Founding Members
Ross DeGraw: NY: Joan of Arc and Julius Caesar (Gorilla Rep) The Time of Your Life, Tidings Brought to Mary, The Shaughraun et al.(Storm Theatre)Hell and High Water (Multistages) The Real Thing (Out of Line Productions) Bar Story (Working Mans Clothes Theatre) Big Love (Columbia Stages) Regional: Julius Caesar, A Christmas Carol (NC Shakespeare Festival) Bus Stop ( Triad Stage) Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus (Virginia Shakespeare Festival) Films include: “Witches of Oz” (with Christopher Lloyd) “The Last Contract”(James Merendino Productions) “Cargo” (Persona Films) TV: Four Episodes of a new show Make My Day (TV Land Network) Commercial: Various National and Regional.
Gretchen Ferris is an actor/director/casting director working out of New York City. Acting credits include: No Sex Please, We're British; Call Waiting (Phare Play Productions), The Diary of Anne Frank (Triad Stage), Quilters (Great Plains Theatre), Morticians in Love (Theatre 232), Ruth (Blue Shift Theatre Ensemble). Directing credits include: Lysistrata (Phare Play Productions), Wincing at the Light (Love Creek), Chains of Dew (Zephyer Rep Theatre). Her casting credits range from feature film to commercial to theatre, and she holds theatre degrees from Lenoir-Rhyne College, Florida State University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Ginny Myers Lee: New York: Hamlet, Cymbeline, Misalliance, Love’s Labour’s Lost (New York Classical Theatre); Stars In A Dark Sky (Red Fern Theatre Co.); The Night Carter Was Bad (Kids With Guns); Love of a Pig (The Cardinal Group). Regional: Oleanna; Providence Gap (premiere); Brother Wolf(premiere) (Triad Stage); The Triumph of Love (The Clarence Brown Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Capital Repertory Theatre); The Shape of Things, The Voice of the Prairie, Crimes of the Heart (Greensboro Summer Repertory); Ruth (premiere) (Blue Shift Theatre Ensemble). International: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (English Theatre of Frankfurt). MFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Ginny is a proud native of the Appalachian Mtns. of NC
Jesse Presler is an actor and new filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He has appeared in A COWBOY POEM MY DADDY TAUGHT ME at the Abingdon Theatre with the Cardinal Group. Most recently Jesse was on tour a production of BLACKBEARD, touring public schools in eastern North Carolina. He is from North Carolina and Holds a theatre degree from UNC Greensboro. Favorite Productions include, The Matchmaker, Road and the Foreigner.
Emily Rieder is an actress and playwright living in Brooklyn. She has
appeared in LYSISTRATA at the Wings Theatre with Phare Play Productions . Emily was born and raised in North Carolina where she recently appeared in HOW WATER SPEAKS TO ROCK by Miriam Angress and Angus Maclachlan’s (Junebug, Stone) brand new play S.E.C.C.A. She holds a BFA from UNC Greensboro. Favorite Productions include NOISES OFF!, MARAT/SADE and TROJAN WOMEN.
