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Board of Trustees
Merribel Ayres—Melissa Berkoff—William Colgrove—Philippa Hughes
Cara Pomponio—Gwydion Suilebhan
First Ten
Philippa Hughes • Sam Fleming • Christine Farley • Anthony Nelson • Cathleen Nelson
Ryan Nelson • Merribel Ayres • Anne Mayerson • One Anonymous • Two Anonymous
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 Lise Bruneau trained
at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Credits include: Merry
Wives of Windsor, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Blithe
Spirit, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, & Elizabeth
I in Mary Stuart at Center Stage; The Winter’s
Tale, Shakespeare Theatre; Les Liaisons Dangereuses & The
Angel in Angels in America at ACT in San Francisco. Dybbuk for
A Travelling Jewish Theatre; Topographical Eden & the
world premiere of Edna O'Brien's Triptych at the Magic.
She has also appeared at Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, and the Wilma in Philadelphia. |
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 Kimberly Gilbert trained at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting. Her Taffety shows include Bootleg Cymbelline, Cardenio Found, The Skinhead Hamlet, Damaged Goods, Let X, and Then It Faster Rock'd. She is also a company member with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company where she rocked out in The K of D, Martha Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Helen Hayes Nomination, Lead Actress), Big Death and Little Death, and Cooking With Elvis. Other DC stages that she has melted faces off on have been Round House Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Folger Theatre, Source Theatre, Scena Theatre, & Washington Shakespeare Company. She is a native of Wallingford, Pennsylvania, the Land of 'not-fer-nuthin'. |
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 Marcus Kyd trained
at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting
in Washington DC & Emerson College in Boston. Credits include Intimations
for Saxophone at Arena Stage, One Good Marriage at
Metro Stage, Shear Madness & the title role in Cyrano both
in the Kennedy Center’s Theater Lab; Walton, The Nitrate
Hymnal (WPAS & Anti-social Music); The title role in Pericles and
Cassio in Othello at the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, The
Winter’s Tale at Center Stage. Marcus sang and played
guitar for The Most Secret Method. The band released four records & toured
extensively through North America and Europe. |
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 Christopher
Marino trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic
Art in London, the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical
Acting, and Bard College, NY. Credits include The Castle,
Primary Stages; Titus Andronicus, Soho Rep; Madonna,
Village Theatre Company, The Duchess of Malfi, Shakespeare
Theatre; The Tempest, Macbeth at Mill Mountain
Theatre; Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Baltimore
Shakespeare. He has also appeared at the Utah Shakespearean Festival,
the Kansas City Shakespeare Festival, the Actors Shakespeare
Company. He is a certified associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, & former
Aritistic Director of the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. |
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 Tonya Beckman Ross moved to DC from Chicago in 2004 and has worked at Shakespeare Theatre, Kennedy Center, Round House, Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, and Charter Theatre. Shows with Taffety Punk include Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure, suicide.chat.room, and the Bootleg Troilus and Cressida. She’s also a dialect coach, and has worked with Woolly Mammoth, Constellation Theatre, Longacre Lea, and The Theatre Lab. Tonya trained at Ohio University’s Professional Actor Training Program. |
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 Joel David Santner trained at the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting. Taffety Punk shows include Burn Your Bookes (upcoming) and the Troilus & Cressida Bootleg. Other acting credits include roles at The Kennedy Center, Folger Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre. Joel’s various directing credits include the Capital Fringe Festival, Factory 449, Round House, Studio 2ndStage and the Folger Theatre. Rock. On. |
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 Esther Williamson trained at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting. She is an original Riot Grrl, appearing as Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Isabella in Measure for Measure. She has also appeared in every Taffety Punk bootleg so far. She has appeared onstage as an actor and/or musician at Ford's Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Book-It Repertory Theatre and others. Esther teaches acting for teens and adults at The Shakespeare Theatre and is a proud member of the St. Paul's K St. parish choir. |
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 Paulina Guerrero is originally from the Washington DC area. She was co-choreographer for "on your soapbox slipping" a benefit show in the 2007 Capital Fringe Festival. She has danced & toured nationally with companies in New York City & Washington DC including Grove Dance Theatre, chi.cha.co, Beth Soll Dance Company, Michelle Handelman Multi-media, & Lisa Stott. Paulina co-directed Proving Ground Movement–an experimental dance laboratory. They appeared at Joe's Movement Emporium, Dance Space, DCAC, & The Jack Guidone Theater in DC, & HERE arts space & the Brooklyn Dance Exchange in New York. |
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 David Polk trained at Virginia Tech where he earned a BA in Theatre Arts. Stage Management credits include Pangea and Let X with Taffety Punk Theatre Company, Camping with Henry and Tom and The Princess and the Pea at Dunwoody Stage Door Players (Atlanta, GA), and The Real Inspector Hound at Virginia Tech’s Summer Stock Theatre (Blacksburg, VA). He is currently the Program Coordinator for the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences program and mentors the student stage managers in Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s theatre program. |
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 Paper Bag has enjoyed a repertory of challenging roles with the Taffety Punks. Often called our most versatile performer, his portrayals include God in The Devil in his Own Words, Dick Cheney in And Then It Faster Rock'd, Doc X in Let X, and The Ghost of Hamlet's Father in The Skinhead Hamlet. |
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