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COMPANY IMAGES & BIOS.
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Hannah --HANNAH CHODOS-- is an actor and a dancer born, raised, and currently living in Los Angeles.  She graduated from the L.A. County High School for the Arts with a theatre major in 2002, and from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Religion in 2006. She trained in ballet and modern dance under the instruction of Charles Edmondson, at the Colburn School for Performing Arts, and has practiced yoga for eight years. Hannah is a company member at The Actors’ Gang (Culver City, CA), where she trains in The Style (an evolved form of commedia dell’arte). She is also an intern and a student at A Noise Within (Glendale, CA), a classical repertory theatre. Her other affiliations include the Dartmouth Theatre Department (Hanover, NH), The Parish Players (Thetford, VT), and Open Gate Theatre (Pasadena, CA).


 

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--TEENY LAMOTHE-- Originally from Littleton, Colorado, Teeny holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Ithaca College where she has starred in 36 Views (Korogo), 4.48 Psychosis (Woman) and Twelfth Night (Maria). Her other credits include the recent Superhero Clubhouse workshop Uranus (Emily), The Pitchfork Disney (Hayley), Metamorphoses (Oread/Midas’ Daughter/Myrrha/Therapist), Waiting for Godot (Boy), Arby Productions’ Hedda Gabler (Mrs. Elvstaed), and Happy Days (Winnie) in Cooperstown, NY. Teeny is also a performer and founding member of the AcahtI Players improv. comedy troupe in Ithaca, NY.

 


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--*DAN LAWRENCE-- A graduate from Ithaca College’s B.F.A. Acting program, Dan has a strong classical background with training from the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre (NTI Moscow). His most recent credits include Sylvius in As You Like It with Queens Shakespeare Inc. and the Narrator from The Tell Tale Heart in Chamber Theatre Production's national tour of Encore!! Dan loves to create as a member of an ensemble. His last project took him to Venezuela for two months where he collaborated with other artists on researching, observing, writing, rehearsing and performing an original piece based on the country’s rich cultural heritage and volatile political climate. The show, Los Diablos, was performed in New York City at the Stellar Adler Studios in August of 2006. For more info visit: www.danlawrencelive.com.


Katie--KATIE MAGUIRE-- was born in DC and raised in Bethesda Maryland. She holds a BA in Drama from Ithaca College with a focus on directing. She is currently directing My Darkest Secret at the Kitchen Sink Theater. Recent performances include Sally Bowles in Cabaret, and puppeteer in Long Christmas Ride Home. She is a tenured board member of Wildwood Summer Theater in DC and has directed Grand Hotel as part of their summer season. She is a founding member of the "Superhero Clubhouse" and helped create the character of Chaos in Uranus. 

 

 


Mar--MARINA McCLURE-- is a director, producer, and collage artist from Texas who grew nomadically wandering across Europe. As a result, she is fascinated with art’s relationship to geography and nationality. She is the Artistic Director of a young ensemble theater company, Odyssey Productions which focuses on collective creation and produces work in non-traditional spaces in addition to theaters in Washington, DC and New York. She has directed numerous productions including Thom Pasculli’s And How Silly It Is… at the Source Theater and Kennedy Center’s Millenium Stage, The True Tragedy of the Mortician at the inaugural Capital Fringe Festival, The Delicate Business of Boy and Miss Girl at the New York International Fringe Festival and most recently a week of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days 365 Plays Festival. In 2004 she was awarded Dartmouth College’s Gurdin Award for “Best Director,” and she received a Waterhouse Grant for the production of Gao Xingjian’s Nocturnal Wanderer. This summer she will direct the world premiere of Hillary Miller’s The Hovering at the Capital Fringe Festival. Marina has a B.A. in Theater from Dartmouth College and trained at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.


Jer--*JEREMY PICKARD-- is an actor and director living in NYC. Jeremy has performed with New Mummers Group, Allentown Shakespeare in the Park, the Obie-award winning team of Lisa D'Amour and Katie Pearl, the Odin Teatret-inspired Street Theatre program, Kitchen Theatre Company, Ithaca Youth Bureau and Mental Health Association, The Underground alternative student theatre festival and several projects with Columbia University's MFA directing 
program. As a director, Jeremy is specifically interested in original, site-specific and physical theatre. His diverse credits include work for the Julliard School of Music, HERE Arts Center, chashama, Kitchen Theatre Company, Tin Can Fantasy Factory, The Underground, and Superhero Clubhouse, his newly formed company for which he recently directed a workshop of his original event, Uranus. Jeremy is a graduate of Ithaca College, Ithaca College London Centre and the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT. He continues to train extensively with Anne Bogart's SITI Company and is helping to develop East Coast Artists' unique Rasaboxes program. Currently, Jeremy is on the path to unite theatre 
with the emerging environmental awareness movement, envisioning a company that will produce work designed for, inspired by, or about the natural world. 


Thom--*THOM PASCULLI-- (playwright /actor) has spent the last few years working as an actor, writer, director and producer, concentrating on original works, often outdoors, featuring puppets. Thom has performed and studied internationally at the Odin Teatret in Denmark, the International School of Theatre Anthropology conference in Poland, and in Russia at the Moscow Art School and the St. Petersburg School of Puppetry. In the States, Thom created street performances with a group in New York and New Jersey, he designed and directed a two-month, intensive theatre training and performance program for high school students at the Colorado Festival of World Theatre, and he was most recently seen performing at 12 Miles West Theatre in Bloomfield, NJ, where he is also a company member.  Thom is currently living and training at Double Edge Theatre in Massachusetts where he will be producing and acting in his original play, Freedom! and the Sticky End of Make Believe.  Thom’s previous play, How Silly It Is, was directed by Marina McClure and was chosen to be included at in the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage “Page to Stage Festival.”  Thom is a graduate of the Eugene O’Neill Center’s National Theatre Institute and Dartmouth College, and he is happy to be a new company member of Odyssey Productions. 


Julia Rigs--JULIA RIGGS-- born in the US and raised in France, Julia has pursued an international education and career. Besides her studies in the U.S. at Beloit College, WI, and the O’Neill Center’s National Theatre Institute in CT, Julia has also worked with small independent companies in France. Drawing from her own experience as an actor, dancer, and stage director, Julia creates intimate worlds for other artists to create in with her talent in lighting design. Most recently, she worked on an adaptation of The Illiad with Sylvain Cebron de Lisle (a story teller from Brittany, France) titled, Ulysses, or the epic of the man who didn’t want to go. Julia is currently living in France and her future acting and directing projects include an adaptation of Paul Auster’s I Thought my Father was God, a collection of stories from the American life, as told by Americans.


Allsion Talis--Allison Talis--  is a director/collaborator living in New York City who loves to teach and to promote the development of new work. She is a dancer with Soho Dance Theatre and is currently directing workshops of the new play Karma Cookie by P. Seth Bauer. Allison teaches an intensive Meisner acting program for The School of Cinema and Performing Arts and also works with Working Playground where she teaches inner city youth to create and perform original pieces. Allison leads mind and body healing workshops for women who have been victims of violent crimes, with the JoyfulHeart Foundation, founded by actress Mariska Hargitay. She is co-founder of T.E.A.C.H.E.R.S International Project (T.I.P.) Ghana- West Africa. Allison has directed with numerous companies including: Bway; American Airlines Theatre (24 Hour Plays).Off-Bway: Signature Theatre, The Culture Project, Barrow Street Theatre, Partial Comfort Productions. Off-Off Bway: Manhattan Theatre Source, Vital Theatre, Boomerang Theatre, The Neighborhood Playhouse, The National Theatre for the Handicapped, Bristol Valley Theatre. Allison has also assistant directed at American Airlines Theatre (Bennett Miller), Dodger Stages (Andrew Frank), and Three Days of Rain, Mizlansky/ Zilinsky, Mother Courage and Detail of a Larger Work, all at The Steppenwolf Theatre. She directed a workshop of a new musical Serende by Tony-Award winner Rachel Sheinkin. She is a resident director at NYU First Look Theatre Company and a proud member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors’ Lab. Allison was a 2004 SSDC Traube Fellowship nominee.