THE GROUP
	JAY AUBREY -- Producing Artistic Director
	Jay Aubrey has produced for both commercial and nonprofit organizations, and independently produced productions of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me by David Drake and Don Nigro's The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. For The Themantics Group, he has produced all the company’s shows, including Cupid & Psyche, Snake in Fridge, Hazard County, Naked and Shopping and F***ing. Prior to moving to New York, Jay lived and worked in Chicago where he served as the Operations Manager of the nonprofit Organic Theater Company and as General Manager at The Apollo Theater in Lincoln Park, a commercial house known for its success with long running productions of Always, Patsy Cline and Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story. He is originally from Lexington, Kentucky where he attended The University of Kentucky and was a founding member of Actors' Guild of Lexington, now the largest nonprofit theatre in its region, and where he also served as Ticket Services and Marketing Manager for the Singletary Center for the Arts. As an actor, Jay’s New York and regional stage credits include roles in Larry Kramer’s play Just Say No, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabaret, The Misanthrope, The Threepenny Opera, The Big Funk, Cloud 9, Sincerity Forever, Howard Crabtree's Whoop Dee Doo!, and Pope Joan, among others.
	Kwaku Driskell -- Actor
	Kwaku Driskell is a graduate of the theater program at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. Other training includes an internship with the International Shakespeare Globe center in London. He also completed the midsummer at Oxford program through the British American Drama Academy. Since graduating from Northwestern, Kwaku has worked as an actor in New York, London and Chicago.
	Peter Macklin -- Actor
	Peter Macklin appeared as Franco Laspiga in The Themantics Group's production of Naked. He has performed on both on the mainstage and in graduate shows at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival including Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Young Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and Sir Andrew in Twelfth Night, among many others. In New York, he recently appeared in The Importance of Marrying Wells which was part of FringeNYC 2005 at the Lucille Lortell. As a playwright, Peter's play Someplace Warm won the Samuel French one-act competition. The full play is published by Samuel French Inc. with excerpts also appearing in Smith & Kraus' Best Women's Monologues 2002. MFA--Alabama Shakespeare Festival.
	Irene McDonnell -- Actor
	Irene McDonnell has performed with The Themantics Group in their production of Naked. Other select productions include: Rare Bird (New York Theatre Workshop Larson Lab); Those Who Can Do (Clubbed Thumb); Gun Club (Cherry Lane Alternative); Buying Time and Quake (Hypothetical Theatre Co.); The Gut Girls (Flying Fig); Courting Monsters (Manhattan Theatre Source), Raw Footage (NY Fringe). Regional work includes productions at Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Second Stage, Portland Stage; also, the Edinburgh Fringe, Jerash Festival in Jerash Jordan. Irene is also a NYTW Usual Suspect. Help control the pet population, please spay and neuter.
	Erin Murphy -- Costume Designer
	Erin Murphy is a costume designer who's work has been seen in Hazard County and Snake in Fridge for The Themantics Group. Other recent New York productions include: House of Desire, Salvage Shop, Twelfth Night, and The Shoemaker's Holiday for the Storm Theatre; The Velocity of Things for the Regina Nejman Company; and the touring production of Children's Letters to God. Erin received her MFA from the University of Washington in Seattle.
	Carrie Wood -- Lighting Designer
	Carrie Wood is a lighting designer who created the designs of Snake in Fridge and Naked for The Themantics Group. Other recent design credits include Wonder of the World (The Lion Theatre); Burning the Old Man (Innovative Theatre Awards nominee), Giant N Variation, All for Love, Artist Descending a Staircase, Beyond the Horizon and Patience (Center Stage); The Geranium on the Window Sill Just Died (Urban Stages); VIA Dance Collaborative (Ailey Citigroup Theatre and Lincoln Center Clark Studio); Stones in his Pockets (Penguin Rep); Malestrom (Joyce Soho); Dr. Faustus and the 7 Deadly Sins (Chocolate Factory); Via Orchesis (SUNY Fredonia); Hamlet (Underground Opera); and Stop Motion (University Settlement). Other select New York designs include Chekhov’s Rifle (Greenwich Street Theatre) and The Substance of John (Center Stage). Carrie has also been the assistant lighting designer on various productions including La Traviata, La Sonnambula, Le Nozze di Figaro (Baltimore Opera) and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! (Old Town Theater, San Diego). Carrie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.