Who Arted?
CHARLIE BASS
Readingground
The Crawl
The Movie: Our Second Movie
Podia
Writer, producer, teacher, director, Charlie Bass once listed his ideal profession (in one of those silly-ass email forward things) as teaching film theory to a room full of pugs. Until said pugs encounter the monolith from 2001 and make an awfully cute evolutionary leap, Charlie will be content having taught film acting history, making short films, and writing film reviews for the Indypendent. Charlie received his Masters in Media Studies and Film from the New School in May of 2006 and currently works as a video producer for a gigantic ad agency. Unless he’s stinking drunk, you would never guess Charlie was born and raised in Nashville, TN.
TODD CARLSTROM
Readingground
Testify
Spring Fever Festival
The Crawl
The Movie: Our Second Movie
Todd Carlstrom: Rock musician, singer/songwriter (Todd Carlstrom and the Clamour). Playwright (Bunnies Part I, Random Violence). Actor (ugh, lotsa things). Blogger (readingground blogazine). Stay-at-home dad. Snarky dismisser of the zodiac who nonetheless eerily embodies Pisces. Part-time waiter. Amasser of a multi-headed hydra of a music collection. Vociferous “Supernanny” fan. Reformed Catholic. Brooklynite for 13 years. Come hear his music at www.myspace.com/toddcarlstrom
SANAZ GHAJARRAHIMI
Readingground
Director, sound designer, and performer, Sanaz spends most of her time obsessing … over most things. One of those things is breedingground where she is thrilled to be interning and creating. She spends much of her time attempting to find various news ways of using her loop duplicator. She is currently working on a new reincarnation of Romeo and Juliet with a group of sickly talented friends that involves music (singing!!), slam poetry, and other wild things. Watch out for it in mid-December.
CHRIS HOLST
Readingground
Chris is an amateur chef, singer, writer, and knitter. She is a professional klutz. Her recent credits include that time she blackened four toenails (at once!) on a bench leg and that time she chipped a tooth on a sesame seed. She lives in Brooklyn with two handsome cats and a boyfriend who calls her fanny.
LORELEI IGNAS
Readingground
Lorelei is a writer and director from Philadelphia. She graduated from NYU/TSOA in 2007 after spending three years in the COW program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School. Her recognizable directing credits include One For the Road by Harold Pinter, Mr. Bundy by Jane Martin, and The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus. As a playwright, she has work in development with End Times Productions and The Centrifuge. Lorelei enjoys devising and adapting, rap music, animals, reading, baking, dance parties, yoga, The Wire, and spending time in Thailand. She is the founding artistic director of HammerTheatreCollective, and the Development Associate at Theater for the New City.
MARK LINDBERG
Readingground
Mark Lindberg is a theater artist living in Astoria, Queens. As an actor, Mark has played a pig, a love goddess, and a historical hermaphrodite, all in the same Spring Fever Festival! Mark’s play Self-Portrait as Schiele was produced for the NYFringe, directed by Gerritt Turner, and Mark’s credits as playwright/director include work at the Hudson Guild Theater, the Gene Frankel, and the Bowery Poetry Club. Mark is now a certified Soundpainter! Mark teaches for the Playwrights Horizons Theater School and the Powerhouse Summer Theater Program at Vassar College.
ALLY MALINENKO
Readingground
Ally Malinenko has been published in Whiskey Island, Mad Poets Review, HeART and the Unknown Writer. Her first collection of poems entitled Wanting Bone is due out next year through Six Gallery Press. Ally lives in Brooklyn with her husband and her two cats and is currently working on her first children’s novel.
DAVE McGEE
Readingground
Spring Fever Festival
Podia
David McGee, a writer, occasionally writes stuff down. Said stuff includes: Instant Breakfast (his daily historical humor (or humorous history (depending on your druthers)) newsletter); plays (Thanksgiving! A! Pageant!, Chess’d!, Mare Cognitum, Vulcanalia (seen in The Burning Cities Project), and The Very End of the Whole Entire World (coming February 2008!); and other stuff, most of which contains both unnecessary exclamation points (and parentheses!).
COREY MICHENER
Podia
Corey is a local artist practicing theater, music, and media. He recently graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Theater, focusing on directing and design. He is currently executive producing the web-series Cheapdicks.net (check it out right here on breedingground’s podcast) as well as writing the beats and music for it. His recent theatrical design credits include the world premiere of Calvin’s Island by Cory Conley (Sound), When Things Stopped directed by Marleen Pennison at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (sound,) and The Waiting by Dave Tennent (Lights). While in school he directed The Holy Ghostly by Sam Shephard, Pre-Paradise Sorry Now by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Richard III by William Shakespeare. Corey is currently writing a full-length adaptation of the myth of Cupid and Psyche called “Faceless” which will be produced by Ashberry Productions in the fall, directed by Dan Waldron. While he’s not doing all these other things Corey is trying to get his career as a music maker/beatsmith under way. He would like to thank his parents for their continued support and love.
MORGAN MURPHEY
Podia
Morgan has been exploring what is to a be a dancer and choreographer with no formal training in dance since graduating from Playwrights Horizons Theater School/NYU in 2003. Since then she has joined the faculty at PHTS - assistant teaching for Creating Original Work and teaching Research & Development. She has created and performed in “Portraiture” - a dance for two, and “Baggage.” She has also performed in other work, including: “Calms Undoing” - a scripted dance for three, “A Mouthful of Birds” by Caryl Churchill and David Lan - produced by breedingground, and “When Things Stopped” - an adaptation of Doris Lessing’s Memoirs of a Survivor.
DOUG PAULSON
Readingground
Testify
Spring Fever Festival
The Crawl
The Movie: Our Second Movie
Doug Paulson is an actor, singer, writer, musician, composer, teacher, personal assistant, interior design enthusiast and apartment painter. From 2004-2007 Doug was a producing member of breedingground productions, with whom he co-produced the 2005 and 2007 Spring Fever Festivals (while appearing in their main-stage productions of Bunnies: Part One and A Mouthful of Birds respectively) The Crawl for Art 2004, 2005 and 2007, Testify: Episodes 1-4 (also a cast member), The Bash’04, and Theater Date, a video podcast which he co-hosts with breedingground founder Tomi Tsunoda. Doug has been a proud member of Actor’s Equity since 1999.
KATE ROGERS
Readingground
Testify
Spring Fever Festival
The Crawl
The Movie: Our Second Movie
Editor, writer, producer and cook, Kate has worked with breedingground since fall of 2005. With a background in editorial and publicity, Kate represents graphic artists and writers by day and is an editor and writer for readingground by night. You can check out her recipes, occasional crafts and musings on life and shoes in her frequent contributions to apartment art and regular feature essays at www.breedingground.com/reading. She resides in Columbia Waterfront section of Brooklyn with her paramour Charlie and Molly, their cat. And keep your eyes peeled for the eventual unveiling of her Sweet Betty blog, written by her alter ego Betty known for her hot fresh cookies, relentlessly good mood and consistently perfect hair.
ANDREW SCOVILLE
Podia
TOMI TSUNODA
Founder/Creative Director
Readingground
Testify
Spring Fever Festival
The Crawl
The Movie: Our Second Movie
Podia
Tomi is the creative director and founder of breedingground, through which she’s developed more than 100 projects since August 2000. She is a multi-disciplinary artist and enjoys producing projects in internet media, live performance, design, music, literature, knitting, bookmaking, food, video, and bath & body products. She teaches at NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, Vassar College’s Powerhouse Apprentice Program, and was a curriculum director and teacher for the Harlem Educational Activities Fund. She also performs regularly as a singer, actor, and Soundpainter. Tomi has lived in Brooklyn since 1998.
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