Christa Kimlicko Jones has been working in the theatre for over 15 years as an actor, director, producer, administrator, or teacher. She received her Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin where she also garnered her certification in Voice/Speech. As a producer, most recently, Christa had the privilege of working on Off Broadway productions, Eye of God by Tim Blake Nelson (New York Premiere) The Vietnamization of New Jersey by Christopher Durang (New York Premiere) and David Wright Crawford’s, Harvest (New York Premiere). Christa served as Associate Director of Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan from 2005–2008. In addition, she is a founding member and served as Co-Producing Artistic Director of the dirigo group in Austin, Texas. Christa is member of V.A.S.T.A. (Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association) and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Off Broadway acting credits include: Helen in Umbrella and Toni in Harvest (both with Alchemy Theatre Company) and Eaton in Lipstick on a Pig. Other NY acting credits: Our Town (Harold Clurman Lab Theatre), 365 Days/365 Plays (Genesius Theatre Group), Rearview Mirror (manhattantheatresource), Blah, Blah, Blah (Bayou Radio) and The Information She Carried. Selected regional credits include: Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (B. Iden Payne Nomination/Critics Table Nomination), Nina in The Seagull (Critic’s Table Nomination), Sybil in Private Lives, Lorraine in The Man Who Came to Dinner (Austin Playhouse); Perdita in Winter’s Tale (Austin Shakespeare Festival); Hedda in Hedda Gabler (Critic’s Table Nomination), Abbie in Desire Under the Elms (B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Actress), May in Fool for Love and Joanne in Home Free! (the dirigo group). Other notable credits: Elise in The Miser (directed by Philip Goodwin), and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Critic’s Table Nomination; directed by Franchelle Stuart Dorn and Lucien Douglas).
Film credits include: Themes and Intermissions, Secondhand Lions, Bloodmask, Worse, Fairy Blight, and Tempting David. Voice acting credits include: Getbackers and Dai Guard, among others.
Other producer credits include: The Jinn, Hedda, bash, Desire, In On It, and Home Free!, all with the dirigo group.
Christa is an Acting and Voice/Speech instructor with NYU's drama department currently on staff at Stella Adler (Voice/Speech) and working as an adjunct teacher for the Tisch/Kanbar Undergraduate Film/TV program (Acting). Christa also teaches Acting for CAP 21's Professional Training Program.
In addition, Christa serves as Associate Education Director with Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater for the Theater Training Program. She is also on faculty teaching Voice/Speech, Acting, and serving as Vocal Coach for the apprentice productions. Her most recent directing credits include the staged workshop production of Cheri Steinkellner's Hello! My Baby at Vassar College with the Powerhouse Apprentice training program associated with New York Stage and Film. ChristaKimlickoJones.com
Email: ckjones@TheatreEast.org
Company Member
Company Manager
Founding Company Member
Artistic Director
(Bonham, TX)
Founding Company Member
Associate Artistic Director,
Director of Programming
(Tyler, TX)
Daryl Wendy Strauss has a long and varied career in theater as an actor, financial manager and producer. As owner/member of the Homegrown Theater Co. in NYC, Daryl (Wendy) managed its acting school as well as performing in and producing many of Homegrown's productions. Acting credits with Homegrown Theater Co. include roles by playwrights Clifford Odets and Leonard Melfi. She originated the role of "Blue" in Edward Allan Baker's The Buffer. Film credits include Full Moon Prods. Bad Channels and Shades of Gray, winner of Faculty Honors at Columbia University's Graduate Film School. TV credits include a recurring role on Days of Our Lives and numerous commercials. Daryl (Wendy) is a member of SAG and AFTRA.
Email: darylwendy@TheatreEast.org
Press Representative
Kevin P. McAnarney has a varied background in public relations, casting and management. Kevin has handled major concerts on Broadway; international dance attractions and special events at the Metropolitan Opera House, NY State Theater, Carnegie Hall and others including two Katharine Hepburn tributes as well as the first NYC Academy Awards benefit. He did national press for Cirque du Soleil for four years and helped to open Mystere, in Las Vegas; tours of the Bolshoi Ballet, Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble to only name a few. For six years, he represented the Drama Desk Awards. He was honored to be the B’way press rep for Love! Valour! Compassion! (the first show ever to win the 5 top New York Theatre Awards in one season including the Tony, Outer Critics Circle, New York Drama Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Obie Awards). KPM Associates (Grant Lindsey, associate) was the Broadway press agent for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour; Some other NYC clients include: A R Gurney’s Sylvia; Children’s Defense League; Ballet Nacional de Cuba (Alisa Alonzo); Theater Hall of Fame, Julio Bocca and Ballet Argentino, National Dance Week; Madrid’s Ballet Ullate; the musical john and jen; Moiseyev Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre, Les Ballets Grandiva; and Moisés Kaufman and the award-winning hits Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Laramie Project. They continue to represent Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College, Career Transitions for Dancers and others. Mr. McAnarney managed a 13-city tour of the musical Camelot starring Rock Hudson; Cape Cod Melody Tent and Beacon Theatre. He was also a union treasurer and box office manager. Kevin was a member of the organizing of Broadway Cares and helped write the mission statement; an organizing member of B’WAY (Better Wellness And You), the Wellness Committee for the theatre industry. He is serving his tenth term on the Board of Governors of ATPAM.
Email: kpmassociates@aol.com
Artistic Director
Managing Director
Associate Artistic Director
Director of Programming
Director of Development &
Communications
Communications
Company Manager
Director of Marketing
Press Representative
Intern
Shorey Walker played the role of Aggy Taylor in Harvest with The Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan. This past summer Shorey appeared as The Cat in the Hat in Seussical at the Lucile Lortel Theatre. Select NYC credits: Ester Meucci in Fishing with Tony & Joe (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Agrippina in Caligula (NYMTF). Tour credit: Peter in Peter Pan, Tommy and Fiddler on the Roof. Favorite regional credits: Violet Bick in It's a Wonderful Life, Li'l Abner, Goodspeed and Evita at The Helen Hayes Theatre.
Email: shorey@TheatreEast.org
Founding Company Member
Director of Marketing
William Franke has worked with The Jungle Theater, Park Square, and many other theaters in his native Minneapolis, as well as Out to Lunch Theater in Berlin, Germany. Other New York stages he has appeared on include Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Lark Play Development Center and the Drama League. He has appeared in the New York International Fringe Festival in Gingham Theatre's For Reasons Unknown (Barrow Street Theatre) & Courthouse Theatre Company's Peas & Carrots and in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in Numerical Productions' Five By Three. TV: All My Children; As The World Turns; Law & Order: SVU; The Electric Company; Living In Captivity (pilot). Film: Alone; After You're Gone; Smokers, and others. Member of AEA & AFTRA. WilliamFranke.com
Email: wmfranke@TheatreEast.org
Company
Member
Director of Development &
Communications
(Minneapolis, MN)
Communications
(Minneapolis, MN)
Judson Jones has been working professionally as an actor, director, and producer for over a decade. As a producer, he has had the privilege of collaborating Off Broadway on the premieres of Daniel MacIvor's The Soldier Dreams, Tim Blake Nelson’s Eye of God, Christopher Durang’s The Vietnamization of New Jersey (NY Times Critic Pick) and of David W. Crawford’s Harvest (Smith and Kraus Best New Plays of 2008; Backstage Critic’s Pick). Prior to forming Theatre East, he served as Associate Director for Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan from 2005–2008, and in his native Texas he was a founding member of the dirigo group and served as Co-Producing Artistic Director for 6 years; he still serves on the Board of Directors for the dirigo group and for Texas Dramatists. He also remains an active member of Austin’s Hyde Park Theatre Company, a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and guest lectures both at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Gallatin School.
Off Broadway directing credits include: The Soldier Dreams with Theatre East and Harvest with Alchemy Theatre Company; regional directing credits: bash with the dirigo group (Critics Table Nomination), S-Man with Scriptworks, and The Elf and Gift for Salvage Vanguard.
Regional producing credits include: The Jinn (The American Theatre Critics Award, five Critics Table Nominations, and two B. Iden Payne Nominations) Hedda (B. Iden Payne Nomination and three Critics Table Nominations), bash (B. Iden Payne Award and four Critics Table Nominations), Desire (four B. Iden Payne Awards and Critics Table Nomination), In on It (two B. Iden Payne Nominations), and Home Free!, all for the dirigo group.
Off Broadway acting credits include: Jack in Eye of God with Theatre East; Frank in Umbrella, Rick Childress in Harvest, Charles Spierling in Haymarket, all with Alchemy Theatre Company; and Sal in Worth at Urban Stages. His other New York credits include Martin in Bayou Radio’s Blah, Blah, Blah, and Mark in The Information She Carried.
Judson has appeared in over twenty regional theatre productions, including: The Soldier Dreams (Critics Table Award) and Bleacher Bums (Critics Table Award), both for Subterranean Theatre Company; Art Stripped Naked for Hyde Park Theatre; A Macbeth (Critics Table Nomination and B. Iden Payne Nomination) for The State Theater Company; ASF’s Winter’s Tale; Fugitive Pieces (Critics Table Award and B. Iden Payne Nomination) for Salvage Vanguard Theatre; The Seagull for the Mermaid Company; One Small Step, and Oversimplification, for Bayou Radio; 300 Plays About Vladimir Putin with the Rude Mechanicals; Orange with Refraction Arts; and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Austin Playhouse. His credits for the dirigo group include Desire (B. Iden Payne Award), Fool for Love, The Gypsy Chain, True West, The Middle of the Night (Critics Table Nomination), and The Mercy Seat. He toured the southeastern United States with Troup D’Jour performing in Julius Caesar and the title role in Henry V.
His film and television credits include: Royal Pains, Boardwalk Empire, Archaeology of a Woman, WWJD, Botticelli's Lonely Man, Fairy Blight, The Messenger, Green Eyes, Living, and Yorick. Some of his voice acting credits include Samurai X: The Motion Picture, Dai Guard, Getbackers, Zaion, The Princess Blade, Steam Detectives, and Soul Hunter.
An interesting bit of trivia: some of his first professional work was with Noble Cause Productions performing in live jousts and as Aramis in the The Three Musketeer Stuntshow. JudsonJones.com
Email: jjones@TheatreEast.org
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Todd Eric Hawkins has been a Project Manager for Public Art for Public Schools in New York City since 2008. In this role, he has managed over 25 projects, taking an active role in the commissioning of artists, the development of designs, and the coordination of installations at public schools throughout all five boroughs. In addition to his involvement as a Project Manager, Todd also manages the Sites for Students Program, an initiative designed to put artists in the classroom for the purpose of working with students in the development of the public art for their brand new school buildings. From 1999 to 2010, Todd was a company member and Associate Producer for Literally Alive Children’s Theater in Manhattan. During his tenure, the company produced a repertoire of 10 original musical adaptations of classical children’s literature, including The Velveteen Rabbit, The Ugly Duckling, and The Selfish Giant. Prior to moving to New York City in 1998, Todd was active in several community theaters in his home town of Norman, Oklahoma. He served on the Boards of Stage Door Theatricals and Stone Soup, where he served as President of the Board from 1996 to 1998. In 2010, Todd received his Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Goucher College, where he currently sits on the Alumnae/Alumni Board of Directors.
Email: todd@TheatreEast.org
Managing Director
(Tulsa, OK)
Jana Fredricks is from New Orleans, Lousiana. She moved to New York to attend NYU, where she recently graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts, with a BFA in Drama. She studied at CAP21, The Atlantic Theatre Company, and Stonestreet School of Film and TV. Since graduation she has kept busy teaching preschool and tutoring, and was most recently seen this September in CAP21's Industry Showcase. Her long-standing interest in production and direction has led her here to Theatre East, where she is excited to work with and get to know the creative team through her recently appointed internship.
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