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Malka Wallick is an actor, producer, and dangerous creature — at least that’s what it says on her business cards. Born and bred in Brooklyn, NYC is home — however, after two years, including a stint in grad school at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London is where her heart is at. As an artist she is committed to using her voice to empower young girls and to help shift the narrative. After years of Shakespeare, she discovered a true love for new script development. She rarely does anything in between! Outside of the theatre, Malka can be found baking, doing the NYTimes crossword puzzle, and attempting to teach herself French and the Ukulele. She has an affinity for peaty scotches and Sheila Hetti novels. Ask her about her tattoos, she would love to gush about them!
Michelle Bossy is a Mexican-American theater and film director. Films Michelle has directed include Under the Lantern Lit Sky, Friendly Neighborhood Coven, The Trespassed, Ladies Lounge, and Miracle Baby, She Grinds Her Own Coffee, The New 35 and 18. She directed music videos for the band Yassou and singer/songwriter Brooke Josephson. Michelle directed the web series There’s a Special Place in Hell for Fashion Bloggers.Theater Michelle has directed in New York and internationally includes There and Back, Lady MacBeth and Her Lover, There and Back, Sex with Strangers, Every Good Girl Deserves Fun, Sex of the Baby, Cloven Tongues, Un Plugged In, South Beach Rapture, and Sarajevo’s Child. She co-created the musical High School Confidential for Primary Stages. Michelle was the Associate Artistic Director of Primary Stages, where she worked for thirteen years. She holds the first undergraduate directing degree from Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Michelle teaches for the Dramatic Writing Program at NYU, and Syracuse University's Tepper Semester. Member: Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and SDC.
Elizabeth is a writer living in New York City whose plays have been finalists and semi-finalists for the Woodward/Newman Award, TheatreWorks New Works Festival, the American Shakespeare Center, The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Princess Grace Awards, Blue Ink Award and nominated for the Lark Venturous Playwright Fellowship. She is a writer member of The Actor’s Studio, José Rivera’s writer’s group, as well as Dorset Theatre Festival’s Women Artists Writing. Her work for the stage has been seen/read at LAByrinth Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, The Actors Studio, New Neighborhood, Primary Stages, ESPA Detention at Jimmy’s No. 43, The Abingdon Theatre, The Drama League and Six Part Productions. She has written for the screen, contributed as an essayist and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Mara is a NY-based award-winning actress and producer. She has three award-winning films on the film festival circuit right now, EXTRA INNINGS, LADIES LOUNGE and FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD COVEN. She co-produced Shawn Christensen's CURFEW, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. Mara starred in and co-produced, GRANDMA'S NOT A TOASTER, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She co-starred, wrote & produced her award-winning directorial debut, NOW OR LATER, which screened at dozens of film festivals last year. Recent film credits include DATA RECOVERY, CUL DE SAC, BEFORE I DISAPPEAR, ROOTZ and TINY THINGS. Selected theatre credits include works by Elizabeth Irwin, Halley Feiffer, Heidi Schreck, Anna Ziegler, Erica Saleh, and Caroline McGraw. Member of AMPAS, SAG-AFTRA & AEA.
Jonathan Chekroune is a Producer, Director, and Cinematographer living in New York City. He is best known as Director of the award winning short film, Sasha (2016), for which he was featured in the Cannes Short Film Corner (2016). He works in both narrative and commercial film. As a cinematographer he has filmed locally and internationally for commercial clients including: Jeep, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Christie’s Auction House. Selected credits include: Sasha (Executive Producer/ Director) Perspective (Director), Forgotten Patient (Cinematographer), Reflection (Cinematographer), Bacardi: Drink to Remember (Cinematographer), Einstein: The God Letter (Cinematographer).
Ingrid Nordstrom is Senior Producer of the Americas region for Christie’s Content (video). She began her career as an actor/dramaturg, pivoted to art history, landed as a video producer making videos about art, and is now circling back to narrative film. Straight lines are difficult for her. Since becoming producer, Christie’s has won 6 Telly awards and been nominated for a Webby. Selected credits: Studio Visit: Olga de Amaral, Studio Visit: Frank Stella, David Hockney Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) , Margaret Hamilton: The woman who wrote the software that put a man on the moon, Einstein: The God Letter
Estelle BAJOU is a NY Innovative Theatre Award-winning Actor, Drama Desk Award-nominated Composer, Writer, Director, and Educator. A first-generation French-American raised in a furniture factory town in the North Carolina mountains, she's loved traveling across North, Central, and South America, Europe, and the Middle East, including Iraq, for projects, and is now based in The Bronx. Broadway: Once. TV: “Boardwalk Empire”; Ken Burns’ “Prohibition”. Feature Film: Charming the Hearts of Men; Spielberg’s The Post; Chaplin of the Mountains; subHysteria; Fireworkers; Beneath Disheveled Stars. Short Film: Starring Austin Pendleton; Lullaby for Ray; Broke, Henry Buys a Hat. Theatre: PS122, Edinburgh Fringe, LaMaMa, 59E59, 14th St Y, New Ohio, NJ Rep, FringeNYC, Under St. Marks, Shadowland, A.R.T. Oberon, Barrow Street, three National Tours, et al. At age nineteen, she earned a BA in Theatre and Creative Writing from Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She then earned an MFA in Acting from the School of Drama at The New School in New York City.