Cast & Crew from all past BeaconNY Productions Shows

Glynis Bell (Mrs. Penderpoint) recently completed a second go around as Peggy Guggenheim in A Woman Before A Glass. She spent nine months in the National Tour of The Vagina Monolgues. Broadway: Amadeus, My Fair Lady, The Robber Bridegroom, and Heartbreak House. Off Broadway: Jewtopia, Richard III, and Para Palas among others. She was a member of John Houseman’s, Acting Company and has appeared in Regional theaters across the country. Among her favorite roles are Alice in Retreat From Moscow, Martha in Who’s Afraid Virginia Woolf and Ouisa in Six Degrees of Seperation. She has also been several judges, lawyers and mothers in all three incarnations of Law and Order.
Production: BADGE

Tara Falk (Jessica) Broadway: The Constant Wife (Roundabout, dir. Mark Brokaw), Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square, dir. Mary Zimmerman), Enchanted April (Belasco, dir. Michael Wilson). Off-Broadway: This Is Our Youth (Second Stage/Douglas Fairbanks, dir. Mark Brokaw), ....there’s the story by Timothy McCracken (Blue Heron, dir. Christopher Grabowski). Regional: Else in Fraulein Else (Long Wharf, dir. Stephen Wadsworth), School for Scandal (McCarter, dir. Mark Lamos), The Comedy of Errors (Hartford Stage, dir. Mark Brokaw), world premiere of Flesh and Blood (Portland Center Stage), Madinina (Eugene O’Neill) and many more including Rep. Theater of St. Louis, Pioneer, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Television: The Black Donnellys, Guiding Light, As the World Turns and numerous commercials. Training: Boston University School for the Arts. Tara is also Co-Artistic Director of BeaconNY Productions.
Production: BADGE

Kyle Gates (Production Stage Manager) Broadway/Tour: Shining City (Biltmore), BKLYN: The Musical (1st National) Off-B’way: Regrets Only (MTC), FUGUE (Cherry Lane Theatre), Other NYC: Drama Desk nominated 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother (Ars Nova), Holy Cross Sucks (Ars Nova), The Flying Machine’s Frankenstein (Soho Rep).  Thank you Gudbjorg.
Production: BADGE

Darrell James (Brad/Office McCurdy) has worked in plays, movies, television, and radio throughout the United States and Canada. Some favorite work: Oedipus at Colonus (dir. Rachel Kitzinger); Sleuth with Ian Ogilvy (dir. Alan Bailey) for which he won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Dramalogue Award for Best Actor. Tales of Washington Irving (dir. Bart Sher), and The Importance of Being Earnest (dir Sari Ketter); Film: Mr. Gibb with Tim Daly. Television: The American Revolution on the History Channel; as well as numerous commercials. Training: Mr. James is a graduate of The National Theatre Conservatory. In addition, Darrell has taught acting at Vassar College for 6 years and has written for several publications including Time Out New York and PASSPORT.
Production: BADGE

Bryan Keller (Lighting Designer) Recent projects include Bambiland for the National Theater of Lithuania, production designer for Yale University's Yale>>Tomorrow campaign, The Movado Hour for Baryshnikov Foundation, Pot au Noir at The Chocolate Factory, BAiT Festival at PS122, A First Class Man with AlterEgo, Blood Wedding with Woodshed Collective, Lobby Hero at Portland Stage Co, The Cherry Orchard at CSC, Comedy of Errors at Yale Repertory Theatre, Romeo and Juliet at SPI,  Arms of Baby Jesus at Abingdon, and many premiers including Dance of the Holy Ghost, Alice Eat Your Words, Mirror, Mirror, and Jesus Moonwalks on the Mississippi, Psyche in  Love, The Home, Klytemnestra's Unmentionables, and others by award winning playwrights such as Marcus Gardley, Wendy Wasserstein, David Henry Hwang, Alena Smith, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Michele Rittenhouse, Bradford Louryk, and Jamie O'Brien.  Bryan has been a guest artist at Vassar College, Connecticut College, and Princeton University. Bryan received his MFA from Yale University School of Drama. 
Production: BADGE

Stephen Kunken (Sound Design) is an actor as well as the resident sound designer for the River Rep Theatre Company in Connecticut, where he has designed shows, including Dinner With Friends, The Heiress, An Ideal Husband and Proof. Stephen also designed last year's Fringe Festival favorite, Big Doolie, directed by his wife Jenn Thompson. Stephen is currently appearing on Broadway in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon.
Production: BADGE

Greg McFadden (Roy) Broadway: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial.  Off-Broadway: The Voysey Inheritance, Atlantic Theater; The Sea, World Premiere of Noel Coward’s Long Island Sound, TACT; Three Cornered Moon, Keen Company; In Praise of Folly: The Don Quixote Project; A Tale of Two Cities, Culture Project; Misalliance, School for Scandal; Richard II, Pearl Theatre; The Last Episode, NY Fringe Festival  Regional:  Cincinnati Playhouse; St. Louis Rep; Shakespeare Theatre; George Street Playhouse; Hartford Theater Works; Humana Festival – ATL; Delaware Theatre Company;  Kennedy Center; Virginia Stage.  Television: Dirty Sexy Money; Guiding Light (recurring – Jeremy); Conviction; One Life to Live.  Mr. McFadden is a graduate of Juilliard.

Production: BADGE

Brian Prather (Set Designer) is thrilled to make his debut with BeaconNY Prod. Most recent credits include: Festival of New Works and 10-Minute Play Festival (NYU), Urinetown (Yale Dramatic Assoc.) A Picasso, The Burnt Part Boys (premiere), Fully Committed, The Collyer Brothers/Period Piece, Travels With My Discontent (premiere), Thief River (Barrington Stage Co.) and The Exonerated (TheaterWorks Hartford). Upcoming work: Fair Game for Genesius Theatre Group at the Lion Theatre.
Production: BADGE

Rien Schlecht (Costume Designer) Design Credits: The Gallery: Bury Him, Attention Def Hey Look a Dog!, The Invited Guest, Violating Uncle Piggy, A Temporary Lapse; Nicu's Spoon Theatre: Richard III, Tales of the Lost Formicans; The Looking Glass Theatre: Baal; Theatre 1010: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Weathervane Theatre: A Man of No Importance, Annie, Miss Saigon, All That Jazz, Beauty and the Beast, Cash on Delivery; Southwest Minnesota State University; Harvey, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Antigone, Pippin, Art, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; Marshall Area Stage Company: A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Production: BADGE

Matthew Schneck (Playwright) His plays have been developed and/or performed at: The Denver Center, SoHo Rep, Adobe Theatre Co., Access Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co., Whitefish Theatre, and The Julliard School. A 12 lb. Discourse, (co-written and co-performed with Pete Simpson), debuted at The New York City, 15 Minute Play Festival where it swept the awards winning: Best Acting, Best Directing, and Audience Favorite for Best Play. It was then expanded into a full-length play where it was produced by The SoHo Rep and directed by Artistic Director, Daniel Aukin. His second play, Badge, was a semi-finalist for The 2006 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. Last summer, BADGE enjoyed a week-long workshop at Vassar College under the direction of Christopher Grabowski. Matthew's third full-length play, Attic, opened The 2006 Octoberfest at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City this past October.

Acting: Broadway: London Assurance (Roundabout, dir. Joe Dowling). Off Broadway: The Merchant of Venice and Jew of Malta (Theater for A New Audience, Royal Shakespeare Co.) Regional: The Alley Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of DC, The Folger, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, San Jose Rep(Dean Goodman Choice Award for Supporting Performance), and the World Premiere of RESTORATION COMEDY by Amy Freed at The Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Production: BADGE

Jenn Thompson (Director) Producing Director and founding company member of Connecticut’s River Rep Theatre Company where she has performed in over 40 shows and has, most recently, directed productions of Dinner With Friends, The Heiress, Damn Yankees and this summer’s upcoming production of The Foreigner.

As a company member of NYC’s The Actor’s Company Theatre (TACT), she has performed in multiple productions and has directed this past season’s A Kind Lady and Rain. Last summer Jenn directed the critically acclaimed new play Big Doolie, which sold out its run at the 10th Anniversary NYC Fringe Festival. She has also directed,The Brilliance Of Bernstein for the American Musicals Project at the NY Historical Society - featuring Phyllis Newman, and the new play Term Limit for the American Globe Theatre’s 15 Minute Play Festival – which won 4 awards including Best Play. Acting: Broadway: Tony Award-winning productions of Ah, Wilderness!, The Heiress, and Annie. Off-Broadway: New York Shakespeare Festival’s Public Theatre; Playwrights’ Horizons; The York Theatre; American Jewish Theatre; The Hudson Guild; Soho Rep; W.P.A.; Protean Theatre Company; Perry Street Theatre and Ubu Rep. Regional: The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Pittsburgh Public; The Ahmanson (Los Angeles); The New Harmony Theatre (Indiana); Studio Arena; Paper Mill Playhouse; The Fulton Opera House; and The Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center. Film/TV: The Girl In The Park (upcoming); The Out-of-Towners; Bash; Little Darlings; and Honky Tonk Freeway. Extensive television appearances include guest-starring roles on: Third Watch; Ed; Law & Order; Law & Order: SVU; and other leading roles in The Renegade (CBS), the acclaimed PBS series 3-2-1 Contact, and Harper Valley P.T.A. (NBC). Jenn is married to actor/designer Stephen Kunken.
Production: BADGE

Camille Assaf (Costume Design) Upcoming: The Tempest, (Shakespeare on the Sound, CT), and Silk (Croatia). Perseus directed by Ellen Stuart (La Mama, NYC), Evita (Jefferson Performing Arts Society), Animal Tales by George Plimpton and composed by Kitty Brazelton (Atlantic Center for The Arts), The Winter’s Tale (La Mama), three new ballets; Backchat, Rumors and Patootie (Joyce Theatre), Without (Morris Center of Bridgehampton) Also, Pink (New York Summer Play Fest. ’04), The King Stag (Yale Rep.), Coriolanus (Yale School of Drama). In the summer of 2003, she created stage elements, projections and costumes for The Dwight-Edgewood Project, a playwrighting program for children in New Haven’s public schools. Training: Sorbonne University, Paris, France), MFA Stage and Costume Design, Yale Universitty School of Drama.
Production: There's the Story

Daniel Baker (Sound Design) Mystery Plays (Second Stage), Souvenir (Assoc. Sound Designer, York Theatre), My Fair Lady (Dallas Theatre Center), Golden Age (Kraine Theatre), The Jammer (Players Theatre), The Vampires (Double-Helix Theatre Co.), Androcles and the Lion
Production: There's the Story

Sean Dougherty (Curtis) has just returned from The Humana Festival where he played in the World premiere of Hazard County. NY Theatre: Roundabout (Joe Dowling), Cherry Lane (John Rando), The York, Irish Classical and Greenwich Street Theatre. Regional: Romeo and Juliet, Hayfever and more at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Glass Menagerie w/ Roberta Maxwell at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and many others including, The Alley, Cleveland Playhouse, Studio Arena, Pioneer and Papermill Playhouse. He has originated roles in several new plays including: Tom Dudzick’s Lake Effect, Jules Tasca’s The Balkan Women, Oscar-nominated Eric Simonson’s adapt. of Moby Dick, and Mr. Simonson’s and Jeffery Hatcher’s Work Song at Missouri Rep. and Arizona Rep. TV: Several soaps and commercials, spokesperson for Nick@Nite. Film: Everyone’s Depressed, Lions, Tigers and Bears. Training: M.F.A. Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Production: There's the Story

Tara Falk (Alexandra) Upcoming: The Constant Wife (Roundabout), and Connor McPherson’s, Shining City on Broadway. Other Broadway: Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square), Enchanted April (Belasco). Off-Broadway: This Is Our Youth w/ Mark Ruffalo, directed by Mark Brokaw (Second Stage, Douglas Fairbanks) Regional: Frau Else in Fraulein Else directed by Stephen Wadsworth (The Long Wharf), School for Scandal directed by Mark Lamos (McCarter), The Comedy of Errors directed by Mr. Brokaw (Hartford Stage), the World premiere of Flesh and Blood (Portland Center Stage), Madinina (Eugene O’Neill) and many more including: Rep. Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Playhouse and Alabama Shakespeare Festival. TV: Guiding Light, ASWT and numerous commercials. Training: Boston University School of the Arts.
Production: There's the Story

Kathryn Galloway (Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts. Recent credits include: Blink/You Are Here, The Apple Cart, Miss Julie, Hamlet, the Taming of the Shrew, The Man Mode, Journey’s End, and Of Mice and Men. She would like to thank all of the talented artists involved in There’s the Story, for making her job seem so effortless.
Production: There's the Story

Chris Grabowski (Director) is currently Director of Experimental Theatre of Vassar College. Previously, Associate Artistic Director and Literary Manager of New York Theatre Workshop. Directing: Love and Anger, A Forest in Arden, C. Columbo and development of new plays, workshops, festivals and artistic retreats at NYTW, Elizabeth Elgoff’s, Phaedra and Midsummer Nights Dream (Yale Rep.), Pericles (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Mad Forest (Denver Center), and Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Manifest, and Collected Stories w/ Kristen Linklater (Portland Stage). He has also directed at the Graduate Acting Program at NYU, Julliard, The Academy for Classical Acting, Stellar Adler Conservatory, and National Theatre Conservatory. Training: M.F.A. Yale University School of Drama, Directing Program
Production: There's the Story

Tim McCracken (Henry) There’s the Story is Tim’s first full length play and was a semi-finalist for The Princess Grace Awards and a finalist for Arielle Tepper’s, Summer Performance Festival. Acting: NY: Troilus and Cressida (The Public/ NYSF), My Agamemnon (New York Theatre Workshop), The Elephant Man and Animal Farm (Synapse Productions), Brave New World: A Commemoration of 9/11 (dirs. Michael Wilson and Randal Myler at Town Hall), The Brooch w/Celeste Holm (Miranda Theatre). Regional: Stones In His Pockets, Spinning Into Butter and The Royal Family (Rep. Theatre of St. Louis), Lobby Hero (Caldwell), Mad Forest (Denver Center) Old Wicked Songs (Triad Stage and Capital Rep.) Alabama Shakespeare Festival, GeVa, Studio Arena. TV: Numerous commercials and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Training: M.F.A. National Theatre Conservatory.
Production: There's the Story

Randy Redd (Composer) made his Broadway debut in Parade directed by Harold Prince at Lincoln Center. He also appeared in the National Tour as Britt Craig in Parade and as Bingo Little in the American Premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s, By Jeeves, directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn. Off-Broadway and Regional: Smoke On The Mountain, Forever Plaid, One Man Band, 25th Anniversary Production of Pump Boys and Dinettes w/ Jim Wann and Empire. Other credits include: Manhattan Theatre Club, The Atlantic Theatre Company, Naked Angels, The Kennedy Center, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Geffen Playhouse, The York Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, Studio Arena Pittsburgh CLO, Charolette Rep., Coconut Grove Playhouse, The Actor’s Playhouse and many more. Film: Kinsey TV: The Wright Verdicts (CBS), Fame L.A., Good Morning America, the Tony Awards and numerous commercials. His first play, Mississippi Sugar was developed and produced at The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis. Composer: Lucky Sky, Monkey Shines (No Pants Theatre Co.), Hold (American Living Room Fest. At Lincoln Center), Montana Moon (Adirondack Theatre Fest.) and Jacob Sterling: For Crying Out Loud opening Off-Broadway this year. Concerts; Town Hall, Symphony Space, Arts Nova, Cooper Union and Joe’s Pub. Recordings: Lucky Stiff, Parade, Neo.
Production: There's the Story

Jesse Edward Rosbrow (Ass't Director) just directed and co-produced the NY premiere of Vaclav Havel’s trilogy of one-acts, Audience, Unveiling, Protestwhich featured the rock band, Devola. Other credits: Annabelle Troupe, Company Manager and Production Manager, The Seagull (Roundtable Ensemble), Asst. Director; Georgie’s Song with the band Donathan, Asst. Director. He recently directed The Invention of Love as his Senior Thesis Project, on which he did primary research. Training: Vassar College.
Production: There's the Story