Staff Biographies

Timothy Scott Harris

Artistic Director

Mr. Harris' plays have been produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, West Bank Cafe, Double Image, Riverside Shakespeare and The Kraine, among others. His plays have been produced nationally and internationally, from Alaska to New Zealand, and they include: Last Stand (produced at The WorkShop), The Adventures of Captain Neato-Man (published by S. French), In God We Trust, and The Big Nil (produced in London 2006 by UNRESTRICTED VIEW). At the WorkShop, he directed, Bettinger's Luggage, Last Stand, and When I Was a Boy. He has also directed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Kraine, and for a special event at The Friar's Club. Acting credits include all the New York Theaters listed above, a co-starring role in the film The Ticking Man, and a myriad of roles here at the WorkShop. Before being named Artistic Director of The WorkShop, Tim served for several years as Literary Manger and as Producing Director of the WorkShop. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and a founding member of The Harbor Theatre Co.

David M. Pincus

Managing Director

David became Managing Director of the WorkShop Theater Company after having served as a WST Producing Director for four years. WorkShop credits include acting with and directing Olympia Dukakis in two readings of RULES on our Main Stage. Additional directorial efforts at the WorkShop include SOLACE, GRACELAND, and WHEN YOU TRY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE YOU LOSE IT. Other NYC credits include the role of "J.J." in BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY with William Hurt, Marian Seldes, and Fritz Weaver at Symphony Space; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM as "Demetrius", "Thisby" and "Flute" with Theater for a New Audience at Lincoln Center; and in MEDEA as the Blind Messenger, directed by David Herskovits for Target Margin. Before joining WST, David served as Artistic Director of Lightning Strikes Theater Company. Mr. Pincus is a member of Actors' Equity, Screen Actors' Guild and serves on NYC Community Board 4 as an advocate for the preservation of theater on the west side of Manhattan.

Scott C. Sickles

Associate Artistic Director - Dramaturg

Scott has dedicated his entire adult life to new play development. Sickles hails from Pittsburgh where his work -- producing the long-running reading series Sunday Night Live and as artistic director of Pittsburgh New Voices, a company devoted to new plays by local authors -- inspired Pittsburgh Magazine to name him one of the city's three most influential theater personalities. Since arriving in New York City, he has served as company manager of Playwrights Horizons and helmed the Off-Off-Broadway companies Running Start Productions and Antipodes Theatrical before finding an artistic home here at the WorkShop. As a playwright, Sickles received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for his play Shepherd's Bush and the 1999 Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award for his play Lightning From Heaven. WorkShop audiences are familiar with his full-length plays Intellectuals, The Philosopher's Joke, Perfecting the Kiss and From the Top, as well as many of his one-acts. His short play murmurs was published by Samuel French, Inc. in Festival Plays #21. As a dramaturg and teacher, he has advised playwrights and taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate Dramatic Writing Program, Pittsburgh New Voices and here at the WorkShop.

Anne Fizzard

Producing Director

Anne became a WorkShop member in 2002, and remains active (here and elsewhere) as an actress, writer, and producer. Originally from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, she got an honors degree in English from Mount Allison University, took summer school at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and completed the two-year acting program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts here in New York. She has also interned at Ensemble Studio Theater, acted in the Women's Project and Productions Directons Forum, and studied acting with Alfred Molina and Laura Esterman. At the WorkShop, Anne has performed in The Alpha State by William Kovacsik, The Bow-Wow Club by Levy Lee Simon, M is for the Million Things by Scott C. Sickles, and Audience by Mick Stern. She has written and produced her own sketch comedy show Off-Off-Broadway, and one of those pieces, Marry Me or Else, was staged as part of Weaving the Words here at the WorkShop in autumn 2002. Anne produced her full-length comedy Good Opinions in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2005. Also that year at the WorkShop, she co-produced (with Virginia Roncetti and Libby Hughes) Unknown Country, a Canadian playreading series, and most recently served as Coordinating Producer for Never Missed a Day here on the mainstage in 2006. As a cartoonist/illustrator, she has done illustrations for several WorkShop postcards/posters Intellectuals, Liberty: The Musical). Anne is also a proud member of Equity, AFTRA, ACTRA, the Independent Feature Project, and the ASPCA.

Richard Kent Green

Producing Director

Richard has worked with many theater companies of note in New York City as an actor, director, designer and co-producer. He joined the WorkShop as a director in 2002 and soon found himself doing all of the same with the WorkShop. He was the Associate Producer for the first Main Stage production in our current space, From the Top and for Skin Deep. His first directing project, The Barksdale onfession, became the opener for our 2004 Main Stage season. He designed lights for Opera Play. His WorkShop acting credits include "Danny" in LOL, "John" in Certain Souls/The Brightest Light and a handful of characters in King Henry IV, Parts 1&2, to name a few. In 2005, Richard was asked to head up the development of musical theater projects for the WorkShop and he continues to serve as actor, director and sometime lighting designer for the company.

Steven Petrillo

Director of Musical Theater Development

A performer for many years, Steven's Broadway and National Tour credits include Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby, Man of La Mancha, starring Robert Goulet and Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Carl Anderson. TV and Film credits include Law & Order C.I., The Sopranos, The Stepford Wives, and the mini-series A Will of Their Own, opposite Lea Thompson and Thomas Gibson. As a director, he received critical acclaim for Rumors for Parkside Players; the East Coast premier of Route 66 in the Berkshires; Operaplay at the WorkShop Theater Company, as well as for choreographing Fiddler on the Roof for The Gateway Playhouse, and Love! Valour! Compassion! in St. Louis. Steven has been an Associate Director/Choreographer in theatres across the country including North Shore Music Theatre, The North Carolina Theatre, Seattle's Fifth Ave Theatre and Theatre Under the Stars in Houston. Mr. Petrillo, an Associate Producer and Director at Algonquin Productions in NYC, is currently developing a new musical, SESSIONS, by Al Tapper, slated for Off-Broadway in the spring of 2007.

Dee Dee Friedman

Company Manager

Dee Dee played Bella in the National Tour of Neil Simon's Lost In Yonkers. She appeared as Sarah in the Off-Broadway production of Beau Jest & in the sequel, Jest a Second! at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Miami. Other recent New York credits include Last Stand by Timothy Scott Harris (WorkShop Theater), Drinks Before Dinner by E.L. Doctorow (Inside Arts), Mephisto (Theater of Necessity/Reverie Prods.), Second Chance (42nd St. Workshop), Order up / Watch TV (Harbor Theatre), Headhunters (P.S. NBC), Alone at the Beach (Raw Space) & Boys' Life (Orpheum Theatre). She has performed at The American Stage Festival, The West Virginia Public Theatre, The Forum Theatre, American Stage Company & Playwrights Theatre. Among her film & television credits are Married to the Mob, Awakenings, Safe Men, the cult classic Sleepaway Camp & the soon to be released sequel, Return to Sleepaway Camp & Dr. Costello on All My Children. Dee Dee has trained at London's Royal National Theatre & in New York with Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler & Irma Sandrey.

Brittney Venable

Company Manager

Brittney joined the Workshop in September 2003 and was last seen in Rattlesnake on the Workshop's Mainstage. Brittney also appeared in Sottopasigo in the One Act Play Festival. She is an accomplished stage manager, light and sound designer and manager but her first love is acting. She received her MFA in Arts Administration from Texas Tech University and has worked in several regional theatres including ones in New Mexico, Texas, and Kentucky.

Matt Walker

Casting Coordinator

Matt Walker is an original member of the WorkShop, where he has played Simeon in O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, Red Peter in Kafka's Report to an Academy and Hamm in Beckett's Endgame. Collaborations with WorkShop writers include: Luke in Ken Javie's Timberwood Drive; The Father in Don Donellan's Paterfamilias; and Roger, the British hitman, in Bob Manus' Bobby Love and Eddy. He has been an actor for over twenty years, appearing in over fifty plays in various regional theatres across the country. Favorite roles include: Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Kent in King Lear; Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet, Petkoff in Arms and the Man, Sartorius in Widower's Houses, Benny in Getting Out, Wilson in Terra Nova, and the Drum Major in Woyzeck.