Meet the New York Theatre Workshop
Artists at this week’s Brown Bag
Presentation!
Bring your lunch and hear brief talks by the directors
and writers of this week’s upcoming New York Theatre Workshop
presentations in an informal, welcoming setting. Q&A to follow.
Meet the Creative Artists of Feeding the Dragon and Miller, Mississippi
Sharon Washington
Writer and Performer of Feeding the Dragon, August 8th at 5 PM
SHARON WASHINGTON: Broadway: The Scottsboro Boys, Lost in the Stars (City Center Encores!) Select Off-Broadway: While
I Yet Live (Primary Stages); Wild With Happy (Lucille Lortel nomination), Stuff Happens, Richard III, (Public Theater/NYSF);
Luce (Lincoln Center/LCT3), The Scottsboro Boys (Vineyard Theatre), The Overwhelming (Roundabout), String of Pearls
(Primary Stages), House & Garden, The Radical Mystique (MTC). Regional: Dot (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Merry Wives,
King Lear (Denver Center), Intimate Apparel (Guthrie); The Piano Lesson (Yale Rep). Film: The Bourne Legacy, Michael
Clayton, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Die Hard With a Vengeance.
Television: Gotham, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, White Collar, Royal Pains, Damages, Taking Chance and all three NY Law &
Order franchises. She is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and as a proud member of the Dartmouth Class of ’81 is
thrilled to return to Hanover to make her debut as a writer and perform again in the Bentley where she appeared in many
productions as a student.
Sheryl Kaller
Director of Feeding the Dragon, August 8th at 5 PM
SHERYL KALLER’s direction was seen this past season on the world premiere of While I Yet Live by Billy Porter. She
directed the Broadway production of Terence McNally’s Tony nominated play Mothers and Sons starring Tyne Daly. Sheryl
recently directed the world premiere of Nick Blaemire’s new musical A Little More Alive at Kansas City Repertory Theatre,
Roundabout Theatre Company’s Underground production of Too Much Too Much Too Many by Meghan Kennedy, and the
LCT3 production of MR. JOY by Daniel Beaty.
Ms. Kaller received a Tony Nomination for Best Director for the Broadway production of Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts. She
has directed at many theaters including The New Group, Pasadena Playhouse, Primary Stages, Williamstown Theatre
Festival, A.C.T., New York Stage and Film, The Geffen, Philadelphia Theater Company, Bucks County Playhouse, the York,
EST, National Theater of the Deaf and Naked Angels.
She has directed and developed a plethora of new plays and musicals with writers including Christopher Durang, Peter
Melnick, Regina Taylor, Dick Beebe, Theresa Rebeck, Richard Dresser and Alan Menken. Sheryl is currently in development
with David Henry Hwang, Winnie Holzman, Annmarie Milazzo, Kyle Jarrow, Bill Russell and Geoffrey Nauffts, among others.
Boo Killebrew
Writer of Miller, Mississippi, August 8th at 8 PM
BOO KILLEBREW is a playwright, actress and co‐founder of CollaborationTown Theatre Company. Boo is a Lila Acheson
Playwriting Fellow at The Juilliard School, a member of the Primary Stages Writers Group, an alumni of the 2013 Emerging
Writers Group at The Public, a recipient of the 2013 NYFA Fellowship, an alumni of TerraNova's Groundbreakers, and an
Affiliated Artist and Kitchen Cabinet Member with New Georges. She is a writer for LONGMIRE (A&E, Netflix) and in
December of 2014, Boo sold a television pilot, Aim High, to The Sundance Channel. Her plays include Miller, Mississppi (The
Leah Ryan Prize 2015); Romance Novels for Dummies, Days like Diamonds, The Play about my Dad, and The Momentum (NYC
Fringe Festival Excellence Award for Overall Production of a Play; GLAAD Media Award Nominee). Her work has been
presented at The Roundabout Theatre, The Public Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Atlantic, New York Theater
Workshop, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, The Huntington Theatre Co., 59e59 Theatres, The New Ohio, The Labyrinth, and
Boston Playwright's Theatre. Boo was an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, an Artist in Residence at NYFA, Robert
Wilson's Watermill Center, The New York Theater Workshop, The MacDowell Colony, Williamstown Theater Festival, and
the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Boo has received two New York Innovative Theater Awards for acting and has been
nominated multiple times for both playwriting and acting. She is the recipient of two Fringe Excellence Awards and The
Bette Davis Foundation Award. Boo is a teaching artist with The Roundabout Theatre Company.
Lee Sunday Evans
Director of Miller, Mississippi, August 8th at 8 PM
LEE SUNDAY EVANS is a director and choreographer. Credits include: D Deb Debbie Deborah by Jerry Lieblich, A Beautiful
Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes by Kate Benson (OBIE Award), The Play About My Dad by
Boo Killebrew, God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz, All Girls by Anna Greenfield, The Deepest Play Ever by Geoffrey Decas
O’Donnell, The Momentum, and Family Play (1979 to Present) by CollaborationTown, The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt
Brecht with original music by Nicholas C. Williams. Her work has been presented and developed at: Baryshnikov Arts
Center, Sundance Theater Lab, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, CATCH, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Robert Wilson’s
Watermill Center, Dixon Place, Emerging America Festival/Huntington Theater. BFA: Boston University.