ALL FOR ONE - Key Persons
CHRISTINA RUSSOS (Director) is a director and teaching artist. She has worked with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Theater Breaking Through Barriers (Associate Director 2009 - 2012), Clubbed Thumb (2017 Directing Fellow), Fault Line Theater, Fringe NYC, and New Georges. Her work has appeared at the Kennedy Center, Rattlestick Theater Jam, the Brick, The Tank, Judson Church, and Performa. Recent productions include Hippos of the Eastern Enclosure by Jen Silverman (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks) and Nectar by Katie Baldwin Eng (Axial Theater). She also directs webseries, short films and music videos. She is one half of the performance art duo Elfant along with her partner, drummer John Bollinger, creating multi-media interactive works around identity. She has devised work with Bennington College students, was a 2016 Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College and teaches project building and character creation in the MFA Visual Narrative program at the School of Visual Arts. BA Emerson College, MFA Brooklyn College. Upcoming work includes Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at the University of Rochester International Theatre Program.
CRYSTAL SKILLMAN is an award winning Brooklyn based playwright and screenwriter. KING KIRBY, co-written with Fred Van Lente, GEEK! and CUT, published/under review by Samuel French, have all earned Critics Picks from the New York Times which noted, "A playwright of growing downtown renown, Ms. Skillman seems to be acquiring something suspiciously Midtown: polish." ANOTHER KIND OF LOVE, her drama about a family of punk rock singers set in Seattle, played in 2015 at the Chopin Theater in Chicago. Awards include: 2015 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission (Pulp Vérité, directed by Shaun Peknic at NYU's Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute); 2010 New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Full-Length Script (The Vigil or The Guided Cradle). Crystal is represented by Amy Wagner and Ron Gwiazda at Abrams Artists Agency in NY, and James Beresford with Shepard Management in the UK. www.crystalskillman.com
GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH (Director) is a freelance director with a background in dance. She most recently directed Kathleen Turner in The Year of Magical Thinking (Arena). She has directed the world premieres of Clare Lizzimore's Animal (Studio Theatre, Helen Hayes nominations for Outstanding Director and Play), Anna Ziegler's The Last Match (Old Globe), Melissa Ross's Of Good Stock (South Coast Repertory), and Laura Marks's Bethany with America Ferrera (Women's Project Theater, Lortel nomination for Outstanding Play) among others. She has directed the Off-Broadway productions of Nancy Harris's Our New Girl and Simon Stephens's Harper Regan and Bluebird with Simon Russell Beale (Atlantic Theater Company), and Lucy Thurber's Stay (Rattlestick). Her production of As You Like It (Hudson Valley Shakespeare) will be reinvented for the Folger in DC this winter. GT is an alumna of The Drama League, WP directors' lab, LCT directors lab, and University of NC School of the Arts.
is a NY-based, FL-born producer and director specializing in new play and musical development, investigative and verbatim material, community-driven projects, and arts education. She is a member of the WP Theater Producers Lab, the Civilians' R&D Group, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, DirectorsLabChicago, Fresh Ground Pepper's PlayGroup, a Playwrights Horizons Robert Moss Directing Fellow, and an Emerging Leader of NY Arts Fellow. Ilana is the current Civilians' R&D Group Program Director, has served on the staffs of All For One Theater, Lincoln Center Education, and Bret Adams Ltd, and spent a year as associate artistic director and interim artistic director of Company of Fools/Sun Valley Center for the Arts. She is the creator of Argument Sessions, a series of immersive theatrical events weaving SCOTUS transcripts with collaboratively developed original material. Upcoming: CollaborationTown's Riddle of the Trilobites at New Victory Theater, WP Theater's Pipeline Festival. ilanabecker.com
JESSI D. HILL is a theatre director based in New York City where she has directed new work at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater/Joe's Pub, The Playwrights' Center, Primary Stages, Labyrinth, The Women's Project, 59E59, The New Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Culture Project, The Acting Company, The Barrow Group, PS122, Baruch Performing Arts Center, New Dramatists, The Lark, The Playwrights Realm, New Georges, The Wild Project, and others. She has been a director in professional training programs at Yale School of Drama, Fordham University, Long Island University, Powerhouse/NY Stage & Film, NYU/Tisch, Strasberg, CAP21, The Atlantic School, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, Hunter College and others. Her work has been seen internationally in Edinburgh, London, New Zealand, Berlin and Hamburg. She is currently Associate Artistic Director terraNOVA Collective and a former Artistic Director of Stage Left Theatre Company in Chicago. MFA: Yale. Member SDC. Current projects: www.jessidhill.com
KIP FAGAN (Director) is a director of new plays. Recent NYC: Susan Soon He Stanton's Today Is My Birthday (P73); Zayd Dohrn's The Profane, Heidi Schreck's Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons); Jenny Rachel Weiner's Kingdom Come (Roundabout); Ike Holter's Exit Strategy (Primary Stages); Jesse Eisenberg's The Revisionist and Asuncion, Halley Feiffer's How to Make Friends and Then Kill Them, Heidi Schreck's There Are No More Big Secrets, Sheila Callaghan's That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play (Rattlestick); Ariel Stess's The World My Mama Raised and I'm Pretty Fucked Up, Sheila Callaghan's Roadkill Confidential, Rachel Hoeffel's Quail (Clubbed Thumb). Regional: Alliance, Long Wharf, Woolly Mammoth (Hayes Award, outstanding director), Williamstown, Humana, George Street Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, Marin Theatre Company, City Theatre. Taught and/or directed at Juilliard, NYU, SUNY Purchase, National Theatre Institute, Strasberg Center. Clubbed Thumb affiliated artist, co-founder of Printer's Devil in Seattle.
MEGAN HILL is a New York based actor and writer. Recent and favorite credits include: The Jazzercise Play (which she also wrote) being produced by DODO this spring; Lead Artist for Target Margin Gertrude Stein Labs; Trade Practices (HERE Arts); Ermyntrude and Esmerelda (Ars Nova, ANT Fest); The Subtle Body (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center); Clybourne Park (Pittsburgh Public Theater); The House of Von Macrame (The Management/Bushwick Starr); The Bird and the Two Ton Weight (EST/Unfiltered Fest); Hand to God (Original Cast, World Premiere, EST); Cut (The Management); Robert Wilson's The Watermill Quintet (Implied Violence/ The Guggenheim Museum); Lonesome Winter (which she also co-wrote with Joshua Conkel); The Sluts of Sutton Drive (EST/Unfiltered Fest); Fissures at the Humana Festival (Actor's Theatre of Louisville). Megan is also a company member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and Morgan Gould & Friends. Megan holds a BFA in Acting and Original Works from Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA from ART/MXAT IATT at Harvard University. Check out her web series ME+U at www.meplusu.tv
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Michael Wolk is a producer, writer, composer and director. He has produced over 50 solo plays off-Broadway and off-off since founding All For One Theater in 2011. As CEO of Gorgeous Entertainment, he has produced on Broadway (Pacific Overtures); at Lincoln Center (Musashi, Temple of the Golden Pavillion); at BAM (Macbeth); Kennedy Center (Up In The Air) ; and in Central Park (Japan Day @ Central Park since 2007). His writing credits include screenplays (Innocent Blood, Warner Bros., directed by John Landis), mystery novels (The Beast on Broadway, Signet); and plays (Femme Fatale, Broadway Play Publishing). He also wrote the book, music and lyrics for Deep Cover, which premiered at the 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival and for Ghostlight 9, which premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre in 2015. He has directed plays and films including the award-winning documentary You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story, which screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and is available on Plexifilm DVD. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His personal gallery of work can be found at MichaelWolk.com.
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- EXECUTIVE & PRODUCING DIRECTOR
RENATA FRIEDMAN (Performer). Credits include: Page 73, New Victory Theater, Aquila Theatre Co., Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, Humana Festival, Barrington Stage Co, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Illusion Theatre, TheatreWorks, plus multiple appearances at Berkeley Rep, ACT, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, Milwaukee Rep and Portland Center Stage; new work development at Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Dramatists, Drama League, Labyrinth, and Rattlestick. www.renatafriedman.com
SHEILA CALLAGHAN (Playwright)'s plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, Yale Rep, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth, Boston Court, and Rattlestick Playwright's Theatre, among others. Sheila is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, a MacDowell Residency, a Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Germany, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. These include Scab, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), We Are Not These Hands, Dead City, Lascivious Something, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play, Fever/Dream, Everything You Touch, Roadkill Confidential, Elevada, Bed, and Women Laughing Alone with Salad. She is published with Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and several of her collected works are published with Counterpoint Press. She has taught playwriting at Columbia University, The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, Florida State University, and Spalding University. Sheila is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb and a member of the Obie winning playwright's organization 13P. Sheila is also an alumni of New Dramatists.
SUZY JANE HUNT (Playwright/Performer) is a performer, educator, and theatre maker. Some favorite acting credits include TV/Film: Pastor Tim's wife Alice on The Americans, Agent Schyffman on Person of Interest, Blindspot, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Elementary, Believe, Collateral Beauty. Broadway: Dear Evan Hansen, Dead Accounts. Theatre: Viola in Twelfth Night, Stratford Shakespeare Festival; Don Juan, Westport Country Playhouse; The Real Thing, The Wilma; rogerandtom, HERE Arts Center. Suzy is an adjunct professor at NYU's Educational Theatre program, where she received her Master's degree in 2019. She is also a contributor to NYU's Verbatim Performance Lab, where she recently performed the testimony of Justice Brett Kavanaugh as an investigation into gender perception. Watch her play Kavanaugh and more at suzyjanehunt.com