LAKEPLAY

(DIRECTOR) has commissioned and developed over 350 new short plays, and produced 21 projects celebrating playwrights of social conscience, including  2013’s NY Times Critic’s Pick, The Norwegians (world premiere). Off Broadway:  Dog Logic (American Place Theatre) w/Lois Smith, The Retributionists (Playwright's  Horizons) w/ Adam Driver, for Shakes in the Lot  HAMLET (Hamlet) HENRY V (Henry), MERRY WIVES (Ford) Film/TV: Wizard of Lies, Billions, Mindhunter, Blue Bloods, Bridge  of  Spies, One Dollar, Bull, The Better Angels, Burn After Reading, American Gangster. SAG/Ensemble  Award: Orange is the New Black.

(PLAYWRIGHT) is an actor, playwright, solo performer, and co-founder of the theater company ARA. He has appeared on CBS’s Bull and is a 15-year member of the troupe Shakespeare in the Parking Lot where he has performed in many of the great roles, including Puck, Iago, Prince Hal and Don Pedro.  His solo work has toured internationally, and has had the audience of dignitaries such as Madeline Albright. Drew’s solo work is called FRANZ FRAGMENTS, a sprawling endeavor in which Drew theatrically probes various works of Franz Kafka, which has appeared on numerous stages and alternative spaces. Highlights include A REPORT TO AN ACADEMY and FRANZ/DREW (nominated for best actor and playwright in the Midtown International Theater Festival, NYC). The New York times describes Drew as a “glowing delight” and Creative Loafing says he is “a gifted performer who makes it all seem effortless.”

(KIMBER) is a long-time acting and directing member of The Drilling Company; she created the role of Betty in the Drill’s Off-Broadway NY Times Critic’s Pick hit, The Norwegians, and was cited by The New York Times as one of their top 25 Magical and Quirky performances that year. Other TDC roles with Bryant Park Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Parking Lot include Emilia in Othello, Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Gertrude in Hamlet, Maria in Twelfth Night. Karla is a member of Bobby Moresco’s NY Actors’ Gym at AMT Theater, and her regional theatre roles include King Lear, Blithe Spirit, The House of Blue Leaves, Candide, Our Country’s Good, and the title role in The Heiress. Film appearances include Household Accounts and Avow, written and directed by the late, great Bill C. Davis. As director, Karla’s production of Hamlet in Bryant Park (with a female Hamlet) played to audiences of over 800 nightly. Her voiceover work includes audiobooks, corporate, and educational projects; Karla’s proud to be a Master Teaching Artist with Roundabout Theatre Company and The Metropolitan Opera, training educators throughout NYC, serving students of all ages, and creating socially conscious work with impact. www.KarlaHendrick.com

(VIB) is very excited and incredibly honored to be part of this production and bring Vib to life. She is an NYC-based, AEA actor who graduated from Boston University’s Acting program. Her New York theatre credits include Cymbeline (Queen/Arvirargus), The Burial at Thebes (Chorus/Eurydice), The Comedy of Errors (Adriana), Fastened to the Moon (Katherine), Seascape with Sharks and Dancer (Tracy), and Antigone (Antigone/Tiresias/Messenger). For more information, visit www.petradenison.net

(DAN) studied at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and The British American Dramatic Academy. Favorite roles include: Cyrano, Richard III, Peer Gynt. He would like to extend his deepest gratitude to his Leigh for her love and support, Hamilton for his persistence and to those friends without whom he would be sitting at home watching TV.

(Stage Manager) (she/her/hers) is a Filipina actor, singer, writer, voiceover actor, and stage manager. Previous Stage Management credits include The Drilling Company at ART/NY (Herself), Theatre for the New City (Not about Me), LaGuardia Community College (Everybody, Big love), The New School (A celebration of Black History Month, Africa Unite, Playing the other, Here be Sirens). Acting credits include Spring Awakening (All female role swing), Ablaze (Lisa d’Kai), Rent (Maureen), I am Fat (Pregnant) and One Act (Miss Saigon Medley Singer). Recently, she has also tapped into her filmmaking side with credits including Make it Happen Organization (Assistant Director), William Johnson (Office Assistant), Night2Day (Director/Writer), I hear you (Director/Writer) and continues to make more. IG: @kiara_ruthluna

(Set Design)

(Lighting and Sound Design) is Co-Artistic Director of Anthropological Theatricals and a founding member of Concrete Temple Theatre in New York City and The Acme Corporation in Baltimore. Artistic Director of 78th Street Theatre Lab from 1995-2008 where he created, produced, or nurtured hundreds of new plays. Other New York credits include work with New Circle Theatre, The Acting Company, Circle in the Square, Cherry Lane Theatre, Symphony Space, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Barrow Street Theatre, 45 Bleecker, 59E59, Dixon Place, The Barrow Group, Vital Joint, HERE, Incubator Arts Project, The Brick, and Classic Stage Company. Founding Artistic Director for Actors Repertory Theatre in Chicago 1987-1993. Chicago credits include work with Victory Gardens Theatre, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago Dramatists Workshop and Second City. Associate Artistic Director for the Developing Artists Series at the Drama League of New York. Developed work at New Harmony Project, Sewanee Writers Conference, Drop Forge & Tool, Telluride Playwrights Festival, and Last Frontier Theatre Conference. Radio drama / Podcast credits include work broadcast nationally over NPR affiliate stations and in the U.K. over BBC Channel Four. International work includes productions at Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania, The 24th International Theatre Festival (Bulgaria), Festival Istropolitana (Slovakia) and various companies throughout the United Kingdom.