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#HereToo Team
Barbara Pitts McAdams
Co-FOUNDER
Barbara Pitts McAdams is co-author of MOMENT WORK: Tectonic Theater Project’s Process of Devising Theater. Barb was an actor/co-creator in the original company of Tectonic’s The Laramie Project and appears in the HBO film version (shared Emmy Nomination, Best Adapted Screenplay). Barbara is a sought after director/lead deviser of new works, often dealing with social justice themes. She was the 2018 Margaret Hill Visiting Artist at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, devising an interview-based play about campus-wide inclusion and diversity struggles. She was in residence at the Krannert Center at University of IL - Urbana Champaign in 2019, directing and co-creating Because I Am Your Queen: a feminist fantasia. She is an adjunct at Drew University where she co-leads all new devising projects, as the key Tectonic partner for its annual Tectonic/Drew devised show. She also teaches many acting courses including Acting for Camera and Survey of Acting Techniques. Barbara’s ecent acting roles include: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Mile Square Theater), WeLL with Lisa Kron (directed by Leigh Silverman at Huntington Theater Co), and West Coast premiers of Stephen Belber’s Drifting Elegant and Rebecca Gilman’s Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Magic Theater) and Adam Bock’s The Typographer’s Dream (Encore). TV appearances: Anyone But Me (3 seasons), Person of Interest, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Kidnapped, Forever, Comedy Central Pulp Comics.
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Jimmy Maize
Co-FOUNDER
Jimmy Maize is a writer/director/designer and member of Tectonic Theater Project. Tectonic collaborations include 33 Variations (Broadway, starring Jane Fonda), The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later (BAM), I Am My Own Wife (Broadway, Pulitzer Prize), One Arm (The New Group), as well as teaching Moment Work nationally and internationally through Tectonic’s Education and Community Engagement Department.
Writing/Directing credits include The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre, GA), Harbored (En Garde Arts / Arts Brookfield / LMCC's River to River Festival), Burn The End (The New School), and John Muir Wolf (Whitman College).
Additional directing credits include his critically-acclaimed 100-actor adaptation of Spoon River Anthology (The Invisible Dog), BOSSS (En Garde Arts), The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing (Classic Stage Co), You’re Invited (Old Vic, UK), Look Ma, No Piano’s (54 Below), A Different Kind of Animal (Theater Row), Ring of Fire (Endstation Theatre Co.), Hypochondria by Kyle Jarrow, and his mash-up adaptation of A Dream Play and The Seagull (Columbia University).
As a playwright, he is a recipient of the first annual Bailiwick playwriting award and David Nord Award for his interview-based play In One Room, which has been performed nationally. He has made original plays and musicals from archived material, interviews, fiction and poetry, including a folk musical about John Muir, a punk rock musical about Arthur Rimbaud, and a site-specific musical using the audience’s stories about immigration. Additional writing credits include Between Life and Nowhere (Old Vic, 3-Legged Dog), In The Belly (Player's Loft), as well as numerous adaptations.
He is currently the US Associate Director on Broadway’s Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, as well as an Associate Artist of Classic Stage Company, an Old Vic New Voices Fellow, an SDCF Observer, a Princess Grace Nominee and he received his MFA in directing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Member SDC.
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Jeanmarie Higgins
dramaturg
A new works dramaturg in dance and theatre, Jeanmarie publishes widely on the intersection of theory and practice—including essays about her studio work with dance trio AGA Collaborative, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Her scholarly research addresses domestic space in contemporary drama and performance in the works of such artists as Wallace Shawn, Simon Stephens, and Pat Graney. A chapter about Diana Szeinblum’s dance theatre is forthcoming in Theatre and the Macabre, edited by Kevin Wetmore and Meredith Conti. Jeanmarie is the editor for Teaching Critical Performance Theory in Today’s Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities (Routledge 2020) and co-editor for Prompt: a journal of theatre theory, practice, and teaching.
Jeanmarie is on the editorial board for Etudes, an online journal in theatre and performances studies for emerging scholars. She also serves as Pre-Conference Planner for the Theory & Criticism Focus Group for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and is an active member in ATHE’s American Theatre and Drama Society. Before joining Penn State School of Theatre in 2017, Jeanmarie taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She holds a BA from Drew University, an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Theatre History, Theory, & Criticism from the University of Washington.
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Rich Brown
project associate
Professor Rich Brown landed at Western Washington University in 2006 where he currently teaches psychophysical acting, Suzuki, Viewpoints, commedia, and devising. He has published in Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal, College Teaching, The Western States Theatre Review, and the book Aesthetics & Business Ethics, and presented at numerous ATHE & NET conferences on devising. He has led Viewpoint & Devising Intensives for Teatrul Fara Frontiere at the National Theatre of Romania in Bucharest and led Devising Intensives for Bucknell University, Seattle University, Rio Hondo College, Lewis & Clark College, Graceland University, Walla Wall University, and serves as the Artistic Director for Texas Tech University’s Marfa Devising Intensives. Rich is an associate artist with professional devising companies hand2mouth (Portland) and Blessed Unrest (NYC). Recently, Rich performed in The Pillowman at the iDiom Theatre, Poison the Well at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, Into the Woods and Art at the Mt. Baker Theatre, The American Family at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (which he also co-directed), Circle Mirror Transformation at Idaho Repertory Theatre, Lying and The Snow Queen with Blessed Unrest in NYC. Recent directing credits include the devised works cheat, Us, The American Family, Soapbox, /faust, Commedia in the Parks and the scripted plays Some Girl(s), Corktown (WWU premiere by Jeff Augustine), How I Learned to Drive, HIR, The Aliens, and Orlando. Rich received a Bellingham Mayor’s Arts award in 2008, WWU’s prestigious Excellence in Teaching award in 2010, the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival’s National Outstanding Lead Deviser/Director of a Devised Work in 2012, the Carnegie Foundation’s Professor of the Year for the state of Washington in 2015, the Washington State Thespians’ Hall of Fame Award in 2016, and a Kennedy Center National Commendation for Devising Leadership in Region 7 in 2019.
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Kylie Vincent
project associate
Kylie Vincent is a NYC based activist and artist. Originally from Thousand Oaks, California, Kylie started her gun control activism by producing and directing a performance show related to gun control violence with fellow high school students after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. Kylie was featured in various news outlets for her activism and art. After moving to New York City to pursue theatre and comedy, she was given the opportunity to take on the title of Action Director of March For Our Lives New York State. Over the past year she has performed, produced and directed theatrical performances to raise money for the organization and awareness. In addition, Kylie has been an associate and performer on The #HereToo Project since being approached by the writers' to be interviewed as a participant in the show. Kylie has spoken at various activist events including, March For Science, Gays Against Guns Rally (Times Square), and Penn State. In addition, Kylie coproduces/performs in Who Is She Comedy, an all female comic group that hosts an all female/non-binary stand up line up at Club Cumming & Arlene’s Grocery. Other credits include Adult Swim (Digikiss), NBC (Gen Z pilot), UCB Hell’s Kitchen (Who Is She Comedy Sketch), #HereToo (Penn State) and Points In Case (Published Writer).