Sam Marks--Winter '04
New York productions include CRAFT (Flea Theater, HERE) and WHICH WOLF IS WHICH: AN AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL (HERE, Dir: Robert O’Hara). He is currently developing a cable television series based on CRAFT and is currently in his first year of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University. As an actor, Sam has appeared in readings and productions at The Public Theatre, the Flea Theater and the Kraine Theatre, among others. He is a member of Partial Comfort Productions.
Ross Maxwell--Spring '05
Ross Maxwell was born in Scotland and raised in Beaverton, Oregon. He received his BA in English from the University of Oregon. Recent productions include: HIS OCCUPATION--Purdue University; CROATOAN--Vital Theatre Company; FRANK DWYER, SADLY MISSED--Ensemble Studio Theatre; and THE ILLUSIONIST--2005 Battle of the Bards. He is a member of Youngblood, the Ensemble Studio Theatre's emerging playwrights unit, as well as a member of Partial Comfort Productions. His play BLIND, BLEEDING, DRUGGED AND DRUNK is a winner of the Kendeda Playwriting Fellowship at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. His one-act GRAND DELUSIONS was a finalist for the John Cauble Award (KCACTF). He currently lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Megan Mostyn-Brown--Fall '04
Plays: GIRL (2004 NYC International Fringe Festival (Chris McGarry, dir.), workshop for LAByrinth Theater Company’s ‘In The Kitchen’ at The Public Theatre); THE SECRET LIVES OF LOSERS (2004 Tribeca Theater Festival, 2004 LAByrinth Theater Company Barn Series at The Public Theater, Fall 2004 workshop Barrington Stage Company, workshop at 2004 LAByrinth Theater Company Summer Intensive (John Ortiz, dir.), Honorable Mention Herrick Theatre Foundation New Play Competition); WE DID WHAT WE COULD WITH WHAT WE HAD (2003 HBO Aspen Comedy Arts Festival). 4TH OF JULY (Current finalist for the Heideman Award, produced 2003 Rebel Verses (John Gould Rubin, dir.); WE SAID OUT LOUD (produced 2002, 2003 Developing Artists Theater Company at Center Stage, NY (Jill DeArmon, dir.); LESSONS I’VE LEARNED (workshop at the 2003 LAByrinth Theater Company Summer Intensive). Member of LAByrinth Theater Company and the 2004-05 Women’s Project Playwrights Lab. Guest writer at New River Dramatists. 1999 graduate of Northwestern University.
Malcolm Pelles--Fall '04
Malcolm Pelles is a screenwriter, director and playwright living in Brooklyn, NY. His plays have been produced at the Atlantic Theatre, the Belt Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, HERE Arts Center, Sarah Lawrence College and Barnard College. In 1998, his play CROSSROADS was a finalist for the Young Playwrights Festival National Playwriting Competition. His monologue, PANTHERS, POLICE AND BABY MAMMAS can been found in Monologues For and By Men, Volume 2 (published by Heinemann). Mr. Pelles’ short film, REPRESENTATIVE EARL HARRIS, won the 2001 San Antonio Juneteenth Film Festival (Best Short Film) and the 2002 Harvard Black Film Festival (Best Feature-Over 10-Minutes). He received his BFA in Film Production from the Florida State University School of Motion Picture, Television, and Recording Arts, and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Ben Rosenthal--Spring '05
Ben is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and holds an MFA in playwriting from the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School for Social Research. He has had plays performed throughout New York City. In 2003 he received a New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre for his play THE MONKEY PUZZLE TREE. His one-act play WELCOME BACK, BUDDY COMBS has been published by Dramatists Play Service.
Melissa Ross--Fall '07
Crystal Skillman--Fall '04
Crystals plays include: 4 EDGES, FLOW, THE KIDS AT MILE SQUARE THEATRE, DEPTH OF SIGHT, IN THE WILD, TOOTH, TRANSLATION OF SIGNS, TURN FOUR, PLAY, and REPLACING THE IMAGE. Her plays have been produced and developed at venues including SoHo Rep, MCC, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Magic Theatre, the Perishable Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Little Theatre, the Flea Theatre, Ergo Theatre and the Knitting Factory, amongst others. FILM includes: SEVEN VARIATIONS ON THE SAME LOVER, currently in development for Weird Sisters. MUSICAL THEATRE WORK includes: THAT’S ANDY (lyrics/book) and NEVERMORE (lyrics) both currently being developed with director Robert Jay Cronin for Ergo Theatre & Northern Stage Theatre; 72 DEVILS (lyrics/book); and PERFECTOMUNDO (lyrics/book). She is a two-time recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant through the Ensemble Studio Theatre, a recipient of the Phyllis B. Abram Award for Drama and of a Jim Henson Foundation Grant for her collaborations with the puppet theatre Drama of Works. She is a two-time finalist for the Princess Grace Fellowship, a finalist for the Rosenthal Prize and the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award and a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference. Her publications include: TURN FOUR, (New Journal of Theatre) TOOTH (POEMS & PLAYS), and various monologues in Hotblooded: New Monologues by the Members of Youngblood (Playscripts.com). Crystal was featured in the February 2004 issue of AMERICAN THEATRE in a roundtable discussion on the puppet theatre company Drama of Works. Her plays for Drama of Works include: THE BALLAD OF PHINEAS P. GAGE, developed at Arts at St. Ann’s and produced at HERE; ON THE BACKS OF FISHES, a part of her full length WARRIOR, which toured this fall at Theatre for the New City, P.S. 122, Perishable Theatre, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, and the Barents Region International Puppetry Festival in Oulu, Finland; and THE SWORD OF YAMATO, also a section of WARRIOR, which premiered at BRIC Studio this past December. The full three acts of WARRIOR debuted last May at the Istanbul International Puppetry Festival and moved from there to the Prague International Puppetry Festival. Crystal is a member of E.S.T. as well as the MCC Theatre Playwrights’ Coalition, where several of her plays have been presented as part of their Playlab Series. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild and a former member of EST’s Youngblood.
