Jeffrey Stingerstein

Jeffrey Stingerstein

Deerfield, MA

Jeffrey.Stingerstein@gmail.com

Actor, Director, Playwrite

Jeff is a Theatre Artist originally from Western New York. He received his associates in theatre from Niagara County Community College. There he acted in several plays, including Playboy of the Western World, Twelve Angry Jurors, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. It was at NCCC that he wrote and directed his first play, Edgar. A couple years later NCCC produced his second play, Afterwords. Jeff returned to college later, receiving his BFA in Dramatic Writing from Purchase College in 2006. At Purchase he acted in Beyond Therapy, The Shape of Things, and Something Lost (Somewhere, Somehow, Along the Way), this last play being one that he also co-wrote and co-directed. In 2007-2008 Jeff was an apprentice at Touchstone Theatre in Bethlehem, PA. There he acted in Tales from the Middle East and Christmas City Follies. He also wrote and directed a short play, Shadows, and scenes for Christmas City Follies. That spring he stage managed Another River Flows. Jeff is very interested in being involved in Pioneer Valley theatre. He wants to act, direct, write, stage manage, work as crew, ANYTHING that is in theatre. Starting in the Fall of 2009, he will be an MFA Playwriting student at Smith College. An interesting fact about Jeff: his last name, Stingerstein, is a combination of his maiden name, Stein, and his wife's maiden name, Stinger. They are the only Stingersteins in the world. That's what love will do for ya.

Darren Harned

Darren Harned

djh04@hampshire.edu

South Amherst

Playwrite/Writer

Darren is a writer, primarily of plays. Some of his work has received a bit of attention and, to be perfectly honest about it, Darren admits that having that attention was quite nice when it happened and that he wouldn't mind getting some more. He is too young to know what sort of stories he prefers to write, really, or what the hallmarks of his style are. Thematically, he is drawn toMURDER and LIES and DECEIT and the PAIN OF EXISTENCE, though he can also docomedy or children's entertainment if the mood strikes him and the pay is right. Interestingly, when Darren writes he does so from within the confines of a hermetically sealed bubble located in his basement. It is made out of old shopping bags. But lately Darren has been feeling like working in this shopping bag bubble is perhaps not the best thing for him, creatively speaking, and so he wants to branch out and possibly even go so far as to talk to other people. He thinks that maybe...and this is a big maybe...he could collaborate. But hedoesn't know yet. He's testing the waters. And that is why he's posting here today.