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Lee Ann Etzold Lee Ann Etzold is a director, performer, choreographer, writer, and teaching artist, and since 1998, has helped developed seven NPL pieces. Lee has been a Haas Emerging Artist Finalist, 2003 Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellow, and a 2006 Independence Foundation Fellow. She studied with professional clown, Ami Hathab, in France, premiered her original comedy of etiquette, P’s & Q’s, and developed new work with Bill Irwin for Philadelphia Theatre Company. Lee has also worked and toured with Pig Iron Theatre Co., Headlong Dance Theater, and received a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Ensemble for The Comedy of Errors at the Lantern Theatre Co., and a Barrymore Nomination for Outstanding Original Music for Brat Production’s Grease and Desist. Other local theatre companies she has worked for include the Arden, Azuka Theatre Collective, and the Philadelphia Shakespeare Company. She is part-time faculty at the University of the Arts, and a creative consultant for the National Constitution Center.
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McKenna Kerrigan McKenna Kerrigan is a company member of New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) and has created and performed their work since 1999. With NPL, McKenna has performed at the Humana Festival at Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, PS 122, Walker Art Center, Andy Warhol Museum, Touchstone Theatre and the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. McKenna has also performed with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Pig Iron Theatre Company, People’s Light & Theatre Company, Headlong Dance Theatre, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, and toured Ireland performing in the ReJoyce Festival.
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Jeb Kreager has lived in Philadelphia for almost a decade. He is a founding member of New Paradise Laboratories and has co-created and performed all of their work, most recently BATCH (Humana Festival and 2007 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival). CONTEST, his first work as director and choreographer, premiered at the 2006 Live Arts Festival. Jeb's recent performance work includes THE EUROPEAN LESSON (Jo Stromgren Kompani--NOR), FROZEN (InterAct--Barrymore Award), MR. MARMALADE (Exile), THE FOUR OF US and RECENT TRAGIC EVENTS (1812 Productions), MR. BAILEY'S MINDER (Walnut Street), THE BFG (Arden), and THE FOREIGNER (People's Light).
A 2006 Independence Fellow, 2003 PCA Fellow and nine-time Barrymore nominee,
Jeb attended Virginia Tech, Antonio Fava's Scuola Internazionale dell'Attore Comico (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and Circle in the Square (New York).
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Mary McCool is a founding member of NPL. She has appeared in all of its pieces. Recent credits outside of NPL include the Wilma Theater’s Les Liasons Dangereuses, the Lantern’s The Birthday Party, The House of Bernarda Alba, and King Lear, InterAct Theatre’s Drink Me and National Showcase of New Plays. She was last seen in Theatre Exile’s Valparaiso playing Livia Majeski. In addition to acting and costume design, Mary teaches with People’s Light and Theatre Company.
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Aaron Mumaw has been with New Paradise since the beginning. He has collaborated on every NPL project. He lives in Philadelphia, where he has worked as an actor, carpenter, bouncer, bartender, philosopher, and electrician for the past six years. Additionally, Aaron has performed with Mum Puppettheatre, the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra, and The Lantern Theatre.
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Matt Saunders is a designer/performer in Philadelphia. He graduated cum laude from Va Tech with a BA in Theatre Arts. Matt is also a graduate of The School for Commedia del' Arte, conducted by Master teacher Antonio Fava in Reggio Emilia, Italy.
Matt has been involved in all of NPL's works as a designer and performer.
Outside of NPL, Matt has performed for Philadelphia's MOXIE Dance Collective, Theatre Exile,Mum Puppettheatre/The Philadelphia Orchestra and InterAct Theatre Company. In 2001, Matt was nominated for the Barrymore Award for Best Supporting-Actor for his role in Man Measures Man, a new play by David Robson, produced by InterAct Theatre Company. As a scenic/visual designer, Matt has worked with such companies as Brat Productions, Theatre Exile, MOXIE Dance Collective, The Walnut St. Theatre, The Arden Theatre Company, Pig Iron Theatre Company and the Bessie Award-Winning Headlong Dance Theatre. Matt designed Headlong's recent Hotel Pool , which premiered at the 2004 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and then went immediately to PICA in Portland, Oregon. With Pig Iron Theatre, Matt designed Flop, its critically acclaimed three woman clown show that premiered in Philadelphia in 2001. Flop has since been performed in NYC at The Ohio Theatre and at the Pleasance Theatre during the 2004 Edinborough Fringe Festival. Matt designed Pig Iron's recent hit, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, which debuted at the 2004 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.
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