New Staff, Fairer Sex pics and getting pumped for ElliEli

Hi, all!

First of all, we were incredibly happy with our production of The Fairer Sex (though I got very sick halfway through the run). We got a great review and some lovely pictures, which you can see below.

Michelle Liu Coughlin* and Josephine Wheelwright

Josephine Wheelwright, Chauncey Johnson, Billy Giacci and Erica Becker

Erica Becker and Billy Giacci

Josephine Wheelwright and Michelle Liu Coughlin*

Michael Markham*, Erica Becker, Billy Giacci, Josephine Wheelwright and Chauncey Johnson

Michelle Liu Coughlin*, Josephine Wheelwright, Eric Becker and Billy Giacci

*appeared courtesy of Actor's Equity

Of course, there are tons more pictures on our facebook but I had to pick the fairer six. (Sorry, had to).

ANYWAY. We were really very proud. The pictures, I think exemplify not only the acting, but also the fabulous direction and costume design by our very own Samantha Lee Manas and the lighting design by Paul Kennedy.

But most significantly, coming out of this, we have decided to make Sander Gusinow a permanent member of the company as our Literary and Marketing Manager. Besides writing The Fairer Sex, Sander also wrote the winning play from Take Ten 2014 (Hansen and Greta) and had a workshop of his one-act Hell-Bent produced by us as well. We're really excited to have him on board. We'll have a headshot and bio for him on all of our places soon.

We'll also have one for Paulina Ruiz who is going to be our Resident Stage Manager moving forward. She did an amazing job stage managing Take Ten 2015 and will be working on our ElliEli, the workshop we have coming up in a few weeks.

Oh, yes, ElliEli, what about that? Well, we're very excited. It's just such a smart, fabulous play, written by Arlene Jaffe, who wrote Rita Shalimar, the winner of Take Ten 2015 and directed by Montgomery Sutton, nominated for Best Director in Take Ten 2015 for The Oracle. We met with them a few weeks ago and couldn't be more inspired to be working and to have brought such talent together.

Arlene

Monty

The show is going to be on September 12th at the Director's Studio and tickets are already available. You can also check out both of our facebook events (facebook doesn't like when we invited too many people to one thing now, apparently).

It's going to be a smash. Here's the little blurb I wrote for the show.

Elli has a bully. He's mean, abusive and he's lived with her since childhood. Also, he co-writes her blog. And he's not, in the strictest sense, real.

Hope to see you there!