MISSION

FullStop Collective is a company of emerging artists dedicated to invigorating the theatrical experience through bold, intimate, original interpretations of new and existing work.

WHO WE ARE

A collective of multi-disciplinary theater artists bonded by a mutual respect for each other’s visions and aesthetics. FullStop Collective works to realize the individual and collaborative endeavors of its members. We’re artists and we’re a production company. We are experimental, diverse and unconventional – and we deliver. Gumption and Gusto.

HISTORY

We Meet:

In the fall of 2005, 29 theater artists from all over the country came together at The National Theater Institute program of The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center for three months of intensive training and education. We studied yoga and tai chi, Shakespeare and Chekhov, Grotowski and the American avant garde. We worked with The Wooster Group and SITI Company, and learned to approach the theater from every angle.

We Reunite:

In the winter of 2007, we had a reunion. And while all the cooking, talking and catching up was wonderful, we began to ask when we would work together again. And so the seeds were sown.

We Begin:

In the summer of 2007, we put up two shows under the name FullStop Theater (an homage to our Shakespeare instructor at NTI) – The Silos of Duanesburg in upstate New York and Diving in December for the New York Fringe Festival.

We Continue:

Since then, we have established ourselves as FullStop Collective, a New York based theater company devoted to developing and presenting the innovative work of our members. Check out our projects and news to stay involved!

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FullStop Collective Needs Your Support!

We're a young company, looking to build our base. Our artistic niche needs curtains, and our upcoming projects need funding. You can help! First and foremost, donors can know they are sustaining an innovative company of artists committed to reinvigorating the American theatrical experience.

FullStop Collective is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions on behalf of FullStop Collective may be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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Dahlia Al-Habieli

Dahlia Al-Habieli (Marketing and Development Associate) sends love and spreadsheets from Boston, where she works as freelance scenic designer and theatre artist. Recent design credits include Macbeth (New Repertory Theatre), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Publick Theatre of Boston), and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown with the award-winning Watertown Children's Theatre. Over the past three years Dahlia has also served as Assistant to the Technical Director, Assistant Production Coordinator, and the Young Playwright's Conference design mentor at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. She holds a BA in Theater Studies from Wellesley College, and is a graduate of the O'Neill National Theater Institute.

Alexandra Bassett

Alexandra Bassett detonates the dark with brilliant wit and genuine curiosity. Her aesthetic is a lush and discerning departure.
This is her kind of theater: negativespace.biz
This is her kind of music: alexandrabassett.biz
She collaborates the shit out of it.

Please email for a current artistic resume. abassett@fullstopcollective.org

Emma Fisher

Anton Handel

Recent credits include: Cowboy Mouth (Ruskin Group Theater), Keeper's of the Light, The Long Voyage Home, Tale of a Whaler, Cursed Figurehead (Mystic Seaport, CT), Silos of Duanesbug (FullStop), The Water Project (J. Ed Araiza). Anton is a founding member of FullStop Collective, as well as a founding member of Ironic T-Shirt, a sketch comedy group (www.ironictshirtcomedy.com). Anton lives in Los Angeles.

Analise Hartnett

Analise is an actor, costumer, and traveling collaborator currently living in Brooklyn and working at the Metropolitan Opera. What she’s been up to: the premier production of Negative Space, the role of Elmire in National Theatre for Arts and Education’s bilingual touring production of Molière’s Tartuffe, directing a psycho-thriller Vaudeville Vanya composition for the SITI Company at the National Theater Institute, Prospero in Shakespeare’s The Tempest with the Alaska Theatre of Youth. She has also embodied her inner frat boy as Guildenstern in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, had the great honor of portraying Woman in Megan Weaver’s Cause of Failure, and delighted in playing Felicia in Alexandra Bassett’s Techno, all at the National Theater Institute. She is a graduate of Smith College and a founding member of FullStop Collective.

Brian Hashimoto

Brian Hashimoto (Co-Managing Director) is a director, actor, photographer and producer based in New York. Directing credits include: Clean Sheets* (Vintage Loft, NYC), La Boheme (Connecticut Lyric Opera, New London, CT); 4 Directions and The Flying Machine (The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center); A Number and 4.48 Psychosis (Ithaca College). Acting credits include: Negative Space* (Looking Glass Theatre, NYC & Florence Griswald Museum, Old Lyme, CT); The Lover and Persepolis (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT); Metamorphoses (Underground Theater, Ithaca, NY); True Love, Drowned World, The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year, and The Waiting Room (Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY). Brian received his B.A. in Drama from Ithaca College and is an alumnus of the National Theater Institute. Additionally, he has trained at the St. Petersburg Theater Academy in Russia as well as Balinese Mask at Studio 5 in Brooklyn, NY. www.hashimoto.printroom.com

*Denotes FullStop Production.

Christa Hinkley

Lillian Meredith

Lillian Meredith is a director, actor and arts administrator based in New York City. She is a founding member of FullStop Collective and has worked on numerous shows with the company, including Silos of Duanesberg, Diving in December, Girl Words, and Negative Space. Other credits include: Air Conditioning (Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Conference), A Chicken Goes to Broadway (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival) and Monster in the Dark (foolsFury Theater). She is also a member of foolsFURY Theater in San Francisco and a fan of New Noise in New Orleans. A recent graduate of Vassar College and the National Theater Institute, Lillian is also a photographer wanna-be, a future truck-pilgrim, and a poet-at-large. Check out her work at www.lillianmeredith.com

Michael Micalizzi

Michael Micalizzi is a native New Yorker and alum of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Institute's NTI program. He is also a founding member of the FullStop Collective, and member of The Bats, the resident acting company of the Obie Award winning Flea Theater, performing in the world premiere of Joshua Scher's The Footage and Itamar Moses' Love/Stories (or But You Will Get Used To It). Recent work includes From Cancer to Off-Broadway (Cherry Lane Theater), One Minute Play Festival (HERE Arts Center),Love/Stories (Or But You Will Get Used To It) (The Flea Theater) He is currently performing this fall in Itamar Moses' new short play, F*cked going up at The Flea as part of "The Great Recession" series.

Kate Michaud

Kate is an actress of the stage, screen, and street. Originally from Maine, she moved to New York after receiving her B.A. in Theater and French to attend The Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute on a scholarship from her alma mater, Connecticut College. Favorite Connecticut College productions include Uncle Vanya (Vanya), Private Eyes (Lisa), and co-directing and performing in Fetes de la Nuit by Charles Mee. Since moving to New York, a few notable performances have been The Snow White Project (Alliance Francaise, dir. Catherine Bay), Noise (Manhattan Repertory Theatre), Girl Words (FullStop Collective), Negative Space (FullStop Collective at The Looking Glass Theatre), and producing and acting in a week of 365 Days/365 Plays (FullStop Collective). Kate spent her Fall 2005 semester at The National Theater Institute at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and her Spring 2006 semester at The Sorbonne in Paris. Most recently, Kate performed in The Great Recession, written by Will Eno and directed by Jim Simpson, at The Flea Theater. Seeking representation. www.KateMichaud.com

Nick Roesler

Nick Roesler is an actor living in New York City. He is core with FullStop Collective and also serves as their Director of Digital Media - meaning that you may have seen his hilarious Facebook messages and tweets at one point or another. He recently has had the honor of serving as Associate Director of the National Theater Institute Theatermakers program at the O'Neill Theater Center, a gig that also gave him the ability to teach his own funky brand of theater movement and development at over 50 colleges, universities and theater festivals. Devoted to theatrical experimentation, he has also had the pleasure of working with the Wooster Group, Katharsis Theater, Are the Fish Happy? and other innovative companies. Not so far back, with a group of wild film-making pistoleros, he starred in a one minute ad-spec for skinit.com's "Make It Your Own" contest - an endeavor that took second place in the contest and resulted in national syndication for the ad. Other recent acting work includes Candy Snow is Good for You (Theatermakers 09) and Sisters (New Works, New Britain). He is a graduate of Connecticut College and has attended the National Theater Institute alongside his FullStop cronies.

Patrick Shaw

Patrick Shaw lives in Brooklyn where he writes, acts, dances, and paints. In the past few years, he has performed in a number of plays including Negative Space, The Essentials of Flor, Gone Eatin, "Parallel Play", and "Kitchen Hamlet". Also, his play, A Miracle Study, won the James E. Michael Prize for Playwriting, the Graham Gund Award, and was selected as a semifinalist for the O’Neill Playwright’s Conference. A graduate of Kenyon College and the National Theater Institute, Patrick regularly performs with Spessard Dance and is a founding member of Fourth River Theater Ensemble (Pittsburgh), and FullStop Collective (New York).

Leta Tremblay

Leta is a freelance director and stage manager in New York City. NY (Directing): The City That Cried Wolf (59E59 Theaters), 365 Days/365 Plays (FullStop Collective), and 10 Plates (ExPgirl, AD). NY (Stage Managing): Clean Sheets (FullStop Collective), Negative Space (The Looking Glass Theatre), Leah's Train (NAATCO), Paris Syndrome (ExPgirl), Out Cry (NAATCO), Lee/Gendary (HERE Arts Center), Dante's Hope(Blackfriars Reparatory Theatre), Two Detectives (Manhattan Reparatory Theater), Killing The Boss(Cherry Lane Theatre), The Blue Puppies Cycle (The Chocolate Factory). Leta is a graduate of Smith College and the Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute where she trained with the Wooster Group and SITI Company. She is a founding member and Director of Production of FullStop Collective.

Megan Weaver

Megan Weaver (Co-Managing Director and Treasurer) is a proud alumnus of George Fox University and the National Theater Institute. In addition to her work with FullStop, she serves as Artistic Director of Dramatic Productions at Mystic Seaport in Mystic, Conn., where she directs five productions annually and serves as the administrative director of the internationally renowned Sea Music Festival. Directing credits include Ile, The Long Voyage Home, Tale of a Whaler, Nautical Nightmares, Lantern Light Tours, Keepers of the Light, and Maritime Mystery (Mystic Seaport); Measure for Measure (TSI/Playtime Classics); The Lover (O’Neill Theater Center); Tin Foil Soldier (National Theater Institute), Vaudeville Vanya (NTI/SITI Company); and Brother (GFU). Acting credits include Sisters (New Works New Britain), 365 Plays/365 Days (FullStop Collective), Dream Girl (O’Neill Theater Center), Morgan Theater Project (Mystic Seaport), Macbeth, Smoke on the Mountain, Trojan Women, As You Like It, The Universal Language, and The Crucible (GFU). Megan’s next big project is as an adjunct at her alma mater, where she will direct Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, slated to open in April 2010.

Laura Wiese

Originally hailing from the exotic Midwest, Laura migrated to New York in early 2007 primarily because of her incredible connection with the artists that are now FullStop Collective. Laura serves as the Secretary for FullStop Collective and has appeared in Clean Sheets (Squirrel) and costume designed Girl Words and Diving in December. Outside of FullStop, Laura's favorite projects include Proof (Catherine), Seussical (Gertrude McFuzz), the national tour of A Christmas Carol, and costume design for The Importance of Being Earnest and No Exit. When not working in stage, Laura focuses her time in animation and commercial voice over, having voiced commercial projects for such brands as Clear Eyes and Walmart. She holds a BFA in Acting from Drake University and is a proud Alumnus of the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute. For more on Laura, please visit www.laurawiese.com.

Vanessa Soto

Vanessa Soto is a performing and teaching artist and theater director who lives and works throughout New England. A graduate of Vassar College with a BA in Drama and Women & Gender Studies, her training includes two semesters at The National Theater Institute at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and work with The Moscow Art Theater School. Vanessa has worked with several companies including Bated Breath Theater, Collective Consciousness Theater, Bregamos Theater, The New Haven Theater Company, Elm Shakespeare Theatre Company and has appeared on stage at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CT.

George Olesky

George Olesky graduated from Hampshire College in 2007 after completing a semester at The O'Neill in the fall of 2005. Fullstop credits include 365 Days/365 Plays and Musicophilia. You can find his short plays in the Portland, OR based zine DEEP//LEAP. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he is almost finished with a production of Richard III at A Noise Within.

Tom Meredith

Tom has worked with FullStop on a few occasions, as Assistant Stage Manager for Diving in December and as Production Stage Manager for Girl Words. Outside of FullStop, Tom has acted as Master Carpenter at the Nightingale-Bamford School (New York, NY), Assistant Technical Director for the West Kortright Centre’s production of The Merchant of Venice (Kortright, NY) and as Carpenter/Technician for Skidmore College’s productions of Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls and The Cherry Orchard (Saratoga Springs, NY). Tom is in search of his B.A. in Classics from Skidmore College until Spring 2011.

Vanessa Gibens

Vanessa Gibens is an Associated Artist of FullStop Collective and is a member of Wide Eyed Productions. She is a graduate of the National Theater Institute and is currently attending Southern Methodist University to receive an MFA in Acting. Recent credits include: Wide Eyed Productions' Phedre (Oenone) and Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret), Queens Garden Stage's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia), Latino Flavored Productions' Jose Can Speak and Sex, Lies, and Adam and Eve. In April 2010, Vanessa will appear in the Dallas Theater Center's production of Death of a Salesman. Seeking representation.

Wheaton Simis

Wheaton is currently a student at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris. In the U.S.: worked and trained at The Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute with SITI Company and The Wooster Group; assistant director to Martha Clarke on Richard Peaslee's Moby Dick with New York Theater Workshop; observer with Pilobolus Dance Theater. Credits: The Unexpected Guest (New London Barn Playhouse), FLY (Dartmouth College). University: Midsummer (Bottom), Julius Caesar (Cassius), A Number (Bernard, Michael Black), Hair (Woof), Betrayal (Robert). Wheaton is currently working with his Lecoq classmates on a site-specific piece for the Louvre galleries.

Diana Oh

Diana Oh, actress and writer, is a Fellowship and MFA candidate at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is a graduate of Smith College, National Theatre Institute, and LAMDA. She is currently developing two musicals Kimchi Mamas and The Dirty Disco and Eau Blanche with debut reading dates in April of 2010. She has appeared in two of FullStop's mainstage productions, Girl Words and Clean Sheets.

Andrew Farrier

Andrew Farrier is an actor, director and writer from St. Francisville, Louisiana, currently residing in New Orleans. One of the greatest turns of luck in his life was when Hurricane Katrina closed down Tulane University where he was studying and sent him to the O'Neill National Theater Institute, which graciously took him in for the semester and where he met the artists who were to become his company-mates in Full Stop Collective. Andrew is also a co-founder of the St. Francisville Transitory Theatre, a wandering company based in his hometown. Recent performance credits include Davey in Sick at Southern Rep Theater, Harry Bagley and Martin in Cloud 9, the Father in Six Characters in Search of an Author, and CB in Dog Sees God at Tulane University. Directing credits include a local original adaptation of Charles Mee's Bobrauschenbergamerica at Le Chat Noir in New Orleans, as well as What Alice Saw There (an original play based on Alice in Wonderland), You Can't Take it with You, The Alphabet Backwards and The Tempest for the St. Francisville Transitory Theatre. Writings for the stage include Playground Gods, a thesis at Tulane University, and Good Children, a winner of the 2008 Le Chat Noir New Play Festival.

Diana Wright

Diana Wright is a director, writer and comedian based in Los Angeles, CA. She is proud to be an Associate Artist for FullStop Collective. A graduate of Vassar College and the National Theater Institute, Diana writes and directs sketches with Ironic T-Shirt (www.ironictshirtcomedy.com) which recently was featured on the front page of Funny or Die. She gets drunk with on a podcast called Cocktails for Two (www.cocktailscast.tumblr.com) and produces a weekly improv and stand up show called Crashbar Improv (www.crashbarimprov.com). Her varies improv groups have performed at SF Sketchfest, the Del Close Marathon, LA improv festival, and UCBLA and NY.

Check out more information at www.dianawright.net

Louiza Collins

Louiza Collins is a proud alum of the California Institute of the Arts Acting Program '09, a member of The Bats at The Flea Theater in TriBeCa, a member of tl;dr a lover of The Fullstop Collective, also a lover of nature, surprises, experimental storytelling, the human body, broken expectations, biking, raw foods, all things beautiful and really fucked up plays. She is an actor, mover, text generator and singer/vocal scientist. She strives each day to make work and passion live closer to one another. Fullstop credits include, FOREPLAYS, and Hangman School For Girls. Flea credits include The Great Recession. tl;dr credits include Second Empire.

Lucy Gillespie

Lucy Gillespie is an Anglo-American writer and actor currently living in New York.

Jay Spriggs

Jay Spriggs is a director, composer, playwright, sound designer, and actor living in New York City. He was introduced to the FullStop Collective during their show Clean Sheets as a composer and Foley effects artist. He also took part in FullStop's latest show FOREPLAYS and looks forward to a long and rewarding relationship with all of the lovely people in the Collective. His recent directing credits include Face Divided, A Dead Man's Apartment, and No Exit. His composition work includes Clean Sheets, FOREPLAYS, Macbeth, and Hello Out There. He is a proud graduate of the Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute and Wheaton College and he cannot wait to see what life will bring next.