Look After You: Cast &
Creatives
2009
New York International Fringe Festival
Production:
Jason
Altman (Jake)
Jason
is from Long Island, NY. He began his acting career in
1999, performing in many plays in NYC's theater district.
He has also appeared in many short films and web series. He
was given the Jean Dalrymple Award for most promising new
actor by the American Theater of Actors, and is a member of
Strings Attached Theater Company. Favorite credits
include:
SPITE at
FringeNYC 2008,
The Bacchae,
and
Open House.
Lowell Byers
(Paul)
Lowell
is s a recent graduate of Denison University, where he
combined his passion for acting with the determination
required to become a 26 time NCAA All-American swimmer.
Even with his busy schedule, he managed to perform in 6
productions as well as writing and performing a one-man
show,
Letters to Home.
Since graduation, he has played lead roles in one-act
festivals and world premiere plays, including Martin
in
A Simple Matter of Fear.
Before being cast in the Fringe, he originated the
character of Paul in the workshop production of
Look After You at
the Manhattan Theater Repertory. Lowell has studied with
Peter Miner of the Terry Schreiber Studios, and audition
and acting coach Ted Sluberski.
Louise
Flory (Hannah/Playwright)
Originally
from the Midwest, Louise spent a year in the UK getting her
Masters in Theatre before settling in New York. As an
actor, she was most recently seen on stage as Cebe in
MTWorks’ world-premiere of
The Oath.
Recent film projects include the upcoming feature
Paper Cut and
the current awarding-winning festival short
Elli and The Astronaut.
She can also be seen online in the complete first season
of
Issues: The Series.
As a writer, Louise is the author of the screenplay
Spaces In Between.
Look After You is
her first full-length play. 
Adi Kurtchik (Lucy)
Adi
was born and raised in Israel, Moved to NYC 9 years ago.
She is a former sergeant of the Israeli Army and is the
co-creator of the upcoming play
A Daughter of Israel,
based on her life stories as a female soldier, the play
will be going into production in 2010. You can currently
see her in the Israeli TV drama
nowhere else as
well as the upcoming film
The Dead Sea by
UTB productions. You can also catch her in an episode of
Showtime’s
Still Single.
David
Stallings (Director/Dramaturg)
Favorite
directing credits include: Tennessee Williams'
Suddenly Last Summer,
Edward Albee's
The American Dream,
Harold Pinter's
Betrayal,
and Anton Chekhov’s
Three Sisters.
He has been involved in New York Theater for the past seven
years. He has worked with several theater companies
including The Culture Project, Intravenous Theatre,
Prospect Theater Company, Early Stages and Square Peg
Theater Company. He is a founding member of Maieutic
Theatre Works, and serves as their Artistic Director. David
has written seven full-length plays and numerous short
pieces. Maieutic Theatre Works produced
Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs in
the fall of 2006 in New York City. Brandon Voss of HX
Magazine called the play, "Riveting" and named Stallings as
the "playwright to watch". Other plays include
Deceiving Chance,
Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell (Winner
of the 2nd Biennial Arthur W. Stone New Play Award--1st
Prize Winner Boston Theatre Works--Unbound Festival
2007--Semi Finalist for the Princess Grace Award
2008),
Arpeggio (produced
Fall '07 at the 45th Street Theater),
A Daughter of Israel,
and
Barrier Island.
On MTWorks' 2008 NYC Fringe production of
Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell,
the Village Voice said, "Thank the gods for David
Stallings' 'Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell'... a uniquely polished
presence at the Fringe", and The New York Press said, "For
a play about women but written by a man, it captured the
greater female psyche." David is currently working
on
A Song for Saint Michael’s and
The Seawall (both
part of the ‘Galveston Cycle’). David holds a BFA in
Theater from the College of Santa Fe, NM. He is also a
member of the Dramatists Guild Of
America.
Julie
Griffith (Producer)
Recent NYC
producing credits include: The
Oath by Jacqueline
Goldfinger (Arclight), MTWorks’ Into the
Underworld (Triad),
To
Barcelona! by Michael
Neiderman (Ignited States), Anaïs Nin
Goes To Hell by David
Stallings (FringeNYC), MTWorks' Underworld:
A Night With Broadway's Understudies
(D-Lounge),
Cody Daigle's Providence,
Arpeggio
by
David Stallings (45th Street Theatre); Intravenous
Theatre's Does Anyone
Know Sarah Paisner? by Jennifer
Lane, and IVT's '06-'07 Oh,
Hello! Reading
Series. Ms. Griffith is a graduate of the George
Washington University with honors in Theater, the recipient
of the Presidential Arts Scholarship for four years and The
Kevin Peter Hall Memorial Award for strength, creativity
and determination in the art of theater. She is the
Producing Director for Maieutic Theatre Works and is the
co-founder and Producing Director of Intravenous Theatre
Company. She has worked in booking at Richard Frankel
Productions, which included several touring shows, such
as Hairspray,
The
Producers,
The Rat
Pack and
Movin'
Out.
Most recently, she worked for 321 Theatrical Management,
which manages over eight companies of Wicked
worldwide.
Antonio
Minino/KampfirePR
(Press
Agent)
is
a native of the Dominican Republic, where he studied
theatre at the School of Dramatic Arts, and
co-hosted/produced for FashionTV. He has been acting,
producing and marketing NY theatre since he moved in 2005
to attend the Michael Howard Studios Summer Conservatory
and the One-Year Conservatory in 2006. Antonio is a
founding member and Director of Marketing for Maieutic
Theatre Works. He has been representing the best of
Off-Broadway theatre with Katie Rosin-Kampfire PR since
2007; Kampfire PR clients include: Astoria Performing Arts
Center, Ateh Theater Group, Boo-Arts Productions, Ignited
States, The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, Nicu's
Spoon, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, Maieutic Theatre Works,
ManyTracks, Woman Seeking...A Theater Company, Wreckio, as
well as, various productions at the Midtown International
Theater Festival and the New York International Fringe
Festival. Antonio is the Editor-In-Chief of The Fab
Marquee. You can contact Antonio at
Antonio@kampfirefilmspr.com.
Howard Tilkin (Production
Stage Manager)
is a junior at
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts studying stage management
and producing, where his credits include:
The Wild
Party (Stage
Manager), St.
Joan,
The
Giving,
A Map of
the World (ASM). Other
NYC stage management credits include: Macbeth
(Hipgnosis);
Midnight
Madness (NYMF),
Trees Like
Nails (FringeNYC);
A Park, A
Policeman, and A Pretty Girl (Shortened
Attention Span Musical Festival). He was also PSM
for 1776
and
Midnight
Madness for New Jersey
Youth Theatre at NJPAC as well as productions at various NJ
community theatres. As always, thanks to Mom and Dad for
their support.
Vin
Victorio (Costume
Designer)
This is Vin's
costume design debut with Maieutic Theatre Works. He has
styled, produced and directed various fashion shoots and
runway shows--from the italian designer Pianegonda to the
television show Fashion TV. Vin works in NYC as a fashion
stylist and is developing his own fashion consultant firm,
Victorio-Minino. You can contact Vin at
Info@victoriominino.com.
Dan
Gallagher (Lighting
Designer)
Recently
designed
Mrs. Warren’s Profession for
BOO-Arts,
Anais Nin Goes To Hell (MTWorks)
for the NYC Fringe Festival, and assisted on PBS’s Emmy
winning
Madama Butterfly at
NYC Opera. Dan was the 2005 Gilbert Hemsley Lighting
assistant at Lincoln Center, where he worked for New York
City Opera, New York City Ballet, the Lincoln Center
Festival, Julliard, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
He has taught lighting design at the University of
Wisconsin – Madison where he received his MFA and designed
shows for the University Opera and University Theatre
including,
The Secret Garden,
Dialogues of the Carmelites and
The Physicists for
which he won the 2003 Kennedy Center’s American College
Theatre Festival award for best lighting design. He has
also designed for CTM Madison Family Theatre, Madison
Savoyards, Renaissance Theaterworks (WI), Mary Washington
College, Endstation Theatre (VA), Arizona State University,
AMDA, Manhattan Children’s Theatre, and the Forestburgh
Playhouse (NY), and the New York, D.C. and Philadelphia
Fringe Festivals.
Martha
Goode (Sound
Designer)
Design
credits include
The Oath (MTWorks),
The Living (Stone
Soup),
To Barcelona! (Ignited
States),
Anais Nin Goes To Hell (FringeNYC,
MTWorks),
SPITE (FringeNYC,
Strings Attached)
The Witlings (Magis
Theatre)
Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner? (Intravenous
Theatre Company),
Edward II ((re:)
Directions Theatre Company),
Every Man (Ignited
States: winner Samuel French Short Play Festival),
Bordertown ((re:)
Directions Theatre Company),
Eye Out! (The
Brick Theatre),
Love Is Good (Love
Creek Productions),
Training Wisteria (NY
International Fringe Festival; Kennedy Center/ACTF, Boston
Playwright's Theater),
Translations of Xhosa (Kennedy
Center/ACTF, Boston University),
Merchant of Venice,
Twelfth Night &
As You Like It,
Blood Wedding,
No Place To Be Somebody (Boston
University). Martha is also the Director of Development for
MTWorks and co-owner of Night Owl Studios.
Dianna Martin
(Assistant
Director)
New York directing:
A Simple Matter of Fear (staged
reading, audience pick winner), MTWorks; and Coyote on a
Fence. Other directing:
The Dreamer Examines His Pillow,
Macbeth and
An Evening of Shanley.
TV:
Montage (live).
New York assistant directing:
Macbeth,
Oberon Theatre Ensemble. Film:
Lost Chi.
New York performing:
The Oath,
MTWorks;
Before the Next Blue Norther,
Abingdon Theatre, dir. Ernie Martin;
Hello Out There,
dir. Alex Dinelaris, Oberon Theatre Ensemble; and
A Thousand Variations on a Lie Told
Once,
MITF. Other performing:
Coyote on a Fence,
The Trial of God and
The Dutchman.
TV performing:
Montage (Host,
Reporter). Radio performing: Voodoo Jive, 90.3 FM, St.
Louis. Member of MTWorks, Oberon Theatre Ensemble and
TheFabMarquee.com. Acting instructor for MAS, NYFA and
Hunter College.
Nicol
C. Rosas-Ullman (Props
Designer/ASM)
is
thrilled to be sharing her first FringeNYC experience with
you. Recent NYC credits include
Gaugleprixtown (Studio
42, assistant stage manager), E.S.T.’s
30th Annual Marathon (Ensemble
Studio Theatre, wardrobe supervisor) and Vincent
Apollo’s
Overhere Overthere (Manhattan
Repertory Theatre, stage manager). Nichol holds a B.A. in
English from SUNY Albany where she began her work in
theater.
Lindsay
Moore (Graphic
Designer)
Kate
Enman (Photographer)
March
2009 Workshop Production:
MRT Winterfest Photo
Gallery
Laura Konsin (Director) completed
her BFA in Acting from New York University's Tisch School
of the Arts in 1999. Recently she received her MFA in
Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. While at CMU,
Laura directed the premiere production of
Down in Memminger by
David Kirby Fields. Other CMU credits include
The Glass Menagerie and
a thesis production of
Romeo and Juliet.
Since returning to New York, Laura has worked with such
companies as the 52nd Street Project, Urban Stages and the
Ensemble Studio Theater. Prior to that Laura directed at
venues such as Atlantic Acting School, The Children's
Museum of Manhattan, HERE Arts Center and La MaMa E.T.C.
Assistant Directing credits include NYU's Tisch School of
the Arts and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Originally
from the Midwest,
Louise Flory
(Writer, Hannah) spent
a year in the UK getting her Masters in Theatre before
settling in NYC. Recent film projects include the
short
Elli and the Astronaut from
the award winning Media at Large, LLC and the upcoming
feature
Paper Cut.
Louise will be seen on stage next as Cebe Tate in MTWorks'
world premiere of Jacqueline Goldfinger's
The Oath.
She has also jumped into the world of YouTube and comic
books as the enigmatic heroine of
Issues: The Series.
www.louiseflory.com.
Matt W. Cody
(Jake) Regional:
The Night of Nosferatu (Rabbit
Hole Ensemble/Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater). New
York:
The Patron Saint of Plants (Ensemble
Studio Theater),
The Selkie (Urban
Stages),
When Lucy Ran Away (Urban
Stages),
The Good Negro (Lark
Theater),
Tickets, Please! (Algonquin
Theater Productions),
White Paper (Kraine
Theater),
Journey of the Fifth Horse (Ward
Studio). With Rabbit Hole Ensemble:
Shadow of Himself,
Big Thick Rod (FringeNYC
2008/Access Theater Spotlight Series),
Nosferatu: The Morning of My Death (MITF
Award Nominee for Best Ensemble). Film:
Never Say Jesus,
Substandard,
Life Passion Death (Bare
Bones International Film Festival). Resident Artist with
Rabbit Hole Ensemble.
www.mattwcody.com
Heather Leonard
(Lucy) grew
up in the San Francisco Bay Area where she was introduced
to theatre at a young age and developed a long-standing
love for performing arts. Academics and sports, however,
took her focus throughout school and she graduated from UC
Berkeley (barely) with a degree in Economics. She has had a
successful on and off Wall Street career, which has allowed
her to face her stage fright and pursue her goal of
becoming an actor.
www.heatherleonard.net
Lowell Byers (Paul) is
a recent graduate of Denison University, where he combined
his passion for acting with the determination required to
become a 26 time NCAA All-American swimmer. Even with his
incredibly busy schedule, he managed to perform in 6
productions as well as writing and performing a one-man
show,
Letters to Home.
Since graduation, he has played lead roles in a one-act
festival, and participated in MTW’s Newborn Series, playing
Martin in
A Simple Matter of Fear.
Lowell has studied with Peter Miner of the Terry Schreiber
Studios, and audition and acting coach Ted Sluberski. He
has recently taken up boxing, as well as competing in
Triathlons.
www.lowellbyers.com
After
graduating from Purchase College with a degree in Studio
Production,
Frank Wartinger
(Score Composition) has
been studying audiology at Salus University in
Philadelphia. He works extensively as a producer and
engineer with a variety of artists, as well as
collaborating with Studio Rever Motion Picture Co.
providing original music and sound design. This fall marked
the launch of The Cosmonaut Union, a joint music production
company with musicians and producers from his hometown of
Rochester, New York.
www.cosmonautunion.com
Carl
Wiemann (Lighting & Sound Design)
is
a lighting designer for theatre, television, and
architecture. Selected designs include:
Twelfth Night (Theatre
Row),
Midsummer,
R U Prime (NY
Fringe),
Give US Bread (BAX),
Manifesto! (DC
Fringe),
Agamemnon and The Choephorae (Carnegie
Mellon). Assistant LD: MTV, VH1, Pittsburgh Public Theater,
Round House Theatre, New World Stages. Carl is most
interested in the classics, dance, naturalism, and
well-written musical theater. Architecturally, he designs
immersive environments for retail, hotels and restaurants,
residences, and public areas. Carl holds a BFA in Drama
from Carnegie Mellon.