THE BLACK EYED
Company bios

Aysan Celik
Aiesha
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: FAUST (CSC/Target Margin); PERICLES (Cult-ure Project/ Red Bull); TURN OF THE SCREW, MURDER BY POE, RICHARD III (Acting Company). Off-Off-Broad-way: ARAIHSAK (Theater Mitu); CANARD, CANARD, GOOSE (Civilians); ATTEMPTS ON HER LIFE (SoHo Rep). Regional: ATL, ART, LJP, Taper, Sundance, O'Neill. Film: Capers (2008). Training: ART Institute at Harvard. Member: Civilians, LightBox and Theater Mitu (co-founder).

Lameece Issaq
Tamam
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: STUFF HAPPENS (Public Theater; Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Ensemble); GIRL BLOG FROM IRAQ, BAGHDAD BURNING (Barrow Street The-atre/Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Stage Theater Award Nomination, Outstand-ing Ensemble); DETAILS OF SILENCE (Symphony Space); "A" DATE (New York Arab-American Comedy Festival). Training: University of Texas, Austin (MFA).

Jeanine Serralles
The Architect
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: ANTI-GONE PROJECT (Women's Project), HOLD PLEASE (Working Theater; Drama Desk Nomination, featured actress in a play). Regional: 1001 (world premiere, Denver Center), AUNT DAN AND LEMON (Merrimack Rep), LUCY AND THE CONQUEST (world premiere, Williamstown), THE VELVET SKY (world premiere, Woolly Mam-moth), LEAP (world premiere, Cincin-nati Playhouse). Film & TV: Across the Universe (dir. Julie Taymor), "Sex in the City," "Guiding Light." Training: Yale School of Drama (MFA).

Emily Swallow
Delilah
NYTW debut. Broadway: HIGH FIDELITY. Off-Broadway: MEASURE FOR PLEASURE (Public Theater), ORANGE LEMON EGG CANARY (P.S. 122), KING LEAR (workshop, Public Theater), MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (NYSF). Regional: METAMORPHOSES (Pioneer Theatre), ENCHANTED APRIL (San Jose Rep), SWEENEY TODD (Heritage Rep). Film and TV: Lull, The Return (upcoming), "Jericho," "Flight of the Conchords," "Guiding Light." Training: NYU/Tisch (MFA).

Betty Shamieh
Playwright
NYTW debut. Broadway: PRESSURE IS A PRIVILEGE (24-Hour Play Company). Off-Broadway: ROAR (The New Group). Off-Off-Broadway: CHOCOLATE IN HEAT (New York International Fringe Festival, Theater for the New City, The Tank), THE MACHINE (Naked Angels). International: THE BLACK EYED (Theater Fournos of Athens). Regional: THE BLACK EYED (The Magic Theatre). Upcoming: TERRITORIES (The Magic Theatre). Graduate of Harvard University and the Yale School of Drama. NEA/TCG playwright in residence at Magic Theatre. Recipient of a Clifton Visiting Fellowship and Radcliffe Institute for the Advanced Studies Fellowship at Harvard University. NYTW Usual Suspect, New Group Affiliate Artist.
www.bettyshamieh.com.

Sam Gold
Director
NYTW debut. Recent credits: Colin McKenna’s THE SECRET AGENDA OF TREES (Cherry Lane), Rogelio Martinez’s FIZZ (The Ohio), Judy Blume's TALES OF A FOURTH GRADE NOTHING (The Hangar Theatre), Joanna Laurens’ THE THREE BIRDS (GAle GAtes), Betty Shamieh‘s CHOCOLATE IN HEAT (The Tank). Juilliard (Resident Director 2006-2007, Directing Fellow 2003-2006): TWELFTH NIGHT, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, Beau Willimon’s FARRAGUT NORTH, Suzan-Lori Parks’ IN THE BLOOD, and Marlowe’s EDWARD II (Juilliard Centennial Tour: REDCAT, LA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago). Upcoming: Noah Haidle’s RAG AND BONE (Rattlestick), Beau Willimon’s WAR STORY (Juilliard), Anne Carson’s translation of ELEKTRA (Williams College). Wooster Group associate, NYTW Usual Suspect, Drama League Directing Fellow, Princess Grace Award recipient.

Paul Steinberg
Scenic Designer
Regional/Opera: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (A.R.T); THE TRICKY PART (Intiman Theatre); L'ORFEO (Glimmer-glass Festival); TANNHÄUSER (Opera Nomori, Tokyo); ORLANDO, LA CALISTO (Bavarian State Opera); SALOME (Lithuanian National Opera); RODEL-INDA (San Francisco Opera); THE CORONATION OF POPPEA (Paris Opera); WOZZECK (Kömische Oper); LULU (English National Opera); KAFKA'S TRIAL (Royal Danish Opera); IL TROVATORE (Bregenz Festival). Faculty: Tisch School of the Arts (graduate set design).

Gabriel Berry
Costume Designer
NYTW: The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador; Owners/ Traps; Lydie Breeze Parts 1 and 2; A Number; Flow; Brides of the Moon; Bexley, OH!; Slavs!; Light Raise the Roof; Unfinished Stories; Love and Anger. Recent credits: Beauty on the Vine (Epic Theater), Orpheus in the Under-world (Glimmerglass Opera), John Adams’ The Flowering Tree (Peter Sellars's New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna). Upcoming: Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play (Goodman Theatre), Philip Glass's Appomattox (San Francisco Opera).

Jane Cox
Lighting Designer
Broadway: DAME EDNA BACK WITH A VENGEANCE. Off-Broadway: BAM, Signature Theatre, Playwrights Hori-zons, Primary Stages, Classic Stage Company. Regional: Guthrie, McCarter, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Centerstage, Denver Center, A.C.T., Minnesota Opera. Dance: Doug Varone, David Dorfman, Monica Bill Barnes, Eliot Feld. Adjunct faculty: Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College.

Darron L West
Sound Designer
NYTW: ALL THAT I WILL EVER BE, THE SEVEN (Lortel Award), A NUMBER, SHOPPING AND FUCKING, VIEW OF THE DOME, RENT, QUILLS, THE MEDIUM, SLAVS!, THE SECRETARIES, LOVES FOWL, BOB (Obie Award), CULTURE OF DESIRE, THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD, SLANGUAGE. Broadway: WAIT UNTIL DARK. Awards include: 1997 Princess Grace, 2000 Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY, 2003 Prague Quadrennial, 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Design Award, 2005 Lortel and AUDELCO Awards. Usual Suspect and member of Anne Bogart's SITI Company.

Rachel Zack
Production Stage Manager
NYTW: ¡EL CONQUISTADOR!. Broadway: THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, Edward Albee’s SEASCAPE, WONDERFUL TOWN. Off-Broadway: IN DARFUR (The Public Theater), AS YOU LIKE IT (NYSF), BFE (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre. Graduate of the Ithaca College Department of Theatre Arts.

Terri K. Kohler
Assistant Stage Manager
NYTW debut. Off-Broadway: IN DARFUR (The Public Theater), DON JUAN IN PRAGUE (BAM), THE GOD BOTHERERS (Synapse Productions), BRITS OFF-BROADWAY (59E59). Regional: I JUST STOPPED BY TO SEE THE MAN, GOD’S MAN IN TEXAS (Geffen Playhouse); OEDIPUS, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, LA DISPUTE, THE SOUND OF A VOICE (A.R.T); MOSCOW: CHERRY TREE TOWERS, THE TENDERLAND, OFFENBACH!!! (Bard Summerscape); THE TALES OF HOFFMAN (New Orleans Opera).

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