Ed Malin
(Playwright)
Ed’s plays include The Inconstant Infection, Film Noix, Dog SpelledBackwards Is Krishna, L’aardvarcchio, I Shall Not Be Suede, Judge Yuri& Executioner , Inversion of the Baby Snatchers, and Girl=Mass°Anorexia.His work has been performed at FringeNYC (’97, ’05, ’06, '09), Frigid NewYork, Samuel French Festival, manhattantheatresource, Nuyorican Poets Cafe,Brecht Forum, Galapagos, the Wicked Ren Faire and Nuyorican Poets Café. Ed edited the Spontaneous Combustion Anthology formanhattantheatresource, has several plays available online from Indie TheaterNow, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Readings of his work appeared this recentlyat Planet Connections Theatre Festivity, The Home Of, and Dixon Place.
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Nat Cassidy
(Performer)
Nat Cassidy is anaward-winning playwright, actor, director, and musician. He most recentlyappeared in the Off-Broadway remount of The Runner Stumbles (TheBleecker Company) and has been seen onstage at venues such as Lincoln Center,The Public, Classic Stage, Theatre Row, SoHo Playhouse, The Players Theatre,P.S. 122, Manhattan Theatre Source, The Gallery Players, and many others.
Nat's published worksinclude Any Day Now ("Genius ... a great play for amyriad of reasons," The Fab Marquee), The Reckoning of Kit &Little Boots (Winner, NY Innovative Theatre Award for Full-LengthScript), The Eternal Husband ("Amazing, unforgettable,absolutely electrifying. Generates heat that is pure brilliance," JoeFranklin, Bloomberg Radio), Songs of Love: A Theatrical Mixtape ("Thisrestored my faith in theatre," The Happiest Medium), and I AmProvidence ("The most delightful thing we have ever seen anyonepull off on a stage, anywhere, ever," Tor; Winner, NYIT Award for SoloPerformance; directed by DeLisa White). In 2012, Nat was commissioned by theWashington National Opera at The Kennedy Center to write the libretto for aworld premiere opera, which debuted to much acclaim this pastNovember. Nat was named one of nytheatre's 2011 People of the Yearfor his contribution to the NY independent theatre scene. Love to Alexis. www.natcassidy.com
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DeLisa White
(Director)
DeLisa has worked in various theatrical capacities in New York, both on stage and off, butprimarily works as a director. Most recently, she directed Greg Oliver Bodine’scritically acclaimed Poe Times Two for the Workshop Theatre Company and twopieces in the Vincent Marano retrospective, What I Meant Was… at ManhattanTheatre Source. In March of 2011, she directed the IT Award-winning Things atthe Doorstep - inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's work. She also directed two piecesin the 2011 INgenius Festival, the flagship festival of the Manhattan TheatreSource Writers Forum. In the past few years she has directed world premiereproductions of: Meri Wallace’s Crossroads for the Midtown International TheatreFestival; John C. Davenport’s Tough Love, Annalisa Loeffler’s A Spring Breakand Julia Harman Cain’s Last Meal for the Estrogenius Festival; and the NorthShore Theatre Group's original adaptations of Charlotte Gillman’s The YellowWallpaper and F. Marion Crawford’s The Screaming Skull / The Upper Berth.DeLisa has also directed the independent feature film SNAP, as well as severalshort films and documentaries. DeLisa is a proud member of the Stage Directorsand Choreographer’s Society, a national theatrical labor union.
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Lauren Arneson
(Stage Manager)
Generic Magic Realism marks the second time she hasbeen the stage manager for a solo show written by Ed Malin and directed byDeLisa White at The Red Room. Lauren would be writing a longer, wittier, morein depth bio if she wasn't distracted by her new favorite Canadian pop-rockband Marianas Trench videos on YouTube.
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