Sharon Freedman, Company Manager

Sharon has performed at such theaters as The Ensemble Studio Theater, The Kirk at Theater Row, The Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Center Stage, The Kraine Theater and The Hangar Theatre.  Favorite roles have included Lady Macbeth (MACBETH), Sarah (KIDSTUFF), Stacy (THE BIGGER MAN), and Karen (…a matter of choice).  She is passionate about the development of new plays and has workshoped new plays at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, New Dramatists, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Primary Stages, Young Playwrights Inc. and The 24Seven Lab, of which she is the Co-Creator and Company Manager. Her film credits include "It’s Your Birfday" (with Keith David), "Ladies Room" (official selection of Slamdance) and "The Ski Trip" (LOGO Network).  She has done numerous commercials, industrials, and voiceovers. She was the Co-Creator and Exec. Producer of Partial Comfort Productions’s Battle of the Bards. She has produced events and shows for Partial Comfort and The 24Seven Lab, including Sweet Spirit, The 6-Pack, Take a Peek, THE MAIN(E) PLAY, and The Bacchanalia Bash.  She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theatre School.  She is a proud member of Partial Comfort Productions , AFTRA, Equity, and SAG.  For more information visit www.sharonfreedman.com

Edith Freni, Literary Manager

Edith’s plays have been staged, read and read staged at venues all over New York City. Notable productions include: KIDSTUFF (PCP/Theatre Row), MY DOG HEART (EST Marathon 2007; Dir: John Gould Rubin), HELP YOURSELF (Williamstown), MOMMA (PS 122/Best of the Boroughs Festival); BABY GIRL (PCP/Center Stage); and THE WORKAROUND and WATERBORN (EST/Youngblood). Commisions: Williamstown  Theatre Festival; McCarter Theater. Publications: WATERBORN (DPS); Hot Blooded, New Monologues from the Members of Youngblood (Playscripts, Inc.), and The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2006 (Smith & Kraus) and HOME AT LAST (Playscripts, Inc.). Edith  was a member of Youngblood, EST’s emerging playwright’s unit, from 1999-2008. She is also a member of Partial Comfort Productions and is the co-founder/lit manager of The 24Seven Lab. Her play BOTTOM'S UP! was developed last year by LAByrinth Theatre Company and The 24Seven Lab and was recently featured in EST's 2009 Octoberfest Festival of New Work. TOTAL POWER EXCHANGE was read at New York Theatre Workshop in the fall of 2009 and has been developed by The 24Seven Lab, The Lark, and Woodshed Collective. Edith has been a Lark Theatre Playwriting Fellow and a nominee for The Wasserstein Prize, the Cherry Lane Mentor Program, Wordbridge Playwrights Conference, and Seattle Rep Women’s Playwrights Workshop. She was the recipient of a Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Fellowship and the Harry Kondoleon Graduate Playwriting Award from NYU, where she received both her BFA and MFA in Dramatic Writing. Edith is a native New Yorker, a displaced upper West-sider, and a Yankee fan. She is proud to be in faculty at the esteemed Perry Mansfield Performance Camp and School in Steamboat Springs, CO.

Sarah Nina Hayon, Business Manager

Sarah recently finished touring around the South Bronx in The Foundry’s site specific bus tour THE PROVENANCE OF BEAUTY. This past spring she appeared in the World Premiere of  SUNSETS AND MARGARITAS at The Denver Theater Center. Recent New York Credits: Take 10 Festival (Rattlestick), KIDSTUFF (Partial Comfort Productions, written by our very own Edith Freni); NY Premiere of Ariel Dorfman’s WIDOWS (Reverie Productions, dir. Hal Brooks); REARVIEWMIRROR (2007 Drama Desk Nomination) (Reverie, dir. Carl Forsman) AT WAR: AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS RESPOND TO IRAQ  (The Fire Dept, Erica Gould), NIGHT OVER TAOS (INTAR dir. Estelle Parsons). Other NY Theater: LAByrinth Theater Company, The Public Theater, HERE, La Mama, The Lark, CSC, The Flea (BATS), EST, New Dramatists, & Seven Devils. TV & FILM: “SATC”, “Law & Order”, “Avatar” (dir. James Cameron.)  She is a proud member of LAByrinth Theater Company (Artistic Directors Stephen Adly Guirgis, Mimi O'Donnell and Yul Vázquez), Partial Comfort Productions (Artistic Directors Chad Beckim & Molly Pearson), The Fire Department (Artistic Directors Erica Gould & Audrey Rosenberg) and of Equity.