Company Members
Resident Artist - Portia Krieger
Portia Krieger is currently collaborating with Lucy Alibar on her play Marietta Christmas Spectacular (EST), and with actor Amir Levi on his solo show, Te Busco. In February, she collaborated with Slant Theatre Project to conceive Playground Rules, an evening of short plays about childhood secrets. Recent directing includes The Parting Glass (Origin/59E59), The Lover and Sam Forman's Please Stop Talking (Williamstown), Forman's The Brother Sister Thing (Slant), Tommy Smith's Sunrise, On the Verge, Clinically Negative, Welcome to the Moon, Look Back in Anger, and Vern Thiessen's The Flud. Favorite assistant directing: Saturn Returns (Lincoln Center Theater), Three Sisters (Williamstown), Port Authority (Atlantic), and Pumpgirl (MTC). Ms. Krieger is a member of the Drama League Assistant Directors Project and the 2009 Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and is a Smith college alum.
Performance Company
Alex Brown For Examined Man: When In Disgrace, Spaceship to Venus, Workshop of The Empty Vessel. Theater: Othello (Old Vic New Voices), Julius Caesar (Hangar Lab Company), Pinocchio (Hangar Lab Company), Moonchildren (Callan Studio Theatre), Film: Friends with Benefits (What were we thinking films), Fort Stanwix (Northern Light Productions) Awards: Kennedy Center ACTF Region 1 Second Alternate, Irene Ryan Nominee (2003 & 2005)
Dan Cullen For Examined Man: When In Disgrace, Workshops of The Secret Keeper and The Light Inside. Previous credits include Sir Harry - Once Upon a Mattress, Tom — No No Nanette, Lucky—Waiting for Godot, Romeo etc — Shakespeare's R and J, Curly — Oklahoma, Keith — Betty's Summer Vacation, and Brian — Rennaisance. He holds a BA and a BM from James Madison University.
Chelsey Donn For Examined Man: When In Disgrace, Workshops of The Secret Keeper, The Light Inside, The Poison Project and The Empty Vessel. New York Theater: Demon (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Kind Ness (Linhart Theater), Laundry and Bourbon (Lee Strasberg Theater) Regional Theater: Williamstown Theatre Festival--The Corn is Green (Directed by Nicholas Martin) and Mommy Says I’m Pretty on the Inside. Walnut Street Theatre--David and Lisa Training: BFA from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Lee Strasberg Institute, Stonestreet Studios, and Upright Citizens Brigade. www.chelseydonn.com
Danelle Eliav For Examined Man: When In Disgrace. Theater: Goodnight, Sister (Dir. James Lapine) & Speaking of Tushy (Dir. Israel Horovitz) -NY Playwrights Lab, Cherry Lane; Beirut Rocks (Dir. Horovitz); Burning Cities (NY Fringe); Romeo and Juliet & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Allentown Shakespeare); Mothergun (MITF); Cymbeline (RADA). Readings/Workshops: LAByrinth at Public, RedBull, Atlantic & Classic Stage Company. Film: And the Winner Is (Winner Picturestart), Have a Nice Day (Winner TIDFF). Training: Neighborhood Playhouse, RADA. Actor-Member, NY Playwrights Lab.
Evan Enderle Theater: Princes of Waco (E.S.T.), Bingo with the Indians (Flea Theatre/Adam Rapp, Director), Anything Goes (Williamstown Festival/Roger Rees, Director), The Gamester (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), and Tell Sad Stories (Williamstown Festival Workshop); Film & Television: The Human Footprint (National Geographic Channel), Across the Universe (Julie Taymor, Director), The Good Shepherd (Robert DeNiro , Director), As the World Turns (CBS). BFA from Webster University, St. Louis, MO.
Max Forman Mullin Bio Forthcoming.
Billy Griffin Examined Man: Spaceship to Venus, Workshops of When In Disgrace, The Empty Vessel, The Secret Keeper and The Light Inside. Theater: In Fields Where They Lay, Othello (Old Vic New Voices), Two Gentleman of Verona (Lake George Theatre Lab), Henry VI, Part One (American Theatre of Actors), Twelfth Night (NY Neo-Classical Theater Ensemble), The Life of Galileo (The Skirball Center), Suburbia (Colloquial Theater Company); Film: Hard Dealings (NYU Student Film), Shake Hands with the Twilight (Purchase Student Film). BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Daliya Karnovsky Examined Man: Workshops of When In Disgrace, The Poison Project and The Empty Vessel. New York: A Weekend at the Jersey Shore, Pericles, Midsummer Night's Dream (NY Neo-classical), Twelfth Night (The Wild Project), Goodnight Moon (Manhattan Children’s Theatre); National Tour: Encore! (Chamber Theatre Productions); Chicago: Mefistofeles (Lyric Opera of Chicago), American Voices (Piven Theatre Workshop). BFA from NYU Tisch School of Arts. MFA from the New School (2012)
Vella Lovell Examined Man: Workshops of The Secret Keeper and The Light Inside. New York: The Bacchae (The Public) La Boheme (Spoken), The Great Recession, Kaspar House (The Flea), Andromache ( Full of Noises), Political Subversities (Joe's Pub), Ways to Survive the World (Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop). Training: BFA at NYU, Tisch School of the Arts. Experimental Theatre Wing and The Classical Studio.
Lauren Murphy Examined Man: Workshops of When In Disgrace, The Empty Vessel, The Secret Keeper and The Light Inside. New York: Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night (The Young Company at CSC), Semester (Manhattan Repertory Theater), Beautiful Noises (Gene Frankel Theater); Opera: The Tempest (Folkwang International Shakespeare Festival, Germany), Big Love (Setkani Encounter Festival, Czech Republic), Werther (New Repertory Theater, Boston), Don Giovanni (Alumnae Hall, Boston). MFA from Columbia University, B.A. from Tufts University
Lauryn Fay Sullivan Examined Man: When In Disgrace, Workshop of The Empty Vessel. Theatre: Twelfth Night (L. Howard Fox Theatre), Parade (NJ Premiere, Alexander Kasser Theatre), Regional: Thoroughly Modern Millie, Carousel (Forestburgh Playhouse), Film: Almost Lover (NYU), A Good Night’s Sleep (SVA), National Anthem soloist: Bally’s, Caesar’s (Atlantic City), Oneonta Tigers, Training: Hartwick College Music Institute, BFA from Montclair State University
Tobias Squier-Roper Examined Man: When In Disgrace. New York: The Poison Project (Workshop), Peter and the Starcatchers (Workshop, Disney Theatrical). NYU: All’s Well that Ends Well (Bertram), Richard III (Richard), Taming of the Shrew (Bianca/Grumio). Training: NYU Tisch, Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Patrick Vaill Examined Man: When In Disgrace, The Poison Project, The Empty Vessel. Currently an acting apprentice at the Shakespeare Theatre, DC. Theater includes: Edward the Second (Red Bull Theater), Jud in Oklahoma! directed by Daniel Fish, Birthtaint, Exit Pursued by Bears (The Brick), James V (Metric System), A Month in the Café (Theater For the New City), Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir (NY Fringe & Fringe Encores); Workshops and Readings include Dionysus in The Bacchae (The Public Theater, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis), Don’t Fuck With Love (Red Bull), and Prayer of the Expelled (Ohio). Training: Bard College & The Actors Center.
Technical Company
Cesar Alvarez (Sound) is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, composer, and sound artist. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, received a B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory and an MFA from Bard College in Music/Sound. He's been performing with his band The Lisps for three years. In 2008 he debuted his sci-fi indie rock musical called FUTURITY at the Zipper Factory (RIP), and is developing it towards an off-Broadway run. www.musicisfreenow.org
Gwyneth Arnold-Starr (Assistant Stage Manager) For Examined Man: When In Disgrace. A graduate of Hampshire College, she majored in theatre and dance. Past productions include Area Of Rescue at Andhow! Theatre.
Grady Barker (Scenic Designer) Bio forthcoming.
Rebecca Bernstein (Costumes) For Examined Man: When In Disgrace. Recent credits include: Anna Christie (Metropolitan Playhouse); Ward 9 (NYMF); Hoodoo Love, Dutchman, Bhutan, Huck and Holden, Mentor Projects 2005-08 (The Cherry Lane Theatre); The Rise of Dorothy Hale (The Theatre at St. Luke’s); Bhutan (NYS&F); Welcome to my Garden/Air (The Neta Dance Company); Savages (Back House Prod.); See Rock City (The Miniature Theatre of Chester); Miss Julie (A-BC Productions); Twenty Fingers, Twenty Toes! (York Theater), Honor and the River (SPF); The Brothers Karamazov (LaMama, ETC.); The Very Hungry Caterpillar (American Repertory Ballet).
Scott Needham (Lighting) For Examined Man: When In Disgrace, The Light Inside. Most recent lighting designs include Saint Hollywood at the Ideal Glass Factory, the Rodney Graham Band at Henry Street Settlement, Oliver!, Mid-Summer’s Night Dream and Children’s Hour at The Chapin School, Voice 4 Vision’s Puppet Festival, and Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at Shetler Studios and the International WOW Company’s production of Surrender and You Belong to Me. MFA, University of Iowa.
Jenny Beth Snyder (Director/Choreographer): For Examined Man: Workshops of The Secret Keeper and The Light Inside. Graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama. Directing: Let us go out into the Starry Night, Witness, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Wednesdays, A New Asylum. AD Credits: Terrible Things, The Gospel According to Adam. Choreographer: Ten Thousand Ways, YesPlay. Lighting: Peter, A Class Act, For Flow, Behold the Bowery, and The Forgetting of Things.
John Sundling (Scenic) A graduate of DePaul University, John has been living and working in New York for almost three years. Recent set design credits include Iphegenia and Other Daughters and Proof for Umbrella Hat Productions, Greek! for Chicago Opera Vanguard, Peter Pan for Friends Seminary, When In Disgrace for Examined Man Theatre, Beauty and Beast and Babes in Hollywood for the Arundel Barn Playhouse and L'Orfeo for the Yale Baroque Opera Project. John has worked in varying capacities for New York City Opera, Prospect Theatre Company, The Actors Company Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre.
Johanna Thelin (Stage Manager) is excited to finally be in New York after working on countless shows at Tufts University and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. For Examined Man: When In Disgrace. New York: Why Torture is Wrong, Twelfth Night, The Last Cargo Cult, The Merchant of Venice (The Public), PINK! The Play (Down Payment).
Paul Toben (Lighting) For Examined Man: When In Disgrace. Recent New York credits: The Story of my Life (Broadway), The Redheaded Man (Fringe Encores/Down Payment). Three seasons at Williamstown including designs of Caravan Man and Demon Dreams. Associate/Assistant designer: Sunday in the Park with George, Pal Joey, and Bye, Bye, Birdie (Roundabout), National Tours of A Bronx Tale and Annie, Regional productions of White Christmas, Broadway: Three Generations at the Kennedy Center, and Shamu Rocks! at SeaWorld.
Friends of Examined Man Theatre
(Folks we like working with)
Ashley Alvarez, Byron Asher, Rachel Bauder,
Amanda Brandes,
Joe Curnutte,
Jim deProphetis, Christine Fisichella, Adam Henry Garcia, Frederick Gerriets,
Lisa Maley,
Jacob Murphy,
Gerardo Rodriguez, Eric Schulman, Megan Tusing,
Deanna Weiner
