BIOGRAPHIES
Robin
Carus
(Co-Artistic Director ) casts independently, as well as for
Theatreworks/USA casting over 150 productions including tours, new musicals and
plays, workshops, and readings. Off-Broadway: A Christmas Carol (Lortel); Walk
Two Moons (Lortel); Cam Jansen (Lamb's Theatre), Like You Like It (including
inceptions at the Beckett Theatre/NYMF, York Theatre, NAMT, ASCAP, BMI,
Century Center); Junie B. Jones (Lortel); The Summer of the Swans (Lortel);
Sarah, Plain and Tall (NAMT, O'Neill Festival, Lortel). Off-Off Broadway: City
of Dreams (EST, Midtown International Theatre Festival); First In Flight (EST),
Roadicide: the Album (HERE). Regional: Queen Esther (
Forum Theatre
,
NJ
). Industrial: FUSE Network
Jolyn
J. Kramberg (Literary Manager); , is both a teacher and an actress. She has taught 2nd
grade at
Manhattan
Day School
for the past 7 years. She was a drama major at
LaGuardia
High School
for the Performing Arts and studied Theater and Education at
Brandeis
University
. Jolyn has appeared off-off Broadway, in student films, and in various
productions both in college and around the city.
Harriet Spitzer-Picker (Managing
Director)
has appeared in many off and off-off-Broadway productions. Her
acting credits include Kerouac, Macbeth, and Wiseacre
Farm. She has also directed numerous productions. A
member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, her past Directing
Credits include The Biz, Personal
Response, and Blackberry Tea. Harriet
holds a BFA in Theatre from
Pace
University
and an MA in Educational Theater from
New York
University. She is a former schoolteacher and currently teaches Creative Dramatics
at the Henry Street Settlement. .
Christopher Thomas (Board
Member) is a theatre professor at
Pace
University
and an award-winning theatre designer in his own right.
Mr. Thomas also serves on the boards of both the Yangtzee Repertory
Company and Harlem Classical Theatre believing in and supporting the power of
ethnically based theatre work.
Eric Winick
(Board Member) hails from
Marblehead
,
Massachusetts
, birthplace of the American Navy. His
play Rearviewmirror was developed at
the 2005 Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference.
Plays produced in NYC include Rose,
Jimmy, and June (Raw Impressions Musical Theatre at LaMama ETC); The
Vocal Lords (Theatre at St. Clements); Lay
Me Down (Reverie Productions at the Present Company Theatorium), Whiskey Down (Mazer Theatre), The
Biz (Expanded Arts), (silent)Metamorphosis
(adapt. from Kafka, Expanded Arts, also dir.), and Ian Fleming Presents Steve Gallin in Nobody Dies Forever (FringeNYC,
also dir.).
Readings
and/or workshops at Theater Masters (
Aspen
), Manhattan Theatre Club (Peaking,
part of the first “6@6” Series), MCC Theatre, and
Reverie Productions. A graduate of
Middlebury
College
, Eric works at Playwrights Horizons as its Director of Marketing.
He is a resident of Park Slope,
Brooklyn
.
