GOD MACHINE, Producer
is a brand new theatre company in New York city whose mission is to stage the unstageable. Founded by Artistic Director David Lefort Nugent, God Machine is committed to supporting the work of artists who create provocative and uncompromising theatre; whose passion for their work is not tailored by their desire to be produced; who are unafraid to explore difficult material; who inspire others to reach down to the depths of their souls and share with the world what they find there.
DAVID LEFORT NUGENT, Playwright
is a playwright, composer, lyricist, and the artistic director of God Machine, a New York City-based company dedicated to staging the unstageable. His plays have been presented and/or developed at Playwrights Horizons, Medicine Show Theatre, and Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the Stratford Festival of Canada , Theatre Network and Workshop West in Edmonton, Alberta, the Ottawa Fringe Festival, and the Yale Cabaret in New Haven, CT. David holds an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta.
ALEC TOK, Director
is a Singapore-born, New York-based theatre director. He just produced and directed his first full length feature film, “North Bridge River”, a story about the Spirit of a Girl, who descends on Shanghai after taking her life by jumping off her balcony. His previous work includes a short film called “The Boy Who Asked Too Many Questions” - a story set in Singapore, about a boy who was ordered to leave the classroom for asking too many uncomfortable questions. It can be downloaded from youtube and google. He has an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama.
DEEKSHA GAUR, Executive Producer
is a proud recipient of the Foundry’s Producer’s Chair Award for this production. She is the Assistant Managing Director at Long Wharf Theatre, as part of the TCG New Generations Future Leaders program. Brought up in Bombay and London, she got her undergraduate degree in history at Cambridge University, and her MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama. Career highlights include producing A Bedtime Story at the Edinburgh Fringe, a play banned in India for seventeen years; running Summer Cabaret 2006 as the Associate Managing Director; and producing Mike Daisey’s Invincible Summer at Yale Repertory Theatre.
ROWEENA MACKAY, Assistant Director and Dramaturg
Wilson’s Radio Golf (Yale Repertory Theatre), Wellman’s Two September (The Flea Theatre), and Shakespeare’s Hamlet (Gorilla Repertory Theatre). Roweena is an artistic programs associate at Theatre Communications Group, a literary associate for the African American Playwright’s Exchange and resident dramaturg for Bone Orchard (NYC). She started dramaturging Nugent’s plays at the Yale School of Drama in 2002.
CHRISTIE EVANGELISTO, Consulting Artistic Producer
is the Director of Musical Theater and Dramaturg at Playwrights Horizons. She has helped develop and produce Saved, A Feminine Ending, The Drunken City, Grey Gardens, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Essential Self-Defense and The Pain and the Itch, among others. In Washington, D.C., she served as dramaturg at The Studio Theatre and as writer and dramaturg with Washington National Opera, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, and Kennedy Center. Christie earned her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama and a BA in Dramatic Literature, Theater History, and Cinema from New York University.
VICKI SHAGHOIAN, Musical Director
ANNA BROWN MASSEY, Choreographer
holds a B.S. in Dance Performance summa cum laude from Skidmore College. Anna has danced under Robert Battle, and performed repertory by Jose Limon and Trisha Brown. Anna recently performed at City Center as Dance Captain under Charles Molton, choreographer for the film The Matrix Reloaded, and was featured in the dance film False Alarm, presented at both the L.A. New Wave Film Festival and the Underground Tribeca Film Festival. She has been a member of Wabi! and the Stephanie Harris Dance Collective, and is currently a member of York Dance Works, Highland Soles, and Lane & Co. Anna is a certified yoga teacher and a birth doula.
BRENDA DAVIS, Set Designer
is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, where she designed Richard II, 365 Plays/365 Days, and Zero Hour. Local credits include The Boss in the Satin Kimono (NY Fringe Festival) and My Fair Lady (Media Theatre). Chicago credits include Take Me Out, Theater District, and On the Record (About Face Theatre), S-E-X-Oh!, and Solo Latinas (Teatro Luna). Television design credits include Voices in Conflict on CPTV. Set design associate: Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses. Assistant: Lucia di Lammermoor and La Sonnambula at The Metropolitan Opera. Winner, 2001 Kennedy Center ACTF award for set design for The House of Blue Leaves.
ERIC TING, Puppet Designer
CHRISTINA BULLARD, Costume Designer
Credits include Sean Curran Company: Aria/Apology, Fire Weather. New York Musical Theatre Festival: Like Love. Yale Repertory Theatre: Lulu (Mark Lamos, director). Yale School of Drama: The Seagull, The Duchess of Malfi, In The Red and Brown Water. Yale Cabaret: Run, Mourner, Run; The Love Suicides at Sonezaki, Crave, The Boss in the Satin Kimono, Putting it Together, The Death of Milton Hubbell, and Two Sisters and a Piano. Southern Methodist University: Curse of the Starving Class and Dark Ride. She holds an MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama where she received the Leo Lerman Award for costume design.
GINA SCHERR, Lighting Designer
designed lights for Why Not Theatre’s The Prince Hamlet (Winchester Street Theatre, Toronto) and Digital Buddha (KT Art Hall, Seoul, Korea). New York designs: Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb), Cherubina (Sanford Meisner Theatre), Waxing West (LaMaMa ETC, Act Theater, Bucharest, and Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Romania), Tuesdays with Morrie (Epiphany Theater Company), Atomic Farmgirl (The Drilling Company), Gulf View Drive (78th Street Theatre Lab), Momma and God’s Waiting Room (PS122), Iphigenia at Aulis (City College), and the 2007 Chamber Dance Project at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater. Gina received her MFA from Yale School of Drama.
SHARATH PATEL, Sound Consultant
1001, The Pursuit of Happiness (The Contemporary American Theater Festival); The Poetry of Pizza (Virginia Stage Company), Big Love (Fordham University at Lincoln Center), Uncle Vanya (NYSF), Waxing West (LaMaMa ETC), Tall Grass (Theater Row), stellYY (HERE), Seven (Culture Project), Historie of the Barber Surgeons (Playwrights Horizons), Wendy’s Words (Laurie Beechman Theater), A Kingdom (PS122), Huck Finn Story (Arts West), The Stubborn Illusion of Time (The Brick), Knock Me A Kiss (Arts for Ohio), The People Next Door (Yale Repertory Theatre). Sharath earned a BFA from Ohio University and his MFA in Sound Design from Yale School of Drama.
KEVIN SWANLUND, Stage Manager
THE FAIRGROUND BOOTH, Musicians
Featuring Chris Moore and Tom Gavin of Brooklyn-based folk/rock band Moore & Sons, with playwright David Nugent. Chris Moore started his music career in 1981, pounding drums for legendary Detroit harcore/punk quartet Negative Approach. More recently, he can be heard as a solo artist, or with his band Moore & Sons, and collaborating with fellow artists including Michael Goodman and the Mike, Curtis Eller, Peter Galub, and the Ro Agents. Tom Gavin performs with “the sons”, is a solo artist, and is known to collaborate with Erin O’ Hara (the two collaborated on music for Michael Moore’s Sicko), Amy Kohn, and Peter Galub Annuals.
PUN BANDHU*, Ugo
is very happy to be working on this world premiere with this talented team. Other world premiere productions include AR Gurney’s Far East (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Theresa Rebeck’s The Bells (McCarter Theatre) Len Jenkin’s The Birds (Yale Rep), and John Pielmiere’s Voices in the Dark (George St. Playhouse). Television: Without a Trace, Law and Order: Criminal Intent and SVU, Conviction, All My Children, Guiding Light, One Life to Live. Film: Michael Clayton, Frozen River, Dark September Rain. Upcoming: Doug Magruder in Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen, dir.). Training: MFA Yale School of Drama.
ELIZA BENT, Nurse/Minos/Minstrel/Bird/Mouse
Recent credits include The Knockout Blow (Half Straddle at Ontological-Hysteric Theater), The Name Means Public Spirited (Target Margin at HERE), Let me Tell You Something (The Tank). She has performed in readings for Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, IRT Theater, and Clubbed Thumb. Bent is currently writing a play developed in residency with Dionysia in Iceland. She performs weekly with the improv troupe Vacation Island at the People’s Improv Theatre and holds a BA in philosophy from Boston College.
REGI HUC*, Guard #1/Minos/Bishop/Devil
is a graduate of Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts (BFA, 2003). His TV appearances include Law & Order SVU, Guiding Light, Trial & Error, Cashmere Mafia and The Secret Game on ESPN. Film credits include Darkly, A Beautiful Mind of a Gladiator, Ophelia’s Room. Some of his theatre credits include Mountains in the Bering (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Hamlet and Henry 5th (Gorilla Rep), Hamlet (Pearl Theatre Company). This is the first musical he’s done since his junior year in high school. He would like to thank his friends and family for their unyielding support.
MATT HUSSONG*, Gaddo
Originally from Indiana, Matt has called NYC home for over 11 years. After spending a year studying pre-med, he got pulled back in and is back on the boards. Stage: “Strangers” (Dixon Place), “Horatio” (2007 NY Int’l Fringe Festival), Captain Hook in “Peter Pan” (Theaterworks/USA). Film: “Double Platinum” (13 whole seconds as Diana Ross’ backup singer). Matt holds a B.A. in theater from Anderson University and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC.
ERIN MOON*, Anslem/Suicide Tree
Off Broadway: Nancy Nicholson, The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion at Urban Stages (American Premier), Lady Anne, Richard III, and Marie Roget, Murder by Poe at The Acting Company. Regional favorites: Mary, Mary’s Wedding, Governess, Turn of the Screw (Delaware Theatre Company); Singer, The Grapes of Wrath (Ford Theatre, DC); Annelle, Steel Magnolias (Arkansas Repertory Theatre). Other regional: Stamford Theatre Works; The Colorado Shakespeare Festival; Globe Theatre, Canada; Studio Theatre, Canada. Training: University of Alberta Professional Theatre Training Program. Erin is also a wife, yoga instructor, and mom to Parsley the cat. “Thanks and love to Stafford for always showing me the light in the darkness.”
TOM EVERETT RUSSELL*, Guard #2/Glutton/Archbishop Ruggieri/Doctor/Soldier
wrote, directed, and starred in Spring Nite O’ Mime, an eight-person mime show for the ‘05-’06 Yale Cabaret season; co-wrote, co-directed, and starred in Out of the Box, a three-person clown show, which also premiered at Yale Cabaret in 2006. NY acting credits include Prayer of the Expelled (Soho Think Tank); Regional: All’s Well (Yale Rep). NY directing credits include The Gallery (New York Theater Barn). Originally from Iowa, Tommy graduated with honors in Theater Arts and a Certificate in Sexuality Studies from University of Iowa, and is a graduate of the MFA acting program at Yale.
KIAT-SING TEO, Tormentor/Paulo and Francesca
has worked with all the major theatre companies and television stations in Singapore. A Life! Theatre Awards (Singapore’s only theatre award) Best Supporting Actress nominee, she is also the only Media Development Authority Singapore actor/scholar to date. New York credits: Another Country (dir: Diane Paulus), House of Bernarda Alba (National Asian American Theatre Company, dir. Chay Yew), Trojan Women (Classical Theatre of Harlem, dir. Alfred Pressier). Columbia University MFA ‘08. My heart, my all - Free Tibet.
*These Actors are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.
JOSEPTH BARNA, Technical Director
JONATHAN COTTLE, Puppet Maker
MICHAEL LOCHER, Props Master
TED “T.J.” PALLAS, Associate Sound Designer
AMRIT PILO, Graphic Designer
MATTHEW WRATHER @ WRATHER CREATIVE, Web Designer
is an actor, musician, and writer originally from Santa Monica, CA. He began working with web and print design in 1995 to promote his own theater projects, and now runs Wrather Creative, a
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