Drama: Related Content

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig is a dramatist who writes for audio, stage and screen. Her play Snow in Midsummer was recently produced by Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Royal Shakespeare Company and will be staged in New York by Classic Stage Company in the summer of 2022.

Charles Schoonmaker is an Emmy Award-winning costume designer for theatre, dance, opera, and television.

Shawtane Bowen is a writer, actor, and producer. He is a founding member of Astronomy Club, the first all-Black house team at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater in New York. Their series, Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show, debuted in Fall 2019 on Netflix to much critical acclaim. 

Kirk Jackson is an actor/director with four decades of experience on and off Broadway and regionally. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, he has assisted Ivo van Hove on multiple productions in New York City and, recently, began to direct operas.

Moritz von Stuelpnagel is a theater director focused on new plays. His work has been seen on Broadway and London’s West End and he is the former artistic director of Studio 42, NYC’s producer of “unproducible” plays.

Mercedes Herrero is an award-winning actress with over 30 years of professional experience in Theatre, Film and Television. She is an ensemble member of Moisés Kaufman’s Tectonic Theatre Project, and is currently in her third season as Vanessa Morrison on House of Cards.

Michael Sylvan Robinson '89 (he/they) is an internationally-exhibited genderqueer fiber artist, activist, and leader in arts education; their contemporary fiber art intersects fashion, sculpture, street art and queer activism through innovative use of textile collage and text-based art techniques.

A dramaturg, theater historian, and author of Greasepaint Puritan: Boston to 42nd Street in the Queer Backstage Novels of Bradford Ropes (University of Michigan Press, 2024) and American Cinderellas on the Broadway Musical Stage (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Maya Cantu specializes in twentieth-century American theater.

Oliver Wadsworth is an award-winning actor and writer who has worked extensively throughout the U.S. His upcoming projects include plays at Living Room Theatre and The Rep in Albany.

Dina Janis is the Artistic Director of the Vermont Public Theater and a lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

Kaiya Kirk '20 is the Executive Director of Bennington Theater. Originally from Los Angeles, her work spans production management, stage management, and arts administration across regional and New York City theater, including experience at Abrons Arts Center, The Flea, and Harlem Stage. 

Tilly Grimes is an Irish/Greek theater, opera, and film designer based in New York.

Richard MacPike brings his experience working on Broadway shows such as The Lion King and companies like the Santa Fe Opera and Glimmerglass to his work as costume shop manager at Bennington.

With a focus on Scenic Design, Seancolin Hankins takes a comprehensive approach to scenic production, working concurrently in concept, design, construction, and scenic painting. His drive for compelling visuals is paralleled by his commitment to responsible and resourceful use of materials.

Sherry Kramer’s work includes David’s RedHaired Death, When Something Wonderful Ends, The Wall of Water, and Three-Quarter Inches of Sky. Her plays have premiered at The Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Soho Rep, Second Stage, Humana Festival, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Her book Writing for the Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience is published by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Burcu Seyben is a theatre theorist, playwright, actress, and author of Theatre and Multimedia (Habitus, 2016). She specializes in contemporary European and Turkish performances, and directors as well as theatre and politics.