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The CRY HAVOC Company maintains and supports a corps of actors, writers, and directors who are dedicated to the development of new plays and to undertaking projects aimed at honing their craft and the craft of others.
Melisa Breiner-Sanders, Actor Josh Bywater, Actor Josh Casaubon, Actor
Melisa Breiner-Sanders has starred in several feature length independent films including Women's Studies, Conversations, and Holler Creek Canyon. On stage she has been in As You Like It, God Bless You, Mister Scrooge!, Little Bird, Becket, The Women, Vinegar Tom, The Laramie Project and more. She is a member with the online sketch comedy group Awkward Johnsons, began her own online sketch comedy group, RandomBS, where she writes, shoots, directs, produces and edits many of the sketches, and performs live sketches with Camp Wayne (company member). To see clips, photos and more information, visit www.MelisaBS.com. Melisa is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Josh Bywater recently collaborated with CRY HAVOC on realer than that (Samuel French Festival). In New York, he was seen in His Name is Edgar (Manhattan Rep) and Good Enough (CRY HAVOC). Regionally, he was in Tennessee Williams' One Arm (Steppenwolf Theatre/Tectonic Theater/About Face) and The Story (Goodman Theatre). Other shows include Picnic and Time and the Conways (Griffin Theatre-Chicago), and The Chosen and Lebensraum (New Jewish Theatre-St. Louis), among others. He has appeared on Grey's Anatomy and As the World Turns, as well as in several short films. He has studied at The School at Steppenwolf. Josh is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Josh Casaubon has appeared Off-Broadway in The American Pilot at MTC (directed by Lynne Meadow) and The Understudy at Roundabout Theatre Company. Other favorite New York credits include Party Girl, Red & Tan Line, You Can Do Better, and Yukon Brass, among many others. Film and television appearances include The Good Shepherd, 27 Dresses, Invasion, Rick, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Army Wives, "Hugh" on One Life to Live, and Rainbow Rabbit Reliant (which he also produced for his company, LeosPlayground Productions). Josh is a member of Actors Equity and an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Mary Cavett, Actor Will Clark, Actor Chris Comfort, Actor
Mary Cavett is a proud member of Actors Equity and holds a BFA in Drama from NYU/Tisch. She is a member of the movement faculty at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and is the Co-Curator and Program Coordinator for the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre Artists In Residence (MAD AIR) Space Grant for emerging choreographers and physical theatre makers. Mary is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Previously a music teacher with a degree from FSU School of Music, Will Clark moved to New York in 2005 to study theater. He studied Meisner technique under the tutelage of JoAnna Beckson. He has since starred in dozens of short films, including Go Down To Jordan, which was recently featured at the 2009 ACE Film Festival. Will has developed screenplays, including works of his own, with the Renart Films production team, as well as other established filmmakers, and is proud and pleased to play a role in the cultivation of various theater and film projects being developed by CRY HAVOC. Will is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Chris Comfort is an actor, music composer/producer, model, and sound designer. His recent stage work has included playing the title role in The Cooking King as well as six different roles in Kristy Hasen’s Business. He has appeared in Guiding Light, Damages, and the web series Velvet Moon Chronicles and as the lead in the independent short film, Dirty Laundry. Over the years, Chris has been seen in numerous regional, national, and international commercials. Chris just made his film scoring debut with Rainbow Rabbit Reliant, which instantly opened the door to several new scoring projects. He is also writing and recording music (as the ambient/dream rock project Thebe) for his follow-up to the album The Engine of God. Chris is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Sharon E. Cooper, Playwright Matt Cowart, Director Peter J. Crosby, Actor/Playwright
Sharon Cooper’s four full-length plays and dozen short plays have had productions, staged readings, readings and workshops in New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland and Idaho. Her short play Mistaken Identity is published in Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays (Vintage Press: Lane/Shengold, ed. 2007) and The Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press 2010). After productions by The Milk Can Theatre Company and The Rising Sun Performance Company, The Cooking King was produced in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival 2009 (Kitt Lavoie, director) and will be published in The Best Short Plays of 2010 (Smith and Kraus: Harbison, ed.). Sharon studied at the Kennedy Center’s Playwriting Intensive Program and Stonybrook Southampton’s Playwriting Conference. Sharon is a teacher, yoga instructor, member of the Dramatists Guild, and an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. In March of 2010, Matt Cowart will be producing Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, at Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic. Recent credits include: Two Gentleman of Verona: The Rock Musical (The Thrust Theater) All Fall Down (45th St. Theater) Broadway: Three Generations (Kennedy Center, co-directed with Lonny Price), Camelot with the New York Philharmonic (Associate Director); My Favorite Things, (Associate Director); Beautiful Girls (Associate Director); the Broadway revival of 110 in the Shade, Kiki Baby ([Eugene O'Neill Music Theater Conference), the world premiere of We Three (Clark Studio Theater, Lincoln Center) He was a 2004/2005 Kenan Directing Fellow at the Lincoln Center Institute, is an alumnus of the 2005 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Matt is a graduate of UNCSA and an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Peter J. Crosby, a member of Actors Equity, has appeared in numerous musical and dramatic productions in New York and in regional theatres across the country. He also serves as Acting Managing Director for CRY HAVOC. Most recently, he played Henry Jekyll in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at the Public Theatre. Other featured roles include Father Flynn in Doubt, Anthony Wilding in Enchanted April, and Walker/Ned in Three Days of Rain. Peter has also appeared on the Onion News Network, As the World Turns, and in several independent films. Peter received his MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory. Peter is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Sarah Curtis, Actor Erin Deal, Actor
Derrick DeMaria, Actor/Playwright
Sarah Curtis moved to New York to act after earning a BA in Comparative Religion and English from Harvard College. She first worked with the CRY HAVOC team on Creative Writing and most recently appeared as Elizabeth in productions of Kitt Lavoie's Good Enough at the Rising Sun Performance Company and in the Samuel French New Play Festival. Sarah trained at The School at Steppenwolf (Chicago, IL) and has worked on and off stage around New York City. Sarah is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Erin Deal is an actress and stuntwoman. She has appeared on stage with CRY HAVOC as Kal in the original production of Party Girl and as Elizabeth in Good Enough. Film work includes principal roles in Breakdown, Tinted Vision, and D.O.L.L.S., and she has appeared on television on C.S.I.: NY, Gossip Girl, and as Amber in the pilot Muse. She has studied with Steve Beauchamp and at the New York Action Actor's Academy. Erin is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Derrick DeMaria has appeared in Slaughter City (Sausage Man) and Blood Wedding (Leonardo) at Goucher College and in New York in Glory Days (Cornelias), Mr. Horizon (Teague), and The Gin Dialogues (Jack), which was developed with the CRY HAVOC Workshop. He is currently studying acting in the Department of Theater at Fordham University. Derrick is a founding member of the BurnLab and an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Zoë Frazer, Actor Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Actor Aubyn Philabaum, Actor
Zoë Frazer is a native New Yorker who holds an MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School University. Some of her New York City film and theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Adventures of Little Men, The Memory of Water, Bastard of Orleans or Looking for Joan, and Hamlet. Zoë is a founding member of the Third Encore Company and an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Off B'way and beyond: Spinning the Times, End of Lines, Clocks and Whistles (Origin), Don't Quit Your Night Job (Bernstein), Still Lives (WorkShop), Language of Angels, We Three (LCI), Balm in Gilead (Barefoot), Ping-Pong Diplomacy (Reverie). Regional: The Playboy of the Western World, SyngeCYCLE (Pitt. Irish and Classical), ...Inishmore (Florida Studio Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (Roanoke Island Festival). TV/Film: Guiding Light, 3 Lbs, Across the Universe. Stars in Natural Causes, a current film festival favorite. As a playwright: We Three (LCI, LCT Directors Lab), Proximity (Sonnet), Lacy Hoodoo (MUDasMAN). Jerzy also spends his time working as a teacher and a birthday clown in the greater NYC area. Training: UNCSA. Jerzy is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Aubyn Philabaum was recently named one of the Twelve Freshest Faces of 2009 in New York Theater by justshowstogoyou.com. She has worked both regionally and in NY with The Yale Rep, ACT, CRY HAVOC, Singularity, The Kraine, Brooklyn Arts, Mills Entertainment/BASE Ent. She has also appeared in numerous commercials, educational videos and short films throughout NYC and the Southwest. Company Member, InViolet Rep. BFA in acting, Boston University and LAMDA; MFA in acting, Yale School of Drama. Aubyn is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Becky Sterling, Actor
Becky Sterling Rygg hails from Seattle where, after a brief stint as an accountant, she studied and worked in both film and theatre. Becky is an ensemble member of Rising Sun Performance Company and a community member of Endtimes Productions, in particular, the Freedom Instinct Theatre workshop. Her recent roles include Lorelei in Party Girl, Susan in The Cooking King, Jessica in [pwnd], Becky in Through the Lens and Henderson in Basic Contributor. Becky is an Associate Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.