Horse Trade Presents...
as part of the HA! Comedy Series...

who's WHO?

Isaac Butler Most recently co-directed Volume of Smoke by Clay McLeod Chapman at the Kraine Theater. Previously with Chapman he has developed and directed redbird for Studio-42 (45 below), directed positive id for Cofounder at the Kraine theater and acted in pumpkin pie show: donation plate at the Red Room, the Belt and in Richmond Virginia. Other directing credits include the US Premiere of Line Knutzon's First You're Born (Peter Jay Sharp Theater), cop-out by John Guare at the Access Theater, Removing the Head by Josh Ben Friedman (the Kraine Theater), Horrible Child by Lawrence Krauser (the Tank), The Profane Comedy by James Morrow at Theater 80, and productions of Lanford Wilson's The Family Continues, Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, Daniel MacIvor's Never Swim Alone, Paula Vogel's Hot 'n' Throbbing and Shakespeare's Henry IV part 1 at various venues in upstate New York. This winter and spring he’ll re-co-direct volume of smoke at Richmond’s Firehouse Theater and create a dance/theater piece called Other People. Isaac received his BA from Vassar College and is a member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab.

Clay McLeod Chapman is the creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed by its own live soundtrack. He is the author of REST AREA, a collection of short stories, and MISS CORPUS, a novel -- both published by Hyperion books.

Hannah Bos has performed in Clay McLeod Chapman's redbird and The Pumpkin Pie Show: Donation Plate, and Andrei Serban's Lysistrata.This spring she performed in A Thought about Raya which she co-wrote with Paul Thureen at the Red Room. She received her MFA in acting from the American Repertory Theater for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University/M.X.A.T and her B.A. from Vassar College.

Kristen Pratt is a Resident Artist with Andhow! Theater Company. Recent NYC performances:  Andhow!'s Watersheerie at the Green Thumb Garden, Beth Kurkjian's Crochet:  I Dream Ballet as a part of the 2004 Ontolgical Theater Blueprint Series, Hieronymous Bang's original production of I'm Gonna Kill the President (A Federal Offense) at One Arm Red, and Richard Foreman's Panic! (How to be Happy!), also at the Ontological.

Chris Mancini’s producing credits include the independent productions Train Song at Theater 1 in Boston and A Thought About Raya at the Red Room, as well as redbird and The Scattered Festival for Studio 42. Chris is also a teacher, sailor and musician. Most recently he composed music for Beth Patton’s Life Without Parole, Please at the Kraine Theater.

Rob Grace recently played The President in KtP at Abington Theater as part of The UnConvention. Other recent credits include Viktor in First You're Born at Playwrights Horizons and God in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, at The Culture Project Mainstage. He is a founding memeber of Studio 42, which has produced his plays Paper Hearts and Klytaemnestra's Unmentionables, among many others. He has performed stand-up comedy on national radio and at various New York City venues, including Gotham Comedy Club, Comedy Cellar, and Dont Tell Mama. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild.

Shana Gozansky is a Brooklyn based director. Directing: The Midway World (chashama), Him (chashama), the workshop production of Couch Surfer (Stelle Adler Studios), and readings with GAle GAtes et al. Assistant Directing: Nine Parts of Desire (Manhattan Ensemble Theater, Joanna Settle), Antidepressant (NYU/ETW, Ken Nintzel), The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Henry Miller’s Theater, Ian Belton). She is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, a chashama Artist-in-Residence, and a graduate of Bard College.

Brian PJ Cronin: Former resident artist at the Ontological Theater, member of AndHow! Theater Company, for whom he has written the plays: The Curvature of the Earth and I Am At My Best When I Am Singing Very Quietly which won the OOBR Award for Best Play. As a sound designer, he has designed redbird at 45 Below, First You’re Born at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Ripples at HERE, I’m Gonna Kill The President at various venues.

Samir Younis: Most recently wrote and starred in Browntown at the Lortel as part of the Fringe Festival. Made his Broadway debut in The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, received his MFA in acting from Columbia University and acted in The Island of the Slave at HERE.