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Quinn Bauriedel
(Summer Session Director) is a co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of
Pig Iron. He has per-formed, directed, and designed for the company
over the last 14 years. Notable roles include Walchak in Hell Meets
Henry Halfway, Vincent in Gentlemen Volunteers, Mike/Dr. Michaels in
Shut Eye and Spencer in The Lucia Joyce Cabaret. With his fellow
Artistic Directors, Quinn received a “Best Choreography” Barrymore for
Cafeteria and a Pew Fellowship in Performance Art. Recently, Quinn was
awarded one of 6 national Fox Foundation Actor Fellowships. As part of
his fellowship, he directed the latest Pig Iron original work, Welcome
to Yuba City, which premiered in September, 2009 at the Philadelphia
Live Arts Festival. Quinn received a Henry Luce Fellowship to spend a
year in Bali, Indonesia. He is a graduate of Ecole Jacques Lecoq and
Swarthmore College and currently teaches at Swarthmore and at the
Headlong Performance Institute.
Dito van Reigersberg is a graduate of
Swarthmore College and The Neighborhood Playhouse. He is a co-founder
and Co-Artistic Director of Pig Iron Theatre Company and is especially
proud of two big milestones in Pig Iron history, 10 years in operation
(in 2005) and 20 productions (with Chekhov Lizardbrain). Favorite Pig
Iron shows include Mission to Mercury, a ghostly fantasia with Queen
music; the wordless clown play Cafeteria ; and Hell Meets Henry
Halfway, a play about tennis and melancholia, which toured to the
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in his hometown of Washington DC in
February 2009.
Geoff Sobelle has been a company member of Pig Iron since 2001. He is the co-artistic director of rainpan 43, a renegade absurdist outfit. Geoff was awarded an Independence Foundation Fellowship and grants from the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative to create all wear bowlers, (Innovative Theatre Award, Drama Desk nomination), the rube-goldberg kinetic junk play, machines machines machines machines machines machines machines, and Flesh and Blood and Fish and Fowl. He was named “Best Theatre Artist 2004” in Philadelphia Magazine, received a 2006 Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and is a 2009 Creative Capital grantee. He is a graduate of Stanford University, and trained at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France.
Sarah Sanford studied at École Jacques Lecoq prior to joining Pig Iron on Shut Eye in 2001. Since then she has appeared in PITC creations including The Lucia Joyce Cabaret, Hell Meets Henry Halfway, Love Unpunished, 365 Plays/365 Days, and Welcome to Yuba City. In addition to her Pig Iron work she has performed with BRAT Productions, the Lantern, the Wilma, the Arden, Theatre Exile, Mauckingbird, and in Jo Strømgren's The European Lesson. Sarah has also performed with Toronto company Volcano (The Four Horsemen) in Vancouver and Victoria, B.C. She recently brought her original piece Appetite, a collaboration with Toronto dance and theatre artists, to Philadelphia. Sarah was a finalist for the 2008 and 2009 F. Otto Haas award and recently named Philadelphia Magazine's “Best of Philly: Up-and-coming Theatre Artist.”
Charlotte Ford is a Philadelphia-based theater artist who was a member of the core creative ensemble for Pig Iron Welcome to Yuba City, and has worked with Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, Theatre Exile, Big House Plays and Spectacles, New Paradise Laboratories, the Arden Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the McCarter Theatre, and Brat Productions. She has been nominated for two Barrymore Awards, as Outstanding Supporting Actress for Theatre Exile's Red Light Winter, and for Outstanding Ensemble in Exile's Mr. Marmalade. She is a recipient of the 2008 and 2009 Leeway Art and Change Grant, and the 2008 Independence Foundation Fellowship. Her new absurdist clown play, Chicken, will premiere at the 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. She holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MFA from the London International School of Performing Arts.