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Boo Killebrew
(Performer)
BOO KILLEBREW is a playwright, choreographer, actress and co-founder of CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company. She is a member of the 2013 Emerging Writers Group at The Public Theater. Her plays include THE PLAY ABOUT MY DAD (nominated by New Georges for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, NYC: 59e59 Theatres, CTown), THE MOMENTUM (NYC Fringe Festival, Fringe Excellence Award for Overall Production of a Play, Emerging Americas Festival/The Huntington, GLAAD Media Award Nominee), THEY'RE JUST LIKE US (L.A. premiere at Theatre of Note, NY premiere with CTown, published by The New York Theatre Experience, selections by Applause and Smith and Kraus), TRUE LOVE WAITS (L.A. Theatre of Note, NY Blue Coyote Theatre Group), and PULLING TEETH (Blue Coyote).
Boo was most recently seen in CONEY, produced by Blue Coyote at The New Ohio. Boo and/or her work has appeared in MOTEL CHERRY, produced by New Georges and Clubbed Thumb at HERE, at The Roundabout Theatre Company (SPEECH AND DEBATE), The Public Theater, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, MCC, The Living Theatre, The New York Musical Theatre Festival, LaMaMa Etc., The Huntington Theatre Co., The Village Theatre, The Olney Theatre Center, 59e59 Theatres, and Boston Playwright's Theatre.
Boo received a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Featured Actress and Best Ensemble, 3 NYIT nominations for playwriting and acting, 2 New York Fringe Festival Awards of Excellence, The Bette Davis Foundation Award (Boston University), the inaugural Archive Alliance residency at The New Ohio and IRT Theater, 3 residencies at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, and was a 2008 NYFA Panelist. BFA, Boston University.
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Geoffrey Decas O'Donnell
(Performer)
GEOFFREY DECAS O’DONNELL co-founded and is part of the Artistic Core of CollaborationTown. Most recently CTown presented a remounting of his play, The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos at The New Ohio. With CTown he has co-created/written and performed in The Trading Floor, The Astronomer’s Triangle, Townville!, Let’s Go and The Momentum (2012 GLAAD Media Award nominee, Fringe Excellence Award for Outstanding Production 2010); performed in This is a Newspaper, They’re Just Like Us, 365 Plays/Days and Children at Play; he designed the set for 6969. Geoffrey received a Fringe Excellence Award for Outstanding Playwriting for The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos in 2006. Currently, he in residence at The New Ohio and IRT Theatre as part of the inaugural Archive Alliance Residency. He has studied playwriting with Charles Mee. Geoffrey is also part of Benjamin Walker’s Find the Funny. He is very interested in puppetry and enjoys drawing, gardening and riding his bicycle. BFA, Boston University.
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Jordan Seavey
(Performer)
JORDAN SEAVEY is Co-Artistic Director of theatre company CollaborationTown (CTown), a member of the 2009 Emerging Writer’s Group at The Public Theater, and a Usual Suspect at the New York Theatre Workshop. His plays include LISTENING FOR OUR MURDERER, WHO’S AFRAID OF GEORGE C. WOLFE?, THE FUNNY PAIN, THE TRUTH WILL OUT, CHILDREN AT PLAY, 6969 and THIS IS A NEWSPAPER. Plays co-created with CTown include THE DEEPEST PLAY EVER: THE CATHARSIS OF PATHOS (text by Geoffrey Decas O’Donnell), THE MOMENTUM (2012 GLAAD Media Award nomination), THE PLAY ABOUT MY DAD (text by Book Killebrew), LET’S GO, TOWNVILLE, THEY’RE JUST LIKE US (text by Boo Killebrew), THE ASTRONOMER’S TRIANGLE and THE TRADING FLOOR. His work has been developed with New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, The Old Vic (UK), Lark Play Development Center, Oslo Internasjanole Teater (Norway), Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, 59E59 Theaters, The New Ohio Theatre, IRT Theater, Orlando Shakespeare, Emerging America Festival/Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, hotINK Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, The MacDowell Colony, The Orchard Project, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Dartmouth College, NYSAF/Vassar, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Jordan is an inaugural recipient of the Archive Alliance Residency at The New Ohio & IRT Theater, along with the other members of CollaborationTown's Artistic Core. He holds a B.F.A. in Theatre Studies from Boston University.
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Lee Sunday Evans
(Director)
LEE SUNDAY EVANS is a director and choreographer. She is currently the Resident Director for CollaborationTown. Upcoming projects include All Girls, a new play by Anna Greenfield premiering at the Horse Trade Theater in March-April 2013, and Help Me To Make It, a new play written by Boo Killebrew, Jordan Seavey, and Geo Decas, premiering in the 2013 Ice Factory Festival at The New Ohio Theater.
Directing credits include: God's Ear (The Juilliard School), The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos (The New Ohio), The Big Fix (Brooklyn Arts Exchange), The Momentum (Laurie Beechman, Emerging America's Festival, GLAAD Nomination, NYFringe Best Play), The Play About My Dad (Americas Off-Broadway Festival 59E59), The End of Life Project (Outside the Wire, Coatesville VA Medical Center), The Next Thing, Ways to Survive the World (Williamstown Theater Festival), How I Won the Campbell Prize (Triskelion Arts Center), The Drowned World (Studio 353), Full (The Tank), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (The Lee Strasberg Theatre), Yellow-Eyed Creatures (Fordham University Playwrighting Division). Choreography credits include: The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos (The New Ohio), Big Money, a new musical by Kyle Jarrow and Nathan Leigh (Williamstown Theater Festival), Collage Dance Company (Zero Arrow Theater), Godspell (Olney Theater Center), Trojan Women (Studio 353). As Associate Director to Young Jean Lee: Lear (Soho Rep), THE SHIPMENT (Wexner Center, The Kitchen), Church (Assistant Director, Under the Radar).
Lee has taught theater workshops in NYC Public schools, and is currently leading workshops on devised theater with the Waterwell Drama Program at PPAS. She has also led workshops in Arusha, Tanzania as a teaching artist with the International Theater & Literacy Program.
Lee is an inaugural recipient of the Archive Alliance Residency at The New Ohio & IRT Theater, along with the other members of CollaborationTown's Artistic Core. She was a 2011 recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Exchange space grant, and has participated in two LMCC residencies. Lee has trained with the SITI Company, and with members of the Paul Taylor and Jose Limon Dance Companies. New Georges Affiliated Artist, Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. BFA: Boston University.
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