Justin Bennett (Director) has studied directing with Tony winner Rebecca Taichman. He directed The Adding Machine Off-Broadway. Other select professional directing credits: Swan Song (upcoming), The Koan of Seymour, The Boys Next Door, Separate Tables, All in the Timing. Justin is also a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Professional acting credits include Macbeth, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, King Lear, Legend of Sleepy Hollow (East Lynne Theater Company). BA, Theater Arts, Summa Cum Laude, LaGrange College.
Lin Snider (Assistant Director) is a professional actress/singer/director/writer/professor and founding member of OotB. She is on the faculty of Yeshiva University where she has directed and taught courses in the undergraduate theater program. She has performed in cabaret, TV, film, and on stage. She has also worked at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, NYU, SUNY Purchase, and several professional acting companies as a director, musical director, and teacher of voice, acting, and musical theater. MSW, Columbia University; MFA in Theater, Brooklyn College. AEA, SAG-AFTRA, SDC
Joshua Warner (Scenic Designer): Off Broadway: The Boys from Syracuse (Musicals Tonight!), You Can't Take It with You (St. Bart’s Players). Off-Off Broadway: Cleopatra: The New Pop Experience (TNC), Ciao Bambino (13th Street Rep). Tour: Twelfth Night, Noel, Macbeth, and Good King Wenceslas (Stages on the Sound). 2016 & 2017 resident scenic designer for CLOC. Full time staff and adjunct lecturer of Scenic Design at CUNY York College. BFA: Emerson College. www.joshuawarnerdesign.com
Vicky Butler (Costume Designer) is a Brooklyn-based costume designer. Previous credits include #Blessed at FringeNYC as well as several assisting credits at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park.
Pope Jackson (Lighting Designer/Technical Director), a multiple award–winning Harlem native, completed his first award-winning film while still attending high school. He won the NY 48 Hour Film Project in 2005 and worked on a Grammy-nominated album with Wynton Marsalis in 2006. Previous work includesCentral Avenue Breakdown, The Death of a Dream, The Domestic Crusaders, Monk, HerStory, The Loves of Cass McGuire, Call Me Crazy: Diary of a Mad Social Worker, and Jasper in Deadland.
Mary Linehan (Stage Manager) is thankful to be working with OOTB and with Justin (for the umpteenth time). Recent SM credits: Or Current Resident at Theater for the New City, Gabriel: a Polemic with the Drilling Company, and Return to Spoon River at Theater Row. You can also catch her ON stage across the city, most recently as Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Miranda in The Tempest (both in Bryant Park). I KISSED you, KP!
Dan Renkin (Fight Director) has worked from Broadway to regional theatre, from “As the World Turns” to the Metropolitan Opera. Out of the Box debut. Faculty: AADA, Circle in the Square, Five Towns, NYFA; guest artist for Cap21, HB, Strasberg. NYC: C²B² (w/BH Barry), Pirira (Theatre 167, NYIT Award), Monte Cristo (NLTP), Angry Young Man (Urban Stages), Boy Who Danced on Air, Fruit Trilogy (Abingdon), Rainmaker (Storm), Otello, Carmen, Wozzeck (Met). Regional: Colgate, Montclair, John Drew, Lost Nation.
Hannah Aronson-Paxton (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to join the crew of All My Sons as the assistant stage manager. She is currently a drama major at Kenyon College. Hannah has acted in Les Misérables, Peter Pan, and Beauty and the Beast, which she also directed. She also gained directing experience with a play for college one acts.
