Producer
Eric BergEric is an actor, director, and producer based in Dallas, Texas. He is a proud producing partner with Echo Theatre where he serves as co-producer for the Echo Reads series and podcast manager on the upcoming Echo Offstage podcast. His directing credits include Eurydice and STELLA (SMU) and staged readings for Echo, IMPRINT Theatreworks, and SMU. He has served as assistant director at ATTPAC, Dallas Theater Center, Stage West, Kitchen Dog Theatre, and Jubilee Theatre. Acting credits: Boy in US/THEM (Echo Theatre), Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs (Theater Arlington), and Parker in Split Second (Jubilee Theatre). He holds a BFA in Theatre Studies from SMU.
Managing Artistic Director
Kateri CaleWelcome to Echo Theatre ONLINE! Thank you for your interest in this brand new play about the women activists of 1920. It's been said that "Well-behaved women rarely make history," and you will definitely meet a few Victorian ladies who chose to defy the era's defined roles for women. Please stay after the reading for a short talk-back with the cast. We'd love to hear what you think of the show and the women who worked tirelessly for a cause society thought improper to champion.
Next up for Echo is the launch of our new Podcast, Echo Offstage: Theater Women Speak. Intriguing, intimate conversations with impactful women of theater, it will be available on September 15, 2020 wherever you get your podcasts.
Marketing / Graphic Design
Lauren FloydLauren is a recent graduate from Southern Methodist University and holds a BFA in Theatre Studies. She has enjoyed researching the history of the Suffragists to create the marketing for It's My Party! the Echo Board of Directors recently named Lauren Administrative Assistant to the managing artistic director. You can see Lauren onstage in 2021 in Echo's regional premier of The Other Felix by Reina Hardy.
Director
Carson McCainCarson is a director and producer based in Dallas, Texas. She was recently announced as the incoming Artistic Director of Second Thought Theatre. Dallas theatergoers will have seen her work most recently at Stage West where she directed Lungs by Duncan Macmillan. She previously worked with Undermain Theatre, Second Thought Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and Kitchen Dog Theatre. To experience more of Carson's work, check out Untitled Dad Project created by Janielle Kastner on whatever podcast app you use.
Technical Advisor
Haley NelsonHaley is a dramaturg, playwright, and producer. She is a second year National New Play Network Producer in Residence and is in her fifth season with Kitchen Dog Theater, where she serves as Manager of Literary and Community Initiatives. Local dramaturgy credits include Dallas Theater Center, Circle Theatre, Artstillery, Theatre Too, and Spoke Media podcasts, in addition to many national festivals and competitions. Her own plays have been produced by IMPRINT and House Party Theatre, and she was a Finalist for the 2020 National Young Playwrights in Residence. Haley LMDA's Third Coast Regional Vice President, and a recipient of the 2017 Bly Creative Capacity Grant, a 2019 Dallas OCA Micro-Residency, an inaugural Actors Theatre of Louisville Emerging Leaders Grant, and a 2017 Rosenfield Playwriting Award from her alma mater, SMU. www.haleynelson.me
Playwright
Ann TimmonsAnn Timmons holds an MFA (Acting) from the University of Illinois, and trained as a playwright in NYC at Playwrights’ Horizons. Her plays have been performed in many venues—Off-Broadway and national tour: Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Washington, D.C: Becoming Calvin; National tour: Beyond Shadowlands; Virginia tour: The Jamestown Adventure Express. A founding member of Pipeline Playwrights, Ann’s one-acts have been produced as part of How’s That Workin’ Out for Ya? and How’s That Workin’ Out For Ya? 2.0 at the Capital Fringe Festivals, 2018 and 2019, in Washington, D.C. Currently living in NYC, Ann is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, The Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll! and The Playwrights Circle. Ann is honored to share this important story of brave women with the Echo Theatre community! Find out more at www.anntimmons.com.
If you are in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in February of 2021, you may be able to attend the Southwest Premiere of IT'S MY PARTY! live onstage. Opt in to receive emails at www.echotheatre.org for updates!
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It's My Party! was originally developed in conjunction with Pipeline Playwrights. The idea for Pipeline Playwrights took root in the fall of 2016 when four Northern Virginia playwrights—Ann Timmons, Jean Koppen, Patricia Connelly, and Soo-Jin Lee—decided they wanted to get their work in front of a wider audience. Pipeline Playwrights launched formally in February 2017, under the auspices of Thelma Theatre.
"As a producing and writing collective, we work together to support, present, and promote each other's work. We believe theater should reflect the reality of our daily lives while exploring the infinite variety of our experiences as women. Our goal is to write and produce plays that communicate truths that bind us together in community. In addition to three of the original co-founders, Ann Timmons, Jean Koppen, and Patricia Connelly, Pipeline Playwrights now includes Nicole Burton and Crystal Adaway. Even though we are now more spread out geographically, we continue to meet together to nurture each other’s creative work, and together we produce readings of our new works. We also produce fully-staged original shows at the Capital Festival Fringe! Find out more at www.pipelineplaywrights.org"
