The Artists
Jessica Thorne
is an actor by day and a composer by night. She has scored music for Montage Production Company and reLEASE Physical Theatre Company. She just recently closed The Tempest at Shakespeare Theatre Company and can be seen this spring in Cabaret at Signature Theatre. She has worked with numerous theaters in the DC area: The John F. Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Studio Theatre. Jessica was also a former Associate Company Member with Synetic Theatre Company.
Annalisa Dias
is a director, deviser, and playwright. Her short plays have been staged in Washington, D.C., New York,
Glasgow, and London. D.C. credits include: Co-deviser, ONE WORD MORE (Shakespeare Theatre Company Happening); Director, Dressing Bobby Strong and Dust to Dust to Dust (Source Festival); Original Dramaturg, Pol Pot &
Associates, LLP. (Longacre Lea); Assistant Director, Oh Dad, Poor Dad.. and Voodoo Macbeth (American Century Theater); Dramaturg, Apocalypse Please (the Inkwell); Dramaturg Assistant, The Conference of the Birds (Folger Theater); Original Dramaturg, #crazypants (The Catholic University of America). Annalisa also teaches Theatre of the Oppressed and directed an international documentary film entitled The Salima Project (Official Selection, Awareness Film Festival). She is Co-Founder of the DC Coalition for Theatre & Social Justice. MA: The Catholic University of America. BA: Boston University.
Natalie Cutcher
Local collaborators include Rorschach: Glassheart, Six Impossible Things, Flying V: The Pirate Laureate and the King of the Sea, Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield, Arts on the Horizon: Snow Day, The Washington Rogues: In The Forest, She Grew Fangs, Mitzi's Abortion, Faction of Fools: Plays on the American Mask, Quattro Senari, Source Festival: Perfect Arrangement, F2F, Uses of Enchantment--workshop, The Inkwell: Kennedy Center's Page to Stage: A Showcase of Local Inklings, First Contact Showcase: Mysteries of Body and Soul, Arts Alive: All This Intimacy, and Empty Chair Theatre: Twelfth Night. She earned her BA from Muhlenberg College and studied Commedia dell'Arte and Clowning abroad in Italy. Upcoming projects include Point A to Point B with Arts on the Horizon, Our Town with Faction of Fools, and ongoing radio play/podcast EOS 10.