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New York: Matt just completed 2 tours with the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, NY. Peekar in Dog Lovers (Emerging Artist's Theatre and Juvy Hall), Biff in Death of a Salesman (Cider Mill Playhouse), James in stirring (NYC Fringe Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and Sam in For Abigail, Who Drowns Men (Youngblood Festival, EST).As well as acting, Matt is an accomplished stage carpenter and electrician. He has worked at the Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Theatre Workshop, the LAByrnth Theatre Co., the Signature Theatre Co. and the Vineyard Theater among many others. Regional: Eddy in Fool For Love, Snapshot in the 26th Humana Festival of New American Plays, and I Am a Cloud in Pants (collaboration with Chicago Neo-Futurists), all at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville
Shoshona is a New York based theater artist. She is the Artistic Director of Shalimar Productions, founded in 2000. She is also a co-producer of the acclaimed Estrogenius Festival and is an artistic associate with Kings Country Shakespeare Company. She is the previous literary associate at New York Theatre Workshop and co-artistic directors of Black Cat Group’s Political Play Reading Series. She participated in the 24 th and 25 th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Selected directing credits: Off Season by Michael John Garces, Skirt by Katie Douglas, The Rich Silk of It by Deb Margolin, A Stroll in the Air as part of the city-wide Ionesco Festival, Lysistrata at Kings County Shakespeare Company, Jelly Love and Peanut Butter by Saviana Stanescu, FED: or Domestic Claims of Passion and Devouring at the Culture Project, and stirring at One Arm Red, The New York International Fringe Festival, 59e59, and the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival where it played to sold-out audiences. Shoshona has produced work by Deb Margolin, Adam Rapp, Elizabeth Wong, and Cheryl Davis. She has been fortunate enough to perform with the Living Theatre under the direction of Judith Malina. She is on the reading committee for the Young Playwrights National Playwriting Competition and has also been an adjudication reader for the Estrogenius Festival and the Van Lier Fellowship. Shoshona is the recipient of the Joan Kersner Memorial Fellowship for Theatre Artists and she is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
Jack is a graduate of Indiana University and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where he was a member of the Academy Company and an American Theatre Wing scholarship recipient. Theatre credits include: off season by Michael John Garces at the West End Theatre, stirring at The New York International Fringe Festival, 59e59, and The 2005 Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, True West at the Michael Chekhov Theatre Company, A Matter of Dispute at East Village’s Kraine Theatre, The Statue at The Bank Street Theatre, Leaving on a Jet Plane at Manhattan Theatre Source, Squanto’s Lament at The Pantheon Theatre on 42nd Street, and Two Gentlemen of Verona at Kings County Shakespeare Company. Television credits include: Mr. Sheridan on ABC’s One Life to Live , CBS’s Guiding Light , FX’s Rescue Me , and Redshirt Blues , which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel as part of their Exposure series and was written up in Entertainment Weekly as “What to Watch.” Jack produced and co-starred with Jerry Adler (Hesh on The Sopranos ) in the short film Waiting for Maggio , which screened at various film festivals this past year. He is a producer/writer with Sedagive Entertainment, which is currently developing scripts for full-length feature films.
