Heartland Creative

PLAYWRIGHT

Patricia Conelly

Patricia Connelly is an award-winning playwright and director as well as an attorney. "Heartland" was previously presented at the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival and MetroStage in Alexandria, VA. Her play, "Princess Margaret," was part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival in DC in 2015. Other plays include: "Around the Snake Turn," "The Penny or the Stone" (Robert Bone Memorial Playwriting Award at the Dallas Theatre Center); "What Happens in This Town" (Washington Theater Festival); "All the Sins of My Past Life" (Experimental Theatre, UNM); "Harriet" (Experimental Theatre, UNM); and "Night Sky" (Capital Fringe Festival). She has a Masters in Theater from the University of New Mexico and an MFA in playwriting from Goddard College. She is co-founder of Pipeline Playwrights and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.

DIRECTOR

Catherine Tripp

Catherine Tripp has worked with a number of companies around DC, including Source Theatre Festival and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She frequently works with play development workshops and has helped bring new works to the stage. This is her third production with Pipeline Playwrights, she previously directed "How’s that workin’ out for ya? 2.0 " and "A Very Present Presence" by Ann Timmons. She is also a proud company member of Rorschach Theatre. Catherine holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Southern California and a M.Litt in Theology, Imagination and the Arts from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). Other credits include, directing "Brainpeople" by José Rivera and "The Gallerist" by Fengar Gael, as well as being a part of the production team for a number of other productions. Coming up next in October 2022 is also with Pipeline Playwrights: "Unprotected" by Jean Koppen.

Creative Team and Crew

CREATIVE TEAM

Stephen Strosnider
Designer, Set and Prop
Stephen is very excited to be collaborating on his sixth Pipeline Playwrights production! A conservatory alum of Shenandoah University, Stephen is the Technical Director at McDaniel College. An actor, coach, and director, he was most recently the Lead Scenic Painter for the Off-Broadway premiere of “Brilliance” and is thrilled to be directing the premier production of Garth Baxter’s “Lily, An American Opera” this summer with the Virtual Opera Collective Experiment.

Malia Murray
Videographer, Sound Designer
Malia is pleased to be working with the Pipeline Playwrights again. Previously, she shot two of the Pipeline’s Fringe Festival presentations. She has several acting credits in area productions but is known mostly as a Community Theater producer. Her next project is as ‘Juror #11’ in the Rude Mechanicals’ “Twelve Angry Women”.

Jonathan Ezra Rubin
Fight & Intimacy Director
Jonathan is a three-time Helen Hayes Award and one-time WATCH Award Nominee for Outstanding Choreography who has created fights and/or intimacy for The Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Flying V, GALA Hispanic Theatre, Adventure Theatre-MTC, and many more. Upcoming: Fight & Intimacy Direction for “In His Hands” at Mosaic Theater.

Jeniffer Leon
Lighting Designer
Jeniffer Leon is Joe’s Movement Emporium’s Theater Production Coordinator, and Lighting Designer. She also works s a Lighting Designer and Theatre Technician at Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission's Publick Playhouse. She studied with Joe’s Movement Emporium’s Theater Tech Program (now CreativeWorks), and found her calling for lighting design when she was hired part time at M-NCPPC’s Publick Playhouse . Jeniffer has been been designing lights for productions for 8+ years. She has worked with many artists including Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Jeff Majors, Regina Belle and many others.

Lanae Sterrett
Costume Designer
Lanae has had the pleasure of working on such shows as “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder”, “Bright Star”, and “Blue Stockings” (LTA) and many others in the greater Virginia and DC area. She would like to thank her parents, Larry and Renee, and her siblings for their unending love and support.

Ann Timmons
Producer
Ann earned her MFA in Acting from the University of Illinois, and performed on regional stages, Off-Broadway, television and film. Now a playwright, she focuses on creating challenging roles for women. Her plays include: Pipeline Playwrights, Alexandria, VA: "A Very Present Presence"; Echo Theatre, Dallas: "It’s My Party!”; Off-Broadway, national tour: "Off the Wall: The Life and Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman"; Washington, D..C,::"Becoming Calvin"; Capital Fringe Festival, "How’s That Workin’ Out for Ya?" and "How’s That Workin’ Out For Ya? 2.0”. She has also directed and produced in D.C. and New York. Ann is a founding member of Pipeline Playwrights, and belongs to Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild of America. Find out more at www.anntimmons.com

CREW

Ellice McCoy, Stage crew

Maggie Landis, Video assistant

Tierra Jackson, Stage hand

Gustavo Trejo, Sound technician

Christopher Gooden, lighting technician

Crystal Adaway, Graphics, program and advertising

Lex T. , Opening and closing music