Three Sisters

MADELINE GEORGE (she/her) (TRANSLATOR) has been the Mellon Playwright-in-Residence at Two River Theater since 2016.  Two River produced the world premiere of two of her plays, Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (2011, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll), and Hurricane Diane (2017, directed by Leigh Silverman).  Hurricane Diane went on to an Off-Broadway run at New York Theatre Workshop, where it won two Obie Awards, one for playwriting and one for Mia Barron’s performance as antihero Carol Fleischer.  Madeleine’s other plays include The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Precious Little, and The Zero Hour.  Her honors include a Princess Grace Award, a Lilly Award, and a Whiting Award for Drama.  Madeleine is a founding member of the Obie-Award-winning playwrights’ collective 13P, a writer on the Hulu mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building, and the Director of Admissions for the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College.  Beginning in junior high, Madeleine studied Russian in Jude Wobst’s renowned Russian program at Amherst Regional High School, and went on to study the language with the innovative instructors of the Russian program at Cornell University, led by Slava Papierno.  She participated in a high-school exchange program in the USSR, taught “business English” to aspiring emigrants in Moscow in the early days of the Russian Federation, and once took the trans-Siberian railroad from Moscow to Beijing.  This is her first work of translation.

SARA HOLDREN (she/her) (DIRECTOR) is a director, teacher, and writer-about-theater, originally from the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia. She is the co-founder of the theater company/project Tiltyard, and in 2019-2020, she served as the Artistic Director of Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford. From 2017-2019 she was the theater critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com. Sara is also the recipient of the 2016-2017 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for her essay “The Revolution Will Not Be Hashtagged.” During the pandemic, she has directed As You Like It at SUNY Purchase and a reading of Erin Shields’s Paradise Lost for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. She has also ridden her bike 4,000 miles across the U.S. with her partner, Beau, a writer. Pre-pandemic directing projects include Twelfth Night at Two River Theater; The Merchant of Venice with the Cleveland Play House/CWRU MFA Acting Program; The Winter’s Tale with Shakespeare Academy @ Stratford; Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors with Two River Theater’s A Little Shakespeare program; MIDSUMMER (which she co-adapted from the plays of William Shakespeare) with Tiltyard; Deer and the Lovers by Emily Zemba; The Zero Scenario by Ryan Campbell; and The Master and Margarita, adapted by Edward Kemp from the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. Sara has also served as the Artistic Director of the Yale Summer Cabaret, where she directed the original production of MIDSUMMER and Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. She is a Drama League Fellow and a graduate of the Acting Shakespeare program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She has also taught acting and directing at Primary Stages’ Einhorn School of the Performing Arts and at the New School’s MFA Acting program. She holds a BA in Theater from Yale University and an MFA in Directing from Yale School of Drama. She loves E. M. Forster and George Eliot, the Decemberists and David Bowie, bears, bicycles, bandanas, and other things that do and don’t start with B. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with Beau and their cat friends, Henry and Masha (who always wears black).

EMMA DEANE (she/her) (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is an Indigenous lighting designer based out of NYC and a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. Recent credits include In the Southern Breeze (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theatre), and Jeremy O. Harris’ YELL: A “DOCUMENTARY” OF MY TIME HERE. Other credits include Reykjavík, Trouble in Mind, shakespeare’s as u like it and Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama); Little Boy/Little Man, Burn Book, The Light Fantastic, This Sweet Affliction, Mud, The Guadalupes, WOLF/ALICE and Camille: A Tearjerker (Yale Cabaret); Tiny Beautiful Things (TheatreSquared); The Adventures of Robin Hood, Pinocchio: A Folk Musical & Fog Island (Filament Theatre); The Amish Project, Still (Interrobang Theatre Project); Hitler on the Roof, Hand in Hand & Nothing of Me (Akvavit Theatre); Scarcity, The Seedbed (Redtwist Theatre); The Woman in Black (Wildclaw); Buddy Cop 2 (Pavement Group); and associate lighting design on Dreaming Zenzile (St. Louis Rep); and The Nutcracker (The House Theater). Additional credits include work with The Fisher Center at Bard, Court Theatre, The Goodman, Albany Park Theater Project, Steppenwolf Theater Company, Northlight Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Victory Gardens, Shakespeare Academy at Stratford, The Actors Gymnasium, and The Gannon Center for Women and Leadership. She holds a MFA in Stage Design from Yale School of Drama. emmadeane.com

Caitlin Smith Rapoport A Brooklyn-based lighting designer for theater, opera, dance, live entertainment and architectural projects. Recent New York credits include productions at Theatre Row, Soho Rep. Walkerspace, Ars Nova, The New Ohio Theatre, Judson Church, Columbia University Theatre, and many others. Select US and international projects include work at REDCAT, Yale Repertory Theatre, TheatreSquared, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Stonybrook Opera, Two River Theater: A Little Shakespeare, the Vancouver Fringe Festival, on tour in the US with Nimble Arts Circus, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, and internationally with Wakka Wakka Theater and Cirkus Xanti. Recent associate design credits include projects for the Park Avenue Armory, and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway. Caitlin holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and a BA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. To learn more about Caitlin’s work and upcoming projects visit caitlinsmithrapoport.com.

CHLOE TREAT (CHOREOGRAPHER) Bio coming soon!

DANIEL SCHLOSBERG (LIVE MUSIC ARRANGER) is a Brooklyn-based composer-pianist. Daniel Schlosberg’s music has been performed by the Dover Quartet, Minnesota Orchestra, Choir of Trinity Wall Street, and Lorelei Ensemble, at venues including Carnegie Hall, (le) poisson rouge, and David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption. Daniel received the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and two ASCAP Morton Gould Awards. In May 2021, Daniel’s new opera, The Extinctionist, was presented at PS21 Chatham in advance of the world premiere by Heartbeat Opera in 2023. Current projects include composition and music direction for Jeremy O. Harris’s A Boy’s Company Presents, music direction and arrangements for Quando, a short operatic film co-produced by Long Beach Opera and Heartbeat Opera, and associate music direction and arrangements for Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond’s Only an Octave Apart at St. Ann’s Warehouse (he will also be performing with the New York Philharmonic when the show is revived in January 2022). As a performer, Daniel has collaborated with Angel Blue, David Shifrin, and the Imani Winds, and was the pianist for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. Daniel is Co-Music Director of Heartbeat Opera, for which is re-orchestrations of classic operas have garnered national acclaim. His work has been described as “richly detailed yet delicate” (New York Times) and “ingenious” (Wall Street Journal). www.danschlosberg.com

JEAN KIM (SCENIC DESIGNER) Bio coming soon!

FABIAN FIDEL AGUILAR (he/him) (COSTUME DESIGNER) attended Yale School of Drama (MFA) and Boston University (BFA) to pursue theatrical costume design. Credits include Twelfth Night (Two River Theater), Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Max Makes a Million, Winnie the Pooh (Alliance Theater), Slow Food (Dorset Theater Festival), Afterglow, Safeword (Midnight Theatricals), Recent Alien Abductions (Play Co.), Mlima’s Tale, In the Heights, Man of La Mancha, Romeo and Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse), ¡Bienvenidos Blancos! or Welcome White People! (Team Sunshine, Philadelphia), A View from the Bridge, Seven Spots on the Sun. Set and costumes for The War Boys (NYC), Sotto Voce (Portland Stage), Midsummer, The Moors (Yale Repertory Theater world premier, He Left Quietly (SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto). In his spare time, Fabian likes to paint watercolors.

KATE MARVIN (she/her) (SOUND DESIGNER) Kate Marvin is a New York based sound designer, composer, and musician for theater, film, puppetry, and podcasts. She specializes in making music using found sounds and everyday objects. Recent work: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Lucille Lortel Theatre), Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop), Big Trip (La Mama/Krymov Lab NYC), Wolf Play (Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Sound Design – MCC/Soho Rep/Ma-Yi), Bulrusher (McCarter/Berkeley Rep), the best we could [a family tragedy] (Manhattan Theatre Club), Vanessa in Bed (Audible), Three Sisters (Two River Theater), Fidelio (Heartbeat Opera), Blood Meal (Theater in Quarantine), Wives (Playwrights Horizons), [PORTO] (WP Theater/Bushwick Starr/New Georges), Chimpanzee (HERE/Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes/The Barbican), The Memory Trade (Handmade Puppet Dreams). Associate Artist – Target Margin Theater. MFA Yale School of Drama. katemarvinsound.com [katemarvinsound.com] 

Caroline Eng (she/her) (SOUND DESIGNER) is a sound designer and podcast engineer based in New York. Selected Sound Design credits: The Late Wedding (Brown University/Trinity Rep), The Moors (Greater Boston Stage Company), Measure For Measure (Theatreworks, UCCS), The Broken Machine (American Academy for the Dramatic Arts) Selected Assistant Design credits: Bring Down The House (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre For A New Audience) Selected Training: Fordham College At Lincoln Center (NY). Connect at carolineengdesign.com

CARISSA THORLAKSON (she/her/they/them) (WIG DESIGNER) is a New Jersey-based wig and makeup designer. Off-Broadway: Grand Hotel and Little Rock. She has also designed for The Old Globe, A.R.T., McCarter Theatre Center, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Hudson Stage Company, Temple University, Olney Theatre Center, the University of Delaware Resident Ensemble Players, The Princeton Festival, and American Repertory Ballet. She has served as a wig and makeup artist at Santa Fe Opera, Sarasota Opera, The Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, and Round House Theatre. Carissa also creates custom medical wigs, cosplay wigs, and teaches classes in wigs and makeup. You can find her at cthorwigs.com and @wigician.

NICK LEHANE (he/him) (PUPPET DESIGNER) is a theater maker and puppet artist based in Brooklyn NY. Select original work: Chimpanzee (Premiere: HERE/Dream Music; Touring: The World Puppet Theater Festival in Charleville-Mézières, France, Casteliers in Montreal, The London International Mime Festival at The Barbican Centre); Fly Away (co-created with Derek Fordjour, Petzel Gallery). Select puppet design: PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Tale of Despereaux (Old Globe, Berkeley Rep) and The Phantom Folktales (Virgin Atlantic). Select puppeteer credits: Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store (Times Square Art Alliance) and The Pigeoning (HERE); Petrushka (Giants Are Small, NY Philharmonic, Barbican Centre); Doug Fitch’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro (American Symphony Orchestra, Bard SummerScape); Little Red Fish (NYC Children’s Theater/Puppet Kitchen); Pip’s Island; James Ortiz’s The Little Mermaid; “Lore” (Amazon). Select acting: This Is Our Youth (Broadway); The Old Man and the Old Moon (PigPen); Fidelis (The Public); The Electric Baby (Two River); Set in the Living Room… (Theater Reconstruction Ensemble). Nick studied at the Moscow Art Theatre School and received his BFA from The Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

EMMA WISEMAN (she/her) (PUPPET DESIGNER) makes puppet shows and other things. She has been a resident artist with Mabou Mines and the St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab, and her original and collaborative works of performance have been seen at venues in NYC, Chicago, and New York State. Emma and playwright Emily Zemba recently produced, directed, and starred in a short film adaptation of their office supply puppet piece Out Of Office, which was an official selection of the Chattanooga Film Festival in 2021. Emma served as lead puppeteer for “Animated Life”, a New York Times Op-Doc series created by Sweet Fern Productions, which was nominated for an Emmy in 2016. Emma has toured internationally as a puppeteer with Robin Frohardt’s The Pigeoning and Nick Lehane’s Chimpanzee, and premiered Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store in New York’s Times Square. emmawiseman.me.

COLT LUEDTKE (he/him) (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) Off-Broadway: Sunday (Atlantic Theater Company), What the Constitution Means to Me (New York Theatre Workshop), The Visitor (The Public Theater), Harry Townsend’s Last Stand (New York City Center Stage II). Regional: Bliss (5th Avenue Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline, Twelfth Night (The Illinois Shakespeare Festival). Colt is excited to return to Two River, having spent the 2017-2018 season in the junior staff program (A Raisin in the Sun, The Importance of Being Earnest, El Coqui Espectacular…,The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Dancing at Lughnasa.) Colt is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

MANDY SCOTT (she/her) (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) is overjoyed to be working at Two River Theater! Broadway: Diana. National Tours: Mean Girls, Miss Saigon, A Bronx Tale, The King and I. Off-Broadway: Audible Theater (Proof Of Love) The New Group (Good for Otto, Peace for Mary Frances, Downtown Race Riot, The Whirligig, The Sensuality Party, and Buried Child). Endless thanks to my family and friends for all the love and support.

CHA RAMOS (she/ella) (INTIMACY CONSULTANT) is a bilingual, multidisciplinary theatre artist with a metric montón of books, swords, and altars in her NYC apartment. As an artist, Cha is invested in telling underrepresented stories with a focus on the power of movement, and inviting fellow artists into deep self-listening, consensual collaboration, and practiced autonomy. Current projects include: associate intimacy direction for Company and Jagged Little Pill on Broadway, dramaturgy for a new queer adaptation of Anna Karenina, performing with the Vixens en Garde, teaching and developing curriculum with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, and ongoing workshops of her own original plays Fire Burn Them and Like to the Gods. More info at www.CallMeCha.com.