Matt Bassett - Since relocating to the DC area from his native Tennessee in 2010, Matt has appeared locally with The Bay Theatre (Wit – Jason), as Pierre in The Clockmaker at The Hub, with Washington Stage Guild (Magic – Rev. Cyril Smith) and The Kennedy Center’s Theatre for Young Audiences on Tour (Knuffle Bunny – Dad understudy). He has assistant-directed for Roundhouse Theatre (A Wrinkle in Time) and is currently directing and devising an original theatre piece for 0-5-year-olds with his lovely wife, actor Tia Shearer, to premiere in 2012 with Alexandria-based company Arts on the Horizon. Regional performance credits include The Clarence Brown Theatre, Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Lexington Children’s Theatre, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, People’s Branch Theatre and Tennessee Stage Company. Regional directing credits include a dream once lost, a world premiere collaboration with Tia Shearer that opened at the 2007 Philly Fringe and Matt and Ben, a Tennessee premiere with People’s Branch Theatre. Matt is currently a teaching artist with The National Conservatory of the Dramatic Arts in Washington, DC and Compass Rose Studio Theatre in Annapolis, MD. He lives in Takoma Park, MD, with his aforementioned lovely wife and feline jazz legend Charlie Parker.

Kristen Egermeier - Kristen now lives in Philadelphia, but continues to work in DC as well. Favorite productions from Philadelphia, D.C. and L.A. include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, A Thousand Cranes, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Stinky Cheese Man, Mad Breed, Rashomon, 1984, and Twelfth Night. Kristen holds a B.A. in Theatre from California State University, Northridge with an emphasis in Acting and Costume Design. She is also a Flip Fitness Instructor. A huge thank you to The Hub, my family, and friends for their continual support!

James Flanagan - James is honored to be a company member at The Hub.  Stage credits include productions at Woolly Mammoth, Theatre J, Studio Theatre, Rep Stage, Everyman Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Taffety Punk's Bootleg Shakespeare, Longacre Lea Productions, Quotidian Theatre, Perseverance Theatre Alaska, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, Chesapeake Shakespeare Co., Maryland Shakespeare Festival, VSA Arts, The Kennedy Center TYA, and others.  He received his training at Towson University.

Danny Gavigan - Danny Gavigan has been doing impressions and lying about beating popular video games to impress his friends since he was nine. He's appeared on stages across the US and Ireland including Cork's legendary Everyman Palace Theatre (where a young Charlie Chaplin appeared with his father), Baltimore's Centerstage, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse (1993 Tony Award Winner for Best Regional Theatre), Arena Stage (1976 Tony Award Winner for Best Regional Theatre), and Signature Theatre (2009 Tony Award Winner for Best Regional Theatre). His screen credits include Dead Monkey, Dog (Independent Television Festival Award for Best Overall TV Show, New York Television Festival Award for Best Drama), Boxing Day (Black Swamp International Film Festival Award for Best Foreign Feature), and an episode ofAmerica's Most Wanted for FOX Television where he reenacted a prison break using only dental floss.

Kristen LePine - holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from Humboldt State University. Her works have been presented at Active Cultures, The Hub Theatre, George State College and University, Inkwell, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts, Plays-in-Progress Theatre, The Pittsburgh New Works Festival, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. She formerly coordinated PlayGround, Woolly Mammoth's resident playwriting forum. Currently, Kristen teaches English and Theatre at Lord Fairfax Community College and the University of Mary Washington. She has been commissioned twice by The Hub for Foolish Fire (Ignus Fatuus) and Leto Legend. Foolish Fire recently took top honors at the Firehouse New American Play Festival.

Shirley Serotsky - Shirley Serotsky is the Director of Literary and Public Programs at Theater J, where she directed the 2011 production of The Moscows of Nantucket; Mikveh (which received two Helen Hayes Nominations for Best Actress); and The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (which received a 2009 Helen Hayes Nomination for Best New Play); and where she serves as staff dramaturg. She works as a freelance director in the Washington, DC area and beyond, and is particularly interested in the development of new work. Recent directing credits include: Birds of A Feather (The Hub Theatre) Juno and the Paycock (Washington Shakespeare Company); a staged reading of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo for the National New Play Network at Arena Stage; This is Not a Timebomb (The Source Festival of New Work); a staged reading of Clementine and the Cyber Ducks (Inkwell Inkubator Festival); Picnic at Hanging Rock (Catholic University); Five Flights and Two Rooms (Theater Alliance); Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake) and We Are Not These Hands (Catalyst Theater); References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Rorschach Theater, for which she received a 2007 Helen Hayes nomination for outstanding direction of a resident play); Sovereignty (The Humana Festival of New Plays); As American As and After Darwin (Journeymen Theater); Steel Magnolias (The Ice House); Powerhouse (2008 CapFringe Festival; Cautionary Tales for Adults and the Many Adventures of Trixie Tickles (2007 CapFringe); LUNCH (2007 New York Musical Theater Festival & 2006 CapFringe), Titus! The Musical. (2009 Capfringe and Source Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Sonnet Repertory); The Superfriends of Flushing, Queens (Columbia University); Starlet for Sale (Expanded Arts). Training: BFA, North Carolina School of the Arts. Shirley is a Company Member of the Hub Theatre in Northern Virginia. She was a member of the 2002 Designer/Director Workshop with Ming Cho Lee and the 2003 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.

Maggie Ulmer - Co-Founder - has worked in education and public service through the arts in professional and volunteer capacities for the past ten years. She has taught theatre at a local community center, acted in regional professional and community theatres, and coordinated special projects /new works development for Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theater Programs. Maggie has employed her artistic vision in her work as an independent filmmaker. She has edited industrial films and internal marketing tools for Kaiser Permanente. She also created a documentary for the Bethany Women's Shelter in Washington, D.C.

Maria Vetsch - Maria Vetsch began costuming shows upon graduating from California State University, Long Beach, CA in 1990 with a degree in Clothing and Textile Design.  Her career started with costuming entertainment shows for the Walt Disney Company in Anaheim, CA. While working for Disney, she taught Costume History at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, CA. Maria also costumed Tom Sawyer for Irvine Valley College Theatrefaire for Children and Pirates of Penzance for the Brea Theatre League. Her husband's career brought her to VIrginia where she began costuming for Fairfax County's Westfield High School Theatre Program. She both designed and taught costume production, setup and maintenance for numerous plays including:  The Merchant of Venice, Romeo and Juliet, Tartuffe, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Grease, You Can't Take It With You, A Christmas Carol, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Peter Pan, and Once Upon a Mattress. Maria has also costumed for the Keegan Theatre shows, Bold Girls and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. When not costuming theatre shows, Maria works with a local competition dance studio creating and producing custom costumes.

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