Deinde

*appearing courtesy of The Actors’ Equity Association

August Schulenburg (Playwright)

August is a founding member of Flux and current Artistic Director. As a playwright for Flux, his work includes Riding the Bull, Rue, Other Bodies,The Lesser Seductions of History, Jacob’s House and DEINDE. With Flux, he’s directed Ajax in Iraq, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the ForePlay Dream Chain, and the Food:Soul Volleygirls. As an actor with Flux, he played Ezekiel in 8 Little Antichrists (NYITA nomination), Professor in Rue, Guthbert in the Food:Soul Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens. Gus will reprise his role as Dr. X in Flux’s upcoming Hearts Like Fists. August has also worked as a playwright, actor and director with The Lark, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Chelsea Playhouse, Theater for the New City, Portland Stage Company, Dayton Playhouse, Colonial Players, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Contemporary Stage Company, Abingdon Theater Company, Gideon Productions, Impetuous Theater Group, Decades Out, Soundtrack Series, Wolf 359, Blue Box Productions, APAC, Boomerang Theatre Company, Piper McKenzie, Theater at Monmouth, and the Orlando Shakespeare Festival; and his plays have been published in the New York Theater Review and in Stage and Screen. augustschulenburg.wordpress.com

Heather Cohn (Director)

Heather is a co-founder of Flux Theatre Ensemble and serves as the Producing Director. Previous directing credits for Flux include Menders, August Schulenburg’s The Lesser Seductions of History (nominated for Best Director, NYIT Awards) and Other Bodies (FringeNYC Excellence Award for Outstanding Direction); staged readings of Jose Rivera’s Sueño and Adam Szymkowicz’s Pretty Theft, August Schulenburg’s Channeling and Bekah Brunstetter’s Miss Lilly Gets Boned. Outside of Flux: David Stallings’ The Stranger to Kindness (nominated for Outstanding Direction, Planet Connections Awards); Blood (EstroGenius Festival); The Ballad of Lulu and Dad (Artistic New Directions); Paint (On the Square Productions); and Tulpa, or Anne & Me (Crossroads Theatre Project). Women’s Project Producers’ LAB (2008–2010).

Jodi M. Witherell (Production Stage Manager)

Jodi is pleased to be returning for her seventh show with Flux! Most recently, she was seen as PSM for Menders and Ajax in Iraq (Flux). Favorite credits include: Jacob’s House, The Lesser Seductions of History, Angel Eaters: Part One of The Angel Eaters Trilogy and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flux); Fresh Kills (WMC); Reefer Madness, The House of Blue Leaves, Torch Song Trilogy, The Full Monty, The Spitfire Grill (GP); Joseph and the . . . Dreamcoat, 1776 and Moon Over Buffalo (St. Bart’s); The American Dream and Other Fractured Fairy Tales (Streetlight); Romeo and Juliet (American Globe); Queen LTC (Pembi Players); The Beginning of the And (Audax).

Will Lowry (Set Designer)

Will Lowry is a multidisciplinary designer with an MFA from UNC Greensboro and also a creative partner of Flux. He has previously collaborated with Flux on Menders, Ajax in Iraq, Lesser Seductions of History and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Select work includes scenery for Little Shop of Horrors (Palace Theater), Tuxedo Junction (Birmingham Children’s Theatre), and The Woman in Black (California Theater Center); costumes for Le Grand Cirque: Adrenaline (Sydney Opera House), Trapezium (Playhouse on Park), and Spitfire Grill (Mill Mountain);  and lighting for Around the World in Eighty Days (Playhouse on Park), South Pacific (Waterside Theater), and Urinetown (Taylor Theater, UNCG). will-lowry.com

Kia Rogers (Lighting Designer)

Kia has designed lights for many Flux productions, including Menders, Ajax in Iraq, Jacob’s House and Dog Act. Boomerang credits: Uncle Vanya, Venus Observed, Endless Summer Nights. Off Broadway: Sistas The Musical at St. Luke’s, Made In Heaven at The SoHo Playhouse, Passage through Light and Shadows at Theatre at St. Clement’s. International credits:Associate Lighting Designer for Slutforart/98.6 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Favorite Off-Indie credits: Universal Robots, and All The Rage. Kia was the resident lighting designer at Manhattan Theatre Source. She is a returning guest artist at UNCW since 2006. kiarogerslightingdesign.com

Stephanie Levin (Costume Designer)

tephanie is a NYC-based costume designer who originally hails from the Yankee South. Recently, she has worked with Gregg Barnes and William Ivey Long, as well as collaborating with AGGROCRAG, The Woodshed Collective, and the machine comedy collective.  An NYU Tisch graduate, she studied  at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, directing productions of Jack, or the Submission, Zoo Story, and God’s Ear, and designing innumerable shows including Spring Awakening, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, and Ubu Roi.

Martha Goode (Sound Designer)

Favorite Sound Design credits include: As You Like It, The Clean House, Photograph 51 (Vermont Stage Company), Costa Rehab, Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell, The Oath and Barrier Island (MTWorks), The Witlings (Magis Theatre Company), Every Man (winner Samuel French Short Play Festival) To Barcelona! and Eli and Cheryl Jump (Ignited States), Don’t Shoot Your Eye Out! (The Brick Theatre).  Martha is the Managing Director of MTWorks, a theater company that produces new plays inspired by playwrights and regions outside of New York, that question the boundaries of our society, humanity, and individuality. MTWorks.org

Michael Lawrence Eisenstein (Fight Choreographer)]

Michael is very happy to return to choreograph for Flux after choreographing their production of Jacob’s House.  Michael was trained in stage combat by J. David Brimmer and has assisted Brimmer on The Cripple of Inishmaan, Made in Poland and Crazy for You.  On his own Michael has choreographed for New York Classical, [by the mummers], the Classical Studio at NYU and The Secret Theatre.     Thanks so Flux for another great opportunity, Mom for letting me play with swords when I was little, and Nora for letting me have knives on our walls.

Ingrid Nordstrom (Dramaturg)

Ingrid began her relationship with Flux as the Dramaturg for A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  Since then she has been both an Actor and Dramaturg with them and various other playwrights and Off Off Broadway Companies.  She was last seen as an actor in Flux’s Menders as Tam and Anisa in The Lesser Seductions of History. Anyone who knows her knows her love of physics and science so researching for DEINDE has been exponentially fun for her!  Thanks to the Flux Creative Team for making this such an fascinating project.

Emily Owens, PR (Press Relations)