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Keith Paul Medelis Artistic Director keith@thenewtheatreproject.org
Keith is the Artistic Director of The New Theatre Project where he has directed The Spring Awakening Project, Mother Courage in Concert, The Dance of the Seven Veils, Posing, and The American Crowbar Case. He was seen most recently onstage as Princess Stephanie in Fugue. Previous directing credits elsewhere include Hair, Food for Fish, Tennessee Williams’ Summer at the Lake, and others for Albion College, Beckett’s Endgame and several original works for The Dead Pinocchio Theatre, The Complete Works of Williams Shakespeare [abridged] at the Riverside Arts Center, Victoriana for the Fireside Festival at the Performance Network, Love! Valour! Compassion! for the Who Wants Cake? Theatre at the Ringwald, Something Cloudy, Something Clear at the University of Michigan’s Residential College, Wedekind’s Spring Awakening for the Pioneer Theatre Guild and the New York premiere of Jason Sebacher’s Can’t You See? for the Variations Theatre Company. |
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Dustin Douglas Miller Mix Studio Theater Technical Director
Dustin is a senior at Eastern Michigan University pursuing his B.S. degree in Theatre Arts with a emphasis in Entertainment Design. He has worked with The Planet Ant Theatre, 8th Wonder Productions, Eastern Michigan University, Threefold Productions and Encore Musical Theatre. He is currently the Technical Director for Threefold Productions as well as the Mix Studio Theater. |
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Maria Thomas Volunteer Managing Director maria@thenewtheatreproject.org
Maria feels most like herself when on stage, acting, singing or dancing. She has performed with several companies in Ann Arbor, and abroad. She grew up in India, the Middle East and the UK and theatre has been the one constant in her changing life. Maria has an MA in English Literature from Oxford University, UK and an MPA in Non-Profit Administration from Columbia University.
Over the years she has held a series of seemingly unrelated jobs, including teaching English, Dance and Drama to maniacally energetic middle schoolers in India, painting strange-looking animal murals in pediatric hospitals (with their permission), interning with UNICEF to make documentaries on HIV/AIDS issues and running a nonprofit youth mentoring program in Harlem. |
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Jason Sebacher Playwright-in-Residence jason@thenewtheatreproject.org
Jason is a founding member of The New Theatre Project. He has written nearly twenty plays, which have been seen in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and New York City.
Recent productions include: The American Crowbar Case (Book, TTP), Posing (TNTP), A Few Survivors (Who Wants Cake @ The Ringwald’s Gay Play Series 2011), The Everyman Project (TNTP), All Aboard the Hindenburg! (Stage Left Studio, New York), The Falser Heart (Pub Theatre, Chicago), Can’t You See? (14th St. Y, New York), and The Spring Awakening Project (TNTP).
His next production through TNTP will be All Alone With You this summer. He is also the creator, writer, designer, and performer of The Inspector Digby Saga, a Victorian toy puppet theatre murder mystery series, which will be performed in five installments throughout this winter and spring at the Society for the Advancement of Miniature Curiosa in Pittsburgh.
Jason received a BA in English Literature from Albion College, studied John Milton’s juvenilia at the Newberry Library, has taught high school English in Chicago through Teach for America, and is currently a MFA Dramatic Writing candidate at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the Playwrights’ Center and the Dramatist’s Guild.
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Audra Lord Contributing Playwright for Season 2: Revelation
Audra Lord’s original plays have been read and staged locally by BoxFest Detroit, Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company, Water Works Theatre Company, The RAW Festival, Fancy Pants Theatre, The Ringwald, Oakland University and Planet Ant, among others. Her critically acclaimed play Speed Dating! was received as a “festival highlight” by EncoreMichigan.com, and her New York debut (Joy, FACT Theatre) was called “the highlight of the evening” by TheatreOnline.com. Fugue has received development from The New Theatre Project, The Performance Network, The Actors’ Theatre of Grand Rapids and The Renegade Theatre Festival of Lansing. Audra is a Season 2 Ensemble member of TNTP and a member of The Dramatists Guild of America. |
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Kevin Kautzman Contributing Playwright for Season 2: Revelation
Kevin is an American playwright originally from North Dakota currently pursuing his M.F.A. with a focus in playwriting and screenwriting as a Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. He began studying playwriting in London at the Royal Court Theatre, where he became a core writer out of their Young Writers Program.
Kevin has received commissions from Red Eye and History Theatre, and his work has been performed, read and/or developed at places including the American Story Project, the Living Theatre, The New Theatre Project, Nouveau 47, the Players’ Guild Theater, the Playwrights’ Center, Poliglot Theater, the Soho Theatre Studio, the UK National Student Drama Festival, and Zeitgeist Theater. Honors include the Jerome and Michener fellowships and Tennessee Williams Scholarship (Then Waves), Lavender Magazine’s Best Playwriting (Iris) and the International Student Playscript Competition and Repertory Theatre Iowa’s Alpha Project awards (Coyote).
Kevin is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota, where he studied history and philosophy, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Inc., the Playwrights’ Center, and Scriptworks. |
