (including Tribeca Film Festival Special Events 2002-present, FiFi Awards 2008-2009, and Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Kids For Kids Carnival 2006-2008). NY directorial credits include The Seagull, Stories of Fate and Will (an adaptation of Chekhov short stories), Serenading Louie by Lanford Wilson, and Minutes Later…by Jeff Sproul.

Is a New York City based Actor, Writer, and Comedian. He is a company member of Less Than Rent and graduated from Yale University in 2012 with a degree in Theater Studies. While there he participated in over 20 full-length shows, including History Boys and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. In addition, he performed on campus in over 40 shows with his improv group, the Yale Ex!t Players, Yale's oldest undergraduate improv comedy group. Since graduating, he has been seen in Independents at the 2012 New York Fringe Festival which was a New York Times Critics pick for which he was described as "effortlessly hilarious" (New York Times). He is a company member with Less Than Rent Theater and was a part of their productions of Desire: A Varsouviana and Words, Razors, and the Wounded Heart. Tom was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, raised in Gilbert, Arizona and now live in Astoria, Queens.

This is Vinnie Kay's second project with Edge of
Insanity, previously playing Chris in Galaxy Video .
Past credits include Deputy in The Mystery of Edwin
Drood, Yanek in A Patch of Blue, and Jack in Babes in
Toyland. He gives thanks to his family and everyone
for their constant support and wishes good luck to the cast.

Will Larche (Composer/Lyricist/Musical Director) – Will is a singer and songwriter living in New York City. His original one-man cabaret, Bumps in The Bathroom, directed by Kimberlea Kressal has been performed at The New York Theatre Barn, Earl Dax’s Pussy Faggot and The Duplex. He also arranged and performs in We Put The Spring In Springfield: The Music of The Simpsons and wrote the score to BAILOUT THE MUSICAL with The Wreckio Ensemble that Kimberlea Kressal directed. On stage Will has performed in BAILOUT THE MUSIC, Enter Laughing, American Twistory, Closer Than Ever, Chess, Lucky Duck (directed by Bill Russell and featured on the original cast recording), A Little Night Music, All Lost To Prayers, Jesus Christ Superstar, Titanic, Crave, Hair and My One and Only and recently sang the role of the African-American vocalist in John Cage’s Apartment House 1776 at the Cage Hop in Queens. Will holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and is drowning in student loan debt so he works days as an iPhone app developer for LearnVest. In 2012, he founded and began teaching at LearnDev: a community service group dedicated to closing the gender gap in technology jobs by giving free computer programming classes to women.

Yesenia Tromp (Phases of Matter) is so excited to be a part of "The Horse Trade Theatre Group."She holds a B.F.A in acting from Long Island University, C.W. Post. She was most recently seen in a reading at The Lark Play Development Center. Previous NYC credits include "The Tenth Man" (Viking Theatre Company), "Bluff" (Rapscallion Theatre Collective), "Sweet Love, Sweet Lines, Sweet Life!" (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), "American Culture" (Quo Vadimus Arts) and "Third Child" (NYC Fringe Festival). Thanks to everyone for making this process so enjoyable!

ANTHONY JOHNSTON is an actor/writer/director based in New York City. Anthony has worked in professional theatre, film & television across Canada. Some credits include: 'Alan' in the most recent Canadian revival of Equus (CitadelTheatre), 'Billy' in the first Canadian productions of Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? (Manitoba Theatre Centre, Centaur Theatre, Montreal),'Bill Mercer' in Soulpepper Theatre's Dora-Award Winning revival of David French's Leaving Home(opposite Kenneth Welsh), 'Brodie' in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing (Manitoba Theatre Centre) and 'Gary' in the Western Canadian premiere of Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking (Pi and Ruby Slippers Theatre, Vancouver). In NYC, Anthony has worked with StageLeft Studio, New York Theatre Experiment, the 13th Street Theatre, and Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Young Blood. His two solo performance pieces Art's Heart and ***[tenderpits]*** have been seen across Canada, throughout NYC and in NJ.

FRANK CWIKLIK (Director) is now in his second decade of pumping out loud, excessive, almost entirely pointless theater in various NYC venues, despite the pleas and entreaties of audiences and critics, and in defiance of several court orders and Federal regulations. With his needlessly gargantuan theater company, the roundly despised DMTheatrics, he has produced and/or directed over thirty shows since 1999, and has worked as an actor and designer for dozens of shows for other defenseless entities in that time. His best-known works include the influential S&M futuristic fantasia Bitch Macbeth (whose third appearance at Williamsburg’s Brick Theater smashed box office records and earned a 4-star review in Time Out New York); the controversial political satire Sugarbaby! (published in the 2004 NYTE Plays and Playwrights Collection, available onAmazon.com); the smash-hit Vegas version of Antony and Cleopatra (winner 2003 OOBR Award for Outstanding Production); an infamous series of Ed Wood adaptations which played to sellout crowds at the legendary Todo Con Nada, as well as The Red Room, The Brick, and The St. Marks Studio Theater; and countless more. Recently, he produced and directed the world theatrical premiere of the viral phenomenon Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, which broke indie NYC theater attendance records and attracted audiences from as far away as Sweden and the U.K; and the stage adaptation of Plan 9 From Outer Space, which the New York Times called "just about perfect", which proves their standards have slipped precipitously. His most recent work, Bible and Wine, played at The Kraine Theater in February of 2011, and featured two new tracks from orchestral pop pioneer Eric Matthews. Cwiklik's immersive, eccentric, aggressive directorial style has earned him praise from The Village Voice, The New York Times, Time Out New York, nytheatre.com, Backstage, and Show Business Weekly, and has influenced many directors working both on and off Broadway. Cwiklik's DMTheatrics Laboratories are busily constructing the next phase of his ongoing assault on delicate sensibilities, including American Shakespeare Factory entries As You Like It and Hamlet; an adaptation of the noir classic Scarlet Street; and God's Comic, a fantasia based on the work of silent comedy great Harry Langdon.

Justin Yorio has appeared with the Denver Center Theatre Company as Henry Antrobus in “The Skin of Our Teeth” and Young Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol”. Other credits: Josh in “Uncle Bob” (dir. Sam Gold), “The Europeans” (dir. Mark Wing-Davey). New York: Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “The Debating Society”, “Tess’s Last Night”, “Second”. With aMios: Jesus in “Jesus, It’s Easter” and Barney in “Escape From Roosevelt Island”. Other roles: Berowne in “Love’s Labour’s Lost”, Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet”, Bernard in “Death of a Salesman”, Philip in “You Never Can Tell” and Philip Glass in “All in the Timing”. Justin is a graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory, and an actor and writer for aMios.

Seth Lind hosts the storytelling show Told, performs long form improv with the group Thank You, Robot, and is director of operations at the public radio show This American Life.

Christian Haines is the artistic director of aMios and graduated from the National Theatre Conservatory. He has been seen in “Bartleby the Scrivener”, “Cloud 9”, “Macbeth”, “King John”, “5th of July”, “This is Our Youth”, “The Altruists”, “Murder”, “Woyzeck”, The NYCycle Vols 1,2 &4, Snake in “Fridge” and plenty more. He has numerous directing credits including the award winning “Heroes and Other Strangers”. He would like to thank his lovely wife, Melissa Ortiz, for her love.

Eric Kingrea (Playwright) writes short stories, criticism, and theater. DIME HEROES is his first full-length NYC production, and he is thrilled to be working with Horse Trade Theater on it. He would like to thank everyone--friends, family, cast, strangers, you all rock--but most especially Aaron, without whose support and belief in the project this wouldn't have been possible, and Julia, for being at his side.

J. STEPHEN BRANTLEY (Playwright) is an actor and playwright whose work has been commissioned by Lincoln Center Director's Lab and Performance Space 122, where his Distortion Taco was named a Village Voice Pick Of The Year. His plays Blood Grass (Sam French Final Forty, 2011), Furbelow, Good God Enters Flossing, The Jamb, Nevertheless, Shiny Pair Of Complications, and Struck have been performed across the United States. Brantley's award-winning one-act Break has been produced in Provincetown, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Portland, Cranston RI, and at the Absolut Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival. J.Stephen is also a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, a member of EAT and TOSOS, and Artistic Director of Hard Sparks. He is currently collaborating with Theatre 167 on the third installment of their epic Jackson Heights trilogy.

KL is also the Creator/Host of (Sketch Block Podcast) and Photographer/Performer for Blue Box World's (Sticky). In 2013, KL Produced the New York City Premier of Jenn Dodd's solo production (No Show: A One Woman Show), she was a Special Guest for the PITCast's coverage of the 2nd Annual New York City Sketch Festival and the Special Guest on (A Night Out) with the PinUp Squirrels. Currently, KL is in pre-production with comedy partners Adam Lash and Kevin Gilligan, for their WebSeries (GigaHoes). KL is also now shooting shorts for her own YouTube Channel.

A resident of NYC since 1994, Mark is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and the New School University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. He started his career as a performer in numerous NYC and regional stage productions including Footloose (Ren), Chicago, Hot n' Cole, and Peter and the Wolf (Peter) at Lincoln Center. A jack of many trades he has also been seen as a composer, singer, mosaic artist, voice over actor, producer and house manager. He and his partner Donald Garverick have written, produced and cast four subsequent versions of Show Choir! -The Musical, including an award winning production at the 2007 FringeNYC and a sold out run at the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Fesival. In addition, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presented a highly acclaimed production in the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Mark and Donald were recently recognized at the 2011 York Theater NEO concert, celebrating New, Emerging, and Outstanding musical theatre writers in NYC. Their new musical Casual Bob was featured this past January at 4@15 with NYU. Mark is currently the host of the Cabaret Showdown, a monthly game show at the Under St. Marks Theatre.

Paul moved to New York City in 2003 where he finished the two year Improv training program at Second City, NY. He was part of a two year run with improv troupe "Teen Movie High" performing with them in the Chicago Improv and Toronto Improv festival in 2007. Paul is part of the CHRIS and PAUL SHOW, winners of the 2010 INNY Award For Best Comedy Duo. They perform sketch festivals and colleges around the country.

Peter DeGiglio is an ordinary schnook with a vision; a dream of a world where ordinary Joes and Janes like you and me take up arms against a sea of moronicism and attempt to learn a thing or three--all while having as good laugh. That's why he created 'The Skinny.' A lifelong performer, Peter has performed in film, theater, stand-up, improv and sketch comedy all over the United States and New Jersey. The New York Times once called him a "sensitive actor" with "emotional depth and nuance" for his portrayal of a PTSD suffering World War II vet in WNEP Theater Chicago's Let There Be Light...! Most recently, he gained some recognition as the voice of "The Goblin" in Blizzard Entertainment's popular video game, "World of Warcraft: Cataclysm." He also writes for "The Skinny."

is a comedian, actor, and writer living in New York. He has played and headlined at clubs and theaters such as the People’s Improv Theater, Caroline's, Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and Comix. He's studied extensively with the UCB, Second City & the Groundlings in Los Angeles, as well as Strasberg Studios, HB Studios, Actors Alliance and the Magnet Theater, among others.

He is the founder of the nationally recognized comedy troupe Chocolate Cake City in Boston and New York where he's served as a performer, director and head writer.

His work has been officially selected in festivals in Montreal, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and of course, New York. He is a member of the popular long form improvisational team "The Internet”

Rob has hosted shows, written plays and produces comedy shorts for the internet. He is currently in production on his yet to be titled web series with Ballard Boyd directing, as well as A one man show coming soon titled “Adventures in Delusion.”  He performs sketch and stand up regularly throughout the city.

Terence Patrick Hughes’ plays include LINES with the Horse Trade Theatre Group, Finding the Rooster and A Muse in Manhattan with the 13th St. Repertory Theatre, and the award-winning Farewell Evenbrook at Theatre Row. The playwright is currently crafting a ten-play cycle entitledThe Trials of Oscar the Great. The cycle’s most recent play, The Kiss of Caiaphas, was developed at the Lark Theatre and was a Finalist for both the 2011 Centre Stage New Play Festival and the Ashland New Play Festival. Hughes, his wife, and two children share their time in New York City and Woodstock, NY.