Melanie S. Armer

Co-Founder

Chance Muehleck

Co-Founder

Brandt Adams (Performer) With NTM: The Maiden, Project Woyzeck, How to Explain Theatre to a Dead Audience, The Attendants 2020. Brandt is a Brooklyn-based theater artist. New York theater includes Convention (Irondale/Brontosaurus Haircut), Dead Behind These Eyes… (Abrons Arts/Sister Sylvester), Dispatches from (A)mended America (Epic Theatre Ensemble), All God’s Chillun Got Wings (JACK/Civic Ensemble), Love in the Time of Channukah (Ars Nova), Faustus (Fault Line Theatre), and Maritime (with Lillie Jayne). He is a member of The Commedia Company and The Boof. In 2018, his play, Dispatches from (A)mended America, co-written with Godfrey L. Simmons, Jr., was included in NoPassport’s Epic Plays anthology, edited by Emily Mendelsohn and Chiori Miyagawa.

Stacia French (Performer) With NTM: A Gathering, bauhaus the bauhaus, LIVE/FEED, Opal, The Attendants, Glory Road, Project Woyzeck, How to Explain Theatre to a Dead Audience, The Attendants 2020. NY and regional theatre roles include: The Lady in the Movie (The Duke), Mishima’s Hanjo, Witkiewicz’s The Pragmatists & The Water Hen, Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, Euripides’ The Trojan Women, Brecht’s Baal, Ian Hill’s Hamlet, Elmer Rice’s Adding Machine and Vaclav Havel’s The Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Shiva/Proper (NY Fringe), ROACH (Philly Fringe), World Gone Wrong, Macbeth Without Words and Yehuda Duenya’s One Million Forgotten Moments. Film & TV include: “Guiding Light,” “Can You Tell,” “Frequency,” and “The Darkening.” Stacia graduated from Drama Studio London and has trained with SITI Company, Patrick Tucker and Pasty Rodenburg. She is a founding member of ONTIK.

Karen Grenke (Performer) With NTM: The Attendants, bauhaus the bauhaus, LIVE/FEED, Opal, 10% Nation, The Maiden, Project Woyzeck, How to Explain Theatre to a Dead Audience, The Attendants 2020, Saturn’s Return. New York theatre includes performances at The Public, Women's Project, the Ontological Theater, The Chocolate Factory, HERE, chashama, Theater for the New City, GAle GAtes et al., BAX and Aisling Arts. She currently appears in Polly Frost's The Fold webseries. Film: Matt Lambert's “Rockville.” Regional: Hangar Theater. She co-wrote the ‘80s teen dramady Wuthering High. Karen graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and trains with The SITI Company. She is a founder of Cagey Productions.

Jason Howard (Performer) With NTM: LIVE/FEED (workshop), A Gathering, Glory Road, Project Woyzeck, Saturn’s Return. (WebTech/Graphic Design: bauhaus the bauhaus, LIVE/FEED, Pitch!, The Attendants 2020.) Jason is an actor, coder, fight choreographer, writer, producer. He has performed with the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Theater for the New City, LaMama, ManhattanTheatreSource (founding member), the Ontological, EST, Circle Rep, New Circle, the Ohio, HERE, Judith Shakespeare, and Adobe Theater. He has toured internationally doing puppetry with Drama of Works. Short films include Sponge and The Launch. TV/Film credits: “3rd Watch,” “Solar Vengeance,” “Soldier in the Shadows,” “Baseball Trilogy,” “Pandora Machine.”

Robin Kurtz (Performer) With NTM: bauhaus the bauhaus, LIVE/FEED, The Attendants, 10% Nation, Glory Road, The Maiden, Project Woyzeck, How to Explain Theatre to a Dead Audience, The Attendants 2020, Saturn’s Return. As a Seattleite she worked with Book-It Repertory, Theater Simple, toured in Europe with Insight America, and was directed by Jerry Manning in the premiere of John Lennon's Gargoyle. Voiceover work includes the podcasts www.theearthkiller.com and Saturn's Return. Film/webisode credits include "Total Retribution," "Mulletville," and "The Toby Chronicles." Ms. Kurtz received her BFA in Acting with Honors from Carnegie Mellon University, trained at BADA in the Midsummer at Oxford program, and studied improv with Keith Johnstone, Roberta Maguire of Second City, and Matt Smith.

Mark Lindberg (Performer) With NTM: LIVE/FEED, Opal, The Attendants, 10% Nation, Glory Road, The Maiden, Project Woyzeck, The Attendants 2020, Saturn’s Return. Mark is a multidisciplinary theatre artist and author living in Astoria, NY. Other performance credits include works for the United Solo Festival, HERE, Cape Cod Repertory Theatre, director Mary Robinson, and the Guggenheim Museum. As a playwright, Mark’s works have been produced around NYC, and he was granted the honor of creating a licensed adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway by her estate. Mark taught theater for over a decade for Vassar College’s Powerhouse training program, New York University’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and other institutions. As an author, Mark has self-published three queer novellas and numerous short fictions and poems. Outside of his artistic work, Mark is an avid volunteer, doing online work for the Smithsonian and Project Gutenberg, in-person work for New York Cares and God’s Love We Deliver, and has been a longtime volunteer crisis counselor for Crisis Text Line.

James "Face" Yu (Performer) With NTM: bauhaus the bauhaus, LIVE/FEED, Opal, The Attendants, 10% Nation, Glory Road, The Maiden, Project Woyzeck, How to Explain Theatre to a Dead Audience, The Attendants 2020. Face is a Brooklyn-based musician/performer. He finds joy in movement, sound, and storytelling. He began moonlighting as a theater performer while attending the University of Texas at Austin with Silk Mangos Asian American Theater Troupe. After graduating with a BS in chemical engineering and working several years under his degree, he felt the strong desire to pursue theater and music. He relocated to New York where he has trained under SITI Company as well as Human Theater with Zen Zen Zo in Vancouver. Credits include: “Another Good Person” (music video), “Customer” (short film), Comfort Women: A New Musical, The Ventriloquist’s Circle (Sister Sylvester), Play America (Sister Sylvester), keyboardist with Children Having Children, and engineering semiconductors with Samsung.

Stephan Moore (Sound Designer) With NTM: A Gathering, bauhaus the bauhaus, LIVE/FEED, Opal, The Attendants, Glory Road, The Attendants 2020. Stephan is a sound artist based in Chicago. His creative work manifests as electronic studio compositions, improvisational outbursts, installations, scores for collaborative performances, algorithmic compositions, interactive artworks, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. He is the curator of sound art for the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, organizing annual exhibitions since 2014. He is also the president of Isobel Audio LLC, which builds and sells his Hemisphere loudspeakers. He was the music coordinator and touring sound engineer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (2004-10), and has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Anthony McCall, and Animal Collective, among many others. He is currently a McCormick Distinguished Associate Professor of Instruction in the Sound Arts and Industries program at Northwestern University.

Associate Artists

Bizzy Barefoot; Devon Berkshire; Jennifer Boehm; Chanda Calentine; Karin Carter; Jennifer Caster; Talya Chalef; Reyna de Courcy; Amy Crossman; Aislinn Curry; Jesmille Darbouze; V. Orion Delwaterman; Craig Dolezel; Shawn X. Duan; Mateo Ervin; David Fraioli; David Green; Admiral Grey; Miodrag Guberinic; Andreas Hager; Greg Henderson; Jenna Hoff; Justin Hosek; Irene Hsi; Chris Jordan; Lutz Kessler; Anna Konkle; Dhawal Kotak; Kevin Lapin; Annie Lightbody; Carla Linton; Emily Lippolis; Shelby Taylor Love; Sandie Luna; Mikhail Mansion; Julienne Marie; Donnie Mather; Ryan Metzler; Taylor Morrison; Candida K. Nichols; Sophie Nimmannit; Chad Raines; Deb O; Nichol C. Rosas-Ullman; Joshua Rose; Andy Sapora; Bruce Steinberg; Amy Stringer; Julie Troost; Victor Villar-Hauser; Rebecca Warzer; Solomon Weisbard; Leandro Zaneti