Season Four

COURTNEY HARGE (Director) is a producer, director, and professional arts administrator originally from Saginaw, Michigan. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of Colloquy Collective, a theatre company based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She has directed with SoYouSay, the Red Harlem Readers, JACK, and New Brooklyn Theatre. She has worked as an administrator and producer for Extant Arts, the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center, Theater for the New City, the Public Theater, Gibney Dance, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and, currently, Fractured Atlas with a focus on institutional fundraising, crowdfunding, and fiscal sponsorship. She holds a Masters of Professional Studies, with Distinction, in Arts and Cultural Management from Pratt Institute and a Bachelors of Fine Arts with Honors from the University of Michigan in Theatre Performance. Her credo (#HustlingKeepsYouSexy) is not merely a hashtag; it’s a way of life.

CAST: Whitney Andrews, Nina Yvette Coleman, Michael Coppola, Douglas Everett Davis, De’Marcus Joseph, Samantha Levitt, Keith L. Watford

CHRISTINA ANDERSON's plays include The Ashes Under Gait City, Good Goods, Man in Love, Blacktop Sky, Hollow Roots, How to Catch Creation, and Drip. Her work has appeared at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, Penumbra, Yale Rep, A.C.T., The Public Theater, Crowded Fire, and other theatres around the country. American Theater Magazine selected Anderson as one of the fifteen up-and-coming artists 'whose work will be transforming America's stages for decades to come'. For two consecutive years, her plays have appeared as one of the top recommendations on The Kilroy's List, an annual industry survey of excellent new works by female playwrights. Awards and honors include 2015/16 Aetna New Voices Fellowship (Hartford Stage), 2011/12 Playwright-in-Residence at Magic Theater (National New Play Network), two PONY nominations, 2011 Woursell Prize Finalist (University of Vienna), National Playwrights' Conference residency at the O'Neill, Schwarzman Legacy Scholarship awarded by Paula Vogel, two Susan Smith Blackburn nominations, Lorraine Hansberry Award (American College Theater Festival), Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship (New Dramatists), Wasserstein Prize nomination (Dramatists Guild), and Lucille Lortel Fellowship (Brown University). Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. BA, Brown University. MFA, Yale School of Drama's Playwriting Program. Anderson is an Assistant Professor of Playwriting at SUNY, Purchase College.

LUCIE TIBERGHIEN (Director). Recent world premieres: Michael Benjamin Washington's Blueprints to Freedom (Lajolla Playhouse and Kansas City Rep), Emily Schwend's The Other Thing (Second Stage Theatre), Rehana Mirza's Soldier X (Ma-Yi Theater), Christina Anderson's The Ashes Under Gait City (Contemporary American Theater Festival, West Virginia), Charles Randolph Wright's Love in Afghanistan (Arena Stage, DC), and Stephen Belber's Don’t Go Gentle (MCC). Other selected productions: Ayad Akhtar's The Invisible Hand (Milwaukee Rep), Quiara Alegria Hudes's Water by the Spoonful (Arden Theater), J.T. Rogers's Blood and Gifts (La Jolla Playhouse), Craig Wright's Blind and The Pavilion (Rattlestick), Katori Hall's Hoodoo Love by (Cherry Lane Theatre), Lee Blessing's Great Falls and Flag Day (Humana Festival and CATF), and Stephen Belber's A Small Melodramatic Story and Geometry of Fire (LAByrinth, Rattlestick).

CAST: Chris Cook, Jodi McFadden, Carolyn Michelle Smith, Pooya Mohseni, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Zach Wegner

​CHISA HUTCHINSON's (Playwright) socially probing plays, which include She Like Girls, Sex on Sunday, The Subject, Dead & Breathing, and Somebody's Daughter among others, have been presented by such venues as City Parks' Summerstage, the Lark, the National Black Theatre, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and Atlantic Theater Company. She has won a GLAAD Award, the John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting, a Lilly Award, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, the Paul Green Award, a Helen Merrill Award, and the Lanford Wilson Award, and has been a finalist for the highly coveted PoNY Fellowship. She has also been a Lark Fellow, a Dramatists Guild Fellow, a resident at the William Inge Center for the Arts a New York NeoFuturist, and a staff writer for the Blue Man Group. Currently, she is a Humanitas Fellow, Resident Playwright at Second Stage Theatre, and a proud third-year member of New Dramatists. BA, Vassar College. MFA NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

KRISTIN HORTON (Director) is a director primarily interested in developing new work, re-imagining classics, and producing public events that create forums for dialogue and action concerning urban democracy and the arts. Her new play collaborations have appeared at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, Working Theater, HERE, NYC Summerstage, William Inge Playwrights' Festival, The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, and Workhaus Collective, among others. She has a long-time association with the Lark Play Development Center, where she has directed as part of its many programs, including the US–Mexico Exchange, Playwright's Week, and Barebones Series. At the Lark, she has worked with a diverse range of writers including Rajiv Joseph, David Henry Hwang, Samuel D. Hunter, Lisa Kron, Chisa Hutchinson, Katori Hall, Steve Drukman, and Lloyd Suh. Horton began her theatre career in the mid-90s as a member of the Living Stage Theatre Company, the groundbreaking social change theatre of Arena Stage. In Washington, DC, she also produced adult education programs for the Kennedy Center's 1999–2000 season. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts/TCG Career Development Program for Directors, she has also received fellowships from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Sundance Theatre Lab. She is an Associate Professor of Practice in Theatre and Directing at New York University's Gallatin School.

CAST: Tocarra Cash (Leslie), Ben Chase (Phil), Sidiki Fofana (Malcolm), Ashley Noel Jones (Marley), Stuart Luth (Jack), Analisa Velez (Jess)