Alex Barron

Azhar Khan

Boy adventurer turned reclusive curmudgeon Azhar Khan made video installations and animated shorts at Oberlin College. He studied and performed long-form improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre NY. He has performed in numerous stage productions, television programs, and feature films. He is also a martial artist, a student and practitioner of Kung-Fu. Khan maintains the sleeping patterns of a dubious undertaker, spending his nights studying programming languages and filling sketchbooks. Selected Film/Television Credits: Fresh Air (dir. Mike Birbiglia, prod. Ira Glass, This American Life), Veep (dir. Armando Iannucci, HBO), Sleepwalk With Me (dir. Mike Birbiglia & Seth Barrish, prod. Ira Glass, IFC Films, NEXT Audience Award - 2012 Sundance Film Festival), Damages (dir. Timothy Busfield, Canterbury Productions/DirecTV) Selected Theatre Credits: Garbage Guys (Ars Nova), The Living Newspaper: Google Rising 1.2 (Joe's Pub), Al's Business Cards (Theatre Row, New York Times Critic's Pick), The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (New York Fringe Festival, Time Out New York Critic's Pick), Life Is A Dream (New York Stage & Film)

Bekah Brunstetter

Bekah Brunstetter is an NYC based playwright and screenwriter. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the New School for Drama. She is Playwright in Residence of Ars Nova, 2009 and a Member of the Women's Project Playwright's Lab. Her play OOHRAH! (The Finborough Theater, Greylight Productions, Spring 2009) premiered Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater in September 2009. Bekah is currently working on a commission for the Roundabout Underground, as well as a Naked Angels commission to be produced in the fall.

Cathleen Carr

Cathleen is one half of the comedy duo, Two Girls For Five Bucks which enjoyed a successful production at Ars Nova. A seasoned improviser, Cathleen logged many years at Improv Asylum in Boston as well as WNEP Theater in Chicago. She is co-creator of the original comedy, Waiting for Ennis Cotter which toured comedy festivals all over the country. Cathleen was featured in the Eliot Norton Award winning production, P.S. Page Me Later as well as the comedy pilot Strange Faculty, which won the 2008 NBC Diversity Comedy Short competition. She can be seen in the upcoming web series, Simpatico.

Clayton Harley

Daiva Deupree

Daiva Deupree is the co-creator/co-star of the critically acclaimed two-woman comedy-burlesque show, "Two Girls For Five Bucks and the Ten Dollar Heartbreakers", which most recently completed a run at Ars Nova in New York City. She originated the role of Marge in "Pageant Play" at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, and can be seen in the soon to be released independent film, "The Bits in Between." She studied mime in Paris at Marcel Marceau's International School of Mime, and studied improv/sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC and the Improv Asylum in Boston where she was also a main-stage cast member.

Dylan Dawson

Dylan's plays include TALL (A TALE) (Naked Angels First Mondays Series), THE GREAT IMITATOR (Ars Nova OutLoud Series), and MOVIE GEEK (Ars Nova, FringeNYC - Outstanding Multimedia Production Award, The Complex - L.A., The Penobscot Theater - Bangor, Maine). Dylan is a former member of the Ars Nova Play Group and contributed to the Group shows PLAYLIST and MISSED CONNECTIONS NYC. He is a regular volunteer with the 52nd St. Project where he writes, performs and mostly just hangs out with a bunch of amazing young kids from Hell's Kitchen. Dylan recently contributed to the Off-Broadway 24 Hour Play Festival with At Play Productions. He is also an Artistic Associate with Colt Coeur, a theater company devoted to small new works by emerging artists. As an actor, Dylan has performed here, there and everywhere around the city. His favorite podcast is Too Beautiful To Live (www.tbtl.net) and should be yours too. Much love to the Naked Radio cult! All hail Zargon!!

Eric Clem

Eric Clem is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He most recently appeared on the good ship Lilac in Woodshed Collective's The Confidence Man. Past theater credits include Stretch: A Fantasia (New Georges), Mud (45th Street Theater), Blue Man Group (Briar Street Theater, Chicago), Movie Geek (Ars Nova), Communicating Doors and Almost, Maine (Penobscot Theatre Co.).

Jon Bass

Josh Halloway

Josh Halloway is the creator of Girls I've LIKE Liked (Ars Nova Theater Festival). His credits include: the one man show LOST: How A Certain TV Mega-Hunk Stole My Identity (NY Fringe Festival), the subversive children's showThe Revolution Will Be Televised (Commission, Hangar Theatre), and a forthcoming musical about the rise and fall of Stephen Baldwin. As an assistant Josh has been privileged to work closely with Alfred Uhry, David Lindsay-Abaire, and Harold Prince. Josh has also worked extensively in film, as a copywriter for some of your favorite movie trailers. His comedy has been seen at the P.I.T., The Duplex, Don't Tell Mama, The Cherry Lane Theatre, and as part of the Nickelodeon Creative Lab. Currently Josh lives in Los Angeles, where he works for the showrunners of the ABC comedies Cougar Town and Scrubs. Education: NYU/Tisch.

Josh Koenigsberg

Josh Koenigsberg's work has been produced/developed at The Public Theater, The Atlantic Theater, 2econd Stage, Ars Nova, Center Stage, Collective:Unconscious and the 2009 Pink Campaign at the American Airlines Theater where he wrote the material for host Rachel Dratch. He is a founding ensemble member of At Play, the resident company for the 24-Hour Plays Off-Broadway, as well as a member of the Old Vic New Voices Network and The Dramatist's Guild. His play Al's Business Cards recently ran for a month at Theatre Row and is being published in Plays and Playwrights 2010 edited by Martin Denton. He has an M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia University and a B.A. in Philosophy and the Arts from Bard College. In the off-season he works as a farmer at Fishkill Farms in the Hudson Valley run by Robert and Josh Morgenthau.

Kerry Whigham

Kerry Whigham is a freelance director who lives in New York City. Recent productions include House of Home, a new play that he developed with playwright Bekah Brunstetter (Williamstown Theatre Festival), the NYC premiere of The Argument by Gregory Moss (Attic Theater), Oh, the Horror (Naked Angels), and Friends in Transient Places at Ars Nova Theater. Other recent productions include Wolves (NYU), Missed Connections NYC (Ars Nova), Girls I’ve Like Liked (Ars Nova), and the world premiere of Deception Pass at the Rodey Center for the Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was one of the inaugural fellows for the Drama League's New American Plays Initiative. He has directed two shows that he also wrote, Nobody Likes the Mormons and Barack and Me (both Ars Nova), as well as the New York premiere of Jennifer Haley's Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom at the Public Theater as part of the 2008 Summer Play Festival, and the world premiere of Gregory Moss’s punkplay at Brown University. He is a Drama League Directing Fellow and the 2010 Bill Foeller Directing Fellow at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. In 2006, he and Joshua Halloway were commissioned to create a play about the American Revolution for Syracuse Stage Company; that play, The Revolution Will Be Televised, went on to have a production at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York. In 2005, Kerry worked with four-time Obie-award winning playwright Adrienne Kennedy to develop one of her newest plays, an adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, for which he directed the world-premiere workshop. He also assisted Douglas Carter Beane on the Broadway production of Xanadu and James Lapine on several workshops of a new musical by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater. Other favorite projects include Six Degrees of Separation, Chaucer in Rome, Never Swim Alone, House/Humans, The Blue Room, The Ugly One, and The Argument. Kerry has received both a B.F.A. and M.A. from NYU, where he is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Performance Studies.

Lauren Blumenfeld

Lauren Blumenfeld is an actor, comedian and craft enthusiast, who sometimes teaches afterschool superhero club. Her New York theatre credits include Exit Carolyn (Drilling Company); Sailor Man (Winner 2008 NYC Fringe Award); Real (Abingdon); Man is Man (HERE); Bekah Brunstetter’s We Are Not Birds!, Steven Levenson’s Burbach/LuPone, Kerry Whigham’s Barack and Me and Jon Caren’s Friends in Transient Places (Ars Nova). Lauren has spent three seasons a the Williamstown Theatre Festival, appearing in Six Degrees of Separation (Dir. Anne Kauffman), Pulman, WA (Young Jean Lee); After the Revolution (Amy Herzog); Golden Gate; Egg-Layers; Chopin’s Preludes; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dir. Nicholas Martin). Her regional credits include Circle Mirror Transformation (Pittsburgh Public) and Tigers Be Still (TheatreSquared). Film: The Rebound (Bart Freundlich) and (when she was very young) A Little Princess (Alfonso Cuaron). Lauren is a story pirate, a 52nd Street Project volunteer and a member Old Vic New Voices. Training: NYU, Tisch. www.laurenlovesyou.com!

Lucas Kavner

Lucas Kavner is an actory/writery/musicany type. As an actor he's worked at/with the Kennedy Center, Atlantic Stage 2, Slant Theatre Project, the Abingdon Theatre, Ars Nova, Naked Angels, the Potomac Theatre Project, and Williamstown, among others. His writing has been featured in the Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, The Miami Herald, and McSweeney's, and he interviews interesting artists each week for The Days of Yore. His election video from fall 2008, "Vlad and Boris present Song for Sarah for Misses Palin," was seen on the BBC, Russia Today, MSNBC, ITV, heard on NPR's World Cafe, and featured in the New York Times and Time Magazine. More recently, his videos parodying Tim James were shown on The Rachel Maddow Show and local Alabama news outlets. You may also have caught him in videos for College Humor or Black 20, or on TV in Comedy Central's "Michael and Michael Have Issues." He performs with the veteran P.I.T house improv team The Baldwins every Wednesday, and all over the city with the ECNY and INNY-nominated comedy group, Swords. He is the host of Ars Nova's monthly variety extravaganza, Showgasm, which is a fun show that gives you actual, human orgasms. Does anyone want to go see The Human Centipede? Why won't anyone see that movie with me?

Natasha Rothwell

Natasha Rothwell began performing in the placenta but fine-tuned her skills at the University of Maryland where she was apart of the nationally recognized improv troupe, Erasable Inc. and recieved her BA in Theatre Performance. While in Washington, DC, Natasha was a mainstage company member of Washington Improv Theatre (WIT) from 2003 - 2008. During that time she served as the Director of Education; created/directed the resident WIT troupe Caveat; performed in the original cast of iMusical:The Improvised Musical; created and hosted a regional college Improv Jam. Natasha has performed at improv festivals just about everywhere: DC Comedy Festival, Chicago Improv Festival, Del Close Improv Marathon, Toronto International Improv Festival, Charleston Comedy Festival, Philadelphia Improv Festival, Dirty South Improv Festival, Mid-Atlantic Improv Festival, and the Baltimore Improv Festival. While in Washington, D.C. she performed at the Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre, and also served as a principal Teaching Artist/Performer for Arena Stage (Community Engagement). Before moving to New York, Natasha spent a year performing and teaching with Spontaeous Confusion, the mainstage cast at the Tokyo Comedy Store in Tokyo, Japan. Natasha currently performs, writes and directs in New York City. You can catch her performing with Oh Boy!, Hodapp and Rothwell, Stoley and Rothwell, Seersucker, The Scene, The Story Pirates, and Naked Angels Radio.

Roger Lirtsman

Sarah Burgess

Screenwriting: "Five Difficult Situations" (official selection, 2007 Crown Point Festival), "Nate" (2005 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmaker's Award finalist), "These Things Happen" (writer/director; 2004 Malcolm Ross Memorial Film Production Award) "Ezekiel's Revelation" (co-writer; 2007 First Run Film Festival Screenwriting Award). Sarah's first film project was licensed and aired by HBO in 2000. She has worked for MTV Networks in New York and as a writer and researcher for the BBC in London. BFA NYU Film - 2007 Faculty Commendation for Body of Work.

Will Rogers

Off Broadway: Chair (TFANA), From Up Here (MTC), 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons), columbinus (NYTW), Green Girl (SPF). Regional: Not Waving (Williamstown), The Vertical Hour (Pioneer), dark play or stories for boys (Humana Festival), Mary's Wedding (Actors Theatre of Louisville), This Is Our Youth (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis). TV: Will has the trifecta of Law & Orders under his belt plus a Gossip Girl. He is currently rehearsing Heidi Schreck's new play Creature that will start performances at The Ohio Theatre later this month. He's a charter member of At Play Productions and a graduate of NCSA.

Zane Birdwell

Zane has worked as the sound designer for standup comedian Tim Minchin's New York run at New World Stages, Ars Nova's 2008 production of 'Jollyship The Whiz-Bang', and The stageFARM's 2009 production of 'The Gingerbread House'. In 2010, he was awarded a Grammy for his work on the audio edition of Michael J. Fox's bestselling memoir 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist'. Other audiobook credits include Paul Shaffer's memoir 'We'll Be Here For the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-biz Saga', and 'Wishin' and Hopin': A Christmas Story', by Wally Lamb. He recently completed work on the off-broadway show 'Oliver Parker!' starring John Larroquette and Michael Zegen.

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