The Lost Plays Podcast

The Princess and the Black Eyed Pea (New York Theatre Workshop); The Full Monty (Paper Mill Playhouse); Funkentine Rapture (The Triad); The Buccaneer reading (New Dramatists); All Shook Up and Barnum (Surflight Theater); Ripfest (Film Marathon); Dreamgirls, The Wiz, Raisin, Home: The Musical, Damn Yankees, and Godspell (St. Louis Black Repertory Company); Black Nativity (Goodman Theatre/Congo Square Theatre Company); Nuncrackers: The Nunsense Christmas musical and 1940s Radio Hour (Old Creamery Theatre); Showboat (MUNY); Fame: The Musical (European production).

Regional: Sleuth, Around the World in 80 Days (Nominee: Best Lead Actor, NH Theater Awards) (Winni Playhouse), The Night of Nosferatu (Rabbit Hole Ensemble/Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater). New York: The Patron Saint of Plants (Ensemble Studio Theater), Ramona's Kidnapper (Urban Stages), The Good Negro (Lark Theater), The Life and Death of Joshua Zweig (Looking Glass Forum), Tickets, Please! (Algonquin Theater Productions), White Paper (Kraine Theater), Journey of the Fifth Horse (Ward Studio). With Rabbit Hole Ensemble: Shadow of Himself, Big Thick Rod (FringeNYC/Access Theater Spotlight Series), Nosferatu: The Morning of My Death (MITF Award Nominee: Best Ensemble). Film: "Life Passion Death" (New York International Film and Video Festival), "Never Say Jesus," "Substandard," "Star Crossed Lovers," "The Mark." Resident Artist with Rabbit Hole Ensemble. www.mattwcody.com

Paul L. Coffey has appeared with various New York and regional theaters including Fiasco Theater, The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, HERE, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Mint Theater Co., Aquila Theatre Co., Trinity Repertory Co., Pig Iron Theatre Co., The Vineyard Playhouse, The Theater at Monmouth, The Peterborough Players and The Berkshire Theatre Festival. Paul received his M.F.A. in acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium where he was a Stephen Sondheim Fellow.

Kate MacCluggage- Kate is currently playing Annabella/Margaret/Pamela in The 39 Steps directed by Maria Aitken Off-Broadway at New World Stages. New York: Margaritah in Stuck (Theatre Row); Olga in Three Sisters (The Assembly Theater Project); The Farnsworth Invention (Broadway); King Lear (NY Classical Theater); Evanston, A Rare Comedy (Wolf 358/ HERE Arts Center); Victoria and Frederick for President (NYCFringe/ MOSON). Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival); The Importance of Being Earnest (Portland Center Stage); Noises Off (Denver Center); Twelfth Night and The Cherry Orchard (Chautauqua Theater Company). She originated the role of Honey Graham in the world premiere of Down Goes Rocky. Television: All My Children. Film: Natural Causes, I Wish I Could Show You.... She holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from NYU's Graduate Acting Program.

Andy has toured nationally with the Guthrie Theater and the Acting Company (Henry V/The Spy, dir. Davis McCallum) and internationally with the Glass Contraption. Other credits include Lucy Thurber's Monstrosity (13P, dir. Lear deBessonet),The Scariest (The Exchange, dirs. Ari Edelson/Meredith McDonough), The Glass Contraption's The Amazing Ted Show! (Ars Nova), Clowns. (The Public/NY Clown Festival, dir. Christopher Bayes), Don Cristobal, Billy Club Man (St. Ann's Warehouse, Here, dir. Erin Orr), Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ (Women's Project), Cymbeline and Twelfth Night (Fiasco Theatre). Regional credits include the Guthrie, Arizona Theatre Company, and Trinity Rep. (Moliere Impromptu, dir. Christopher Bayes). Andy is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep. Consortium (MFA). He is currently apprenticed to Christopher Bayes studying the Clown, and he's from Iowa.

Brian Wallace recently portrayed Gooper in the sold-out run of Cat on A Hot Tin Roof at Arkansas Rep, and was part of the original cast of the Pulitzer-nominated hit The Good Negro at the Public Theater and Dallas Theater Center, as well as Jonathan Leaf's The Caterers, a part for which he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award. Regional credits include productions at Capital Repertory Theater, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Lake George Dinner Theater, Stamford Center for the Arts, Verse Theater Manhattan, and Trinity Rep. A generous tipper, attentive lover, and frequent litterbug, Brian is also the co-creator of LostPlays.com along with I.B. White. Website: www.bri-curious.com

Nehassaiu deGannes recently made the move south from Providence to Harlem. Her acting credits include Trinity Rep (Catherine, Proof; Gladys, Skin Of Our Teeth; Rose Rose, Cider House Rules; Lisa Body, Preface To An Alien Garden), Theatre of The Two-Headed Calf (Dinah, The Cataract; Roberta Charles, Room For Cream at LaMaMa ETC), Cynthia Oliver & Co.'s Rigidigidim DeBamba De (national tour), The GAMM, Providence Black Rep, Shakespeare & Co. and The 52nd Street Project. Also a poet, Nehassaiu has been awarded the 2009 Inaugural Cave Canem Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, a RISCA Poetry Fellowship and The Philbrick Prize. She has her MFA from Brown University and is a graduate of Trinity Rep Conservatory.

Since moving to New York, Raniah has worked on a number of classics (and adaptations) including Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Agamemnon (Vortex Theater Co) and A Midsommer Night's Dreame (New England Shakespeare Festival). In 2007, Raniah became a member of the resident acting company 'The Bats' at The Flea theatre, performing in Offending the Audience, dir. Jim Simpson, and The Flea co-production EndoftheWorld Lovesong, as well as numerous readings. Most recently, Raniah has enjoyed a summer of theatre in New Hampshire with The Peterborough Players and readings with The New Group, Three Graces Theater and Readings Upstairs at Ryan's Daughter.

I.B. White appears occasionally in the long-running off-Broadway show My First Time. He was recently seen in the award-winning short film "Numskull", featured during the series premiere of NBC's Knight Rider. Ian played Tim in the West Coast leg of the Old Globe/Roundabout coproduction of Greg Kotis' Pig Farm, and has performed in readings and workshops at the Public Theater, the Huntington Theater, Soho Rep, New Georges, and the Lark Play Development Center. He is an MFA graduate of the Brown/Trinity Consortium.

Vince just finished playing Lysander in North Carolina Shakespeare Festival's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. New York credits include King Lear, Henry Gabler, Other Bodies, Phallacy, Merchant Of Venice, Jew of Malta, and All's Well That Ends Well. He has performed regionally at North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, PlayMakers Repertory Company, and Cincinnatti Playhouse In The Park. He performed Merchant Of Venice, along with F. Murray Abraham, at the Royal Shakespeare Company in their 2006 Complete Works Season. He holds an MFA in acting from the National Theatre Conservatory. He is a member of Actor's Equity.