BLAIR SIMMONS created, produced and performed in the original run of Staging Wittgenstein. This piece was the culminations of her NYU Dramatic Literature degree. It was funded by the DURF Research Grant and was presented upon at the 2016 Undergraduate Research Conference as an exploration of physical language. She is now continuing to make theater while working in IT as a 3D printing specialist.

NIKITA LEBEDEV Senior at NYU studying playwriting. Author of two plays in Russian: Berlin Pastries (Berlinskie Pirozhnie) and Lispe the Pervert”(Izvrashenets Lispe); and two plays in English: Group Protagonist. Latent Apology of Hypocrisy and The Human, The Person, The Wall. Screenwriter for No One Dies in the Morning, winner or Wimbledon Shorts and Willimsburg International Film Festival as best foreign picture. Creator and performer of the original Staging Wittgenstein.   

ANNIE HÄGG Theatre: The Square Root of Three Sisters (World Premiere, International Festival of Arts and Ideas), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Repertory Theatre), Dancing at Lughnasa (Irish Repertory Theatre), Boeing-Boeing (New Harmony Theatre), The Most Happy Fella (The Acorn, Theatre Row). Yale School of Drama: Othello, Women Beware Women, Don Juan, Paradise Lost, Best Lesbian Erotica 1995, Preston Montfort–An American Tragedy, THUNDERBODIES!, This Flat Earth. Film: Virgin Margaret (post-production) and Tomorrow (2016) with Stephen Fry and Joss Stone, Exec. Producer Martin Scorsese. BA International History, London School of Economics and Political Science. MFA Acting, Yale School of Drama ‘2016.    

Nathalie Ellis-Einhorn is an actor/theatre maker from Hong Kong who graduated from Princeton in 2016, where she performed in productions like Disco Pigs, Macbeth, and Red Noses. She wrote and performed I.M. LOST! as her thesis at Princeton, and received prizes for her work on the piece from the English, Theatre and Gender Studies departments. She has studied clown with Christopher Bayes, Daniel Stein, Mick Barnfather, Gabriel Levey and Catherine Mueller Melwani. Princeton also brought her back this fall to teach a clown workshop in the University Chapel and to spearhead an ongoing series of workshops on clown. Clowns, muppets and drag queens make her a happy girl.

Kat Yen is the Co-Artistic Director of Spookfish Theatre Company and the 2016-2017 Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theatre. She has directed and set-designed at NYTW, New Group, EST, Signature Theatre, New Ohio, INTAR, Harvard/A.R.T., The Flea, Wild Project, HERE Arts, Atlantic Stage 2, Primary Stages, Poetic Theater Productions, Rising Circle, Yangtze Repertory, LAByrinth Theater, Horse Trade, Theater for the New City, C.O.W., American Theatre of Actors, Theaterlab, Gene Frankel, June Havoc, Columbia University, and N.Y.U. She’s currently a part of the New Georges Jam, is an alumnus of Lincoln Center Directors Lab and a former Resident Director at The Flea Theater. www.katyen.com

Artem Kreimer likes jokes, riddles, and puns. As an impressionable child,  he was not scared by clowns. But then again, he had a magician at his Bar Mitzvah, not a clown. Prior theater includes Adam Rapp’s Wolf in the River (The Flea), Usual Girls also directed by Kat (Signature), Three Sisters (Columbia), Ariadne on the Island (Cutout Theatre), Wrinkle and Wicked Clone(EST/Youngblood), A Doll’s House directed by Sam Gold (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and lots as a member of The Bats (The Flea). He starred in the pilot for “Bagboy”. Other aspirations include tax preparation for artists and owning a giant dog. – www.artemkreimer.com