Squiggy and the Goldfish | Ore, or Or | Mare Cognitum | Series Bios | Special Thanks

Josh Breslow (Squiggy) most recently appeared in the NYC Fringe Festival as Frank in Trees Like Nails by Will Snider. Film: Houdini. Television: "Late Night with Conan O’Brien," "Once and Again" (recurring), "Port Charles/General Hospital," "Brothers Garcia." Regional: Oliver! (Ovation Award winner; Deaf West Theater), Tommy (tour), Phantom (tour), Music Man (tour), Kiss Me Kate, Nine, I Remember Mama, Will Roger’s Follies, The Secret Garden (Sacramento Music Circus), Peter Pan, The King and I. Readings: Secrets of the Trade (Roundabout), Radiant Baby (Disney/ASCAP), Apocrypha (Lake George). Josh also received the L.A. Ticketholder Award in 2004 for Best Supporting Actor as well as two Garland Award nominations for his portrayal of Wesley in the West Coast premier of Theater District at the Black Dahlia Theater.

Elyse Ault (Blossom) Past credits include Celia, As You Like It (Italy); Hattie, Laundry & Bourbon; Penny, You Can't Take it With You. Featured: Einstein’s Dreams (NY Workshop); Ensemble, Wit; and Athena, Fire of the Gods. Film Credits include Roxxxanne, Kingdom of Rock and Diane, Betrayal. Upcoming: Affordable Apartment. B.F.A. Musical Theatre, The University of the Arts.

Dana Aber (Mom) is delighted to appear onstage with the talented crew of Squiggy. She was most recently seen in New York in Tartuffe at the Studio @ Theatre Row and in the staged reading The Ones You Can’t See. Last summer, she famously helmed the Alpha Corp’s pushup number in NYFringe’s KNB the Musical in full navy fatigues, which were incredibly hot. A super-big believer in the artistic integrity of the American musical, she enjoys working with new writers, and recently worked on the new musical, Four, for NYU’s musical theatre writing grad presentation. Dana’s work has been featured at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Cleveland Play House, and Virginia Stage Company in Trinity Rep’s acclaimed restaging of My Fair Lady. She has: enjoyed singing incredibly high first-soprano in Virginia Musical Theater’s Titanic, toured the eastern states as a riffing-Eleanor Roosevelt opposite gospel heavyweights Margaret Bell and Tony Terry, played 11 shows as the second-understudy Aunt Blanche for Brighton Beach Memoirs at the historic Walnut Street Theatre, learned the “Dirty Dancing” dance break with the final lift just for fun, wept through Albee’s The Play About the Baby at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and was probably the youngest professional understudy for Blanche Du Bois in Syracuse Stage’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Dana is currently working on a cabaret project with her BFF Amanda Taraska featuring new music by several awesome NYC composers and is growing mint in her Harlem windowsill solely to make mojitos (and also lavender just because she is obsessed with it). She loves her parents and Broadway superstar brother immensely, who constantly create space in the world for her to be an artist, and who travel great distances to support her work. Follow her journey at danaaber.com.

Eric C. Bailey (Goldie) was last seen at the Metropolitan Playhouse in their revival of Power. He has toured nationally with Shenandoah Shakespeare’s Beguile the Rich Tour, as well as tours of School House Rock Live! and All in the Timing. Other favorite roles include: Lucky in Waiting for Godot and Sam et al. in Fully Committed. For more information, please visit www.eric-bailey.com.

Jonathan Miles (Dr. Kevorkian/Pappy) is happy to be performing with the great group of people at Small Pond. He recently played the Reverend in Delirious Dance's production of Elephant Dreams. Other recent credits include Richard Roma in Glengarry, Glen Ross, Ethan Girard in The Fully Monty, Mason Marzac in Take Me Out and Jamie Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night, all of which were produced in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. He has received professional training at Circle in the Square Theatre School, and with Julie Garfield at Michael Howard Studios Jonathan thanks his family and friends for their continuing support.

Sarah Novotny (FPO/Young Man/ Geeky Girl) is an actress, producer, writer and circus performer. A California native and graduate of NYU Tisch, Sarah is happy to be working with Small Pond Entertainment. She is a founding member of Candy Slice Comedy, a sketch and improv team and a board member of 9Thirty Theatre Co. in NYC. When not performing, Sarah enjoys yoga, cooking and playing the banjo.

Joe Testa (Wally) is originally from West Haven, Connecticut. He is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and he has also studied and performed at The People's Improv Theatre. He previously appeared in The Best Party Ever at The Richmond Shepard Theatre as well as several original productions at Luna Stage and a number of independent features. Joe would like to thank Michael Roderick for the opportunity to be apart of this show and this family and friends for their continued support.

Katrina Ylimaki (Veronica) is thrilled to be working with Small Pond Entertainment. Other NYC Credits include: Open Rehearsal (Theatre for the New City), Blithe Spirit, Taming of the Shrew (78th Street Theatre Lab), and the upcoming production of American Black Box in the Midtown Fringe Festival. Regional credits: Kong's Night Out (New Century Theatre). Film credits: Clubscene, Last Days of Simon, Laid Off. TV credits: "Guiding Light" and "Haunting Evidence." Katrina is a proud graduate of Smith College (Denton Snyder Acting Award) and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Thanks to Julie Garfield, Reuben, and most importantly, Mom and Dad, for making it all possible.

Lenny Schwartz (Playwright) is the Writer/Director of such plays as Time Thirteen, The December Rabbi, Kung Fu Babies, and The Scarecrow, which was the winner of Motif Magazine's Best New Work 2008. The Scarecrow was also produced by Small Pond Entertainment in New York City at Nicu's Spoon in May 2008. Lenny is the co-founder of Daydream Theatre Company, located in Providence, RI and currently serves as the artistic director, as he has for the last ten years. Lenny will write/direct his next play, Halcyon Days, (about which nothing is known) in April 2010 for Daydream Theatre Company in RI. His more immediate project is being a father for the first time with his lovely wife of 13 years, Sara. Yes, he will survive with a smile.

Joshua Yocom (Stage Manager) thanks the Theatre of the Expendable, Cross-Eye Bear Productions, and Small Pond Entertainment for forming this adventure and involving him. He’d also like to extend a special thank you to the kids of SoBro.

Allison Mosier (Assistant Director) is a New York-based actor and director. Recently Allison was featured in Radio Broadway: The Hits of 1958, at Town Hall in Manhattan. She also starred in Wings Theater’s 24 Hour Play Festival. Favorite New York and regional credits include Kiss Me Kate (Lois Lane/Bianca), The Full Monty (Georgie), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Marguerite), and Jekyll and Hyde (Emma), as well as co-starring roles on ABC’s One Life to Live and CBS’s As the World Turns. She has also starred in two short films; The Dentist and The Honeymoon, as well as the webisode series, Obama or Yo Mama and Morning Bitch. Favorite directing credits include The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, The New Kid and the National Tour of The Who's Tommy. www.allisonmosier.com

Ore, or Or Bios:

E. Calvin Ahn (Calvin Kanayama) was last seen in Pan Asian Repertory's production of Shogun MacBeth as MacDuff. Some New York credits include: Hamlet (Gorilla Repertory), Romeo & Juliet (American Globe Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (New Perspectives Theatre), among others. Film: West 32nd St, Saving Grace. TV: "Law & Order: SVU," "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." He thanks his family and friends for their support.

Elizabeth Erwin (Debbie Goldberg) is delighted to be working with Small Pond Entertainment! Regional credits include Summer and Smoke- Papermill Playhouse; Summer and Smoke, A Christmas Carol, The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, Brand:NEW Festival- Hartford Stage; The Rainmaker, Moon Over Buffalo, Julius Caesar- Ivoryton Playhouse; Catholic Girl Gun Club- Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater; A Christmas Carol- Foothills Theater; Othello, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- Lost Nation Theater; Macbeth- Shakespeare Ventures. NYC credits include new works at BMI and The Brick Theatre. Much love to Eric and all of the funny women in my life.

Clara Barton Green (Tara) hails from Virginia and is an accomplished and award-winning actor and director. Appeared in: Hair (Sheila), As You Like It (Rosalind), The Trojan Women (Helen), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Twelfth Night (Viola), Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio), Duncan Pflaster’s Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants (Princess Lana), The Thyme of the Season (Puck) and Eternity: Time Without End (Calliope, Spotlight On Award for Best Actress). Directed: A Christmas Carol (her own adaptation), Vanities, Agnes of God, Because of Beth, Duncan Pflaster’s Sleeping in Tomorrow and Admit Impediments, and Three Questions, winner of the 2002 Sam French Off-Off Broadway Festival. She has worked with Hinton Battle, Mark Hollman, and William Ivey Long. Clara is a proud graduate of Sweet Briar College in Virginia, with a degree in Music and English. www.ClaraBartonGreen.com.

Rachel Lin (Geisha) is pursuing her BFA in drama at New York University's Tisch School or the Arts. During her time at NYU she has studied at the Strasberg Institute, Experimental Theater Wing, and the Shanghai Theater Academy in China. She was last seen in John Jesurun's production of Red House at ETW. Favorite roles have been Bess in Bekah Brunstetter's Fat Kids on Fire at the Wings Theater and Mother in Joanna Chan's Forbidden City West at Theater for a New City. Rachel is also a member of Village Playback Theater, a improv company rooted in drama therapy that works with communities in need. Many thanks to Laura, the cast and crew for this kickass experience. Mad love to my family and friends.

Shawn McLaughlin (Sean O’Connor) is marking his third play working with playwright Duncan Pflaster in Ore, or Or. He also performed in Duncan’s Thyme of the Season (Lysander) and The Wastes of Time (Dancer, in the Dance). Shawn appeared with the Republic Theatre in two productions: A High School Musical (Benny) at New World Stages, and The Tempest (Trinculo) at Cherry Lane. Favorite past roles include Valentine in Arcadia, Harry Bagley in Cloud 9, and Medvedenko in The Seagull. Shawn holds a BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College.

Robert Torigoe (Yamashita) is thrilled to be making his debut with this talented and innovative company. Locally he's been seen with Pan Asian Rep, Yara Arts for LaMama and an amazing experience in Pete Mills & Cara Reichel's Honor for Prospect Theatre. Regional credits include Miss Saigon (Carousel DT), West Side Story (Bernardo at Mt. Washington, Allenberry Playhouse, Carousel DT), Chang & Eng (Chang at The Spirit of Broadway , CT). Robert hails from a "little island covered in Asian people" where he has worked with Hawaii Opera Theatre and Hawaii Ballet Theatre. Robert wants to thank Petra for all of her support. His performance is dedicated to the Memory of Angela M. Nazario.

Duncan Pflaster (Producer/Playwright, Ore, or Or) is the author of several critically-acclaimed plays, including the multi-award-winning Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants: A Big Epic Naked Ridiculous Shakespearean Fairy Tale Play and Eternity: Time Without End, as well as Sleeping in Tomorrow, The Thyme of the Season, Admit Impediments, The Wastes of Time, Dik and Jayne Are Not The Same, Amazing Dædalus, book and lyrics for the musical Eskimo, Wilder & Wilder, and a panoply of shorter pieces that have been seen in festivals all over the place (including his What I Like, part of the Where Eagles Dare 10-Minute Play Festival 7pm, May 17th- right down the street!). His comic vampire play Suckers will have its premiere next month as part of the Planet Connections Theater Festivity. Thanks to Laura, the cast, and the other TotSEB producers — we actually pulled this off! Monkey! www.duncanpflaster.com for more information.

Laura Moss (Director) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Laura is the current artistic director of Quo Vadimus Arts, a non-profit organization dedicated to cross-cultural exchange. Theatrical directing credits include: Dreamboy (Manhattan Theatre Source), Diagnosis Jew Pain (with Michael Feldman NY, SF Fringe), Descent (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, AD), Women and Wallace (Ambitious Theatre Co.), and Death and the Maiden (Meisner Theater). Laura has performed her own work in The 9/11 Project (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and Burning Cities (NY Fringe Festival). She is currently working with writing partner Michael Feldman on The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Musical.

Michelle Philippin (Dramaturg, Ore, or Or) has worn many different hats working in theatre for over eight years now, and is currently a Teaching Artist working in numerous New York City Public Schools throughout the five boroughs. After graduating with a Master's Degree in Educational Theatre from NYU in 2007, she joined the staff of The American Place Theatre with a passion for building literacy and social consciousness in people of all ages through Literature to Life. She is also currently the dramaturg on Dreamscape Theatre's Silent Night project about the Christmas Truce of World War One.

Julia LaVault (Rehearsal Stage Manager) has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Florida International University. She grew up in a Classical Ballet Studio that gave her the discipline she needed for the stage and a Children's Theatre showed her how to be multifaceted for production. Some New York projects include: Ahoy! 2.0 at the House of Yes, SM/LD; A View from the Bridge with The Italian American Reporatory SM/Props/Elex; The Road to Nowhere with The Overturn Theatre Ensemble, Techinal Advisor/LD. Including but not limited to Local Production Thechnician. "There are no small parts, only small actors." Thanks TotSEB for giving me the chance to work with a great group of people and continue the art of live theatre.

Emily Gasser (Production Stage Manager) has worked as an intern for Richard Frankel Productions (Hairspray) and the Manhattan Theatre Club (Top Girls, From Up Here, The Four of Us), and in the production department at Blue Man Productions (Blue Man Group). Favorite stage management projects include God, Sex, & Blue Water and Americanize! (Living Image Arts), Three Sisters (Theatre of the Expendable), The Tempest (Theater Ten Ten), The King is Dead (Highwire Theatre Company), Bacchai and Into the Woods (Swarthmore College).

Mare Cognitum Bios:

Devon Caraway (Lena) is in the midst of her training at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She’s spent her time so far at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and is about to embark on training with both the Meisner and Classical Studios. She most recently appeared as Nadia Comeneci in Tatto Girl, directed by Annie Tippe (PHTS). Other roles include the Servant in Florentine Tragedy and The Girl in The Weaver’s Ecstasy & The Discovery of a New Color. She originated the role of Lena in Mare Cognitum, NY Fringe Festival 2008; appeared as CB’s Sister in Dog Sees God at regional Theatreworks, New Milford, CT; Art Student in an original work, Milton and the Minotaur, by Myles Gansfried, Ridgefield Theater Barn, Joanne in Vanities, and Student in The Lesson, CT Drama Festival 2003, 2004. Film: Marissa in Casanova, directed by Ryan Roslyn; the Overseer’s Daughter in The Pursuit of the Inevitably Unattainable, directed by Kevin Walker, both NYU Film; Emily in Resolve, Emily in Home With Bill, directed by Mike Deaveau of NYU Film and Television. Directed: Second Best Bed, winner of CT Drama Festival’s 2006 best all-around Production, with Best Student Directed, among other awards; Suddenly Last Summer, CT Drama Festival 2007.

Justin Howard (Thomas) made his start in the esteemed Maskers' Theatre of his hometown of Belfast, Maine. Between the years of 1999 and 2006 he was involved in such diverse productions as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Weir, including major roles such as Hank in Scott McPherson's Marvin's Room, and Clifford in Warren Leight's Side Man. He went on to major in Drama at Vassar College, where he trained in acting for film and stage, Shakespeare and Stanislavsky, and appeared in a number of plays including as a central figure in a new work entitled Treaty, a movement-based theatrical production, featuring the Red Hawk Dancers, focused on the story of the Native American Industrial schools, written and directed by Kathy Wildberger, and adapted from her earlier work, "Skull and Bones," evolved through various workshop projects in the city. The first production of Mare Cognitum broke Justin's two-year period of theatrical abstinence, and he is extremely glad to be returning to the stage once more.

Kyle Walters (Jeff) graduated from NYU with a BFA in drama. He recently wrapped his first feature film, The Penny, by the wonderful Filmweavers. Other film projects include Young 'Huge Deal' MacIntosh in the award-winning Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement (in festivals) and Kyle in Unfamiliar Faces (in post-production). In addition to acting, Kyle fancies himself a visual artist. If you are savvy to the whole “internet” thing, he suggests that you visit www.kylewalters.com to follow his adventures. Kyle would like to thank the moon for creating the soothing whoosh noises of the waves at the beach — it’s his favorite part.

David McGee (Playwright) Over and Over; Mare Cognitum (Theatre of the Expendable/FringeNYC 2008; original workshop Spring Fever Festival 2007); Bridges (Garage Ensemble 2008); Thanksgiving! A! Pageant! and Sex, Lies, and February: A Pageant (Ad Nauseum Lyceum 2007-2008); Chess'd! (Spring Fever Festival 2007); The Very End of the Whole Entire World (Thee Theatre Reading Series 2006); Burning Cities Project: Vulcanalia (Dreamscape/FringeNYC 2006). www.davemcgee.com

Jesse Edward Rosbrow (Producer/Director, Mare Cognitum) Directing credits include: the New York premiere of Vaçlav Havel’s Audience, Unveiling, Protest (John Housman Studio Theater); What Where by Samuel Beckett (The Ensemble Studio Theatre); Mare Cognitum (FringeNYC 2008/Theatre of the Expendable); Three Sisters, Dick 2 (a.k.a. Richard II), and 6:1 (Theatre of the Expendable). Producing credits include: the New York premiere of Cherry Docs (three NY IT Awards nominations: Outstanding Director – playwright David Gow; Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role – Maximilian Osinski; and Outstanding Play), TotE’s First Annual New Works Festival, Dick 2 (a.k.a. Richard II), The Tragedy of John, and The Ocean Is Big And The Sky Is Blue (Theatre of the Expendable); Hello, My Name Is... (Living Image Arts, Theatre Row’s Lion Theatre). Acting credits include: Four If By Space (www.fourifbyspace.net). Education credits include: BA from Vassar College, where he studied Drama (mostly directing) and Classics (mostly dead guys). Jesse is TotE’s Artistic Director.

Emily Gasser (Stage Manager) has worked as an intern for Richard Frankel Productions (Hairspray) and the Manhattan Theatre Club (Top Girls, From Up Here, The Four of Us), and in the production department at Blue Man Productions (Blue Man Group). Favorite stage management projects include God, Sex, & Blue Water and Americanize! (Living Image Arts), Three Sisters (Theatre of the Expendable), The Tempest (Theater Ten Ten), The King is Dead (Highwire Theatre Company), Bacchai and Into the Woods (Swarthmore College).

Series Bios:

Wilburn Bonnell (Lighting Designer) is delighted to join this huge, talented team! Recently: Life of Galileo in rep with The Science Plays (Milkcan); Tender was the Night and A Streetcar Named Desire (Columbia Stages); Three Cala Lilies (PRTT); Three Sisters and Tragedy of John (TotE); Anchors and I’d Leave You But… (LIA); Wing It and Late-Night Cabaret (Williamstown); Sympathy (E.S.T.), Invention of Love and We Bombed in New Haven (Vassar College); Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre. Upcoming: a fourth season as electrics supervisor for Williamstown Theater Festival. Assistant: Williamstown, Vineyard, New World, Juilliard, Châtelet (Paris), Lightswitch NY, etc.

Margie Kment (Associate Producer) produces the monthly comedy benefit Hold For The Laughs with Small Pond Entertainment, as well as other indie theatre productions. She has worked in commercial theatre (Assistant to the General Manager) at Richard Frankel Productions and Broadway Asia Entertainment. She is also a comedy writer and standup comedian, performing in NYC, LA, and various colleges. She produces and hosts a comedy show, Now We're Talking

Emily Owens PR (Press Representative) is an NYC based public relations agency specializing in independent theatre. Clients include Horse Trade Theater Group, terraNOVA Collective, The Brick Theater, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Rachel Klein Productions, Disgraced Productions, and The Vagabond Theatre Ensemble. Emily has also previously worked on the critically acclaimed Hostage Song: the new indie-rock musical, The New York FRIGID Festival, and Revealed Burlesque.

Arienne Pelletier (Producer) is usually acting as the Stage Manager but has just recently started working as a Producer. Last October she was an Associate Producer with terraNOVA Collective on Blue Before Morning and also worked with Many Tracks on The Man with the Newspaper Hat. She has recently joined Theatre of the Expendable as their Staff Producer. She has been Stage Managing for the last 8 years. Thank you to all the producers for giving me the opportunity experiences a different side of theatre with this amazing company. Much love to Bruce and family.

Jennifer Raskopf (Costume Designer) earned her MFA in Stage Design from SMU in Dallas, Texas and her BA in Theatre from SUNY New Paltz. Recent professional credits include: (New York) Harry the Dirty Dog and Elves and the Shoemaker also at MCT, Lysistrata at the Greek Cultural Center in Asotria, Generic Hispanic and Handball for the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, The Noor Play Festival at Wings Theatre, Purple Hearts for the Invisible City Theater Company; (London) Philophobia for the Lost Play Festival; (Regional) Rough Crossing for Bristol Valley Theatre, The Yellow Boat and Spain for the Half Moon Theatre Company, and Chicago, Miss Saigon and White Christmas for C-R Productions. Current projects include After Darwin for the Impetuous Theatre Company and Manon, Albert Herring, Hansel & Gretel and I Pagliacci for Opera in the Ozarks. Jennifer has also designed costumes for dance and film. Love and thanks to Elisha.

Scotti Rhodes (Industry Representative) is a publicist for theatre artists that has, during her long career, worked on up to 65 productions a year on behalf of actors, playwrights, and directors, although she admits to having worked with an occasional choreographer (Silvana Barbarini of the Vera Stasi Company of Rome, and filmmaker Sal Stabile and cast for Gravesend presented by Oliver Stone, among others). She has worked on plays associated with the New York International Fringe Festival since its inception including the production of Broken Hands by Moby Pomerance, directed by Marc Weitz, that won best play and outstanding performance by an actor. She was press representative for last year's Off-Broadway productions of A Brush with Georgia O' Keeffe and Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh that ran in repertory at St. Luke's Theatre. Get S.O.M. marks another of her happy collaborations with Small Pond Entertainment and wunderkind producer, Michael Roderick.

Michael Roderick (Director/Producer) started Small Pond Entertainment seven years ago when he found that it was virtually impossible for an artist to be at their best when they also had to produce. He developed a system for the advancement of a producing organization to be the umbrella for shows that lacked producers. Over the years Small Pond has become a major name in the NYC Theatre Community having presented shows in numerous venues and with hundreds of different artists. As Artistic Director, Michael has produced over 40 shows since his arrival in NY in September of 2002 and has been an associate producer for ROOMS: A Rock Romance Off Broadway as well as The New Hopeville Comics Off Broadway. He holds a BA in Secondary Ed English and Theatre performance from Rhode Island College and an MA from NYU in Educational Theatre Colleges and Communities. Michael also teaches English at LaSalle Academy where he is the head of the drama program. He has written 15 plays and his plays "I'll do it Tomorrow", "PROPS", and "The Disruptive, Discursive, Delusions of Donald" have been featured in the Best American Short Plays published by Applause books. He also blogs daily at http://oneproducerinthecity.typepad.com/ Michael would like to thank Lenny, Norah, Jesse, Alex, Allison, Duncan, Arienne, Emily, Margie, and the entire team for this incredible experience. Thank you to everyone for reminding me why I love doing this.

Arienne Pelletier (Producer) is usually acting as the Stage Manager but has just recently started working as a Producer. Last October she was an Associate Producer with terraNOVA Collective on Blue Before Morning and also worked with Many Tracks on The Man with the Newspaper Hat. She has recently joined Theatre of the Expendable as their Staff Producer. She has been Stage Managing for the last 8 years. Thank you to all the producers for giving me the opportunity experiences a different side of theatre with this amazing company. Much love to Bruce and family.

Elisha Schaefer (Set Designer) is originally from Santa Barbara, CA. Elisha holds a BA in theater from Vassar College and completed the Spring at Tisch program at NYU. In New York, favorite projects include: The Man in the Newspaper Hat (45th St. Theater), The Wedding Play (14th St. Theater), Anchors and Nate and Bette (Theater Row), If Wishes Were Horses (Altered Stages), and River's End (NYMF). He has also designed for Bristol Valley Theater, NYU Tisch, NYU Grad Film, Greenville HS, and Grace Church School. Recent projects include A Taste of Honey (Cherry Lane Studio) and Lysistrata (Greek Cultural Center). When he's not designing, Elisha can be found building sets at the Public Theater or photographing productions off-Broadway. Love and thanks to Jen.

Norah Turnham (Production Manager) has been taking a hiatus from theatre productions as she focuses on her work at NYU as a candidate for a master's in Educational Theatre. She has enjoyed jumping back on the bandwagon with TotSEB and is hoping her student teaching experiences next fall and spring semesters will bring opportunities to do more theatre! While Norah does sometimes work on the production end of things, she typically prefers to direct. Recent/Favorite directing credits include: Perfect Plan (EstroGenius Festival, MTS), Edging the Cliff (Impact Theatre), The Ancient Curse of the Druid (Forum, LGT), Cinderella (Tupper Lake High School), Nuda Veritas and her own adaptation of Peter Pan (Pendragon Theatre), and an all-female Miss Julie (Dickinson College). As always, love and thanks to Michael.

Victoria Watson (Board Operator) is stoked to be working with Theatre of the Small-Eyed Bear for the first time! She holds a BFA in musical theatre at the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, where she juggled her skills as an actor, director, choreographer and production manager. In New York City, she recently worked with TheatreWorks/USA’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as well as Dalliance Theater’s production of A Dream Play. Victoria is also an Artistic Associate with Dalliance Theater, and is looking forward to producing their new original work, Refractions, at the New York Fringe Festival this year.

Jared M. Silver (Sound Designer) is an animator/designer who also dabbles in the dark arts of the theatre. He is founding member of Quo Vadimus Arts. Credits include sound design for Women and Wallace and Death and the Maiden (Ambitious Theatre Co.), Johnny Got His Gun (Sleepless Theatre Co.); propsmaster for Julius Caesar and Zastrozzi: Master of Melodrama (The 7th Sign) and roughly a hundred million various things for the ID America Festival (Quo Vadimus Arts). Jared is a graduate of the Tisch Film & Television program, who can be visited online at www.jaredmsilver.com

Jesse Louis Hathaway (Properties Designer)is a graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU. He has built props and designed sets for venues such as NYU, HERE, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Public, and Donostiakoa (San Sebastian, Spain). Additionally, he performs with Theatre Group Dzieci, an experimental theatre group based in New York City, and is both recording and pursuing his passion for Mongolian and Tuvan throat singing. He is a Program Mangager at an Arts Non Profit in midtown and is currently working towards his PhD in Cultural Anthropolgy at CUNY.

Special Thanks:

Lighting Equipment provided by Lights Up & Cue Sound, LLC; Wilburn Bonnell, Victoria Miller, and Jason Jeunette for donations of supplemental lighting equipment; Marta Kelly; Kristine Raskopf; Gotham Sound and Communications, Inc.; our carpentry volunteers: Jaime Brandon, Carlos Sanchez, Carmen Miranda, L.R. Laverde-Hansen, Michael Whitney

And Christopher Hardy, Alan McNaney Katy Moore, Nicholas J. Nigro, Solomon Weisbard, and Caitlin McColl Williams (who worked on the previous production of Mare Cognitum)

Last December's Workshop Cast of Ore, or Or: Emma Canalese, Danelle Eliav, Rebecca Hirota, Carl Ka-Ho Li, Enoch Wu

Duncan thanks: Lisa Mason, for The Golden Nineties, David Mura, for Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, Harry Kondoleon for Diary of a Lost Boy, Andrew Wright for some Buddhist info and inspiration, 33mhz for info on Japanese kanji in surnames, Sacha Iskra for going above and beyond, and his bother for instilling a love of random trivia. ...And Wikipedia, for being an awesome thing.