 Jackie got a BFA in acting from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. After graduating she moved to NYC where she performed Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway and Where-The-Hell-Is Broadway before landing a role in the Off-Broadway production "Tony n'Tina's Wedding". She has been lucky enough to be a part of the Lincoln Center New Works Series, The Public Theatre’s Reading Series, The New York Fringe Festival and to perform at the National Theatre in Washington, DC. She’s also done commercials, voiceovers and stand-up comedy in all the major clubs before making her way to Los Angeles in 2000. In Los Angeles, she’s continued to do theatre and in 2001 she received an Ovation Award nomination for her solo show, “Last Stop: Neverland” which she wrote and performed. She also did short films, was a regular skit performer on Fox’s THE BEST DAMNED SPORTS SHOW EVER and can also be heard as the voice of Harley on the Xbox games "Outlaw Golf I and II", "Outlaw Volleyball" and "Outlaw Tennis". In 2007 she was featured on National Lampoon Comedy Radio Networks’ Comedy Countdown, the Los Angeles Comedy Festival and the Las Vegas Comedy Festival while performing stand-up in clubs in and around Los Angeles. In 2009 Jackie moved back to New York City where she continues to pursue her acting career and is a proud member of The Barrow Group/FAB (theater FOR, ABOUT and BY women).
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Website: http://www.jackiemaruschak.com FB: Facebook.com/jackiemaruschak MORE ABOUT ME I keep doing theater because it was my first, truest and longest lasting love. It is where I feel most alive. It's been there for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health and I will love and cherish doing it until death do us part. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I am currently playing the Nurse/Lady Montague in an upcoming production of MAD Company's Romeo & Juliet at the Abrons Arts Center (3/23 - 4/2) and writing a solo show with the working title "RAISED BY WOMEN". KEYWORDS Comedy, Women of a Certain Age, Theater, Storytelling  Rosemary’s plays, for which she has won several NJ State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowships, include Pushing the River, Jersey City Theatre Center, (developed in residency with the New Jersey Women’s Playwrights Project) a darkly comic exploration of memory, consciousness and eminent domain; A More Opportune Time, a free adaptation of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus; and Paterson Falls, commissioned by Writers Theatre of New Jersey, about about silk strikes, salons and the power of theatre. Earlier plays include Standing in the Shadows (Wings Theatre, inspired by the Sharon Kowalski story); Voices Carry (Drew University); Motherless Child (Chicago Cooperative Stage); Horsefeathers, Women Playwrights Collective (Intimate Acts play anthology, Brito Lair); The Raw and the Cooked (Hallie Flanagan Play Series).
Shorter works include: Wombats, 10Fest; The Hanukkah Bush, Speranza Theatre; Breaking Quarantine, The Coronavirus Plays Project; Texas Walmart, Monologues & Madness, Panjera; Bella For The Revolution, Monologues and Madness, Cornelia Street Cafe; Sensitive, SHEatre; Can-Can, Cathedral Arts Live; and Totally Not Liam, Speranza Theatre Company. A member of the Dramatists Guild, Rosemary serves on the board of directors of ICWP (International Centre for Women Playwrights). She is a founding member both of Sheilah, a mixed genre writers group as well as Write Where You Are, for playwrights. Rosemary received her MFA from Rutgers. She is a professor of Theatre and Dance at Drew University where she directs the Playwriting program. She and her wife, Laurie Wurm, live in Maplewood, NJ, with their two children, three cats and one hamster.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA FB @RosemaryMcL Twitter @RosemaryMcL IG rpmclaugh Spoutible @RosemaryMcLaughlin MORE ABOUT ME Senior year of high school I was visiting a friend in DC. I’d always loved A Midsummer Night’s Dream and we heard it was playing at the Kennedy Center. We showed up at the box office an hour after the early curtain, doubly disappointed to learn it was sold out. Seeing people come out for the first intermission, we decided to follow them inside and lurk in the back of the theatre until someone threw us out. They would have had a fight on their hands. What we had stumbled into was THE Midsummer, directed by Peter Brook. I’d grown up going to Broadway, thanks to the two-fer discount tickets my Dad would bring home, but nothing had prepared me for what I was seeing: a white box with trapezes representing Athens and the forest. Sally Jacobs’ brilliant set design and how Brook’s direction used it blew me away. Everything about this RSC production made me think: “THIS is what theatre can be and do!” Ten years later, enrolled in Rutgers Playwriting MFA program, I could hardly believe it when they announced Sally Jacobs would be teaching stage design there. I took every class with her I could. She was a delight, thoroughly inspirational and vastly good humored about my scrambling to catch up with classmates who actually had a design background. Her impact, and that of Peter Brook, have had a lasting influence on my work as a playwright and as a teacher of playwrights. WHAT I'M WORKING ON Works-in-progress include Thank You, Dark (developed in residency with Women Playwrights Circle) about gentrification, theatre and LGBTQ+ activism; Seven Fishermen, inspired by a would-be missionary’s tragic encounter with uncontacted people; and The Triumph of Realism, a screenplay in which a retired Art Historian’s past becomes a thriller for her grandchildren. KEYWORDS Gay, LGBTQ+, Women, Comedy, Lesbian, Satire, Historical, Political, Gentrification, Liminal, Adaptations  Michole Biancosino is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company. With Project Y, she has led various professional productions, as producer, director, creator and writer. Her credits included the long-running shows, Trump Lear (co-created and directed) and the award-winning, David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet (co-created and directed), both of which toured regionally and performed at Edinburgh Fringe, as co-productions with Richard Jordan Productions (UK), The Pleasance, and Underbelly. Recently Michole has been devising and writing plays. Since the pandemic she’s ventured into digital theatre-making and hybrid theatre in Vermont via Tiny Barn Theatre. Recently she co-wrote the cosmic raga opera, Waves of Gravity with Neel Murgai (LaMama CultureHub) in 2021. She was also the co-creator of the award-winning “Landmarks & Transformations.” Currently, she’s co-writing and creating an app-enabled play with digital technologist, Todd Anderson. As a performer, she’s currently playing the title role in Lia Romeo’s one woman show, Yoga With Jillian, and was just featured on “All Things Considered,” Recipient: Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Sir John Gielgud Fellowship. Michole has been featured on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls for her work with the Women in Theatre Festival.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA Website: www.projectytheatre.org FB:https://www.facebook.com/michole.biancosino IG: https://www.instagram.com/projectytheatre/ MORE ABOUT ME Many of my most successful projects come out of outside-the-box processes, where my multi-hyphenate theatre-making identity comes in handy. I am interested in playing with the relationship between the artist and the audience, reimagining what theatre is and can be. On any given new play or project, I want to find a way to surprise the audience and surprise myself as an artist. I especially love making works with a large number of writers/creators involved, bringing together a multiplicity of voices alongside my own to create both dissonance and harmony. My latest ventures are in experimental theatre-making using a combination of analog and digital technologies to form connections with the audience and test out the notion of community. WHAT I'M WORKING ON I'm working on putting together the annual Women in Theatre in New York City in June at ART/New York Theatres. It's an incredible celebration of new work by women+ writers and lead generative artists and I am excited about this year's lineup (as always!). KEYWORDS Women, New Plays, New Works, Immersive, Hybrid, digital theatre, Historical, Experimental, Edinburgh Fringe, Writer/Director, Shakespeare |
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