Moe Angelos (Prin) has written and performed six plays with the collaborative theatre company The Five Lesbian Brothers. Tooting her own horn, she happily mentions that the Brothers have received an Obie and Bessie award. Moe has also written other stuff, including several plays and some mild criticism. She is also a scenic painter. Besides working with the Brothers for over 15 years, Moe has appeared in the work of many a downtown theatrical luminary. Moe has been working with The Builders Association since 1999 and is currently appearing in their production, SUPER VISION, which is "comical yet ultimately poignant," according to the Columbus Dispatch. The Builders are at work on a brand new piece, Continuous City, that will be popping up in 2008.
Karen "Mal" Malme (Fran) is a co-founder, writer, and performer with Queer Soup Theater, which just celebrated its fifth anniversary with the well received July, 2007 production of "lost + found: the anniversary series" at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. Mal performed in three of the pieces, as well as contributing her original play "gutting" to the production, inspired by her experiences volunteering in New Orleans last November. Mal also currently tours her solo performance project "Still Married", which received a 2006 Artist Grant Award from The Cambridge Arts Council, to high schools, colleges, and conferences, in an effort to encourage dialogue and awareness around same sex marriage and LGBT issues. Other current projects include touring with Queer Soup's IRNE nominated play "Home" that explores the intersections of gender and queer identities with faith and family, and beginning work on a new multimedia theater project on gender and class, involving a trip to Graceland with fellow Queer Souper Renee C. Farster and filmmaker Kathy Wittman. When not with Queer Soup, Mal works at Children's Hospital as a hospital clown for The Big Apple Circus Clown Care Program, and as an advisor and board member with the North Shore Alliance of LGBT Youth [NAGLY].
Linda Monchik (Joni): influences on my journey to this play: girls' schools, women's colleges, men's colleges, men in Shakespeare (our greatest European playwright) and women being marginalized, generally. The Vagina Monologues had a great influence on me, being a married women in America for 35 years, coming from a family of 4 girls, having 3 daughters, and seeing women's work and worth remaining largely underground.
Brigid O'Conno (Con) is pleased to be working with Theater Offensive after appearing in their staged reading of Queer Theory. Brigid is co-artistic director of Threshold Theatre, a company dedicated to promoting women artists, where some of her favorite roles include: Connie in Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Bernie in Coming Soon, and Beth in Purple Breasts. Brigid was recently seen in TheatreZone's Top Girls, and you might recognize her from various commercials. In addition to acting, Brigid is the Performing Arts Consultant for the PERCS program at Children's Hospital and is a casting agent.
Vanessa Soto (Terri) is an actor and director who lives and and works throughout New England. Her most recent directing credits include, Assistant Director to Charles Newell in Long Wharf Theatre's production of Man of La Mancha. Acting credits include Shakespeare: The Remix (Collective Consciousness Theater), Swimming in the Shallows (Long Wharf Theatre's Next Stage), Kingdom (Bregamos Theater), and productions with the Theater Offensive at the Boston Center for the Arts and with TYG Productions at the Boston Playwrights Theater. In 2005 she made her NYC stage debut at Dixon Place's HOT! Festival. She graduated from Vassar College with a BA in Women & Gender Studies and Theater. She attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, the St Petersberg Theater Arts Academy and The Moscow Art Theater School's Stanislavski Summer Program, where she trained extensively in yoga, tai chi, biomechanics, and Droznin Technique. She is also a trained capoeirista. On MySpace