JAMES CHEN
James grew up in New York state, where he watched entirely too much television, played the piano, and was a big fan of NBA basketball.
He initially enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania for a 4-year biochemistry masters program, but by his senior year, he was skipping Lab to act, write, and direct plays in various productions on campus. Upon graduating with an Economics degree, he immediately got a job as a busboy to pursue acting in earnest. He worked with some of Philadelphia's finest theater artists at companies such as the Mum Puppet Theater, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, and The Philadelphia Theater Company.
Soon he headed to New Haven, Connecticut to attend the acting program at the Yale School of Drama, chaired by the legendary Ron Van Lieu. Over the next 3 years, he had the great fortune to train with the best teachers and fellow actors in the country, playing various roles in a wide range of productions at the Drama School, the Yale Cabaret, as well as the Yale Repertory Theater. He also served on the advisory board for the Committee of Diversity at the Drama School, attended summer acting programs at the Chautauqua Theater Company and the Guthrie Theater, and on receipt of his MFA, James was awarded the Dexter Luke Memorial Award.
The next stop was the amazing city of New York where he began enjoying a professional acting career in television, independent and studio film, theater stage productions, audiobooks, and commercials. He is a founding member of the Leviathan Theater Lab, a member of Descendant Films. He currently splits his time between New York City and Los Angeles.
EUGENE DOUGLAS
Eugene's recent theatre credits include Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Oberon/Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Vasquez in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol (American Shakespeare Center); Don Pedro/Verges in Much Ado About Nothing (Vermont Shakespeare); Narrator in Sun Ra (Soho Rep). Film: Simon in "reverie." Prior to these credits, Eugene enjoyed a decade as an Acting Professor at UC Irvine, the University of New Mexico, and St. Lawrence University.
JONATHAN HOPKINS
Jonathan is very happy to be working with Project Theater for the first time. Favorite stage credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Roxy Regional Theater (Tennessee), Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Three Musketeers, and The Merchant of Venice at the Actor's Shakespeare Company (New Jersey), 21A at the Virginia Tech Performing Arts Building (Virginia), The Sneeze at the Pearl (New York), The Nina Variations (New York), Much Ado About Nothing for Piper Theater (New York), Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol and Twelfth Night for Smith Street Stage (New York), and Meet the Artist: Mark Twain, which performed in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Lincoln Center. Jonathan teaches and directs at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and is an assistant coach of the speech and debate team at the Urban Assembly School of Criminal Justice in Brooklyn. He is the Executive Director of Smith Street Stage, and is directing their upcoming production of Julius Caesar, which opens June 28th in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn (smithstreetstage.org).
HEATHER KELLEY
Heather is a founding member of Mad Dog Theatre Company, and most recently appeared in their production of Chisa Hutchinson’s This is Not the Play, which won the 2012 Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Short Script. Other credits include: Hayfever (Dorset Theatre Festival); Don Carlos (Prospect Theater Company); A Doll’s House (Banyan Theater Company); The Giver, Inventing van Gogh, The Winter’s Tale, and The Devil’s Disciple (Asolo Repertory Theatre); and three seasons with the educational touring company of the Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Heather currently serves as Audience Services Coordinator for Premiere Stages, the professional theatre company in residence at Kean University. Her plays and short stories can be found in 225 Plays by the New York Neo-Futurists from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (Hope and Nonthings) and What Happened to Us These Last Couple Years? An Anthology of the Bush Years, 2000-2008 (Elope Press/So New Publishing). MFA Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training.
JENNIFER LOGUE
Jennifer an interpersonal communication skills expert with the global company Working Voices, has been performing in NYC for over 13 years. This ranges from her stand-up career at Caroline's on Broadway, Gotham, and Stand Up New York to performing with the Fringe Festival in Musical Chairs. She has also originated the role of The Women in This is Not the Play. You can also see Jennifer perform the 1st Wednesday of every month with the Our Bar theater company http://www.ourbarnyc.com/.Regional: includes Columbia in Rocky Horror Picture Show, Meredith in Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, Emily in Blue Window ,Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tale of Two Cities. Jennifer has an MFA in Acting from the FSU/Asolo Conservatory.
ALEXANDRA PERLWITZ
Alexandra received her BFA in Acting from UConn. In 2011, she won Best Actress in a Play with the Broadway World Connecticut Awards for her work as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice at Connecticut Repertory Theater. Other credits at CRT include Othello (Desdemona), Pericles: Prince of Tyre (Marina), Antony & Cleopatra (Octavius Caesar), Spring's Awakening (Wendla Bergman), Too Much Memory (Antigone), and Urinetown: The Musical (Little Sally). At Hope Summer Repertory Theater, Perlwitz performed in Taking Steps, Children of Eden, and I Remember Mama. Other works with Project: Theater include Ken Ferrigni's Mangella, in which she played Gabriella, the needy PC computer.
Associate Artistic Director: Jessi Blue Gormezano
Production Stage Manager/Lighting Designer: Adam Carpenter
Sound Designer: Nick Borisjuk
Props Coordinator: Alicia Dawn Bullen
Set Designer: J.J. Bernard & Francois Portier
Costume Designer: Matt Hamilton
Video Design: Ken Ferrigni
Fight Director: Joie Bauer
Production Assistants: Elysse Yulo & Kaitlyn Gorman
Press Representative: Karen Greco
