The Artists

Lucy Owen

(Blanche DuBois/Co-Creator/Designer) is an actor and filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Her recent television credits include Showtime’s The Loudest Voice where she recurred as Suzanne Scott, the current CEO of Fox News opposite Naomi Watts and Russell Crowe; and Sandy on Craig Zobel’s CBS All Access series, One Dollar. Film credits include Miss Sloane, opposite Jessica Chastain, directed by John Madden, Jonathan Demme’s Ricki and the Flash, Kelly and Cal, The Sounding, Higher Ground, The Mend and most recently in Oday Rasheed’s If You See Something opposite Reed Birney. On stage Lucy has been seen in Cloud Nine at the Atlantic, and The Village Bike (opposite Greta Gerwig) at MCC. Lucy’s film, Fit Model, which she co-wrote and stars in premiered at the New York Film Festival and can currently be streamed on The Criterion Channel.

Nick Westrate

(Director/Designer/Co-Creator) is a theater and film artist based in New York City. His credits on Broadway as an actor include: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Casa Valentina & A Moon for the Misbegotten. He just starred as Prior Walter in Angels in America for Jánosz Száz at The Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Off-Broadway he has starred in Tribes at The Barrow Street Theater, A Delicate Ship for Playwrights Realm, Galileo and Unnatural Acts for Classic Stage Company, Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Public, Ivo Van Hove’s The Little Foxes for NYTW, The Boys in the Band (Drama Desk nomination, 2010) for Transport Group. On television he is best known as Robert Townsend on AMC’s Turn: Washington’s Spies, and also for Todd Haynes’ HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, and Bruno Barreto’s HBO miniseries The American Guest. Currently, he can be seen as Edwin Booth in the Apple TV+ miniseries Manhunt. On film he stars in the feature American Insurrection and in Jonathan Demme’s Ricki & the Flash opposite Meryl Streep. He is the recipient of his own special Drama Desk Award for his versatility in performance Off-Broadway in 2012, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School.

Next he will be playing Victor Frankenstein in Emily Burns’ new version of FRANKENSTEIN for The Shakespeare Theater in Washington D.C.

BRAD KOED

(Stanley Kowalski) is best known for his work as a series regular on PBS’s Mercy Street. Brad also appeared on Broadway opposite Phillip Seymour Hoffman in Mike Nichols’ production of Death of a Salesman and in the world  premiere of Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fucking Bird which earned him a Helen Hayes nomination for Best Actor. He played Mercutio at the Folger Theater, starred in Unnatural Acts at Classic Stage Company, and also recurred on TBS’s hit comedy Search Party. This performance is dedicated to the memory of Rodney Hudson.

MALLORY PORTNOY

(Stella DuBois): currently appears as Betty Comden in Bradley Cooper’s Maestro (Netflix). Broadway: Oklahoma! (Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical).  Other New York: Oklahoma! (St. Ann's Warehouse, Bard Summerscape), A Party with Camden and Green (Care Carlyle), Most Happy (Williamstown/ Bard Summerscape), California (Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks), Privacy (The Public Theater in assoc. with The Donmar Warehouse), A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park), Inspired by True Events (OOTB).  Regional: Denver Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Chautauqua Theater Company.  TV: American Horror Story (FX) American Rust (Amazon Prime), The Good Fight (Paramount+), Grace and Frankie (Netflix), The Helpsters (Apple TV), American Horror Story (FX).  Mallory is co-creator of the comedy series Human Interest (Best Digital Short Series at Series Fest) and Roger, The Chicken (LA Comedy Film Festival, Friars Club Comedy Film Festival).  Training: University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, Juilliard.

James Russell

(Harold Mitchell, Los Angeles ‘24, Tour: 26/26) Off Broadway: Philadelphia Here I Come, A Touch of the Poet, Lady Gregory, The Shadow of a Gunman, Neil Pepe’s Juno and the Paycock, The Plough and the Stars, The Dead, 1904, Shining City, Port Authority, Charlotte Moore’s Juno and the Paycock, and The Freedom of the City (Irish Rep). His other credits include Hamlet (Tim Carroll’s The Factory), Major Barbara (Shaw Project), Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Liar, Playboy of the Western World (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Internationally, he performed in The Flood (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Cymbeline (Shakespeare’s Globe, London). In film, he appeared as Brahm’s Heelshire in The Boy (Lakeshore Ent, STX), Free/Lance (Pegalo), What’s Left Behind; on TV James plays ADA Polson in Law and Order: Organized Crime (NBC), Eddie Lyman in FBI(CBS), Unforgettable (A&E), Forever (ABC), Deception (NBC), Infamous (NBC), and Blue Bloods (CBS).

WILL ROGERS

(Harold Mitchell, original company) is a Drama Desk Award nominated actor known for his performances in New York at Lincoln Center, NYTW, MCC, The Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theater Club and Signature Theater. He starred in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film, Bridge of Spies and in Barry Levinson’s The Bay. Will has appeared in numerous TV shows including Billions, The Marvelous Mrs Mazel, Bull and Law and Order. He’s forever grateful for the support of his wife Becca and is a proud graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts.

CLAIRE SIEBERS

Claire Siebers (Associate Director): As an actor, she has appeared in Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm/MCC, dir. Josiah Davis) New Golden Age (Primary Stages, dir. Jade King Carroll) Georgia Mertching is Dead (EST, dir. Giovanna Sardelli), Events (The Hearth, dir. Sarah Blush), Agnes (Lesser America, dir. Jenna Worsham), The Workshop (softFocus, dir. Knud Adams), LA Party (UTR, Fusebox, dir. Phil Soltanoff) and other productions/new play development with Actors Theater of Louisville, Williamstown, Clubbed Thumb, New Group, LAByrinth, The Whitney Museum. As a writer/director, her plays Chinese Food Delivery Shoe and Something About Burning were selected as finalists for the Leah Ryan Fund and her screenplay Drinking Games was a finalist for the Almanack Screenwriters October Colony Program. Associate Producer Lesser America 2014-2016. Founding Member of Veronica Writers' Group. New Georges Affiliated Artist. Education: Yale, Juilliard.  clairesiebers.com