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Stacey Cervellino - Co-Artistic Director, Co-Creator
Stacey is an actor, singer, writer, and director. She has worked with many wonderful artists including Austin Pendelton, Stephen Belber, Sam Weisman, and David Lindsay Abaire. She has performed in New York and Boston in plays and musicals and has written and directed her own piece called DRESS about the housewife of the 1950's, produced both in New York and Boston.
She is a teaching artist in the New York City Public School system where she teaches Shakespeare, Improvisational Movement, and basic acting. She has taught Movement workshops at Brooklyn College and at the Calhoun School.
Stacey recently directed Macbeth in Vermont, several movement-based pieces for the New Jersey Youth Theater, and taught an Action Theater Workshop at the International Theater Methods Festival in Latvia. She is a graduate of the Brandeis University MFA acting program and has studied at LAMDA in London.
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Anna Klein - Co-Artistic Director, Co-Creator
Anna is a director, writer, costume designer, actor and producer and has worked all across the country for stage, film and TV. As a teaching artist in California, Anna was the Resident Director, Coach and Teacher for the Children's Creative and Performing Arts Academy in San Diego, served on the new works board for the Young Playwrights festival for the Globe Theatre, and developed and co-directed a program working with kids to write, direct, produce and act in their own short films.
In New York City, she is a teaching artist within the New York City Public School system, teaching Shakespeare, basic acting, costume design, women's issues, creative writing and dance. Her Costume Designs have been seen on regional stages in San Diego, Los Angeles, Oklahoma, New York and Commercial and Independent films. Her Associate Casting Credits include several independent and commercial films and over 50 National Commercials.
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Nancy S. Chu - Associate Artistic Director
Nancy most recently directed Death of Frank by Stephen Belber and was a Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theatre in New York. She is affiliated with the Women's Project, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre and Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, and her work has been seen at such theatres as The Public Theatre, HERE, FringeNYC, and The Culture Project, to name a few. Her production of Medea for the Women of Color Festival 2002 received an AUDELCO acting nomination.
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Michelle Maxson - Associate Producer
(Becoming Natasha)
Michelle has acted internationally, regionally and in New York, working with such directors as Liviu Ciulei (Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream), Charles Marowitz (Portia in Caesar), Henryk Baranowski (Clytemnestra in The Oresteia, Regina in Ghosts), Lee Breuer, Gerry Mulgrew, and Laszlo Marton. She is Co-founder and director of SPi Theatre Company, which produced the American premiere of Jumping the Gun by Gabor Georgey, one of Hungary's premiere playwrights. She holds an MFA from the International Training Academy at the University of Tennessee.
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Gabe Maxson - Director, Company Collaborator
(Becoming Natasha)
Co-founder and director of SPi Theatre Company. Directing credits include Irene Fornes' Oscar and Bertha, and the American/Slovak production of The Oresteia (co-directed with the celebrated Polish director Henryk Baranowski). Also with SPi, he co-wrote the original play Unwon and produced and performed in the American premiere of Jumping the Gun by Gabor Georgey, one of Hungary's premiere playwrights. Gabe is a performer on stage and film, as well as a lighting designer. For the past four years, he has worked full-time with the Wooster Group.
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Susan Pavlin - Associate Producer/Videographer,
Fundraising Strategist
Susan is a producer, videographer, writer and recovering attorney. She is currently a participating artist and writer in the creation of Women + War, a documentary theater performance created by the Atlanta-based Synchronicity. As a producer and supporting writer, she is in development for a full-length feature film about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, and a documentary on the international trafficking of women. She directs program development for a non-profit supporting refugee/immigrant women and children resettling in the United States. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Illinois and her Bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University.
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Nina Arianda - Producer's Assistant, Company Collaborator
(Becoming Natasha)
Nina is a Ukrainian American actor who has worked in both Germany and NYC. She is a graduate of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy (Studio). She has studied at HB Studios, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The New School University and The Pearl Repertory Theatre. Past productions include: A Dybbuk, Closer, The House of Yes, Taming of the Shrew, The Authors Voice, Le Cid, The Big Funk, Measure for Measure and as understudy in The Donkey Show. She will begin NYU's Tisch Graduate Acting Program in the fall.
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Sarah Stamboulie - Treasurer
Sarah Stamboulie brings to the Isadora Productions Board an excellent blend of corporate and not-for-profit business experience. Recently she developed expertise as a human resources executive for corporations including Morgan Stanley and Cantor Fitzgerald, and currently works as an expert in human resources. Her education includes an M.B.A. from Columbia and a B.A. from Vassar College.
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