Staff

Molly Marinik

Molly Marinik (Founder, Editor)

Molly is a dramaturg and director with a dance background who has worked in the theatre in a whole bunch of ways. She is passionate about developing audiences for New York theatre and hopes that Theasy functions to empower potential audiences to go out and see shows, thus filling the houses of deserving productions all over town. Thanks for visiting Theasy! (Now go and tell your friends...)

Reviews by Molly

Terra VetterTerra Vetter (Assistant Editor)

Terra has spent the last decade of her life living in Brooklyn and hopelessly addicted to theater. When she's not working as a stage manager or dabling as playwright she's seeing shows. Lots of shows. In addition to the theater she has significant amounts of love for reading, the Q train and board games. She's also a member of The Lucky Artist Theater Company.

 

Tzipora Kaplan

Tzipora Kaplan (Assistant Editor)

Tzipora Kaplan is an indie-theatre so-and-so who spends a lot of time in search of both the perfect handbag and umbrella. What she is currently pleased about: working with the NYIT awards 2009, writing an action-adventure flick starring Daniel Craig and Ed Norton, contributing her opinions on Theasy, and the crazy and brilliant people who sustain both her social life and her hope for a better and brighter future. She continues to soldier on in her pursuit of artistic happiness (the ultimate oxymoron) and sincerely hopes that one day she will have the guts to be irreverent in her bio.

Joseph Samual WrightJoseph Samuel Wright (Writer)

Joseph Samuel Wright is a playwright, producer, director, and the founding artistic director of Roots and Wings Theatrical (www.rawtheatrical.org). Joseph’s plays have been produced both off-off Broadway and regionally, and during his collegiate hay-day his LGBT youth advocacy play Ours was performed at colleges across East Tennessee. In addition to Theasy, you may recognize his byline from BroadwaySpace.com or his tragically under-updated blog. Special soft spots for environmental theatre, experimental forms, and strong female leads. www.JosephSamuelWright.com

Le-Anne Garland

Le-Anne Garland (Writer)

Le-Anne received her MFA in Acting from the University of Florida, BA in Theatre Performance and BA in English/Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, she started writing as a child on wood boards during weekend trips with the family to their cabin Up North.

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Alan Miller (Writer)

Alan is a retired senior financial executive who ran the research and investment management divisions of a major NYSE member firm. In that former life, he also wrote two books on finance and lectured on the subject in the US, Russia, Indonesia and Malysia. Alan believes that the only way to remain young is to re-pot yourself from time to time which explains why he became a rare book dealer for a decade after retiring from Wall Street, why he then started his own blog at http://aseatontheaisle.blogspot.com. Alan is unique among our staff in several respects: (1) he’s probably old enough to have fathered or grandfathered the rest of us; (2) he’s never actually worked in the theatre himself; and (3) he’s fortunate now in being able to indulge his love for the theatre without any longer having to concern himself with a day job.

Adrienne UrbanskiAdrienne Urbanski (Writer)

Adrienne’s love for the written word has lead her in many directions including broadcast journalism, print journalism, creative writing, and academia. She currently works as an English instructor and freelance writer, primarily covering literature and theater. She holds BAs in English and journalism from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and an MA in English from Brooklyn College. Her writing has appeared in Bust Magazine, New York Press, The Onion’s AV section, Downtown Express, The Villager, Chelsea Now, The Feminist Review, Elevate Difference, Bitch Magazine, Venus Zine, The Minnesota Women’s Press, Pulse of the Twin Cities and others.

Weston ClayWeston Clay (Writer)

Weston Clay’s fascination with the theater began in childhood when he saw a traveling production of Phantom of the Opera in Denver. After earning a B.A. in English and Psychology at University of Washington and a M.A. in English at Brooklyn College, Weston is thrilled to combine his passions for writing and theater with Theasy!

 

Rachel Moss

Rachel Merrill Moss (Writer)

Rachel is a theatre practitioner, critic, and aspiring dramaturg happily living in Brooklyn. In addition to passionately exploring the gamut of theatrical endeavors occurring throughout the city, she has a penchant for seeking out quality used bookstores, fine succulent collections and authentic burritos. Currently part of Barrow Street Theatre in the West Village.

 

Julie Feltman

Julie Feltman (Writer)

When Julie is not reviewing a play, she is a freelance stage-manager for off and off-off-Broadway, or brainstorming projects with her company, the Lucky Artists Theater Company. She is a classically trained singer, and occasionally enjoys performing light opera regionally and in New York. Julie is currently pursuing a business economics degree at Pace University, and resides in Brooklyn.

Zak Risinger

Zak Risinger (Writer)

Zak Risinger likes theatre and thinks that it should be easy. Originally from the land where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, he attended the University of Oklahoma and has worked professionally as an actor and dramaturg all across the country. He often likes plays that are a little quirky and make you look at the world a little differently but is also a sucker for the classics.

O'Hagan BladesO'Hagan Blades (Writer)

O'Hagan Blades is a founding member of the fledgling Brooklyn ensemble "Rudy's Collaborative."  Through it, she wears many hats: actress, director, writer, designer, producer, cook. A native South Carolinian, O'Hagan graduated in 2010 from Yale University with a BA in Theater Studies. In another life, she is an archaeologist.      

Abby Marsh

Abby Marsh (Writer)

A Cleveland native, Abby is a self-proclaimed gal-about-town and NYC enthusiast. When she isn’t seeing shows and being sassy, she can be found eating at Hale and Hearty or scoping out and writing about the absurd (albeit hilarious) fashion blunders on her style blog, “A Gal’s Right to Style,” of which she is co-creator. Abby loves soy ice cream (yeah, that’s right), abbreviating, and fantasizing about the possibility of one day owning a French bulldog. BFA in Acting from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. http://galsright2style.blogspot.com

Haytham ElhawaryHaytham Elhawary (Writer)

Haytham Elhawary leads a double life: by day he is an uninteresting geeky engineer working in medical robotics; by night he transforms into an incredibly handsome theatre going superhero. He also enjoys improv, literature, and has devised a plan to help you all select the best of the theater scene by writing reviews for Theasy.

 

Jessica Cauttero (Writer)

Jessica is a freelance arts writer, semi-professional nerd, Master's degree dilettante and native New Yorker. She has been working in or around theatermaking for over ten years and her favorite offstage job was probably making puppets. As an actor, she specialized in portraying men and people over the age of 50; as a writer, she prefers offbeat/quirky and classical shows, combined in the most interesting way possible. When not writing, she is reading, sewing, knitting, or performing under an assumed name wearing a lot of glitter.

Regina Robbins (Writer)

Regina is a writer, director, native New Yorker, and game-show champion. She has worked with several NYC-based theatre companies and had her short films screened at venues across the U.S. She has also earned two master's degrees, and won four times on "Jeopardy!" in 2010. Learn more at www.reginarobbins.com.

 

Benjamin Coleman (Writer)

Ben Coleman is thrilled to be part of the Theasy team. He holds a BFA from Syracuse University and is currently earning his Masters from Brooklyn College. Ben has worked as an agent at Peter Strain & Assoc. and Bret Adams Ltd. Most importantly, Ben REALLY loves theatre!

Eleanor J. Bader (Writer)

Eleanor J. Bader teaches college journalism and English and is a frequent contributor to The Brooklyn Rail, RHRealityCheck.org, The Progressive, and ontheissuesmagazine.com. She lives in Brooklyn.

Joshua Bombino (Writer)

Joshua Bombino has a B.A. in Theatre from Lehigh University.  Over the years he has worked professionally as a director, actor, puppeteer and stagehand. Currently he manages a psychiatric rehabilitation program near Baltimore and enjoys making weekend trips to New York for good food, good friends and, hopefully, good theatre.



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