BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BIOS

Emma Griffin: With Salt: Conquest of the Universe, Zippo Songs, The Cherry Orchard, Stage Door (FringeNYC Excellence Award as Best Director for the work-in-progress at the NYC Fringe Festival, Village Voice Season Highlight) and the company’s premiere production - Rinne Groff's Inky (Village Voice Season Highlight). Regional work includes: Private Lives at Virginia Stage Company; Five Course Love at the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester; Bat Boy The Musical at New Orleans’ Southern Rep; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Virginia Stage; and Gypsy at Actor’s Express in Atlanta. She was the recipient of the Boris Sagal Fellowship for the '98 Williamstown Theater Festival where she directed Gertrude Stein's The Mother of Us All. Her production of Caryl Churchill's The Skriker was invited to The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Other New York credits: The Glads: Straight Up & with a Twist, an Evening of Dawn Powell for New Georges; the world premieres of Kirk Wood Bromley's The American Revolution and The Death of Griffin Hunter, both produced by Inverse Theater; The Indian Princess, One Thousand and One, The Sickness and The Cure (Calderon de la Barca), Feast (all Target Margin at Todo Con Nada); and The Tingler (an adaptation by Noah Scalin of the 50's shclok horror flick at Soho Rep). She is currently Adjunct Faculty at New York University, where she teaches directing. (updated 10/04)

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Mark Barton (Lighting Designer) works in theatre, dance, and opera, both in NYC and regionally.  He has been a member of Salt Theater since its inception; Salty productions include: Zippo Songs; Conquest of the Universe; The Cherry Orchard; Stage Door; and Inky.  Other recent productions in NY include: The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc (Target Margin); Now That's What I Call A Storm (Edge Theater); The Flu Season (Rude Mechanicals); Anna Bella Eema (New Georges).  Recent dance work in NY includes numerous concerts with Johannes Wieland, both nationally and internationally, most recently One at the Diane Von Furstenberg Theater; Katherine Profeta's 131 at P.S. 122; and Laura Peterson's Hocus Pocus at Joyce Soho.  Previously a director and performer in addition to designer, Mark received an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in 2003.  (updated 10/04).  

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Stephen Brackett is the co-founder of the Bushwick Hotel with Rachel Shukert. NYC credits: Soiled Linens, The Blackstone Hotel, Faust, Blood on the Cat's Neck, The Maids and Bacchae 2.1. Williamstown Theater Festival Workshop credits: Bloody Mary Part 1, Kilroy was Here the Styx Opera, Eat Cake. Regional credits: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Virginia Shakespeare
Festival). Stephen has assisted Nicholas Martin, Dylan Baker, Ruben Polendo, John Jesurun, Steven Cosson, Alison Narver, Daniel Safer, Daniel Krmaer, and, of course, the lovely Emma Griffin. Stephen is a graduate of NYU's Plawright's Horizons Theater School.  (updated 10/04).

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Laura Flanagan has been working with Salt Theater for the last four years.  Salt Productions include: Stage Door - 2000 Fringe Festival, The Cherry Orchard, and Scenes from a Marriage.  Other recent NYC credits include: Thunderbird, at The Cherry Lane Theater, Unbecoming, 45th St. Theater, Tragedy in Nine Lives at P.S. 122, shows at LaMama, Soho Rep, Target Margin Theater, HERE, Tenement Theater, Access Theater among others.  Regional credits include Juliet and other roles with The New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Gum at The Magic Theater in SF.  Laura is originally from Berkeley, California and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon's Moscow Art Theater School program.  (updated 10/04).

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Matthew Maher appeared in the Salt Theater productions of The Cherry Orchard and Conquest of the Universe.  Other New York Credits include The Public Theater / NYSF, Playwrights Horizons, The Foundry, Soho Rep, The Civilians, Synpase, The Actor's Studio, Target Margin, and others.  Won an Obie for W. David Hancock's The Race of the Ark Tattoo, which played at PS122 and the Cherry Lane Theater, and toured regionally.  Other regional credits include Portland Stage, New Harmony, CT20 Ensemble (Jeff nomination for The Fair Maid of the West), McCarter Theater Center, Shakespeare Santa Cruz.  Film/TV: Jersey Girl, Bringing Out the Dead, Just Another Story, The Third Wheel, Vulgar, "The Jury," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Deadline." (Updated 10/04).

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Noah Scalin is founder of the award winning socially conscious design firm ALR design. ALR's client list includes ABC No Rio, The American Place Theatre, The Bush Theatre London, Cagey Productions, Center for an Urban Future, City Limits Magazine, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Legend Entertainment, New Georges, New York Stage and Film, Salt Theater, Sightlines Theater Co., Stay Free Magazine, Target Margin Theater, Theaters Against War, Vineyard Theatre, VoiceChair Productions as well as many others. ALR's work has appeared in the design publications How, Print, I.D. and Communication Arts and has been featured in books from Graphis, P.I.E. Japan, Rockport, and How Design. Noah's fine art has been exhibited in several Virginia galleries and featured in the Printed Matter book collection in NYC. Noah is also an adjunct faculty member in the Communication Design Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA where he teaches a course on socially conscious design. (updated 10/04)

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Maria Striar has appeared in the Salt Theater productions of Conquest of the Universe The Cherry Orchard, Stage Door, and Inky (a  co-production, with Clubbed Thumb, her theater company), as well as Salt's staged reading of Ingmar
Bergman's Scenes From A Marriage. She is a founding member and co-director of  Clubbed Thumb, which produces new plays by living American writers. For Clubbed Thumb she has performed in Those Who Can, Do, Red Death, U.S. Drag, Medea
Eats, Inky, Pastorale and Summer Play, and directed Downwinders, Pricked, The Professional Frenchman and Marie and Bruce.  Other Downtown  credits include roles in The Holy Mother of Hadley New York (New Georges), From the Hip (Blair
Fell), South, Brass Ankle, The Nutcracker (Target Margin), and The Ladies, a Civilians/Dixon Place co-production.  (updated 10/04).

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Louisa Thompson (set designer) Credits include the set for the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway production of [sic] (Obie and Hewes Awards) and Suitcase at Soho Repertory Theatre. Off-Broadway credits include; The Distance from here (MCC Theatre); 21 Dog Years at Amazon.Com (Play all Day Productions), and The Roaring Girle (The Foundry Theatre Company). Other New York credits include: Molly's Dream, The Year of the Baby (Soho Repertory Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (SALT Theater); 16 Spells to Charm the Beast (Clubbed Thumb); and Tulpa (Target Margin Theatre), First in Flight, Just so Stories (Theatreworks/USA); People are Wrong, 131 (P.S. 122), Tex Arcana Waltz, No. 11 Blue and White (The Play Company).  Regional Credits: Actor's Express, La Jolla Playhouse; Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis; Philadelphia Theatre Company; Geva Theatre; Triad Stage; The PLay Company; Barrington Stage Company; Empty Space Theatre; Yale Repertory Theatre; The Julliard School, and Bard College.  B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.  Currently an Assistant Professor at Hunter College New York.  (updated 10/04). 

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with SALT theater: THE CHERRY ORCHARD and CONQUEST OF THE UNIVERSE
Upcoming: Costumes for THE MISER (directed by David Schweizer, Center Stage Baltimore); sets and costumes for JULIUS CAESAR (Pittsburgh Opera), DON GIOVANNI (Santa Fe Opera), and THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN (Lyric Opera of Chicago).
Recent: Sets and costumes for Handel's FLAVIO (New York City Opera), ORLANDO (Glimmerglass Opera), and TAMERLANO (Spoleto Festival, USA), all directed by Chas Rader-Shieber. Sets and costumes for Sandra Tsing Loh's SUGAR PLUM FAIRY (Seattle Repertory Theater), costumes for HE HUNTS (Geffen Theater), HONK!, ALEXANDER..., CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (Children's Theater Company), all directed by David Schweizer. Sets and costumes for Mozart's LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (Santa Fe Opera). Other cosutme design includes: WINTER'S TALE, MERCHANT OF VENICE, HENRY IV PART I (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Michael Edwards, dir.); THE CIDER HOUSE RULES (Mark Taper Forum, also Seattle Repertory Theater and Atlantic Theater, NYC); also Atlantic Theater, MCC, Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard Opera and Drama, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Alliance Theater, Spoleto Festival, Children's Theater Company Cincinnati Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Intiman Theatre, Actor's Theater of Louisville, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. David is also an orginal company member of Target Margin Theater in New York City and has designed many productions for them including THE SANDMAN, DIDO QUEEN OF CARTHAGE, MOTHER COURAGE, and MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS (Obie Award). (updated 12/03)

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