actors

 

Lizabeth Allen (Actor)

Acting for TDC - In the Car, Neighbors, While You Wait..., Fathers, Connections, Service, Both.

Lizabeth is Co-Founder of The Drilling Company, and she Co-Produced with Hamilton Clancy and Ross Stoner the inaugural production, In the Car, both at the Producer's Club and The West Bank Theatre. At TDC she has had roles in Sweet Jane by Ross Stoner and directed by Keno Rider (from In the Car), Cup of Sugar by Stephen Bittrich and directed by Keno Rider (from Neighbors), A Lifetime Original by Susan Bernier and directed by Tim Sutton (from While You Wait), Dad and the Gypsies by Patti Chambers and directed by Peter Bretz (from Fathers), Dearly Departed by Kyle Kinsella and directed by Keno Rider (from Connections), A Perfect World by Carol Scudder and directed by Keno Rider (from Service), and, most recently, Before/After by Molly Rice and directed by Richard Harden (from Both).

Lizabeth has appeared Off-Broadway at The American Place Theatre and The Pearl Theatre. Favorite roles include "Amelia Sedley" in the American premiere of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, directed by Thomas Edward West. She has also done numerous commercials and industrials.

Lizabeth is currently living in Los Angeles. She is represented by BiCoastal Talent and Literary 818-845-0150 and Carry Company 213-388-0770. She is in a workshop called "The Actors' Gym" with Bobby Moresco (Crash).

Lizabeth just shot Without a Trace on CBS.

 

Scott Baker (Actor)

Acting for TDC - In the Car, Kiss-Ass-Skip in Two Eggs (in Neighbors), While You Wait..., Fathers, Connections, Pierre in La Mouche (in The Service Project), Mr. Smith in The Audit (in Late Night Theft).

 

Brigitte Barnett (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Black Paintings, My Body, The Two Gentleman of Verona, Samantha in Served Cold (in Revenge 2).

New York Credits: adaptation of Oscar Wilde's, A Woman of No Importance (HERE Arts Center), Measure for Measure (NYSF), Geneva (LaMaMa, etc.), Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (National Black Theatre), Antigone (Epic Theatre Center) RANT (The Public, Cherry Lane, and LaMaMa etc.).

Regional Theatre: Syracuse Stage, The Unicorn Theatre, City Theatre (Pittsburg, PA).

Television and Film: All My Children, One Life To Live, Maid In Manhattan.

M.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Brigitte is a Teaching Artist with Lincoln Center Institute, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout, and The Leadership Program.

 

Dan Barnhill (Actor)

Acting for TDC - As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot).

Has acted and/or played guitar in Off B'way: The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite (Atlantic Theater). Off-off B'way: As You Like It at Shakespeare in the Park (ing lot) and The Mint, Benten Kozo (The Flea), Let's Get Lost (Joe's Pub, The Duplex, Ars Nova), Face Value, Bang (NYC Fringe), National Pride (People's Improv), Jesus Christ Superstar (Producer's Club). Various productions west of the Hudson: Cowboy Mouth, subUrbia, Twelfth Night, The Caretaker, Fool for Love, The Man Who Turned into a Stick, 4H Club.

Film: August Rush and Crank (a forever to be unreleased indie feature). Has directed three film shorts: Kon, Fear, The Horror, written and directed a handful of plays and performance art pieces under his own company, scored a few plays and film shorts and toured most of the Northeast and Europe with a gnarly punk rock band.

www.dbarnhill.com

 

Peter Bretz (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Escape Artist (in Paper). See also Directing at TDC.

Drilling Company director credits include: Service, Paper, Revenge, Security.

Peter is currently playing Slim in Mice and Men with the Cincinnati Playhouse on the Park and St Louis Rep (2006).

New York theatre includes work at E.S.T., Pearl Theatre Company, and Ubu Rep. Regional Theatre: Papermill Playhouse, Denver Theatre Center, George St. Playhouse, Shakespeare on the Sound, Indiana Rep., Tennessee Rep., Delaware Theatre Co., and Arkansas Rep.

Peter trained and was a company member with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco.

Television: The Sopranos, Third Watch, and Ghost Stories.

Peter is represented by Peggy Hadley at (212) 246-2166.

 

Don Carter (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Don't Quit (by C. Denby Swanson), The Dorsal Striatum (by Trish Harnetiaux), Thor's Hammer (by Nicholas Gray), Bells and Whistles (by Brian Dykstra), and For the Benefit of Alfred Beamer (by Scott Baker).

New York Theatre: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (with MJT Productions), My Dinner with Goethe (by Doug Langworthy), A New York Hamlet (by Craig Nobbs) and Eukiah (by Lanford Wilson). Regional Theatre: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Virginia Stage Company and The Public Theatre (in Auburn, Maine).

Don's play Coming to the Table was produced by The Drilling Company in 2004 and published in Plays and Playwrights 2005. He began writing solo work in 1996 with the New York performance group Rumble in the Red Room and produced his solo show Finding Pieces in the 2004 Midtown Theatre Festival. In 2005, Don produced, directed and acted in a collection of his short plays titled Four for the Office.

Independent Film: Hitting the Ground (Living Pictures, Inc.) and Kingdom Come (Rockville Pictures).

 

Hamilton Clancy (Actor)

Acting for TDC - In the Car, Neighbors, While You Wait..., Fathers, Connections, The Service Project, Theft.

Hamilton has been seen Off-Broadway and regionally at The American Place Theatre, The Workhouse, The Fulton Opera, The Vineyard Playhouse, The Public Theatre, and others. He is co-producer of the award winning film, Life's Calling; and a practicing teaching artist with Roundabout Theatre and Theatre Development Fund.

 

Tom Cleary (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Revenge, Revenge 2, Two Gentlemen Of Verona.

NY Theatre: Arcadia (Greenwich Street Theatre), Arms and the Man (Sande Shurin Theatre), Three Sisters (Neue Theatre Prods.), The Trojan Women (Emerging Artists Theatre), The Winter's Tale (Workshop Theater/Jewel Box).

Regional: A Man For All Seasons, Twelfth Night (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival), The Good Woman of Szechuan, (Hedgerow Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Arden Theatre), The Tempest (People's Light & Theatre Company), Tin Pan Alley Rag (Wilma Theater), Purlie (Freedom Theatre - Barrymore nomination).

Film/TV: Shot in the Heart (HBO), Jersey Girl (Miramax).

Training: William Esper.

Website: www.tom-cleary.com

 

Colleen Cosgrove (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Service, Both, Honor, Paper, Revenge, and Security.

Colleen Cosgrove has been associated with the Drilling Company since 2001. As a playwright, she belongs to Playformers and Reverie Plawrights' Lab.

 

Veronica Cruz (Actor)

Acting for TDC - The Service Project.

She is an actor/member of the Lark Theatre Co's Playwrights' Workshop, headed by Arthur Kopit. Other NY stage credits include Arabella in Acts of Mercy by Michael John Garces (Rattlestick Theatre), Diosa and No Such Thing (NY Stage and Film), Karen Malpede's Us (Here), The Secret History of the L. E. S. (En Garde Arts).

Regional credits include: Conchita in Anna in the Tropics (Pittsburgh Public) and Nina/Pilar in Sonia Flew (CATF).

TV: Law & Order. She played Paloma Sanchez on One Life to Live and Gabriella Lopez on Guiding Light. Film: Spider-Man, A Gun for Jennifer. Veronica did her undergraduate work at Yale.

Representation: Bret Adams Ltd. (legit), CED (commercials)

 

James Davies (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Richard Nixon in 1968 (Connections), Jacques in La Mouche (The Service Project), He in Interest and The Distinguished Gentleman in Note to Self (Theft).

James Davies has acted Off and Off-Off Broadway as well as regionally with Arena Stage, Folger Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre. Favorite all time roles include Bickham in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (2nd Stage), Leo in The Little Foxes (ELT) and Edmund in King Lear (Riverside Shakespeare).

Film appearances have included Tracks starring Ice T and Golddigger starring Joe Pantoliano.

James is a member of the Actors' Studio and an alumnus of Catholic University.

 

Tom Demenkoff (Actor)

Acting for TDC - John in Mutant Sex Party (from Service) and nightly role reversal with Hamilton Clancy in The Virgin (from Theft). Also see directing at TDC.

An Ithaca graduate, the original Godspell and Grease, American Globe Theatre, and Shanley's Big Funk top NY's appearances. Regional Highlights: Art, Zoot Suit, Julius Caesar, Dirty Blonde, Dreamhouse, Music Man, Oklahoma!, and Oliver!. TV Highlights: Law & Order, 100 Centre Street, Ed, Fantasy Island, General Hospital, Eight is Enough. Film Highlights: New York Crossing, aka, Lobster Boy, Anger Management, Two Weeks Notice, Rollerblade, Sgt. Peppers, and Troma's classic Surf Nazis Must Die.

Website: www.tomdemenkoff.com.

 

Phillip Douglas (Actor)

 

 

Sally Mae Dunn (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Paper, The Service Project.

Sally has danced in various Broadway musicals. Her favorite regional work includes Charity in Sweet Charity and The Laramie Project.

Brian Dykstra (Actor)

Acting for TDC - The Committee (from While You Wait...), The Mean Queen & The Thief of Hearts (from Theft). See also writing at TDC.

Recent NY credits include the world premieres of That Damn Dykstra (the boxed set) and STRANGERHORSE at Access Theater, P. Seth Bauer's The Umbrella Play (Actors Theatre Workshop). Recent Regional credits include: Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen (Arizona Theatre Company), Eddie Carbone in A View From The Bridge (Theatrefest), Gabe in Dinner with Friends (Philadelphia Theater Company) He has appeared Off-Broadway in Breaking Legs, Incommunicado, Tatjana in Color, A Most Secret War, King John, Love's Labors Lost and Much Ado About Nothing as well as in the NY premiere of his play Forsaking All Others.

Recent TV: Law & Order, Guiding Light and Chappelle's Show. MFA, Rutgers University.

Contact Brian at Briandykstra@earthlink.net

 

Bruce Faulk (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Paper Trail.

Bruce was born and bred in the dirty soil of New York. Since graduating Carnegie Mellon credits include: Da Voice in Bring in Da Noise/Bring in Da Funk at The Public, Francisco in Hamlet at The Roundabout, Wally in A Movie Star... with Signature, and the very evil Proteus on All My Children. He's been a member of Primary Stages New American Writers Group, Playwrights Horizons Writers Group and is excited to begin working with TheDrilling folks.

E-mail: writincat@hotmail.com

 

Michael Gnat (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Gerry and Just for One Day (in Hero); A Gopher in the Ninth Ward and With Benefits (Security 2); Safety Off and Bells & Whistles (Security); Titus Lucretius Carus and Bill's Woes (Honor 2; 2005 IT Award Nominee); and others, including the Parking Lot Hamlet (as Polonius) and As You Like It.

Other recent NYC stage: James Ryder in The Blue Carbuncle; Steve (ship captain) in 967 Tuna (in The Australia Project II).

Film: Off Jackson Avenue (2008; Wall Street Jimmy), Bobby G. Can't Swim (would-be coke dealer Tim), Die Dreaming (Mr. Carlo, the super), Found Money (Agent Orange).

Michael is also an actor-member of WorkShop Theater and Algonquin Productions.

 

Kelly Jeanne Grant (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Theft and Paper.

Kelly is currently in Company on Broadway! (click)

She has performed Magnolia in Hal Prince's Showboat in London and America. In NYC, Kelly has worked at Theatre 3, The Mint, The York Theatre, and her most recent engagement at the Harold Clurman Theatre in It's Just Sex. Regionally she has starred in Peter Pan, My Fair Lady, Jekyll & Hyde, Oliver!, and Phantom. All live appearances are eclipsed however by her stint as Al Norwich's babe on CBS's Letterman.

Website: www.kellygrant.com

 

Nicholas Gray (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Brian Dykstra's On Paper (from Paper). See also Writing at TDC.

Faves: Roll (by Mac Rogers) at the Flashpoint Festival, Fix (directed by Tom Rowan) at Manhattan Theatre Source, La Chunga (Innocent Theatre), Duchess of Malfi (played Bosola) Expanded Arts, New York (by David Rimmer) at Seven Angels, To Kill a Mockingbird (at GeVa), Much Ado (played Benedick) at Rochester Shakespeare in the Park. TV: Unsolved Mysteries. Training: The Actors' Center. Also a fight choreographer and playwright produced by HTC, Lincoln Center Director's Lab and Lunatic Productions.

 

Bill Green (Actor)

Acting for TDC - You Can't Get There from Here (in Fathers), That River in Egypt (in Connections), La Mouche (in Service), and Notes to Self (in Theft), The Audit (in Late Night Paper).

Other recent credits include - The Idiot (Lebedev), The Changeling (Vermandero), Look Back in Anger (Col. Redfern), The Brothers Karamazov (Snegiryev), MacBeth (Duncan and Lennox).

In an earlier time roles included - Morris Townsend in The Heiress, Mephistopheles in Dr. Faustus, Richard in
Richard II, Almady in The Play's the Thing, Chares Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer, Ragpicker in The Madwoman of Chaillot.

Phone: (212) 874-3632

Melora Griffis (Actor)

Acting for TDC - That River in Egypt (in Connections) and Paper Trail (in Paper).

Melora paints in her studio on 26th Street in between film, television and theatre roles. You can see more of her work on the web at www.meloragriffis.com. Her last acting gig was at the Culture Project--Women's Center Space, where she wrote and performed a piece called Fault, combining her work as a performer and painter. Look for her on Law & Order.

 

Carol Halstead (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Service and Security. See also Directing at TDC.

Broadway: Gore Vidal's The Best Man. Off-Broadway: Walking Down Broadway, Pericles, Easter Candy, The Mask. Regional Theatre includes the West Coast premire of Teresa Rebeck's one woman play, Bad Dates (Dean Goodman Choice Award Best Solo Performance), The Voysey Inheritance (Center Stage), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur, The Skin of Our Teeth, Arcadia and many more with The Denver Center Theatre. All My Sons, The Art of Coarse Acting (Chautauqua Theatre Co.), Picasso at The Lapine Agile (The Cleveland Playhouse and Budapest), All's Well that Ends Well, Loves Labors Lost (The Shakespeare Theatre).

Carol is represented by Schiowitz/Conner/Ankrum/Wolf at (212) 840-6787.

Nick Hetherington (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Karma Cookie (in Paper).

 

Karen Kitz (Actor)

Acting for TDC - In the Car, Neighbors, While You Wait..., Fathers, Connections, The Service Project, Theft, and Paper.

In New York Karen originated the role of Vanessa in Daddy's Home by Reneé Flemings at The Henry Street Settlement and The Actors' Studio Theatre at Raw Space, for which she was nominated for a best actress award by Frank Calo's 2001 Spotlight On Festival. She has performed in myriad venues in and around NYC, including New York Theatre Workshop, 78th Street Theatre Lab, McGinn/Cazale Theatre, Vital Theatre and PSNBC@HERE. Regional roles include Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun, and Sara in Stop Kiss.

Film roles include the lead in the independent short Life's Calling, winner of the 2002 Houston International Grand Jury Prize and one of fifteen short films chosen for the Maui Film Festival. She has done numerous commercials and industrials.

Since the Fall of 1999, she has been a founding member and Associate Producer for TheDrillingCompany, and has appeared in all of its productions to date. (see Staff)

She did her undergraduate work at Towson University (BS, biology) in Maryland before moving to New York to study theatre at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1986. In 1988, she was one of 10 students at AADA selected to participate in a cultural exchange to the (then) Soviet Union, where she performed works by great American writers in Moscow (at the Moscow Art Theatre), Tallinn and Frunze. She is also a graduate of New York's William Esper Studios and a member of Actors' Equity Association and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

 

Jean Lichty (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Newton's Wad (in Late Night Paper).

Andrew Lawton (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Stu in Daddy's Little Girl (from Fathers), Kid in Held Up (from Fathers), Carat in 24 Carats (from Theft), Brad in I Love You, Man (from Don't Bring Me Down), Milkman in The Snake and the Bird (from Both).

Andrew hails from Melbourne, Australia and made his New York City debut in TDC's Fathers during 2001. Before moving to the USA, he directed, wrote and starred in the feature film Rain, which had its red carpet premiere for 300 invited guests during 2000. He is also featured on Australian TV in Neighbours and State Coroner. Since graduating with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2003, Andrew has pursued his love of acting and filmmaking here in New York. Most recently, he was cast as Logan on the soap One Life to Live for ABC and was a guest star on The Panel in Australia on Christmas Day, 2005.

Brian Linden (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Either Or/Neither Nor (in Both).

Other NYC - Love's Labour's Lost (Judith Shakespeare Festival), Midnight Brainwash Revival (Inverse Theatre), The Shanghai Gesture (Bank Street Theatre), and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, dir: Hamilton Clancy).

Regional - Edward II (American Conservatory Theatre, dir: Mark Lamos), Hydriotaphia understudy (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, dir: Ethan McSweeny), The Comedy of Errors (Idaho Shakespeare Festival, dir: Barry Edelstein), The Taming of the Shrew (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), and Love's Labour's Lost (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival).

Peter Macklin (Actor)

Acting for TDC - As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot).

Regional: (Alabama Shakespeare Festival) Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Osric in Hamlet and more. (ASF Graduate Company) Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night, Al Joad in Grapes of Wrath, Prince Charming in Cinderella and more.

New York: As You Like It (TDC), The Importance of Marrying Wells (Fringe 2005), #2 (Sam French Festival), Naked, Themantics and more.

Film: Horizon (lead), The Day I Ran Into All My Ex-Boyfriends, The Future Is Now. Playwright: Peter's Play, Someplace Warm is published by Samuel French Inc. with excerpts appearing in Smith & Kraus' Best Women's Monologues 2002. His new full length play A Different Time is close to being done. Founding member of Write Club NYC. M.F.A. in acting from The Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

 

David Marantz (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Honor, Both, and Theft. Also Thurio in Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Joe Clancy (Shakespeare in the Parkinglot).

Other roles: O'Brien 1984 and Heck Tate To Kill a Mockingbird (Nicu's Spoon Theater), Officer Fellowes Diana of Dobson's (Mint Theater), Robbie The Brave, Torvald A Doll's House (Expanded Arts), Martin Fool For Love and Dreidel Dude in the new play Holiday Shmoliday.

TV and film: all of the NYC daytime dramas, SNL, Rockville Pictures' Kingdom Come and numerous student films.

MFA from Rutgers under William Esper. Member of Actors Equity.

 

Fredric Marco (Actor)

Acting for TDC - F. Scott Fitzgerald in Scott and Zelda Get a Pet (from Paper).

Other New York credits include: Dr. Wayne Talbot in Dinner at Eight with Tovah Feldshuh at The Century Center. Euripedes' The Bacchae at the New York Fringe Festival. Mark Dolson in Mass Appeal and Hal in Henry IV Part I at the Perry Street Theater and the Tower Theater. European Tour: Tony in West Side Story. TV: Lieutenant Billy McNamara in Guiding Light, Representative Richard Lawson in As the World Turns. Fredric is also a lyricist/librettist in the BMI Lehman Engel Theatre Writing Workshop.

 

Gary Mink (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Speed in Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Other credits include: Off-Broadway in Grandma Sylvia's Funeral at the Soho Playhouse, and with the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Big Hotel.

Regionally, he appeared in Speed the Plow at The Northeastern Theatre Ensemble, and A Few Good Men at the Wayside and Mill Mountain Theatres. He toured in The Comedy of Errors and Othello with the National Shakespeare Company.

Off-Off Broadway Gary has worked with The West End Theatre, The Mint Theatre, Target Margin Company, The Turnip Festival, The Westside Repertory Theatre, A.A.I. Productions at Soho Rep, and many others.

He studied with Austin Pendleton, John Basil (American Globe Theatre), and at Montclair State University.

 

 

Bradford Olson (Actor)

Michael Marisi Ornstein (Actor)

Acting for TDC - The Deal (from Revenge, Part 2).

Michael was born in Passaic, New Jersey in 1963. He is an old school artist with many creative outlets, working with various disciplines.

He studied acting as a child at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, and later, after a chance meeting, was fortunate enough to study with Stella Adler. After high school, he enrolled in Mason Gross School of the Arts. He quit after his first year and moved to New York City to begin working as an actor.

Ornstein developed and performed hundreds of new plays in New York City. He eventually found a creative home at Circle Rep. Lab, where a small group of actors, directors and writers performed a brand new play each week, under the direction of Michael Warren Powell.

Film acting credits include Man of the Year, Crossing Delancey, Robert Altman's Kansas City, Hal Hartley's Book Of Life, and Let It Snow, a film by Adam and Kipp Marcus. Television acting credits include Seinfeld, Law & Order, Special Victim's Unit, Criminal Intent, Another World, Guiding Light, New York Undercover, Third Watch and a recurring role as Detective Bounaventura on the critically acclaimed series, Homicide. Stage acting credits include creating the role of Louis Ironson in the 1991 World Premiere of Tony Kushner's Angels in America at the Eureka Theater in San Francisco.

In 1996, Michael made a movie called Time Away, which was one of the first Digital Video films ever made. Michael re-cut the film from scratch, with a grant from Apple and the new version is called Wine Dark Sea. Both versions feature a soundtrack from Alan Lomax's collection of field recordings, Sounds of the South.

From a young age and all through his life, Michael's main focus privately remained in oil painting, which he practiced daily. It is in painting where he finds his purest form of expression.

Michael lives and works with his wife, Zoe, and their new daughter Angelena.

www.michaelornstein.com

 

Danielle Quisenberry (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Alice in What's Left (from Paper).

Danielle just completed work on The Danger of Strangers by Glenn Alterman at the Emerging Artists Theatre Company and is thrilled to be making her TDC debut under the direction of Richard Harden. She was recently privileged to work with Richard at The Strasberg Institute playing Pam and Sue, the daughters of Broadway veterans Patrick Tovatt and Polly Adams in a workshop of Damaged Goods. Her favorite regional roles include Callie in Stop Kiss.

 

Jane Ray (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Before/After and Wanda in Y'All (from Both).

NYC credits include NY Theatre Workshop, La Mama ETC, HERE, Tiny Mythic Theatre Company, the West Bank, St. Clements and others.

Films include The New Women, Straight Right, Wirey Spindell.

Training: Bennington College, Nicholas Martin, William Esper Studio, Tim Phillips, Wynn Handman.

 

Tamara Reynolds - (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Panthina and Hostess in Two Gentlemen of Verona.

NYC Theatre: Windows on the World, Most Fabulous Story..., Six Women with Brain Death.

Regional: HMS Pinafore, Nightingale!, Lilies of the Field.

"Always thrilled to perform Shakespeare, and always wishing to perfect my hollandaise."

 

Neil Shah - (Actor)

Acting for TDC -
Silvius in As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Parking Lot '06)

Off-Broadway: Medea, The Balcony, Merchant of Venice (Jean Cocteau Rep). Regional: Antony and Cleopatra, Much Ado About Nothing, Resurrection Blues (Director: Mark Lamos, West Coast Premiere, Arthur Miller in residence) Julius Caesar (Director: Daniel Sullivan, Old Globe Theatre), Map of the World (Burning Coal), Henry IV, Part 1, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, Cymbeline (Theatre at Monmouth). Other: Twelfth Night, Winter's Tale, All in the Timing, Cherry Orchard, & Shanti (one-man show).

Film: Hiding Divya. TV: Law & Order.

Training: MFA from the Old Globe/University of San Diego.

 

Dana Slamp (Actor)

Acting for TDC - While You Wait..., Both.

Next seen in Resurrection Blues -- a new play by Arthur Miller at the Old Globe Theatre (dir. Mark Lamos).

The Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Rep., Syracuse Stage, The Acting Company, Virginia Stage, two seasons with Idaho Shakespeare Festival, three seasons with Centennial Theatre Festival, and so on. Film: The Descent of Walter McFea, FM, and Beauty Knows No Pain. Comedy: The Sing-a-Long Sound of Music. MFA: ACT. Representation: Artists Group East, theatrical, and Abrams Artists, commercial & voice overs. See her bio in TDC writers as well.

For reviews, check out: Journal Sentinel Online, OnMilwaukee.com,
The Washington University Record, and KDHX Radio St. Louis

 

Douglas Taurel (Actor)

Acting for TDC - The Agenda (from Revenge, Part 1).

Douglas Taurel originates from Texas. Recently finished performing both roles in True West directed by Tim Phillips in New York and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Other credits include The Ring directed by Stephen Jobes, Edward Albee's Workshop, New York Shakespeare Project, Abingdon Theater, The Drilling Company, Looking Glass Theater, Naked Angles, Trilogy Theater, The Rope by Plautus at Boston's Strand Theater, New York's Fringe Festival, New York's Strawberry Festival and the Chilean Classic Hechos Consumados with La Micro Theater Company.

He has appeared in the feature films: A Beautiful Mind, The Better Born at the Sundance Film Festival & Help Wanted--Cinequest Online Viewers Choice award for 2005. TV: Law & Order, Guiding Light, All My Children, PBS, and Nickelodeon.

He has studied with Wynn Handman, Tim Phillips, Arthur Lessac and Stephen Jobes.

 

Dan Teachout (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Honor, Part 2, Big Apples, Paper, Fathers, While You Wait..., The Service Project, Theft.

NY Theatre: Killa Dilla directed by André DeShields (Working Theatre), Three Sisters (Neue Theatre Prods.), Big Apples (Access Theatre/Drilling Company), Artists & Anglers (No-Pants Theatre @ HERE), Punch! (HERE, American Living Room Series).

Regional: Measure for Measure, King John, Death of A Salesman, Waiting for Godot (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), Stand Up Tragedy (Apple Tree Theatre), Macbeth (Live Theatre, Chicago), A Farm Under A Lake (City Lit Theatre, Chicago), In My Fathers Court (National Jewish Theatre), Barbie and Ken at Home (Cast Theatre LA).

Currently working on a horror film. See details at: www.theboyscanswim.com

 

Stacy Wallace (Actor)

Acting for TDC - Service, Theft, and Paper.

Stacy has appeared in three Drilling Company productions since its inception. In Service, she portrayed Kiley in McIntyre's, a solo piece written by Suzanne Bradbeer. Stacy was fortunate enough to be cast in another Bradbeer piece, Fear and Loathing on the Nile for Theft, where she portrayed Meredyth. She is currently appearing in Paper as Jackie in Brian Dykstra's On Paper.

Stacy is also a member of the New Jersey Repertory Company, most recently having done a staged reading for Sheila Callaghan's The Catherine Calamity. Stacy is a graduate of the William Esper Studio as well as the Actor's Movement Studio in New York City.

 

 

Rob A. Wilson (Actor)