Melissa is a founding member of Atlantic Theater Company. She appeared in many early Atlantic productions, including Three Sisters, Boys’ Life, The Girl in Pink, Reckless, and The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year. She is co-author of A Practical Handbook for the Actor. She now lives in Sydney, Australia where she runs the Sydney annex of the Atlantic Acting School, Practical Aesthetics Australia, www.paaustralia.com. She works in the Australian film & television industry as a performance coach/dramaturg and dialect coach.

Broadway: Twelve Angry Men, Proof (Tony nomination), Picnic (Tony nom.), Prelude to a Kiss, Richard lll, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel, Festen. Off Broadway: includes Edward Albee’s Occupant, Groundswell. Romance (Obie), The Collection & A Kind Of Alaska, 10×25 One Acts, Hothouse, Once in a Lifetime (all Atlantic), Proof, New England (MTC), Prelude and Liebestod (MCC), A Bad Friend, Bodies Rest and Motion (LCT), King Lear, Henry Vlll, The Tempest, As You Like It, Henry lV Parts l and ll, Rum and Coke, The Ballad of Soapy Smith, Museum, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Mod Donna (all The Public). Film: Spy Game, Die Hard with a Vengeance, And Justice For All, Looking for Richard, Side By Each. 1 Obie for Sustained Excellence; 2 Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Actor.

Kathryn Erbe stars as Detective Alexandra Eames in season eight of the USA Network original series “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Erbe is a veteran of both film and television and has been a working actress since she graduated from New York University in 1989. Erbe’s television credits include playing the infamous death row inmate Shirley Bellenger on the acclaimed HBO series “Oz.”  She also appeared on NBC’s “Homicide: Life on the Street,” the miniseries “George Wallace,” Showtime’s original production of “Naked City: Justice with a Bullet,” NBC’s “Another World” and the television movie “Breathing Lessons.” Erbe also gained notice in the 1999 box office hit “Stir of Echoes” opposite Kevin Bacon and “Dream with the Fishes” with David Arquette.  Her additional film credits include “Entropy,” “Kiss of Death,” “D2: The Mighty Ducks,” “Rich in Love” and “What About Bob?”  Most recently, she appeared in the feature film “Speaking of Sex” with Lara Flynn Boyle and Bill Murray. She can next be seen in the upcoming “Four Backyards.” Before appearing in feature films, Erbe began her career on the stage. She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theater Company and has starred in many of their productions, including Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” as Stella, “Curse of the Starving Class” and “My Thing of Love.” She earned a Tony® Award nomination in 1991 for her portrayal of Mary in “Speed of Darkness.” Erbe is an active member of the Atlantic Theatre Company. Erbe currently resides in New York with her two children.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan has been seen in several blockbusters over the past twenty years. She is playing Arlene Moran, Sheriff Arnold Pope’s (Terrence Howard) secretary in FX’s Wayward Pines (2015) by M. Night Shyamalan, Chad Hodge and Blake Crouch. The redheaded character actress has had many memorable roles in film and television. She was born in 1961 in Syracuse, New York, to Jane (Eagan) and William J. Fallon, an attorney, and is the second of five children. A graduate of Le Moyne College in Syracuse, she received her M.F.A. from Catholic University. She began her career on stage in her own character-driven, one-women shows. After appearing in her show, “Bat Girl,” she was cast on Saturday Night Live (1975) in 1992. This show opened many doors for Fallon, and she then began to work steadily in film. Although she began in comedy, Fallon has a following in dramatic foreign films, notably Lars von Trier‘s Dancer in the Dark (2000) and Dogville (2003). She also played in Michael Haneke‘s Funny Games (2007). Her television credits include a recurring role on Seinfeld (1989) as Elaine’s roommate, Alec Baldwin‘s sister on 30 Rock (2006) and several other guest spots. She has been happily married to commodities trader Peter Hogan for over twenty years. They have three children: Bernadette Hogan, Peter Munson Hogan and Sinead.

Hilary Hinckle is a long-time Atlantic Theater Company ensemble member. She has directed and produced Off-Broadway throughout her years in New York. For Atlantic Theater Company and the Atlantic Acting School, she has directed works by David Mamet, Craig Lucas, Warren Leight, Hilary Bell, Lucy Thurber and numerous one-acts. She was the managing director of the company for many years. Prior to that position, she served as executive director of the school, and she has been a master teacher at the school for over 20 years.

Karen Kohlhaas is a New York-based theater director, teacher, author, and filmmaker. Director: Karen is a founding member of Atlantic Theater Company, where her credits include mainstage and Atlantic Stage Two productions by Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Annie Baker, Keith Reddin, Shel Silverstein and Kate Moira Ryan, and shorts by Hilary Bell, Joe Penhall, Kia Corthron, and many others. She has also directed for the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Live Arts, 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, the Alley Theatre, Houston, New Dramatists, Menagerie Theatre in Cambridge, UK, The Culture Project, Practical Theater Co. in Sydney and others. Teacher: Karen has over 30 years teaching experience and is a senior teacher at Atlantic Acting School. She teaches her own NYC classes in The Monologue Audition; Fearless Cold Reading & Audition Technique; Advanced Acting; and Directing. She has taught guest workshops around the country and internationally including USC, Drama, Inc of Atlanta, Austin Shakespeare, University of Houston’s 3-summer MFA in Theater Education, Florida International University, Theater Educators of Texas Association, Oklahoma City University, University of Central Oklahoma, Colorado College, Seattle University, Baldwin Wallace University, the University of the South at Sewanee, Rose Bruford College, UK and others. She also teaches Monologue Teacher Training to university and high school teachers. Author: Karen’s books and DVD are The Monologue Audition: A Practical Guide for Actors (foreword by David Mamet and a Backstage Must-Read); How To Choose A Monologue For Any Audition; The Monologue Teacher’s Manual; and, The Monologue Audition Video (DVD). Filmmaker: Karen’s short films include two with acclaimed performer/playwright Taylor Mac, several short documentaries, and she is currently finishing a feature documentary about Tennessee Williams in the Mississippi Delta. (www.TennWmsDelta.com). She is the founder and curator of the Tennessee Williams Rectory Museum in the former Clarksdale, Mississippi rectory rooms once occupied by Williams and his family (www.TennesseeWilliamsRectoryMuseum.com), and co-director of the Mississippi Delta Tennessee Williams Festival (www.DeltaWilliamsFestival.com).

Jordan Lage is a founding ensemble member of Atlantic Theater Company. He has performed in numerous productions of David Mamet’s plays on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally, among them The Blue Hour, Revenge of the Space Pandas, American Buffalo, The Woods, Edmond, Mamet’s adaptation of Three Sisters, The Water Engine, Home, In a Linguistics Class, Keep Your Pantheon and Ghost Stories (Prairie du Chien). On Broadway, he has appeared in the Tony Award-winning revival of Our Town, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Inherit the Wind and the Mamet plays The Old Neighborhood, Glengarry Glen Ross (2005), Speed-the-Plow and Race. He shared a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble for his work in the 2005 Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross. Jordan has worked extensively in film, working with acclaimed directors such as Oliver Stone, Sydney Pollack, Barry Levinson, Ridley Scott, Philip Noyce, Jonathan Glazer, Michael Ritchie and David Mamet. Television credits include a recurring role on “Law & Order,” “All My Children,” “Oz,” “Damages,” “Boardwalk Empire” and most recently “Madam Secretary” and “The Path.” He is on faculty at Atlantic Acting School.

Peter Maloney has appeared in 23 productions at the Atlantic. His performance as Shelley Levene in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross at the La Jolla Playhouse was critically acclaimed, and he received a Drama Desk nomination and the Richard Seff award for his characterization of Tony Reilly in John Patrick Shanley’s Outside Mullingar on Broadway. Other Broadway credits: West Side Story, Hughie, Poor Murderer, Judgement at Nuremberg, Stanley, Carousel, Dinner at Eight, Arcadia, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Six Degrees of Separation and Our Town (Lincoln Center Theatre). At the Irish Rep he was recently seen in The Quare Land and Conor McPherson’s Port Authority. Film: 60 movies, including Boiler Room, Requiem for a Dream, K-Pax, A Little Romance, JFK, Washington Square and John Carpenter’s The Thing. TV: “Crashing,” “The Good Fight,” “Gotham,” “The Knick,” Uncle Red on “Rescue Me.” Writer: his memoir Who Does Little But Listen published in the Eugene O’Neill Review. His plays Leash and Witness (part of his Abu Ghraib Triptych), published in Best American Short Plays. Accident by Faber and Faber, others by Samuel French, Inc. He has directed over fifty professional productions (most recently Murray Schisgal’s Existence).

Plays by David Mamet include: The Anarchist, Race, Keep Your Pantheon, School, November, Romance, Boston Marriage,Faustus, Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984 Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, The Old Neighborhood, A Life in the Theatre, Speed-the-Plow, Edmond, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Woods, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Reunion and The Cryptogram (1995 Obie Award). His translations and adaptations include: Faustus and Red River by Pierre Laville; and The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov. His films include: The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, House of Games (writer/director), Oleanna (writer/director),Homicide (writer/director), The Spanish Prisoner (writer/ director), Heist(writer/director), Spartan (writer/director) and Redbelt (writer/director). Mr. Mamet is also the author of: Warm and Cold, a book for children with drawings by Donald Sultan, and two other children’s books, Passover and The Duck and the Goat; Writing in Restaurants, Some Freaks, and Make-Believe Town, three volumes of essays; The Hero Pony and The China Man, a book of poems; Three Children’s Plays, On Directing Film, The Cabin, and the novels The Village, The Old Religion and Wilson. His other books include the acting books, True & False and Three Uses of the Knife, Bambi vs. Godzilla, The Secret Knowledge, The Wicked Son, Theatre, and Three War Stories. His most recent play, China Doll, was produced on Broadway in the 2015-16 season.

Mary McCann is a founding member of Atlantic Theater Company. Productions include: Our New Girl, Harper Regan, Bluebird opposite Simon  Russell Beale, Almost an Evening, Offices, Body Awareness, Spring Awakening, The Cherry Orchard, The Night Heron, This Thing of Darkness, Edmond, The Water Engine, Dangerous Corner, Boys’ Life and more. Recent productions include: The Weir (Irish Repertory Theatre). Broadway: The Old Neighborhood, Our Town, Search and Destroy. Other Off-Broadway: Oleanna (Orpheum), Uncommon Women and Others (Second Stage Theater). Film: Caught (upcoming-currently at the LA Film Festival), The Green, Little Children, House of the Devil, The Spanish Prisoner, Things Change. Television: “The Blacklist,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Criminal Intent,” “Law and Order,” “Person of Interest,” “Mercy,” “Cashmere Mafia,” and “ER.”

Rod McLachlan is an Atlantic Company member thrilled to be making his Off-Broadway debut as a playwright. Rod wrote and starred opposite Chris Pine in The Bulls, produced and directed by Eric Stoltz. He has appeared with Martin Sheen and Al Pacino in Julius Caesar at the New York Shakespeare Festival, and on Broadway with Laura Linney in Holiday. Also on Broadway: Death and the King’s Horseman, Our Town, The Real Inspector Hound, Saint Joan, and Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector. Lincoln Center: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, When the Rain Stops Falling.  At Atlantic: Edmund, Clean and David Mamet’s School and Keep Your Pantheon. Film: Superhero Movie!, Magnolia, Instinct, Conspiracy Theory, Radioland Murders, Where the Money Is.  Television: “Mad Men,” “Medium,” “Boston Legal,” “CSI,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” For Soodabeh, Lifesaver.

Atlantic Theater Company Member. Atlantic: Harper Regan, The Room, Frame 312 and Missing Persons (Obie Award). Broadway: Follies, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park with George, Nine (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The King and I opposite Yul Brynner (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway: Domesticated (LCT), The Morini Strad (Primary Stages), Hedda Gabller (NYTW), First Lady Suite (Transport Group), As Thousands Cheer (Drama Dept), A Cheever Evening (Obie, Playwrights Horizons), Sylvia (MTC),  Finding the Sun (Signature). Regional: His Girl Friday (La Jolla), 33 Variations (Helen Hayes nomination, Arena Stage), M. Proust (Jefferson nomination, About Face), The Cocktail Hour (Long Wharf), Madagascar, Wit (Adirondack), Sweeny Todd (Kennedy Center), Hay Fever (Yale Rep). Film: Mirrors, Flags of Our Fathers, The Stepford Wives 2, Odd Couple 2. Television: “The Good Wife,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Fringe,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & Order,” “The Reagans.” YCA Alum.

Neil Pepe received a Tony Nomination for Best Director for the production of American Buffalo. Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody; Speed-the-Plow; A Life in the Theatre. Off-Broadway/regional: A Play Is A Poem (CTG); Juno and the Paycock (Irish Rep); On the Shore of the Wide World, The Penitent, Marie and Rosetta, Hold on to Me Darling, Dying for It, 3 Kinds of Exile, Happy Hour, Offices, Almost an Evening, Parlour Song, The Night Heron, Mojo, Celebration, The Room, Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling, Sea of Tranquility, Blue/Orange, Wolf Lullaby (Atlantic); The Subject Was Roses, Keep Your Pantheon, Romance (Center Theatre Group, Atlantic); Red Angel (Williamstown); Further Than the Furthest Thing (MTC); The Beginning of August (South Coast Repertory, Atlantic); American Buffalo (Donmar Warehouse, Atlantic); Refuge (Playwrights Horizons). Neil has been the artistic director of Atlantic Theater Company since 1992.

Rebecca Pidgeon has starred in the films The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, State and Main, Heist, Red, Two Bit Waltz and most recently was featured in The Divergent Series: Allegiant. Her television credits include HBO’s “Phil Spector” and CBS’s “Jesse Stone: Sea Change.” She had recurring roles on the CBS hit series “The Unit,” FX’s “The Shield” and played a regular role on ABC’s “In Justice.” She starred in BBC’s “Uncle Vanya” and in Samuel Beckett’s “Catastrophe” opposite Sir John Gielgud and Channel 4’s “Harold Pinter.” Pidgeon played Deeny in The Old Neighborhood on Broadway and Claire in Boston Marriage at The Geffen Playhouse. She originated the role of Carol in Oleanna Off-Broadway, which had its world premiere at The Orpheum Theatre. As a member of The Royal National Theatre in London, she starred in Speed-the-Plow and The Changeling. Most recently she starred in Sex with Strangers at The Geffen Playhouse and in The Anarchist at Theatre Asylum in Los Angeles as well as at The Sheen Center in New York. She is an ensemble member of Atlantic Theater Company and a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In addition to her career as an actress, Pidgeon is a singer/songwriter whose album Slingshot was nominated for a Grammy Award. Her latest album is Bad Poetry.

David Pittu recently starred in the City Center Encores! production of It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman! Atlantic: CQ/CX, What’s That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling (OCC noms.: Best Actor in a Musical, Best Off-Broadway Musical),Celebration & The Room (Lortel and Drama Desk nominations). Mr. Pittu was nominated for Tony and Drama Desk awards and received an Outer Critics Circle Award for his performance as Bertolt Brecht in Love Musik, and was nominated for a second Tony for Is He Dead? Other recent credits: Equivocation at MTC (OCC and Lortel noms.), Twelfth Night at the Delacorte, (2009 St. Clair Bayfield Award), The Coast of Utopia. Recent TV & film: True Story (upcoming), Men in Black III, “Person of Interest,” “Made in Jersey,” “Pan Am,” “Damages,” “The Good Wife.” 2010 recipient of the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award.

Theater: Third, The Distance From Here, The Beginning of August. Television: “Girls,” “Drunk History,” “Another Period,” “Parenthood,” “Gravity Falls,” “The Event,” “The Class,” “Joan of Arcadia,” Film: The Meddler, The Steps, Embers, 7 Minutes, You’re Not You, About Alex, Wild Canaries, Hits, The Big Ask, I Am I, The East, The Perfect Family, A Bag of Hammers, The Dry Land, Peter and Vandy, W., The Deal, Good Dick, The Education of Charlie Banks, Our Very Own, Happy Endings, Mumford.

As a member of Atlantic Theater Company, Ray has appeared in such productions as Human Error, The Beginning of August, The Lights, Edmond, and Distant Fires. Ray was on Broadway in David Mamet’s Race, and his off-Broadway credits include: The Most Deserving (The Women’s Project), Volunteer Man (for which he received an OBIE for performance at Rattlestick) Kindness (Playwrights Horizons), The Exonerated, Saved or Destroyed, Black Eagles (at MTC), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (at NY Shakespeare Festival/Public). He has worked at many of the major regional theaters across the country, and his favorites include: the original company of Water by the Spoonful (2012 Pulitzer Prize and Connecticut Critics Circle Award for best ensemble) at Hartford Stage, Glengarry Glen Ross(La Jolla), ‘Proctor’ in The Crucible (Syracuse Stage), Master Harold… and the Boys (Westport), Top Dog/Underdog (Pittsburgh), A. M. Sunday (Louisville), Fences (Philadelphia-Barrymore nomination) and To Kill a Mockingbird (Detroit Free Press Award, supporting actor). Ray has worked in seven of August Wilson’s ten-play cycle, and was honored to appear in Fences and Jitney for NPR’s August Wilson’s Century Cycle. TV and Film include: Their Eyes Were Watching God, “Rescue Me,” “The Sopranos,” “Oz,” “Law and Order” (numerous episodes), “I’ll Fly Away” (Emmy Consideration), Trouble with the Curve, Shutter Island, Pariah, Sleepwalk with Me, Manchurian Candidate, and Changing Lanes.

Todd Weeks is an Atlantic Ensemble Member who has appeared in productions of Bluebird, Scarcity, The Voysey Inheritance, Sea of Tranquility, The Cider House Rules, Distant Fires, and others. He appeared in the original cast of Howard Korder’s Boys’ Life and The Lights with Atlantic at Lincoln Center. Broadway: The Full Monty (original cast), The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Summer and Smoke and Our Town. National tours: Angels in America and How to Succeed in Business... Off-Broadway: Some Americans Abroad (Second Stage). Regional: Dallas Theater Center (Of Mice and Men), Alliance (The Underpants), Mark Taper (November and Romance), Playmakers (Copenhagen), Long Wharf (The Front Page), Williamstown (Therese Raquin). TV/Film: “Desperate Housewives”, “Rubicon,” “The Defenders,” “Men of a Certain Age,” “Detroit 187,” “Modern Family,” “Numb3rs”, “Medium,” “The Unit,” “Law & Order(s),” The Deal (Sundance), Love Thy Brother (Sundance, HBO), the upcoming Phil Spector film (HBO) and Light Years.