Who We Are
Ken Urban (Founding Artistic Director) is a playwright and director. His plays have been produced and developed by Moving Arts, Lincoln Center's Directors Lab, Soho Rep, Rude Guerrilla, Annex Theatre, Luna Stage, kef productions, Son of Semele Ensemble, and others. Recently, his play The Absence of Weather was the winner of Moving Arts 2004 Premiere One-Act Competition and received a full production in Los Angeles in February 2005. His plays have been published or featured in New York Theatre Review (Edited by Brook Stowe, with an introduction by Aleks Sierz), Plays and Playwrights 2002 (Edited by Martin Denton), The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2001 (Edited by D.L. Lepidus), The Brooklyn Rail and The Brooklyn Review. In addition to directing his own work, he has directed plays by Sarah Kane, Tennessee Williams and Harold Pinter. He has taught drama and writing at Rutgers University and Bucknell University and this fall, he joins the faculty at Harvard University.
Ryan Rumage (Business Manager) worked in administration at Center Stage in Baltimore, and the Ars Nova Theatre in New York before his current job in the New York City Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting. He is a founding member of The Committee Theatre Company and has worked on all the company's readings and productions. Ryan is a graduate of Rutgers University.
Dylan McCullough (Resident Director) has directed, produced and acted for such theatres as Rattlestick, Cherry Lane, HERE, Epic Repertory Company, Prospect Theater Company, Emerging Artists Theatre, Luna Stage, Holderness Theater Company, Red Bull Theater @ NYTW & The Culture Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, American Opera Projects, Studio_42, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Center Stage, Salt Lake Shakespeare and The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC. He directed, produced, and acted in his own adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men in the New York International Fringe Festival. He received his BFA in Theatre from the University of Utah 's Actor Training Program and is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. He is employed by Playwrights Horizons as the manager of 440 Studios and as a mentor for student directors at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
Judson Kniffen (Resident Director) recently directed Thomas Bradshaw's A Christmas Full of Family Love at the Brick Theater, after performing in the Butane Group's The Loneliness of Noam Chomsky at Chashama and HERE. He worked as the Associate Director of the Ontological Theater where he stage managed for Richard Foreman at the St. Mark's Church and at festivals and theaters in Europe and Japan. At the Ontological he directed and produced Cocteau's Orphée. Judson has studied theater at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Lincoln Center Director's Lab. He is a graduate of Vassar College, where he directed Wilde's Salomé, Tzara's The Gas Heart, Müller's Hamletmachine, and Sherwood Anderson's Mother. Judson is honored to have worked with many brilliant theater artists throughout his lifetime.
Grant Wythoff (Intern) is currently an undergraduate studying English and Music at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.
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