Originally from North Dakota, Jenn joined The Looking Glass Theatre in late September 2005 and is thrilled to be a part of the organization. As Managing Director, she manages all functions of LGT spaces and the Looking Glass Theatre as an artistic, creative not-for-profit organization. From the LGT internship program and acting classes to rentals and each season's many productions, Jenn is at the forefront of Looking Glass business.
Also an actress, Jenn can currently be seen in Stone Soup Theatre Arts' The Ghost Dancers at Sanford Meisner Theater, playing May 8-24. Most recently she appeared in Shapeshifter at The Barrow Group Theater, Young Jean Lee's Church at The Public Theater, Always Family at The Kirk Theater on Theatre Row (Small Pond Entertainment), and The House of Blues Leaves, as part of the Midtown International Festival. She was last seen on the Looking Glass stage in LGT's production of Brecht's Baal.Other NYC credits: The Vagina Monologues (Under the Burqa, The Stiletto Project), Helix 999 (The Looking Glass Theatre), Props (Susan, Small Pond-MITF), The Shape of Things (Evelyn, Radburn Players) and the NYC premiere of the one-woman show Red Rose. Other favorite roles include Carrie in Carousel, Abigail in The Crucible and Geri in The Redwood Curtain.
A proud member of "Dorothy Stone & Festive Voices," an NYC-based vocal ensemble dedicated to humanitarian efforts and healing through music, she completed a June 2007 concert tour with the group in Bulgaria. (featured soloist, ensemble).
Jenn also works as a freelance sportswriter and graphic designer.
CONTACT: admin@lookingglasstheatrenyc.com
JENN BOEHM
Managing Director
Elizabeth has been working with The Looking Glass Theatre since January 2005. She started out as an acting intern in the spring of 2005 and became the Intern Supervisor in the fall of 2005. She currently serves as Director of Development.
Elizabeth is also an actress and was most recently seen in Queens Shakespeare Company’s production of Hamlet. She earned a “Best of the Fest” award for Outstanding Lead Actress for her performance of Bunny in The House of Blue Leaves at the Midtown International Theatre Festival. She has also performed with The Looking Glass Theatre in their production of Helix 999 (Walker) and Sonnet Repertory Theatre in their productions of Uncle Vanya (Sonya) and A Winter’s Tale (Emilia/Dorcas). In addition, she has spent two summers touring with the New England Shakespeare Festival, most recently as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For more information, please visit www.elizabethyocam.com.
Elizabeth is a graduate of the Michael Howard Studios' One-Year Conservatory Program and holds a B.A. in Theatre from Connecticut College.
CONTACT: develop@lookingglasstheatrenyc.com
ELIZABETH YOCAM
Director of Development
Erica is the Literary Manager at The Looking Glass Theatre. She reviews all solicited scripts and is the primary contact for our playwrights during the semi-annual Looking Glass Writer/Director Forum.
CONTACT: lgtlit@yahoo.com.
ERICA NILSON
Literary Manager
Ryan Metzler is the Lighting Designer in Residence at the Looking Glass Theatre, where he designs the semi-annual Writer/Director Forums and other Looking Glass productions.
Productions in New York include: Copito, Sex and Sealing Wax, and The Quiet Model (Midtown Festival 2006); Chess (NY Fringe); Odyssey, Baal,Spring’s Awakening, Helix 999, Bug Boy Blues and Creatures of the Cabaret (Looking Glass Theatre); The End of Civilization (Locus Theatre Company); Eight Ways to Meet your Neighbor and Soccer Moms from Hell (The Theatre Studio, Inc.); Stone Cold Dead Serious (Small Pond Entertainment).
RYAN METZLER
Lighting Designer in Residenc
ALIZA SHANE
Artistic Associate, Forum General Coordinator; Director
With the Looking Glass, Aliza began as an AD/SM in the Spring 2005 Forum. She then went on to direct the new works Cancel the Arugula and Aquarium in the next Forums. In last Winter’s Forum, she adapted and directed the award-winning The Misanthrope by Molière. More recently, her adaptation of Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid premiered in the Spring Forum and also won multiple awards from the Looking Glass. She has worked as the Forum General Coordinator since September 2006 and is currently directing a new children's show, The Three Sillies (which she also wrote) at Looking Glass.
Born and raised in New York, Aliza has a BA in Theatre from Queens College. She has worked as a director, stage manager and writer in many different venues since. With Genesis Repertory, she directed Hamlet, The First Quarto and assistant directed both Avenge! The Spanish Tragedy, (Spotlight On Festival) and The Duel, (Samuel French Festival). She co-directed The Bacchae, (Cypreco Theatre Co.) which was performed, among other places, at the Cyprus Consulate and the HBO Summer Stage. She directed the showcase Cabaret: A New World (Towards Truth Prod.) and was the AD/SM for Flyers & Other Tales (Midtown International Theatre Festival). At the Gene Frankel Theatre, she directed The Acoustic Nerve (Groove Mama Ink) and Drum Beat (Ciona Taylor Prod.).
SHARI JOHNSON
Artistic Associate, Acting Instructor
COMING SOON!
KATE MARKS
Artistic Associate, Events Coordinator
Telling stories where anything is possible and everything has meaning.
Kate Marks' directing credits include The Fall and Jack!(Looking Glass Theatre); Nothing of Origins (Studio 42); Reproduction (Riant Theatre); Faith (Broadway Institute); In the Bedroom of Toots and Company (Makor); Selected Poems (Messenger Theatre Company); The Lamp's Lit (Milk Can Theatre); Paint the Wind (ArtsStart); Romeo and Juliet, Lola and the Planet of Glorious Diversity, Decent, and Bumping Umbrellas (Looking Glass Forum). Bumping Umbrellas went on to be produced at Surf Reality, The Riant Theatre, and Don't Tell Mama.
Other favorite directing credits include The Lesson, Aladdin, Peter Pan, I-95 South, and Alice in Wonderland. Kate has been an assistant director at The Paper Mill Playhouse and The Women's Project.
She wrote and directed Odyssey, Ark (both Looking Glass Theatre); I-95 South (The Living Room Series at HERE) and was commissioned to write and direct a bilingual adaptation of The Odyssey for The Baracken Theatre in Germany. She is the writer of Flyers and Other Tales, produced by Heels Hit First Productions in the Midtown International Festival. The evening included three one-act plays: Buried, Flyers, and Converting Numbers. Flyers and Converting Numbers were previously produced in The Looking Glass Forum. She also participated in the Untitled Theatre Company's 24-7 playwriting festival where she wrote The Patriots: a protest play. The Patriots went on to be produced in The Looking Glass Forum.
She has choreographed for BUST: A comedic dance troupe, Two Sides of A Coin Productions, Studio 42 and Cabaret at The Baracken Theatre in Germany.
She currently teaches with Dream Yard, studies dance and clown, and trains with the SITI Company. Kate Marks has also written and directed for the 52nd Street Project and interned at New Dramatists. She is a graduate of Brown University where she received honors in playwriting and studied under Paula Vogel, Nilo Cruz, Charles Mee and Aishah Rahman.
CHARMIAN CREAGLE
Artistic Associate
Charmian Creagle hails from Southern California via Oregon, where she earned her BA from Southern Oregon University in Theatre Arts. Charmian is a former member of the Other Side Theatre and co-founder of defunkt theatre in Portland, Ore.
Ms. Creagle started her own company, Pretention Co. whose inaugural production of the classic Ubu Roi at Chashama was well received. Charmian is very versed in expressionism and absurdism, exploring such plays as Ubu Roi, Machinal and The Trial.
In addition to her class instruction at LGT, she has directed mulitple productions at Looking Glass, Bertolt Brecht's first play Baal, Spring's Awakening, written by Frank Wedekind and adapted by Kenneth Nowell, Communicable Dis-Ease(also created the piece) and Writeer/Director Forums.
New works include 3 Mutants, Random Axe, Land of the Lost, Cex and the Sity and A Game of Pooladapted from the Twilight Zone episode. Dad & Me, a one-woman show she directed, received many accolades and is currently touring.
ROSE GINSBERG
Artistic Associate, Director
Rose Ginsberg is happily continuing her feminist theater streak with Lesbian Bathhouse, following her own adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew (Looking Glass Spring 2007 Forum) and The Vagina Monologues, which performed at the Looking Glass as part of V-Day 2007 (Stiletto Project). At Looking Glass, Rose has also directed Muncie and Mayhem in “Rats” and “Tea” and Doing Shakespeare.
Other favorite credits include A Rustle of Wings (Ensemble Studio Theatre Directing Lab), the NYC premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard’s The Coronation Voyage, and the new rock musical Wake Her Up, a retelling of the myth of Psyche and Eros.
EMILY PLUMB
Artistic Associate/Acting Instructor
Having directed in many Looking Glass Writer/Director Forums, Emily will directed her first show at the Looking Glass Theatre in 2008.
KENNETH NOWELL
Graphic Design
Pictured here with Justine (of course!), Kenneth Nowell handles the majority of graphic design needs for Looking Glass productions.
Justine Lambert is the founder and artistic director of The Looking Glass Theatre in New York started in 1993. She has been working in theater in NY for 18 years during which she has directed and produced dozens of shows, ranging from classical through contemporary to original and experimental. Her direction of The Three Sisters at Looking Glass won an Off Off Broadway Review award for best production, and her Direction of "M" at the Turnip Theatre's play festival won her honorable mention as Best Director. Her work encompasses director, producer, actress, and playwright. She teaches monologue coaching and rehearsal style acting classes. From 1989 through 1991 she was Co-Artistic director of Peregrine Theater a company that produced classics and children's work in Central Park. (MORE)
Yasmine Beverly Rana is a playwright, drama therapist, and educator with productions and readings in the United States, England, Greece, South Africa and the Czech Republic. Her play, The War Zone is My Bed will have its premiere production at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in October under the direction of La MaMa Experiments curator, George Ferencz. Publications include an upcoming anthology of her plays, The Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, The Best Stage Scenes and Best Women's Monologues Series, The Kenyon Review, US 1 Worksheets, and TDR: The Drama Review (forthcoming). Yasmine has also contributed articles and a chapter to journals and textbooks about the creative arts therapies and has presented at conferences in the United States and abroad.
She is privileged to have had her play Blood Sky premiere at The Looking Glass Theatre under the direction of founder and artistic director, Justine Lambert, who also directed Yasmine's short play, "M" at various New York festivals.
