Trojan Productions Presents

a comedy?

Company Biographies

Crew

Jane Nichols

 Wendy Phillips Kahn

Jen Carrell

Stevie Swenson

 J. Steven White

Cast

Connor Barrett

 Andrew Burlinson

 Jack Prevatt

 Pablo Ribot

 Leticia Santafé

 Anna Sant

 Dario Tangelson

Jane Nichols (Director, Producer) is an actress, director, and teacher who has recently moved to NYC from Boston. For seven years she taught at the Institute at the American Repertory Theatre, Harvard Summer and Extension Schools, and Harvard College where she directed Les Liaisons Dangereux, Feed the Monkey, Noises Off, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She has also taught at American Conservatory Theatre, Emerson College, Lesley College Graduate School, and the Lyric Stage. She is currently on the faculty of Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, MA, and The Stella Adler Conservatory and The Actors’ Center in NYC. Her teachers are Phillippe Gaulier, Bolek Polivka, Merry Conway, her students, and Ana, Lila, and Aran.

Jen Carrell (Dramaturg) is a writer currently living in Tucson while finishing a novel. After earning a PhD in English Lit and teaching for a few years at Harvard, she left academics to write and direct. She first worked with Ms. Nichols as the director of a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Wendy Phillips Kahn (Production Manager, Costumes) has been theatrically involved in myriad guises for decades, as actress, mime, director, choreographer, costumer, teacher and assorted other personae. She has appeared on stages in Manhattan, New England (including the Williamstown Theatre Festival), old England, and Israel. (Her first New York notices were for her performance as a flamenco-dancing frog.) Her current concentration is in classical song - and the special challenges of this show!

Stevie Swenson (Set & Light Design) has spent the last 8 years in various technical capacities for Off-Broadway theatres such as NYSF, MTC, and Circle Rep. He is currently the Master Electrician for MTC – slaving away for non-union wages. Film credits include: Muscle Car and Duel Expectations as Art Director.

J. Steven White (Fight Director) On Broadway, his fights have been seen In A View From The Bridge (Tony Award winning revival), A Lion In Winter, and All My Sons. For the Public Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, he has directed fights for 15 productions including Cybeline (directed by Andrei Serban), Golden Child (directed by James Lapine), and Macbeth (directed by George Wolfe). He is on the faculties of the Graduate Acting Programs at NYU and Columbia University.

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Connor Barrett was most recently a member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Non-Equity Company, where he performed in Camino Real, Taming of the Shrew, Chaucer in Rome, and Finer Noble Gases. New York Theatre Credits include work at GAle GAtes et. al., HERE, and the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. He is a graduate of Northwestern University. Huge love, thanks, and praise to my Dad.

Andrew Burlinson was last seen in a glass encased cubicle suspended 17 stories above Times Square. Other roles include Chandebise/Poche in A Flea in Her Ear, Robert in Company, Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance, and a four-year run as a woman in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Andrew is currently a conservatory student at the Actors Center, and you can find him playing nearby with the pop rock quartet, Motherboard.

Jack Prevatt last performed in Michael Sayers’ A Thorn in the Heart at the Greenwich Street Theater. He has performed in over one million plays in New York. Previously based in Washington, he studied at the Studio Theater Conservatory.

Pablo Ribot graduated in 1989 from The National Drama School in Buenos Aires, he has worked in Argentina as a professional actor for many years. Pablo moved to New York last year from Argentina, and has taken clown workshops with The Flying Machine and Actors’ Center.

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Leticia Santafé graduated in 1997 from The National Drama School in Madrid. She has worked as a professional actor in Madrid, London, and New York City.

Anna Sant Born in Barcelona, she trained at the Drama School of Barcelona, where she specialized in physical theatre. She’s currently living and working in New York City where she has trained with The Fying Machine, Theatre Complicité, and HB Studio.

Dario Tangelson  is in New York on a Professional Training Program sponsored by the Fulbright Commission and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes from Argentina, where he has worked as a professional actor and an acting teacher. He wants to thank Thetis for talking to Zeus and Zeus for bowing his head.

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