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The 2011 Source Festival concluded on July 3. The next Festival will kick off in June 2012. Please click here for submission and audition information. Check back in early 2012 to learn more about next year’s Festival. Pick a 2011 Source Festival Artist by Last Name A \| B \| C \| D \| E \| F \| G \| H \| I \| J \| K \| L \| M \| N \| O \| P \| Q \| R \| S \| T \| V \| W \| Y \| Z A Lucretia M. Anderson 10-Minute Play:Oscar Grant is Dead and I'm Terrified Lucretia is a full time theatre educator, mommy and all around fun gal! Eric Appleton 10-Minute Play:Sasquatch and the Man Appleton in a set and lighting designer apparently doomed to continually return to Wisconsin. Debbi Arseneaux Artistic Blind Date: Nacirema Arseneaux works all over the DC metro area as a director, stage manager, teaching artist, event planner, karaoke host and sometime cabaret performer. B Omar Bah 10-Minute Play: Ice Holes; The Peach A dynamic, first generation African-AmericA male actor who has a wide acting range whose forte lies in comedy, but makes for good drama as well. Sara Barker 10-Minute Play: A Disturbing Encounter at the Calhoun Residence Involving Sex, Marriage and the American Musical Theatre. Barker acts. Matthew Ivan Bennett 10-Minute Play: Jou Eat Vhat Jou Are Bennett writes plays in order to behead the corrupt aristocrats of his mind. Marilyn Bennett 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey; Sasquatch and the Man Having played more "mom" roles than she can count, Bennett is pleased to be playing two more moms in this year's Source Theatre Festival as Mom 1 in Language Monkey and Mrs. Elston in Sasquatch and the Man. Alison Beyrle Full-Length Play: Volcanic In Origin A proud third culture kid ("TCK") and recent Kenyon College graduate, Alison is privileged to have worked for numerous local arts organizations in both administrative and backstage capacities, and she continues to seek out new adventures within the DC theatre scene. Dave Bobb Artistic Blind Date: Perspectivoyage: The Mann Bobb McCauley Experience Bobb is a purveyor of real & unique. Raven Bonniwell 10-Minute Play: The Two Ufologists Bonniwell is a local actress whose been in some stuff and would like to do more stuff in the future. Rebecca Bossen 10-Minute Play: Driving Home Rebecca Bossen is a “playwright-actor-voice coach-yoga instructor-amateur cat wrangler” not because she is multi-talented, but because she is indecisive and fond of hyphens. Lucy Bowen McCauley Artistic Blind Date: Perspectivoyage: The Mann Bobb McCauley Experience McCauley is known for her life-time commitment to dance, her imaginative choreography and her long red hair. Mia Branco 10-Minute Play: Love, Death and Latex Branco is rhapsodic to be a part of the convivial Source Festival. She would like to thank the Thesaurus app she recently aquired for helping with her bio. Nevie Brooks 10-Minute Play: Sasquatch and the Man Brooks is an animal-loving beachophile who sometimes makes poor life decisions. Carlos Bustamante 10-Minute Play: Fugue for Amorous Tornadoes Bustamante exercises his demons through performance and they are in VERY good shape. C Cecilia Cackley Artistic Blind Date: Cackley creates puppets, directs plays, sings songs, reads books and teaches children. Mikey Cafarelli 10-Minute Play: Jou Eat Vhat Jou Are I go by Mikey; not Mike or Michael thanks :) Raymond O. Caldwell 10-Minute Play: Oscar Grant is Dead and I'm Terrified Caldwell is an Actor/Director/Teaching Artist based in Washington, DC who has more sass then he knows what to do with. William Cameron 10-Minute Play: A Disturbing Encounter at the Calhoun Residence Involving Sex, Marriage and the American Musical Theatre Cameron is an old bald guy who teaches theatre, writes and directs plays. Katy Carkuff Full-Length Play: The Making of a Modern Folk Hero Playing the role of "Woman," Katy now wonders if she has to worry about type casting. David Carlson Artistic Blind Date: Collapsing Silence Carlson is a visual artist who works in abstract painting and video and will try anything at least once. Luke Cieslewicz 10-Minute Play: The Two Ufologists The Duke abides. D. Grant Cloyd 10-Minute Play: Love, Death and Latex Cloyd graduated from SMCM in 2008 and has been working in the DC/MD/VA theatre scene since. Daniel Corey 10-Minute Play: Driving Home Daniel Corey is a salesman, a former teacher, an actor, a guitarist, a grinner, a picker, a lover, and a sinner. Hal Corley 10-Minute Play: Executive Order 10450 Rumors to the contrary, Corley still considers himself "mid-career." Robin Covington 10-Minute Play: Dance With the Devil Robin likes you just the way you are: Staring at her name and wanting more. Brittany Cowgill Artistic Blind Dates: Stage Manager Because of Brittany's love of working in theatre, she has become an expert Metro patron over the past year. Carina Czipoth 10-Minute Play: Principles of Dramatic Writing Carina Czipoth just graduated from college with two degrees, so she is really hoping that one of them helps her get an actual job in the near future. D Edward Daniels 10-Minute Play: Feel Your Breath; Dance With the Devil Daniels' like the fries at McDowell's better. Danielle I. Davis Full-Length Play: The Making of a Modern Folk Hero Danielle is a goofy fun loving person eager to share her infectious charm with the world! Sun King Davis 10-Minute Play: Ice Holes Last year, played a Ghost, this year playing a Viking! Devin Day Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Devin Day does theatre. A lot. Backstage mostly. Gabriel Jason Dean 10-Minute Play: Fugue for Amorous Tornados Dean tries his best to listen. Nello DeBlasio 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey In addition to acting and occasionally directing in DC-area theater and film, Nello enjoys playful bio writing in the third person and keeping it to one sentence. Jane Dempsey 10-Minute Play: Oscar Grant is Dead and I'm Terrified Dempsey saw Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf last month, and she is now VERY afraid of Virginia Woolf. Alex Dremann 10-Minute Play: The Peach Dremann studied playwriting at U.S.C, has had over 100 short play productions, and is currently the producing artistic director of Secret Room Theatre in Philadelphia. Ben Drexler 10-Minute Play: Fugue for Amorous Tornadoes Years ago when a benevolent alien race left their sole surviving child on Earth to usher humanity into a new era of technological prosperity and enlightenment, Drex had the misfortune of mistaking it for a small arthropod and consumed it on the spot, thus gaining a host of useless talents and eternal indigestion. Demetrius Durrell 10-Minute Play: Oscar Grant is Dead and I'm Terrified Demetrius is thrilled to be performing in the 2011 Source Festival! Christopher Dwyer 10-Minute Play: Oscar Grant is Dead and I'm Terrified Dwyer is allergic to fun. E Kyle Encinas 10-Minute Play: Love, Death and Latex Encinas is an actor and fight director currently residing in Washington, DC. G Lee Gainer Artistic Blind Date: Adjusting the Volume Gainer is a contemporary visual artist who uses found imagery and objects to visually analyze social rules, hidden messages, the psychology behind these ideas and beliefs, and how they alter our behavior. Kristen Garaffo Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Garaffo is a 24 year old actor and singer with a sunny disposition who likes yoga, the ukulele , her dog Charlie, sunflowers and pink peace signs! Martin Gendelman Artistic Blind Date: Nacirema Gendelman was born a while ago and has been writing music - or so he thinks. Gwen Grastorf Full-Length Play: Volcanic in Origin Grastorf is psyched to be a part of Source Festival and can next be seen at Fringe in Happenstance Theater's MANIFESTO! Nicholas Gray 10-Minute Play: The Two Ufologists Gray is a lover of language. Colin A. Grube 10-Minute Play: Park Place or Monopoly Becomes Electra Grube is in the area. H Michael Hammond 10-Minute Play: Sasquatch and the Man Hammond is excited to be a part of the Source Festival and is honored to be able to present the real, live, in-the-flesh Bigfoot to the DC theater community. Andrew Hawkins 10-Minute Play: Principals of Dramatic Writing Hawkins is interested in bread and love, stormy relationships and deep social disillusionment assuaged by rock n' roll, laughter and mysticism. Gregory Hischak Full-Length Play: Volcanic in Origin Playwright and poet Hischak was previously part of the problem, now he's part of the solution. Christine Hodak 10-Minute Play: Dance With the Devil Hodak is a Chicago playwright who might be eavesdropping on your conversation right now and writing the good bits down on white index cards. Lisa Hodsoll 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey Hodsoll is an actor, writer, filmmaker and the proud member of the two recipients of this year's Helen Hayes Outstanding Emerging Theater Company award: Factory 449 and No Rules Theater Company. Margaret Hoffman 10-Minute Play: Driving Home Hoffman likes being a human being. Christopher C. Holbert 10-Minute Play: Principles of Dramatic Writing Chris is happy play an actual role in a Source Fest show after walking across the stage in the last 10 seconds of a show 8 years ago. Eric Z. Humphries 10-Minute Plays: Executive Order 10450 & Ice Holes Eric Humphries, born and raised in the District, is thrilled to be acting in this years Source Festival, enabling him to grow his first real moustache. I Ashley Ivey Full-Length Play: Volcanic In Origin Ivey is happy to be working with the Festival for the first time, coming up next you can see him in Constellation Theatre's award winning production of The Ramayana here at Source. J Amber Jackson 10-Minute Play: Driving Home Jackson is a director/choreographer/writer/collaborator who loves rocking chairs, front porches, sweet tea, and saying the word "y'all". Derek Jones 10-Minute Play: Lighting Designer He once said, “There will be light” at a production meeting and it turns out that the show indeed used light. K Martha Karl 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey Former Car Pool Queen, Karl now plays on stage, screen and the air waves, as well as with her grandbabies, who are the cutest, sweetest and smartest in the world, of course. Amy Kellett 10-Minute Play: True Nails Amy Kellett likes theatre. Jennifer Ayn Knight 10-Minute Play: True Nails Jennifer believes in this energy matrix we live in and spends her free time perfecting flight in lucid dreams. Doug Krehbel 10-Minute Play: A Disturbing Encounter at the Calhoun Residence Involving Sex, Marriage and the American Musical Theatre; Dance With Devil Krehbel is a local actor, director and voice-over artist, whose first play, The Goats of Paris will debut in 2011. L Paul Laudiero 10-Minute Play: Park Place or Monopoly Becomes Electra Laudiero is a WIT improviser and actor from the DC area, and is currently a senior at George Mason University. Jessica Lefkow 10-Minute Play: Sasquatch and the Man Lefkow left, wed and bred before returning to direct, perform and otherwise make a ruckus in this most splendid town. Holly Longstreth Full-Length Play: The Making of a Modern Folk Hero Holly, a recent graduate of American University, spends the majority of her time attempting (unsuccessfully) to beat Angry Birds. Eric Lott Full-Length Plays: Sound Designer Eric Lott makes purposeful noise, and generally makes it louder than you. M Caroline Mahoney 10-Minute Play: Park Place or Monopoly Becomes Electra Mahoney is smoothie-drinking, piano-playing actor, living and playing in DC. Matthew Mann Artistic Blind Date: Perspectivoyage: The Mann Bobb McCauley Experience Mann was born on the plains which has informed his lifelong encounters with geometry and clouds. Tewodross Melchishua Artistic Blind Date: Nacirema Originally from the DMV area, Melchishua is an animator, visual artist, filmmaker, VJ, curator and professor; currently working in a variety of traditional and digital media and seeking to push the boundaries between visual art, music, theatre and film. Timmy Metzner 10-Minute Play: The Two Ufologists Metzner can recite "The Little Mermaid" from beginning to end. Janet Minichiello 10-Minute Plays: Costume Designer Born and raised in DC, Janet became interested in costume design during her time at Brown University and has been working on plays ever since. Ryan Mitchell 10-Minute Play: The Truth About Tiny Tim Once a Kingpin of the Noiseless, Midwestern Tap Dance Circuit, Ryan now bides his time with Milkshakes, Lethargy and Source Fest rehearsals. Michael Mitnick Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Mitnik is a playwriter who was alive at the time of this sentence's creation. John Moletress Artistic Blind Date: Collapsing Silence Moletress is the co-founder of Factory 449, the 2011 Helen Hayes Award's Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. Dan Mori 10-Minute Play: Jou Eat Vhat Jou Are Sometimes a bio is better left unread, but this one is better left unwritten. Jeffrey Mosser 10-Minute Play: Love, Death and Latex Mosser is a director and playwright who left MN for KY, but now lives in MA. Steve Moulds 10-Minute Play: Principles of Dramatic Writing Moulds, a recent graduate of the James A. Michener Center for Writers, is a plawright and director in Austin, TX. Jared Mason Murray Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Murray also wrote a play entitled "Spacebar"; it IS about the key on the keyboard. :-) N Jose Nunez Full-Length Play: The Making of a Modern Folk Hero; Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman; Volcanic in Origin Nunez is an aspiring Properties Artisan and is thrilled to be a part of Source Festival this summer! O Jon Odom Full-Length Play: Volcanic in Origin He came, he saw, he performed. Robert Michael Oliver 10-Minute Play: Sasquatch and the Man; Language Monkey Oliver possess a psychotic laugh, an irascible scoll, and apparently an inner sasquatch. Davesus Omosun 10-Minute Plays and Full-Length Plays: Run Crew Davesus Omosun hails from Detroit, MI and has a BS in Theater Arts with a concentration in Acting and Directing from Bowie State Unviersity. P Alex Perez 10-Minute Play: The Truth about Tiny Tim Courage, Character, Craft, Professional, Omnipotent… None of these describe Perez, but notice it can form – 3C., P., O. Eric Pfeffinger 10-Minute Play: The Truth About Tiny Tim Pfeffinger is a playwright whose works have been seen at many theaters and not seen at even more. Belen Pifel Full-Length Play: Volcanic in Origin Pifel was named after the Venezuelan Refrigerator Lady and enjoys acting and long walks on the beach; thanks her friends and family for their support etc., etc. Natsu Power 10-Minute Play: Jou Eat Vhat Jou Are Power likes Astro Boy. Lee August Praley 10-Minute Play: Park Place or Monopoly Becomes Electra Lee August Praley is Lee August Praley is Lee August Praley (re: I am what I am what I am). Baron Pugh Artistic Blind Dates: Lighting Designer Baron is a second year Senior at George Mason University and is excited to be working with the Source Festival. Q T. Anthony Quinn 10-Minute Play: Ice Holes; Executive Order 10450 Quinn and his wife live on Capitol Hill with their three wonderful children. Danielle Quirion 10-Minute Play: Fugue for Amorous Tornadoes Quirion sets out to explore and expand her mind, energy and creativity through what we call the performing arts. R Jonathan David Randle 10-Minute Play: Oscar Grant is Dead and I'm Terrified Jonathan has performed in numerous productions down the street. Brian Razzino Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Raised by pygmies, born to rock. Matt Ripa 10-Minute Play: Love, Death and Latex Ripa believes in the love of balloons. Sonya Robbins Full-Length Play: Volcanic in Origin Robbins is a freelance director, dramaturg and arts educator, a relatively recent transplant to the DC area. She is thrilled to be once again collaborating on new work for the theater. Juanita Rockwell 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey Rockwell been committing theatrical acts on the stage, page, and over the airwaves of several continents for more than 3 decades. Shayla Janiece Roland 10-Minute Plays: Assistant Stage Manager Shayla will sass the sass out of anyone who sasses her. Michael Rodriguez 10-Minute Play: Jou Eat Vhat Jou Are In addition to performing on stage, Rodriguez can also be seen online and in a restaurant near you. Greg Romero 10-Minute Play: Ice Holes Romero is a theater artist living in Philadelphia who believes in imagination, rituals, blood, beer, baseball, POW!, hardwood floors and doing the impossible. Betsy Rosen 10-Minute Play: Ice Holes; The Peach Rosen is a local actress and puppeteer who loves sweet potatoes! Odell B. Ruffin Full-Length Play: The Making of A Modern Folk Hero Ruffin is an actor, writer and producer, who ultimately, hopes to expand in theatre, media and film. S Michael Salomon 10-Minute Play: Oscar Grant is Dead and I'm Terrified A native Bostonian currently living in Chicago, Salomon is proud to say that while he has written numerous plays, screenplays, sketches and short stories, he has never once tweeted. Michael Saltzman Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Michael Saltzman is a local actor, director, writer, sound designer, hip hop producer, and 11th level Dragonborn Paladin of the Raven Queen. B. Walker Sampson 10-Minute Play: Feel Your Breath Sampson's plays include Alceste, Slouch, Puppet Kafka and There are shapes on the ceiling fan that look like bats. Jason Schlafstein Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Schlafstein hopes to one day be known as the world's greatest escape artist by avoiding death. Jesse Shipley 10-Minute Plays: Costume Designer Has enjoyed living with the elves, but is happy to be back in DC working in theater. Ilana Faye Silverstein 10-Minute Play: The Space Between Us Silverstein approaches movement with mindfulness, performs with Dance Box Theater artist, teaches improvisation and meditation, frequents contact improv jams anywhere, directs The Field/DC and likes to laugh. Haskell Small Artistic Blind Date: Adjusting the Volume Small, composer, pianist and teacher, has received commissions from major arts organizations and has performed in major concert venues around the world, is piano department chair of the Washington Conservatory of Music and is also a renowned master of the kazoo. Bradley Foster Smith Full-Length Play: The Making of a Modern Folk Hero Foster Smith recently appeared in Keegan Theater's Golden Boy (Siggie), The American Century Theater's Stage Door (Frank), and will soon appear in a Fringe Festival show But Love is My Middle Name, followed by Keegan's upcoming Ireland tour of The Crucible (Cheever). David A. Snider 10-Minute Play: The Truth About Tiny Tim Snider has directed, acted, taught and produced professionally for over 18 years — but his best role is as Henry and Della's Dad. Josh Sticklin Full-Length Play: Spacebar: A Broadway Play by Kyle Sugarman Actor, smactor, dreamer, schemer, lover, fighter, sponge. Alexander Strain 10-Minute Play: True Nails Strain is an actor/director originally from England, where people feel uncomfortable writing about themselves in the 3rd person. Sarah Strasser 10-Minute Play: Feel Your Breath Strasser has most recently worked opposite the enchanting Lisa Hodsoll in Factory 449's production of 'Magnificent Waste', and No Rules Theatre Company's production of 'Touch' Christian Sullivan 10-Minute Play: Love, Death and Latex Sullivan has seen Die Hard and Fight Club a combined total of over 300 times. T Ryan S. Taylor 10-Minute Play: Ice Holes; The Peach; Executive Order 10450 Taylor has worked in DC theater since 2004 and is artistic director of The Washington Rogues." Kelly Thomas Artistic Blind Dates: Stage Manager Kelly can always find the fun in the fundamentals. Amy Thompson 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey Thompson is. For the time being, anyway. Hannah Todd 10-Minute Play: Feel Your Breath; A Disturbing Encounter at the Calhoun Residence; Dance with the Devil Todd was born at a very young age, in a hospital so she could be close to her mother; the rest, as they say, is history. Catherine Tripp Full-Length Play: The Making of A Modern Folk Hero Tripp's life was changed by the Greatest American Hero, believe it or not. V Chris Van Strander 10-Minute Play: True Nails Van Strander is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and actor whose plays have been produced and developed at over two dozen theaters and festivals around the world. Alex Vaughan 10-Minute Play: A Disturbing Encounter at the Calhoun Residence Involving Sex, Marriage and the American Musical Theatre Alex acts. Tony Villa 10-Minute Play: True Nails A Seattle native, Villa has finally found the perfect genre of theatre that fits perfectly in his ADD brain. W Ali Walton 10-Minute Play: Driving Home Walton is moving to a remote cottage in the Internet in 2022. Rick Westerkamp 10-Minute Play: Love, Death and Latex Westerkamp is like Wal-Mart; he's big, not too fancy and dares you not to like him. David Winkler 1Full-Length Play: Volcanic in Origin David Winkler was born in California, grew up in DC, went to school in Illinois, and now lives in a more transient state. Carmen C. Wong 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey Wong is a self-confessed appropriator and provocateur who hails from Singapore. Y Jacob Yeh 10-Minute Play: Jou Are Vhat Jou Eat Yeh is happy to be required to eat pork rinds. Z Martín Zimmerman Full-Length Play: The Making of a Modern Folk Hero Zimmerman is a Washingtonian with a Texas twist writing plays in Chicago. Ivan Zizek 10-Minute Play: Language Monkey Occasionally busy, easily bored, happily married, a product of grace, owner of a cowardly hairline, cliche designer glasses and a past, future but not present beach dweller.