Associate Artists

Other production credits include American Dead with American Theatre Company (Chicago), the go with Terrapin Theatre Company (Chicago), Empty with Stage Left Theatre (Chicago), Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing and twentyone with Spring Theatreworks (New York), Drawing War with Chicago Dramatists and The Last Barbecue with the Asylum Theatre (Las Vegas), The Aardvark (Chicago) and 29th Street Rep (New York).

Brett has also worked with various play development groups such as The Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, No Shame Theatre in Iowa City and Chicago, The Echo Theater in Los Angeles, The New Group and The 42nd Street Workshop in New York and he is currently a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Brett is also a guest lecturer at Northwestern University.

He has been commissioned twice by Steppenwolf Theatre Company for their New Plays Initiative. He has also received the Goodman Theatre's Ofner Prize for New Work, for which he wrote the play Heritage, featured in the Goodman Theatre's 2004 New Stages Series.

Copies of his plays Drawing War, The Last Barbecue, and Eagle Hills, Eagle Ridge, Eagle Landing can be purchased from Broadway Play Publishing

As an actor, he has an impressive resume with extensive credits in film, television and theater that includes classic movies and TV shows like Pleasantville, Seabiscuit, "Seinfeld", "Nip/Tuck" and "Third Rock from the Sun". He is best known for the five years he played Jonathan Levinson on the landmark television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for which he was named "One of the Top Ten Scene Stealers on Television" by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is also widely recognized for his four seasons as "Doyle" on the beloved WB show, "Gilmore Girls."

Highlights of his live show credits include the world premiere of Pearl Harbor, Fantasia 2000 World Tour and Shark Tale at the Venice International Film Festival.

He has designed corporate presentations for some of the largest companies in the world including Microsoft, Toyota, Disney, Ford, DreamWorks, Hyundai, Mazda, Suzuki, and Paramount.

He is a partner at NYXdesign.

was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on Long Island, where his father was a self-employed plastic slipcover cutter and his mother tried to program computers. Gary started writing plays a year after graduating from Princeton University, where he majored in English with a concentration in Theater. He received an MFA from NYU's Dramatic Writing Program.

He has been a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting and received a Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. He has been a writer-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre Studio inn London, and is a member of the MCC Theater Playwrights Coalition and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. He wrote, co-created, and co-produced the documentary What I Want My Words To Do To You (Freedom of Expression Award, Sundance Film Festival; Audience Award, Lake Placid Film Festival; Crystal Award, Heartland Film Festival; HBO Audience Award for Top Documentary, Provincetown International Film Festival), which premiered nationwide on PBS’s P.O.V. He currently writes for the HBO series "Hung".

His acting resume that includes “How I Met Your Mother,” “CSI: New York,” “Gilmore Girls,” “Time of Your Life,” and “Dr. Vegas.” He starred in the critically acclaimed independent film, Peroxide Passion, for which he won the Toronto Planet Indie Film Festival’s Best Actor Award. He co-conceived and wrote Loudmouth Soup, a fully improvised film about actors trying to make it in Hollywood, released in 2005. He also starred in the Hallmark Channel’s original movie Love’s Abiding Joy, written and directed by Michael Landon, Jr.

Jared's work has been represented throughout the US, on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West-End, Spain, Edinburgh, Las Vegas, theme parks, and on international tours. Regionally he’s designed for ICT, the Colony (Ovation Nomination for Trying), LA Opera, Reprise Theatre Company, Civic Light Opera of South Bay, Cabrillo and Flicker House Productions revival of The Who’s Tommy (Ricardo Montalban Theatre). Broadway credits: Bravo Bernstein, Gotham Glory at Carnegie Hall. Jared was the US Assistant Designer for the Broadway productions of PRIMO, The Woman in White, & the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off-Broadway: Humble Boy, FAME, Nobody Don’t Like Yogi, & Ministry of Progress. Other design affiliations: LA Lakers at Staples Center, LA Auto Show, 09’ Neil Diamond world tour and in 2008 lighting Pope Benedict XVI in NY for the Papal Rally. Recently he completed designing the 2010 USA International Ballet Competition. His architectural designs are seen regularly in restaurants and exhibits as well as the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. Jared became the youngest member of the United Scenic Artists-Local 829 and serves as a trustee to the executive board. www.jaslighting.com

Jeremy Pivnick is a freelance Lighting Designer based in New York and Los Angeles. He graduated with a BA in Theatre (with Minors in Cinema-Television and Creative Writing) from the University of Southern California. He has been a prominent member of the Los Angeles theatre community for many years and has designed over 250 productions in LA, New York, Chicago, and beyond, at places like Northlight, San Jose Rep, Capitol Rep, South Coast Rep, the Laguna Playhouse, the Pasadena Playhouse. Recently, his work was seen in New York in the hit Off-Broadway musical The Marvelous Wonderettes, which ran at the Westside Theatre for 18 months and he has designed many productions of the show regionally, as well. Jeremy has been honored with numerous awards and nominations, including the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement, 2 LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards (18 nominations), and 4 Backstage West Garland Awards (including 2 awards for Outstanding Year in Lighting Design). www.jeremypivnick.com

John received his MFA in Directing from UCLA, and has been a Guest Artist at the Sundance Institute, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill Center. He was a founding member of Annex Theater in Seattle, and has worked regionally, Off-Broadway, Off-West End, and in Europe at the English National Opera, the Royal Opera, and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. John has received numerous honors, and was guest director-in-residence at The Hartford Stage and New York’s The Acting Company. His world premiere of Robert Sherwood’s SPIN was Time Out Critic’s Choice four times, and ran Off-West End in the “Best of the Critic’s Choice” season. His world premiere of Hilly Hicks’ A Hole in the Dark was selected among the Top Five Plays of the Year in Atlanta. John directed Joe Hortua’s Making It at Sundance, and Sylvia Jaunzarins’ Chronic Withholding at the Arcade Theatre in Los Angeles, and co-wrote and directed Glory Pie for a sold out run at the Coronet Theater. In 2009, he made his debut with the Echo Theater, directing Hilly Hicks’s one-act play The Local Color. Currently, John is creating a high school for the visual and performing arts in inner-city Los Angeles.

California theater credits (representative): Three Women (Echo Theater Company), Adramelech’s Monologue (Bootleg Theater), The Circular Schoolhouse (REDCAT), 365 Plays/365 Days (24th Street Theater), My Uncle Sam (Sacred Fools), W.W. of Oz (The Brewery Arts Complex), The Sandman (Edge Of The World Festival), and Macbeth (Walt Disney Modular Theater).

New York City theater credits (representative): The Thursday Project (LAByrinth Theater Company), Woyzeck (Westbeth Theater Center), Theme with Variation (Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab/Judson Church), and The Scrivener, a musical (HERE).

For four seasons Josh served on the advisory committee for the Sundance Theatre Lab. In 2006 Pendulum Pictures released Josh's feature film Blood Rites both domestically and internationally. He holds degrees in Directing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and California Institute of the Arts.

Kira Obolensky’s new plays include Modern House (finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize) and Lune, pronounced loony, commissioned and produced by the B Street Theatre, with thanks to the NEA and Irvine Foundation. Her story, “Snow Man,” commissioned by Open Eye Figure Theatre will be adapted by the theatre into a puppet play for adults and children. A new play, Cabinet of Wonders; an impossible history, has received funding from the Pew Theatre Initiative for a production at Gas and Electric Arts in Philadelphia (fall of 2009). Her adaptation of Crime and Punishment, called Raskol, won a national playwriting commission from Ten Thousand Things Theatre. It will premiere in an area prison April of 2009. And an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, a co-production of the Guthrie Theatre and The Acting Company, will open at the Guthrie in January 2010.

Kira has worked collaboratively with choreographers and visual artists and is co-founder of The Gymnasium, a consortium of nationally known artists and scientists and innovators involved in the incubation of new work and ideas. Force/Matter, created by The Gymnasium, was recently produced by Shawn McConneloug and her Orchestra at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. She’s collaborated with University of Minnesota students and theatre professionals Shawn McConneloug, Luverne Seifert, Michael Sommers and Eric Jensen on a site-specific University of Minnesota presentation and adaptation of The Master and Margarita. (One of City Pages’ top 10 productions of the year.) She is currently working on a national initiative regarding online identity.

Her short puppet and film piece, poor little poor girl, premiered at Flat Works, produced by Open Eye Figure Theatre in fall of 2004. And her play Quick Silver, which premiered as a play for puppets and actors in Minneapolis, was produced by 3Legged Race and The Playwrights’ Center. Named by Twin Cities Critics as the “most outstanding experimental theatre event of 2003,” it was presented in Prague, June 2006, where it was lauded for its script and visual landscape, and was subsequently produced by Gas and Electric Arts in Philadelphia. Other plays include Lobster Alice (Kesselring Prize, finalist for Susan Smith Blackburn, published in Best Plays by American Women 2000, and produced in Atlanta, California, Texas, Minneapolis, Off Broadway, and Los Angeles, with Noah Wylie as Salvador Dali); The Adventures of Herculina, (Honorable Mention Kesselring Prize, Edith Oliver Award, produced in Chicago and in Minneapolis). Other plays include Pleasure Cruise, commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre and published in Best 10 Minute Plays of 2002-03; Collective Nightmare, commissioned by the McCarter Theatre and A New House, or 21 Lies for Four Characters. She is a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a Bush Foundation fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Jim Henson Foundation grants, a Jerome Fellowship and a McKnight Advancement Grant.

Kira is a graduate of Williams College and the Juilliard School’s Playwriting Fellowship Program and recently received her MFA in Fiction Writing from Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers. She is also a published author (The Not-So-Big House,co-author; Garage: Reinventing the Place we Park; and Good House/Cheap House.) Writers. She teaches at Goddard’s MFA Interdisciplinary Arts Program and at the University of Minnesota.

www.kiraobolensky.com

is the author of seven plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, and Monstrosity. The Atlantic Theater Company opened its 2007/08 season with Scarcity. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has produced three of her plays, Where We’re Born, Killers and Other Family and Stay. Bottom of the World was commissioned and workshopped by Women’s Expressive Theater, Inc. at the Eugene O’Neill, the first Tribeca Theater Festival and The Public Theater. Monstrosity was workshopped at Encore Theatre Company (San Francisco) and produced at 13P. She was the recipient of the 2000-01 Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship, and has been a guest artist at Alaska’s Perseverance Theatre twice, where she helped to adapt both Moby Dick and Desire Under the Elms. She has had reading and workshops at Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, Encore Theatre Company, PlayPenn, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New River Dramatists and Soho Rep. She was one of three playwrights in residence at The Orchard Project, summer 2007. Her ten-minute play, Dinner, is published in Not So Sweet, a collection of plays from Soho Rep’s 10-Minute Play Festival. Scarcity was published in the December 2007 issue of American Theatre. Her produced plays are published by Dramatists Play Service. She is a member of New Dramatists, MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, 13P, and Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. She is currently writing a new play under commission from Playwrights Horizons. She is the recipient of the 1st Gary Bonasorte Memorial Prize for Playwrighting 2008.

Most recently, Edwards completed filming The Social Network written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher.  She has also guest starred on many shows such as "Lie to Me", "CSI", "Without a Trace" and "How I Met Your Mother".

Earlier in her career she worked on such acclaimed shows as "ER", "NYPD Blue", "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Friends", "The X-Files", "JAG", "Judging Amy" and a Peabody-Award winning episode of "Boston Public".  She became more generally known, though, by her recurring roles as Nurse Laurel Canyon on the critically acclaimed "Chicago Hope" and as Teena Davis in another Stephen Bochco vehicle "Philly".

Edwards screen credits include To Save a Life, The Secret of a Horse, All Over Again, October 22nd, Race and Kinfolks.

Her stage credits include 1-800-Call-God, Wildlife, A Thimble of Smoke, Adam & Eva Maria, Looney Town and The Emerald Society.  She received a nomination for Best Actress from the ADA for her work in the latter.

plays include Jump / Cut, which recently premiered to great acclaim at Woolly Mammoth and Theater J in Washington, DC. Other plays include Hard Feelings, A Common Vision, Tomorrowland, Failure to Thrive and The Brief but Exemplary Life of the Living Goddess. Her one-acts include Misreadings, which premiered at Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival and is published in The Best American Short Plays 1996-1997. She has received an A.S.K. Exchange to The Royal Court Theatre, an Amblin Commission from Playwrights Horizons, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award for new plays. She is a member of New Dramatists, HB Playwrights Unit and The Women's Project.

Her short film Bad Dates (based on her monologue Food) was directed by Des McAnuff for Touchstone. Her writing for children's television ("Little Bear", "Clarissa Explains It All", HBO's "Happily Ever After" fairy tale series, "Pepper Ann") has garnered Emmy and Ace Award nominations. She has also written for MTV's "Daria", and is currently collaborating on a pilot for HBO.

Her writing has been published in Hobo magazine and in "The Solo Performer's Journey" by Michael Kearns. She is a proud member of "Girls On Stilts", has performed at the Groundlings, and is currently at work on her next solo show tentatively titled "Penelope Gets Knocked Up".