CHLOË MOSS | Playwright
Chloë's first play A Day in Dull Armour, produced by the Royal Court Theatre, won their Young Writers Festival in 2002. Chloe’s next play How Love is Spelt premiered at the Bush Theatre, London and was awarded a special commendation by the Susan Smith-Blackburn Prize. Chloe’s other plays include Christmas is Miles Away, which premièred at the Manchester Royal Exchange in 2005; The Way Home, produced by the Liverpool Everyman, 2006 and Catch (written with April De Angelis, Laura Wade, Stella Feehily, and Tanika Gupta), which premiered at The Royal Court, 2006. In 2008 Chloe’s play This Wide Night, produced by Clean Break and presented at Soho Theatre, was awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Chloe is currently under commission to the Royal Court, Clean Break Theatre Company and the Everyman Theatre. Chloe has written TV shows for Tiger Aspect, Kudos Film & TV and Lime Pictures.
ANNE KAUFFMAN | Director
Current: You Better Sit Down: tales from my parents' divorce, the Civilians; DOT by Kate E. Ryan, Clubbed Thumb; Six Degrees of Separation, Williamstown Theater Festival; We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Adam Bock and Todd Almond, Yale Rep; Jordan Harrison's Maple and Vine, the Civilians, and The Flea and the Professor, Arden Theater. Other credits: Stunning by David Adjmi, LCT3; The Thugs by Adam Bock, Soho Rep (Obie award), Communist Dracula Pageant by Anne Washburn, ART; Sixty Miles To Silver Lake by Dan LeFranc, P73 and Soho Rep; God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz, Vineyard and New Georges; Have You Seen Steve Steven by Ann Marie Healy, 13P; Expecting Isabel and Doubt, Asolo Repertory Theater; Act A Lady by Jordan Harrison. She is a NYTW Usual Suspect, a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Drama League of New York, New Georges Kitchen Cabinet, and on the advisory committee of Soho Rep and LCT3. She is a founding member of The Civilians and received her MFA in directing from UCSD.
RACHEL HAUCK | Scenic Designer
Recent New York work includes: Creature (Page 73/New Georges); A Boy and His Soul (Vineyard); Ethel:TruckStop (BAM Next Wave Festival); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass and 37 Arts); The Fever Chart and The Poor Itch (Public Lab), 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons); 1001 (Page 73); Cataract and Antigone Project (Women’s Project); Where Do We Live, Fourth Sister (Vineyard). Recent regional work includes An Iliad and The Road to Mecca (Seattle Rep), Ion (Shakespeare Theater DC), The Music Man, Othello, Cherry Orchard, Winters Tale, Richard III, Hedda Gabler (OSF); Motherhood Out Loud, Midsummer Night’s Dream and Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (Hartford Stage), Sleeping Country (Cincinnati Playhouse); Palestine, NM; Water and Power, Chavez Ravine, Electricidad, Bernarda Alba (Mark Taper Forum); Mother Courage (Berkley Rep/La Jolla Playhouse). Rachel is currently teaching at Vassar and has been the resident scenic designer for the O’Neill Playwrights Festival since 2005. She was an NEA/TCG fellow and received the Princess Grace Award for Theater.
EMILY REBHOLZ | Costume Designer
New York: Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (Public Theatre); Broke-ology, Clay (Lincoln Center) Killers and Other Family (Rattlestick Theatre); Dance Dance Revoluion (Les Freres Corbusier); The Language of Trees (Roundabout Theatre); Sax and Dixon, Jollyship the Whizbang, Boom (Ars Nova); Monstrosity, Have You Seen Steve Steven? (13P); Drum of The Waves of Horikawa (HERE); Gutenberg! The Musical! (The Actors Playhouse) Select Regional: Becky Shaw (The Wilma Theatre); Six Degrees of Separation (The Old Globe); Danton’s Death (University of Rochester); Murderers, Doubt, Expecting Isabel (Asolo Repertory Theatre); Caroline in Jersey, Beyond Therapy (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Upcoming: On The Levee (LCT3); Dinner With Friends (Westport Country Playhouse); Bachelorette (Second Stage Uptown). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama.
MATT FREY | Lighting Designer
This season, Matt designed Melissa James Gibson’s This at Playwrights Horizons, Heidi Schreck’s Creature with P73 and New Georges, Freefall with Corn Exchange in Dublin, and Happy Now at Primary Stages. Other projects include That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play at Rattlestick and The Importance of Being Earnest at Paper Mill Playhouse. Other credits include: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Ridge Theater Company, The New Group, Manhattan Class Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, Soho Rep, as well as many other theaters, regional and abroad.
ROBERT KAPLOWITZ | Sound Design and Composition
Previously with Naked Angels, music & sound for Emily Mann's Meshugah. Othercredits include Bill T. Jones' Fela! on Broadway, John Beluso's The Poor Itch, Tracy Scott Wilson’s The Story, Lemon Anderson's County of Kings, plus a handful of others at the Joseph Papp Public Theater; David Adjmi's Stunning (Lincoln Center); Kia Corthron's Light, Raise the Roof (NYTW); Abbey Spallin's Pumpgirl (MTC), Charles Fuller's Zooman and the Sign (Signature, NY); Heather MacDonald's An Almost Holy Picture (Roundabout); Adam Bock's The Thugs (SoHo Rep); and Eric Jackson's drag adaptation of Carrie (PS122), as well as for LAByrinth, 2nd Stage, Primary Stages, The Vineyard, MCC, the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Sundance, PlayPENN and many others. He received an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design Off-Broadway, and an Audelco award for the Off-Broadway Production of Fela! As much as he loves his work, he loves Kittson and Niall even more.
RICHARD DIBELLA | Video and Media Design
Video Design: Bench (Jennifer Muller: The Works), Missed Connections NYC, Playlist, Holy Cross Sucks! (Ars Nova) Creation Nation (Ars Nova, South Beach Comedy Festival, HBO Comedy Arts Festival, Billy Eichner: Gay, White & Terrified (Joe's Pub), LuEsther Lounge (The Public), The Gingerbread House (stageFARM), The Dome (Prospect Theater), Kidz Bop Live! (Tour and Six Flags Amusement Parks).
DEBORAH HECHT | Dialect Coach
Broadway: The Miracle Worker, Present Laughter, A Little Night Music, Finian’s Rainbow, God of Carnage, Exit the King, Hedda Gabler, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, reasons to be pretty, Boeing Boeing, Cyrano de Bergerac, Grey Gardens, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, South Pacific, Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Crucible, Top Dog/Underdog, Carousel, Angels in America, many others. Off-Broadway: Public/Shakespeare in the Park (The Winter’s Tale, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, numerous others), Playwrights Horizons (Burnt Part Boys), Naked Angels (This Wide Night), BAM (The Bridge Project: As You Like It, The Tempest), Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theatre, NYTW, Signature, Women’s Project, others. Regional: Seattle Rep, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, Hartford Stage, many others. England: National (Buried Child), RSC (Winter’s Tale). Film: Leaves of Grass, Kinsey, many others. Faculty: NYU Grad Acting.
DESIREE MAURER | Properties Master
Desiree is thrilled to be working with Naked Angels for the first time. She has been the resident Properties Supervisor at Playwrights Horizons since 2008. During her five years in New York she has made her way around the Off Broadway circuit propping at the Atlantic Theater (’06-’09 seasons), the Public Theater (’07-’08 season) Roundabout Theatre (Speech and Debate, Ordinary Days), The Play Company (Arabian Night, The Attic) and The New Group (2000 Years).
APRIL ANN KLINE | Production Stage Manager
April is excited to work with Naked Angels. Some NY Credits include: Luke/When I Was God, Sive, Gaslight & Defender of the Faith (Irish Repertory); Pure Country staged reading (Randall Wreghitt); The Dishwashers (Shiloh Productions); An Oresteia (Classic Stage Company); Dust (Gindi Theatrical); The Bully Pulpit (South Ark Stage); Mom, Dad, I’m Living With A White Girl, Cambodia Agonistes, Kwatz: The Tibetan Project (Pan Asian Repertory); Hamlet, Duchess of Malfi (Kings County Shakespeare); The Romance of Magno Rubio, No Foreigners Beyond This Point, Salad Days and Other Stories (Ma-Yi Theatre Company.); The Cook (INTAR); An Immaculate Misconception (Primary Stages). Some regional credits include: The Romance of Magno Rubio (Long Wharf Theatre Company, CT) and The Retreat from Moscow, The Dishwasher, Skylight, Duet For One (Chester Theatre Company, MA). April is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association. My love to Marc and my family.
LYNDSEY GOODE | Assistant Stage Manager
Off-Broadway: Embraceable Me, (Rachel Reiner Prod), Thunder Above, Deeps Below (2g), The Unseen (American Actors Co.), Soul Samurai (Ma-Yi/Vampire Cowboys), Something You Did (Primary Stages), Life on the Mississippi (York), The Power of Darkness (Mint), Fate's Imagination, Becoming Adele (Gotham Stage), Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen (Women's Project), Have a Nice Life (NYMF), School of the Americas (LAByrinth/Public), I Love You Because (Village Theater), In the Continuum (Mud/Bone); Regional: Dallas Theater Center (Give It Up!), Barrington Stage (Sleuth), Chester Theatre (Blackbird, The Interview), Paper Mill (Ragtime), The Old Globe (The Food Chain), South Coast Rep (…Jenny Chow), NSMT, Opera Pacific, Lamb's Players Theatre. Member of Coyote REP. Graduate of UC-Irvine (MFA) & Abilene Christian Univ. Member of AEA.
NAKED ANGELS | Producer
Naked Angels is committed to strengthening a community of artists through the development and production of provocative new work. Since 1986, the company has played a role in developing critically acclaimed new plays including The Substance of Fire, Side Man, Tape, Fault Lines and, most recently, Next Fall. The core of Naked Angels' commitment to new artists and new audiences is the 3-Step Formula beginning with Tuesdays@9 (cold readings of plays, screenplays, stories and music in early development), 1st Mondays (public readings of new plays), Angels in Progress (weeklong workshops). Naked Radio, the new development initiative launched this year offers the next generation of Naked Angels the opportunity to collaborate in writing teams to create performances that are podcast to a wide audience. www.nakedangels.com
RICHIE JACKSON | Producer
Richie is the president of Jackson Group Entertainment, a production and management firm. Television: Executive Producer, "Nurse Jackie" starring Edie Falco, currently in its second season on Showtime. Broadway: A Catered Affair by Harvey Fierstein and John Bucchino, directed by John Doyle. Film: “Shortbus” written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Jackson is an adjunct faculty member of his alma mater, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
H!GHBROW | Producer
H!ghbrow is a production company focused on nurturing and providing resources for independent film and theatre during the critical stages of development from concept to completion. Highbrow has co-produced the Off-Broadway productions MASKED, which was nominated for a 2007/08 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Arian Moayed); and DAI (enough), which received a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show in 2008. Highbrow’s president, the actor Ronald Guttman (imdb.com <http://imdb.com/> for credits), collaborated with Ami Dayan on Dario Fo’s, Tale of a Tiger; with Seth Goldstein on Christine Jorgensen Reveals (Drama Desk Award 2006); and with the Drama Dept on Rope. Highbrow also co-produced the independent films Tickling Leo, The Tollbooth and 30 Beats (currently in post production); and documentary filmsDestiny Hills and New York Street Games (out this May). www.highbrow.net