Rebecca Wolf auditioned for her first school play, was too shy to get a part, then watched the show from the audience and decided that was what she wanted to do. The following year she landed the role of Glenn the Gull. As she puts it now, she has gone from bird to pig and intends to work through the entire animal kingdom eventually.
The pig is Peg, the star of The Pigs Next Door, a show born…
There’s a version of comedy history where Ian Edwards gets remembered as a footnote. Instead, he became the answer to a trivia question: first comedian ever signed to Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco Records. Before that, by his own telling, most of the industry…
Stacie Burrows has been on stage roughly as long as she has been alive. Her first credit was Old MacDonald Had a Farm at preschool. She played the black sheep, which she considers telling. Since then: theatre, improv, sketch, standup, musical comedy, solo theatre and…
Sevrin Willinder: A Postman Who Is Bad at His Job
August 7, 2026
Sevrin Willinder is a clown, and somebody else told him so first. He was playing a piano repairman in a dramatic scene at drama school. His mentor told him to play something well, then act as though it sounded terrible. He did, the room laughed, and he did not understand why.
He grew up doing funny voices with his father, mostly SpongeBob. He acted through school and college, then moved to New…
Whisper Theatre’s Britt Anderson and Richie Schiraldi are married, and they have three shows. Well-Balanced Dads is the duo one, and it involves acrobatics. The Mothman Cometh is Richie’s solo hour, performed entirely in the dark. Arachne Athena is Britt’s, and…
Stacy Price has been at this for at least fifteen years. She trained at Circle in the Square in New York and did plays there. Then came Los Angeles, the Groundlings, and open mics around town. She is now a member of the Actors Gang, where Tim Robbins is artistic director.
Marina di Marzo’s first stage appearance was at four months old. Her Italian immigrant parents are deeply Catholic. She played the live baby Jesus in their church nativity. She is confident nobody else can claim that credit. Her first speaking role came at summer camp, in The Wizard of Oz. She was Munchkin Mayor, which she considered more important than Dorothy.
She moved to New York after…
Hannah Ponturo wrote 1518: The Dancing Plague first as a film, then as a play. She is also directing it, and is one of four producers. She made most of the props herself. The costumes came largely out of the actors’ own wardrobes, layered up to read as medieval. The show…
Winnie Stack started keeping a journal at nine, and kept it religiously. She wrote down as much detail as she could. She drew a picture beside almost every entry. She suspected even then that she would read them again one day. She did not expect to build a play out of them.
Liz Coin grew up in Iowa and now works out of New York. Her first stage role was Drake the butler, at eleven. It was a community theatre production of Annie. The lead forgot his lines and kept calling for champagne. Coin walked on with two trays and improvised the rest. The room came apart, and she drew a conclusion she still uses.
Lizzy Sunshine is her Fringe hour, and it contains almost…