(Left to R) - Andrew Lu, Ryan Farley, Justin Quinn Pelegano, Michael Chmiel, Heidi Armbruster, Julie Fitzpatrick, Marilee Talkington, Devlin Goldberg

Sarah Kane (Playwright) “Ms. Kane is best known for the way her career began, in the extraordinary controversy over Blasted, and the way it ended: in her suicide and the posthumous production of her last play, 4.48 Psychosis.  Both were shocking and defining moments in recent British theatre.  [Her plays] Blasted, Phaedra’s Love, Cleansed, Crave, and 4.48 Psychosis add up to a body of work that pushed recklessly at the boundaries of British theatre.  Each play was a new step on an artistic journey in which Kane mapped the darkest and most unforgiving internal landscapes: landscapes of violation, of loneliness, of power, of mental collapse and, most consistently, the landscape of love.” --David Greig, from his introduction to Sarah Kane: Complete Plays.

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Justin Quinn Pelegano (Director, Producer) is a Co-Founder of BTP and the author/director of VICARIOUS (BTP, 2005 New York International Fringe Festival).  His other plays and performance monologues include AWAKE (Firsthand Theatre Project), Stoning the Baby (Heideman Award Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville), Carry the Five (developed w/ Heidi Armbruster), and Too Chicken (Emile E. Camerer Award for Outstanding Monologue).  He has studied playwriting with Edward Alan Baker and Arthur Giron at Sarah Lawrence College and with Robert Montgomery at The New School.  Mr. Pelegano is also a contributing writer for Trigger Magazine and the A&E Channel/Electric Artists tattoo website, INKEDblog.   He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. and holds a BA from Columbia University.

Michael Chmiel (B, Producer) is a Co-Founder of BTP and appeared in VICARIOUS at FringeNYC 2005.  Other New York credits include Many ‘Cides (Prospect Theatre Company) and Private Wars (Striking Edge Ensemble).   Regional credits include Romeo & Juliet, Cymbeline, Skin of Our Teeth (California Shakespeare Festival) and War of the Roses, Merchant of Venice, Peter Pan (Utah Shakespearean Festival).  He is a member of NYC’s sketch comedy troupe Pigloo and can be seen in the recent independent feature Filmic Achievement.  He holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater.

Heidi Armbruster (M) was most recently seen as Cordelia in King Lear at Centerstage.  New York credits include Sea of Tranquility (Atlantic Theater Company), Good Morning Bill (Keen Company), and The God Botherers (Synapse Productions).  Regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, George Street Playhouse and The Folger Shakespeare Library.  Ms. Armbruster is an original company member of the Great River Shakespeare Festival.  She holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater where she received a Bay Area Critic’s Award for her work in The Glass Menagerie.

Ryan Farley (A) was recently seen in BTP’s production of VICARIOUS and currently takes the stage in Red Bull Theater’s production of Revenger’s Tragedy directed by Jesse Berger at the Culture Project.  Past credits include the world premiere of Diary of a Chambermaid (Dramahaus, SoHo Rep) which was selected as one of 2004’s Best Off-Broadway shows by Backstage Magazine, the title role in Peer Gynt, Paul Chase in the world premiere of Marc Blitzstein’s No For An answer, and Earl of Pembroke in King John.  Ryan is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater’s M.F.A. actor training program.

Julie Fitzpatrick (C) Credits include: Valparaiso by Don DeLillo (Off-Broadway, Rude Mechanicals Theater Company); Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rain by Will Eno (RMTC); Out of Body, Out of Mind (Lucid Theater Company, NYC Fringe Festival 2005); Bump (Juggerknot Theatre Company); House of Yes (Godlight Theater Company); Fzzn Grrl, Flow, 11th Hour (Ensemble Studio Theatre).  Julie can be seen as FBI Agent Candace in the upcoming independent feature film Nothing Left To Lose. She has performed in the cabaret lounges Don't Tell Mama and Upstairs at Rose's Turn and recently wrote and performed a one-woman show titled RiddleLikeLove which premiered in Middlebury, VT.  Training: American Conservatory Theater (MFA), University of Pennsylvania (BA).

Devlin Goldberg (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be the newest member of BTP!  Currently she can be heard around town singing and playing percussion with the "Andrew Shapiro Ensemble,” and her own original all female group.  From 2002-2004, she was a member of the hip-hop musical theatre company, “Rubi.”  New York credits include, “My life as a Telenovela,”  and “Doo Wop Moderno.”  Devlin is a recent graduate of the New School’s Jazz and Contemporary Music Program and holds a BFA in music.

Andrew Lu (Set/Lighting Designer) was born and raised in Guelph Ontario Canada.  His work includes: In New York: Broadway – Assistant set designer Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckboun; Off-Off Broadway - Lighting designer for The Audition by Betsy Head; Lighting designer for Lion in the Streets by Judith Thompson; Set designer for Sugarville: A Little Death by Marilee Talkington; Set designer for Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage. In Canada: Lighting and co-set designer for the jazz opera, Québecité composed by D.D. Jackson, libretto by George Elliott Clarke; Set and lighting designer for Grotowski's Head by Anthony Reid; Set, lighting and projection designer for Here Lies Henry by Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks; Set designer for A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. Andrew graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in design for stage and film.