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Holly Hepp-Galvan has just completed her MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College with Tina Howe and Mark
Bly. Her short play, Departure won the Rita and Burton Goldberg Prize and was a finalist for the Thomas
Barbour Memorial Playwriting Prize. While at Hunter, she won the Irv Zarkower Award twice, for Oddities in
2010, and Andreas Esophagus in 2011. Recently, Holly was chosen as a finalist for the National Short
Play Award at City Theatre and is Playwright-in-Residence for Northpoint Voices, a program for prisonerplaywrights that is based in Kentucky and part of the award-winning Shakespeare Behind Bars program.
Also in Kentucky, she was recently commissioned by Pioneer Playhouse in Danville to write a new
adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew. Her play Tamed premieres in June of 2013. Holly is also very
active with Theatre for Young Audiences. Recent work includes Sprites which was commissioned by
Pollyanna Childrens Theatre and Ballet Austin, and will premiere at the Long Center in Austin, Texas in
January 2014. Her play Peter and the Piper will premiere with Pollyanna in September of 2013. As well as
playwriting, Holly is a performer and a teaching theatre artist. She has studied Kathakali in Kerala, India
and has developed a physical breathwork technique called Animare that she teaches in workshops to writers and actors. Additionally, for the past
twelve years, Holly has been Adjunct Professor of Communication and Theatre Arts at both the College of Mount Saint Vincent and Manhattan
College in Riverdale, New York. She teaches courses in Acting, Directing, Feature Writing, and New Media Journalism.
Brandon Jones (actor/singer/songwriter/voiceover artist), is excited about the opportunity to work with such
wonderful artists and friends in this extraordinary collective. Recent theater credits include: You Can't Take It
With You (TACT), Inside The Rain (Dixon Place),Vanguard, Fallujah, Show Me Yours and I'll Show You...
(IMPACT 2012 Festival at Culture Project), Spoon River Anthology (Riverside Theater), ReEntry
(International Tour/Actors Theater of Louisville/Round House Theater), The Right Reverend Dupree in Exile
(Billie Holiday Theater), Mush (FringeNYC/LaMama), Lobby Hero (Whalers' Warf Theater) and Tales From
The Tunnel (Bleecker St Theater). Film credits include: Brothers Incorporated, Trust22, TAGGED!, Francis of
Williamsburg, Mildred Richards and NTA. Brandon is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. Check
out his website brandonjonesonline.com for news and updates.
Nancy Kelly has been a member of this lovely group since 2005. She has worked as a modern dancer,
choreogrpher, director, dramaturg and actor in both San Francisco and New York and holds a degree in
dance from UC Berkeley and theater from Sarah Lawrence College. She has also trained at Bay Area
Theatre Sports, ACT and the PIT. She has been on the faculty of St. Francis College in Brooklyn and CUNY
City Tech teaching public speaking, acting and communications.
New York Credits include Leo in Parade (Gallery Players), Pineheart/Laneth in The Hidden Sky (Prospect
Theater Co.),Stavros in Opa!(QTIP), and Simon in Maccabeat! (NYMF). Member AEA and graduate of
Northwestern University. So excited to be a founding member of Brass Tacks that I might explode!
mimian morales
Mimian Morales received her B.A. in Theatre from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a
Masters in Strategic Communications from Columbia University. She co-founded two theatre companies,
the first which debuted an original play she co-wrote and co-starred in at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She
then worked for 3 years with the Free Shakespeare Project, bringing Shakespeare to underserved
neighborhoods in urban Massachusetts. Since moving to New York, she has had the good fortune to work
with Communicable Arts and Barrie Gelles, performing in new works, and even more Shakespeare (which
she loves). She was recently seen in Brass Tacks Theatre Collectives productions of Wounds to the Face
and Oddities, or Frog Boy Live! A Musical Freak Show, as well as its Script Tease series, and is thrilled to
be a resident artist with the collective. In addition to acting and writing, Miss Morales is also a singersongwriter, and you can hear her music at soundcloud.com/missmim.
jason siegel
Jason Daniel Siegel is an actor, writer, and teacher. He has performed on stage in four boroughs, and he
has been featured in animated and live-action short and feature length films, and on various outposts of the
world wide web.. Jason is also a world-traveler. He has spent time in Oceania, the Middle East, South
America, Europe, and the Caribbean. But his most exotic trip was to northern California, where he spent a
week living in a giant redwood tree.
kristin warheit-bresler
Kristin Warheit-Bresler
brett warwick
Brett Warwick is a NYC based actor, writer, and musician. He has a BFA in Acting from Emerson College,
and an MA in Theatre Studies from Hunter College. His most recent stage roles include Mr. Peachum in
The Three Penny Opera at Hunter College's Danny Kaye Playhouse and Saint Peter in fellow Collective
member Holly Hepp-Galvan's Saint Peter's Question. Brett is also in the perennial rock band, The
Trembling Turncoats. If you have any questions or concerns, he can be reached at
brettwarwick@gmail.com.
Guest Artists:
Stuart Bridgett
Madeline Fredrick
David Gelles
Alexandra Gellner
John Hume
Kate Juliano
Erika Smith
Benjamin Weaver