Roar Program
A workshop production based on a true story.
WHO'S WHO IN THE CAST AND CREW
BEN LEWIS is a writer, director, and actor. Ben's play WOLFGIRLS won The Bitter Lemons Innovative Theater Award and received an extended run at The Hollywood Fringe Festival. His play HAPPY SAUCE was produced in the New York and Minnesota Fringe Festival and is published in several one-act anthologies. Other plays include THEREMIN (New York Fringe Festival), HOW I WON THE CAMPBELL PIZE (Triskellion Arts), HOOKER RAFT (The Red Room), LONESOME DEVIL (Cloud City), SPEECHES AND TOASTS and THE JOSHUA COMPLEX (co-author with Lyndsey Anderson). BFA Boston University
KATIE MELBY is a theatre and puppetry artist, originally from South Dakota, who also makes ASMR videos (Melby ASMR on YouTube). She is co-Artistic Director of 3 Sticks, a physical theatre company dedicated to making new work, that she co-founded after graduating from the Lecoq-based London International School of Performing Arts in 2005. Their work has been presented across the US, Canada, and Japan as well as Ars Nova, Dixon Place, Columbia Stages, and Governors Island Art Fair in NYC. Her credits include Basil Twist’s Rite of Spring (Lincoln Center) and Sister’s Follies (Abrons Art Center), Mabou Mines’ La Davina Caricatura (La Mama), The Cat Who Went to Heaven (Brooklyn Academy of Music), l’Arbre Enchanté (Fire Island Opera Festival), Firebird (Chilean Tour), American Weather (HERE Arts Center), The Disappearing Man (Musical Theatre Factory) and numerous productions with Back Room Shakespeare Project. She is a co-founder of the Brooklyn arts space Cloud City, and holds a BFA from The New School. katiemelby.com
KATIE HARTMAN is a New York-based theatre maker and multi-instrumentalist whose work has been seen Off-Broadway and on stages across the United States and Canada. She is co-artistic director of the Coldharts, an internationally touring theatre company that creates ensemble-devised, new music theatre inspired by the American Gothic. Since 2012, the Coldharts have created and toured six original musicals spanning the genres of folk, pop, punk and rock, with over 300 performances on the neo-vaudevillian circuit. In addition to composing for the Coldharts’ work, Katie has created music for NYC theatre companies Animal Engine(Darlings, Rabbit, Henrietta Solway) and Bread Arts Collective (Candide.)Recent New York credits include Henrietta Solway, a new work inspired by the life and stories of Willa Cather (commissioned by the Willa Cather Foundation,) The Unrepentant Necrophile at HERE Arts Center, and Edgar Allan at Soho Playhouse. Katie received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, and is a founding producer of the Twin Cities Horror Festival. Since 2022, she has served as the Producer of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, a two week-long celebration of new work and indie theatre.
NICK RYAN is a theatre artist based in New York State. Selected playwriting credits include Long Wharf Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare & Company and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. In 2015 he co-created an immersive adaptation of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota; in 2022 the show was licensed by Broadway Asia. He is co-artistic director of The Coldharts; their show Edgar Allan has toured since 2013 with performances Off-Broadway, at the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival in Baltimore, and the Poe Museum in Richmond. The audio play was featured on ‘Poe Theater on the Air’ on National Public Radio. Nick is a company member of the Brooklyn-based Bread Arts Collective and co-founder of Four Humors Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
KELLY KLEIN (JERRY/BERRIES) is an actor, acting coach, writer, producer, casting director, and director. She has appeared on primetime television, indie film, and on stage in New York, regionally, and on a national tour. Kelly is a founding “slice” of BREAD Arts Collective, a proud IFP/The Gotham fellow, and a graduate of The New School University. Select credits include the feature TAKING WOODSTOCK (Dir. Ang Lee), TV’s LAW & ORDER: SVU, FBI: MOST WANTED, NURSE JACKIE, GILMORE GIRLS., The Diary of Anne Frank (Nat’l Tour, Barter Theatre), and (almost) every BREAD production including The Great American Casket Company at the historic Green-Wood Cemetery and an epic 36-week run of BREAD’s Rise & Fall in NYC. SAG-AFTRA/AEA, B.A. Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. kellycallowayklein.com and callowayproductions.com
WESLEY ZURICK is an actor, writer and composer. Recent acting credits: A Walk on the Moon (George Street Playhouse) The Last Supper (SOPAC) On the Shore of the Wide World (Atlantic Theater Company), The Hope Hypothesis (Voyage Theater), In Corpo (The Assembly), Big Green Theatre (Bushwick Starr), The Lightning Thief (Theatreworks USA), The Velveteen Rabbit, Camp Kapawanna, Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money (Atlantic for Kids), The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Playhouse on Park). As a writer and composer his work has been developed at The Bushwick Starr, Dutch Kills Theater, Coca Cola Refreshing Films, The Atlantic Acting School, Ape` Shakespeare, The Bowery Poetry Club, Judson Memorial Church, The Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Barn Arts, The What Co, 54 Below, and The Rescignos. He is the composer and music director for the Youth Justice Program at The Possibility Project. Streaming on all platforms as ‘Touchdown Jesus’. wesleyzurick.com @weszurick
LYNDSEY ANDERSON (SAG/AEA) is a professional actor and founding member of BREAD Arts Collective. She has started in prime time TV and film, as well as Off Broadway theatre and every BREAD production. She is the Coordinator of On-Site Programming at North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL). Follow her highjinks @thelyndseyanderson and lyndseyanderson.com
ELIZABETH MAY (EMay) is a queer filmmaker, designer, and theatre maker based in Brooklyn. Film and TV production design credits include Amityville: An Origin Story (limited series), Cape Carl (feature), Bodies of Water (Short), Noor (Short), and Epinephrine (short). Costume design credits include Summer Solstice (feature), Cape Carl (feature), Goat (short), Retrograde (music video), Zodiac Math (live performance), Old Souls (live performance), The Great American Casket Company (live performance), and The Rocky Horror Show (live performance). Original theatre works include, Zodiac Math (The New Collectives), Vengeful Moon: a song cycle of love and revenge (Tapp’s Art Center), Old Souls, an original folk musical (The Barn Arts Collective), The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Brooklyn Presents: Missionary Style (UCB), Elizabeth directed leaves (Don, Pat, and Tom) for The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has also served as composer and music director for Trojan Women, and M4M (The New Collectives). Favorite performing credits include The Edge of Glory for Lady Gaga and Google Chrome, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Rocky Horror Show (The Barn Arts Collective), The Traveling Musicians (The Barn Arts Collective).EMay is currently in post production for her film directorial debut for the short film Epinephrine, coming 2024.
LINDSEY HOPE PEARLMAN is a director and playwright specializing in new plays and musicals. Co-book writer, MacGyver the Musical, A Sign of the Times. She received a 2022 NYSCA commission for her new play with music, ROAR!. Her play Lucy received an EST/Sloan Commission, and her play Viv is for Vengeance received Honorable Mention from the American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Awards. Broadway: Bandstand (Assistant Director), Leap of Faith (SDC Observer). Drama League NY Directing Fellow 2019-2020. London International School of Performing Arts, Hamilton College. Adjunct Professor, Pace University. www.lindseyhopepearlman.com
ANDREW LYNCH is a composer, sound designer, and performer. Recent projects include The How and the Why with director Austin Pendleton at the Sheen Center, Downtown Stories with directors Morgan Green and Jessica Holt for En Garde Arts, and Ocean Filibuster with Pearl D’Amour which continues to tour to venues such as the CAC in New Orleans, the Arsht Center in Miami, and Duke University. He is a cofounder of the Brooklyn art space Cloud City, and he was recently a Mitchell Fellow in Composition and Sound Design at the Mitchell Center for the Arts in Houston, Texas.
MARIEL SANCHEZ (Stage Manager // he, she, they) is a New York based freelance theatre maker, producer, and actor. Ever since graduating he has worked on many different projects all wearing different, and sometimes often, hats. Consider them your theatrical rolodex! Recent projects include The Healing Shipment as MARIKATA written/dir by Maria Camia, The Perfection of the Donut as LUCIUS ABSINTHICISSUS written by Jackson Tucker-Myer dir by Kate Trammell, Bye Bye Birdie as Production Manager written by Michael Stewart dir Katie Spelman, La Finta Giardiniera as Production Manager written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dir Jennifer Williams, and now ROAR! as Stage Manager written/dir by Lindsey Hope Pearlman. @next6enhero
JONATHAN COTTLE is a New York City based artist who creates and facilitates live performance. He's made work in many traditional venues but also in dusty basements, dive bars, old churches, digital spaces, neglected backyards and once, a bus. JonathanCottle.com
ROAR has been developed by Little Pond Arts, the North American Cultural Laboratory, Brooklyn Arts Council, FRIGID New York and the New York State Council for the Arts.
Special thanks to Brendan Regimbal, One Dream Productions, and all our donors to our fundraising campaign.
Consider a tax-deductible donation to BREAD Arts Collective here.
Special thanks to Brendan Regimbal, One Dream Productions, and all our donors to our fundraising campaign.
Consider a tax-deductible donation to BREAD Arts Collective here.
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