Meet the creative team

Performer

Jessica Bedford as Sally

Previous TD credits: The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged; Stuck. Recent credits: The Revolutionists (Marie Antoinette)/Theatre Horizon; Don’t Dress for Dinner (Suzanne)/ Lantern; Mousetrap (Molly)/McCarter Theatre; White Guy on a Bus (Molly)/Delaware Theatre Co & 59E59; White (Jane)/Theatre Horizon; A Christmas Carol (Mrs. Cratchit)/McCarter Theatre; City of Conversation (Anna)/Delaware Theatre Co; And Then There Were None (Vera)/Walnut Street; The Prescott Method (Peg)/Walnut Street; Of Mice & Men (Curley’s Wife) and Noises Off (Vicki/Brooke)/People’s Light & Theatre Company; Sylvia (Sylvia)/Act II Playhouse and Pride and Prejudice (Jane) at the PA Shakespeare Festival, People’s Light and Bristol Riverside Theatre.

Performer

Danielle Leneé as Elaine

Danielle Leneé is a Philadelphia based actor. Credits include: Off Broadway: Sha-tique in White Guy on a Bus (59E59ST). Regional: Harriet Tubman in My General Tubman, Black Mary in Gem of the Ocean – Barrymore Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Play (Arden); Miep in Diary of Anne Frank (People’s Light); Aisha in Mrs. Harrison (Azuka Theatre); Shatique in White Guy on a Bus (Passage Theatre and Delaware Theatre Company); Rosalind in As You Like It, He- licanus/Ensemble in Pericles, Adriana in Comedy of Errors (Delaware Shakespeare); Is God Is (Wilma Theater); Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Syracuse Stage); A Knee That Can Bend (Orbiter 3); Milk Like Sugar (Simpatico Theatre). Education: BFA – Acting from Syracuse University. Much love always to the Thomas/Campbell family. This is for you always, Grandmer.

Performer

Charlotte Northeast as Jana

Happy to return to Tiny Dynamite! Charlotte is a two-time Barrymore Award winner for her work at InterAct and Lantern Theater Company. Graduate: Circle in the Square. Credits include Philadelphia Artists’ Collective (PAC), of which she’s an Artistic Associate, Act II Playhouse, Theatre Exile, Passage Theatre, Azuka, Montgomery Stage, Hedgerow, Tribe of Fools, Orbiter 3 (Barrymore Nomination), Delaware Theatre Company and the Walnut Street Theatre. Co-creator and performer of The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged and a world premiere solo show They’ve All Gone & We’ll Go Too which will travel to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 (fingers crossed). Love to Damon, Jules, Pug and Cat. Thanks to everyone for continuing to support theatre and the arts – no matter the format. Visit: www.charlottenortheast.com

Playwright

Ian August

Ian August is a NJ-based playwright whose works have been developed at the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Powerhouse Theatre Season with NY Stage and Film, Ashland New Plays Festival, Red Mountain Theatre Company, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, New Jersey Repertory Company, Writers Theatre of New Jersey, Wordsmyth Theatre Company, City Theatre of Miami, the Garry Marshall Theatre, UC Davis Dept. of Theatre and Dance, Passage Theatre Company, the Philadelphia Artists’ Collective, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the NY, Philly, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and elsewhere. Several of his plays have been published by Sam French Inc., The Pitkin Review, Smith and Kraus Publishing, and the One-Act Play Depot. Ian received his MFA from Goddard College, and is a graduated member of The Foundry.

Director

Kathryn MacMillan

Kathryn MacMillan is a Philadelphia-based director of more than 50 productions, both regionally and off-Broadway (and lately, digitally) including Unraveled (Off-Broadway); Arcadia, Betrayal, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Lantern Theater Co); Grounded, The Niceties (InterAct); Fully Committed (Delaware Theatre Company);The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in Clark Park); The Comedy of Errors (Dram Tree Shakespeare); Romeo & Juliet (Commonwealth Classic Co); and several shows for Theatre Horizon, including The Revolutionists, recently nominated for six Barrymore Awards including Best Production & Best Director. Other honors: Beauty Queen of Leenane (Best Production 2012/13 & Best Director, from Philadelphia Weekly), Doubt (one of the Best Plays of 2015 from the Philadelphia Daily News), I Am My Own Wife (Barrymore nomination: Outstanding Direction), The Hothouse (Barrymore nominations for Outstanding Direction & Production). In 2015, KC was named one of Billy Penn’s Who’s Next: 16 Young Philadelphians Shaping the Arts Scene. She has been the Producing Artistic Director of Tiny Dynamite since 2017, and has directed The Art of Swimming, The Audience Interrupts Marcel’s Bathtime…, and the smash hit The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged (Barrymore nomination, Outstanding Direction), which has enjoyed two sold out runs. 

Sound and Slide Designer

Daniel Kontz

Daniel Kontz is a multi-disciplinary designer from London, England, who creates sights and sounds for clients in the theatre industry and beyond. His sound and projection designs have supported numerous theatrical productions in Philadelphia and New York since 2010, including productions at the National Constitution Center since 2013. Daniel’s photography and graphic design work appears on bus shelters and buildings, in coffee shops and magazines, and in a range of digital media. www.danielkontzdesign.com