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Jeb Kreager - Benjamin
Jeb has been living and working in Philadelphia for nine years. He is a founding member of New Paradise Laboratories and has co-created and performed in all of their work, most recently Batch: An American Batchelor/ette Party Spectacle at the 2007 Humana Festival in Louisville. His recent work includes 1812 Productions’ Recent Tragic Events (Barrymore Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor), THE BFG at Arden Theatre Company, The Foreigner at People’s Light & Theatre Company, Hippie Elegy for Headlong Dance Theater, Planetary Enzyme Blues for New Paradise Laboratories, and CONTEST at the 2006 Live Arts Festival—Jeb’s first piece as director and choreographer of his BrownSquad collective. Jeb received a 2003 PCA Fellowship and is a 2006 Independence Fellow. He graduated from Virginia Tech and also studied at Circle in the Square in New York and with Antonio Fava at his International School of Commedia dell’Arte in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It’s good to be back at 1812. Thanks Pete, Pfife, and Tom.
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Matt Pfeiffer - David
Matt is thrilled to be working with 1812 for the first time. This is his 4th collaboration with the Great Pete Pryor. Recent Credits include directing Glengarry Glen Ross for Theatre Exile and An Infinite Ache for Walnut Street Theatre. Matt has directed and acted for numerous Philadelphia theatres including Arden Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, InterAct, Brat, The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and the Lantern Theatre where he received a Barrymore Nomination for Best Direction for The Foocy. Matt also serves as the Associate Artistic Director of Theatre Exile. Thanks to Jen and the whole 1812 Staff. Many, many thanks to Jeb, a great friend and an even greater actor. For Kim.
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Peter Pryor - Director
Pete’s most recent onstage appearances were for The Wilma Theater in Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman and Itamar Moses’ Outrage, and less recently, Road, for which he won the 1996 Barrymore Award for Best Supporting Actor. He is a Co-Founder of 1812 Productions and a Drama Teacher at The Pathway School in Norristown. Recent work includes Hearts and Soles for Theatre Exile, THE BFG for Arden Theatre Company, The Foreigner for People’s Light and Theatre Company, Richard III for Lantern Theater (Barrymore Award winner for Best Leading Actor), and The Boys for Azuka Theatre. He is also the past recipient of an Independence Foundation fellowship award. Next up, Pete will be performing in Humble Boy at People’s Light and Theatre Company. Love to Juliette, Colin, and Shane.
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Itamar Moses - Playwright
Itamar Moses is the author of the full-length plays Outrage, Bach at Leipzig, Celebrity Row, The Four of Us, Yellowjackets, Back Back Back, and Completeness, and various short plays and one-acts. His work has appeared Off-Broadway and elsewhere in New York, at regional theatres across the country and in Canada, and has been published by Faber & Faber, Heinemann Press, Playscripts Inc., and Vintage. He has received new play commissions from The McCarter Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Wilma Theater, Southcoast Rep, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Itamar holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and has taught playwriting at Yale and NYU. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, MCC Playwrights Coalition, Naked Angels Writers Group, and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. He was born in 1977 in Berkeley, CA. He now lives in Brooklyn, NY.
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