Foundry Alumni

Chris Davis

Chris Davis

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Foundry Member

Chris Davis is a writer and performer residing in Philadelphia, PA.  Recent projects include solo shows Juan-Winfield, Bortle 8 “…a strikingly original writer and performer.” (- The Scotsman), Drunk Lion (“A potent success”★★★★★ – TV Bomb), and Violence of the Lambs (“…absurd comedy at its very best.” ★★★★★ – The Student Newspaper ).  Other projects Damned Dirty Apes!(Renegade Theater), Alias Ellis Mackenzie(Thaddeus Phillips), Anna K (Philly Fringe 2014), Holly’s Dead Soldiers (Philly Fringe 2013), The Post-Show (Berserker Residents), Vainglorious (Applied Mechanics). This August he will premiere Chinchilla Coats, a new hour-long stand-up in the Edinburgh Fringe 2016. He is also currently in process for a new show One-Man Apocalypse Now set to premiere in the Philadelphia Fringe.

Patrick Ross

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Foundry Member

Patrick Ross’ is a playwright and speechwriter at West Wing Writers, where his writing has appeared onstage, in bestselling books, and in the pages of The New York Times. He’s written jokes for pundits and politicians at events like the Gridiron Club Dinner and Shakespeare Theatre Company’s annual “Will on the Hill.” He lives in Washington, DC, but his heart remains in Philadelphia, where he worked as the Writing & Research Specialist at The Wilma Theater. His play Scarlet Letters premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 (“thoughtful” and “immersive” – The Scotsman). Patrick graduated from Swarthmore College with degrees in Theater and English Literature.

Ben Levan

Ben Levan

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Foundry Member

Ben Levan is a Norristown native and graduate of West Chester University with a focus in playwriting and technical theater. He has been living in Philadelphia and working in the theater community since 2013. In addition to writing he serves as the Production Manager for Azuka Theatre and Master Electrician for the Lantern Theater Company. Recent PM credits include: I Am Not My Motherland (Orbiter 3), Brewers Fayre (Tiny Dynamite), Local Girls (Azuka). Recent ME credits include: 36 Views (Lantern Theater Company), Invisible Hand (Theatre Exile), A Fierce Kind of Love (Temple University Institute on Disabilities.)

 

 

Iraisa Ann Reilly

Iraisa Ann Reilly

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Foundry Member

Iraisa Ann Reilly produced her play One Day Old as a part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in 2016. One Day Old is a bilingual play about Operacion Pedro Pan, an underground operation that took place between the US and Cuba in the 1960s. For this play, she received a grant to conduct research at the Cuban Heritage Collection in Miami.

 

Erlina Ortiz

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Foundry Member, Foundry Alumna (2019)

Erlina Ortiz is a Dominican-American playwright, performer, and theatre maker from Reading, PA based in Philadelphia. She graduated with a BA in Theatre from Temple University. Her heartfelt and difficult plays on gentrification, domestic violence, and rape culture have been produced with Power Street Theatre Company where she is proud to be resident playwright. Erlina is a member of New Pages, a professional writer’s group with Azuka Theatre Company and an Alumni of The Foundry @ Playpenn. She has received the Amtrak Writer’s residency, the Signal Fire Outpost Residency, and her play She Wore Those Shoes had a developmental reading at Theatre Exile’s Studio X-hibition Series in 2016.  She has twice been a finalist for the Leeway Transformation Award. In 2018 Erlina’s play Las Mujeres premiered with Power Street Theatre Company to sold out houses and rave reviews picking up a Bonaly Award for Creation of Community Joy, and this spring her play Morir Sonyando was Barrymore Recommended. Erlina believes being an artist is a superpower, she believes in using her powers for good.

Teresa Miller

Teresa Miller

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Foundry Member

Teresa Miller’s full length plays include Freud and His Negro, Funky Child, The Illinois Five (2015 Philly Fringe Festival), The Last Act and Ninety-Nine Shots, and A Requiem for Fred Hampton in One Act.  Her education includes the Walnut Street Theatre as well as The Negro Ensemble Theatre Company (NY).

 

Paige Zubel

Paige Zubel

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Foundry Member

Paige Zubel is an internationally produced playwright, with notable productions in her hometown of Houston, TX (Sunday Flowers, $12.50/Hour), NYC (In Full Bloom, Gel Us,The Pull of the Moon), and Scotland (Under Covers). Her play A String Between Man and the World was selected as What If? Productions Best New Play and will receive its world premiere in 2018.enn Education.  Paige received her BFA in Playwriting and Dramaturgy from the University of Houston. Her plays and prose have been published through Every Day Fiction, One Act Play Depot, and Hashtag Queer. She currently lives in Philadelphia.

Alisha Beth Adams

Alisha Adams

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Foundry Member, Foundry Alumna (2018)

Alisha Adams’ work often explores community-based, site specific playwriting methods. Her plays have been presented and supported by Padua Playwrights, The Leeway Foundation, Curio Theater, and Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She was an Emerging Artist in Residence at Plays & Players, a Douglas Byers Memorial Fellow with Signal Fire Arts, and a 2016 Resident Writer at 100W Corsicana. Alisha’s plays include Other Tongues (High Desert Test Sites, Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival), Go Yeri Ston (Temple MFA Playfest), Unring a Bell (Runner up, 2016 Red Theater Competition; Finalist, 2016 Raw Stages New Works Festival), Shelter-in-Place (Philadelphia Fringe), and MEGA.

 

Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters

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PlayPenn 2022, Foundry Alumni

Stephanie Kyung Sun Walters (she/her) is the Philadelphia Theatre Company Terrence McNally Award Recipient for her play, Acetone Wishes and Plexiglass Dreams. She’s a recent alum of InterAct Theatre Core Playwright, a current American Theatre Group PlayLab artist, and serves as the Lead Artist on the Philly Asian Performing Artists’ Playwrights Project. Her play, Esther Choi and the Fish that Drowned will have a world premiere production with Simpatico Theatre Company (postponed due to COVID-19) and has earned her a spot on the 2020 Kilroys List and Table Work Press Recommended list. Her play Acetone Wishes and Plexiglass Dreams was recently workshopped at the UC Santa Barbara Launch Pad BIPOC Reading Series and will be featured at the Great Plains Theatre Conference in June 2022. Her play Half of Chopsticks was a finalist for both the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Seven Devils New Plays Conference, and received a stage reading at the inaugural Boise Contemporary Theatre BIPOC Playwrights Festival. Stephanie’s K-pop romcom, Be Like the Flower, was a finalist for the Austin Film Festival’s Table Read My Screenplay. She is a two-time finalist for Unicorn Theatre’s In-Progress New Play Reading Series as well as a finalist for the Playwrights Center Many Voices Fellow. She was a semi-finalist for Nashville Repertory Theater’s Ingram New Works and received a nomination for the NNPN Smith Prize for Political Theatre. Due to COVID-19, Stephanie received a 3Views Theatre The Bret Adams and Paul Reisch Foundation Grant Recipient. Additional plays have been developed with Asian Arts Initiative, Philly Asian American Film Festival, Dragon’s Eye Theatre, Revolution Shakespeare, PlayPenn, Revamp Collective, and Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival. Stephanie is a proud graduate of Bucknell University and received her MFA in Playwriting from Point Park University.

David Jacobi

David Jacobi

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Widower (PlayPenn, 2015)

David Jacobi’s plays have been performed and developed throughout the U.S. and in China, including Sideshow Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, RISK IS THIS, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Kennedy Center MFA Playwright’s Workshop, SLC Playwrights Lab and PlayPenn. He is a winner of the Holland New Voices Award, Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences Award, and Relentless Award semifinalist. David’s play Ready Steady Yeti Go is currently receiving a Rolling World Premiere through NNPN. David was the 2015 Shank Fellow at Pig Iron Theatre Company and is currently an Interact Core Writer and commissioned by South Coast Rep and EST/Sloan. He received a BFA in Dramatic Writing from Purchase College and an MFA from UC San Diego.