cast & crew

Clay McLeod Chapman (Playwright)
In a review of Clay McLeod Chapman’s Pumpkin Pie Show, the Village Voice’s Alexis Soloski wrote, "If Chapman keeps up with the oddball characters, well-crafted stories, and critical plaudits, that Faulkner guy better watch out." Author Tom Robbins said of Chapman’s work, “Like a demonic angel on a skateboard, like a resurrected Artaud on methadrine, like a tattletale psychiatrist turned rodeo clown, Clay McLeod Chapman races back and forth along the serrated edges of everyday American madness, objectively recording each whimper of anguish, each whisper of skewed desire. This is strong stuff, intense stuff, sometimes disturbing stuff, but I think the many who admire Chuck Palahniuk will admire Chapman as well.”

Playwright and story-teller Clay McLeod Chapman has seen his short fiction transposed to the stage for over the last ten years, produced in such various venues as Romania, Scotland, Ireland and here in the United States. Chapman is the originator of the rigorous story-performance group, the Pumpkin Pie Show, which recently performed at Speigeltent, DR2 (2006 Fringe) and PS 122. He has taken his writing to the 1997 Sibiu International Festival of Theatre, the New York International Fringe Festival (1997,1999, and 2006), the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Coney Island Fun Park. His first book of stories, rest area, was published by Hyperion in February 2002. Chapman was educated at theNorth Carolina School of the Arts for Drama, the Burren College of Art, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Isaac Butler (Director)
Isaac Butler directed the world premiere of volume of smoke at the Firehouse Theatre Project in Richmond, VA. Other work with Clay McLeod Chapman includes developing and directing redbird (45 Below) and positive i.d. (Kraine Theater) and acting in The Pumpkin Pie Show: Ringside Seats (the Belt). Non-Chapman credits include: Dan Trujillo's Talk of the Walk-Up; George Hunka's In Public, In Private, All The Ships at Sea and Sustaining (all at Manhattan Theatre Source); the English-language premieres of Line Knutzon's First You're Born (Peter Jay Sharp Theater) and Peretz Hirschbein's lost Yiddish masterpiece The Amulet (78th St. Theater Lab); John Guare's cop-out (Access Theater); and Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years (Firehouse Theatre Project). Next up he is developing an adaptation of several Jonathan Lethem short stories for The Promiscuous Stories Project. He is a two-time member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab.

Katie Dietz (Cast)
Theater credits include: Over the Asian Airwaves (EndTimes Productions), A Night in Gotham (Lucille Lortel Theatre), St. Scarlet (WET Productions, dir. Chris Messina), Following Wolf (dir. David Grimm), Baal (New York Fringe Festival, dir. Paul Zablocki), Joe! The Musical (Lambs Theatre), School House Rock Live (Hangar Theatre), Phantom (New London Playhouse), Don't Dress for Dinner (Surflight Theatre). Television: Stood Up (ABC Television), Tinsley Bumbles (WE Network). Film: Valor to Venom and Steak Challenge. Katie received her BFA from Ithaca College and is a founding member of Gotham Stage Company (www.gothamstage.org).

Abe Goldfarb* (Cast)
Abe Goldfarb studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic, and has worked with such companies as the Jean Cocteau Rep, Studio 42, theatre minima and The Pumpkin Pie Show. Favorite roles include Pistol in Henry V, Arthur in In Public, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera, the Mascot in Junta High and Jaques in As You Like It. He is also rapidly running out of people to thank.

Daryl Lathon* (Cast)
Daryl Lathon has had the pleasure of working with Clay and Isaac on a number of productions including the New York workshop of volume of smoke. Being John Ratzenberger to Isaac's Pixar, Daryl has appeared in Sustaining, In Public, The Amulet, and a workshop of Dan Trullijo's Talk of the Walk-Up, all directed by Isaac Butler. However, Daryl's work is not limited to plays directed by Mr. Butler. He has also had the pleasure of working with Red Bull Theatre on Pericles and The Revenger's Tragedy, Kaleidoscope Theatre Company's productions of Reckless and As You Like It, as well as Dead Reckoning (directed by Jesse Berger) at Soho Rep. Regional credits include Coriolanus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and King Lear (The Shakespeare Theatre); Death of a Salesman (New Stage Theatre); Master Class (Theatre Virginia). TV credits include Linc's (Showtime), The Chamber, and Legacy.

Ronica V. Reddick* (Cast)
Ronica V. Reddick is a native of Syracuse, NY and a recent graduate of Ithaca College. In New York, Ronica has appeared onstage in In Public at the Manhattan Theatre Source, Les Petites Mortes in the NY Fringe Festival, and Junta High at PS122. Regional credits include Pecan Tan at the Kitchen Theatre and Smokey Joe's Cafe at the New Bedford Theatre Festival. Film credit: Sexual Dependency, directed by Rodrigo Bellot.

Brian Silliman (Cast)
Acting credits include In Public (The Public) at Manhattan Theatre Source, Will's Way (Launce/Poins) at the Workshop Theatre, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom) with the Summer Theatre of New Canaan, Titus Andronicus (Saturninus), Macbeth (Malcolm), Machinal (Prosecutor), and the workshop of Daniel Kramer's Soil. Film credits include The Albino Code and Let Them Chirp Awhile. Original plays include The Birth, Adoption, and Death of Dorothy Dutchess (Fringe 2003), The Colonel's Holiday (Poor Artists 2005), Killing the Great White Tiger (Poor Artists 2004), Feast, Poison Darts, Hazing and Shoving, the book to Jonestown the Musical (Fringe 2004) and The Magic of Mrs. Crowling, which will debut this June.

Molly Wright Stuart* (Cast)
Regional: On the Verge, Arena Stage and Westport Country Playhouse; Pride and Prejudice, Portland Center Stage; The Underpants, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; The Servant of Two Masters, Pittsburgh Public Theater/Young Company; Henry V, Shakespeare on the Sound. Developmental productions: Rebecca Patterson’s adaptation of Aphra Behn’s The Feign’d Courtesans at The Women’s Project, Cindy-Lou Johnson’s Emeralds at New York Stage and Film; Ron Fitzgerald’s Jem & I and Jonathan Yukich’s American Midget at The Seven Devils' Playwriting Conference. Education: BFA, The Juilliard School: John Houseman Prize for excellence in classical theater.

Sabrina Braswell (Light Design)

Sydney Maresca (Costume Design)
Sydney Maresca designed costumes for The Amulet, directed by Isaac Butler. Other costuming credits include The Debate Society's A Thought about Raya and The Snow Hen, Cirque This!, Robin's Big Date (Sundance 2006), Jeffrey D's Christmas with the Flamingos, Bradford Louryk's Klytaemnestra's Unmentionables, and Ibsen's Rosmersholm and The Lady from the Sea at the Century Center. Sydney is also part of the The Hazzards, New York's baddest ukulele band.

Tim McMath (Set Design)
Most recently from Seattle, WA, Tim is a recent (and very enthusiastic) transplant into the New York theatre community. He has worked at theatres around the country, including Playhouse on the Square, in Memphis, TN; the Barksdale Theatre and the Firehouse Theatre Project, both in Richmond, VA; Theatre Schmeater in Seattle, WA; and Theatre for a New City, NYC. Favorite designs include: Le Nozze di Figaro, The Waverly Gallery, Scapin, and Zombie Prom (to choose just a few). Tim is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and holds a MFA in scenic design from the University of Washington, Seattle. Web site: www.timmcmath.com.

Erik Sanko (Original Music)

Anne Love (Producer)
Anne Love is a producer/member of elsewhere. Over the past five years, Anne has served in various theatrical marketing, general management and producing capacities across the city, most recently as the Associate General Manager at The Splinter Group, where she oversaw such projects as Christine Jorgensen Reveals (2006 Drama Desk Award Winner, Unique Theatrical Experience), the National Alliance for Musical Theater’s 17th Annual Festival of New Musicals, and Duse’s Fever. A proud graduate of Virginia Tech, she is very excited to bring volume of smoke to the stage, and would like to thank her parents for their wonderful support.

* Indicates member, Actors' Equity Association