the companywoken'glacier began in the winter of 2002 in Long Island when co-founders Matthew Paul Olmos and Nichol Alexander invited several directors and actors to a week-long retreat. Through this collaboration both the theatre company and the play the beautifulest room were formed. Since then, we have continued to create pieces as a company, such as wired, meanwhile taking on more international work such as Hanoch Levin’s The Child Dreams (in collaboration with VOICETheatre), and Heiner Müller’s Quartet. As well developing original work, locomotive, seal sings its song, and 12 Billion. Twice nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award (locomotive, seal sings its song), and recently collaborated with Theatre Arts Japan for the U.S. premiere of Hideo Tsuchida’s It Is Said The Men Are Over In The Steel Tower. Currntly in development is a stage adaptation of Kobo Abe's THE BOX MAN. advisory
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resident actor, designer, & editor (AEA) Third generation New York artist
From Duane Street, Tribeca who began at Saint Anne's School in Brooklyn
Heights. Continuing from there to study oil painting at Alfred University,
Psychology at Westchester Community College and Theater and Film at
the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and is a graduate of the edit center and apple certified pro. Previously has worked as sound
and Lighting designer for woken'glacier on their production of wired
and locomotive… As an actor has appeared for Hudson Warehouses'
production of Twelfth Night, as Duke Orsino, in their production of
the Tempest as Caliban and for Palehorse Production's debut performance
of Othello he appeared as Montano and was the executive producer.
Having worked on both sides of the camera in several independent films
across the United States and Europe as an actor, director and editor,
Dashiell is looking forward to growing and learning with woken'glacier. |
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resident actor & associate producer (AEA) Has an MFA in Acting from the
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resident director & fundraising Spent her childhood in Duesseldorf. She moved to Israel with her family in the 80's, where she started a TV career with her sister Dana. After the TV acting jobs she got more and more involved with producing and directing theater events and concerts. She absolved her military duty at the army's PR department. Then she worked for Multi Media Inc and Isaac Productions, for whom she produced the performances of the English Royal Ballet, the Vienna Opera Ballet and the Bands Garbage and K's Choice on their Israel tours. She also worked for the World Music Festival in Tel Aviv, was executive producer for theater productions, among them -The Child who Created the World- by Roi Zohar / Yael Charonsky, which was invited to the Haifa Childrens' Theater Festival. In 1999 Ronit moved to New York, where she received her MFA in directing from the Actor's Studio Drama School , New York . Ronit has directed and worked for several Off and Off-Off Broadway theaters as assistant director, stage manager etc, among them Jeremy Dobrish, Israela Margalit, Joan Vail Thorn, WPP and Handglove Company, Creative Theater Space. She joined post theater in 2001 when she produced '301/302' in Stuttgart and Berlin, in 2003 she directed and co-wrote post theater's matchmaker matchmaker. Her work was last featured during the Actor's Studio Reperatory season where she directed 6 plays, among them Heiner Muller's Quartet, and Eduardo Machado's Fabiola. Ronit directed woken'glacier and Theatre Arts Japan production of it is said the men are over in the steel tower by Hideo Tsuchida. |
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resident director & international correspondent Born and raised in Japan, Eriko has an MFA Directing at the Actors Studio Drama School . She is a co-founder and a resident director of woken'glacier theater company and a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Recent directing credit includes, Audience, "Down the Road, the beautifulest room, the 7th Disorder (Westbeth Theatre), 12 Billion (NY Fringe), When We Wake (HERE), The Seagull (Lincoln Center Directors Lab), assitant director credit include, Cloko (canal theatre in Japan), O Jang-gun's Toenail (Cherry rchard Stuido), Cherry Orchard- Firs' dream (Chekov Now Festival), Curoios Tumor (ATA). She moved to NY in 2001 after graduating from the Sacred Heart University in Tokyo . She has production experiences as both an actor and director in Tokyo , in plays ranging from modern Japanese plays, to Western Classics, to original work. She decided to move to NY to create new theater by combining the two different theater styles of Asia and the West. |
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artistic director & resident playwright Born in Montebello, California, Matthew received his B.A. in Playwriting from UC Santa Barbara, where he received a Corwin Award for Best Full-Length Play, The Tragedy of Catalina’s Lover. While there he acted in The Shadowbox, Romeo and Juliet, The Birthday Party, a guerilla production of Gallow’s Humor and the film Clarimonde from the 1999 Reel Loud Festival. His directing credits include the original scripts Confessions and Walk of Pride. He then attended UCLA’s School of Film, Theatre and Radio where he was given the GOP Award for Graduate Playwriting. Finally, he earned his MFA in Playwriting from The Actor’s Studio Drama School. As a playwright, he has been produced several times in Santa Barbara and was part of the THAW festival at HERE in NYC. He was part of the 2003 and 2004 Latino Festivals and the 2002 Black History Festival at The Actor’s Studio Drama School and his children’s play, Cingo Amigos, was produced at Colegio de St. Augustinos in Spain. His plays The Vampire Lesson and the beautifulest room were produced through The Actor’s Studio Repertory at Westbeth Theatre in New York. He was the 2004 Alternate Recipient of New Dramatists Van Lier Award. His plays seal sings its song, Wonders of the Human Body, and locomotive were produced at the Gene Frankel Theatre in New York City. His adaptation of Hideo Tsuchida’s It Is Said The Men Are Over In The Steel Tower was produced at TBG Theatre, and he was one of the ensemble writers for Myth America, produced by Personal Space Theatrics in 2007. He is a member of the Playwright/Director Workshop at The Actor’s Studio and INTAR's Hispanic Playwrights in Residnece. He was a finalist in the 2007 Ensemble Studio Theatre One-Act Marathon and a 2008 PONY Fellowship nominee. His play The Nature of Captivity was presented as a staged reading in the 2008 Playwrights/Directors Workshop Festival at the Actor'Studio this past spring and his play Wild Follows the Queen will premiere in the Samuel French Short Play Festival in July of 2008. He is on staff at the Lark Play Development Center and the co-founder and Artistic Director of woken’glacier theatre company. |
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founding member (AEA, SAG) A native of
founding member Began her acting training at the American Conservatory
Theatre at the age of 11. She has danced, choreographed and acted
in New York, San Francisco and Regionally. Some of her stage credits
include: NEW YORK: I (American Theatre of Actors),I (Gene Frankel),I(The
Producers Club), O Chang-gun's Toenail (Cherry Lane Studio
Theatre), Carnality (The Actors Studio - 44th St.), the
beautifulest room, The Seventh Disorder, Fiat
and The Imposters (Westbeth Theater), When You Wake
(HERE), Law of Life and 12 Billion (The Great Hall
- NY Intl Fringe Festival). SAN FRANCISCO: Hot ‘n' Throbbin’,
Bukowski/Raw from the Page, The Philadelphia Story, Thin Line, The
Arch Bishop’s Ceiling and the world premiere of Valerie
Solanas’ Up Your Ass with George Coates Performance
Works (S.F. and N.Y. cast). REGIONAL: Ice Cream, Bitter Tears
of Petra von Kant, Old Times, No Exit, True Trash, and the original
cast of Side Effects by Alberto Sandoval. Some of Chantel’s
film credits include: Her Urge (Camille), Bar (Cat),
Fanatik (Tracy), The Breathing Show (Cabbie), Smoke
the Pipe Dream (Amanda) and Kelly and Arnie (Kelly).
Chantel has taught beginning through advanced modern dance, contact
improvisation and Suzuki technique. She is a graduate of San Francisco
School of the Arts for dance. She has a BA from Mount Holyoke College
in Dance and Theatre Arts and an MFA for Acting from the Actors Studio
Drama School in New York. She is a recipient of the Margaret M. Stitt
Award for outstanding work in theatre and a Liberace Scholar Grant
recipient. Member: Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Gospel Choir
and a founding member of woken' glacier. |
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associated director/designer Was born in Valencia, Venezuela. He has a BA
in Directing and Design at the National School of Performing Arts
in Caracas, Venezuela and a program for theater professionals at Brooklyn
College. Oscar has been Director, Set and Lighting designer for all
of the plays he has directed since 1992. He has shared his work with
theaters with diverse styles from Latin American Center for Theater
Studies to the Caracas International Theater Festival. He was invited
to attend the Lincoln Center Directors Lab 2003 and 2004 and has trained
with Odin Teatret of Denmark both as a Director and as an actor in
his country. His most important works are: The Improvisation of
The Soul or The Sheppard Chameleon by Eugene Ionesco; A Turtle
Named Dostoievsky by Fernando Arrabal; The Deceased and The
Hand by Rene de Obaldia, Fernando Josseau and The Tiger
by Murray Schisgal. NYC credits: It's not Me by Gregory Xenopolus
at the Greek Cultural Center in Astoria, On The Open Road
by Steve Teshich at the Independent Theater in Manhattan, Figaro
Gets a Divorce by Odom Von Horvath at The Access Theater in Manhattan,
Mother Wove the Morning by Carol Lynn Pearson at the Shetler
54 Showcase Theater in Manhattan and Cop Out by John Guare
at the Gene Frankel Theater In Manhattan. |
