Charlotte Meehan, Artistic Director of Boston-based theatre company, Sleeping Weazel, most recently premiered Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends, her multimedia play with dance, at ArtsEmerson. Other of her stage works that Sleeping Weazel has premiered in Boston include The Audacity: Women Speak (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Production), Cleanliness, Godliness, and Madness: A User’s Guide, Beesus & Ballustrada, Real Realism, and 27 Tips for Banishing the Blues. Previous stage works have been presented in Providence, RI, Bristol (UK), and New York at Dixon Place, the Flea Theater, La MaMa, Bleecker Street Theatre, and Pratt Institute, among others. She is a two-time MacDowell fellow, a 2021 Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow in playwriting, and was a 2008-09 Howard Foundation fellow in playwriting. She is currently developing a dance/theatre work, Time and Times Again, with choreographer Peter DiMuro and his company, Public Displays of Motion. Charlotte is Playwright-in-Residence and English department chair at Wheaton College (MA). For more info, please visitwww.sleepingweazel.com.

CRAZY LOVE is the second play Emma Schwartz, a classically trained actor and director from the United Kingdom, has directed at the ATA, where, in the fall of 2023 Emma directed THE CHERRY TREE to critical acclaim. Since moving to the New York City area, Emma has directed two short movies, LIMBO and Z- MUMBA, and founded MOMENTI PRODUCTIONS, directing and producing classical theatre: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, AS YOU LIKE IT, TWELFTH NIGHT, MERCHANT OF VENICE, ANTIGONE, and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS – Winner of the Best Ensemble award at the So Many Shakespeares Festival 2021, in Brooklyn, NY. Emma’s Directing credits in the UK include Waiting For Godot at the Edinburgh Festival, Antigone, Oedipus, and Twelfth Night. Emma performed in the award-winning production of I LICKED A SLAG’S DEODORANT, playing the SLAG in the acclaimed British Tour. When not directing, Emma has performed in the premier all-female drummer band, Batala NY.

Jamison is a current resident of New York City. Jamison currently works in A/V; His A/V skills such as videography and photography have lead him to worked on films such as “Dayveon” and “The Pardon”. Jamison has also been A Tech for a few short plays.

Tay has worn many hats in the theater world, but the one of Stage Manager is by far the most fulfilling. Under these varied titles, she has worked with an assortment of companies, including Barrington Stage, Queens Shakespeare, Hudson Warehouse, Secret Theatre, La Muse Venale, Outrageous Fortune Co. Thank you to my higher powers and earthly cohorts for their guidance and support!

Gabriella comes to the ATA with a strong background in the arts and design and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Gabriella is currently a Professional Architect with 24 years experience in Residential, Commercial and Industrial Architecture. Gabriella has also worked on multiple Award winning projects. It has always been a passion and dream of hers to be working in Theater. Gabriella is delighted to have worked on her first production, "The Cherry Tree", with The American Theater of Actors. 

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