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CAROLYN "SPACE" JACOBSON - (playwright,
actor) -
[Grinnell]
email: cjacobso@english.upenn.edu
web: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~cjacobso/home.html
DAVID JAMES - (actor) - [Los Angeles]
email: davidmarkey@earthlink.net
JOSHUA JAMES (née TODD J. PETERSON) -
(writer/director) - [New
York City]
M.F.A (Acting) '94
Joshua is a New York-based playwright, author of the plays The
Men's Room,
Running In Place, Old Dog, Tallboy Walkin', Thicker Than Water, The
Penis
Papers, SPOOGE - The Sex & Love Monologues, 2 Very Dangerous People
Sharing
1 Small Space Together, The Hot Naked Truth, The Beautiful One, The Elf
- The
Bunny & The Big Xmas Blow-up and Something Situation,
in addition
to many others. He also authored the original screenplays The Jones
Party,
PuppyDog Tales, Spinners and A Natural High. His plays have
been
produced across the United States, including Los Angeles, Chicago and
all over
New York City. In the spring of 2002 Joshua made his London debut when
his play The
Men's Room premiered at the Croydon Warehouse Theatre in the U.K.
Additionally, Joshua is the co-founder (with Ato Essandoh) of the
writing/performance group The Defiant Ones and co-author of the plays Close
Encounters, Eat My Shorts and Defiant Ones: Revolution.
Joshua is a
product of the University of Iowa MFA Acting program. In addition to
writing,
Joshua directs and consults throughout New York City.
email: joshuajames99@yahoo.com
MATTHEW JANES - (actor) - [Chicago]
email: MattJanes@cs.com
DONNA JANOSICK - [Los Angeles]
email: ZsaZsaMatic@yahoo.com
VAN JENKINS
email: vjenk@yahoo.com
B. MICHELLE JOHNSON - (playwright) -
[Cleveland]
I recently finished up 2 1/2 years in Cote d'Ivoire doing a number of
things as a Peace
Corps volunteer, including leading health trainings, collecting garbage
and being chased
by sacred masks. I wrote and directed for UNICEF what became a
summer smash in my
town of Dabakala called Les Trois Petits Moustiques.
Before that I was a
finalist in the Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival with a play
called Victorious
Evening, Now. I am still writing, still traveling and
even working for a
non-profit here in Cleveland. If anyone passes through, be sure
to get in touch with
me. It's a fantastic place.
email: mlemoko@hotmail.com
ERIC JOHNSON - (actor/accordionist) - [Los
Angeles]
Eric Johnson was living in Chicago since Oct. '95 until his recent move
to
California. Since then he's appeared in about
18 or 19 shows, including Scott Smith's Revenge of the Killer Fat
Girl at the old
European Rep space, Hidden Surprise Shows and P.Imps Show
with Brett Neveu's
Pup At Theatre, Strange Case: Jekyll & Hyde at Lifeline
Theatre, and The
Pitchfork Disney, Road to Nirvana, Audience, Some
Things You Need to
Know Before the World Ends, and Lebensraum (for which he
won a 2000 Joseph
Jefferson Citation - Actor in a Supporting Role) all at some other
theater whose name he
can't quite remember. He's also appeared in the now cancelled Cupid
on ABC, a
yet-to-run-but-any-day-now-please-God national Midas commercial, and
two or three indie
movies made around town. Comin' up: The Duel with European
Repertory, opening in
October 2000.
email: mises@earthlink.net
JENNIFER KERN JOHNSON - (actor) - [Chicago]
University of Iowa student (actor) from 1988 to 1994 (BA)
Living in Chicago since '94. Will appear in The Invention of Love
at Court Theater
in Sept. Is a company member of European Repertory Company where she
was last seen in Slavs!.
Other ERC productions, Ivanov, Scenes from an Execution, Agamemnon,
Stars in the Morning Sky, and Have You
Anything to Declare?. Most recent non-ERC credits include Medea
and The
Threepenny Opera for American Theater Company (formerly American
Blues), Real
Classy Affair for Shattered Globe Theater, and Hellcab for
Famous Door Theater.
Has guested on Early Edition (bad CBS show), and will appear in
the independent
features, Betaville and Stricken if they ever see the
light of day.
email: jenjkern@hotmail.com
MARK D. JOHNSON - (actor, director,
playwright, SBO) - [Czech
Republic]
University of Iowa student (actor) from 1986 to 1992 (BA) ... Currently
living in the
Czech Republic.
email: mdavjo@hotmail.com
KATY JONES - (actor) - Chicago
Student at the University of Iowa from 1999 to 2003 (BA)
email: Katrinaj17@aol.com
SEÁN JUDGE - (actor, sound designer, composer) -
[Houston]
Seán moved to
email: seanjudge1@gmail.com
web: http://go.to/seanjudge
SHEELA KANGAL - (playwright) - [New York]
Currently the Director of Information Systems at Theatre Communications
Group (TCG)
email:
shekan@earthlink.net
CHERYL L. KAPLAN - (director) - [Galveston]
[MFA '00]
Cheryl L. Kaplan is a
director, writer, actor and teaching artist currently living in Galveston,
Texas. She is the Director of Theatre Outreach and Education at the
University of Texas Medical Branch, where she uses theatre as a tool for
education about UTMB's ongoing research for the classroom, the university and
the community. Some of her most recent credits are Unparalleled, a play
about 5 different perspectives of one woman's struggle with breast cancer and
The Theatre Troupe, a play development lab geared
towards creating original
plays through improvisation about environmental health sciences for
grades K-12.
If anyone in the Texas area (or beyond) has ideas for collaboration,
please feel
free to contact her at her e-mail address below!
email: clkaplan@utmb.edu
CHRISTI KATHOL (actor) - [Omaha, NE]
[MFA '97]
kat1act@aol.com
GINA KAUFMANN - (director) - [Sacramento]
Gina has just joined the theatre department at California
State University, Sacramento as a director and acting teacher after two years in
the theatre department at The University of Louisville, where she directed a
cabaret version of The Threepenny Opera, as well as directing Machinal at The
Kentucky Canter for the Arts. In New York, she has directed for SoHo Rep, HOME
for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Wings Theatre, and Dixon Place. She has worked
extensively on new play development, including three years as a Guest Director
with Paula Vogel and the New Play Festival at Brown University, directing Hot
'N' Throbbing in collaboration with Ms. Vogel, directing The Wall of Water in collaboration with playwright Sherry Kramer, and serving
four years
as the Artistic Director of The Unusual Cabaret in Maine. This past
spring she
was the Director of the Frost Festival of New Plays at Dartmouth
College. She
has also directed and taught acting at The Williamstown Theatre
Festival and in
numerous regional venues, most recently directing a new play for
Buddies in Bad
Times Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Gina is a member of the Society of
Stage
Directors and Choreographers and she holds an MFA in Directing from The
University of Texas at Austin.
email:
gina@csus.edu
MATTIE KENNEDY - (actor, writer, singer) -
[New York]
email:
kennedym@nfl.com
BEN KERNAN - - [New York]
email:
choblo@aol.com
CHAD LARABEE - (Director) -
[New York]
Chad Larabee moved to New York after graduating from Florida State
University with an MFA in directing in 2006. Since then I directed the concert
version of the new musical, AIN'T WE GOT FUN, in London, which we are now
negotiating for productions in New York. I'm also exploring opportunities in
television direction, hopefully more to come soon. My emphasis has been on new
plays and musicals, thanks Iowa! More information at www.chadlarabee.com
.
email:
chad@chadlarabee.com
MANDI LEE - [New York]
Mandi lives in NYC and writes plays. She is looking for
partners in crime to
create art..... or something like it. No, this is not a personal
ad.
email:
mandialee@aol.com
MARK LOHMAN - (T.D., set / costume / lighting
design) -
[Chicago]
Resident Designer and Production Manager at the University of Chicago,
teaches
scenic and lighting design, stagecraft etc. Designs have also been seen
at
Writers Theater, Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, and Lifeline Theater.
Recent
shows include “A Dybbuk”, “Booth”, “Orson’s Shadow” and
“Jonathan Swift”.
email:
mlohman@midway.uchicago.edu
JACK LYNCH (nee JOHN LYNCH) - [London,
England]
[MFA '96] Since marrying in the fall of '96, Jack Lynch and Edie
Campbell, moved to
England and live SW of London near the town of Guildford, about 45
minutes by train into
London Waterloo station. It has been tough going finding work, but Jack
has been a guest
tutor in movement, movement improvisation, and acting at the Central
School of Speech and
Drama in London for the past two years and teaching there again this
autumn and spring. He
teaches mostly in what is called the Advanced Theatre Practice course,
which is about
collaboration and devising new works. It brings together student
performers, designers,
directors, writers, puppeteers to practice working together, often in
site specific
venues. He's getting more and more involved there, hoping that the door
continues to creek
open. Also, Jack has been guest tutor in movement at The Circus Space,
which was involved
in training the performers of the Millennium Dome opening on New Years
Day 2000. The
Circus Space has just created a two year diploma course and it looks as
though he is going
to return there as guest tutor. Keep your fingers crossed.
Jack is also
working with former students on small projects and doing acting
coaching as well with
students desiring to get into drama school. He has been also getting
requests to get
involved with other theatre artists to create new works and do
workshops. Many of these
are in the discussion/brainstorming phase but all is getting exciting
and looking
promising. Oh, and since moving to England, Jack has become licensed as
a massage
therapist.
Finally, Edie and Jack have just formed LynchPin
Productions. They have their first show opening in Dec in Guildford, which is
where Edie went to school years ago at the Guildford School of Acting. It will
be at the Mill Studio (we can't ever seem to get away from "the Mill" :-) and is
entitled My Life Has Stood, the journey
of a
portrayal. A newly devised work performed by Edie and directed by Jack,
it is a one-woman
show about an actress's attempt to create a one-woman show about Emily
Dickenson. It
delves into the creative process of writing and performing and the
dilemma of creating a
character, especially an historical persona... "when is a biographical
portrayal not
autobiographical." Wish us luck.
email:
jeleac@waitrose.com
SUSAN LYNSKEY
email:
DramaKids@aol.com
CAROL MacVEY - (director) - [Iowa City]
email:
cmacvey@avalon.net
KAOIME MALLOY - (costume designer) - [Green
Bay, WI]
[MFA 90] I've spent a lot of the past few years designing
costumes with Pip Gordon
at Grinnell College, where she is a tenured faculty member. After
spending three
years as an adjunct faculty member back at the old U of I, I landed a
full time Assistant
Professor job at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, where I just
finished my first
year. One of the highlights of my year was attending the
Costume Designers
Guild Awards Gala in Beverly Hills last March, where I got to schmooze
with my kind -
fellow costume designers - as well as Tim Curry, Hilary Swank, Warren
Beatty and Robert
Downey Jr. (wearing a pink blazer and white pants! What was his
stylist thinking?!)
Anyway, it was all very exciting! My freelance career is still
busy, so think of me
if you need a costume designer!
email:
malloyk@uwgb.edu
RUTH E. MARGRAFF - (Playwright/Librettist) -
[New York]
Ruth is a founding member of HERE
Arts
Center's "Opera Project" and composer Fred Ho's Big Red Media, Inc.
with which she has written VOICE OF THE DRAGON ..A MARTIAL ARTS BALLET
which
toured with Columbia Arts Management, Inc. Spring, 2003 to performing
arts
centers in 33 cities and a prequel to premiere at the Apollo Theater in
2004.
Her other work has been developed and produced by the Brooklyn Academy
of Music,
Cooper Union Grand Hall, Lincoln Center, Public, Hourglass Group/PS122,
Kitchen,
NYTW, Guggenheim Museum, JVC Jazz Festival, La Mama Galleria, New
Georges, GAle
GAtes Company, Mabou Mines, Dixon Place@Vineyard, Mac Wellman Festival,
Knitting
Factory, etc. (New York); Red Eye, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis);
Seattle Repertory (Seattle); Northeastern University (Boston);
University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (Alabama); Undermain (Dallas);
Salvage Vanguard, Yacov Sharir's Danceworks, Deborah Hay Dance Company,
Fronterafest, (Austin); Perishable Theater, AS220 (Providence);
Iowa Playwrights' Workshop (Iowa City); Bottom's Dream, Audrey
Skirball-Kenis, Overtone Industries (Los Angeles); Film Studio (New
Zealand); Aymakent/Istanbul (Turkey); 2001 Beogradski
Letnji
Festival/Countess Ljubice Museum (Belgrade, Serbia), Bijenale
Vizuelnih
Umetnosti/Ukrstanja 10th Biennial of Visual Arts (Pancevo,
Yugoslavia) 2002 Bolshoi Zal American Series and 2003 Novaja
International
New Drama Festival at the Moscow Art Theater (Moscow, Russia)
2003
Rembetika Music Conference/Melina Mercouri Hall (Isle of Hydra,
Greece),
Theater Nohgaku/National Noh Theater (Tokyo, Japan), etc. Ruth's work has been published in
American Theater, Theater Forum, Contemporary Theater Review, Theater Topics,
Theater in Crisis?, NuMuse Anthology, Epoch, Patterson Literary Review,
Conjunctions: 28, Autonomedia, Smith & Kraus, American Theater, and several
martial arts journals including Marcials Artes Y Algo Mas(Puerto Rico), etc. Ruth
has
received a Jerome Fellowship, McKnight Advancement Grant, two TCG/ITI
travel
grants (to Bosnia, Greece and Turkey), Bellagio
artist
residency (Italy), NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, NEA/TCG
Playwrighting Residency with HERE Arts, 2003 Arts International U.S. Fund for
Artists, and three Rockefeller Foundation commissions in new opera. Ruth has
taught playwriting at Brown and UT Austin/Michener Center for Writers and Yale
School of Drama and is a member of New Dramatists.
email:
Ruth.Margraff@yale.edu
SHERRI MARINA - (actor) - [Iowa City]
Currently, MFA acting candidate at UI.
email:
Divatox29@aol.com
DARLA MAX - (actor) - [Philadelphia]
Mark and I just celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary by
going to Stratford for 10 days! It was fabulous! Last year we
purchased an historic home built in 1742 in Philadelphia. It is a
beautiful stone colonial home. We rent a couple of small one bedroom apts
on the first floor and we live on the second and third floor. We also have
a theatre in our backyard. SERIOUSLY! The carriage house in the back
yard was turned into a small chamber theatre back in 1933. So currently I
am renovating (really...personally putting up stud walls and dry wall and
patching cement walls, etc) the theatre between acting/fight director gigs (just
finished playing Kate and directing the fights for a great production of Taming
of the Shrew) Mark helps out with the construction when he has time
between his full time job as Director of Theatre at Eastern College (suburban
college), running a childrens theatre summer camp and doing the occasional
professional directing gig. (Last year he directed the world premier of a
piece called Between Men and Cattle by Richard
Kalinoski) So
our goals are to continue to make theatre and educate new theatre
artists until we can
have a full time theatre company running out of our back yard.
Maybe in a couple of
years we will be able to start hiring all our chums to come out here
and join us for a
show or two. In the mean time if anyone is in Philly, come stay
for a while...we
have plenty of room!
email:
maxowl@aol.com
SHANNON MCCORMICK - (actor, director,
playwright) -
[Austin]
email:
mccormsl@argold.com
BOB McEWEN - - [Hindale, IL]
Still trying to integrate creative and income-producing pursuits, but
more often
than not they tend to alternate. Am working with Mark Bryan,
author of
“The Artist’s Way At Work,” on a wonderful methodology for driving
organizational change. Truly amazing to witness the
transformative power
of the exercises.
email:
mcewenr@comcast.net
ROB MCLEAN - (actor, combat choreographer, poster design/desktop publishing) - [Chicago]
TODD McNERNEY - (teacher,director, actor,
fight choreographer) -
[Charleston, SC]
Todd is still living
in South Carolina. Still teaching. Got tenure and became
Department Chair. Baseball has become an even more defining element in
Todd's life, and his sons play it a lot of it. If you are
interested you can check out the Department web-site -
http://www.cofc.edu/teatre/index.html
from there you can link to Todd's very out-of-date personal page.
email:
McNerneyT@cofc.edu
ELLEN MELAVER - (playwright) - [New York]
email:
Elmelaver@aol.com
LAURA MILLER - (actor, stage manager, LBO) -
[San Francisco]
University of Iowa student (actor) from 1986 to 1991 (BA)
email:
elmilr@aol.com
STEPHANIE MILLER-LAMB - (stage manager) -
[Berkeley, California]
MFA Stage Management '90
We've left the Bay Area and are back in the Midwest. I'm now Operations
Director
for the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in Madison. Just moved to a great
old
Victorian in Portage WI with spouse Pat and two cats. Very happy.
email:
steph@patandsteph.net
MICHAEL J. MIX - [Chicago]
I.A.T.S.E. Stagehand ( Local 690, Iowa City ), working in the
jurisdiction of Local 2
(Chicago). for the past two years. Most of this summer one could find
me working at Navy
Pier, mixing sound (yes, that would be mic mix) on one of the outdoor
stages or filling in
as head carpenter or head electrician at the Skyline Stage. Related
skills.....lighting
designer, scenic designer, tech director, production manager, props,
audio, also designs
and builds jewelry in tropical hardwoods and fine or sterling silver.
If you have a show
in a union house, call me for advice, tips, reassurance, possible
employment, tricks of
the trade...
email:
mjxdesign@aol.com
KAREN MOELLER - (actor) - [Madison,
Wisconsin]
Undergrad: 85-88
I live in
Madison, Wisconsin with my husband (Tony Trout) and two cats. Most of my time is
taken up doing
theatre, voiceover, and advertising work, though we bought our first house last
year and I've started to get into gardening. So far, I'm still
in the "is this a flower or is it a weed?" phase,
but I've planted a couple of things and they haven't died yet, so I feel like
progress is being made.
email: korkypanix@sbcglobal.net
MIKE MORAN - (playwright, director, actor) -
[Mt. Vernon, Iowa]
Mike Moran has nothing new to say. Except he's moved his family
(wife Karla, kids
Grace, Zak, and Luke) back to Iowa and has bought a lovely home in Mt.
Vernon just twenty
miles north of IC. He's taken a job at Kennedy High School in
Cedar Rapids teaching
Language Arts. Mike still tends to stay quiet in large groups and
get goofy as hell
in front of his students and his family. His work has been
produced in Chicago and
the chicagoland-area. Contact him if you'd like an original
monologue. He's
got scads on file and loves the challenge of writing for a specific
actor.
email:
mailto:ffwap@aol.com
web:
http://tsatyr.tripod.com/
JEN MOSES - (actor) - [Chicago]
University of Iowa student (actor) till 1992. Founding member, producer
and actor for
Hidden Theatre (Chicago) ... Currently is in orbit from Chicago to the
east coast to
Austin, continuing to write, had a piece of erotica published in july
in an anthology from
Alyson Publications, and has her second screenplay entered in the
Austin Heart of Film
Screenplay Competition.
email:
moses69@ibm.net