DIRECTORS

FILLER UP by Christie Brenner Winn

MICHELLE CLAIRE ROMEO

Michelle Claire Romèo is a writer, a director and a performer. She is the Executive Artistic Director for heatre Boulder and the Founder Director and Owner for Actors Academy for the Performing Arts in Boulder and Denver. She has been working on a memoir about her life growing up in New York City in the 70’s and 80’s as the daughter and caretaker of a brilliant and paranoid schizophrenic mother and a genius narcissist artist for a father. Michelle is passionate about writing, directing, singing and traveling. She is also a drama therapist, a ceremonialist and a relationship coach. She is the proud mother of an incredible 25 year old son and considers herself to be a  true renaissance woman as she dabbles in many aspects of the arts. She is looking forward to producing, co writing and directing  and original piece called The Witchy Project this Fall at Theatre O. She is thrilled to be directing a micro play at the Play Crawl as it is one of her favorite cultural events!

FINDING MY MOTHER by Edith Weiss

LOST WALLET by Linda Berry

HALFWAY UP THE STAIRS by Rebecca Gorman O’Neill

SIGNIFICANT by Ellen K Graham

CUSTOMER SERVICE by Nicolette Vajtay

EDITH WEISS

Edith Wesis, third person, loves the play crawl. She loves the actors that work for the love of it. She loves writing short pieces to an environment. Her youth theater plays, children's plays, and comedic murder mysteries have been performed in small theaters, colleges, and schools almost everywhere. Okay not in Antarctica. But (switching to first person) I'm working on that. And I love you the audience for supporting And Toto too.

NICOLETTE VAJTAY

After receiving her BFA from Montclair State University, Nicolette completed her academic training with an apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville and graduate studies with The American Repertory Theatre’s Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University.  She made her NYC debut off-Broadway in 1992, and traversed the country, performing regionally for many years. She officially started writing in 2003 and studied Advanced Playwriting under Leon Martel at UCLA Extension School, with Terry Dodd and Michael Catlin at the Lighthouse in Denver, and with Terrie Silverman in Los Angeles. Her writing is deeply influenced by her spiritual curiosity of this thing called life and the exploration of humanity. Nicolette’s plays have been produced with the San Diego International Fringe Festival, Theatre District LA, NoHo Arts Center, Athena Project, Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region, Colorado Theatre Guild New Voices, Six Women Playwrights, And Toto too, Bolder Life Festival, Theatre Company of Lafayette, One Night Stand Theatre, C4 Theatre, Tri-Media Film Festival, Open Eye Theatre in NY, and Follies in FL.   NicoletteVajtay.com

PROCESSING by Melissa Lucero McCarl

MELISSA LUCERO MCCARL

Painted Bread, Melissa’s full length play about the life of Frida Kahlo, was voted "Best New Play" by the Denver Post. She was commissioned by the Jewish Community Center to write Poignant Irritations, about the life of Gertrude Stein ("Best Local Playwright" by Westword), and commissioned by Bonnie Metzgar to write for The War Anthology at Curious Theatre Co. Her one act play, Carlene Yakkin is a recipient of the Steven Dietz award. Her critically acclaimed play Lost Creatures was produced in 2016 by And Toto too Theatre Company and was nominated for a Henry award.  Most recently, her play The Heartbeat of the Sun was produced by Cherry Creek Theatre. She was commissioned by the Aurora Fox Arts Center to write a play about Norma Walker, the first and only female mayor of Aurora, which will have a public reading in October of this year.  Melissa currently teaches playwriting for Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Denver Center Theatre Company.

REST STOP by Nina Alice Miller

ROGER WINN

Roger Winn is pleased to be back directing for the Play Crawl. He has acted and directed in quite a few over the years. Roger has been acting, directing, and running a theatre for the better part of 3 decades in Denver. Currently he teaches Theatre and Science and is the Theatre Director at Mullen High School.