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.jpg) B.Brian Argotsinger* (Owen) – is delighted to be in another ANDHOW! show after previously appearing in You Can Fish All You Want? and Time Crime. B. Brian recently appeared as the title character in Theatrewagon's production of Uncle Vanya and as Crumpet in The Gallery's Player's production of David Sedaris's The Santaland Diaries. In his spare time, B. Brian spends his days as a legal assistant on drug liability cases and listening to NPR. He is a member of the improv comedy group Pitter Patter and the theater companies Hoi Polloi and the Essentials.
Arthur Aulisi* (Linus) – is the Associate Artistic Director of Andhow for whom he has acted extensively, directed, written and taught. A graduate of Northwestern University, Arthur has worked with countless other NYC companies premiering such playwrights as Lanford Wilson, Neal Bell, Naomi Iizuka and, of course, Andrew Irons. Film and Television credits include Dennis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas, Four Lane Highway (with Frederick Weller and Reg Rogers), Public Interest (with Stuart Pankin and Robert Curtis Brown).
 Tim Cain* (Arthur) – NYC Theater – Rebel Voices (Culture Project), Pawnshop Accordions (NY International Fringe Festival ‘08), Don’t Quit Your Night Job (Ha! Comedy Club), Minstrel Show or The Lynching of William Brown (Chain Lightning Theater), Godspell (2000 Off-Broadway Cast), several shows with The 52nd Street Project and Falconworks Artists Group’s Off The Hook. Regional Theater – Just So (NSMT), Showboat, Little Shop of Horrors. Live Narration – Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Tour), BeboperElla Starring Patti Austin (Tour), The Word of God - Eric Reed composer (Jazz @ Lincoln Center), The Churkendoose- Alec Wilder Centennial Concert.
 Maria Cellario* (Doctor) – This is Maria’s third appearance with Andhow! She was previously seen in Area Of Rescue by Laura Eason and in Elephant by Margie Stokley. Maria made her Broadway debut in The Royal Family with Rosemary Harris and Eva LeGalliennne and was last seen on Broadway in Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton. She just returned from the Laguna Playhouse where she performed in the world premier of Melinda Lopez’s Alexandros. This spring, Maria was also at the Virginia Stage Co. appearing in The Poetry Of Pizza by Debrah Brevoort. In New York she has appeared at Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, INTAR, Playrights Horizons, Urban Stages, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, La Mamma, Nyorican Poets Café, and was a member of The Lion Theatre Co. Films include: Fools Rush In, Children Of A Lesser God, Without A Trace and two, soon to be released independent films, Chasing Butterflies and My Father's Will. TV credits include, Law and Order, NYPD Blue, ER, Now And Again, Silk Stalkings, and a new episode of Cold Case that will air this fall. Maria lives in New York with her husband Anthony Mancini, a writer and has two children Romy and Nick.
 Gamze Ceylan (Lady/Samantha) – recent credits include: The
Female Terrorist Project (Gene Frankel Theatre), The Director (Flea
Theater, Jessica Davis-Irons, dir.), Twelfth Night (Aquila Theatre),
Making a Killing (Access Theater), Cats Can See The Devil (NY Fringe
Festival). Film: Blindness, Third Eye, Falling in Rhythm, Strangers and Fish4 Brains. She's currently studying with William Esper.
Melle Powers* (Alora) – Bio coming soon!
 Alex Smith* (Sam/Junior) – NY Theater: Me - Inverse Theater; Taming of the Shrew - Roundtable; In
the Belly of the Beast - here Arts Center; As I Lay Dying - Ohio
Theatre; Regional: Complete History of America - Vermont Stage Company;
Tartuffe - La Jolla Playhouse; The Taming of the Shrew - Colorado
Shakespeare; The Libation Bearers - Center Theater; The Three Sisters,
Marriage of Figaro, Edward II, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
- UCSD; Training: MFA - UC San Diego, BA Duke University
 Noah Trepanier (Neal) – Noah graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Theater: My Renaissance Faire Lady (Ontological), I Coulda Been A Kennedy (Rude Mechanicals), and Angel Mountain (Andhow), among others. Film: Fools' Errand (directed by Evan Cabnet). He is thrilled to be working with Andhow again.
Jill B.C. DuBoff (Sound Designer) – Broadway includes: The Constant Wife, The Good Body, Bill Maher: Victory..., Three Days of Rain (assoc), Inherit The Wind (assoc). Wit
(National Tour). Off-Broadway includes; MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons,
Public, Vineyard, Second Stage, NYTW, WP, Flea, Cherry Lane, Signature,
Clubbed Thumb, Culture Project, Actor's Playhouse, New Group,
Promenade, Urban Stages, Houseman, Fairbanks, Soho Rep, Adobe. Regional:
Bay Street, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Westport Country
Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Portland Stage, Longwarf, The Alley, Kennedy
Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, NYS&F, South Coast Rep, Humana,
Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre, ATF. Television; "Comedy Central
Presents: Slovin & Allen", "NBC Late Fridays" Film: We Pedal Uphill
Nominations: Drama Desk, Hewes. Awards: Ruth Morley Design Award
Jesse Hawley (Choreographer) – is a founding member of the National Theater of the United States of America, and co-creator and performer for the NTUSA's latest piece, Chautauqua!, which can be seen in NYC this January at PS122, as well as at Vanderbilt University and the Walker Center in Minneapolis later this year. (www.ntusa.org) She will also be performing in Christina Campanella & Stephanie Fleischman’s music/theater work Red Fly/Blue Bottle, opening at HERE, 2009. Jesse has previously performed in works by Richard Foreman, Ken Nintzel, Juliana Francis, Young Jean Lee and Yehuda Duenyas. She has choreographed for all NTUSA's works, and for the Vintage DJ, whose events take place throughout NYC, for the past 2 summers at the Speigletent at South Street Seaport, and most recently in Shanghai, China. Jesse is happy to be working with Andhow! again!
Owen Hughes (Lighting Designer) – splits his time fairly evenly between the worlds of dance and theatre. For Andhow! Theater Co. he has designed Tennessee Times Two, I am at my best…, Boo! & Kissing Myself, Non-D, The Curvature of the Earth, Angel Mountain, and Area of Rescue. Other recent favorites include Under the Sign of the Hourglass (Ontological Theatre) and a site-specific dance piece by Andrea Hoenggi at multiple locations throughout the World Financial Center. He has designed for choreographers Eiko & Koma, Peggy Baker, Roseanne Spradlin, Sara Juli, Ali Kenner and many others. As a Production Manager, he has worked for the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre and the Foundry Theater and is presently the Production Manager of St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, where he has designed the annual festival of Puppet Theater since 2004. As either Production Manager or Lighting Director, he has toured to festivals throughout Europe and Asia. He received a Bessie Award for Lighting Design in 2003.
Andrew Irons (Playwright) – is a playwright and a founding member of ANDHOW! Theater Company.
For Andhow! he has written Little Suckers (The Ohio Theater),
Non-D, (the Ontological Theatre; Backstage STIMY Award: Powerful
Production 2003-2004), Paschal Full Moon (78th Street
Theater Lab), and has received readings/workshops of
Yakima Man and Iris. His play Tunnel was produced
at Expanded Arts. His toy theater piece And Away! was presented
at The Brick, as well as with Andhow! at the Connelly Theater. As an
actor and playwright, he has worked with several New York theater companies,
including Adobe, New Dramatists, Gilgamesh Theater Group, Expanded Arts,
The Ontological, New Georges, Turnip and 78th Street Theater Lab. He is currently developing
Purple Creek, a play with puppets, and an untitled toy theater prequel
to And Away!. Andrew has been a Teaching
Artist at The Hudson River Academy, Sarah Lawrence College’s Summer
Writing Intensive, Westchester Community College, Allen Stevenson, and
Penobscot Theater Company. He was Program Director for Off
the Hook a playwriting to performance program in Red Hook Brooklyn,
2006-2008. Andrew studied theater at the
American Conservatory Theater, the National Theater Institute, Skidmore
College, and has his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He lives
in Brooklyn with Jessica and Jacob.
Jessica Davis-Irons (Director) – is the artistic director of Andhow!, where she has directed over 50 plays, experiments, workshops, etc. over the last eight years. Select Credits outside of Andhow!: The Director by Barbara Cassidy (The Flea); Superpowers by Jeremy Dobrish (adobe), Greater Buffalo by Robyn Burlland (TFNC), Creature of the Deep by Robert Lyons (HERE); After Loyal by Roybn Burland (New Georges). She was associate artistic director of adobe theatre company from 2002-2005, the artistic associate of Adirondack Theater Festival for two season, is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and a member of SSDC.
Brendan Kennedy (Associate Director) - Bio coming soon!
Becky Lasky (Costume Designer) – Bio coming soon!
Dustin O'Neill (Set & Video Designer) – Wozzeck (San Diego Opera), Parlour Song (Atlantic Theater Co.), Oh, the Humanity (Flea Theater), TakeOver BAM (BAM), 365 Days/365 Plays (Bowdoin College), tick, tick, Boom! (ATF), Area of Rescue, Linus and Alora (AndHow! Theater Co.), The Director (Flea Theater) Set and Video Design: I See London, I See France (NYMF), Jekyll and Hyde: The Concert (National Tour), Kimberly Akimbo (Hudson Stage), Donna Morelli (NYS&F). Set Design: Beautiful Souls (Springboard Theater Co), Spain (SPF), Drift (NYMF), Wasps in Bed (OM Productions), Blue Door (NYS&F, South Coast Rep), Big Wyoming (NYS&F), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (San Francisco Production). Regional work at A.C.T. (San Francisco), La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe Theater, Denver Center Theater Co., and The Santa Fe Opera. TV: NBC – The Today Show (Asst. Art Director).
Kelly Anne Shaffer* (Production Stage Manager) – received her BFA in Dance Performance from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in May 2003 and received her Equity membership in Sept. 2004. She is also the Development Director for Andhow! Theater Co. Credits include but are not limited to: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (Soho Playhouse - Winner of 2004 GLAAD Media Award for Best Off-Off Broadway Production - File 14 Productions), Sticky (Downstairs at the Flea - Blue Box Productions), Verbatim Verboten (Elmo – Tesseract Theatre Co.), The Shooting Stage (The Culture Project - Tesseract Theatre Co.), Kicker (Connelly Theater - Triptych Theatre Co.), Silence! The Musical (Lucille Lortel Theater - Tesseract Theatre Co.), Seven.11 Convenience Theatre (Kraine Theater - Desipina Co.), underground (American Dance Festival – David Dorfman Dance), The Armageddon Dance Party (Linhart Theater – W&W Productions), dare to feel (Citigroup Theater – Chamber Dance Project), The Sustainable Future (Bowery Poetry Club – Blue Box Productions), Stupid: The Plays (Downstairs at the Flea), Seven.11 Convenience Theatre 2007 (Henry Street Settlement – Desipina Co.), Area of Rescue (Connelly Theater – Andhow! Theater Co.), Firecracker (Beckett Theater – Theatre Lila). "L'amour de l'art fait perdre l'amour vrai." --Richepin
Rikki Bahar (Assistant to the Director) – Rikki is currently attempting to acquire a degree in "Expressionism" at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, at NYU, where anything is possible. Her concentration will include studies in the dramatic arts, music and dance. Rikki's current theatre expeience is quite minimal, but it is what inspires her to continue in this field of dreams: Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Survivor, and Twelve Angry Jurors. In addition, she loves being a part of student films whenever she gets the chance. She also enjoys writing, creativiely, of course, and often journalistically. Andhow! has already taught her so much about theater and she is so proud to be a part of the wonderful and crazy world of Jessica Davis-Irons!
Marissa Bea (Assistant Stage Manager/Assistant Set Designer) – graduated with a theatre degree from Emerson College in Boston, where she also LOVED working at the Footlight Club (community theatre!) for a season. She had her first NYC stage managing job last September in The Greatest Story Never Told. Marissa is from Seattle, lives in Queens, and goes to Hunter. She likes soccer and tattoos and dinosaurs and riding my bike. Past favorite productions include: Guys and Dolls, Our Town and The Wizard of Oz. She is totally and completely and tremendously excited to be interning with Andhow! and someday she has big plans to open her own theatre/gallery/art space back in her hometown.
Joshua Lipman (Assistant to the Playwright) – The great and powerful Oz, ahem, I mean Josh, has a vast and impressive (some might even dare say vastly impressive) theater resume even longer than this mind blowing run-on sentence. Basically, he took two theater courses his last semester at Swarthmore College and decided he wanted to be a playwright. He's probably going to do an honors theater major with a focus on playwriting, but that could change since he's only headed into his sophomore year. Also of note, he has seen Bruce Springsteen live in concert three times, including two times with the E Street Band. Josh most recently played the part of guy in the crowd singing himself hoarse to "Born to Run" number 4,713.
Mariah MacCarthy (Assistant Video Designer) – is a San Diego-born writer, director, and Jill of all trades. Writing/directing credits: A Man of His Word (Old Globe Theater with Playwrights Project), Jewels That Catch Your Eye (LMCC), Cate Blanchett Wants to Be My Friend on Facebook (Rapscallion Theatre Collective), After the Tower (Inbred Hybrid Collective), The Woods (Channel Z), What the Hell (Evil Eye), The All-American Genderf*ck Cabaret, The Mourning After, Incognito (Skidmore College), Heart's Desire (Assistant Director, Atlantic Acting School), The Inferno Project (Assistant Director, Rapscallion Theatre Collective). Mariah has also worked in various capacities for such theaters as the Pearl, Women's Project, Ma-Yi Theater Company, New Dramatists, La Jolla Playhouse, and HERE Arts Center, and is a magna cum laude graduate of Skidmore College.
Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld (Assistant Costume Designer) – Aly is currently working on her BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she previously studied at Playwrights Horizons Theater School and will continue her studies at the Experimental Theatre Wing in the fall. She has also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. New York Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing (Hero), Antigone (Ismene), Spinning Truth(s): Tales We Were Told (Kalliope). RADA: Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato/Hero), Henry VI (Joan of Arc), King Lear (Lear/Cordelia). NYU Tisch: The Wayside Documentaries (Bebe Gunn), A Puppet Show (Author), Parade (Monteen), The Mother of Modern Censorship (Khadiga Saad). This is Aly's second costuming adventure with Andhow! Theater Company.
David Soblick (Assistant to the Producers) – Bio coming soon!
Pete Wallace (Assistant Sound Designer) – Bio coming soon!
* courtesy of Actors' Equity.
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