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Company Members  Shoshona CurrierShoshona Currier is a New York based theater artist. She is the Artistic Director of The Shalimar. Selected directing credits: Hamlet at the Interart Annex, Les Carabiniers by Kirk Lynn, off season by Michael John Garcés, Skirt by Katie Douglas, The Rich Silk of It by Deb Margolin, Lysistrata at Kings County Shakespeare Company, Jelly Love and Peanut Butter by Saviana Stanescu, Waiting for Godot at the Gene Frankel, FED: or Domestic Claims of Passion and Devouring at the Culture Project, stirring (writer and director) at The New York Fringe Festival, 59e59, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son (writer and director) at the New York Fringe Festival, 59e59, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and Performance Space 122. Shoshona has produced work by Deb Margolin, Adam Rapp, Elizabeth Wong, and Cheryl Davis. She has been fortunate enough to perform with the Living Theatre under the direction of Judith Malina. She has assisted Richard Maxwell on End of Reality (The Kitchen) and Ode to the Man Who Kneels (The Performing Garage) and Marc Masterson on Limonade Tous Les Jours by Chuck Mee (Humana Fest, ATL). She is the previous Literary Associate at New York Theatre Workshop and has served on the reading committee for the Young Playwrights National Playwriting Competition, the Estrogenius Festival, the Van Lier Fellowship, and the Stanley Drama Award. Shoshona is the recipient of the Joan Kersner Memorial Fellowship for Theatre Artists and she is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She is the Artistic Associate at Performance Space 122 and is currently a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.  Kim GainerKim played Phaedra in LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F%#! My Son in the New York International Fringe Festival and was part of the cast of stirring in the New York International Fringe Festival and the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. New York work includes (Gone With) Miss Julie at the Midtown International Fringe Festival, New Day at Theatre for the New City, and Verona Wall with Yolo Theatre Company. She has been seen Off-Broadway in productions such as The Tongues Reading Series at the Cherry Lane Theatre, Before Death Comes for the Archbishop at Women’s Project and Productions, and Indent at New York Theater Workshop. Regional credits include the Play by Plays at Stageworks on the Hudson and From the Mississippi Delta at Stamford Theatre Works (she received a Connecticut Critics’ Circle award for her ensemble work in the production). Kim originated the role of Eurydice in Polaroid Stories (dir. Jon Jory) in its premiere in the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Her one-woman piece, Urban Planning also debuted there. Other regional work includes Miss Julie with the SITI Company, directed by Anne Bogart. Kim is currently developing a one-woman show based on the childhood misadventures of her mother and her mother’s eight siblings. She studied theatre at the University of Michigan.  Jen Taher Prior to moving to New York she completed an apprenticeship at the prestigious Actors Theatre of Louisville (ATL). While at ATL she was cast in the Humana Festival in the SITI Company’s production of Charles Mee’s bobrauschenbergamerica, directed by Anne Bogart. She went on to tour bobrauschenbergamerica with the SITI Company all over the United States and the world. She recently performed at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Theater Biennale in Bonn, Germany and at the Festival International de Bobigny in Paris, France. Recently Jen performed in New York at Manhattan Theatre Source at their annual Estrogenius Festival. She was in LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son, and stirring at One Arm Red, the New York International Fringe Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival all with The Shalimar. She has appeared in two short films, both directed by Joshua Grennal and distributed by Backlash Productions. Both films were seen at numerous film festivals, including the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.  Joey Williamson Joey began his journey toward The Shalimar in Jacksonville FL, as a harp player studying music at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. After completing his Bachelors of Music at the University of Miami, he went on to an apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he met his Shalimar cohorts. NYC: LA FEMME EST MORTE or Why I Should Not F%!# My Son, (New York International Fringe Festival); stirring (59E59); off season by Michael John Garcés (West End Theatre) and World Aids Day Concerts of The Secret Garden and Rags. International: stirring (Smirnoff Underbelly, Edinburgh Scotland). Regional: Wit, Amadeus (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Daughter of the Regiment (Kentucky Opera); Gypsy (Stages St. Louis) Damn Yankees, Sweet Charity, H.M.S. Pinafore, Street Scene (Seaside Music Theatre) as well as premieres of Quake, by Melanie Marnich, F.E.T.C.H., Alice Tuan’s installment of Virtual Hypertext Theatre, Mac Wellman’s Description Beggared or The Allegory of WHITENESS, and Heaven and Hell (on Earth): A Divine Comedy (all Humana Festival of New American Plays). Joey also spent a year performing while traveling throughout Europe, Africa, South America, and Antarctica with Paramount Productions. |
