| ADINA TAUBMAN (Playwright/Actress) most recently performed a new version of her play, A Line in the Sand, about the Columbine High School shootings, in a workshop at Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City, CA. She has performed earlier versions of the play at both the New York International Fringe Festival (2001) and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (2003). For her first play, Tell Me About Adina, based on the life of her grandmother after whom she was named, she was nominated for a Bay Area Theater Critics Circle award for Best Solo Performance. Adina toured with TheatreWorksUSA playing the role of Aunt Willie in Summer of the Swans. She is a co-founder of Atolas Theatre Company in New York City. For their inaugural production, Little Egypt, she played the role of Bernadette. Adina's other New York credits include: Mary in The Blow Up, part of the Estrogenius 2002 Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source, and various roles at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, and The Gallery Players. She received her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. |  |
Padraic Lillis (director) This Season: UMBRELLA for Alchemy Theater and SWEET STORM for Labyrinth Theater Company. Recently: THE DIRTY TALK for Spare Change Productions (nominated for New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Director) RECREATING KEITER for Bridge Club Productions, which he also wrote additional material. He also directed A LINE IN THE SAND at Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City, CA. His play TWO THIRDS HOME was produced at Broken Watch Theater in New York, and his ten-minute play, RONNIE'S MASK, was produced in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Performance Garage as part of Collaboraction's Sketchbook 7. Padraic teaches with NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, is a Usual Suspect with New York Theater Workshop, an alumnus of the Drama League Director's Project, a company member of the LAByrinth Theater, and a lifelong Yankee fan. |
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Sarah Sidman (Lighting Designer) Regional: Glengarry Glen Ross (Dallas Theater Center); One Mo’ Time (CrossRoads Theater Company). Off Broadway: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train,All the Bad Things, A Fairytale Project and In Arabia We'd All be Kings (LAByrinth Theater Company); Where's My Money? (Manhattan Theater Club); Will Power’s Flow (NYTW); Pablo Cabrera’s Quién Mató a Héctor Lavoe?; Inky , Cataract ,The Antigone Project, and Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen (Women’s Project). Touring credits include: Pig Iron Theater Company’s Hell Meets Henry Halfway; Big Apple Circus (1997-2000); Hip Hop Theater Festival (2000-present); The Road Home: Stories of Children of War (River Arts Repertory). Opera: Aida, Rigoletto, and The Barber of Seville (Teatro Nacional, Santo Domingo). 2006-2007 Clifton Fellowship at Harvard University. Also with Padraic Lillis, Umbrella (Alchemy Theater) and Michael Puzzo’s The Dirty Talk. For more information: sarahsidman.com |
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Lea Umberger (Set/Costume Designer) Lea is happy to add this production to the list of design work with Padraic Lillis. Other collaborations- Umbrella (Alchemy Theater), Savage in Limbo (Sheperds. at 78th Street Theater Lab), The Dirty Talk (Center Stage and NYC Fringe 2005), Recreating Keiter (Manhattan Theater Source), Foul Stench of Death (NYC), and Taming of the Shrew (Summer Rep, New Paltz, NY). Other design credits include Richard 3 (costumes-Judith Shakespeare), The Rape of Lucrece (set and costume- Washington Shakespeare Company) and The Laramie Project (set and costume-Pittsburgh Public Theater). She has also production designed more than 15 short films. MFA in Design from NYU, 2003. To see more of her work please visit Leaumbergerdesigns.com |
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Elizabeth Rhodes (Sound Designer) New York credits include the world premiere of Steve Martin's adaptation of THE UNDERPANTS, the premieres of John Patrick Shanley's DIRTY STORY and SAILOR SONG. LAByrinth credits include Stephen Belber's A SMALL MELODRAMATIC STORY, Robert Glaudini's DUTCH HEART OF MAN and Erin Cressida Wilson's TRAIL OF HER INNER THIGH. Other New York credits include THE WINTER'S TALE with dir. Barry Edelstein (Classic Stage Company), TRIAL BY WATER (Ma-Yi), THE WOMAN BEFORE with dir. Daniel Fish, LITTLE WILLY and HAMLET with dir. John Gould Rubin, BECOMING ADELE (Theater Row), A SOLDIER'S WIFE (The Mint), Deb Margolin's 3 SECONDS IN THE KEY (New Georges), MAUD THE MADNESS (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble), AJAX 100% FUN (Lightbox). Regionally she designed Lee Blessing's WINNING STREAK at George Street Playhouse, STONES IN HIS POCKETS at the Alley Theatre in Houston. |