Focusing on the transatlantic development of new dramatic work and the intersection of art/media and technology, this team is in the planning stages of new programming for 2014.
Among our members is Cannes Golden Palm winner Neil LaBute, a prolific writer/director whose latest film – Some Velvet Morning with Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve – debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival to glowing reviews. His films include: In the Company of Men; Your Friends & Neighbors; Nurse Betty; Possession; The Shape of Things; The Wicker Man; Lakeview Terrace; Death at a Funeral; Some Girl(s); Some Velvet Morning. Theatre includes: Bash: Latter-Day Plays (Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Shape of Things (Almeida Theatre, Promenade Theatre); The Distance from Here (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Mercy Seat (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); Filthy Talk for Troubled Times (MCC Theatre); Fat Pig (MCC Theatre, Trafalgar Studios); Autobahn (MCC Theatre); Some Girl(s) (Gielgud Theatre, MCC Theatre); This is How it Goes (Donmar Warehouse, The Public Theatre); Land of the Dead/Helter Skelter (Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Bush Theatre); Wrecks (Everyman Palace Theatre, The Public Theatre, The Bush Theatre); In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); The Break of Noon (MCC Theatre, Geffen Playhouse); Reasons to be Pretty (MCC Theatre, Almeida Theatre); In a Forest, Dark and Deep (Vaudeville Theatre, Profiles Theatre); and Reasons to be Happy (MCC Theatre).
Currently at work on a trilogy of plays about education, British triple threat Jonathan Guy Lewis will be workshopping the first play, A Level Playing Field, this year. Lewis wrote and directed Our Boys for The Soho Theatre, Derby Playhouse and at The Donmar warehouse, which won The Writers Guild Award for Best New Fringe Play, the TAPS new Television Writer Of The Year, and was nominated for the The Lloyds Bank Playwright Of The Year. Our Boys was revived at The Duchess Theatre on the West End to great acclaim. He also wrote and directed A Comedy Of Arias at The Pleasance, Edinburgh and as part of A Pick Of The Fringe season at The New Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End, as well as All Mouth at The Menier Chocolate Factory; and two productions of Pitch Perfect at the Tristan Bates and at the Tabard Theatre. Lewis co-wrote and performed the successful one-man show, I Found My Horn at Hampstead Theatre as well as theatres and festivals up and down the country and in Copehagen, New York, LA and at The Laguna Beach Playhouse. He has written extensively for TV and wrote and directed a short film, Beggar's Belief.
John David Coles is an award-winning director and producer known for evocative material with compelling performances. He has enjoyed success in features, television and theater while his production company, Talking Wall Pictures, has focused on the development of cutting-edge feature and television projects. Coles' first feature film, Signs Of Life, starred Beau Bridges, Vincent D'Onofrio and Mary Louise Parker. The film won the International Critics Prize at the Deauville Film Festival and the Best Director award at the Cadiz festival in Spain. Other credits include Rising Son starring Brian Dennehy and Matt Damon (winner of the Audience award at Deauville); Darrow starring Kevin Spacey; Friends At Last starring Kathleen Turner; The Good Fight, starring Christine Lahti and Against Her Will starring Marlee Matlin. In the world of episodic television, Coles has directed numerous award-winning series, including West Wing, Sex and the City, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and Damages. Coles also directed and produced Thief which led to Andre Braughers' Emmy award. His executive producer credits include Elementary with Lucy Liu and Jonny Lee Miller, Law & Order: Criminal Intent with Jeff Goldblum, 3LBS with Stanley Tucci, and New Amsterdam. Coles continues to write and create original dramas through Talking Wall Pictures, which produced the CBS drama Songs in Ordinary Time (based on the Oprah Book Club pick) starring Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges and co-created and executive produced the series Crash and Burn. Talking Wall has developed numerous projects with HBO, CBS, New Line, IFC and Bravo. His Off-broadway credits include directing the critically acclaimed play The Impostor by J Dakota Powell, starring Austin Pendleton and Calista Flockhart.
Based in LA, Michael Steger and Brandee Tucker have an artistic home in London via LoNyLa. Steger is known for his role, "Navid Shirazi," on CW's drama series 90210 as well as Assisting Venus (2010) and The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008). He is currently lensing as "Riley Smith" in the film, The Circle.
Babou Ceesay is a British actor known for his role as “Billy” in the film, Severance (2006) as well as roles in Shirley (2011) and Stolen (2011). He can be seen as “DC Alex Gray” in the hit ITV drama, Inspector Lewis (2013) and was recently “Hansley” in the BBC4 TV series, Getting On (2012).
Zoe Nicole is a British actress who is breaking out on the London stage after recently graduating from the East 15 Acting School (BA Acting). Recent roles include “Lily” in Taranis at the Paper Tiger/ Ovalhouse Theatre directed by Rachel Briscoe, “Alex” in The Proper Boundaries at the Writer's Response-Theatre 503, “Oracle” in Green and Pleasant Land at the fanSHEN/Arcola Theatre, “Ameera” in Small Fish at the Unicorn Theatre, “Asha” in Same Same at fanShen/Ovalhouse Theatre and “Elisha” in Thugz n Tearz at Raw Perceptions/Edinburgh Fringe/Cockpit Theatre. Nicole played "Jenna" in the short film, Sibling, by Brown Boy Productions and Leon Lopez.
Producing Artistic Director J Dakota Powell is finishing a trilogy of plays tracking the nuclear era - atom bomb to current proliferation. Powell gathered the American theatre to respond in 911 in Brave New World on Broadway. Plays include: Bliss Moon, The Impostor, Savage Light, Blackwater, Harry Black. Harry Black was produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's New Works Series. Blackwater was selected for the National Playwrights Conference, O'Neill Theatre Center and by John Guare for the Lincoln Center Reading Series. The Impostor was twice nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and received an Honourable Mention for the Jane Chambers Playwrighting Award. Powell has been produced by the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Philadephia Theater Company's New Works Series, Circle Repertory Theatre Lab, the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Duke University's New Works Series; she has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre, Talking Wall Pictures, PBS Great Performances. Powell is a winner of the Writers Guild of America, East screenwriting fellowship (NYC) and won the Scriptapalooza (LA) competition. Graduate of Yale, ITP/NYU and the Ensemble Studio Theater (NYC) 2-year program in acting, writing and directing.
Mitch Gettleman is a writer/director with an MFA from UCLA’s Graduate Film Program in directing and screenwriting and a BA from Cornell University. 
