(DG) JAMgram 2018
Presented by
Jill Harrison, Founder and Executive Director
Tom Snyder, Operations Consultant
Creator: Pirronne Yousefzadeh is a Brooklyn based director. Recent projects include Utopia Minnesota by Meg Miroshnik (2016 Sagal Fellowship, Williamstown Theatre Festival), That High Lonesome Sound (Actors Theatre of Louisville; 2015 Humana Festival) and We Are Proud To Present A Presentation… by Jackie Sibblies Drury (InterAct Theatre Company). Her productions of The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane by Jen Silverman (InterAct Theater Company) and In The Blood (Theatre Horizon) together received a total of fifteen Barrymore Award nominations, including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Overall Production for both. And If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey (Invisible Dog) received nominations for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Performance Art Production from New York Innovative Theatre Awards.
She has directed and developed work at The Public/Joe’s Pub, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Rising Circle Theater Collective, The Woodshed Collective (The Tenant: Best of 2011, The L Magazine), Partial Comfort Productions, Noor Theatre, Rising Phoenix Rep, HERE Arts Center, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Wild Project, Dixon Place, The Living Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, The Juilliard School, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Two River Theater Company, Milwaukee Rep, InterAct Theatre Company, On The Boards, Perseverance Theatre, Berkshire Fringe Festival, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, and Hangar Theatre, where she was a 2006 Drama League Directing Fellow.
Christina May...
AKA “The Black Mz Frizzle”
Is a Lover, Artist, & Educator. Christina has been apart of the Philadelphia Theatre Community for more than 15 years...As an Actor, Director & Facilitator Christina has artistically collaborated with companies such as : Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Walnut Street and Arden Theatre Education Departments, Shakespeare In Clark Park, 1812, Theatre In The X, Luke Allen Productions, Higher Than 7 Productions, Play Penn, Theatre Horizon, Found Theatre Company, Ferdinand, Inter Act Play Reading Series, Revamp Theatre Collective, First World Theatre Ensemble , Putty Dance Project & Breakfast Improv Networking Jawn. Christina co- produced the “Secret Show Series “last year at the Painted Bride Art Center with her Fellow Art Doula Pheobe Schaub. There are the Producers for this year’s “DG Jam”.
An advocate for Creative Beings in society Christina continues to use her Light & Energy to Love, Create & Inspire Artist Of all Mediums.
Pirronne Yousefzadeh is a Brooklyn based director. Recent projects include Utopia Minnesota by Meg Miroshnik (2016 Sagal Fellowship, Williamstown Theatre Festival), That High Lonesome Sound (Actors Theatre of Louisville; 2015 Humana Festival) and We Are Proud To Present A Presentation… by Jackie Sibblies Drury (InterAct Theatre Company). Her productions of The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane by Jen Silverman (InterAct Theater Company) and In The Blood (Theatre Horizon) together received a total of fifteen Barrymore Award nominations, including Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Overall Production for both. And If You Lose Your Way, or A Food Odyssey (Invisible Dog) received nominations for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Performance Art Production from New York Innovative Theatre Awards.
She has directed and developed work at The Public/Joe’s Pub, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Rising Circle Theater Collective, The Woodshed Collective (The Tenant: Best of 2011, The L Magazine), Partial Comfort Productions, Noor Theatre, Rising Phoenix Rep, HERE Arts Center, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Wild Project, Dixon Place, The Living Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, The Juilliard School, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Two River Theater Company, Milwaukee Rep, InterAct Theatre Company, On The Boards, Perseverance Theatre, Berkshire Fringe Festival, Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, and Hangar Theatre, where she was a 2006 Drama League Directing Fellow.
Participating Directors:
Sarah is a theatre maker, director, and puppy scruffler. She spends much of her time making new work with Kaleid Theatre (as in kaleidoscope, as in collide). Thanks, as always, to the amazing and brave artists that she gets to work with – people who always make her grow.
Nicole Miller Marks is incredibly grateful for this opportunity. She has worked with
Lantern Theatre Co., Revolution Shakespeare, Revamp Collective, Pig Iron Theatre Co., Delaware Theatre
Co., and is founder of 21 st Ward Theater Company. She is a producer for Directors Gathering and a proud
member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Directors Lab North, the Dramatist Guild, and New Perspectives
Short Play Lab. For the 2017-18 season, Nicole is serving as and a Barrymore Judge. So very glad of those
who carried me here. For Josiah and Gabriella.
A Philadelphia native her previous credits include assistant direction on Mrs. Harrison by R. Eric Thomas, Ready, Steady, Yeti, Go by David Jacobi (Azuka Theatre), Ideation by Aaron Loeb (Theatre Exile) and A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter (Simpatico Theatre). She was recently a National Finalist for he SDC Directing Fellowship at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Shreshth (they/he) is a writer, director, and performer who is interested in telling real stories of love, distance, illness, and food through a magical and dreamy lens. This magic leads them to draw from Indian mythology, folklore, and fuels an interest in traditional forms of Indian art making. After completing Headlong’s performance program in December, they are currently creating, writing, and performing in Table on Table on Table, a radio narrative about immigration and queerness set to a dance performance in an attic space. They wrote narrative to accompany a classical Indian dance piece for Sattriya Dance Company’s show at the PMA, Brindaboni Jatra: Weaving Dance & Divinity (2018). They created and performed in dance-theatre pieces Cabbage Head and Passion Fruit Dances (2017). They also directed a very naturalist production of John Logan’s Red in a workshop (2016).
(DG) JAM 2018 Directors + Casts
Kasual Owens-Fields, Director
Cast:
Nicole Stacie
Jaymarie Santana
Sabriaya Shipley
Sarah Mitteldorf, Director
Cast:
Alee Spadoni
Rachel O’Hanlon-Rodriguez
Paloma Irizarry
Shreshth Khilani, Director
Cast:
Pratima Agrawal
Corem Coreano
Macy Jae Davis
Kyle A. Jackson, Director
Cast:
Brandon A. Drummond
Maria Beltre
Maryruth Stine
Nicole Miller Marks, Director
Cast:
Diana Maria Rodriguez Castaner
Erlina Ortiz
Jerrick Medrano
Kalif Troy, Director
Cast:
Steph Iozzia
Ang Bey
Kaelem Von Camper
(DG) Jam 2018 Production Team:
Peter Lokitis, Production Stage Manager
Ben Smallen, Website + Media
Tommy Butler, Photography + Videography