• Meg

    A third generation actress, Margot made her debut at age nine in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie on Broadway.  Since then she has worked extensively with such companies as Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Directors Co., Riverside Shakespeare, The Jean Cocteau, The Journey Co., TheAtrainplays, 3Graces Theater Co…. 

    In 2003, Margot produced and performed David's Balls, a one woman play written by L. B. Kovetz, at both the Edinburgh and Seattle Fringe Festivals. It was another chapter in a long artistic association that includes the role of Janice in the short film Janice + Bill written and directed by Kovetz based on her play, Messy People Fantasize an Orderly Existence which Margot and L.B. appeared in together (in ‘96) at The West Bank Downstairs Theatre Bar.

    Margot is an artist/member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre

 

Cast & Creatives

(in order of appearance)

 


  • Abel

    Broadway: K2 ( Outer Critic’s Circle nom. ) Inherit The Wind . Off Broadway : Primary Stages , NYTW , McGinn-Cazale , 59 E 59 , Roundabout , Mint , CSC , Triplex. Long time member of Ensemble Studio Theater . Regional : Arena Stage , Alliance , ASOLO , Cincinnati Playhouse , Guthrie , McCarter , New York Stage and Film , Philadelphia Theater co. , Pittsburgh Public . TV : Law and Order , Blue bloods , Braindead , Crisis in Six Scenes . Film : Nine Lives , Norman , Places In The Heart , Nobody’s Fool , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .

 
 


  • Mira

    Christine Farrell is an actress, playwright and director. She was the originator and co-author of Mama Drama (Cleveland Play House, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dorset Play House), which is published by Samuel French. Her short play, The Once Attractive Woman (Faber and Faber) was produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon Series, as well as regional theatres in New Jersey and Florida. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, SAG and AEA. She has been a recipient of an Affiliate Artist Grant from the NEA, an Outstanding Achievement in Theater and Television Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and an Alfred P. Sloan Grant. Her play Our Half of the Sky was chosen by the Great Plains Theatre Conference in 2018 and planned for a full production in 2020. Its first rough draft reading was in January 2016 (Inauguration night) by Nora’s Playhouse. Our Half of the Sky was developed at Ryder Farm, EST’s Playwrights Unit, and Great Plains Theatre Conference. Christine’s television, film and stage credits include Law and Order, Ice Storm, Fatal Attraction, Uncle Vanya, Comedy of Errors and many new works off-Broadway and in regional theaters. Her directing credits include plays such as Hunger by Amy Herzog, War by Bill Bozzone. In colleges, her work ranges from The Rover by Aphra Behn to Marie Antoinette by David Adjimi. In 2016-17 she was the Theatre Artist at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute in Quartz Mountain, Oklahoma. Currently a tenured professor at Sarah Lawrence College, she was the Artistic Director of the Theatre Program from 2010-19.

    Chris.a.farrell@gmail.com

 
 


  • Dr. Schmidt

    Don Castro is a Manila-born, American actor based in New York City. Currently, he can be seen in a guest role as "Leo" in season 2 of Modern Love (Amazon Prime) and as "Dean Wong" in season 2 of PowerBook II: Ghost (Starz). Please visit www.doncastro.com for more information.

 
 

  • Tom

    Broadway: Burn This (TONY, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Award Nominations), As Is. Off-Broadway: Preparedness (Bushwick Starr/HERE Arts), Paradise Lost (Theatre Row), God Shows Up (Actors Temple), Daniel’s Husband (Westside Theatre, Primary Stages, Penguin Rep), Orpheus Descending (Bartley/Glezos Productions), A Class Act (New World Stages), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Masterworks Theatre Co.), Pushkin (Sheen Center), Rocket to the Moon (St Clement’s), others. Regional: Angels in America, Parts 1 & 2 (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide… (Berkeley Rep, Theatre J), 12 Angry Men (Pioneer), The Diary of Anne Frank & That Championship Season (Westport Playhouse), others. London: Burn This. TV: Blindspot, Deception, The Affair, Law & Order, Sex and the City, Nurse Jackie, Tales of the City, others. Film: Barrio Boy (upcoming), Lesson #4, It’s My Party, Blood from a Stoner, Mary & Louise, Rosen's Son, others. Education: Fordham University (Lincoln Center), William Esper. Member Artist: Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actor’s Center, Circle Repertory Company (1985-1996)

 


  • Alma

    author, teacher, actor and theatre historian founded the Society for the Preservation of Theatrical History to reacquaint today’s actors with the great actresses and visionaries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. www.SocietyPTH.com.

    Her workshops on on-camera techniques, script analysis, auditioning and impression management have been very successful in cities and universities across the country. CAREER INTELLIGENCE Seminars about “The Business of the Business” are based on her best-selling book How To Be A Working Actor, (Howtobeaworkingactor.com)

    She is currently writing a new ‘legacy’ book entitled THE TOTAL ACTOR: A GUIDE FOR SURVIVAL AND HERITAGE.

    She was the recipient of a 2019 Special Theatre Woman Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women for her contributions to the industry. She has produced and performed a solo piece about Clara Morris in Stage Struck: Reclaiming the lives of famous Actresses from the Past. Suffragists From the Stage was a research project to educate audiences about the actresses who fought for the right to vote. Her B.A. in Speech and Drama is from San Jose State University; M.A. in Theatre History from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C

 
 


  • Dr. Annie Stakow

 
 

  • Writer/Creator

    Lisa Beth Kovetz is the showrunner on CUNY TV’s Science Goes to the Movies. She frequently appears on camera and has multiple Emmy nominations for her work as a correspondent at the professional television station of The City University of New York. Ms. Kovetz currently plays the English-speaking Book Fairy on Reading Books – Leyendo Libros a bilingual story series for toddlers, where she writes many of the stories read on the series.

    As president of her company, Flying South Productions, Ms. Kovetz created the Jazz Baby series of three audio CDs presenting 36 classic nursery rhymes set to jazz, featuring such jazz greats as Poncho Sanchez, Taj Mahal, Billy Preston, Dr. John, Janice Siegel, Freddy Cole, Barbara Morrison, Claudia Acuña, Cybill Shepherd, Megan Mullally and Jim Belushi. Jazz, Baby which is distributed by 215 (Philadelphia) and Casablanca Media (Toronto), won the National Parents Publication Gold Award, the Parents Choice Approval Award and the Film Advisory Board Award of Excellence.

    Her first and second novels, The Tuesday Erotica Club series were published by Sourcebooks, Inc. The novels have been translated into 17 languages in 21 markets, with feature film rights optioned by Cinergi Pictures Entertainment.

    Ms. Kovetz’ stage plays have appeared in New York, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and in translation at The Sibiu International Theater Festival. The translation of her play Com Explodat David ran for three years in Bucharest. She has worked as a stand-up comic and an actor in New York and Los Angeles.

    A native New Yorker and graduate of Smith College, Ms. Kovetz lives in Brooklyn.

 
 


  • Director

    Kelli Lynn Harrison (Director) is an actor and dramaturg committed to supporting new work and plays-in-progress. Occasionally she freelances as an acting coach and stage director. An Ensemble Studio Theatre Member Artist for 10+ years, she has performed there on the MainStage (Thicker Than Water’s Red, Blue, and Purple by Justin Deabler, and the Sloan Foundation commission Bump by Chiara Atick). As an actor she has participated in each stage of EST’s developmental process. She also helped to establish and facilitate EST First Brew, a works-in-progress public reading forum. Kelli Lynn served as Co-President of the League of Professional Theatre Women (2017-2019). She was a founding member of 3Graces Theater Co. and its Managing Director from 2004-2011, during which time she produced and co-produced 25+ New York and World Premieres. Favorite New York roles include Antoinette in Robert Askins’ Anger and the Doughnut (Theatre Row), Sister Peggy in the 10th Anniversary Production of Arlene Hutton’s As It Is In Heaven (Cherry Lane), and Bev in Patrick Link’s The Benefit of Elsewhere (3Graces). www.KelliLynnHarrison.com