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2004 Conference

June 7 - 19, 2004 at the Alpine Playhouse in McCall Idaho (map)

 

SPUYTEN DUYVIL by Andy Bragen - Struggling to keep their heads above water in the face of demanding relationships and difficult ambitions, Buddy Starlight and Lisa Martinez find that their only hope lies in each other. But can they come to terms with the dangerous desires and appetites that have come to define their identities before they tear themselves and each other apart?

ALL FIRES ARE BEAUTIFUL IF YOU CAN’T SEE WHAT IS BURNING by Juliann France - Clara's drive through a forbidden area opens her eyes, and suddenly her everyday world of whale-eye chips, anteater tongues and family vacations to the "Ghost-town in the Sky Amusement Park" just don't make sense anymore. Hold on to your sense of reality as we join this futuristic, but strangely familiar, American family on a political and economic roller coaster of generational traditions.

FEAR ITSELF by Eugene Lee - Facing fear, fearlessness, foolishness and finding love, two very human beings battle - through the fire - for one poet’s soul. A special event reading of a play by our acclaimed 2004 guest playwright, Eugene Lee.

GIRL SCIENCE by Larry Loebell - Lois, an up and coming historian, selects her great aunt Johanna, an eminent biologist and “forgotten pioneer of science” as the subject for her new book. Reluctant at first, Johanna soon relents, sharing stories from her seemingly charmed girlhood. But was it? When Lois’s work inadvertently reveals the startling and tragic truth, both women’s lives are changed forever.

I BECOME A GUITAR by Francesca Sander- Adrift in a 20+ year marriage, Kevin dreams of baseball, while Madrigal dreams of her ancestors in Zihuatenejo until Pablo, with stories of his idyllic life in South America, appears and launches them on a journey that will take them to Honduras and back, Mexico and back and, if they can make it, to love and back.

FLY VICE by Seth Burts - Life is turned upside for three roommates who take in a mysterious wanderer Skitto, and his even more mysterious black bag, during a freak storm. Ultimately, their attempts to get Skitto to reveal the bags contents reveal more about their own fears, aspirations and limitations – and for one roommate, his path in life.

BLUE 22 by Whitney Kimball - When a violent locker room assault, perpetrated by a popular jock, comes to light a family, a high school and a community are put to the test. Who do we believe? And why? How can a victim come forward without being further victimized?

POP WILL DRINK ITSELF by Ben Verschoor - Aging metal rocker, Ludwig Von B, attempts to revive his career, but when he shows up at the studio to lay down some fresh tracks, he discovers that he is surrounded by younger has-beens all vying for that one shot at getting back on top of the charts – whatever it takes.

3 A.M. by Nathaniel Woods - For two young men, a late night at the diner a seemingly innocent musing on the life of a fork turns into a shocking confession of depression, loneliness and a suicide attempt. How do we reach out to each other? And how do we respond?

Artistic Staff

JENI MAHONEY (Artistic Director) Before moving to L.A. in 2002, Jeni was Associate Director of Mint Theater Company in New York (2002 Drama Desk Award, 2001 OBIE) and Head of the Playwriting Program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU Tisch. Jeni's play The Feast of the Flying Cow…And Other Stories of War was presented at the National Playwrights Conference at the O’Neill Center, The MidWestern New Plays Festival, Lark Theater and Rattlestick Productions. Other plays include Mercy Falls, Bad Water Juju, Light, Salty and The Martyrdom of Washington Booth. You will find her work in Best Stage Monologues for Men 1999, Best Stage Monologues for Women 1999, and Best Stage Scenes 1999 (Smith & Kraus). Throw of the Moon (written with Ben Sahl) and American Eyes can be found in Plays and Playwrights 2001. Her 2003 productions included Light at the L.A. Theater Center, and Throw of the Moon in Wagga Wagga, Australia. Her first feature-length film Family Belongings completed shooting in October 2003. She is the co-Artistic Director of id Theatre Company. Special thanks to Judy Anderson for four years of unwavering support – she is our unsung hero.

SHEILA McDEVITT (Executive Director, Actor & Director) a native Idahoan, is co-founder and Artistic Director of id Theatre Company. She has produced, directed and acted in three seasons for id both in McCall and New York City, and produced and acted in the Seven Devils Playwrights conference for the past three years. Sheila was co-producer and acted for Qwirk Productions in NYC for 8 years. She holds an MFA from the University of Washington's prestigious Professional Actor Training Program. Directing credits include Manhattan Class Company's "Summer Play Party," featuring plays written by New York City high school students. She also runs workshops in Stage Combat for High School and College students as well as Story Book theatre and improvisation workshops for younger children. Acting credits: Off-Broadway - Understudy to Miss Carol Kane in In-Betweens. Regional: New England tour - Dancing at Lughnasa; Jupiter Theatre, Jupiter FL - Rumours co-starring Bernie Koppell, Bill Christopher, and Gary Burghoff.

Playwrights

ANDY BRAGEN (Spuyten Duyvil) Andy’s play Greater Messapia was produced in March 2004 at Queens Theatre in the Park. He is the recipient of a 2004 Sloan Commission, and a 2003 New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre. Other honors include a 2001-2002 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, participation in the summer 2002 Lark Playwrights Workshop, and the John Golden Award, and Zarkower Awards at Hunter College, where he studied with Tina Howe. Andy’s plays and translations have been seen and heard at numerous theatres, including EST, LAByrinth, Soho Think Thank, and The Bat. This autumn he will enter the MFA playwrights program at Brown University. For more information, please visit his website: www.andybragen.com. Andy is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

SETH BURTS (Fly Vice) started drama in his junior year, sadly. He has always loved acting and memorizing movie lines, yet didn’t come around to the class or the productions until high school was almost over for him. After being in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Selkie he became interested in the process of writing plays. Once in playwriting he was overwhelmed by the task of coming up with an idea and developing it into a play, so here he is… tangled up in that same task.

JULIANN FRANCE (All Fires Are Beautiful If You Can’t See What Is Burning) Juliann’s plays have been produced at the New York Shakespeare/ Papp Public Theatre New Works Festival (two plays), Off-Off Broadway at the Ohio Theatre in Soho, Circle Rep Lab in NYC, and Brown University (five plays). Juliann has been the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, The Edward Albee Foundation, Nicholas Meyer Dramatic Writing Awards, The MacDowell Colony (two fellowships), Brown University Playwrights Workshop, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Lotta Crabtree Theatrical Fellowships (two awards), and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. Juliann has received a Berrilla Kerr Playwriting award, won the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for Best New Play, and won first place in the Clauder Competition. Also, her plays have received staged readings at New Georges in NYC, The Working Theatre in NYC, Trinity Repertory in Providence, Emerson College in Boston, Bay Area Playwrights Festival IX, West Coast Playwrights Festival, and Iowa Playwrights Workshop. Juliann received a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Brown University in 1991 and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Iowa in 1988. She taught playwriting and creative writing at Brown University and the University of Rhode Island.

WHITNEY KIMBALL (BLUE 22) grew up in McCall and has been involved in Drama for 2 years. She has been in three plays in high school and participated in play-writing class for a semester. She enjoys drama and writing, art and dogs named Buttercup. Next year she will be moving to Boise to get a New Bug and will start college in the fall of 2005.

LARRY LOEBELL (Girl Science) Larry's short plays have been produced by the Wilma Theatre in School Program, the Nantucket Short Play Festival, the Attic Theatre in LA, in the Samuel French Short Play Festival and in the fringe of the 2002 Philly Fringe Festival. His full length plays include Varia (retitled: Memorial Day), Pride of the Lion, The Dostoyevsky Man, The Ballad of John Wesley Reed, La Tempestad, and Girl Science. He has had developmental workshops at InterAct Theatre Company, Hedgerow Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, New Jersey Repertory Theatre and The Philadelphia Theatre Company. His plays have been produced at the Changing Scene Theatre in Denver, Theatre Catalyst in Philadelphia, and at the Dayton Playhouse. He has been a finalist in the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition and the Mill Mountain Competition, and a winner of the Eileen Heckert Award from the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Institute. He was awarded the Pennsylvania Playwriting Prize in 1999. Playscripts.Com published five of Larry's plays in 2002. Larry teaches on an adjunct basis at the University of the Arts and at Arcadia University. He is a member of Working Writers Group, the Dramatists Guild, LMDA, and the Philadelphia Dramatist Center and is a three-time recipient of the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting (1995, 1998, 2004) and has been InterAct Theatre Company's Literary Manager and Dramaturg since 1998.

FRANCESCA SANDERS (I Become A Guitar) is an award-winning playwright who this April will have had readings or performances in Portland, Oregon; San Diego, California and Kansas City, Missouri. She is a Semi-Finalist at The Albee Conference in Alaska and a Finalist at Play Labs this year with I Become A Guitar. She is the proud recipient of the 2004 Oregon Literary Fellowship for Drama.

BEN VERSCHOOR (Pop Will Drink Itself) is a newly graduated senior of MDHS. He enjoys writing, acting and other artsy-fartsy activities. This is his second year of involvement with the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. He plans to attend Southwestern Community College in Oregon this fall. Ben also performed as an actor this year in classmate Whitney Kimball’s play, Blue 22.

NATHANIEL WOODS (3 A.M.) has lived in McCall his whole life. He has a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. He’s also played football, wrestled and has been in many local and high school productions. He plans to go to school someplace in Oregon. Nathaniel likes snowboarding, water skiing, playing guitar and glass blowing.

Directors and Dramaturgs

JAMES ABAR (Director) directed Permanent Record by Adam Ede, Kingdom Gone by Robert Kerr and Four Beers by David Van Vleck at the 2002 Conference. He began his association with Artistic Director Jeni Mahoney during their misspent youth, directing an infamous production of Dracula on Cape Cod. Since then he has been Associate Director of the Hudson Guild Theater in NY where he directed the premieres of several new works including the OBIE winning The Signal Season of Dummy Hoy and the Drama Desk nominee The Road. He has also directed for Manhattan Theater Club, St. Clements Theater, The Womens' Project at the American Place Theater, New Dramatist, and the 29th Street Repertory. Regionally he has directed for the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Milwaukee Rep, Indiana Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public, Pennsylvania Stage, and Florida Studio Theater. He writes for several programs on Nickelodeon and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch on the WB.

LOUISE GEDDES (Dramaturg) has been Literary Manager at the Off-Broadway company Rattlestick Theatre in New York City for five years. Whilst at Rattlestick she developed the year-long EXPOSURE program and festival, and helped bring several emerging New York writers to citywide attention. Prior to her work at Rattlestick, she was a Literary Assistant at Atlantic Theatre Company, also based in NYC. She has her Bachelor's degree in Theatre Art and Performance Studies from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and is currently pursuing her PhD. in English Literature at the Graduate Center in New York.

AMY SALTZ (Director) has directed classic and contemporary plays throughout the United States and abroad. Based in New York City, Amy is committed to doing classical work as well as helping to develop new plays and playwrights. She has worked extensively Off Broadway as well as at most of the country’s major regional theaters including The Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, Arena Stage and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference where she served on the final selection committee and collaborated on new work with over 35 playwrights including Neal Bell, Lee Blessing, Tom Doneghy, Jeni Mahoney, Adam Rapp, John Patrick Shanley, and August Wilson. Ms. Saltz has been invited to direct in Russia, and has served on theater panels providing major funding and/or awards for the National Endowment on the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, NEA/TCG's Directing Fellows, TCG's Play's In Process, and the New York State Council on the Arts. She and her productions have won awards in New York, Chicago, Florida and New Jersey have been nominated for the Drama Desk, Helen Hayes, and Grammy Awards. For Television she directed Another World and Search for Tomorrow. She has taught at the Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, Columbia University, Tisch School of the Arts, North Carolina School of the Arts. Amy is happy to return to 7 Devils where she previously directed Kevin Crowley’s The Monkey’s Paw, Cusi Cram’s Fuente, and Mary Porster’s You Don’t Know Me and thanks Liz Warner, Judy Anderson and everyone else from McCall who has welcomed us so warmly into their community. Amy is a member of the Directors’ Guild of America and The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and is presently Head of the Graduate Program in Directing at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers’ University.

ROGER TRUESDELL (Director & Dramaturg) is very pleased to be back for his third year at Seven Devils, where he has directed such productions as The Trip, The Helping, Leaving and False Start. Elsewhere he has directed world premieres of Sound-Biting, Safety and Virtual Devotion. Roger holds an MFA in Directing from Ohio University and lives in Chicago.

And the Rest...

ASHLEY NICOLE ALLEN (Actor) has been involved in many plays including Antigone and Snow Queen. She plans to continue theater throughout her “journey” through life. My theory: acting is living life to the fullest. Not only do you have your life you also have many others.

JUDY ANDERSON (Playwriting Teacher) has worked for the Alpine since 1978. She teaches Humanities, Drama and Playwriting at McCall Donnelly High School. She says she learned about theater from her 6 children and her Pisces husband. Her favorite production was Circus Vandals.

RICK BORUTTA (Production Manager) has been a member of id Theatre company since it’s production of Voice of the Prairie. Also with id, Sitting on Paradise. Since then Rick has traveled the USA and the world with the likes of Tommy Tune and Elaine Stritch. Back for another summer of good theatre, good earth and good people. Rick is a full-time Media major at Hunter College in New York City. He is also featured in the HBO documentary Elaine Stritch at Liberty now showing across the country.

EARL BROCKMAN (Photographer) and Frances Ford are celebrating their twenty-first anniversary this summer, not only of marriage, but also of their lives as full-time residents in McCall. This year, Earl brings his sixty years as a professional photographer to a new direction as he learns digital photography. He eagerly looks forward to beginning the summer, as he has for the last three years, with the Seven Devils Conference.

ROBIN BROOKS (Intern) is an MFA Candidate in the University of Idaho’s Dramatic Writing program. Three of her one-page plays have been produced at UI’s DNA Playwriting Festival, and a play that she co-wrote is currently being produced for Idaho Repertory Theater for Youth. A Michigan native, she’s also spent time in the Twin Cities working as an assistant director. Her theatre credits include Sisters of Swing at the Great American History Theatre, and NOG! A Brave New Christmakwanzukah and We Moved Our Cheese at the Brave New Workshop. Robin is a published poet, and enjoys acting, hiking, and river rafting.

DENIS BUTKUS (Actor) is an actor/musician in New York City. He's worked with The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in St. Crispin's Day; The Flea Theater in Men Without Shadows; Keen Company in Three-Cornered Moon; Singularity in Gift; Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab in The Cry of Desire; Rising Phoenix Repertory in the Train Ride and Queens Theater in the Park in Andy Bragen's Greater Messapia. Regionally he has been seen at the Sacramento Theater Company in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. He's an Artistic Associate with Rising Phoenix Repertory, who helped produce Mike Batistick's Ponies in last years International Fringe Festival. When he is not involved in the theater he spends time down with the trains playing his guitar.

BERNADINE COCKEY (Set Rendering & Actor) was born and raised in northern Wyoming where she was first exposed to community theater. She has found no cure for this mysterious illness and continues to treat it by involving herself in every aspect. Her favorites - as an actor: Suzy in Wait Until Dark, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, a Dead Mother in Nightmare Court; as director: Barefoot in the Park, The Children's Hour, Annie Get Your Gun, as designer and builder: a bowling alley, a bar/beauty shop/motel, a basement with a haunted freezer, and as a writer: Sweet Vengeance, Burnt Butterscotch Pudding, Night Among the Hunters. In 2002, Berni was a diagnosed and treated by the Seven Devils as a featured Playwright. She is honored to be working with such talented, yet similarly afflicted, persons.

DYLAN CRAWFORD (Actor) enjoys the idea that nothing matters, because in a few moments we won’t even matter.

KEVIN CROWLEY (Actor) is an actor and writer, currently living in Los Angeles, with his wife and two sons. He has appeared frequently on TV, and less frequently in films. He recently appeared with an award winning ensemble in the world Premiere of Bryan Davidson’s War Music, at the Geffen Theater. Other theater credits include, Ring Around the Moon at the Steppenwolf Theater, Rhino’s Policeman and Pick Up Ax, at the Northlight Theater and several shows at Chicago’s famed Second City theater. Kevin was a playwright at the 2002 Conference with his play The Monkey’s Paw. He is very thankful to be back among the people and forest of pastoral McCall.

CHRISTOPHER CURRY (Actor & Director) Nine seasons as an actor at the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference in Waterford, CT, where he had the great good fortune to work on a play by Ms. Mahoney herself. Appeared in dozens of plays over the years, in NY (Broadway and off-Broadway), Los Angeles, and all over the place in regional theatres. Over the past few years, he has done mainly film and television work, most recently appearing in the pictures Dirt (directed by Nancy Savoca) and the t.v. pilot Patients (which my lovely wife, Mary, and I starred in together).

ADAM EDE (Actor) This is my fourth year with this Conference but my first year as a tourist/ wandering bum. I’ve been in a number of plays in high school and the community. It’s nice to be back and see all the familiar faces and everyone would be better off if they listened to nothing but GWAR.

CALEB EDE (Actor) was born in Idaho and now lives in West Virginia, where he enjoys listening to GWAR, and throwing shopping carts and toilets into the river. He has an evil twin brother named Adam. Caleb has been in drama for 27 years, ever since he realized he’s too puny for sports.

FRANCIS FORD (Concessions Supervisor) and Earl Brockman are celebrating their twenty-first anniversary this summer, not only of their marriage, but also of their lives as full-time residents in McCall. Now, in our retirement, she has more time to pursue her interests. Frances continues her interest in community youth and theater by serving on the School Board, the Police Action Committee, the Skateboard Park Committee and the Board of the Alpine Playhouse. She eagerly looks forward to beginning the summer, as she has for the last three years, with Seven Devils.

SHARON FREEDMAN (Actor) is thrilled to finally be working with Seven Devils this year. She has workshoped new plays at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New Dramatists, The Ensemble Studio Theatre and Rattlestick Productions. She has also started a writer/actor workshop in NY called Sundays @ 24 Seven. She has performed at such theaters as The Shakespeare Theater of NJ, The Hangar Theatre and Theater For the New City. Currently, she is a swing in the Off-Broadway production of Birdy’s Bachlorette Party. She is a graduate of NYU¹s Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School. A special thanks to Jeni for this wonderful opportunity.

KRISTEN GROTE (Actor) The not-quite-yet-famous Kristen Grote is a sophomore at UNLV majoring in theater performance. Recent roles include The Vagina Monologues, Lu Ellen in Ara Watson’s Final Placement. Kristen is thrilled to return to her hometown to be in the Seven Devils Conference and she would just like to say that yes, the rumors about her dating Ben Affleck are true.

LINDSEY HARRIS (Actor) is very excited to have this opportunity to be a part of Seven Devils again! She was Nurse Ratched in her high school’s production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and was an actress in You Don’t Know Me by Mary Portser in last year’s conference

JARED HALLOCK (Actor) is a musician who holds a B.S. in Percussion Performance from the University of Idaho. He has directed or performed in ensembles including theatrical percussion, orchestral, hip-hop, jazz & community theater. His projects have included a grant from the National Foundation for the Arts to establish a youth percussion performance ensemble focusing on the effects of change within the community. His current projects include collaborating in the creation and direction of ImproVorilla, a theatrical percussion troupe that uses a variety of instruments to create musical installations.

REESE HUDSON (Actor) I just graduated from high school and this is my first time doing a play. My mom wants me to be a model, but I’d rather be an actor. My dad has the record for most jumps on a fire at the McCall Smoke Jumper Base. I’m going to University of Idaho but am looking into community colleges that have ski hills. My passion… is skiing.

CODY HYSLOP (Actor) is an actor living and working in Missoula, Montana and a graduate of Boise State University with a BA in Theatre Arts. Cody has lived and worked throughout the northwest for the past seven years. Cody’s work in Boise included sound design, lighting technician, assistant drama coach at Boise High School, stagehand and any other theatre job he could find. In 2002 he received Kennedy Center honors for his Sound Design of House of Bernarda Alba. Cody’s professional theatre credits include the Idaho Shakespeare Company and Boise Contemporary Theater, and now he is very excited to add id Theatre Company to that list. Cody’s Boise credits include: Twelfth Night, The Memorandum, Big Love, Cherry Orchard, Assassins, Summer and Smoke and Tartuffe. His performances in Missoula include Uncle Vanya and Zoo Story. This is Cody’s first year with Seven Devils and he is very grateful to Jeni Mahoney, Paula Marchiel, Lisa, Hayden and Dakota for making it possible for him to be here with all of these talented artists.

PAULA A. MARCHIEL (Company Manager/Stage Manager) is thrilled to be back for her fourth season of Seven Devils. A company member of Synaesthetic Theatre, she was most recently Production Coordinator of Arcana: Cycle of the Fool. Other productions with Synaesthetic have included Icon, The Shadow of the Invisible Man and In the Elephant's Mouth. Currently the Marketing Associate for Theatreworks/USA, she has worked as Associate Company Manager for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, where she was also the Assistant to the Managing Director and Guest Relations Assistant. Other work has included New York University, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School and the Really Useful Management Company. As a Stage Manager Ms. Marchiel has worked on over 20 productions. She is a graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU

SAM McMURRAY (Actor & Director) is a native New Yorker who sold out many years ago and moved to California. Before then he appeared in numerous theater productions, both in New York and regional theaters, notably: A Soldier’s Play, Translations, The Taking of Miss Janie, Kid Purple and Bally Murphy (with Christopher Curry!). He also spent nine years at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Since moving to L.A., he has appeared in countless TV shows, too forgettable to mention. The mentionable ones include: The Sopranos, Teenage Confidential (Emmy Nominee), Chicago Hope, Hill St. Blues and Dinosaurs. He was a regular on The Tracey Ullman Show, Stand By Your Man, Medicine Ball, Likely Suspects, A League of Their Own and Matt Waters. Currently he recurs on King of Queens and Friends. Features include Sunshine State, Lone Star, State of Mind, Drop Dead Gorgeous, The Mod Squad, L.A. Story and Raising Arizona. He is thrilled to be returning to McCall, and to Seven Devils, for a second season.

MARY PORTER (Actor) Mary’s theatrical credits include: National tour of Noises Off, A Girl’s Guide to Chaos, Trudy Blue, Briar Patch and The Paranoids (a comedy group she wrote and performed with for 8 years). Film credits include: Passion Fish, True Love, Household Saints, Human Nature, The Italian Job, Daddy Day Care and Dirty Dancing 2. She’s done various episodics and filmed a pilot, Patients, this spring. Mary is also a playwright. Her play, You Don’t Know Me, was workshopped last year at Seven Devils. In April she received the Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award from the William Inge Theatre Festival.

LACEY QUICK SMITH (Actor) This is Lacey’s first time acting in the conference. She was the stage manager for Circus Vandels last fall and was an actor in Selkie this spring. She just graduated and is going off to Italy in the fall.

AMY RUSH (Actor & Director) is thrilled to be returning for her fourth year at the Seven Devil's Conference. You may have seen her in 2002 as Stephanie in A Little Time in the Fall and as Crazy Mae in Valerie and the Bear, and last summer in You Don't Know Me. Amy is a native of McCall and a graduate of The University of Montana. Some of her recent credits include Shelly in Real Live Sex on Stage at the St. Marks Theater, Darlene in Slight Alterations at the Abingdon Theater, Barbara in Such a Perfect Day, and The Mistress in Ingestion, both with NYU's graduate film school. She just finished a great run as Sue in Sister Music at the All Star's project in New York. Amy will be moving to L.A. this fall to pursue a master's degree at UCLA. She wishes to thank her family for their love and support, as well as her Seven Devils and id Theatre family for their vision and dedication.

ANDY SALEEN (Actor) Born in McCall, ID, 5’8”, weighing in at 160 pounds is me, Andy Saleen. I love music, acting, sports and the outdoors. I currently post 2 jobs, as well as this conference, and plan to attend school in either Eugene or Ashland, OR in the fall and study a subject to be determined later.

JENNY SLATTERY (Stage Manager) Jenny's recent stage management credits include work with the Patricia Rincon Dance Collective (San Diego), Ariel Dance Theatre (Austin, TX), School of Night Productions and the University of California at San Diego. As a resident stage manager at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center in Austin, TX Jenny's work included Lypsinka: The Boxed Set, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Pavilion, Bee-Luther-Hatchee, Twisted Olivia, and Limonade Tous Les Jous. While an ensemble member of the Rude Mechanical Theatre Collective Jenny stage managed The Incubus Archives, BigLove and the mid-America tour of Lipstick Traces. Jenny has a BA in American History from the University of Florida, an MA in Theatre History/ Criticism from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently working on an MFA in Stage Management at the University of California at San Diego.

KNATE THRASH (Actor) was a lampshade for 8 years of his life until one day he decided not to be so lame. This fueled his passion for the Arts. He played the lead walnut in his mother’s production of The Tree Blows Softly with Amber Bark. He also had roles in Once Upon a Yak and If I’m Going Jail for this, I might as well Kill her.