Founders

Michael Edison Hayden is the son of an Egyptian mother and a white, American father. He is a graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts and the Playwright’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. His work has been developed or produced at New York Theatre Workshop, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Flea, Cherry Lane, Manhattan Theatre Source, and Westbeth Theatre. He is a founding member of Imperfect People.

Matt Urban is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied directing at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School (PHTS). Past collaborations with Imperfect People Theater Company include A Light Behind the Curtain (Access Theater), A Quiet Homily (manhattantheatresource), Mamma's Boy (café at WestBeth Theater Center) and Imperfect People (NYU/GAP). Other directing credits: Radioactive - Idioteque (Cutting Room), Equus (UrbanStages/PHTS), Valley Song, MaTRIX Inc. (NYU/PHTS); Sound: Maybe I Could Get Laid in Jail (Collective: Unconscious), RALPH (Wings), Little Man (Ohio Theater), Burning Down to Heaven (Theatorium), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Currican/PHTS), Green Stockings (NYU/GAP).

J.T. Dorr-Bremme is a producer, actor, and web designer for the Imperfect People Theater Company. He holds a BFA in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is currently pursuing a career in nursing in Southern California.

Collaborators

Performers

Aadya Bedi Theatre: Betrayed (Culture Project). The American Pilot (Manhattan Theatre Club), Desire Caught by the Tail (HERE Arts Center), LA 8 AM (Vital Theatre), Tara, A Small Family Business (Theatre Group, Mumbai), Insomnia (The Edge + Royal Court). Film: Gitanjali, Split Wide Open. Television: Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Chand Sitare. MFA University of Iowa..

Haley Channing is a graduate of NYU's TSOA. She studied at Stella Adler, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London, and recently finished a Collaboration class with Anne Bogart through the Columbia Graduate Program. Recently she played Cleonice in Lysistrata at The Culture Project. Favorite roles include Caesar (Antony & Cleopatra), and Madame Tourvel (Dangerous Liasons).

Emma Gochberg is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Her past collaborations with the IPTC include Imperfect People and A Light Behind the Curtain. Past favorite roles include A (Three Tall Women), Mary Shelley (Bloody Poetry), and Helena (A Midsummer Night's Dream).

Emily Hagburg attended the University of Colorado at Boulder where she studied Theatre Performance and English Literature. Recent roles include Charlotte Corday in the American premiere of The Dance of Angels Who Burn Their Own Wings, Anya in The Cherry Orchard, and Bianca in The Colorado Shakespeare Festival's The Taming of the Shrew.

Adam David Jones, armed with a fresh BA in Theater Arts from NYU's TSOA, made his arrival in the New York theater world with A Light Behind the Curtain. He has performaed in numerous shows at Tisch and is looking to share his talent with the rest of the Big Apple. When his time and opportunity meet, you meet also catch him in some of his thought-provoking performance art.

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Daniel Kipler is a graduate of the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in NYC. He has appeared in A Quiet Homily and A Light Behind the Curtain with the IPTC. He also appeared at ManhattanTheatreSource in The Professor's Daughter by Benjamin Kessler. Recently, he worked on the short film "I Dream in Color."

Eileen Little is a 2003 graduate of The Maggie Flanigan Studio and is currently attending The National Theater Conservatory in Denver, Colorado.

Scott David Nogi performed in the original IPTC production of Imperfect People (Nick) and co-produced and acted in the reading of Mamma's Boy. He also worked with Michael Edison Hayden on his short play, Affection. He originated the role of Sebastion in Godot Has Left The Building at the Lex Theater in Hollywood. Scott has performed in many Off- and Off-Off-Broadway venues, as well as starred in a national tour of The Giver. He has performed in many productions from Shakespeare and Chekhov to Stoppard and Mamet to contemporary original playwrights' first draft readings. All of his roles are his favorite at the time, and then he discards them like Kleenex. He has studied at the Atlantic Theater Company and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. He holds a B.F.A. from NYU.

Meghan Reilly has performed with the IPTC in Here Come the New Romantics.... and A Light Behind the Curtain. Meghan studied at Rutgers University and the London Academy of Theatre. After starring in Wolfgang Pictures' Rabbit in summer 2003, she completed her second film with Wolfgang entitled What I Want and shot a third in July 2004. She also performed in Provincetown Player and a reading of O'Neill's Now I Ask You with Phyllis Newman and David Margulies (Playwrights Theatre of New York). Favorite roles include Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Biggs Rosatti), The Young Woman in Machinal, Celia in As You Like It (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), Allison in Vinegar Tom, and Viola in Twelfth Night.

Brian Sacca graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2001. Since then, he has been involved in many plays but his focus has been on comedy. Now one half of the comedy duo "Pete and Brian," Sacca has been performing all over the city making an ass of himself for laughter. Finally, he is especially excited about his first book "What Would Judas Do?" coming soon to bookstores everywhere.

Hondo Weiss-Richmond is a 2001 graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts Undergraduate Drama program, where he studied at Playwright's Horizons, RADA, and ETW. He lives and works in New York and elsewhere as an actor and carpenter. Hondo originated the roles of the Male Supervisor in A Quiet Homily and Conrad in A Light Behind the Curtain. He was also seen from July through January 2003 performing scripted and improvised interactive physical comedy aboard Royal Caribbean's new "Navigator of the Seas" cruise ship.

Gretchen Witt was born in the backseat of a car on a small island in the South Pacific where she was first introduced to the art of acting by her tribal elders; a pack of wild dogs. But in her other life, she was last seen in the infamous production of Ars Chronican Sylvestre (Theater for the New City) and Red Death (The Ohio Theatre.) She is also pursuing a burgeoning career in singing/songwriting. B.F.A. NYU Tisch Drama.

Production Staff

Erica Abrams-Morley is a 2001 graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She has worked as a producer on several productions including Enter Pissaro (Valhalla Theater Co.), Man in the Basement (Simple Minded Productions), and Space...Gravity Is With Me (SMP - Philadelphia Fringe Festival). She is currently working as an assistant to the Company Manager at New York City Ballet.

Amanda J. Crater is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied in the Technical Production Track. Past stage management credits include A Quiet Homily (Imperfect People), Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde (NYU Mainstage) and Equus (UrbanStages/ PHTS). Past assistant director credits include The Highwayman (dir: Aaron Landsman, 13 Playwrights), Othello (dir: Cindy Fulchino, p.i.e.) and Family Establishment (dir: Aaron Landsman, Dixon Place). She has also worked for The Wooster Group, Science Project and North Shore Music Theatre. She gives many thanks to her parents for their unending support.

Matthew Ezold is a designer for Auerbach - Pollock - Friedlander working on sound reinforcement, video and communication systems. Recent projects include Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity at the NYNY hotel and a production in progress at the MGM Grand LV, as well as a number of performing arts centers, concert halls, and education facilities. Matthew is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Theater and a concentration in theatrical systems design.

Ben Fox has designed lights for many productions around New York City. He has worked with the IPTC on A Quiet Homily and A Light Behind the Curtain.

Jessie Gallogly is an IPTC veteran, having designed costumes for Imperfect People, A Quiet Homily, and A Light Behind the Curtain as well as sets for A Quiet Homily. In addition to designing, Jessie is a director, stage manager, and producer. Recent credits include The Sloogy Dog, Pippin, Hotel Bar, Family Car, Godot Has Left the Building, and The Dumb Waiter. A graduate of Playwrights Horizons Theater School at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Jessie is an Artist in Residence at The DeBaun Center for the Performing Arts in Hoboken, NJ and founder/artistic director of Fairytale Theater of New York, a movement based storytelling ensemble.

Benjamin Kessler is a Brooklyn-based playwright. His plays include The Professor's Daughter and Luv 2 H8 U. Forthcoming is The Ambivalent Participant. He is also the author of Defend Your Lover.