ACTORS & WRITERS
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FALL 2011
Shelley Wyant's collaboration with Tad Richards, Rockuns, will be performed at Opus 40 in
May 2012, since the roof got blown off for its September production. She is teaching
Maskwork at the New School in New York.
Mary Louise Wilson will repeat her performance in Amy Herzog's sold-out Off Broadway play
4000 Miles when it moves to Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre in the spring. She
can also be seen as Doris in a forthcoming episode of Nurse Jackie.
Lori Wilner will appear in the Broadway revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
with Harry Connick, Jr., opening in December at the St. James Theatre, and will sing at
Jazz At Lincoln Center November 8 in a benefit for the Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation.
David Smilow's recent roles include The Ladies Man at Shadowland Theatre, The Price at HB
Studios, a reprise of Why Can't We Be Friends at the Players Club, and an appearance on
TV's White Collar.
Nina Shengold's Homesteaders will be produced by Vermont's Shelburne Players in November.
Nina and Nicole Quinn's ensemble play War at Home: Students Respond to 9/11 just had its
101st production; it's raised nearly $10,000 for charity.
Laura Shaine's Beautiful Bodies is opening in Mexico City; Beyond Beautiful in Sofia,
Bulgaria.
John Seidman spent the summer in togas, in Timon of Athens at the Shakespeare Theatre of
New Jersey, and in Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC.
Nicole Quinn was selected by Neil Gaiman to read several roles in the Tenth Anniversary
audiobook edition of his American Gods. She recently read with novelist Helen Benedict
(Sand Queen) at the Hudson Opera House. Her film Racing Daylight, produced by Sophia Raab
Downs and featuring Melissa Leo, Jason Downs, Denny, Dillon, John Seidman, David Smilow,
and Shelley Wyant, has been picked up by Showtime and will begin to cycle in January 2012.
Carol Morley is teaching Acting & Scene Study and The Art of the Audition at HB Studios,
where she is also on the Arts Council.
Ron Nyswaner co-wrote and produced Phil Dorling's feature film Predisposed, starring
Jesse Eisenberg, Tracy Morgan and Melissa Leo; Nicole Quinn plays a receptionist.
Melissa Leo's recent screen credits include Seven Days in Utopia with Robert Duvall, The
Sea is All I Know at the Woodstock Film Festival, and an ongoing role on Treme.
Adam LeFevre's new book of poems, Ghost Light, will be published by Finishing Line Press
in December. He appeared in The Midlife Crisis of Herman Kline Off-Broadway; upcoming
roles include How the World Was Made at Playwrights Horizons, and indie film Molly's
Theory of Relativity.
Mikhail Horowitz performed this summer at the Woodstock Fringe Festival and the Phoenicia
Festival of the Voice. He and Gilles Malkine will perform their annual show at the\
Rosendale Theatre on October 30.
Davis Hall has appeared in several short films and his first commercial. His own short
film Mother's House is now hitting the festival circuit, including the Woodstock Film
Festival and the Big Apple Film Festival; it won the Silver Colorado Film Award.
Mary Gallagher's play The Perfect Guy will be published by Playscripts.com.
Jason Downs appears in the indie films Whisper Me a Lullaby, Festival of Light and the video for his first single to be released off his new album, Love Me Alone, on October 10th.
Katherine Burger was awarded the 2011 Harriman Award for libretto writing through the BMI
Lehman Engle Music Theatre Program. Her play Morphic Resonance (Das Gedachtnis Der Welt)
opened in August for an extended run in Berlin.