Eliza Brown (designer) has designed sets for Dreams of Home at Monarch Theatre Company; PN1923.45 LS01 Volume 2 [The Book Play] at Fringe NYC 2007; Perfect Harmony at Fringe NYC 2006 and Studio Tisch; Wrong Way UP! at the Belt; As I Lay Dying at the Ohio; Liberty & Cruise Ship: A Study in Revolution (Dangership!) at Chashama; Colorado at the Summer Play Festival; Speaking in Tongues at PS 122; The Rats Are Getting Bigger at Fringe NYC 2003; Below the Belt at City Theatre Company; Festival of New Works at NYU/Tisch Dept. of Dramatic Writing; and Caucasian Chalk Circle at NYU/Tisch Graduate Acting. Regional: Red Light Winter at WHAT (MA); Machinal at Bard College; Window To the Street at Trinity College; Little Shop of Horrors at Northern Stage (VT); The Afghan Women at Passage Theater (NJ); and Diabolique at Philadelphia Fringe Festival. MFA in design from NYU/Tisch.
Brent Langdon (actor) has appeared in Richard II at Yale Rep; Henry V at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Murderers at Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Emelin Theatre; Crimes of the Heart, The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged, Dracula, and A Christmas Carol at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Hamlet at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre; The Dazzle at B Street Theatre; Three Days of Rain at Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati; and numerous productions of Playmakers Repertory. TV: Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Conviction.
Elizabeth Rich (actress) has appeared in Chicago in The Pillowman, Cherry Orchard, and Tale of Two Cities at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Dollhouse at The Goodman; Cider House Rules, Early and Often, and Ghetto at Famous Door; Bailegangaire at Irish Rep; Seven Moves and Xena at About Face; The Lady From the Sea at Greasy Joan; and Our Country's Good, Measure for Measure, and HurlyBurly at Strawdog. She originated the role of Hannah Arendt in Hannah and Martin at Timeline Theatre Co. in Chicago (Jeff Award and After Dark Award). She also appeared in Enemies, A Love Story at The Wilma; Hannah and Martin (Helen Hayes nomination) at Theatre J; and Cradle of Man at Florida Stage. Films: Watch, Clothe Your Soul, and The Transfiguration of Harold Maines.
Lisa Rothe (director) recently directed Ellen McLaughlin in Penelope, her new one woman piece, based on the women of the Odyssey. The piece was performed at the Getty Villa in LA, with music composed by Sarah Kirkland Snider and performed by Eclipse, an LA-based string quartet. Lisa also conceived of an opera about Ada Byron and received an EST/Sloan grant to write it with composer Kim Sherman and librettist Margaret Vandenburg. A workshop of Ada was performed at EST this past April. Future: Penelope at Gallatin/NYU and Princeton with the Brentano String Quartet; premiere of Interpreting William by James Still at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Hot L Baltimore at NYU Graduate Acting; and a new piece with Pulitzer Prize-nominated performer, Rinde Eckert, premiering at Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City this fall.
Lisa's other recent directing credits include Chautauqua Theatre Company's Ah, Wilderness!; Twelfth Night for Seaside Shakespeare on Nantucket; Split Wide Open and Anatomy 1968 for the Summer Play Festival; As You Like It for Milwaukee Shakespeare Company; the New Harmony Project; the Culture Project; the short indy film Contemplating Emily (chosen for LA Outfest last summer); and the world premiere of Amy Kohn's radio-opera One Plum Square for WNYC's "Spinning On Air." Lisa is a graduate of NYU's Graduate Acting Program and Director's Lab, as well as a Drama League alum, Fox Fellow, and member of the Women's Project Director's Lab. She has taught and directed at many theatre programs around the country, including NYU's Graduate Acting Program, Yale School of Drama, The Actor's Center & Stella Adler. Lisa is on faculty at New York University's School of Continuing Education, where she teaches Acting for Film and TV.
Christopher Wall's (playwright) newest plays are Dreams Of the Washer King, completed during a fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and Shake and Be Saved, workshopped at the Last Frontier Theater Conference last summer. His play Dumpster Dan has been performed at venues in New York and Boston. It was published in Dramatics magazine and 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays, and is licensed by Dramatic Publishing. Couldn't Say was workshopped at Abingdon Theatre in New York and won the Literary Prize at the 2001 Washington Theatre Festival. It was subsequently produced by Charter Theatre. Other productions include Some Other Place, Black Dog Theatre (2000), produced with a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts; No One Talks To the Mailman, developed in part at Abingdon Theatre and Round House Theatre in Maryland, winner of the HD Lewis Award for playwriting at the Washington Theatre Festival (1999); Elmo On the Half Shell, Washington Theatre Festival (1998), published in The Pacific Review; Forks and Knives, nominated for Best Play at the Washington Theatre Festival (1997); and Head Games, Shadowbox Cabaret (2002), Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Competition (1997).
Christopher appeared on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC this summer to discuss his essay "The Size of the Room," which won a contest judged by the essayist Phillip Lopate. "Toaster In Three Parts" was cited as a Notable Essay of 2004 in the Best American Essays anthology. His essays have appeared in The Saint Ann's Review and Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, among other publications. He has a BA in English from Dartmouth, an MA in creative writing from Boston University, and an MFA in dramatic writing from New York University, where he is a lecturer.
