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Sonja Moser founded the Islesford Theater Project in 2007. She is currently a year-round Islesford resident and full-time theater faculty member at Bowdoin College. She has worked regionally and in New York at such venues as The Public Theater, The Signature Theater, PS 122, HERE, the University of Iowa and American Repertory Theater. Past productions have included projects with playwrights Irene Fornes (Enter the Night), Sarah Ruhl (Late, A Cowboy Song) and David Adjmi (Closet Drama, Doppel-gang-bang, Strange Attractors), and many theater-dance collaborations for Bowdoin College, including Week 49 of Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days/Plays. Sonja studied in Paris with Jacques LeCoq and received her MFA in Directing from Columbia University under the tutelage of Anne Bogart and Robert Woodruff.

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Billy McGuinness is an artist working in photography, video, sculpture and performance, and is co-founder of the Islesford Theater Project. As an actor, he has appeared on stage in New York, Los Angeles and regionally. He has also worked as a carpenter, a sternman on a lobster boat, a preschool teacher on a farm in Iowa and a sound engineer at one of the world's largest cathedrals, St. John the Divine in Manhattan. He holds an undergraduate degree from the film school at UCLA and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Mary Fons is a nationally ranked slam poet, freelance writer and Neo-Futurist. She received her B.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Iowa, and has resided in Chicago ever since. Mary is an original ensemble member of The Gift Theatre Company; a Green Mill slam champion; author of the popular blog, "PaperGirl." As a proud Neo-Futurist, Mary writes, directs, and performs approximately 35 weeks a year in Chicago's longest-running late-night performance art extravaganza, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind.

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Judy Gailen recently designed the sets for The 13th of Paris (Pittsburgh's City Theatre), 12 Angry Men (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), and Babes in Arms at Bowdoin College, where she is Adjunct Lecturer in Design. Other projects include sets (and sometimes costumes) for La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Long Wharf, Trinity Rep, Merrimack Rep, Portland Stage, Yale Rep, George Street Playhouse, Florida Stage, Triad Stage, Anchorage Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Omaha, Primary Stages, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Skylight Opera, as well as Off- and Off-off Broadway. Judy is the recipient of a Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for artistic excellence.

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Philip Gates lives in New York City where he recently directed Like the Night, a new play by Kat Sherman, at The Tank. He is a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, where he directed Cloud Nine and Six Characters in Search of an Author, receiving the Abraham Goldberg Prize in Directing. Selected Performance credits include Angels in America at Bowdoin, The Storm at Vassar's Powerhouse Theater, and Dr. Faustus at the British American Drama Academy in London.

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Cathrine Grace hails from New York where her stage career started at the age of 15 playing the lead role in The Red Shoes.  Significant lead roles that followed are: Nellie in South Pacific, Polly in The Boyfriend, Patsy in Little Murders, and many others.  Cathrine now lives in LA where she recently originated the role of Anne, the wife of Dr. Bob in Bill W and Dr. Bob, the story of the founders of AA.  Since living in LA, Cathrine has co-starred in many films and television shows including: NYPD Blue, ER, Malcolm In The Middle, CSI, Gilmore Girls, 3rd Rock from The Sun, and MadMen.

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Chris Hathaway is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh's Drama Department and a veteran of the Saltworks Theater Company. Chris has been acting since he was nine, and has been involved in theater on Islesford since he was twelve.

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Brenna Nicely is a double major in English & Theater and German, and a Teaching minor at Bowdoin College. Recent performance credits include Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, Suzan Lori-Parks' 365 Days/Plays, and Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo.

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Paul Sarvis lives in Portland, Maine where he makes public artworks that range from abstract modern dance to raucous physical theater with his company Berg, Jones and Sarvis. The trio has performed from California to New York, often collaborating with artists and scholars from other disciplines. As "citizen artists," they have taught and created performances in more than 100 Maine towns including collaborations with Maine painter Alan Bray, poet Stu Kestenbaum, and musicians Brad Terry and Chris Moore. Paul holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, and teaches dance and choreography at Bowdoin College. Before joining Maine's Ram Island Dance Company in the 1980s, he danced with Liz Lerman in Washington, D.C., June Finch and Debra Wanner in New York City, and Gloria Unti in San Francisco.

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Scott Working is an Omaha-based theatre artist and educator. In 1993 he founded the Shelterbelt Theatre, Nebraska's home of original plays, and currently acts as Artistic Director. Scott is Theatre Program Coordinator and full-time faculty at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, the host of the Great Plains Theatre Conference.

 

 

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