Yellow Bird Chase

Rachel Wiese, LAB Artistic Associate: Who Would Be King. Regional: Metamorphoses, and Wildflowers (Zach Theatre). Boston area: Beowulf (Poet’s Theatre). Austin area: Lifelines and Hometeam (Vetworks), Sacred Space Redux and A Streetcar Straight to Hell (The Exchange Artists), Frankenstein and The Jungle (Trouble Puppet Theatre), Marvelous Things, People Will Talk About You Sometimes, and Her Little Prince (Poison Apple Initiative), Oceana (The Vortex). Filmography at imdb.com. She is also the Producing Artistic Director of The Exchange Artists, exchangeartists.org.

As an artistic ensemble member with Liars & Believers, Glen Moore played Saul in Who Would Be King, which he helped devise over the course of 2015. He was last seen in the New England Regional Premiere as Gene in The Last Schwartz with Gloucester Stage Company. Boston area credits include; BLINDERS (Flat Earth Theatre), The Importance of Being Ernest (Moonbox Productions), Of Mice and Men (Boston Children’s Theatre), CLOSER (Bad Habit Productions), Of Mice and Men (Moonbox), The Time of My Life (Zeitgeist Stage Company),  And Nither Had I Wings to Fly (BHP),  Arcadia (BHP), Eurydice (Independent Drama Society) Regional Theatre; Speech And Debate (Curious Theatre Company). He holds a B.A. in acting from The University of Northern Colorado and also studied briefly at The National Theatre Conservatory. Glen is an Equity Membership Candidate with AEA and has worked as an acting coach in Boston and Denver both privately and with Model and Talent Management Agency. He would like to thank his friends and family for all their support.

Rebecca Lehrhoff (Ruffles Featherbottom, Props & Scenic Design) is a LAB company member based in Somerville MA whose work ranges from acting, theater devising and dance to set design, art installation and mural painting. Rebecca first appeared in a LAB production dancing Butoh in the company’s co-LAB, Interference. She’s also been a part of LAB’s production of Who Would Be King, taking the show from ART’s Oberon to the Philly Fringe and most recently to Ars Nova’s Theater 511. Last spring she appeared at the BCA Gala performing in LAB’s two-person silent mask piece, built for the occasion. Rebecca holds a MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University and a B.S. inTheater from Skidmore College. Previous acting credits include: The Princess & The Pea, (Imaginary Beasts), Beowulf, (Poets’ Theatre), Sacred Spaces Redux(Exchange Artists), Enigma Variations, (Flat Earth Theater), The Good Woman of Setzuan, (Fort Point Theater Channel), King Arthur, (Poets’ Theater), Beck: Song Reader(Chimera Lab Dance Theater). Select scenic design credits include: How Soft the Lining (Bad Habit Productions), From the Sea to Somewhere Else (Flotsam Productions), The Farnsworth Invention (Flat Earth Theater- IRNE Award- Best Fringe Show), Polish Joke(Titanic Theater Company), and Chalk (Fresh Ink Theater).

Kendra spends her daytime making beautiful things at Costume Works in Somerville. Before settling at Costume Works, she has worked for Huntington Theater Company, Stonehill College, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Glimmerglass Opera, and Hubbard Street Dance. Some of her design work includes Song of Songs (LAB), The Fantasticks (Prometheus), Cosi Fan Tutte (Millikin University), and Peter (Braintree Films). She holds a BFA in Studio Art from Millikin University and a MFA in Theatrical Design from Rutgers University.

Penny Benson is a visual and performing artist/puppeteer and actor (AEA) with over 100 performance credits. She and her work have been seen nationally and internationally, from Canada to China. She most recently appeared in her original short Black Birds, Red Hills, in conjunction with Juventas New Music Ensemble at Oberon in Cambridge. Prior to that Penny designed puppets for the Jean’s Playhouse national tour of Christmas Carol, which are currently on display at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs, CT. Her original MFA production, Goblin Market, premiered at Connecticut Repertory Theatre in March 2014, for which she served as playwright, puppet designer/builder, and co-director. Penny toured nationally with Underground Railway Theatre in How Do You Spell Hope and Are You Ready My Sister, designed and built masks and puppets forKRIK KRAK, and collaborated on Arabian Nights, Sila, Harriet Jacobs, Tru Grace, and Galileo. She has also designed and built puppets / masks for WHAT, TYG Productions, and Foreign Landscape Productions. Penny has served as a visiting teaching artist for URT, The Huntington Theatre, UMass Amherst, Babson College, and City Stage, and was a STARS grant Artist in Residence at Boston Day and Evening Academy. Penny continues to design, build, devise and direct theater and puppetry for productions originating in the Boston area.

Rebecca Lehrhoff (Ruffles Featherbottom, Props & Scenic Design) is a LAB company member based in Somerville MA whose work ranges from acting, theater devising and dance to set design, art installation and mural painting. Rebecca first appeared in a LAB production dancing Butoh in the company’s co-LAB, Interference. She’s also been a part of LAB’s production of Who Would Be King, taking the show from ART’s Oberon to the Philly Fringe and most recently to Ars Nova’s Theater 511. Last spring she appeared at the BCA Gala performing in LAB’s two-person silent mask piece, built for the occasion. Rebecca holds a MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University and a B.S. inTheater from Skidmore College. Previous acting credits include: The Princess & The Pea, (Imaginary Beasts), Beowulf, (Poets’ Theatre), Sacred Spaces Redux(Exchange Artists), Enigma Variations, (Flat Earth Theater), The Good Woman of Setzuan, (Fort Point Theater Channel), King Arthur, (Poets’ Theater), Beck: Song Reader(Chimera Lab Dance Theater). Select scenic design credits include: How Soft the Lining (Bad Habit Productions), From the Sea to Somewhere Else (Flotsam Productions), The Farnsworth Invention (Flat Earth Theater- IRNE Award- Best Fringe Show), Polish Joke(Titanic Theater Company), and Chalk (Fresh Ink Theater).

PJ Strachman has recently designed Bad Habit’s The Real Inspector Hound, How Soft the Lining, A Man of No Importance, Speech and Debate, Six Degrees of Separation, The Goat or, Who Is Sylvia, Orlando, Translations, and Top Girls, Flat Earth’s Silent Sky, Gloucester Stage Company’s Every Christmas Story Ever Told and Dueling Divas,Unreliable Narrator’s Ultimate Things, Wax Wings’ The Man from Willow’s Brook, Kevin Cirone’s Creative License, Whistler in the Dark’s After-Dinner Joke, Our Country’s Good, Vinegar Tom, Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid, and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (Hubby Award, Best Design), F.U.D.G.E.’s Merrily We Roll Along, City of Angels, Jack the Ripper, Assassins, and Spring Awakening (IRNE nomination, Best Lighting), Blue Spruce’s Faerie Tales, Once on This Island (BroadwayWorld.com winner, Best Lighting Design) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch, imaginary beasts’ Macbett, and many other area shows. She is the regular designer for Gann Academy and Stonehill College, including two ACTF regional selections.  Photos of her work can be seen at www.pjelex.com.