The Team, off-stage

Luis Arturo Reyes (Playwright/Producer) - Writer/Producer Luis Reyes has been involved with narrative media for 15 years. After graduating from UCLA with a BA in Theater Arts, Luis worked extensively with Lost Dog Productions, The Coop Theater Company and several independent theater outlets before becoming one of the co-founders of Off-Chance Productions in 2008. He has spent 6 years as a Senior Editor for graphic novels at Tokyopop, as well as 2 years as an Associate Producer for video games with Nexon America, Inc. For over ten years, Luis has been a theater contributor to the LA Weekly as well as a producer for their annual small theater awards show. Most recently he has been invited to be the head writer on the web series Action Figures, which will premiere sometime early next year. Limitations marks Luis’ first full-length solo playwrighting effort in ten years.

David Watkins, Jr. (Director) is a Los Angeles-based director and writer. He graduated from the theater program at University of Iowa before studying acting at William Esper Studio and dircting at Circle Rep Lab. David has directed plays in Los Angeles at CalArts, The Ark, Celebration Theatre, The Black Box and The Complex. His work can be seen on stage this September in Meditations: Eva Hesse at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. David is a founding member at Fierce Backbone, a company dedicated to developing new dramatic works for the stage. He serves there as Head of the Directors Unit. David enjoys teaching acting and writing to students of all ages. When not doing things theater, David practices his love for video in his day job as a Digital Media Analyst at the RAND Corporation.

Steven Calcote (Producer) specializes in the use of new technologies for innovative storytelling.  Based in Los Angeles, he divides time between projects for filmmakers’ collaborative Butcher Bird Studios (www.butcherbirdstudios.com) and Off-Chance Productions. His past work includes an award-winning interactive online mini-series for Adidas in Asia, a popular series of animated shorts for Myspace TV, and a series of viral spots for Sega.

Reena Dutt (Co-producer) Producing: 2010 Hollywood Fringe Festival NOTE Theatre Panel Discussions, NYC International Fringe Festival production of White Cotton (1999), That Takes Ovaries! Ovaries and Coffee(LA), Asian Pacific Women’s Center fundraising event @ Disney Concert Hall, Uterock Night @ The Gig-Hollywood; Disha Theatre @ The Lark (NYC), Theatre of NOTE(Ovation, LA Weekly and GLAAD Award nominated), Off-Chance Productions, Shetani Films, Red Dirt Productions;  Acting: Theatre NYC: SlamDance, MCC, Ars Nova, The National Asian American Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, Miller Theatre, New York Fringe Festival; Theatre LA: Furious Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum’s New Works Festival, East West Players, Will and Company, The Cherry Orchard (S/R) @ The Matrix Theatre, Suburbia @ Company of Angels, Eyemouth Graffiti Bodyshop, The Holy Mother of Hadley, NY, Titus Andronicus, and Holy Ghost @ Theatre of NOTE. Film: Troublemaker, Fillumstar: The Peter Patel Story ,Looking For Comedy In The Muslim World, Ways Of The Flesh. Television: Medium (NBC), Out Of Practice (CBS), Criminal Minds (CBS); Web: The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else;Training: William Esper Studio (NYC); Membership: SAG, Theatre of NOTE. Reena is a Co-Founder of Off-Chance Productions, Associate Producer on the award winning web-series, The Real Girls Guide to Everything Else. www.ReenaDutt.com.

Victoria Watson (Producer) began life as an actor…and then she grew up. She has Produced, managed, or simply swept floors on about a hundred productions at this point, and learned something from all of them. She is currently the Operations Manager at Pasadena Playhouse, and is thrilled to be working with the Off-Chance team again. On occasion, she still gets to work on the odd film or webseries, but really is just excited to prove to her beloved Adam that yes, theater can occasionally create a paycheck.

Jennifer Weaver (Associate Producer)  Jennifer Weaver is a founder of Off-Chance Productions, acts around town in films, television, and commercials and loves peanut butter. She plays “Liz” in Off-Chance’s “The Real Girl’s Guide to Everything Else” web series, is on it’s producing team, and is also a proud member of Theatre of NOTE. Recently, she has had the pleasure of doing back-up singing for the amazing Doña Oxford and her fabulous band. Jen is a believer in this play and Luis Reyes’ astounding ability to use S.A.T. words in regular conversation.

DESIGNERS

David Mauer (Production and Set Designer) David Mauer is the Technical Director of Rogue Machine Theatre and a freelance designer/TD.  Recent design work includes “Orpheus Descending” at Theatre/Theater, “The Philadelphia Story” at Actors’ Co-op and the special effects for “Yard Sale Signs.”  He is thrilled to be working with such a fantastic group.  Love to his wife, Amanda.

Cricket Myers (Sound Designer)  Off-Broadway: Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Arts Upstairs). Regional Theater:  The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Ovation Nomination), Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Subject was Roses, School of Night, Nightingale (Mark Taper Forum); The Wake, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Ovation Nomination), The Little Dog Laughed (Ovation Nomination),  Two Unrelated Plays,  Come Back Little Sheba (Kirk Douglas Theater);  In The Wake, (Berkeley Rep); Wrecks, Some Girl(s) and Emergency (Ovation Nomination, NAACP Nomination) (Geffen Playhouse); Crowns, Orson’s Shadow (Pasadena Playhouse); Life Could be a Dream, Marvelous Wonderettes, Winter Wonderettes (Laguna Playhouse); Dinner with Friends (La Mirada Theater). Selected LA designs include: Cousin Bette (Ovation Nomination) (Antaeus Theater Company);  Life Could be a Dream (Hudson Theater); dark play or stories for boys (Garland Award, Ovation Nomination) (Boston Court); Norman’s Ark (Ovation Nomination) (Ford Amphitheater); Battle Hymn (Ovation Nomination) (Circle X); Home Siege Home (Ghost Road); bobrauchenbergamerica (Spy Ants); Bacchae (Ovation Nomination), Stupid Kids (Celebration Theater);  Grace and Glorie (Ovation Nomination), Free Man of Color, Better Angels, Mary’s Wedding (Ovation Nomination), Master Harold and the boys (NAACP Nomination), Trying (Ovation Nomination) (Colony Theater); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Ovation Nomination) (Rubicon Theater); Hunter Gatherers, Impending Rupture of the Belly, Back of the Throat (Furious Theater). Cricket was a finalist for the TCG/NEA Career Development Grant, and was named a “Young Designer to Watch” by Live Design magazine, April ‘07, and an “Artist to Watch” by LA Stage Magazine, Sept ‘07. www.cricketsmyers.com 

Matt Richter (Lighting Designer) is an award nominated lighting designer based in Los Angeles. Recent productions include “Skeleton Stories” for Theatre of NOTE, “Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5” for Action! Theatre Company, “The Forbidden Zone: Live in the 6th Dimension” and “Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom”, both for Sacred Fools, and “Lenny’s Back (And Boy is He Pissed)” for Theatre 68.  He previously designed “Grand Guignol: Absinthe, Opium and Magic”, both at Art/Works theatre and The Actor’s Gang, “Kill Me, Deadly” for NOTE, and “The Happy End” at Highways Performance Space. Matt also was honored to design the world premiere production of “The Devil Has A Sister” for  TheatRevelation at the Melkweg Theatre in Amsterdam. Matt additionally  serves as half of the ambient experimental folk duo, Lanfair Field. Love and thanks to RSS.

Lauren Thomas (Costumer Designer)  studied apparel design at the University of North Carolina and abroad in London where she developed a fascination with costume design and theater.  Since graduating, Lauren has worked with a wide variety of theatrical and independent film productions.  Lauren is also part-owner of a new fashion line named F.R.E.E. for which she reuses fabrics to create new designs.  She is excited to work again with Theatre of Note. Her most recent production with the company was Skeleton Stories.  Lauren would like to thank her family back in North Carolina for their unending support. 

Luis Reyes, Playwright

David Watkins, Jr., Director

Reena Dutt, Asst. Director/Co-producer