\     CAST:             Jay Russell* (Actor 1) Broadway: End of the Rainbow, The Play What I Wrote. Off-Broadway: Our Town (Barrow Street), Travels With My Aunt (Keen Company), Around the World in 80 Days (Irish Rep), Come Back, Little Sheba (Transport Group), The Normal Heart (Public), & more. National Tours: Wicked, Beauty & the Beast. International: Fully Committed (English Theatre of Vienna), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (English Theatre of Frankfurt). Regional: Leading roles at the Guthrie, Arena Stage, Long Wharf, Papermill Playhouse, Westport Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Goodspeed Opera House, North Shore Music Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Ordway, Utah Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Gotham, Louie, Boardwalk Empire, Ugly Betty, The Sopranos, Seven Seconds, Bored to Death, Law & Order, Morning Glory, Ride, In Lieu of Flowers, All in Time. jay-russell.com         Kevin Lowry (Actor 2) is thrilled to be making his New York debut in Chatillion Stage Company’s FIRE! He was most recently seen in Sweet & Lucky (Denver Center for the Performing Arts, in association with Third Rail Projects, Brooklyn NY). Kevin has worked across Colorado in A Man for All Seasons (Arvada Center), Godspell (Aurora Fox), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Broadway World, Best Supporting Actor/The Edge), Ripcord (BETC), Twelfth Night, Macbeth (No Holds Bard), Shining City (Miners Alley), The 39 Steps & Out of Order (Backstage Theatre), Othello: A Khorus Line, (Betsy Stage) and with the Improv groups Makeshift Shakespeare (Best Long Form Group, Colorado Improv Awards 2014) and Hot Nap (Voodoo Comedy Playhouse).         Stuart Zagnit* (Actor 3) is a Broadway veteran, having appeared in Disney’s Newsies, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Seussical, The Wild Party and The People in the Picture, among others. National tour credits include The Wizard in Wicked, Grinch, Crazy for You, Into the Woods and Applause. Off-Broadway: All in the Timing, Lucky Stiff, The Grand Tour, Kuni-Leml. Stuart was the last Seymour in the original production of Little Shop of Horrors at the Orpheum Theater. Regional credits include Max in The Producers, Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, The Sound of Music, Sunset Boulevard and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. On TV: five guest appearances on all three Law & Order series, as well as The Good Wife, Elementary, Blue Bloods, 30 Rock and Season 2 of Violet, the Jessica Jones Marvel Comics series on Netflix. Stuart is on the web series Small Miracles, the feature According to Greta and for Pokemon fans, he was the original voice of Professor Oak!         Laura King Otazo (Actor 4) Theatre: Censored on Final Approach (Gerry), Insignificant (Williamena Fleming) and A Piece of My Heart (Whitney) with Infinite Variety Productions; Crimes of the Heart (Lenny) and Lucky Stiff (Annabel) with Bristol Valley Theater; Rope (Leila) and The Taming of the Shrew (Kate) with Random Access Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena) with Mortal Folly. Webseries: Looking Through the Windows, American Kirare-Yaku, and Parallels. laurakingotazo.com         Lauriel Friedman* (Actor 5) Off-Broadway: Vanity Fair, The Dingdong, The Winter's Tale (Pearl Theatre Company); A Midsummer Night's Dream (New York Classical Theatre). Regional: The Diary of Anne Frank (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Peter Piper, Pride and Prejudice (Guthrie Theater). Training: Guthrie Theater B.F.A. Actor Training Program, London's Globe Theatre Education. laurielfriedman.com         Malka Wallick (Actor 6) is New York based actor, but theatre has taken her abroad where she has studied and performed in London (RADA, MA Theatre Lab, & LAMDA), Greece, and Italy, (La Mama Umbria). Most recently Malka was seen Off-Broadway in Outer Banks at Signature. Some of her favorite roles include: Viola (Twelfth Night), Paulina (The Winter's Tale), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), and J in R+J. She is the first runner up of the Warwick Shakespeare Writing Competition, (London). When not neck deep in Shakespeare Malka can be found reading a good book whilst sipping on a good single malt (peaty please!), or attempting to complete the NY Times Friday crossword -- she's still working on that one. Thanks to Tim for always pushing me and being there. malkawallick.com         Jake Horowitz* (Actor 7) recently played the Duke of Aumerle opposite Robert Sean Leonard in Richard II at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in The Sensuality Party (The New Group), King Lear and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theatre for a New Audience). Jake played Wally Webb in Our Town directed by David Cromer (Barrow Street Theatre). Regional credits include Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (Dallas Theater Center) and Katurian in The Pillowman (Zoo City). He has also appeared in the films The Vast of Night (upcoming), Adam Bloom, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Julie Taymor. Jake is a founding member of Zoo City.         Paulette Oliva* (Actor 8) is proud and thrilled to be a part of this thoughtful work—reflecting on the 146 lives lost, and the enduring impact on labor, immigrants, and women's rights. Off-Broadway: Barbicide, (Mrs. Lionetti, Players Theatre, NY), Return to Spoon River, (Ensemble, Lion Theatre, Theatre Row, NY); Selected Regional: Sister Act! (Mother Superior, White Plains PAC), Master Class (Maria Callas, Sunoco Theatre, Harrisburg, PA), Sweeney Todd, (Mrs. Lovett, Irvington Town Hall Theatre), Gypsy (Rose, Yorktown Stage), Next to Normal (Diana, Sandbox Theatre), Disney on the Record (Diane, White Plains, PAC). Dedicated to the memory of my grandmother, Cira Lo Piccolo, Italian immigrant, garment worker, who arrived on Ellis Island November 1907 and regaled us with stories of her young friends lost in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of 1911. Questo è per te, Nonna. pauletteoliva.com           * Member of Actors' Equity Association       CREATIVE:             Debra Whitfield (Playwright) is an award-winning director, actress, and playwright. She has worked at The Mint Theater, Florida Studio Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Two River Theater Company, Hartford TheaterWorks, the Depot Theatre, the Bickford Theatre, the Emelin Theatre and the Amateur Comedy Club, among others. Additional writing credits include: Duck Sauce Can Be Dangerous, Tech Support, The Man in the Window, and Champagne, all produced in New York City. As a director: Off-Broadway: Olympics Über Alles (St. Luke’s Theatre); The Banana Monologues (Acorn Theatre). Other favorite productions are Blithe Spirit, Brighton Beach Memoirs and ROPE. Debra was named Best Director for Welcome to the Hard Luck Café (Director/Choreographer) at the Thespis Festival in NYC. She won Best Actress awards for her work in How I Learned to Drive, Relatively Speaking and The Adjustment. Debra is the Artistic Director of the Chatillion Stage Company and is on the Board of Directors for The Shaw Project. Member of SDC, WGAE, AEA, SAG-AFTRA. debrawhitfield.net         Benjamin Viertel (Director) a freelance director based in New York City, born in France and raised in South Florida by German and Italian parents. Upcoming: Grindr The Musical (UK and Italian tour). Past: The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (New Ohio Theater), Fireface (The Brick), Clipped (Atlantic Stage II), Kragtar: A Monster Musical (Peoples Improv Theater), Sad Indie Love Song (IRT Theater), Crimes of the Heart and Avenue Q (Bristol Valley Theater); and award-winning webseries [Blank] My Life. Benjamin has worked with BAM, Roundabout Theater Company, Huntington Theater Company, The New Group, and The Civilians. Member of Kennedy Center Director’s Lab, MTC’s Directing Fellow, The Civilian’s R&D Group, and Resident Artist at The Brick and Abrons Arts Center. Co-founder and Artistic Director of Third Space. Education: Carnegie Mellon University. benjaminviertel.com         Bryce Cutler (Scenic & Projection Design) Previous designs include world premieres by John Patrick Shanley, Dael Orlandersmith, and Grammy Award winner Steve Mackey. Previous work has been seen at The Guthrie Theater, New York Stage and Film, The Folger Shakespeare Library, Abrons Arts Center, HERE Arts and Arts@Renaissance. He was selected as USITT’s 2017 Rising Star and his design for The Lady In Red... was selected for international exhibition at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial. He served as the art director for Comedy Central’s @Midnight: NYC and his work has been published in the Contemporary Performance Almanac. He is the recipient of the Lloyd Weinger Award for Scenic Design and the 2015 ArtsImpulse Award for Best Projection Design for Jesus Christ Superstar. He is co-founder of Third Space, a political theater collective. Education: Carnegie Mellon University. brycecutler.com         Emily Chalmers (Costume Design) is a New York based costume designer for Theatre, TV and film. Traditionally trained in the UK at The University of Kent, Canterbury, she developed her interest in costume design and gained her MFA at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh. Recent credits include: Broadway Bares 2017 (Broadway Cares), All Is Not Lost, Short film (GeeWiz Productions), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Thirdspace), Thre3bound feature film (Exit74 Productions), Fireface (Thirdspace). Assisting credits: Night of Too Many Stars (Comedy Central), Michel Feinstein Rainbow Room Special (PBS), Dracula Untold (Universal Studios). She also has credits with HBO, Food Network, Sky, Nickelodeon, VH1 and FX. Emily also works at The Julliard School.         Deborah Constantine (Lighting Design) is pleased to be working on Debra’s play FIRE! She has worked with Debra on the Off-Broadway play The Banana Monologues. Her most recent design was the world premiere of Dégagé at the Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, New York. Other designs include Communion; Ragtime; Pirates of Penzance; Enemy of the People; Bus Stop; My Occasion of Sin; A Christmas Story, the Musical; Barrymore; You Can’t Take It With You; La Traviata; La Boheme; Proof; Crowns; Horseplay: or the Fickle Mistress; Cornbury, the Queen’s Governor. Theatre companies include Urban Stages (NYC), Bristol Riverside Theatre (Bristol, PA), Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, NY), Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Bronx Opera, Blue Light Theatre Company, Primary Stages, Hartford TheaterWorks. deborahconstantine.com         Carlene Stober (Sound Design) performs on the cello and viola da gamba and is also a music librarian about town. In addition to playing in the pits of operas, ballets, and musicals, she has performed as onstage musician with Theatre for a New Audience and the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and as on-air musician with A Prairie Home Companion. Among her sound designs for several productions of the Snarks, an intrepid little company with more than a century of performances behind it, are Blithe Spirit under Debra Whitfield's direction, and Tartuffe, Living Together, Enchanted April, and others, and, with Ed Matthew, Murder on the Nile and A Shot in the Dark for the Amateur Comedy Club, productions also directed by Deb. Thrilled to be designing sound when Deb's wearing her playwright hat at Chatillion Stage Company. Member, AFM Local 802.         Ed Matthew (Sound Design) welcomes working with Debra Whitfield and Carlene Stober again, and for his first time designing with Benjamin Viertel and the Chatillion Stage Company. Sound design for Amateur Comedy Club and the Snarks (Murder on the Nile, The Wayside Motor Inn); music director and composer for Shakespeare's plays with the Utah Shakespeare Festival (The Taming of the Shrew) and the Invisible Theatre (Macbeth and others); musician on Broadway (The Phantom of the Opera, The Music Man, Parade, and many others); Off-Broadway (Fermat's Last Tango); onstage a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (The Lady and the Clarinet). Member, AFM Local 802.         Debra Moolin (Props Master) is thrilled to be working with Debra Whitfield on FIRE! She has enjoyed supporting ten other productions as Assistant Director or Props Master, with the majority of these under the direction of Ms. Whitfield. Favorites include: ROPE, Welcome to the Hard Luck Café, The Man in the Window, and Murder on the Nile. Debra was the Assistant Set Designer on the Off-Broadway musical, Spandex. When not indulging her theatre addiction, Debra is a structural engineer.         Inga Thrasher (Hair / Make -- Up Consultant) is known for her work on “Saturday Night Live” (1975), “Goodnight, Sweet Prince” (2016) and “Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special” (2015). Inga is a 5 time Emmy winner for Hairstyling for SNL and has been nominated 9 times, as part of an amazing team of hairstylists. She began her Hair and Wig styling career working on Broadway shows. Some of Inga’s favorites are Victor/Victoria, Sunset Boulevard, The Producers, Into the Woods, NINE, Steel Magnolias and Hollywood Arms.         Emely Zepeda* (Production Stage Manager) is the resident stage manager at Brave New World Repertory Theatre where she has stage managed The Plantation and Ms. Julie, Asian Equities. In New York City, Emely has also stage ma-naged at La MaMa (Chix 6), New Ohio Theatre (Yellow Card Red Card), and for Hedgepig Ensemble (A Taste of Shakespeare) and assisted at the Pearl (A Taste of Honey). Prior to New York City, Emely graduated from the Yale School of Drama where she received her MFA in stage management and worked at the Yale Repertory Theatre as the SM for Cymbeline and ASM for Familiar and Indecent.         Skye Cone (Assistant Stage Manager) Skye is a freelance stage manager new to New York City! Originally from Treasure Island, Florida, Skye attended the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where she earned her B.F.A. in stage management. Upcoming work includes Assistant Stage Manager for Fellow Travelers. Past work includes Stage Manager for the event Opera in the Park, Assistant Stage Manager for Frida, Stage Management Intern for Die Fledermaus and Tosca all at Cincinnati Opera. She also worked for Cincinnati Children’s Theatre as the Stage Management Intern on The Wizard of Oz and Tarzan. Her most fond CCM memory was as the Production Stage Manager for A Chorus Line. Thank you to my family and Kyle for all of their love and support.         Cyrus Newitt (Technical Director) is delighted to work with Debra Whitfield and this talented group, in his debut with Chatillion Stage. He has been making theater on and off stage for over forty years as manager, designer, director, and actor for numerous companies up and down the East Coast, including the Hampton Theatre on eastern Long Island, the Footlight Players in Charleston, South Carolina, the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and the Amateur Comedy Club in NYC. Most recently, Cyrus appeared onstage in Thrown Stone Theatre Company’s acclaimed US premiere production of MILK in Ridgefield, Connecticut (thrownstone.org). He was also Lighting Designer and Production Manager for this project. Prior to that, he played Mellersh in Enchanted April for the Snarks LTD here in New York City; and he was Resident Lighting Designer for Cape May Stage from 2012-2016. Cyrus has also been seen and heard in uncountable TV commercials, industrials, programs and feature films; he lives in Westchester County NY and is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA.         Colleen Gleason (Dialect Coach) is a Designated Linklater Teacher and Certified Colaianni Speech/Phonetic Pillows Practitioner. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing from Marshall University. Colleen currently teaches the Linklater Progression at the Deena Levy Theatre Studio. In addition to teaching, she has dialect coached: Lady Windermere’s Fan, Much Ado About Nothing, Outward Bound, and To Be or Not to Be. Most recently, Colleen was the dialect coach for Murder on the Nile, at the Amateur Comedy Club, directed by Debra Whitfield. FIRE! marks their fifth collaboration and Colleen is excited to be on the team.         Philip Carrubba (Press Representative) richardhillmanpr.com         Toro Communications (Social Media) toro-communications.com         Stephen Bittrich (Web Design) stephenbittrich.com