It's My Party! Creative

Playwright

Ann Timmons

Ann started in theatre as an actor (M.F.A., University of Illinois) before pivoting to playwriting. She honed her skills at Playwrights’ Horizons Theatre School, who co-produced her one-woman show, "Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman" at the Samuel Becket Theatre Off-Broadway, prior to its 16-year national tour. Ann has received commissions for several plays, most recently "Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper", from Echo Theatre, Dallas. Other productions include "Becoming Calvin", Washington, D.C.; "Beyond Shadowlands", national tour; "The Jamestown Adventure Express", Virginia tour. "It’s My Party!" premiered at Dallas’ Echo Theatre in 2021 and will be published by Next Stage Press later this fall. Ann is a member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, Dramatists Guild, Honor Roll!, and is a founding producing playwright with Pipeline Playwrights. www.anntimmons.com.

Director

Rikki Howie Lacewell

Rikki is a director, actor and theatrical consultant based in the DMV area. This is her 2nd time with Pipeline Playwrights, having directed "Wednesdays in Mississippi" in 2023. She has over 100 shows under her belt. Rikki’s recent directing credits include two productions of "Clyde’s", "Chicken & Biscuits", "for colored girls . . .", "DOT", "Dreamgirls", and "Memphis". She is known for her passion for telling authentic stories, her commitment to diversity and inclusion in theater spaces. In addition to her theater work, Rikki is a Senior Workforce Initiatives Specialist for the blind and visually impaired at NSITE. She thanks her theater family, casts, and audiences for their support and for continuing to make space for voices that need to be heard. www.confidencetheatrics.com

Original Creative Team

Caroline Mae Woodson
Producer
Caroline is an earnest doer of everything: writer, director, actor, drinker of earl gray, etc.. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from VCU with a BFA (theatre), B.S. (psychology), and minor (writing). After studying classical literature at University of Oxford, she was a fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Following her East Coast return, she was the Assistant Artistic Director for Shakespeare in the Parks locally. She thanks everyone who has ever believed in her, especially her family.

Anna Mae Murphy (she/her)
Stage Manager
Anna Mae is excited to be Stage Managing It’s My Party! Her recent work includes Decision Height at Vienna Theatre Company (Assistant Stage Manager) and Kinky Boots at Little Theatre of Alexandria (Run Crew). In her free time, she enjoys exploring the colorful theatre scene the DMV has to offer, reading whatever book her book club has chosen for the month, and collecting matchboxes.

Justin Nepomuceno
Set and Props
Justin Nepomuceno is a Baltimore based Designer and Artisan. Previous credits include Scenic Designer for Clydes, Working for Crumbs, and Baby with the Bathwater at Spotlighters Theatre; On the Verge at Fells Point Corner Theatre. Scenic Charge for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at ArtsCentric and props artisan for Sister Act at Ford’s Theatre, Piano Lesson at 1st Stage, and Covenant at Theatre Alliance. Justin holds a BS/BFA in Design etc. from Towson University. @Nepoillustration

Maria V. Bissex
Costumes
Maria is delighted to join Pipeline Playwrights for this production of It’s My Party! Maria is the owner of MVB Costumes based in McLean, VA, and is also an educator, musician, avid reader, cyclist, and all-around Renaissance woman. One of her favorite theatrical projects was writing and directing an adaptation of Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Maria has done costume design, stitching, and wardrobe work for Capital One Hall, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, IN Series, Mosaic Theater Company, NextStop Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, Synetic Theatre, The Theatre Lab, and Washington Stage Guild, and partners with schools in Fairfax County, VA, and Montgomery County, MD to promote education in costume arts. mvbcostumes.com.

Marty Van Kleeck
Costume Designer
Marty has a 50-year career in the theater as a producer, director, actor and costume designer. Her designs have been seen on film, and on the stages of regional theaters, community theaters, and colleges throughout the country. She was the resident costume designer for The Granbury Opera House, Show Palace Dinner Theater and for One Thirty Productions. In the spirit of the designs as repurposed linens, she is thrilled that the costumes for It’s My Party! will be on the stage once again.

Alana Isaac
Lighting & Sound Designer
Alana is excited to design for her first show with Pipeline Playwrights! Alana is a multidisciplinary theatre artist who aims to create art that inspires and engages audiences. Some favorite lighting credits:The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Wildwood Summer Theatre), Infinite Potentiality (University of Maryland UMoves Dance Concert), Dead Man's Cell Phone (Maryland Ghostlight Company, University of Maryland), and quiero ser mas que un mosaico (Experimental Performance Series, University of Maryland). alanaraeisaac.com.

Rick Bassett
Composer and Musician
Rick Bassett is a composer, pianist, and orchestrator. BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, BMI Harrington Award winner for The Average-Sized Mermaid, written with Jessica Fleitman. John Duffy Composers Institute, Virginia Arts Festival. Orchestrator for Sutton Foster with NY Philharmonic, Boston Pops, National Symphony, etc. CD: “Take Me To The World.” Co-orchestrator (Broadway): Caroline, or Change, Violet, Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center. New recording of jazz compositions: “The Kosova Sessions.” rickbassettmusic.com

Maggi Richard
Assistant Stage Manager (she/her)
Maggi is thrilled to be making her professional debut with Pipeline Playwrights! Recent works include co-stage managing The Play That Goes Wrong, and Little Women (The Arlington Players), as well as assistant stage managing Kinky Boots (The Little Theatre of Alexandria). She also loves playing the piano and traveling as far and wide as she can. https://margaretrichard.weebly.com/