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Whistler in the Dark is a non-profit theatre that strives:
To develop an ensemble of theatrical artists dedicated to producing plays that celebrate the imagination through linguistic acrobatics and an awareness of the relationship between actor and audience.
To produce work that re-forges the bond with a generation that has lost interest the theatre.
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Meg Taintor holds a B.A. in Theatre and Women & Gender Studies from Middlebury College. For Whistler, she has directed Vampire, All This Flying, All This Tumbling Down, The B File, and The Possibilities (Eliot Norton nomination for "Outstanding Production by a Local Fringe Company") and performed in Howard Barker's A Hard Heart, Don't Exaggerate ( FeverFest 06), and in The Psyche Project (FeverFest 07). Some of her regional theatre credits include the National Players, Rorschach Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, the Potomac Theatre Project and Washington Shakespeare Company. |
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Ben Fainstein holds a B.A. in Theatre & Music from Middlebury College. During Whistler's first season, he directed In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe and Don't Exaggerate, Will Eno's The Flu Season, and The Psyche Project, an original piece composed for FeverFest 07. He is a three-time company member of the Potomac Theatre Project; other Washington, DC area credits include work with Round House Theatre, Rorschach Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Washington Shakespeare Company. In Boston, he has appeared on stage in Seal Skin with Dangerous Animal. |
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Sara Garland hails from Marshfield, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, where she studied English and Theatre. Although she currently lives in Washington, D.C., Sara will forever be a New Englander at heart. She works in policy communications by day and writes fiction and plays whenever she can find the time. She is thrilled to play a role in WITD and looks forward to working on the very exciting inaugural season. |
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Lindsay Haynes is originally from Milton, Massachusetts and is a
graduate of Middlebury College. In the DC area she has
acted with Olney Theatre: The Foreigner, Enemy of the People; Theatre
J: Bal Masque; Forum: The Skriker; Potomac Theatre Festival: The B
File (dir by Meg Taintor), Judith (dir Ben Fainstein), A Kind of
Alaska, Plenty; The National Players tours 54 and 55.5: As You Like
It, Tartuffe, Romeo & Juliet; Fountainhead Theatre: Top Girls; Two
Foot Trout: Playing House; Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Measure for
Measure, Coriolanus; and several others. |
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Amanda Knappman is originally from Higganum, Connecticut and holds a B.A. in Theatre and English from Middlebury College. She has worked with the Stony Creek Puppet Theater and the Potomac Theatre Project. Past credits include Henry V, Frenzy for Two or More, The Best Man (acting); The Illusion, Measure for Measure (AD); 'Dentity Crisis, Sure Thing, How to Succeed… (light design); Tape, 'Night, Mother, The Crucible (directing). |
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Jennifer O'Connor holds a B.F.A. in theatre performance from Salem State. Joining Whistler for their inaugural production of The Possibilities, she has been with the company ever since. She is the Company Manager and an acting member of imaginary beasts and has also worked in the Boston area with Chelsea Theatre Zone (now Apollinaire Theatre) and Insomouth Productions. For nearly four years she was your wench Lex at King's Feast Dinner Theatre. |
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Nick Ronan is an actor and director returned to Boston after graduating the George Washington University with a BA in English and Theatre. He studied classical acting at the London Dramatic Academy, and spent last summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival as an acting apprentice. Most recently, he directed the new one act What We Save as part of the Boston Actors Theater Summer Play Festival. Favorite roles include Carter in Neil Labute's Fat Pig, Bacchus/Eriscython in Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, and Ross in Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia? |
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