Jaime Andrews
...blue jays, Finding Gräfenberg
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Jaime's favorite roles around town have been in subUrbia, Fefu & Her Friends, The Real Thing and The Sisters Rosensweig. You can see her in a bunch of independent features and shorts, that is if any of the directors ever give her copies. She also performs with the improv groups Ka-Baam! and Scrambled Eggs, but she loves working with trip. more than anything in the universe. If the pilot gods are good, she'll be heading up the reality/improv/gameshow Crashers on TNN in Y2K2. |
Melisa Annis
4PLAY (NYC)
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Melisa Annis originally from Wales, is now in her second full time year in NYC, and loving it! Having worked with a variety of exciting companies and people in NY Melisa is thrilled to be working with trip. on such an exciting project. Theater Credits include Domino’s - National Theater, Wales, Vinegar Tom - The Old Vic Theater, London, The Pantyhose Grid - NYC Fringe Festival, House of Bernarda Alba - Fluellen Theater Company, Three Sisters - Rebellious Subjects. Melisa was also recurring character in Welsh soap opera People of the Valley for many years. Since being in NY Melisa has mostly been directing theater and has just finished assisting Tony Nominated director Bill Russell on his Off-Broadway reading of Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, and is currently directing a mammoth production of Henry V as part of the trilogy at Prospect Parks Music Pagoda in Brooklyn. |
David Anthony
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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A graduate of Bennington College, Anthony is co-founder and president of Metropolis DVD, New York City’s first DVD design and production company which works with major record and media companies to develop DVDs such as The Rolling Stones, Four Flicks, Lion’s Gate’s, Secretary, MTV’s, The Real World and USA Film’s Traffic. Anthony returns to his first love, theatre as Producing Director of the 2004 production of finding grafenberg.
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Lynn Antunovich
...blue jays, Here's Something,
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Lynn is a native New Yorker. She is a graduate of West Virginia University, where she received her B.F.A. in acting. Regional credits include: Dr. Livingstone in Agnes of God, and Carol in Oleanna. She has also appeared as Marianna in Measure for Measure, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hannah in Arcadia, and Jo in A Few Good Men. Lynn has also appeared as a dancer with Le Masquerade, and Long Island Ballet Theatre. |
Gregory Arata
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Gregory is a not-so-recent grad of Bates College, in his home state of Maine. Since then he has spent time in London, where he performed in Much Ado About Nothing and Brian Friel’s Translations, and in Minneapolis, where he played Billy in The Real Thing and The Stranger in 15 Head’s Lady From the Sea. Recent stage credits include Angels in America (I and II) at the Penobscot Theatre, As You Like It at Blue Heron Arts Center, and a world-premiere of the musical Gentleman’s Bet at Columbia’s Schapiro Theatre. He appears in the Sundance fav, Los Enchiladas and the upcoming Griffin Dunne film, Famous. He teaches stage combat to little kids and enjoys speaking about himself in the third person. Odds are you’ve seen him living in a glass house on the back of an eighteen wheeler as he tripped across America with his life webcast live on the internet. |
Billy Atwell
Sex God's and Violent Happiness,
Edward the Second
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Originally from West Virginia, he came to New York, via west Texas, seven years ago. In that time has played with several New York Bands, primarily on the lower east side. Currently, Billy is performing locally with the alternative band Shirley Temple of Doom |
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McCready Baker
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Theater credits include: Split, Rousing the Head, Our Town, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, FUCK YOU, Reporter Girl, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Film credits include: John's Day, True Dreams, Sorry Ain't Enough, and Hotel Distortion. Peace and love. "...I am the undertow..." |
Ned Baker
not a happening
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Ned is a proud alumnus of Northwestern University, an intrepid young theatre-maker, and a server at this really excellent Mexican joint in Evanston called Taco Diablo. Ned has directed Romeo and Juliet at Moody’s Pub (Rabid Bad Theatricals), and Macbeth (Thirteen O’Clock Theatre), as well as assistant directing The Drunken City (Steppenwolf Garage) and Coriolanus (The Hypocrites). Last seen onstage at Northwestern in David Catlin’s The Little Prince. Ned is a member of Rabid Bat Theatricals. |
Emre Baris
hope... (NYC)
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Born in Turkey but raised most of his life in Canada, Emre has traveled extensively and has lived in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Copenhagen, Washington D.C. and now New York City. Following his graduation from University of Toronto where he majored in Human Biology and Anatomy/Physiology and played varsity tennis, his training continued at the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts School of Film + Television. He is certified by the United States Professional Tennis Association as well as is a certified Emergency Medical Technician and is completely fluent in French, Spanish, and Turkish. In May 2011, Emre performed Shakespeare's Two Noble Kinsmen in London, UK and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts with renowned acting coach John Barton. When not acting, Emre can be found playing tennis, basketball, reading, playing guitar or taking it easy with friends. As Oscar Wilde said: “Life is way too important to be taken seriously." |
Joe Beaudin
Amalgams, Monologues (film)
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Joe has appeared in various shows inside various venues throughout the Tri-State area. Favorite roles include Stan in JFK vs. The UFOs at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Young Pappy in The Tinklepack Patrol at HERE Arts, Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night at the Kraine Theatre, Luke in Opelika at the Pantheon Theatre, Joe in Nine (not the musical) at the Trilogy, and Arnold in The Boys Next Door at Connecticut Repertory Theatre. Film credits include Late Watch, Evan's Getting it Together, and Catch me if you Can. Joe also performs with the sketch comedy group Mini Red Satan. He learned "a lot of stuff" from his Meisner teacher, Kathryn Gately, for whom he gives one thousand and one thank yous to. |
Joel Behne
4PLAY (Chicago)
monkey pants,
not a happening
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
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| Joel hails from the small town of Guymon, OK, but has been living in Chicago for nearly three years now and is ecstatic he's still living his dream, not to mention the very best years of his life. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma’s Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre in 2012 where some of his favorite credits included ..Forum, Sunday in the Park with George, and Detroit. Having performed in 4play last Winter, this will be Joel's second full production with trip. Thank you to my perfect family and wonderful friends for all the love and support and here’s to another exciting and inspirational journey with trip.
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Angela Bend
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
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Angela is a SAG-AFTRA Actress and Stunt Performer based out of Chicago. She spent over two years traveling and performing live stunt show contracts in China, Indonesia, Germany, and most recently Branson, MO for Mirage Entertainment Inc. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a B.A. in Theatre and since returning to the states, she has landed several stunt jobs on Chicago P.D. and Chicago Fire. Favorite theatrical roles include Tracy in The Philadelphia Story, Romaine Patterson in The Laramie Project, and Mercutio in an all female version of Romeo and Juliet. This is her first time working with trip. and she is excited to be a part of this talented ensemble!
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Mike Bernsteini
Sixteen
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| Michael grew up in New Jersey and attended college at the University of Pittsburgh. His favorite role in his “career” so far is Kent in Reasons to be Pretty. He loves acting, but his real passion is writing program bios. He is glad to be part of trip.’s show. Go Bayside. |
Krystal Blackman
4PLAY (NYC)
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Krystal was born and raised in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. After acquiring her Technical Theater degree at Johnson State College, VT, she moved to NYC to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she received an associate’s degree in acting and participated in the 2007 Academy Company. Previous roles include: Judith Keith in The Jewish Wife, Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest, Blanche in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Bertha in Hello from Bertha, and Teresa in Memory of Water. She would like to thank her family and friends for their continual love and support: “my cup runneth over” |
Kira Blaskovich
4PLAY (NYC)
re: an un tilted trip.
i'm just saying
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A recent graduate of the American Conservatory Theater's MFA program, Kira Blaskovich is thrilled to be working on her fifth production since moving out to New York. Favorite productions include Vicarious (Bosley Productions, NY Fringe Festival), Cowboy Mouth (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.), Time of Your Life (Steppenwolf Theatre Co, Tina Landau dir.), and two original shows with the Tearany Theater Company started by fellow ACT alum, Marilee Talkington. A grassroots political activist at heart, she hopes to create theater that constantly reminds the audience that reality is perspective and can be changed with a thought. |
Angie Blue
hope...
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| Angie Blue is a Polish actress/model. From the early age Angie had vivid imagination and an interesting view on life. After watching Dirty Dancing at the age of seven she decided that in order to marry Patrick Swayze she should become an actress. She started performing in various school plays and street performances. After high school, Angie went for a year to United Kingdom to study English. She returned to Poland to obtain a BA degree in Education. During her studies she worked as a model travelling around the world, preparing herself for the biggest step in her life - moving to America. The day she got her degree, Angie bought a one-way ticket to New York City where she enrolled in a two-year conservatory program at The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute where she was seen in several stage productions and worked on short independent films. Angie is currently writing producing and starring in her first indie film, The Price.
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Jeremy Bohen
Tripping
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Jeremy Bohen studied broadcasting at Arizona State University. After graduating, Jeremy returned to New York to pursue a career in sales and marketing. Two years later, he quit his job out of boredom and decided to pursue acting. Since then Jeremy has studied acting with Susan Cohen and Liz Evert at the Susan Grace Cohen Studio. Jeremy has appeared several times on ABC-TV’s All My Children, in corporate films for Sony Electronics and Corning, Inc., and in various theatre and film projects. |
Jenifer Borntrager
re: an un tilted trip., i'm just saying,
c'est une chose d'amour
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Jenifer recently moved to NYC and is thrilled to be making her debut with trip. Originally from Alabama, she graduated with her BFA in Theatre from the University of South Alabama. Stage credits include Aggie Wainwright in The Grapes of Wrath (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Luciana in Comedy of Errors, Madge in Summer Brave, and Clear Glass Marbles in Talking With. Other credits include Libby in Blue Window, Cass in Wonder of the World, Katherine in Taming of the Shrew, and various student films. She would like to send many big, big hugs to her family and friends. And a very special thank you to Mom, Dad, Jean and Kenny for their constant love and sanity. |
Christopher Bott
hope... (Chicago)
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Christopher Bott is thrilled to be working with trip. He was last seen in Red Theatre’s production of Schwyek in the Second World War and will next be seen in Anam Gan Ainm’s production of Andromache. Christopher is a graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University. Thanks to my family and friends for all of their support. |
Jennifer Boutell
just one of those things
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NYC: First Look, Cabaret (Encore); Electra Speaks, Electra (MTS); The Feeling of a Beard, Nikita's Wife and The Maid's Tragedy, Evadne (HERE); Four Quarters, Teri (NYC Fringe); Faith, Hope & Charity, Faith/Alice (The Greenwich Street Theater); Me & My Girl, Lady Jaquie (FIT); Wally and Jesus, Judy and Sweet Citrus, Eve (BRIC). Regional: Wild Dust: The Musical, Belle (Centenary Stage); A Woman of No Importance, Lady Stutfield and Midsummer Night's Dream, Hermia (National American Shakespeare Co.); Godspell, Robin and Play It Again Sam, Linda (The Knightsbridge Theatre). TV & Film: Arrest & Trial, Dangerous Minds, The Nanny, Beverly Hills 90210, Moesha, Shopping For Fangs, Devolution, and Urchin. Jennifer was also a member of The Malcontent's: Sketch Comedy group in Los Angeles. |
Anna Bridgforth
Sixteen, hope...(NYC)
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Anna Bridgforth has been a friend of trip.'s for many years. Here since 2004 some New York credits include An Ideal Husband and Measure for Measure with Big Rodent Productions, We Call Her Benny and Bite with John Montgomery Theater Company and trip.'s Sixteen. She began performing burlesque under an undisclosed stage name in April of 2009 at Broadway Comedy Club and has performed all over NYC ever since. Some venues include The Triad theater, The Slipper Room, City Winery and The Bell House. |
Graham Brown • Artistic Director
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| Graham Brown is a writer, director, actor and stand up comedian. He was most recently seen in the critically acclaimed TV movie something about bubbles for which he garnered 35 wins from various film festivals around the world (see IMBd). Film acting credits include: El Camino Christmas, The Dark Knight Rises, Sweet and Lowdown, Ken Burn’s New York The Documentary and Entourage. Stage writing/directing/acting credits include 4PLAY, Sex in a Series (NYC, Chicago & LA), hope…, (NYC & Chicago) and finding gräfenberg (NYC & Chicago). Select stage acting credits include William in Her Naked Skin, The Professor in The Lesson , Shep in Early One Evening at the Rainbow Bar and Grille, Danny in Sexual Perversity In Chicago, Edward in Edward II, Melchior in Spring Awakening, twelve roles in Macbeth and Alex in the second American production of A Clockwork Orange. He has performed stand up at The Improv, Caroline’s, The Broadway Comedy Club, The Funny Bone, The Laff Stop & The New York Comedy Club. He is the recipient of grants from The Museum of Modern Art and the New York City Council of Arts. He is represented by Vision in Los Angeles & Lily's Talent in Chicago. |
Bevin Bru
4PLAY (LA)
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| Bevin Bru is Miami born, New York bred and an LA resident. As an actress and dancer she toured nationally with Alvin and the Chipmunks as, none other than, Alvin himself. She used her chipmunk money to move to LA two years ago and has since then been in several commercials, plays, web series, and the feature film Head Count. She is so excited to be a part of the trip.LA family and bring you a work that will hopefully awaken the senses and fine tune your attention span. |
Tori Buckley
hope... (Chicago)
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Tori Buckley is a Chicago-based film, television, and theatre actress. Lately, her focus has been on film, where she’s had the opportunity to play roles such as a schizophrenic, an abused girlfriend, a southern eye-witness, and an up-and-coming hippy. She’s been apart of numerous student films, shorts, and independent films. Coming back to her roots, Buckley is thrilled to be an ensemble member of trip. Some of her favorite stage roles have been Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Daisy Hannigan in Biloxi Blues, and most recently Anna in Anna Christie. hope... has been one of her most unique and treasured experiences. |
Bethany Butler
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Bethany Butler is a graduate of New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, where she majored in both Theatre and English. She has trained in Los Angeles and Chicago, in addition to London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. She most recently appeared as Esther in All About Esther held at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Other New York stage credits include Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Moon of the Caribbees (The Flea Theatre) and the two-women show, Incommunicado. |
Keith Chandler
re: an un tilted trip.
i'm just saying,c'est une chose d'amour
4PLAY (NYC)
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Originally from New Jersey, Keith has been in New York City for six years now where he studied acting with The Atlantic Theatre Company and has been working in the wonderful world of theater. He recently closed a production of the acclaimed off-broadway show Fools In Love with The Millennium Talent Group at The Manhattan Ensemble Theatre. He has worked with Ludlow 10 Productions as Demetrius and Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, and as Casca and Lepidus in Julius Caesar. He worked for a year with Radio Theatre NYC on various radio plays such as Mad House, Hardboiled, and War of the Worlds. He is currently in pre-production for a film trilogy titled The Medisaga, which begins, shooting this summer. This is Keith's fourth adventure with trip. over the past year. He is thrilled to be working with such an amazing group of talented actors on this amazing project and can't wait for what the future holds. |
Tamara Lynn Chambers
4PLAY (Chicago)
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Tamara is a California native who moved to Chicago in 2011. Since migrating to the cold she has made a name for herself in the Stand Up Comedy community. Tamara runs a weekly showcase called Stand Up Throw Down. She most recently appeared in Chronic Malcontents in Chicago with Endpoint Theater. She recently, also, played Kitty Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Dancer in The 8 Reindeer Monologues at PCPA Theaterfest in California. A few more past roles include Sally in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown and Little Sally in Urinetown the Musical. She is a graduate of The Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has trained with the Annoyance Theater. You can also find Tamara on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses.com in episodes of the Nostalgia Critic.
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Kristin Stewart Chase
Chepooka, ...blue jays, Here's Something
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Kristin Stewart Chase is slated to appear next as Prudence in the new farcical comedy, Dear Prudence sometime this fall. Recent credits include Viola in Twelfth Night for New York Classical Theatre, the title role of Sophocles' Antigone and a glamorous media figure in the mordant comedy, Ismene, for Resonance Ensemble's repertory co. She was a "bat" for two years prior, performing numerous roles at Jim Simpson's Flea Theater, among them Judy in Mac Wellman's Sincerity Forever, Sophie in Brecht's Baal and Alma in Alice Tuan's AJAX (por nobody). Each of those shows enjoyed an extended downtown run, and AJAX took her on a sojourn to Australia's Melbourne Fringe Festival. She has also made several appearances with The Metropolitan Playhouse of NY, most recently as Wanda in The Woman. Other favorites include Emily in Our Town and Vivie in Mrs. Warren's Profession in NYC and Rosalind in As You Like It with Prospect Theater's Georgia venture. Kristin grew up in Arkansas and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College. |
Avery Clark
trip. over sexy, Amalgams
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Avery is an Arkansas native who moved to NYC in August 2002. In the past year he has performed in The Lion in Winter at S.I. Shakespeare, 31 Bond at the Brooklyn Lyceum, Trip/Sexxy with trip., a handful of indy features, and a couple of music videos. Avery is honored to be a part of trip, both acting and production, and would like to thank Lisa, Nate, and Graham for their support and blind faith. |
Cindi Clark
Sex God's and Violent Happiness
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Cindi has performed in NYC at Expanded Arts, NADA, and with The Chekhov Theatre Ensemble in their Stages of Learning Program. She has also performed at the Hangar Theatre and Cornell University Theatre. She is a graduate of Texas Tech University and studied at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies. |
Jason Clements
hope... (Chicago)
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Jason Clements is a graduate of The School of Theatre at Oklahoma City University. Jason is an actor and improviser. Recent Chicago performance include Beowulf and with Mix Tape at the Bar Below. Some of his favorite roles have been in The House of Atreus, Recent Tragic Events, and Rocky Horror Puppet Show. Jason loves a good joke and a good brew, but hates doing the dishes |
Charlotte Cohn
Wrapped in America, trip. over sexy
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Charlotte Cohn was born in Denmark and raised in Israel where she served as a commander in the Army. She most recently appeared in La Boheme on Broadway, directed by Baz Luhrmann.She has performed in Europe and the U.S. as an opera singer including performing as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi at the Liederkrantz Opera in N.Y. Off-Broadway credits include performing with Elliott Gould in One Hundred Gates at The Jewish Theatre of NY, and Ambivalence at The Ensemble Studio Theatre. Film credits include Mave in Starving, Nightingale in God in the Machine, Ophelia in The Danish Play and Barb in Samuel Clemens' Boys. She is a member of The Actors Studio. |
Carl Condra
Fine., Sex God's and Violent Happiness
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New York credits include The Two Lovers, Out of Sight ...Out of Murder and Why I Live at the P.O. He has also appeared with the Imperial Theatre in Colorado. |
Dean Conroy
...blue jays,
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Dean has appeared on film, commercials and on stage. Most notably, Quirk at the Duplex Comedy Cabaret, Scream, with Laughter at the Miranda Theater and Prince of the Clouds at the Trilogy Theater. He has studied with Maggie Flanigan of The William Esper Studios, with Bobby Lewis of the Bobby Lewis Theater Workshop and with Mary Van Dyke. Last summer, he traveled across Ireland in search of the greatest seafood chowder. |
Clare Cooney
4PLAY (Chicago)
not a happening
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Originally hailing from Detroit, Clare moved to Chicago to pursue acting just one year ago. She is thrilled to be a part of trip. This winter, she will be performing as The Ghost of Christmas Past in A Christmas Carol (Citadel Theatre) and in the ensemble in 44 Ways (Redtwist Theatre). Recent Chicago credits include The Dictionary Project (Cold Basement Dramatics), EL Stories (Waltzing Mechanics), and understudy in When the Rain Stops Falling (Circle Theatre). Regionally, she has performed with the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame with degrees in Theatre and Psychology. She sends love and gratitude her mom and the rest of her family back in Detroit. |
Carley Cornelius
hope... (Chicago)
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Carley is glad to be back in Chicago after a small hiatus in Champaign-Urbana where she spent the past few years working on her Masters. In the Chicagoland area she has worked with City Lit Theater, NUFAN Ensemble, The Atheneaum, Strangeloop Theater, and Halcyon Theater. Regionally she has worked with the Great River Shakespeare Festival, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. This summer Carley will be in Wisconsin with Door Shakespeare. |
Lesslie Dodge Crane
4PLAY @ the pure project
4PLAY (NYC)
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Lesslie is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA and The Asolo Theatre/Florida State University Conservatory MFA Program, where she has performed with The Asolo Rep in Sarasota. In New York, she has worked with taxdeductible theatre’s Dare Project for the past 2 years as an actor, director, and contributing playwright and has published 2 short plays with taxdeductible. She appeared in trip.’s previous production of 4Play at The Pure Project and is very happy to be tripping again, for the first time. |
Danny Crawford
hope...(NYC)
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Danny has been doing the New York actor thing for about five years now. Over the past few years he's also started doing the New York fighter thing (stunt work, stage combat).
He's very excited to be working with trip.
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Morgan Crouch
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
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| Morgan Crouch is a writer, performer, storyteller and pseudo-raging feminist from Chicago. When she is not performing, Morgan works with Girls Fight Back!, a self-defense program that teaches girls across the country how to become total badasses. She is thrilled to be working with the incredibly talented ensemble of trip.
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Shelley Dague
re: an un tilted trip.
i'm just saying
Sixteen
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Shelley has appeared in the New York productions of I’m Just Saying (trip.), Secrets of the Tattoo Gods (Off World Theatre), The Soldier Dreams (Spiral Inc.), Soul Searching - a rock opera (BlackBox Entertainment), Love, Joel, Raw(Cedar Lake) and Candida (Expanded Arts). She has also appeared in the independent films 100 Stories, It’s All Good and Places . Shelley is originally from Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in Theatre and she continued her training with Larry Silverberg and Terry Schreiber here in NY. |
Ashley Davies
4PLAY (NYC)
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Ashley is a graduate of LAMDA. NYC theatre credits include: Beast With Two Backs (Soho Rep) and Specter (Michael Chekhov Theatre Co.). London theatre credits include: In Arabia We’d All be Kings (Hampstead Theatre); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Natural Perspectives Theatre Co.); Romeo & Juliet (LAMDA tour); Wild Honey, Death and The Maiden (LAMDA). She has worked on a handful of independant films and commercials and is thrilled to be on this trip.!
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Carlo D’Amore
Sex God's and Violent Happiness,
Edward the Second,
Seascape with Sharks & Dancer
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Carlo D'Amore has been seen at Soho Rep in Arthur Giron’s A Death of Wealth. Before that, he was shooting the feature film I the Sinner in South America. Other New York Credits include Moment of Truth at Manhattan playhouse, Summer & Smoke at the Roundabout Theatre and Being at Home with Claude on Christopher Street. Prior to moving to New York, Carlo lived and worked in San Francisco where he worked for two seasons at the Magic Theatre working on plays by Constance Congdon and Nilo Cruz. He also spent two seasons with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Most recently Carlo appeared on the HBO series OZ.
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Eve Danzeisen
Seascape with Sharks & Dancer
The Dragon Comes to L.A.
4PLAY (LA)
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Eve Danzeisen is an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in LA and NY. She is thrilled to welcome trip. to LA; one of her first roles in NYC was Tracy in Seascape with Sharks and Dancer with trip. in NY when the company was in its earliest years. Other theatre credits include: LA: Cold Sweat (Atwater Village Th.), The Trip Back Down (Whitefire Th.) NY: world premiere of The Body Politic (59E59); U.S. premieres of Construction of the Human Heart (Access Th.) and Romeo and Hamlet (Abington Th., Gayfest); with the Old Globe Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Uncle Vanya, and more. She produced, wrote, and directed The Hardest Part for which she won the Tropfest Best Actress Award. Other on camera credits include: The Choice, Heyday, The Guiding Light, Pooched, Motel Champagne, and three years as the spokesperson for Optimum Business. She holds degrees from The Old Globe (MFA) and Sarah Lawrence College (BA). |
Zoë Simpson Dean
4PLAY (LA)
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| Zoë Simpson Dean (SAG/AFTRA) is so excited to be a part of the trip.LA team! Born in London, UK, began working almost immediately (pics to prove it!) in print and television commercials across Europe. Her family moved from England to the Algarve, Portugal, where she spent her formative years. Zoë's first audition landed her a spot in the pop band Bless'd, which lead to non-stop touring. Her appearances as a member of Bless'd on multiple children's television shows sparked her interest in acting. Zoë fled London as Bless'd came to an end in a firestorm of scandal (joke) and moved to America. Zoë lived in Hollywood acting in commercials and doing voiceover work. She then moved to Austin, TX to be part of the burgeoning indie film scene. Zoë quickly found roles in several short films and features including a co-star with Mark Duplass in Mars. She studied broadcast journalism, then earned her bachelor's degree in geography and urban studies from Temple University and recently completed her master's degree in social and community urban planning from USC. She currently resides in Los Angeles where she continues to study all things acting and work on as many projects as the day will allow. Thank you trip. cast and production team for all you do - and letting me play. |
Kimberly Dilts
4PLAY (NYC)
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Kimberly Dilts is an actor, director, and choreographer who is thrilled to be taking this trip.. Recent projects include choreographing War Music, an adaptation of Christopher Logue’s poetic take on the Iliad for FirstWorksProv, The Chicago Humanities Festival and the NY Council for the Humanities, and.co-directing Faust for Aurea (Providence, RI), in which she played the role of Mephistopheles. NY credits include understudying and assistant directing for The Revenger's Tragedy (Off-B’way), and performing in Alice2, The Information She Carried, the Turnip Festival, and readings at the Pearl Theatre, NYTW and The Directors Company. She has also appeared as a guest star on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Dirty Sexy Money. Kim is a graduate of UT Austin’s MFA Acting program. |
Deborah Dominguez
4PLAY (LA)
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| Deborah Dominguez has been performing for worldwide audiences for the past 13 years and is currently working on 7 different projects including; the 2018 Shakespearean musical production of Cabrillo Music Theater 7 as well as the next trip. show, Hope 2018 . She has appeared as The Woman on the Frame, in Wicked Lit 2015, with Unbound Productions and Joe Fria (Guardians of the Galaxy II), Ms. Ines in the original cast of Don Juan with the International Theatre Company, Ophelia in Hamlet and Juliet in Romeo & Juliet with the The International Shakespeare Foundation in Spain, where she also received her masters in Acting + Shakespeare. Film credits include; Americana, 2016 (Acting Lead) & In Connection (Producer and Distributer) which will be appearing in multiple international festivals over the next few months. She is an accomplished writer, having been recently awarded by the Great Message International Film Festival, in Pune, India for her first short script Forever Vs Nowin the best script category. She is also a singer and a passionate traveler. |
Greg Draves
...blue jays, Tripping,
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Greg was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 1995. Greg has worked as a video editor and was a member of the Main Street Players of Boone County, where he worked both onstage and behind the scenes. He began his work with trip. in 1999 as stage manager for Tripping. Greg is a member of the Board of Directors of Greater New York Mensa.
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Vivan Dugré
Clarity, Wrapped in America,
The Alice Project
something about bubbles
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Vivan (she/her) was born in Saigon, Vietnam and grew up in and around New York City, where she studied dance and acting. Vivan is a graduate of New York University and holds a MA in clinical psychology. In addition to working in entertainment, Vivan is committed to working with marginalised populations and currently volunteers at an outreach center in Los Angeles.
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Tate Ellington
Amalgams, Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Tate is a native of Mississippi. Attended the University of Mississippi were he received a B.F.A in Theatre Performance. He has lived in New York for about a year and a half. Most recent stage credits include Sir Andrew in a production of Twelfth Night and Randy in a production of Only in Beverly Hills. His next project will be a play entitled X-Factor. You can also see him sometime in November performing at the Gotham Comedy Club with the sketch comedy troupe Spurn. |
Lydia Ellis-Curry
4PLAY (Chicago)
monkey pants
not a happening
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Lydia is excited to be celebrating her third year anniversary in the great city of Chicago, after moving here from San Diego to complete her Bachelors Degree at Columbia College. A year out from graduation, Lydia juggles many jobs to help support her love of Theatre, but the most fulfilling of these is teaching at Perspectives Charter School where she has begun their first-ever drama program. Lydia has been seen around town in various solo performance groups, online in the web series Kiss Like Big Dogs, and on tour with Griffin Theatre Company’s Stinky Cheese Man. She is so grateful for this newest opportunity to make art with trip. |
Brian Faherty
Wrapped in America,
Monologues (film & Stage)
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Brian is happy to be “tripping” again in 4Play. His last trip show was Wrapped In America two years ago. Recently he completed the film version of Liars, adapted from the stage version which was mounted three years ago. Around town he has also performed in Hell’s Gate, The Lion In Winter, and Six Degrees Of Separation. His feature film debut was in Rick with Bill Pullman where he played a young Wall Street Executive.Television credits include All My Children, As The World Turns, and One Life To Live.
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Nathan Faudree • Associate Producer (NYC)
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Nathan Faudree grew up in the wilds of Central New York. He currently lives in NYC. His writing credits include 4PLAY as well as many other one offs with trip. For film, he has written the web series The Citizen and written and hosted the comic book web show, Meanwhile… as well as the Marvel Fan Film Killgrave. He is currently in post-production on his first feature film as a writer/director, Site 13. As an actor he can be seen in the cult films Kottentail, Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned and Troma’s Poultrygeist. (mom is so proud) Most recently he starred as Lee Alexander in the feature film, King Lee. His time working with trip. has provided a deeply instilled love for the art and transformative nature of theater, acting and writing and a healthy respect for monkeys.
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Amanda Fekety
Tripping
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After graduating from Texas Woman's University with her degree in Drama, Amanda Fekety traveled doing regional theatre. She is happy to finally make New York her home. Favorite roles include Daisy in the first American production of the British play Daisy Pulls it Off, Abigail in The Crucible, Fanny in On The Verge, and Mandel in Playing for Time. New York credits include Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart. |
Shaneye Ferrell
Sex God's and Violent Happiness,
Edward the Second
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Shaneye is currently based out of Texas. Movie credits include: Jessie in The Red Shoes, Lauren in Plane Short, and Taco in Black Coffee, among others. She has appeared on stage in New York in productions including This Love, The Santa Pimp in the 1999 NY Fringe Festival, and Sally. She has also performed in various regional theatres and done voice-overs for ADV Films, AMC Networks and The Romance Classics Network. She is a ’95 graduate of Texas Tech University
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Jenifer Fisher
hope...(NYC)
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Jennifer Fisher, actress and torch song specialist. Theater influences are Grotowski, Eric Morris and Michael Chekhov. Favorite roles include the Nurse in Seneca's Medea and Sarah Bernhardt. A shout out to the entire cast of this show. Favorite charities include planting trees in Africa and saving rare frogs in Peru |
Meaghan Bloom Fluitt
Sixteen
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The tall girl in the big city. Meaghan is thrilled to be a part of this trip. production! Born in Florida and now living in Queens, she graduated with a BA in performing arts from Sarah Lawrence College and studied abroad at the British American Drama Academy in London. Her previous works include the recent production of the new play, Smoking Section (also accepted into this year’s Fringe Festival 2011!), ShadowBox Theatre’s African Drum, The Storm Theatre’s As You Like It, Gorilla Rep’s Joan of Arc, Is There Room In Your Heart? at Teatro La Tea, independent film The Stick Up Kids as well the upcoming web-series, Scene of the Rhyme. She is ready to continue to follow her dreams and meet every new challenge she can. She thanks everyone in this amazing ensemble cast, her family and friends for their unending love and support, and God for his many blessings. |
Penny Flick
4PLAY (NYC)
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Penny Fick recently moved to NYC after graduating from Emory University with a BA in Theater Studies. While at Emory, she was cast in a number of productions, including Spring Awakening, Bury the Dead, King Lear, and She Stoops to Conquer, among others. Most recently, Penny was seen fondling audience members in Happy Hour, a.k.a. Sex, Relationships, and Sometimes... Love (45th Street Theater), and behaving similarly in a variety of short films and commercials. She also appeared in her first feature film, Three Chris’s, which premiered in May at the opening of the Hoboken International Film Festival. She loves 4Play. In her spare time, Penny is a cat burglar. |
Ralph Fontaiane
4PLAY (NYC)
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Ralph Fontaine has worked professionally as an actor, director and producer of television, film and theater in Los Angeles, Seattle, and now New York. Recent acting roles include Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Menelaus in Helen with Extant Arts Company. As a director/producer Ralph’s work has been shown on MTV, The Travel Channel and The Discovery Channel as well as in lesser known venues such as corporate boardrooms and private living rooms. He thanks trip. for letting him be a part of their process, and hopes that 4PLAY will continue as a multimedia experience that reaches audiences of varying levels of sobriety wherever they may be. |
Jamie Forehand
Edward the Second
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A relative newcomer to New York City, Jamie is pleased to have worked with trip. He's lived and worked in Florida, Los Angeles, Denver, Cape Cod, Ohio and West Virginia. Favorite roles include Ben in The Dumbwaiter, Manus in Translations, Slim in Cowboy Mouth, and Horatio in Hamlet. Jamie holds an MFA from the FSU/ASOLO Conservatory. |
Marco Formosa
Sixteen
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| NYC credits: Narrator 1 (Theatre Row), 12 Incompetent Men (And Women)! (NYC Fringe ‘10), What May Fall (Fordham Alumni Co.), Waking Up With Strangers (Horsetrade Theatre Co.), The Invention of Tragedy (Classic Stage Co.), SLAVS! (59E59). Holds an MFA from The New School for Drama and is also an alum from Fordham University. Can also make a mean Manhattan. |
Marian Frizelle
4PLAY (LA)
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| Marian Frizelle is delighted to be making her debut with trip.La. Recent/Favorite credits include Shelby in Steel Magnolias opposite Jacki Weaver, Touchstone in As You Like It and feature films Momentum opposite Morgan Freeman and the upcoming Under the Silver Lake. She is also a jazz vocalist - recently heading up the indie jazz band Gypsies & Judges. Originally South African, Marian moved to Australia to attend The Actors Center Australia. A role in HBO’s The Pacifc brought her to Los Angeles where she continues to explore both stage and screen. SAG-AFTRA. |
Adam Ramon Gallagos
finding gräfenberg (Chicago)
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| Adam Ramon Gallegos would like to thank trip. for the opportunity. Adam celebrated his one year anniversary in Chicago in January. He is currently directing a show for Three Brothers Theatre. |
Amber Gallery
c'est une chose d'amour
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Amber received her BFA in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts where she originated the role of Tia in Fitting Rooms. Amber has an extensive classical background playing such roles as Rosalind in As You Like It and Olivia in Twelfth Night. She is an Associate Member of 29th Street Repertory in NYC where she played Erin in Hiding Behind Comets, Carol in North of Providence, and understudied the role of Alice in The High Priest of California. Amber is thrilled to be a part of the vision that is trip.
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Hila Ben Gera
hope...(NYC)
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An actress and a playwright, Hila is also a graduate of the Yoram Loewenstein’s Performing Arts Studio. Hila’s theater credits include the lead actress in Smiley (The NYC Fringe Festival and Philly Fringe Festival 2011), Josie’s Ring, It Runs in the Family, The God of Revenge, The Pajama Party and Company. She is a founder of the Black Laundry Theatre Company, where she wrote, directed, produced and starred in a five women show called Black Laundry. These days she is writing her first full length play in English; a story about two people who struggle to live on the same couch despite the cold New York winter, deafening cultural differences and maddening miscommunication. |
Korri Givens
mokey pants
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Korri is a native Texan and graduate of the Oklahoma City University School of Theatre. Chicago credits include productions with Tympanic Theatre Co, New Suit Theatre, Halcyon Theatre, and Adapt Theatre Productions, where she is the co-marketing director and a founding ensemble member. |
Craig Glantz
just one of those things
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A native New Yorker, Craig returned home in 2003 after lengthy stints in Boston, Chicago, New Orleans and San Francisco. Craig's New York theatrical credits include Aldo in Italian American Reconciliation (Gene Frankel Theatre), Paul Campbell in Paul Campbell Hits the Bigtime (Instant Theatre), Jason in Emily (Sanford Meisner Theatre) and Jacob in Stop the Wedding (St. Marks Theater). His television credits include ABC-TV's All My Children and One Life to Live and CBS-TV's Guiding Light and As the World Turns. Craig has also appeared in over thirty feature-length and short films, including award-winners such as The Adventures of Supern-gger, In Innocence, Madison Rye and Niko and Vahko. |
Caitlin Gold
4PLAY (NYC)
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Caitlin is thrilled to be making her trip. debut with such a delicious production. Favorite credits include Twelfth Night (Olivia), Importance of Being Earnest (Gwendolen), Hay Fever (Sorel Bliss), The Dancers (Emily Crews), The Wayside Motor Inn (Sally), and many more. Caitlin hails all the way from Toronto, Canada, where she has been acting and dancing since the very ripe old age of four. Caitlin is a proud graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (2008) and has starred in over a dozen independent films, webisodes, and television commercials. Much love and gratitude to my dear family and friends. |
Hannah Greene
not a happening
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Hannah is an actor and director based in Chicago. Recent acting credits include Wednesday (American Theatre Company), Peribañez and the Commander of Ocaña, The Cherry Orchard, and Peter Pan, a Play (Northwestern University). Directing credits at NU include The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Seagull, 4.48 Psychosis, and A Bright Room Called Day. Assisting credits include Stupid F**king Bird (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Little Prince and The North China Lover (Lookingglass Theatre Company). Hannah is thrilled and delighted to be a part of this exciting company. |
David Guy
monkey pants
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David is thrilled to be working with trip. He has acted in several productions in the city and suburbs and several film projects over the years. David recently completed the School at Steppenwolf Theater conservatory program this summer, which taught him how to work smarter not harder. |
Dustin Gulledge
4PLAY (LA)
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Dustyn Gulledge is an Austin, TX native, and just as weird as the city. He holds a two-year certificate of completion in Acting at AMDA NYC, a B.A. in Creative Writing from The New School in NYC, and an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Repertory Theatre at Harvard University. Dustyn originated the role of ‘Dino Tortorrici’ in Norah Ephron’s NYC Broadway production of Lucky Guy opposite Tom Hanks, as well as created the recurring role of ‘Evan’ in the first three seasons of HBO’s Emmy winning TV show, Silicon Valley. Other credits include Duke Frederick in As You Like It (A.R.T.), Person of Interest (CBS) and Forever (ABC). Dustyn is a proud member of AEA/ SAG/AFTRA, and is thrilled to be given the opportunity to reconnect with his theatre roots playing “the best friend” in trip.’s west coast premier of 4PLAY after a five year hiatus from the stage. |
Megan Hamaker
...blue jays, Tripping,
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Being a Musical Theatre buff, Megan doesn't quite know yet how to get through a scene without bursting into song, so working with trip. was a welcomed challenge. Hailing from Kansas, Megan has been performing onstage since the age of 10. She is a recent graduate of New York University's prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where she appeared in such productions as Sweeney Todd (Ensemble), Divorce Me, Darling (Hannah) and Camelot (Lady Anne). Other stage credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia), Taming of the Shrew (Katherine), A Chorus Line (Diana Morales), Cabaret (Sally Bowles), and a tour of The Music Man (Mrs. Squires). |
Jason M. Hammond • Associate Producer (NYC)
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gräfenberg is Jason's fourth trip with trip. Last year, he was seen in trip's critically acclaimed 4PLAY (Den Theater). Other recent credits include: Santa Claus (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical; 1st national tour), Announcer (The Boxer; Athenaeum Theatre), and Nicky (Avenue Q; Theatre Out). Thanks to my supportive parents. |
Matthew Hammond
4PLAY (NYC production)
re: an un tilted trip.
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Matt is very happy to be working on 4 Play, Sex in a Series. He has recently been seen in Dulcy with Love Creek and in the Samuel French Festival in Family. He graduated from the Actors Studio Drama School where he was seen in Pinter's One For the Road, Traindog and The Clay Pot Bloom. He has also been seen in a number of short films including 15 Waffles which played in festivals across the country. |
Carley Hauser
...blue jays
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Carley has performed in Spring Awakening at Expanded Arts. Prior to that she has been gallivanting about the New York theatre scene, cavorting with the likes of Classic Stage Company & The Pearl, as well as a few unmentionables, and many in between. Currently a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre’s actor/director lab, Carley is, among other things, a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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Corey Ann Haydu
just one of those things,
4Play (NYC))
re: an un tilted trip.
i'm just saying
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Corey is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she spent two years in the Meisner Extension studio and a year training in Viewpoints. New York credits include roles in TopGirls, Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays and Carnival Girls. Corey also serves as Artistic Director of the New York City branch of Sunflower Works. She is thrilled to be part of trip. and would like to thank friends, family and teachers for their constant support. |
Ellen Haynes
trip. over sexy
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Ellen Haynes has performed with companies in Greece, Italy, Scotland and the Bahamas. Recent NYC and regional credits include Rosalind in As You Like It, Ariel in The Tempest, Viola in Twelfth Night, and her original work Theresienstadt. Ellen graduated from the BFA Acting program at the University of Southern California and studied filmmaking in Prague. She is excited to be on this new adventure with trip.
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Lara Helena
4PLAY (LA)
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| Lara Helena, SAG-AFTRA, is thrilled to appear in 4PLAY. She was a Dance/Theater Major at UNLV and from there moved into numerous Las Vegas shows including EFX, Siegfried and Roy, That’s Magic, Kristine & The Sting . European musical theater credits include; Paradise of Pain, Grease, Snow White, Culture Beat. After moving to LA in 2010, she began working with the Groundlings and has spent the past few years studying with Brad Greenquist (Pacific Residence Theater) at Stuart Rogers Studios. In 2015, she co-created, co-wrote, acted and produced the short films, Dispensable Girls, Time Traveler, Sting of the Scorpion & The Long Run. She is aslo the creator of the web series The Global Hollywood Show. |
Jeni Henaghan
Edward the Second
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Jeni is a William Esper Studios graduate as well as a member of Inverse Theatre. New York credits include Aria in Icarus and Aria, directed by Aaron Beall; Peakabo in Life’s Losses Loved and Hey Baby in Sex Toys & Subway Stories, both directed by Kirstin Ames, Walker in The Death of Griffin Hunter, directed by Emma Griffin; and Hermione in A Winter’s Tale with Tyrannosaurus Rep. Regional credits include Agnes in A Bright Room Called Day. Television credits include Law and Order.
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Ben Hindell
trip. over sexy
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Ben Hindell produced and played the lead in Veins and Thumbtacks at the Abingdon Theatre Co. He has appeared in such award winning productions as Last of the Dragons and The Ransom of Redchief both at the Vital Theater Company and Dead End at the John Houseman Theater. He has acted in various independent films such as Believe which featured the late singer Aaliyah and a commercial for Alamo Car Rentals. As a producer, Ben presented an evening of one acts entitled Uptown With Love at the Blue Heron Arts Center and as well as The Guitar Lesson a short digital film. |
Adam Hyland
4PLAY (NYC)
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Adam trained with Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth in DC, and currently studies with Terry Schreiber here in NYC. Proud to have brought to life Dr Marc Blumen in Self-Portrait as Schiele at the NY Fringe, as well as “Eric” Rowland in the wildly successful The Sublet Experiment. Much love to Mom and Dad, whose endless supply of Starbucks gift cards have no doubt helped in the memorization of his lines this year. |
Sarah E. Jacobs
hope...(NYC)
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Originally from Atlanta, Sarah moved to NY almost ten years ago to attend FIT and study acting at the T. Schreiber Studio. She's choreographed for off-off Broadway shows and performed all over NYC. She can most recently be seen in Big Country Blues, the first country music web series, which won her recognition as Best Actress in a Drama at the LA WebFest and a Best Actress nomination at the ITV Festival. She can also be seen in From Date to Mate on Shalom TV. Recent theater projects include Disjointed Love Shorts (Ticket2Eternity) and Tech Support (Manhattan Rep). She's an active member of The Unknown Artists where she continually workshops new work and she's also currently studying holistic nutrition. |
Kelly Jean
hope... (Chicago)
monkey pants, not a happpening
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Kelly is thrilled to be performing with trip. for a third time. She is originally from Dayton, Ohio but has made Chicago her home for the past 3 years. Just this past May, she graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in theatre. Kelly has recently performed in Comedy of Errors with Spectralia Theatre and has become an associate ensemble member with Trap Door Theatre. She would like to thank her parents and friends for their love and support.
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Julia Jiminez
Monologues (stage)
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Julia recently wrote, produced and was featured in an original work, Cooch (working title) which is currently in development again. She also performed with the company she co-founded with Jessica Jolly, Cameo Theatre, at the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival in Precipice. Her favorite roles include Snitch in A Beggar's Opera with Aisling Arts and Delores in Mr. Sunshine and the Radio Dame at Manhattan Theatre Source. Julia has a B.F.A. in theatre from Florida International University and has studied at various NYC schools including HB Studio, The School for Film and Television, New Dance Group and Atlantic Theatre Company. She is pleased for the chance to work with this impressive group of artists for the first time.
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Alice Johnson
hope...(NYC)
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Alice Johnson is originally from Seattle, WA but is currently living in Brooklyn just like everyone else who is not originally from New York. She studied at Fordham University and The London Dramatic Academy. Since graduating, she has steadily worked on plays, short films and other creative projects. Lately, she's been taking classes at ESPA, doing Shakespeare dinner theater in Carrol Gardens, and performing new plays with Blow Out Theater Co. |
Jessica Jolly
Amalgams, Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
4PLAY (NYC)
Monologues (film & Stage)
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A native of Kansas City, Missouri, came to New York City to attend acting school at NYU. Since graduating, Jessica has appeared in many New York productions of classics and new works, in such venues as Here Arts Center, Collective Unconcious, Teatro La Tea, Producers Club, and the NY Fringe Festival. Notable roles she’s played include Cordelia in King Lear, Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Rossignol in Marat/Sade. She has starred in a large number of student and independent films, and will be shooting a feature film this winter with writer/directer Reid Rosefel. |
Dawn E. Jones
trip. over sexy, Amalgams,
c'est une chose d'amour
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| Dawn has lived in New York City since she graduated Western Connecticut State University in 2002. Prior to attending WCSU, Dawn studied with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Since moving to NYC, Dawn has performed in multiple Indie films including The Night Life and the soon to be released feature Fillbilly, as well as the short filmThe Plum which had premiered in the Berlin Film Festival. She has also recently been seen in commercials and Showcases. Some of her favorite roles performed include Marjorie in Extremities, Bananas in The House of Blue Leaves, Charlotta in The Cherry Orchard, Karen in The Bleeding Heart (with William Fichtner). She has also performed in the independent film Clean-Shaven with Peter Greene. Television credits include: MTV, Another World and As the World Turns. Dawn has been has been in private study acting workshop with Le Mos and has also attended Weist-Barron and The School of Performing Arts. Dawn’s artistic training beyond theatre involves singing, ballet, point, modern, and tap dancing. |
GR Jones
The Dragon Comes to LA
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G.R. Jones is a Brooklyn-born, L.A. based, actor, writer, and comedian. He has performed at Stand-Up New York, the Comedy Cellar, as well as off -broadway performances of All in The Timing by David Ives at the John Houseman Theater, A.R. Gurney's The Cocktail Hour at the Actor's Playhouse, as well as production on Laughing Matters by Nick Ullett at the Primary Stages Theater. He will be insinuating himself into the Comedy Store in January. He enjoys long walks on the beach and hard german techno. Get some.
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Jessica Blair Kaplan
re: an un titled trip.
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Jessica is originally from Chicago, aka CHI TOWN, and is damn proud of it. She is currently a student at New York University at the Stella Adler Conservatory. She has also trained at Second City Chicago, Comedy Sportz, and currently with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. She is thrilled to be one of the newest members of trip.
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Elle Klein
A Clockwork Orange, Tripping
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Elle is currently living on the "Third Coast" (Austin, TX), and has been thrilled to be make guest appearances in the Big Apple. She graduated from The University of Texas with a BA in Theatre and Dance, and has worked on several films & videos in Austin. However, her favorites are the theatrical roles of Anna in The Baltimore Waltz, and Pete in A Clockwork Orange. |
Ericka Kreutz
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Ericka has performed regionally with various theatres including: The Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Next Act Theatre, Prop Theatre of Chicago, and First Stage Milwaukee. As a writer, Ericka has written many monologues, one-acts and plays for youth: including Stand Up, an anti-violence play currently touring with Lamb's Players Theatre in Coronado, CA and her one woman show, Beginnings, Belongings, and Bodegas, which was premiered last October at La Bottaga del Arts. She will be performing it again this January with Renaissance TheatreWorks in Milwaukee. Ericka is a graduate of the Conservatory of Theatre at Webster University in St. Louis and has studied with Gene Frankel in New York. Ericka also loves to play her harp in the subways during the holidays, with her rock star friend Katy. |
Alexa Kryzaniwsky
4PLAY (NYC)
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Alexa Kryzaniwsky is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in drama. She has had four years of exciting training under NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing, both in New York and Amsterdam. Since graduating, she has had the opportunity to work under the professional mentorship of JoAnne Akalaitis in the 2006 Baryshnikov Arts Center Tisch Alumni Fellowship and in a reading of The Bacchae at The Public. Alexa has also had the opportunity to work at The Gene Frankel Theatre in, A Brilliant Play by, John McEnroe, and in the Bread and Puppet Theatre's Out of Time; A Puppet Spectacle at the St. Ann's Warehouse Labapalooza festival. Recently, Alexa performed in the Richmond Shepard Theatre's comedy, Best Party Ever, and a featured role in an independent film, Rich From Within, which will be premiering at the Action on Film Festival in Long Beach, CA. She is thrilled to be working with the trip. family and gives a special thanks to all those involved in the production for an awesome and memorable theatrical experience. |
Kaitlin Large
hope... (NYC)
4PLAY (LA)
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| Kaitlin Large is a recent transplant from New York, where she first worked with trip. on hope..., and is thrilled to be a part of the West Coast inaugural season of this company! She has been seen recently on stage as Jodi in Podcast (Hollywood Fringe) and Marie in Let the Devil Take the Hindmost (NYC International Fringe). You can also spot her on Mr.Robot as a jealous co-worker at ECorp, or as the lead in Cracked.com's successful web series Rom.Com. She is eternally grateful to her husband and her Best Ones for all their support. And to her agents at Avalon Artists for supporting her move out West! |
Taylor LaCourse
finding gräfenberg (Chicago)
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| Taylor is very excited to be working with trip. for the first time. Taylor graduated with a BFA in Acting from Texas Tech University. She would like to thank her family and her fellow Tex-agoans for their constant support and encouragement. |
Suzanne Levinson
Tripping, Chepooka, ...blue jays,
Here's Something, Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Recent New York credits include The Twilight Ladies (Tribeca Playhouse), Ampersand (The Riverside Stage Company), Platonov and The Playboy of the Western World (The Oasis Theatre Company), Who Will Carry the Word (A Piece of Work Theater Company), and Schvesters (The Sage Theatre). Regional credits include The Black Glove (The Vox Theatre Company), The Twilight of the Golds (NorthStar Productions), and The Diary of Anne Frank (Living Arts Repertory Theatre). |
Rachel Loebs
hope... (NYC)
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Recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2009) with her BA in Theatre performance and a Minor in Communication Studies. She moved to NYC in August 2009 and has appeared in several Off Broadway productions and has appeared in short films. Rachel also works as a musician playing the guitar and writing music. Rachel is part of the Complete Theatre Company. She is excited to be working with talented artists on this project! |
Kristine Lorefice
hope... (NYC)
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Grateful to be a part of the trip. experience Kristine is also a Casting Director who has cast for Bravo, NBC, Travel Channel, TLC, CMT, theater, film and print. Her passion is working with actors. When she's not casting, Kristine runs her company, Acting House, where she coaches actors one-on-one and leads workshops and writes original plays. When inspiration calls, Kristine loves making funny experimental films, satires and documentaries and taking photographs. She would especially like to thank, above all, Kate Taney, for making this all happen- and for letting me help you on that monologue ten years ago. And Graham, thank you for believing in me and letting me be a part of your vision. |
Tina Manchise
Amalgams, Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Tina Manchise is a B.F.A. graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. She has performed in numerous theatre, film and dance pieces here in New York. Most recently as 'Natalie Wood' in Stalking Christopher Walken at the NY Fringe Festival and the title role in Rikki TikkiTavi at The Manhattan Children's Theatre (finally employing years of Kung Fu training onstage). Recent credits include Pearl in The Scarlet Letter, Tartuffe, Blue Window, SubUrbia, Death Defying Acts, and The Skryker, to name a few. She has also performed with The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in The Sustenence Project and has helped to create several origional dance pieces such as ...neither here nor there... and The Weight of Water, among others. |
Abigail Marlowe
something about bubbles
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| Abigail Marlowe was raised in London, England. She trained at Bard College, Royal Academy of the Dramatic Arts, Goldsmiths University, and Steppenwolf West and has appeared in numerous film, television, commercial, video game and animated projects. Abigail splits her time between Los Angeles and New York City with her husband, and dog Reg. |
Jonah Marsh
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Some of Jonah's favorite stage roles include the title character in Miss Julie, Lala Levy in The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Desdemona in Othello, and Karen in Speed the Plow. She appeared as June in the Off-Broadway revival of Smoke on the Mountain and has worked regionally with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Theatre Three, Hip Pocket Theatre and Classic Theatre Company. Jonah's film credits include Ball in the House , starring David Straithairn and Jennifer Tilly and a leading role in Late Bloomers, an official Sundance selection. She has appeared in movies of the week and television series too embarrassing to mention as well as regional and national commercials. |
Stephen McClure
monkey pants
not a happening
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
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Stephen is excited to be working with trip. again. Previous trip.s include monkey pants and not a happening. Since moving to Chicago, he has appeared as Svard in Rendition Theatre’s The Father, Orlando in Cave Painting Theatre's As You Like It, Valentine in Spectralia Theatre's Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Pantone/Rabbi/Santa in American Demigod's A Very Orwellian Christmas. He would like to thank his fellow Texan transplants for their constant support and his parents for still coming to see his shows after all this time. |
Randall McFadden
Amalgams
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Randall McFadden is grateful to be back on stage after having spent several months devoted to music & film. Has been seen recently doing theatre and film all over the city and regionally. Randall plays music around the tri state with the band Quellish as well as the legendary Big Gummy Allstars. Randall is a founding member of the AAB society and received his BA from Shenandoah University. |
Kate A, McGrath
re: an un tilted trip.
i'm just saying
Sixteen
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Kate studied at New York University, School for Film and Television, Larry Silverberg, The Barrow Group, Bova Actors Studio with Anthony Vincent Bova and Eric and Susanna Morris, Charles Goforth from the LAByrinth Theatre and Black Nexxus Studio with Susan Batson and Carl Ford. Theater credits include MotherLove at Creative Artists Lab, The Last Resort at Chashama Theatre, Sustaining at Manhattan Theatre Source, I’m Just Saying with trip., The Blue Room at Black Nexxus Studios and Stops (Along the Road) at Theater for the New City. Film work includes Superstar Talent, The Sonnet Project, Running Time (written and produced by Kate), Feenix Films’ Lock-Load-Love and Nicky Newark. Kate wrote and co-starred in Feenix’ production of Dealer and a short entitled The Basement, both coming soon. |
Matthew McIver
Tripping, Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
Clarity
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Regional credits include: Danceny in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Wilma Theater), Evan Wyler in As Bees in Honey Drown (Charlotte Repertory Theater), and Rodent in Tony Kushner’s Slavs! (Manbites Dog Theater), among others. Here at home he’s appeared with trip., atm, adobe, and in the NYC International Fringe Festival. He spent a year touring Twelfth Night (Aguecheek), The Tempest (Ferdinand), Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Guildenstern in both) with Shenandoah Shakespeare, including the Paris, Germany, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and two weeks in Ottawa. Film credits include: The Overlookers, and the shorts Arabian Nights and Clarity. Matt is artistic director and co-founder of HungerArts Theater, for whom he just directed The Darling Family.
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Dan McVey
Monologues (stage)
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Dan McVey recently finished studying at the William Esper Studio after graduating from Rutgers University. Favorite stage roles include Jeff in Suburbia, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Billy in Checkers. Dan is happy to be working with trip. and is also a proud member of Blank Slate Theater Company. |
Emily Merryn
Amalgams, Finding Gräfenberg
4PLAY (NYC)
Monolgues (film & stage)
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Emily is a proud member of both trip. and Blank Slate Theater Company in NYC. Along with her trip. credits, she has performed in Breakfast Lunch Dinner, Running Start, and Girls of Tuam with Blank Slate. Other of her favorite stage experiences include Fefu and Her Friends, I'm Not Rappaport, and An Inspector Calls; as well as a summer on board a showboat doing melodrama, and another summer camping and acting in the New York Renaissance Faire. Film and Television Credits include: Like a Springsteen Song, Serial, The Replacements, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit. Emily graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in both Drama and Psychology and completed the 2 year Meisner program at the William Esper studio in 2003. She would like to thank trip. for all the good times. |
Zoquera Milburn
4PLAY (LA)
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| Zoquera Milburn is thrilled to be joining this ensemble in 4PLAY. After spending a few years in Chicago acting in film projects, theatre, as well as continuing to study acting and improv, she just recently moved to Los Angles and is excited for her first play on the West Coast! She also appeared in Into the Film’s debut production A Night at the Opera back in August. She is so excited for what’s to come in LA. |
Lesley Miller
trip. over sexy
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Lesley Miller is a graduate of Allentown College in Pennsylvania, and of Mountview Theatre Conservatory in London, England. She has recently appeared as Maggie in Boy’s Life at the American Theater of Actors. Other Stage work includes; Much Ado about Nothing (Beatrice), Red Cross (The Maid) and The NYC premiere of The Sacred Virgin (Bridget) and A Yellow Butterfly Called Sphinx (Student). Recent Television credits include Saturday Night Live. She will also be appearing in the upcoming film Spider-Man - 2.
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Mikel Miller
something about bubbles
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| Mikel Miller is an American actor, producer, and model. After moving from Virginia to Los Angeles, he started working very quickly in commercials and print. You may recognize him from some top Print Ad campaigns such as XBOX, Apple, Coca-Cola, and Verizon to name a few. Having appeared in shows such as Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Bosch, American Crime, The Mindy Project and The Wire. As a Producer, Mikel has Created, Developed and Produced several projects with varying budgets. Under his development agreement with Peter Guber's Mandalay Integrated Media Entertainment (MIME) in 2006, he created and developed sports branded entertainment and integrated media for major networks and studios. He has a Single Camera Comedy that is being considered by a Major Production Company. His Production Company Earthquake Entertainment is in a Co-Production Deal with Everlasting Entertainment for one of his Horror-Thriller films that will be shot in Puerto Rico. |
Martin Morrow
something about bubbles
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| Martin Mandela Morrow is originally from Birmingham, AL. A recent resident of Los Angeles, Martin is an alumnus of The Second City Mainstage in Chicago appearing in the 105th Mainstage revue "The Winner...Of Our Discontent" and a former ensemble cast member on the Second City Touring Company. He was also cast in Second City’s Game Night, AfroFuturism, and Second City’s Sunday, Bloody Mary Sunday and has performed in several shows with Second City as a part of their Outreach & Diversity ensemble in addition to being a part of the 2015 Second City/NBC Bob Curry Fellowship program, Second City PUMA scholarship recipient and graduate of The Conservatory. He also wrote and produced several videos for The Second City Network with former SNL star, Chris Redd. He has been featured on FOX’s Let’s Be Real, Adult Swim’s Tim and Eric’s Game Show, Amazon Prime’s Inside Jokes with Asif Ali, Collegehumor’s Hot Date, Comedy Central's Why? with Hannibal Buress, The Huffington Post, Hulu’s Coming to the Stage, WCIU's One Night Stand Up, Fox’s Laughs, Windy City Live, Esquire TV, the NFL Network, Audible, Freeform, a print ad for Skittles and the NFL, and the 9th season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He was named one of 2018’s Top Comedians of Diversity by Good Deed’s, the New City Stage Top 50 players of 2016 and one of the top up-and-coming comedians in the country by Splitsider in 2015. In 2020, Martin appeared in various ads for Jimmy Kimmel Live, T-Mobile, Freeform, and Progressive generating millions of views and shares. He also appeared in 2 2022 Super Bowl ads for Busch Light and Disney+ and most recently as the tax man in several H&R Block commercials. |
Soneela Nankani
4PLAY (NYC)
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Soneela Nankani is a 2007 graduate of Columbia University’s MFA Acting program. Her work at Columbia included training with Andrei Serban, Kristin Linklater and Anne Bogart. In addition to many independent and Columbia film credits, Soneela’s theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classic Stage Company), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Happy Days and The Cherry Orchard. Soneela is an Associate Artist with Sojourn Theatre. She has appeared in several Sojourn Theatre productions including Seven Great Loves and Passing Glances. In 2003, Soneela and Sojourn Theatre won five “Drammy” (Portland, OR Theatre) Awards including Best Ensemble and Production of the Year for Seven Great Loves.
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Nick Neglia
4PLAY (NYC)
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Nick attended an All-Boys/Catholic/Military School for six years, before moving to the city and graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama and a minor in English. Recent credits include roles in The Merchant of Venice, The Misanthrope, Dove For Sale and The Three Minute Hamlet. He will next be seen as featured in upcoming episodes of “Z-Rock”, “Chaos Theory”, “The City” and in productions from The Oasis Theatre Company. Much love and thank to his family and friends. |
Erin O'Brien
4PLAY (Chicago)
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Erin O’Brien is a Tulsa, OK native, a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and a proud trip. company member.
This will be her second full production with trip. since appearing in 4PLAY in 2014. She is very happy to be performing with these wonderful people again. Enjoy the ride! |
Kasey O'Brien
hope... (Chicago)
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Kasey O’Brien is a very proud member of the Chicago theater scene. She is an ensemble member at Abraham Werewolf and has been seen in their original works Decadence, One Night Only, and Your Move. She has also been seen in The Observatory (Viable Theatre Co), That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play (The Charnel House), and Theatre of Women 7 (Dream Theatre). Behind the scenes she has co-produced/co-wrote/directed Vonnegut’s Shorts and Sockhopapocalypse: a rockmusicalclownparody of Lord of the Flies with Times Three Theatre. She graduated with a BFA in Acting from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University where her favorite projects included Not About Nightingales and 3axbat: a Circus Project. She has hope... |
Colleen O'Neill
4PLAY (Chicago)
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Born and raised in Chicago, Colleen began her career as an actress at the age of eight. Colleen is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory. In addition to writing and producing shows for the Second City LA stage, she is also one of the founding members of the sketch comedy group The McGillicuddys and producer & founder of the all-female sketch show Slippery Handles. Colleen's current projects include work on two pilots, as well as producing the feature film Blind Faith. Her credits include TV, film, commercials, print and theater. Colleen does a bit of stand-up now and then. |
Cameron J. Oro
4PLAY (LA)
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| Cameron J. Oro is excited to be working with trip. Notable theater credits: 365 Days/365 Plays (The Public Theater, NYC), The Donkey Show and Paradise Lost (American Repertory Theater), The Accidental Patriot (The Stolen Chair Theatre Company - 2008 New York Innovative Theatre Award, Best Actor), and Oedipus (Antaeus Theatre Company - Affiliate Member), among others. MFA: ART/MXAT at Harvard; BFA: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. |
Aidan O'Shea
Sixteen
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Aidan grew up in the Circus, left High School to run away with the.....yes, really! He went to the New School’s M.F.A. program for acting, and now lives one block from Soda, runs a business teaching acrobatics for fitness for ALL ( www.acrobodics.com ) and acts. He is taking a one-man show to Edinburgh next Summer! See you there?. |
Michael A. Palmer
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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“If you reach for the sun you will reach the stars!” That has been Michael’s motto even before entering La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts and later graduating from the State University at Purchases College with a B.F.A. in theater arts. His recent theatre credits include The Hologram Theory with Joe Lee at the Blue Light Theatre, Dream on Monkey Mountain at the Denver Center and The Queen Bee’s Last Stand at The Blue Heron Arts Center where he originated the Role of Booker T. Buffer. His film credits include NBC’s Mentor and the Hip Hop Owls, As the World Turns and several MTV promo spots |
Scot Parish
Monologues (film)
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Scot Parish has put together an eclectic resume by appearing in a variety of independent films over the last few years. The highlight would be appearing in a Law and Order episode as a bartender at a local Irish pub, a role he was in training for, for over twenty-five years. He would like to thank his beautiful wife & daughter for their extreme patience and understanding. |
Mikel Parraga-Wills
something about bubbles
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| Mikel makes his home in Santa Monica. As an actor he has appeared in the films North Hollywood Love Story, Dead Dreamers & What He Saw. He has also worked as a Foley Mixer on such projects as Babylon, Dungeons And Dragons: Honour Among Thieves and Marvel’s Moon Knight. |
Julie Pearson
hope... (Chicago)
monkey pants
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| Julie is delighted to be a part of hope... and to have a chance to work with this great ensemble. She has studied improvisation at iO and the Annoyance Theaters, and currently performs long form improv at Studio Be with One Group Mind’s Juan Wants. Julie is also a founding member of Cor Res Theatre, where she has directed two devised plays: Gastrong! The Musical and Armageddon Pie. Julie has a BA in theatre from the University of Wisconsin, and is an ensemble member at Idle Muse Theatre Company. |
Christi Pedigo
4PLAY (LA)
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Christi Pedigo is an actor, filmmaker, mom, and wife - not always in that order! In NYC she received an OOBR (Off-Off Broadway Review) Award for her performance as Brooke Ashton in Noises Off (Gallery Players of Park Slope). She appeared Off-Broadway in Girls Town (Players Theatre) and Golden Ladder (Actors Playhouse). CA stage credits include: Ann in All My Sons (Stages Theatre), Josie in WTC View (Theatre Out), Hillary in Raised in Captivity (Stages Theatre). She had a lead role in the indie film Film School Confidential which won a Gold Award at WorldFest Houston. Christi recently formed She Did It Productions and has made three short films and two web series on YouTube and Amazon Prime Video. She recently finished filming a horror short written with and starring her daughter, Lily Ellen Alice. Christi also mentors children ages 5-18 giving seminars and teaching drama classes. She enjoys costume character work and can be found terrifying guests as Scary Mary or smiling sweetly as the Snow Maiden at the Queen Mary's Dark Harbor and Chill events. |
Molly Perch
Tripping
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Molly Perch returned to New York after graduating from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. There she appeared as Frosine in Moliere’s The Miser. She recently co-starred as The White Rabbit in Alice Underground, winner of "Best Short" in the 1999 New York Independent Film Festival. Molly has also studied at HB Studios with Carol Morely and Sanford Morris. |
Giverny Petitermet
hope...(NYC)
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New York credits include: The Crucible (Sink or Swim Rep), Jil Sanders: A Love Story (The Sprit of Pride), The Burning House (Studio Maya Workshop); Sacrificial Boogaloo (Mainspring Collective); Wake, Dispersal, Playboy of the Western World (Aisling Arts); Other credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Olney Theatre Center); Prelude to a Kiss, Trojan Women (BU); The Provoked Wife, Macbeth (LAMDA). Training: Boston University, BFA in acting; London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA), British American Drama Academy (BADA). |
Laura Piquado
Amalgams, Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Laura was born in Canada, and raised in Lebanon, Iran, Brazil, Indonesia, and Egypt. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, she has been in New York for almost 2 years, and is still trying to catch her breath. Recent theatre credits include Goneril in King Lear, Toinette in The Hypochondriac, and Luciana in Comedy of Errors (all with the Texas Shakespeare Festival), and Perdita in A Winter's Tale with the Hampton Shakespeare Festival. She is thrilled to hop onto this leg of the trip. Special thanks and love, as ever, to Mom & Dad and Derek. |
Cyra K. Polizzi
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
4PLAY (Chicago)
hope... (Chicago)
not a happening
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Cyra graduated from UW-Madison in Acting, Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies. Now Cyra works full-time in theatre and film, primarily as a stage actor. Performing with a variety of companies, Cyra has had the opportunity to originate roles in many new works. Previous roles in established works range from Wendla in Spring Awakening to Corie in Barefoot in the Park to Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show. |
Serena Pomerantz
hope... (Chicago)
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Previous Chicago credits include: Macbeth (Suitcase Shakespeare), Pirates of Penzance (Tall Ship Windy), Jersey Shore: The Musical (4 Days Late), Jack and the Beanstalk (Provision Theatre Co), and her solo cabaret Should I Be Sweet? at Davenport’s Piano Bar. Serena has a BFA in Musical Theater from the University of the Arts and also privately coaches monologues and songs (check out serenapomerantz.com for more information!). This performance is dedicated in loving memory to my friend and mentor Kevin Gray. |
Cynthia Posillico
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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| Cynthia Posillico is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has been acting in New York theatre for five years, most recently seen in the debut production of Clive Barker's The History of the Devil. She has also been in several national television commercials. |
Kirstin Racicot
4PLAY (LA)
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| Kirstin Racicot is delighted to join the trip. ensemble on its first adventure in Los Angeles! A California native, Kirstin grew up in Missouri where she earned her B.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Stephens College in Columbia, MO. Stephens College operates a summer-stock theatre program in northwest Iowa, where she has spent the past seven summers working at the Okoboji Summer Theatre as an actor on their main stage as well as directing children’s theatre, and simultaneously, serving as the Public Relations Director to the theatre. Her California credits include performing onstage at the renowned Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the L.A. Opera in Pagliacci, conducted by Placido Domingo and in Mozart’s classic The Abduction from the Seraglio. Kirstin has worked as an actor and assistant director with the Lakeside Players; a theatre group up in the mountains of beautiful Lake Arrowhead. She’s made TV/Film appearances in most recent projects such as on HBO mini-series Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Last fall, she worked as Assistant Director for Rogue Machine Theatre in L.A. on the world premiere play The Super Variety Match Bonus Round, Stage Raw Ovation Recommended. Kirstin would like to thank her family for their continued support on this crazy ride and letting her follow her passion of storytelling! |
K.C. Ramsey
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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| K.C. Ramsey has appeared in numerous stage productions including work with the Negro Ensemble Company, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and Urban Stages. He recently appeared in the N.Y. production of The Closer at the Pantheon Theater. His film credits include, Electing Jack Powell, Night Falls on Manhattan and A Day in Black & White starring Harold Perineau and Lonette Mckee. K.C. thanks anyone who supports him. They know who they are. |
Kelsey Risher
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
4PLAY (LA)
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Kelsey Risher is trip.'s managing director. She is an actress and singer from Birmingham, AL. She received a degree in Theater from Lander University in South Carolina where she performed at the Historic Abbeville Opera House. There, she received the George Settle's Newcomer Award for her portrayal of Meg in Crimes of the Heart. She then studied in Chicago for 5 years where she began her work with trip. in the Chicago premier of finding gräfenberg. Kelsey is excited to join trip. in this new capacity.
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Richard Rodriguez
Sex God's and Violent Happines
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| Richard is a graduate of the California State University College of Creative Arts where he studied the combined disciplines of Theatre & Music. Besides performing with trip., New York credits include; My name is Lyka at The HB Studio Theatre, Latin Lives at The Miranda Theatre, Unforgettable at The Actor’s Institute and the role of Larry in A Day with My Dead Husband atThe Soto Cutural Center. Richard also produces and performs with Flying Furr Improv. |
Mercedes Rohlfs
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
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| Mercedes Rohlfs has been an actor, movement director, and Feldenkrais pracitioner since graduating from Northwestern University some decreasing number of years ago. She has appeared in plays such as Golden Boy, The Crucible, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, A Bright Room Called Day, and Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished). Mercedes directed movement for such productions as The Crucible, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, No Exit, Trojan Women: a Love Story and The Last Daughter of Oedipus. She has taught Feldenkrais for actors at UIC, Columbia College, and the Steppenwolf Theatre summer acting intensive. As a "flirter" with life, there are so many good reasons she's now playing the dom in finding gräfenberg, she's just giddy. |
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Tony Rossi
hope... (Chicago)
monkey pants,
not a happening
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Tony is extremely grateful to be back with trip. Before moving to Chicago, he received his BA in theatre performance from Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts. He has worked with Eclipse Theatre, Waltzing Mechanics, and Factory Theatre, and has taken classes at both Second City and the Green Room Studio. Thanks to trip., as well as his Tango Sur North family for always being there.
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Lisa Roth • Associate Producer (NYC)
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Lisa has been a producer, performer, director and/or writer for off-off Broadway shows on stages throughout NYC since receiving her BFA in Theatre Arts from Texas Tech University in 1995. She served as Managing Director of trip. for many years, and co-wrote a number of trip. scripts. Lisa is currently writing a comedy series for Whirl Entertainment, along with developing a pilot based on true events involving a group of Beverly Hills billionaires. Other projects in development include a website featuring travel essays and the screenplay for a full length feature. During regular office hours, Lisa is also a Principal and Finance Manager at Pzena Investment Management, a value-oriented global investment advisory firm. |
Jessica Renee Russell
4PLAY (NYC)
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Jessica was born and raised in Fort Worth Texas, and moved to New York City in 2005 to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. After studying there, she made her entrance into the Dallas theater scene. Some of her credits there include: Picnic (Madge), The Sisters Rosensweig (Tess), Sleeping Beauty (Princess Briar Rose), and Vodka and Kisses. After spending a year back in Texas, she returned to NYC to continue her studies at William Esper Studio, where she is now a recent graduate. Some of her New York Stage credits include: Awesome 80’s Prom, The Rimers of Eldritch, Summer Brave, and 2550 Star Place. She is also a member of the Terrapin Troupe for Turtle Shell Productions. Some of her film credits include: Three Men and a Lady, The Un-Aimed Arrow, The Bastard Men of Root Flats, and over 15 short films for The School of Visual Arts. She is happy to be a part of 4PLAY and trip.! |
Charles Saliba
The Alice Project
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Charles has played many roles in regional theatre including Hamlet, Roderigo (in an award-winning production of Othello in Malaga, Spain) and the doctor in A Streetcar Named Desire at Columbia University. While studying liberal arts at Columbia, he made the jump from theatre to film. Having also been very involved in student politics at Columbia, Charles does seem to be following the career path of a famous actor/ex-President, but wants to make it clear that his politics are far from similar. |
Aaron Sandler
just one of those things
4PLAY (NYC)
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Aaron lived in San Diego, CA and Seattle, WA before moving to New York. He is thrilled to be working with trip. Credits include This Is Our Youth, Temptation,The Heat In Alphabet City, The Little Foxes, Black Comedy, and a theatrical adaptation of Dead Poets Society. He has also performed with the Boston-based sketch comedy group Chocolate Cake City. In addition to appearing in a handful of independent films, Aaron has worked behind the camera and in the editing room doing production sound and sound design for several short films currently screening on the festival circuit. He has a B.A. in Visual/Media Arts from Emerson College in Boston, MA. |
Rosa SanMarchi
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
4PLAY (Chicago)
monkey pants
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Rosa is delighted to be performing with trip. once again. She previously was in trip’s production of 4PlAY sex in a series at the Den Theatre. Rosa began her acting career in her hometown of Phoenix, AZ. She spent several years in Los Angeles where she acted in, directed, and produced numerous on-camera and theatrical projects. She is now happy to call Chicago home and to be a working actor in such a great city. She’s a member of SAG/AFTRA and is represented by Grossman & Jack Talent |
Becca Savoy
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
4PLAY (Chicago)
monkey pants
not a happening
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Becca is excited to work with trip. again after appearing in 4PLAY: sex in a series. She recently understudied the role of Lizzy in Northlight Theatre's production of The Commons of Pensacola. Becca has also appeared in Chicago Dramatist's Scene Shop Showcase, Greenhouse Theater Center's Trellis Reading Series, and play festivals with Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., The Fine Print Theatre, 20% Theatre, and Center on Halsted. She has a BA from Boston University and enjoys taking as many acting classes as possible in Chicago. |
Stephanie Faith Scott
just one of those things
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Stephanie is a founding member of collaborations, and performed as Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid during the 2004 summer reading series. Stephanie has performed in many off-off-Broadway productions and has played a wide variety of roles, including Wanda in The Baby Dance, Stephano the drunken butler in The Tempest, Lina the maid in Chekov's The Bear, Carrie in The Great Nebula in Orion, Sissy in Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the roles of the Wife and the Whore in The Good Doctor, and as Soot in The Marriage of Bette and Boo. She appeared in the short film, The Salesmen, and studied improv at The Second City Training Center in NY. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. |
Maggie Scrantom
hope... (Chicago)
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Maggie is thrilled to be working on this innovative and inspiring project. She graduated with honors from the University of Iowa in 2010 with a degree in Literature and Theatre, and she attended LAMDA for a Shakespeare Intensive Study. She has been blessed to perform with numerous companies throughout Chicago, including: Lifeline, St. Sebastian, Dramatist Personae, Chicago Fusion, Two Pence Shakespeare, and Shattered Globe. She is also a proud member of The Waltzing Mechanics, a documentary theater company, and recently appeared in their production Over My dead Body. All my love and thank you’s to Viv and Dragon. |
Joy Schiebel
Finding Gräfenberg 4PLAY (NYC)
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Joy recently played Miranda in Expanded Arts/Shakespeare in the Parking Lot's The Tempest. Regional credits range from classic comedy to contemporary drama: Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Three Tall Women, Biloxi Blues, Hedda Gabler, School for Scandal, Anton in Show Business, Hysteria, Dracula (twice), Frankenstein, and The Blue Room, in addition to Shakespeare's Juliet, Viola, Hero, Ladies Macbeth, Macduff and Percy, Perdita and Diana. M.F.A. Alabama Shakespeare Festival, B.A. Towson University. |
Alyssa Schroeter
4PLAY (NYC)
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Alyssa Schroeter has a Bachelor of Arts in Theater. She has studied with The Atlantic Theater and The Australian Institute of Dramatic Arts. Alyssa has most recently appeared as the cocker spaniel, Toby, and the hell hound in Hound, based on Sherlock Holmes Hound of the Baskerville. It has been a pleasure working on 4PLAY.
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Jean-Patrick Simeon
Finding Gräfenberg 4PLAY (NYC)
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Born in Port au Prince Haiti, Jean-Patrick has found his way to New York after a few brief stops in Paris and Ivory Coast. After studying with Mary Boyer at T. Schreiber Studios and James Villemarie he began performing in various theatre productions and independent films in the city. As always he would like to thank his mom. “...it’s been so long since last December…” |
Candy Simmons
Tripping
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Hailing from Mobile, Alabama, Candy holds a BA in Theatre from Florida State University. Since the debut of Tripping in November of 1999, she has been busy as a co-founder and actor with a new NY based actors' group, Southern Fried Productions, and can be seen in a commercial for the new Oxygen Network. Some of her favorite stage roles include: Jackie Coryton in Hayfever, Little Lanette in Last Days of the Dixie Girl Cafe, Griselda/Kit/Shona in Top Girls, and Allegra in Noon. Thanks to the family for all of their love and support. |
Sky Spiegel • Associate Producer (NYC)
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| Sky Spiegel recently finished an outdoor summer production of Godspell (Blunt Theatre Company) in the East Village. Other recent stage credits include: How To Train Your Man (Stage on Stage) at the Producers Club, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Canterbury Tales (New Vic Theatre of London, tour), Into the Woods (Barnard College Musical Theatre), and The Fantasticks (Columbia Method Actors Studio). Favorite film credits include: Carried Away (Columbia), Dopplegangers (Delson Productions) and Fontanelle (Chachi Senior). Special thanks to Mom, Dad and my beloved friends for their never ending support, love, and wisdom. |
Michele Stine
4PLAY (Chicago)
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| Michele is a recent graduate from Illinois State University where she received a B.S. in Acting and Political Science. Besides trip., she has also worked with Collaboration, Manhattan Repertory Theater and Illinois Shakespeare Festival. |
Tony St. Clair
finding gräfenberg (Chicago)
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Tony returned permanently to the Chicago stage from his Portland, Oregon home last year. Previously, he had collaborated with Steep, Awkward Pause, Collaboraction and other Chicago theaters, while also performing sketch comedy in the Chicago Sketch Fest with The Third Floor and Dark Eyed Strangers groups. He studied acting at the HB Studio in NYC with William Hickey, and at the Drama Studio of London at Berkeley, and was a touring stand-up comic for several years. You may have also seen him in commercials for Danner Boots, Suzuki motorcycles, and others. His favorite past theatre roles include Macbeth, Leslie in Seascape, and Oliver in As You Like It. He couldn't be happier working with such a talented cast and crew in trip." |
Kira Sternbach
4PLAY (NYC)
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Kira has been acting since the ripe age of four. She has studied theater at Cal State Long Beach and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NY, amongst other places. She was last seen at the 13th St. Rep doing a new piece by the lovely Neil Labute. She will be shooting five films in the upcomming summer months, and is terribly pleased to be a part of this innovative theatrical experience. |
Ben Sulzbach
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Ben is a recent arrival to NYC from Minnepolis. In the short time he has been here he has endured a variety of silly and suspicious jobs. He is very excited to be working as a stage manager with trip., who so far seem legitimate. Many thanks to McCready, manhattantheatresource and Ms. Brandi Berry for helping me steer this far. |
Christopher Sutherland
Tripping, Chepooka, Here's Something,
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Christopher studied acting with Carol Rosenfeld and Shakespeare with Uta Hagen. He has appeared regionally in The Diary Of Anne Frank, The Show Off and An Inspector Calls. In New York he has done voice-overs for Kideo Productions and Crosswalk Television, appeared in AIDA at the Metropolitan Opera and most recently in Judith’s Story at The American Theater of Actors. |
Kate Taney
Sixteen, hope...
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Kate Taney is blessed to be a part of another wild trip with trip. and its lucid Artistic Director, Graham Brown. Kate is in her first year at Pace University’s MFA program, the Actors Studio and finds her curiosity into the rooks and curves of her soul has been bountifully nourished by the thought and people who play there. Prior to moving back to New York in May, Kate lived on the silver streets of Hollywood. While in Los Angeles, Kate had the pleasure of working on several short films including the soon to be festival circuited ‘Viti’. Kate is grateful to be working with her childhood best friend and witchmate Kristine Lorefice, with whom she made her first three shorts: KiKi: A Childhood Dream, Three Digs and a Puss’ and the cult classic Cadillac City. Kate Hopes... for white light and dreams revealing themselves. |
Gino Tavernaro
Wrapped in America, The Alice Project
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Little is known of the artist called Gino. |
Daren Taylor
4PLAY (NYC)
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Daren Taylor, who is currently in the Odyssey at The Looking Glass Theatre, is a recent graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He has just returned from a year of teaching abroad in Japan and is very happy to return to the stage. Some of Daren’s favorite past roles include The Colored Museum, Our Lady of 121st Street, and his one-man show What a Man!. Although a young actor, he is still an accomplished one who has worked with many companies both here in New York and Washington D.C. He is very grateful for this opportunity to work with trip. and all of these talented actors. |
Chelsea Taylor
not a happening
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Chelsea is so excited to be working with trip. for her first Chicago production. She is originally from Seattle, WA where she co-founded the Young Americans’s Theatre Company and worked extensively with the Seattle Children’s Theatre. She moved to Chicago to attend Northwestern University, where she recently graduated. |
C.J. Tucker
Edward the Second
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New York credits include Fool For Love and cast member developing the Drama Department’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Regional credits include A Sense of Place, with playwright Lanford Wilson; Misalliance, The Cherry Orchard, American Buffalo, Beirut, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet and The Mystery of Irma Vepp. |
Aubrey Tunnell
finding gräfenberg (Chicago)
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| Aubrey is having a blast performing with trip. She moved to Chicago three years ago from Texas to pursue an acting career. Since moving to Chicago she appeared in Rough Cut Films feature film Dead Girls. Aubrey would like to thank her family and fellow Texans for all the crazy love and support. |
Kirstin Vahl
something about bubbles
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| Kristin has appeared in various films projects such as Glint, Cut, Cherry Crush, Sophomore, and Arrested Development. |
Robert Walters
4PLAY (LA) |
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| Robert Walters is thrilled to be a part of such an innovative and creatively ful lling production 4PLAY, sex in a series, a melding of actor and audience, will be a fantastic opportunity toengage the idea of involving patrons and artists in a creative space; something that Robert truly enjoys with every fiber and corny line in his body. He can currently be seen on the VetTV streaming service in A Grunt’s Life, The Let Down, and their upcoming untitled sketchseries. Past credits: Judas, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, LA Weekly Theater Award recipient |
Gregg Weiner
...blue jays, Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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Gregg attended the New World School of the Arts Conservatory in Miami. Since coming to New York to act, he has performed regionally with Hangar Theater in Twelfth Night, locally with Dionysus 2000 Theater Lab in Blues for Mister Charlie which performed at the National Black Theater in Harlem. Gregg is a founding member of Wreckio Ensemble Acting Company. Gregg has performed in sketch comedy at local stand-up clubs here in the city including Caroline's and Stand-Up New York.
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Laura Beth Wells
trip. over sexy
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Laura Beth Wells is thrilled to be working with trip.. A native of Tennessee, Laura Beth received her BA in Theatre from the University of Tennessee and her MFA in Acting from Kent State University. After a stint in San Francisco, she moved to New York last year. Favorite roles include JoJo in Jessie (Chelsea Playhouse), Cleo in The Mosy Happy Fella (Gallery Players), Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest (Calveras Repertory) and Billie in Born Yesterday (Theatre Central). When she's not acting, Laura Beth can be found roaming the city with bands of teenaged tourists-- she's a tour guide for high school groups coming to NYC. |
Nina Wheeler-Chalfin
trip. over sexy
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| Nina Wheeler-Chalfin, originally from Northampton Massachusetts, has enjoyed living in New York over the past few years performing in various plays and films. This summer she has acted in two films and worked on the production of a feature. She is thrilled to be on this trip.
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Phil Wilcox • Associate Producer
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Phil Wilcox appeared in New York productions of Fool for Love (Eddie), Nellie, Romeo and Juliet and Truth or Consequences. Regional appearances: Tecumseh! (Tecumseh); Florida Studio Theatre - Under 6; Commonweal Theatre - Dracula (Dracula), 1940's Radio Hour (Johnny Cantone), Miss Julie (Jean); Theatre West Virginia - Shenandoah! (Jacob), Hatfields & McCoys. Member of New Jersey Repertory Company. A graduate of Marshall University, principal roles include: Macbeth (Macbeth), Keely & Du (Walter) Lone Star (Roy), School for Wives (Arnolphe), Brigadoon (Tommy). He sang baritone with Intercollegiate Barbershop Quartet Champions (1993), Heritage Station, with tours in the United States, Canada and Ireland. A featured performer with the Big Apple Chorus, most recently seen in the HBO documentary, Telling Nicholas, he performed at Lincoln Center. |
Michelle Wilke
hope..(NYC)
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Michelle Wilke is thrilled to be a part of this amazing ensemble for Hope as one of her first projects in the city. Michelle graduated last May from Stephens College in Missouri and moved here a few months ago to pursue her passion for the arts. She thanks everyone for coming out and supporting all the wonderful things this group of people has to share and hopes you enjoy the show |
DanWilson
Enter the Dragon
Finding Gräfenberg (Chicago)
The Dragon Comes to LA
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Dan makes his first full-length trip. with the Chicago production of finding gräfenberg. Chicago credits include plays with First Folio, Shattered Globe, Akvavit, The Side Project, and many others here, as well as the Flea Theater, Dixon Place, and St. Luke's in NYC. B.A. in Theatre, Northwestern University. |
Roger Wyly
hope... (Chicago)
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Roger Wyly is a Campus Academic Leader in the content area of English language Arts for the Lubbock Independent School District. Singer/song-maker-upper. He is currently writing and recording a children's album with his college freshman daughter Jordan. He has been the Artistic director of Second Story Productions (an after school theater project for lower socio-economic children), Floor manager/stagehand for Showco Productions, Owner/operator of Twin Son scenery, Scenic Artist for Lubbock Summer Rep, Technical Director for the Texas Tech Lab Theater, Sunday School Teacher, Dad, and avid skateboarder/skier. |
Wilder Yari
4PLAY (LA)
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| Wilder Yari is an actor/writer/director/lizard person hailing from Brooklyn, New York. She graduated LaGuardia High School, studied Film Acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and snagged an EVVY for her role in Being Dana Darren in her freshman year of college. She has been written up in both Out and NPR’s All Songs Considered for her directorial work. 4PLAY is her first theatrical production in Los Angeles, since graduating Emerson College in 2017, and she couldn’t be more excited to work with trip. and its talented host of crazies. Much love to her family back home and her queer tribe here in LA |
Pamela Zimmerman
Chepooka, ...blue jays,
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC)
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New York credits include Cleveland (Bat Theatre Company), Cellophane (Mac Wellman Festival), Scream Creek (Pyramid Club), Sucking Face (NY Comedy Club), and The Return of the Chocolate-Smeared Woman with Karen Finley (Bat Theatre Company). She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Fine, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer,
Finding Gräfenberg (NYC), Wrapped in America
trip. over sexy, Amalgams
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Tom is a guitar player, music teacher, theatre director, sound designer, daddy and all around indentured servant (by choice). Though his current schedule is rather prohibitive, Tom does hope to return to work with trip. more frequently in the future.
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