Resident Artists

Jeremy Bloom
Directing and assisting credits include Metropolitan Opera, The Flea, NY Fringe, NYU Grad, Walkerspace, The Tank, The Access Gallery, Midtown Festival (award winner), and Planet Connections. Jeremy is an alum of Northwestern’s Performance Studies program and a resident artist at the cell and Evenstar Films. Original works include Leaves of Grass, Peter~Wendy, The Wendy Complex, and (Spoken) La Boheme.

 

Philip Callen
Philip Callen is an actor, performer, and singer based in New York City. He was most recently seen at the Cell Theatre in Terry Quinn’s play Bad Evidence, in two different roles…although not at the same time. He was recently named the Cell’s newest Artist-in-Residence. Philip was also a long-time resident of Minneapolis, and still appears in productions in that city. He has appeared at the Guthrie Theater in 1776 and Pen. Recent work in NY includes Dinner and Delusions at the Cell Theatre, Troilus and Cressida with the Shakespeare Society, Runway 69 with New Dramatists, Behind The Eye at The Lark and Romeo and Juliet and The Secret Life of the Office Worker (Columbia Stages). Minneapolis credits include Bill W and Dr. Bob (Illusion Theater), Falsettos (Outward Spiral), Never The Sinner and The Substance of Fire (Minnesota Jewish Theatre). This winter he will return for a 6th season as George Bailey in the Twin Cities newest holiday tradition, It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at the historic Saint Paul Hotel. He is also one of the organizing members of Thirst Theater, which has produced more than 100 new plays performed by Equity actors in a bar setting in Minneapolis. Past playwrights have included Alan Berks, Jeffrey Hatcher, Melanie Marnich, Bill Corbett, Dominic Orlando, Tom Poole, and Craig Wright.

Almeria Campbell
Almeria Campbell is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts, MFA program and a Texas native. Her film / tv credites are: Baby Mama, Law and Order C.I., Person of Interest and Guiding Light.  Some of her theatre credits are Little Shop of Horrors, Shakespeare’s, The Tempest, 1940′s Radio Hour, Met’s, Blackout, 10 minutes Deep and her one woman show, Warriors Don’t Cry.  Almeria is grateful to be a resident artist of the cell, thanks ladies!


 

Charlotte Cohn

As an actress Charlotte has appeared in:
Broadway – La Boheme (Musetta) dir. Baz Luhrmann; Coram Boy.
Regional – A.C.T.: Happy End (Hallelujah Lil); Centerstage: The Boys From Syracuse (Adriana); The Murder of Isaac (Talia). The Prince Music Theater: A Night in the Old Marketplace (Gargoyle); North Shore: Nine (Stephanie Necrophorus). Walker Art Center: Uncivil Wars- Moving with Brecht and Eisler (Nana/Isabella) Film/TV – Dandelion Man; Little Kings; The Danish Play; God in the Machine; Guiding Light.
Recordings – La Boheme original cast recording; Happy End A.C.T. cast recording.  Charlotte has directed plays and operas at Primary Stages, The Baltimore Playwrights’ Festival, The New School for Drama and Liederkrantz Opera. Most Recently, she directed ‘Baltimore in Black and White’ at MTC and ‘Emancipation’ on Theatre Row.  Charlotte is an Ovation Award Winner and was nominated for the Bay Area Critics’ Circle Award for her performance as ‘Hallelujah Lil’ in Happy End at A.C.T.  Next up, she will be performing ‘A Night in The Old Marketplace’ at Mass Moca and you can catch her cabaret ‘Simply Complicated – the elegant escapades of a Danish-Israeli opera-singing tank commander’, at the Cell Theatre in NYC and Centerstage in Baltimore.  Charlotte was born in Denmark and was raised in Israel. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, playwright Jason Odell Williams, and her daughter, Imogen.


Bob Jaffe
Bob Jaffe is an actor-director based in New York City with roots in Providence, RI. He originated …and then you go on. An Anthology of the Works of SAMUEL BECKETT at various theaters, Off-Broadway and at the cell, where Bob is honored to be an Artist-In-Residence. He is a founding Co-Artistic Director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab.  Recently, Bob toured to standing ovations in a one-man show about hunger in America, But for the Grace…, by writer-director David Eliet. He has performed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival, La MaMa E.T.C., the NY Fringe Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, the Providence Black Repertory Company and Perishable Theatre, among others. Bob has appeared in the Showtime series Brotherhood, and Law & Order: SVUas well a number of independent films.

 

Darrell Larson

Darrell Larson is a director, actor, producer and teacher.  He has directed and/or produced many large-scale events, including “The Wizard of Oz in Concert,” a benefit for the Children’s Defense Fund, performed live at Lincoln Center and broadcast on TNT, PBS and VH-1, and the program for Desmond Tutu’s 75th Birthday Celebration, a benefit for Artists for a New South Africa.  He has directed theater around the country, including Sam Shepard’s “Action, Killer’s Head, and The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill” at Signature in NYC, Adam Rapp’s “Faster” at Rattlestick, Steve Earle’s “Karla” in Nashville, and Denis Johnson”s “Psychos Never Dream” at Campo Santo in San Francisco.   As an actor, his film roles include Jonathan Demme’s “The Manchurian Candidate,” and “Rachel Getting Married”, Adam Rapp’s “Winter Passing,” as well as memorable appearances in “Stepmom,” “Frances” and James Bridges’ “Mike’s Murder”, among many others. On television he has appeared three times on “Law and Order,” and played a crazed street preacher on “Law and Order:SVU” in addition to many other appearances on such classics as “Gunsmoke” ,  “Bonanza” and “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd”.  As an actor in the theater he collaborated with playwright Murray Mednick on the seven-play “Coyote Cycle”, playing Coyote in LA, San Francisco, Santa Fe and Martha’s Vineyard, several times in dusk to dawn performances of the entire cycle. He has also acted in Shepard’s “Curse of the Starving Class” and “Simpatico” and starred in Tom Strelich’s “Dog Logic” at SCR in Costa Mesa and American Place in NY,  At the Cell he has performed his one person show, “The Confessions of Doc Holliday” based on a novel by Bruce Olds, his own adaptation of short stories by Chekhov called “I Was Drunk That Day”, a lecture for seven voices “Shake-speare ReVered”, and an ongoing lecture series “Mythic Gossip” highlighting the history of film acting and its mythic connotations.



Carmit Levité
 Carmit Levité has returned to NYC from Los Angeles.  (As Neil Simon wrote “We Jews always end up in the desert somehow…”) Since her return she has played Leah Chase in Bad Evidence by Terry Quinn at The Cell Theatre. Prior to that: the femme fatale in the two hander noir play The Tangled Skirt by Steve Braunstein at NJ Rep (Nominated for The Edgars 2011) just after wrapping Noir Film by Allan Knee (Finding Neverland,) yet again playing the fatale dame.

Other favorites include Beverly Moss in Abigail’s Party, (Odyssey Theater) Various roles in Gulu Monteiro’s The Good Soul of Szechuan (The Electric Lodge,) Bobbi Michele in Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Odyssey Theater,) Marilyn Monroe in Blonde, by Joyce Carol Oats (Actors Studio,) Audrey in As You Like It (Storm Theater,) Celiméne in The Misanthrope, Harper in Angels in America (Adler Theater) and various roles in the on-going Soho Shorts (Soho Playhouse.) Films: The Englishman (w/ Velibur Topic and Branka Katic,) The Martyr (CINE Masters’ Series Award,) Covert and Cross Eyed, (Solstice Film Festival Grand Jury award.) In both coasts, Carmit is an avid follower of Larry Moss and Joyce Piven.

Vivian O.
“I experience a sensual relationship with the blank medium as my quick hand glides graphite, ink, pastel, or oil stick.The images are high-keyed fragments of today`s world.  My marks are a representation of our society from a dialoguewithin.”

 Artist Member of The Center for Book Arts. Artist Member of The Art Students League of New York.  Beaux-arts de Paris l`ecole nationale superieure, France

 

Eli Renfield

Elinor Renfield began training as a dancer with the Martha Graham Company in the 1950s. She attended the “old” High School of the Performing Arts, the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and earned an MA in Theater at City University of New York. She has directed over 25 new American plays since 1976 at NY Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizon, The American Place Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Theater for the New City, and Café La Mama. Her production of Johnny Got His Gun at the Circle Repertory won an Obie Award, her production of The Diary of Anne Frank won the Boston Theater Award, and her production of Passion Play by Peter Nichols at the Arena Stage in DC was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. She has since again directed Passion Play, at the Minetta Lane Theater (off-Broadway), and revised the libretto and directed the Schwartz/Fields musical, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at the Goodspeed Opera House. On Broadway, Ms. Renfield directed Open Admissions by Shirley Lauro at the Music Box. Since 1988, she has been on the faculty of Theater and Dance at Princeton University.
Seamus Scanlon

Seamus is a writer from Galway, Ireland, home of the Claddagh Ring, the Quite Man, the Galway Races, Druid Theatre, Rahoonery, the best bookshop in Europe (Charlie Byrne’s). Home of  Nora Barnacle who consumed Joyce with her intellect and Galway accent. Columbus slept in Galway the night before he sailed for America hence Galway’s reputation as the B&B capital of the world.

He has an MFA in Creative Writing from City College New York where he won numerous awards for fiction and drama. He was the winner of the 2011 Gemini Magazine Short Story Contest, winner of the 2011 Fish Publishing One Page Writing Competition,  winner of the 2010 Over The Edge New Writing Award and was short-listed for the 2009 New Irish Writing Awards. He also won a swimming certificate in primary school!
He also won a prestigious Carnegie Corporation/New York Times award for librarianship in Dec 2009 with prize money of $5,000.

His first ever reading was at the Over The Edge open-mic in Galway City Library in early 2004.  His work has appeared in Global City Review, Promethean, RoPES,  Medulla Oblongata,  Sunday Tribune, Fish Anthologies, Gemini Magazine, Journal of Experimental Fiction, the Lineup 3 and Crime Factory.

He has read at the cell, the Mysterious Bookshop, McNally Robinson Bookshop, St.  Patrick’s Day Literary Brunch, the Ulysses Bar, Over The Edge and empty subway cars.

His first play Dancing at Lunacy was showcased at the cell on Sunday May 22nd.

Sybarite5

Comprised of Sami Merdinian and Sarah Whitney, violins; Angela Pickett, viola; Laura Metcalf, cello; and Louis Levitt, bass, Sybarite5 has taken audiences around the US by storm. From Radiohead to Mozart, this group of talented, diverse musicians has changed the perception of chamber music performance. From the moment that their bows hit the strings, the audience is taken on a wild ride that engages the senses and redefines the rules.

www.sybarite5.org 

Alex Zoppa

Producing credits at the cell include Catch A Falling Star (w/ Grammy nominated Angela McCluskey), Leaves of Grass, Adolph & Andy (by Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet) and Adult Drawing.  Alex also produced and co-directed (with brothers, Andrew and Zach) a revival of Alan Bowne’s Beirut (Theatre Row), as well as produced the New York and Los Angeles premieres of Anthony Neilson’s Stitching.  He is an alum of NYU’s Gallatin School.

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