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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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