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| Jim Fagan is a first year Directing MFA student at the Actors Studio Drama School, at Pace University, in Manhattan.
Prior to that, he worked as a freelance director in the Boston area, and the Artistic Associate at SpeakEasy Stage Company. He also taught for two years as the youth acting teacher at The Apollinaire Theater, and was a regular cast member of Improv Boston's Friday Night Face-Off.
Mr. Fagan has directed most notably for SpeakEasy Stage Company, Apollinaire, The Curtain Call Theatre, Babson College, and Boston College. He has also directed youth theater both at Apollinaire and at Magic Circle and Creative Arts, of Tufts University. In addition to directing, he has workshopped plays in Los Angeles and Boston, and founded The Merry Pranksters, a bar basement theater company devoted to the Ten Minute Play.
Mr. Fagan is a proud graduate of Boston College, 2007, where he studied theater, film, and English. In addition, he has attended the British American Dramatics Academy summer in Oxford. |
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| Kip Fagan is a director and sometimes playwright. Plays include MORT (a solo play about composer Morton Feldman created with poet Nico Vassilakis), Welcome to Kitty Hawk (a collage play about poets Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery and painter Grace Hartigan), Saddle Creek 1989, Chewing Gum Walking, and Fresh Water Plays. His plays have been produced at HERE Arts Center and Clubbed Thumb (New York), Printer's Devil (Seattle), and the Blue Barn (Omaha). His work as a director has been seen in NYC at Cherry Lane Theatre, SPF, HERE, The Flea, Clubbed Thumb, Partial Comfort, Dixon Place, Juilliard, and NYU, and around the country at Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hartford Stage, The Playwrights' Center, Empty Space Theatre, and Printer's Devil, which he co-founded. |
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| Joann Farias was a 2004 recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights at the Miracle Theatre, where she wrote The Road to XibalbA�, which was produced in 2006 thanks to a grant from the NEA. Her work has been read at Brava! For Women in the Arts in San Francisco, FringeACT Festival, A Contemporary Theatre/Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, and Richard Hugo House. Claudia Meets Fulano Colorado was workshopped at South Coast Repertory Theatre's Hispanic Project in 1997 and at Live Girls! Theater in 2005 and published in Latino Plays from South Coast Repertory: Hispanic Playwrights Project Anthology (2000). South Coast commissioned Tino Does Time, which won the Richard Hugo House New Play Competition in 2000 and was produced by Live Girls! Theater in 2003 and Miracle Theatre in 2004. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, was produced by South Coast Rep as part of California Scenarios. Las Tres Marias (co-authored with Marta Sanchez and Carmen Carrion) was produced by Mae West Fest and read at Bumbershoot and Miracle Theatre. Edward, CEO was read at FringeACT and is currently a musical (with composer Bernard Pack). The Seattle Opera Education Department commissioned and produced La Casa Verdi and Orpheus Sings of Love. Live Girls! Theatre produced the short plays Raula's Last Stand and El Corrido de Manny Cruz. Cornish College of the Arts commissioned and produced a translation of Moliere's George Dandin (with Chuck Hudson). Seattle's La Casa de Artes commissioned and produced El Corrido de Manny Cruz. Her radio work has been produced by Shoestring Radio Theatre, Jack Straw, New Waves Radio Theatre, and KUOW. Literary work has been published in The Amherst Review, The South Carolina Review, and Dialogue. |
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| Keythe Farley is the co-author (with Brian Flemming and Laurence O'Keefe) of Bat Boy: The Musical, which received the Lucille Lortel and Outer Critic's Circle Awards for Best Off-Broadway Musical.
He is also a co-author (with Eva Anderson and Tony Bollas) of the spaghetti western Stranger which Daily Variety raved "has the visceral kick and grungy, lived-in feel of a Sergio Leone classic."
His latest script is the indie-musical F**king Hipsters! Hipsters received a world premiere production at the 2011 New York Musical Theatre Festival. A Los Angeles production is in the works.
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| Jonathan Farmer is a writer, performer, director, and photographer. Currently, he is working with YA author David Levithan (Boy Meets Boy, Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, and Will Grayson, Will Grayson) on a photo-novel collaboration that is scheduled to be released by Random House in 2011. Mr. Farmer has been writing and directing new theatrical work for children since 2001. He received his BFA in Acting from Syracuse University. He is now working as an assistant teacher in a fourth grade class in Brooklyn, NY. |
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| Brian Feinstein is an award-winning composer based in New York City. He is the recipient of the Anna Sosenko Trust Award for musical theatre composing which followed his Off-Broadway show Mimi Le Duck starring the legendary Eartha Kitt.
Currently optioned by Broadway producers Olympus Theatricals, he is working on an original musical, Tina Girlstar.
He received a rave review in The New York Times for his score to Dial M For Murder, which premiered at the John Engeman Theatre in New York.
He recently scored the world-premiere play, Ever So Humble for the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca under the direction of Peter Flynn.
His family musical The Top Job, based on the popular children's book, was produced Off-Broadway by the Vital Theatre Company in NYC and has been licensed and published by Playscripts.
Also in development is the original musical Cassandra French's Finishing School for Boys based on the best-selling novel by Eric Garcia (Matchstick Men).
His song, "In A City That Doesn't Sleep," was a semi-finalist in the Simon Cowell endorsed UK Songwriting Competition.
While living in Los Angeles, he composed The Circus is Coming to Town, produced by Theatre West which enjoyed being awarded "Best Children's Musical" in Southern California.
The Boston Pops Orchestra performed "No Looking Back" on New Year's Eve with singing sensation, Kaitlyn Lusk, who released the song on her first album as the title track. The song, from the musical By The Numbers, was selected for the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop conducted by Stephen Schwartz and the TRU Producing Series.
Produced by the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, he composed the musical adaptation of Bertol Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle, and the theatre's touring version of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
He is the recipient of 6 ASCAP Plus Awards and a Jonathan Larson Memorial Fellowship. He is a member of the New Dramatists Composer/Librettist Studio, and is on the advisory board of the New York Theatre Barn. From 1999-2004 he was the Creative Director of Atlantic Theatre: the cast-recording theatrical division of Atlantic Records.
He earned his MFA from the NYU Tisch School of Musical Theatre Writing after a BA from the USC School of Cinema and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild, ASCAP, and the Tri-State Basset Hound Rescue League. |
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| Keith Ferguson is a writer, actor, worship leader and producer of multiple projects, both for worship, as well as the stage. It's a Wonderful Life - The Musical, written with collaborator Bruce Greer, has been produced in hundreds of theaters and churches throughout the United States and Canada since 2000. Ferguson & Greer have also written multiple musicals and songs for major publishing houses, including Hal Leonard, Word, Inc., Lifeway, and many others. Their musical HIDDEN, based on the Book of Esther, is currently in development with the Dallas Summer Musicals. As an actor, Mr. Ferguson has performed with the Dallas Theater Center Children's Theater, Theater Three, Lyric Stage and the Dallas Children's Theater. He is a proud member of Actors Equity. A Dallas native, he is a Distinguished Alumnus of Dallas Baptist University, and holds Masters degrees in Music from Southern Methodist University. He serves as the Associate Pastor for Music & Worship at First Baptist Church, Carrollton, Texas. |
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| Catherine Filloux is an award-winning playwright who has been writing about human rights and social justice for the past twenty years. Her plays have been produced in New York and around the world. They include: Dog and Wolf (59E59 Theaters, NYC, 2010), Killing the Boss (Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC, 2008); Lemkin's House (Rideau de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2007; McGinn-Cazale Theatre & 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC, 2006; Kamerni teatar 55, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2005); The Beauty Inside (New Georges, NYC and InterAct, Philadelphia, 2005); Eyes of the Heart (National Asian American Theatre Co., NYC, 2004); Silence of God (Contemporary American Theater Festival, WV, New Play Commission, 2002); Mary and Myra (CATF, 2000 and Todd Mountain Theater, NY, 2002); Arthur's War (commissioned by Theatreworks/USA, NYC, 2002); Photographs From S-21, a short play that has been produced throughout the world; Escuela del Mundo (commissioned by OSU, Columbus, toured 2006-2005). The Beauty Inside was translated into Arabic for a workshop at ISADAC in Morocco, 2004.
Ms. Filloux wrote the book and lyrics for Where Elephants Weep (Composer Him Sophy), a musical, which received its world premiere in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2008. She is the librettist for The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown (Composer Jason Kao Hwang), selected as a Critics Choice in Opera News, 2005; CD released by New World Records; premiere at Asia Society.
Awards include: New Generations-Future Collaborations Award (Mellon Foundation/TCG), PeaceWriting Award (Omni Center for Peace), Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill), Callaway Award (New Dramatists), Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia & Morocco), William Inge Center for the Arts Playwright-In-Residence, Thurber Playwright-In-Residence, Asian Cultural Council Grant, Winner Nausicaa Franco-American Play Contest, Rockefeller MAP Fund (for Southern Rep and Floating Box), 5-time Heideman Award Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Juror for 2004 MES International Theater Festival, Sarajevo, Core Writer of The Playwrights' Center, and New Dramatists alumna. Oral History Project: A Circle of Grace with Cambodian Women's Group, Bronx, New York. French-English Translation: Ubu Rep, NYC, and various periodicals. Eyes of the Heart was developed for Lifetime TV.
Ms. Filloux's plays are published by Playscripts, Smith & Kraus, Vintage and Prentice Hall. Her recent anthology Silence of God and Other Plays is published by Seagull Books, London Limited. Her articles have appeared in such periodicals as American Theatre, Manoa, and The Drama Review. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and her French Baccalaureate with Honors in Toulon, France. Ms. Filloux is a co-founder of Theatre Without Borders and has served as a speaker for playwriting and human rights organizations around the world. http://www.catherinefilloux.com. |
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| Adam J. Fisch writes short stories, plays, screenplays, and poetry; A House of Cards was his first full-length play. Most recently, he wrote a play entitled Sunflower and Blue, which premiered in Bloomington, Indiana at the John Waldron Arts Center and was performed in Indianapolis, Indiana at Theater on the Square. |
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| Joseph Fisher is a native of Texas who now lives in Portland, Oregon. He is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he received his BFA in Playwriting. Mr. Fisher recently finished his fourth and final year as playwright-in-residence at Stark Raving Theatre, which produced world premieres of his plays Prometheus Bound, Tundra, Cupid & Psyche, and Faust. Us. In February of 2004, his play In the Canopy of the Forest appeared at the Australian National Playwright's Conference in Adelaide, Australia; in May, he received a production of his play The New House at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland and Thunderbird at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. Mr. Fisher's plays have also appeared at Kitchen Dog Theater, Portland Center Stage, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He is a recipient of the Playwrights First Award, the Charlotte Woolard Award, and a 2002 grant from the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays, and has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2002. |
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| James FitzGerald. As a Chicago-based actor, Mr. FitzGerald has earned two Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best Supporting Actor, a Jeff Citation for Best Actor, and has appeared for 16 seasons with Chicago Shakespeare Theater as well as many other theaters in the Chicagoland area. Mr. FitzGerald is also co-author of ...Two for the Show..., a rollicking musical vaudeville and winner of the 2006 After Dark Award for Best New Work. He is currently working on a new play; Flatfoots. |
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| Katy Fitzpatrick, a native of Spokane, Washington, began acting in local children's theatre productions at age ten and hasn't left the theatre since. She has participated in all aspects of production at the Spokane Civic Theatre for the last eight years, including playing the role of Agnes opposite Academy Award-winner Patty Duke in Gypsy. Her play Only the Library got its start at the Civic as well, winning the Youth Division Award and tying for the Audience Choice Award in the 2003 Playwright's Forum Festival. The play also took Ms. Fitzpatrick to Lincoln, Nebraska as one of five students whose original works were presented at the 2003 International Thespian Society's annual festival. She looks forward to exercising her right to vote for the first time and heading off to college. |
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| Liz Flahive is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Department of Dramatic Writing. Her first play, From Up Here (Manhattan Theater Club in association with Ars Nova) was nominated for both Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Play and won the John Gassner Award for Playwriting. Her plays have been produced and developed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Naked Angels, Manhattan Theater Club and Ars Nova. She is currently working on commissions from Manhattan Theater Club and The Keen Company. Ms. Flahive also volunteers with the 52nd Street Project, an organization that creates original theater with inner city kids. She is a founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group and is currently writing for the Showtime original series, Nurse Jackie. |
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| Stephanie Fleischmann is a playwright and librettist/lyricist whose texts serve as blueprints for intricate three-dimensional sonic and visual worlds. Works for theater include: Red Fly/Blue Bottle with music by Christina Campanella (Latitude 14: HERE Arts Center; Noorderzon Festival, NL; EMPAC), Tinder (Exit Festival, Creteil, France), The Secret Lives of Coats (Playlabs, Whitman College), Tally Ho (Synchronicity), The Street of Useful Things (Act II), What the Moon Saw (Son of Semele; Interart), The World Speed Carnival (Soho Rep SummerCamp), The Wonder Seeker (Empty Space, Seattle), and 50 song lyrics and dramaturgy for The Greeks Parts 2 and 3 and The Americans at Juilliard, with director Brian Mertes. Her work has been produced and developed at venues across the U.S. and beyond.
Grants and awards include: NEA Opera/Music-Theater grant for Far Sea Pharisee (music by Miki Navazio), 2 NYFA Fellowships, the Whitfield Cook Award for Eloise & Ray, the Frederic Loewe Award for The Hotel Carter (music by Jenny Giering), the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust. For Red Fly/Blue Bottle she received a NYSCA Individual Artist Theater Commission. The project also received funding from the New York State Music Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Tobin Foundation, among others. Residencies include: MacDowell, HARP, Hedgebrook, Mabou Mines/Suite, Digital Performance Institute, Chashama, and the Chocolate Factory. She is an alumna of both New Dramatists and the Core Writer program at the Playwrights Center.
Ms. Fleischmann was Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at Sewanee, University of the South, and teaches at Skidmore College. MFA: Brooklyn College (studied with Mac Wellman). New Georges affiliated artist and a founding member of Latitude 14 (http://www.latitude14.org). |
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| Christopher Fleitas was born at March Air Force Base, California, on March 3, 1988. At the age of 4 he moved with his family to Palm Bay, Florida where he received his public school education. He was diagnosed with a slow learning disability and his English teachers passed him along saying "You'll never comprehend the English language." Taking this as a challenge Chris started to write short stories and eventually plays.
Years later his writings got the attention of his high school Drama teacher and his parents who encouraged him to start sending to these plays to contests and theaters to be performed. In 2006 he won runner up to The VSA National playwright contest for his play Robin Red. Later that year two of his plays were produced by community theaters. He graduated from Bayside High School in 2006 with honors in the fine arts.
Mr. Fleitas graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a
Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy. |
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| Renee Flemings has been a writer/rider on several of theAtrainplays at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Other plays: The Jam, Strange Weather (a 2004 Eugene O'Neill Conference Finalist), Beat, Ragtime Galz, Bel Canto, War of the Worldz at Metropolitan Playhouse, Legend, Fever, Scars, 24 Carats with The Drilling Company, Kiwi Dreams & Other Erotic Fantasies, Monsters, Curious Child, Brussel Sprouts, The Bible Belt, and 2nd Hand Smoke (a reading) with Spotlight On Productions. Other productions include Daddy's Home at Henry St. Settlement. She is the writer/performer of four one-woman shows: The Bible Belt, ...secrets..., bytes, and Passing Habits at PSNBC, HERE, Spotlight On Productions, New Georges, The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The National Black Theatre Festival, and The Women's International Theatre Festival (Philadelphia). |
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| Matt Flick is an Austin based writer working toward his MFA in creative writing at Texas State University. Mr. Flick started the theater program at St. Theresa Middle School in Austin seven years ago, and he's been teaching theater and dance at the school ever since. In the past three years, he has written and directed ten one-act plays. |
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| Monica Flory's plays for young people and adults have been produced and developed with Threads Productions, Poly Prep Country Day School, Theatre-Studio Inc., Emerging Artists Theater, Manhattan Comedy Collective, University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Southern Oregon, and Youth Theatre Northwest in Seattle. Her full-length plays include Afterlight, Last Summer, Once Upon A Pandora's Box, The Jungle Book and Wild Thing. Her short comedy Third Wheel was published in 2007: The Best 10-Minute Plays by Smith and Kraus, and Last Summer is published by Brooklyn Publishers. A member of the Dramatists Guild, she lives in Philadelphia with her husband Jason and daughter Kya. |
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| Rosalind Flynn is an educational drama consultant who conducts arts integration workshops and residencies with teachers, artists, and students nationwide. She has been a theater educator and director with elementary, middle, high school, and college students. At The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, Dr. Flynn heads up the Master of Arts in Theatre Education degree program. Her Ph.D. research focus was the use of drama as a learning method. Dr. Flynn's articles on educational drama have been published in Language Arts, Dramatics, Youth Theatre Journal, Stage of the Art,
English Journal, Teaching Artist Journal, and The Reading Teacher. She is the co-author of A Dramatic Approach to Reading Comprehension, and the author of Dramatizing the Content With Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre, Grades 6-12. |
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