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COMPANY MEMBERS
Aaron Ginsburg, Co-Artistic Director
Aaron holds a BFA in Directing and Playwriting from SMU. For four years, he was a core company member and interim managing director of the nationally known Kitchen Dog Theater (member of the Eugene O’Neil New Play Network). While there, he directed many shows, including: Peter Barnes’ Nobody Here But Us Chickens (Dallas Critics’ Forum Award for Best Direction), Below the Belt (Leon Rabin nomination), The Taming of the Shrew (1998 Jimmy Award), and the world premiere of his play Straight Jacket and Tie (which went on to win the Dallas Critics’ Forum Award for Best New Play). Straight Jacket and Tie had its off-off Broadway premiere by the Vital Theatre to rave reviews. Other plays include Archeology of Knowledge (New Visions, New Voices Festival), Casualty of Momentum (Arts Alliance, Chicago) and Rebound and Gagged (which premiered as part of Kitchen Dog Theater’s 10th Anniversary Season). With Wade McIntyre, he has written several films including the short, A Ninja Pays Half My Rent, which premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
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| Wade's favorite Maverick | Wade McIntyre, Co-Artistic Director
Wade received his Master’s degree in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where he also served as the Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret. His plays, Bad Intentions, Schrodinger’s Cat, and Hors d’Oeuvres have been produced in theaters across the country, and Hors d’Oeuvres was published by the Southwest Theatre Association. Wade directed the inaugural production for Meadows Basement, Straight Jacket and Tie. With Aaron Ginsburg, he has written several films including the short, A Ninja Pays Half My Rent, which premiered a the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Recently, Stark Raving Theatre announced they will produce Hors d’Oeuvres as part of their 2004 season.
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| Janie Haddad | Janie Haddad, Company Member
Janie Haddad was born in West Virginia to a large Lebanese and Irish family rich with immigrant history and grew up in idyllic Charleston, SC where she drank sweet tea, enjoyed boiled peanuts and ate lots of shrimp and grits all while listening to the rhythmic cadences of the Island dwellers speaking Gullah. Some of her favorite stage credits include Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Chrissie in Dancing at Lughnasa, Julia in Holiday, and Rosaura in Jose Rivera's adaptation of Life is a Dream where she had the pleasure of working with Mr. Rivera in residence. She has also performed at New York City's Rattlestick Theater and the, oh so famous, Actor's Studio in NYC as well as at Dallas' renowned Kitchen Dog Theater. Locally, she appeared as Felice in Yale Cabaret Blue's original klezmer musical cabaret about Franz Kafka, part of the 2002 LA Edgefest. She received her MFA in Acting from SMU's Meadows School of the Arts (Go Mustangs!) and her BA in Theater from the University of South Carolina (Go Cocks!). She intends to explore the mediums of film and television acting while using her superhuman acting superpowers to take a stand against bad theater in LA.
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| Samantha Montgomery | Samantha Montgomery, Company Member
Samantha is a native Texan and received her MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University's Professional Actor Training Program. This past April, she performed in Meadows Basement's production of Hors d'Oeuvres. She has worked at the Dallas Theater Center, Plano Repertory, and the renowned Kitchen Dog Theater appearing in Othello (as Desdemona), Fugitive Pieces, Whisper, and Road (D/FWCritics Forum Award for Outstanding Production). Samantha also interned at Primary Stages Co. in New York where she worked with playwright John Patrick Shanley. Since arriving in LA, Samantha has acted in several independent films, at Knightsbridge Theater and at Meadows Basement Theater. She recently completed the short comedic film "Strongerable" with Precipice Productions, in which she acted, co-wrote and co-produced. View Samantha's resume.
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| Ira | Ira Steck, Company Member
Ira Steck grew up all over Texas and earned a BFA in acting from Southern Methodist University. Robert Mathews in God’s Country, Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, and Orlando in As You Like It directed by Melia Bensussen where among Ira’s favorite roles at SMU where he also directed Glengarry Glen Ross and the world premier of Histrionica With Banjo as part of The New Visions, New Voices festival. Before leaving the Lone Star State Ira also performed with Shakespeare in the Park Ft. Worth, Kitchen Dog Theatre, and The Dallas Shakespeare Festival where he played Octavius Caesar in Antony & Cleopatra under the direction of David Giles. Since moving to Los Angeles Ira has been seen on stage with Knightsbridge Theatre LA in The Rivals as Sir Lucius O’Trigger, Ensemble Studio Theatre in The Shore as Jimmy, and The Blue Sphere Alliance as Gabe in Marcus Is Walking and as Kyle in a 20 min. one-man version of Rebound & Gagged by Aaron Ginsburg. His recent television credits include “Firefly”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, and “Monk”. Ira performed in Meadows Basements first two productions: Straightjacket & Tie and Hors d’Oeuvrves.
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| Jenni's pic | Jenni Kirk, Company Member
Jenni recently received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego, and her BFA from SMU in Dallas. While in San Diego: Clarice in King Stag; Miss Julie in Miss Julie; Lucy in Pains of Youth; Giacinta in A Country Affair; Mollie in The Mousetrap; Frankie Boy in Conquest of the South Pole. Other roles include Rosalind in As You Like It, directed by Melia Bensussen; Rosalie in Fingered for the ASK Theatre Project; Violet in Sweet Bird of Youth, directed by Michael Greif; and Julia in The Two Gentleman of Verona at Shakespeare Santa Cruz and again at the GeVa Theatre in Rochester, NY. In LA, she has appeared as Mary Brenham in Quantum Theatre Company’s Garland winning production of Our Country’s Good and in Blue Sphere Alliance productions Marcus is Walking and Sisyphus Syndrome.
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Jennifer Bledsoe, Company Member
Jen is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX (where she experienced the genuine basement at Meadows School of the Arts, firsthand) and Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Northern California. Jennifer was a member of Horsechart Theatre Company in Denver, Colorado, where she was awarded Best Actress of the Year in Westword Magazine's annual Best of the West issue, for her work in DISTURBED BY THE WIND, THE WAKE OF JAMEY FOSTER and GHOSTS. Jen starred in EIGHTEEN, her second Meadows Basement show, having appeared as ALL of the women in STRAIGHT JACKET & TIE, Meadows' debut production in 2001.
Scott Blackburn, Company Member
Bio coming soon. Wait for it. . .wait for it. . .
Elijah Mahar, Company Member
Eli is a company member of the Basement, and has been seen as Russell in the inaugural production of Straight Jacket & Tie and Charles Swinborne in Hors d'Oeuvres. Other LA credits include: The Architect & The Emperor of Assyria at Stages Theater, as well as False Bravado, Being of Sound Mind, and The Atheist In All Of Us (all at Blue Sphere Alliance). TV credits include: Profiler, Beverly Hills 90210, West Wing, Crusade, X-Files, JAG, and Philly. He also was beheaded in the HBO Original Movie, Guilty As Charged. Eli has a BFA from SMU.
Matt Saunders, Company Member
I feel a bio coming on. . .
Racquel Lehrman , Publicist
Racquel is the founding and managing director of Theatre Planners.
visit http://www.theatreplanners.com/ for more info
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