Meet the Company

STEPHEN KALISKI is a director, playwright, and educator. He was recently the Resident Director of Broadway's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, directed by Jack O'Brien. Other directing credits include Gluten! ​(59E59), Dead Shot Mary, Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and In the Next Room or the vibrator play (Yale Dramatic Association), Vinegar Tom (Manhattanville College), The Minervae (On the Square; Backstage “Critic’s Pick”), This (Proprietors Theatre Company) Cardenio, The Violet Hour and The Dumb Waiter (Brooklyn College), West Lethargy (59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, New York Fringe), and His Minute Hand (Hollywood Fringe, 45 Bleecker). Playwriting credits include West Lethargy, which was published in Plays and Playwrights 2011 (ed. Martin Denton), His Minute Hand, Any May Now, and The Briefly Dead, a sequel to Euripides’ Alcestis. He has worked with such directors as Austin Pendleton (Three Sisters, Assistant Director) and Michael Grandage (Evita on Broadway, SDC Traube Fellow) as well as with The Royal Shakespeare Company, Classic Stage Company, and LAByrinth Theater Company. Stephen received his BA in English from Davidson College and his MFA in directing from Brooklyn College. He’s taught acting, directing, public speaking, and master classes on leadership and joy at Fordham, Brooklyn College, NYU, LIU Post, Yale, The Professional Performing Arts School, Talent Unlimited High School, and BMCC. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Davidson College. www.stephenkaliski.com.

MAGGIE LOW has been a New York actor for over thirty years working Off-Broadway, regionally, in independent films, television and radio. She has originated roles in Catholic School Girls, Candle in the Window, Times of War, The Big Vig, Venus' Diary and Kerry and Angie. She played Grace in Pterodactyls with Adjusted Realists. Recently she acted in and directed TITANS a new web-series. Feature films and television include: The Cold Lands, Postcards from America, Deborah Sampson, and a guest lead on Law & Order. Maggie currently teaches at Maggie Low Studio and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts; curates Play with Your Dinner at Coogan’s, and is a Lifetime Member of the Actors Studio.

ROGER MANIX Acting Credits: Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo); The Seagull (dir. Obie-winner Mary Robinson); The Comedy of Errors (dir. Ray Virta); les Liaisons Dangereuses (dir. Langdon Brown); This (dir. Stephen Kaliski); Macbeth (dir. Michael Kier); As You Like It (dir. Ken Bush) Rhinoceros (dir. Michele Chivu); Salome, Unidentified Human Remains, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Scary Stories, Overheard (dir. Russell Dobular); Take Me Out, The Rimers of Eldrich (dir. Rose Bonczek). Readings: Tropical Family (dir. Rob Urbinati, The New Group) and The Hot Month (Boomerang Theatre Company). TV Credits: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Straight Plan for the Gay Man, The Conan O'Brien Show, The Dana Carvey Show, and the upcoming final season of HBO's True Blood.  Roger is the owner of Brooklyn Training Ground, a studio dedicated to the work of Sanford Meisner. MFA, Acting, Brooklyn College. brooklyntrainingground.com.

MATT MASTROMATTEO is an actor, educator, and producer. He received his BA in Theatre and Music from Mount St. Mary’s University and his MFA in Theatre Arts: Acting from Long Island University: C.W. Post. Favorite credits include: As You Like It  [PostGrad Theatre Co.], Othello [PostGrad Theatre Co.], Memoriam [FringeNYC], and West Side Story [Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre]. As co-founder of Hypnic Theatre Company, he's produced Memoriam: After Euripides Alcestis at FringeNYC 2016. Matt teaches theatre courses at Long Island University - C.W Post. www.mattmastromatteo.com

JEREMIAH MAESTAS: Broadway: Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater). Off/Off Broadway: Gluten! (59E59), Pterodactyls (Teatro Circulo); Questa (Wings Theatre Co.), The Minervae (OTSP), A Lesson in Art (Artful Conspirators). Regional and other credits: Earthquake Sun (San Diego Rep.); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (The Warner); The Elephant Man, Suddenly Last Summer, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Shape of Things (TheatreWorks); Love! Valour! Compassion! (Diversionary); Jesus Hopped the “A” Train (LPT); Macbeth (Sledgehammer); Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Aspen). Film: The Canvasser, Jukka, The Tea Party. TV: “The Following”, “Madam Secretary”, “The Mysteries of Laura”, "Person of Interest". Education: MFA, Brooklyn College; BA, Univ. of San Diego.  Proud member of AEA. www.jeremiahmaestas.com.

RACHEL McPHEE is an actor and producer and served as the Executive Director of award winning theatre company On the Square Productions from 2008-2013.  She received her BA at the University of Wisconsin and her Post Graduate Degree in Professional Acting from the Drama Studio London. Favorite acting credits include: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Momsters, Boardwalk Empire, Vieux Carre at the Pearl Theater and The Footage at the Flea. Most recently she produced and appeared in Dead Shot Mary, a solo show based on the phenomenal true story of Mary Shanley, one of the first women to be made first grade detective in the NYPD  during the 1930s. www.rachelmcphee.com

ERIC VIGDOROV is a New York-based theatrical producer and manager. Eric received an MFA at Columbia University School of the Arts, studying Theatre Management & Producing. He holds a BFA degree in Acting from Brooklyn College. He is the former Associate Producer at the Barefoot Theatre Company and has worked for both the Commercial and Not-for-Profit theatre. Eric also has substantial financial experience, working on Wall Street for the past 5 years.