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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 Mary Cavett, Actor
Melisa Breiner-Sanders received her BA in Psychology from Georgetown University and, yes, is psychoanalyzing all of you. Some favorite acting credits – Film: Women's Studies, Holler Creek Canyon, Underpaid Narrator. Stage: As You Like It, Becket, and The Laramie Project. TV: One Life to Live and All Worked Up. Online/New Media: The Toy Collector. Melisa writes, performs and produces sketch both live and online, appeared on CollegeHumor.com, featured on HuffingtonPost.com, studied sketch at the Upright Citizens Brigade and has a lot of sketches coming up. To see clips, photos and more information, visit www.MelisaBS.com. Melisa is a member of AFTRA and Actors Equity and a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Josh Bywater has been an actor in NYC since 2006. Productions with CRY HAVOC include realer than that and Good Enough (Samuel French Festival). Regionally, he was seen in The Crucible (Ozark Actors Theatre), 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, including mentor, which is currently making the film festival circuit. He has studied at The School at Steppenwolf. Josh is a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. Mary Cavett is an actor, dancer and occasional clown. She has performed classical and contemporary theatre in New York and regionally with companies including: CRY HAVOC, FringeNYC, Chester Theatre Company, Sightlines Theatre Company, and Theatreworks/USA. Mary was featured in the recent independent film Surrogate Valentine and has appeared on All My Children. She is a founding member of the Ragdoll Engine Collective with whom she has developed original works of physical theatre and performed at venues including NOLA Fringe, Triskelion Arts’ Comedy in Dance Festival, and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus Variety Show. Mary is also a Radio City Rockette. BFA in Theatre from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and RADA. She is a member of Actors Equity Association and the American Guild of Variety Artists. Mary is a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Annalisa Chamberlin, Actor Will Clark, Actor Chris Comfort, Actor
Annalisa Chamberlin is a graduate of The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. Recent acting credits in New York include, Ophelia in The Next To The Last Hamlet On The Left (Wallis Knot Theater), and Priscilla in Oh My! The Musical at the IRT. Annalisa is a Resident 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 a Resident 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 a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Sharon E. Cooper, Playwright Matt Cowart, Director Peter J. Crosby, Actor
Matt Cowart produced Sondheim: The Birthday Concert and Mr. Sondheim's Company 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), and 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 a Resident 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 a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Sharon E. Cooper’s five full-length plays and dozen short plays have had productions from coast to coast. Her full length plays cover a broad range of topics--from the struggles of an intergenerational Jewish family (Lifeline, 2001) to an Israel/Palestine play inspired by a true story (Door of Hope, 2003) to a play about three gay men and one of their mothers (Running, 2007). Mistaken Identity, originally published in Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays (Vintage Press: Lane/Shengold, ed. 2007), is also published in The Bedford Introduction to Literature (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 9th edition). The Cooking King was produced in the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival, 2009 (Kitt Lavoie, director) and will be published in The Best Short Plays of 2010 (Smith and Kraus: Harbison, ed.). She studied playwriting at the Kennedy Center’s Playwriting Intensive Program. Sharon is a teacher, yoga instructor, member of the Dramatists Guild, and a proud Resident Playwright at The CRY HAVOC Company.
Jennifer Curfman, Actor Sarah Curtis, Actor Timothy Davis, Actor
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 a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Jennifer Curfman has been seen on the New York stage working with such companies as The Century Center, American Globe Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Boomerang Theatre, and the New York City Opera (on the New York premiere of Dead Man Walking). Regionally, Jennifer has worked with the Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Carolinian Shakespeare Festival, Luna Stage, the Colonial Theatre, and The Cleveland Opera, among many others. Favorite roles include Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, Hermia in Midsummer…, the Student in Ionesco’s The Lesson, Aksuysha in The Forest, and Wendy in Peter Pan. Jennifer holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of Actors Equity, a regular participant in the 24Seven Lab, a Resident Artist and Associate Artistic Director of The CRY HAVOC Company. A founding member and current Associate Artistic director of The CRY HAVOC Company, as well as a lifetime member of the Actors Studio, Tim has been fortunate enough to work on stage and on screen with Steven Soderbergh, John Mahoney, Rip Torn, Stephen Lang, Allan Miller, Urinetown's Marc Hollman, and many great artists, and with prominent theaters all over the country, such as the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Circle in the Square Downtown, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, About Face Theatre, and Diversecity Theatre. He's had the honor of playing many of the great Shakespearean roles, such as Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Mercutio, as well as appearing in other exciting projects such as Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and the only Quentin Tarantino-authorized stage production of Reservoir Dogs. Timothy is a Resident Artist and Associate Artistic Director of The CRY HAVOC Company.
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Zoë Frazer, Actor Jerzy Gwiazdowski, Actor
Kerry Flanagan, 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 a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Kerry Flanagan received her BA from Fordham University and her MFA from New School University (Actors Studio Drama School). She has appeared in many CRY HAVOC productions, including The Median Line and Romeo & Juliet. Other New York productions include the rock musical Jessie, several installments of The Chris Betz Show, Al Takes a Bride, Jesus Christ Superstar, and It's Karate, Kid! - The Musical (winner of NYIT award for best new musical), among others. She has also appeared in several readings of new musicals in development with Hell's Kitchen Musicals. She is a background vocalist for The Eden White Band, with whom she performed at Lilith Fair. Kerry is a member of Actors Equity, a lifetime member of The Actors Studio, and a Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of The CRY HAVOC Company. Broadway: The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Off-Broadway and beyond: Spinning the Times, End of Lines, Clocks and Whistles (Origin), Don't Quit Your Night Job (Above the Title prod.), Still Lives (WorkShop), Language of Angels, We Three (Lincoln Center Institute), Balm in Gilead (Barefoot), Ping-Pong Diplomacy (Reverie). Regional: The Playboy of the Western World, SyngeCYCLE (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical), ...Inishmore (Florida Studio Theatre), The Comedy of Errors (Roanoke Island Festival). TV/Film: Law & Order: SVU, Guiding Light, 3 Lbs, Across the Universe, and the independent feature Natural Causes. As a playwright: We Three (LCI, Lincoln Center Directors Lab), Proximity (Sonnet), Lacy Hoodoo (MUDasMAN), Michael Bay's America, Part IV (CRY HAVOC). Training: North Carolina School of the Arts. Jerzy is a Resident Artist and Managing Director with The CRY HAVOC Company.
Cavan Hallman, Playwright Jenny Kirlin, Actor
William Jackson Harper, Actor
Jenny Kirlin recently filmed featured roles in the films Rainbow Rabbit Reliant (Best Supporting Actress, Atlantic City Cinefest), Motherhood (with Uma Thurman) and The Messenger (with Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster). Other film credits include Across the Universe, Love Simple, Knees, and Office Mobius. New York theater credits include I've Never Told Anyone This (Hecate), realer than that (Colleen), and The Median Line (Kate). Favorite role is Romeo in Romeo & Juliet for The CRY HAVOC Company. For more information, visit www.jennykirlin.com. Jenny is a proud member of Actors Equity and the Screen Actor's Guild and is a Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of The CRY HAVOC Company.
Cavan Hallman is a writer, actor, and director. His plays have been performed at Strawdog Theatre, Shotgun Theatre Festival, Left Hip Productions, Donny’s Skybox, The Artistic Home, RhinoFest, KAPOOT, and Columbia College Chicago, where he received a degree in playwriting. As writer/director for the Windy City Players his plays have received over 12,000 performances in elementary schools across the country. As an actor he has appeared in Flanagan’s Wake (Off-Broadway), HOUND (Planet Connections), White Suit Science (Magpies), ALICE (KAPOOT/Neo-Futurists), Sprits to Enforce (Theater Oobleck), Prufrock (RhinoFest), the Live Bait Solo Sampler, and at solo performance venues in Chicago and New York. Cavan is a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company. William Jackson Harper played Friar Laurence in CRY HAVOC’s Romeo & Juliet. He was also seen with other Resident Artists in Creative Writing at Luna Stage. Off-Broadway credits include the Pulitzer Prize-winning production of Ruined (MTC/Goodman Theatre), Queens Boulevard (the musical) and Paradise Park (Signature Theatre Company), The Children of Vonderly (Ma-Yi Theatre Company) and Rich Boyfriend (The New Group). Other New York credits include The/King/Operetta (Waterwell), Neglect, Bike Wreck, (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Full Bloom (Vital Theatre). Regional credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in Santa Fe), Hamlet (Dallas Theater Center). Recent film and television work includes 30 Rock, All Good Things, Law & Order: CI, and the new incarnation of the 1970s classic, The Electric Company. Will is a member of Actors Equity and a Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of The CRY HAVOC Company.
Kitt Lavoie, Director/Playwright Rachel Jay Neuman, Actor
Jane Pfitsch, Actor
Jane Pfitsch was most recently seen in Educating Rita at the Huntington Theatre Company. Broadway: John Doyle's revival of Company (2007 Tony Award for Best Revival), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2008 Tony nominee for Best Revival). Off-Broadway: The 39 Steps (New World Stages), Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club), Little Duck (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: Barefoot in the Park (Actors Theatre of Louisville), the world premiere of Alive and Well (Virginia Stage Company), Mrs. Warren's Profession (Alley Theatre). Other theatre credits include Romeo and Juliet (CRY HAVOC), To Paint the Earth (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and A Mouthful of Birds (Brown/Trinity Rep). Film/TV: 27 Dresses, "All My Children." Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. program. Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of the CRY HAVOC Company. Jane is a Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of The CRY HAVOC Company.
Kitt Lavoie has directed more than eighty shows, including original productions of more than thirty plays. With CRY HAVOC, he has directed Romeo & Juliet, The Median Line, realer than that, Good Enough, Macbeth, and Yukon Brass. Kitt has written twenty-one produced plays and musical books, including realer than that (published by Samuel French; winner, 2009 Samuel French New Play Festival) and [pwnd] (2009 NYIT Nominee, Best Original Short Script). He wrote and directed the film Rainbow Rabbit Reliant (Best Dramatic Short, Best Director, Audience Award - Atlantic City Cinefest) and is producing a documentary about the then-teenage cast of the 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. He works regularly as associate to director Lonny Price, including the Tony-nominated revival of 110 in the Shade, the Emmy-nominated PBS Great Performances production of Company, the New York Philharmonic stagings of Camelot, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert, and Company. Kitt is a Member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the Dramatists Guild. He is a Resident Artist and Artistic Director of The CRY HAVOC Company.

Rachel Jay Neuman has appeared in New York in more than a dozen productions, including Good Enough (CRY HAVOC), The Greeks (IMUA! Theatre Company), Hansel and Gretel: A Re-imagining (Common Thread Theatre Co.), The Cherry Orchard (Chekhov Now Festival), and Not Entirely Platonic (Actor’s Playground). Regional and touring productions include Homeland Security (Leatherstocking Theatre Company), Dead End (Huntington Theatre Company), Rope (Stoneham Theatre), On the Verge (Little Lake Theatre), Curious George and Ramona Quimby (Theatreworks USA), and PieceMeal (No One Way Arts). Rachel has also directed the original productions of Party Girl (CRY HAVOC) and Moving Shortly (Common Thread). She is a member of Actors Equity and a Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of The CRY HAVOC Company.
Aubyn Philabaum, Actor Jennifer Reichert, Playwright Chris Stack, Actor
Aubyn was recently named one of the Twelve Freshest Faces of 2009 in New York Theater (Patrick Lee, justshowstogoyou.com) for her work in InViolet Rep’s Kiss Me On The Mouth, directed by Stephen Adly Guirgis. She has worked both regionally and in NY with The Yale Rep, ACT, InViolet Rep, CRY HAVOC, Singularity, Naked Angels, Hudson Stage, and the Lark Theatre. She has appeared in numerous commercials, educational videos and short films throughout NYC and the Southwest. Company Member of InViolet Rep. BFA in acting, Boston University and London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts; MFA in acting, Yale School of Drama. Aubyn is a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
 Chris Stack has been an actor in New York City for 10 years and has worked with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Workshop Theater, HB Playwrights, Atlantic Theater, Second Stage, and The CRY HAVOC Company. Film work includes Lajos Koltai's Evening, Richard Linklater's School of Rock, Dylan Kidd's Roger Dodger, and Ron Beck's The Mini. Chris has two short films currently making the festival circuit, Nina Chernik's Maine Story, and Jeremiah Crowell's Small Collection. On television, Chris can be seen as Michael McBain on ABC's daytime One Life to Live, and has also worked on As The World Turns, Third Watch, Conviction, and The Education of Max Bickford. He is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio, and a Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of The CRY HAVOC Company.
Jennifer Reichert is a playwright, actor, and producer. Her play Yukon Brass, developed in the CRY HAVOC Workshop, was a semi finalist in the Riant Strawberry One-Act Festival. Other works include Just Julian, Techs, Mikey Wears Braces, Bake Sale, Missionary Dating, and Twice Rather Perish (co-written with Kitt Lavoie). She has also appeared in New York as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (with CRY HAVOC), as well as on film in The Sonnet Project. Jennifer is a member of the Professional Playwrights Workshop at The Players, an Associate Member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and a Resident Artist and Artistic Associate of The CRY HAVOC Company.
Katelin Wilcox, Actor
Becky Sterling, Actor
Katelin Wilcox has a BA in Theatre and Economics from the University of Notre Dame. She spent a year as a Company Member at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where she has appeared in 8 productions. Other favorite acting credits include King John (NY Shakespeare Exchange), Doubt (Public Theatre of Maine), Comedy of Errors (Vermont Shakespeare Co.), as well as several independent short films. She has directed for Manhattan Repertory Theatre's Summerfest, Primary Stages School of Theatre, and Hilton Head Boys and Girls Club. Her one-woman show, The Pawnbroker, recently had its world premier at Theatre Row. She is a member of Actor's Equity and a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.
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 a Resident Artist with The CRY HAVOC Company.