The Team

Elizabeth Audley (Writer/Performer)
is a perennial A-student and compulsive list maker who loves planning ahead, except when she totally doesn't. She was born in Philadelphia -- just like Liberty. She did not get her driver's license until she was 19, and has been making up for it ever since. She's been in a lot of plays -- some of which you may have heard of, most of which you have not. Some of her favorite things are Mandarin Orange Seltzer Water, voting, strong coffee, NPR, swimming in lakes, grand gestures, signs that use punctuation incorrectly, and the local special (especially when the local special is fried chicken and a nice piece of pie). Her favorite activity is driving around and listening to the radio – which she does a lot of while she's looking for a parking spot in Brooklyn, where she lives.

Jack Young (Director)
is Head of MFA Acting & Directing at the University of Houston where he's had a chance to direct a play in a pool and stage fights in a single-wide trailer. Jack's path to Texas was about as long as Elizabeth's circuit of the US, but took much much longer, with grad work at the University of Washington's PATP under Bob Hobbs, acting work in Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Texas, and the Carolinas, working as Artistic Director of Duke Stage Company, The Warehouse Theatre (Greenville SC) and The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and leading MFA programs at Ohio University and UH. He's happy to be working with Elizabeth again, having enjoyed directing her in A FLEA IN HER EAR up in Cape Cod. He doubts he'll need his experience as an SAFD Fight Director on this project, but might bring along some of the skills he learned training with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company.

Rachelle Beckerman (Production Designer)
started her adventures in theatre at the age of 11 and is glad to say they have never ended. With a BA in Photography and Theatre Production & Technology, she headed to Ohio University to study with Ursula Belden and Michael Lincoln, where she received her MFA in Lighting and Scenic Design. While at OU, Rachelle studied alternative theatre practices at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London, and assisted at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial, building the OU submission and working on the USA national and student exhibits. She interned with Warner en Consorten. Rachelle's recent activities have included designing Kim Schultz's The F Trip, starting work on Emily with The Firebone Theatre Company and working on the design of the USA student exhibit for PQ 2011. 

Melissa Jernigan (Production Stage Manager)
learned it from Artie Gaffin, David Sugarman, Laurie Goldfeder, Justin Scribner, Barclay Stiff, Megan Larche and Kate McD. Broadway: PA for Lennon. Other New York Credits include: Sophistry, The Black Monk, Pvt..Wars, The Cenci, The Archery Contest, A Yorkshire Fairie Tale, Masqurade: calypso and home, John Leguizamo: a work in progress, The Strangerer, PA for Beauty of the Father and Broadway Meets Country and many many hours at Barrow St. Theatre. Proud Equity Member. As always love to Mom, Dad and Greg.

Sara Thigpen (Associate Director/Co-Pilot)
is originally from down south but has lived up north long enough to be considered a real New Yorker. She is a FringeNYC veteran who has rocked the festival several times: she co-wrote the FringeNYC 2006 hit, Grace (Cherry Lane Theatre), directed the FringeNYC2008 hit musical, Nudists in Love (45 Bleecker), and appeared in the FringeNYC world premieres of Last Call (2002), Muse of Fire (2005), and Marvelous Shrine (2007). Outside of the Fringe, she has directed Zack Calhoon's Krueger for Boomerang Theatre Company's First Flight Reading Series, and acted extensively both in New York and regionally. In 2005, Sara won the NYIT Award for Outstanding Actress in a Featured Role for her performance in Boomerang's production of Burning the Old Man. She is also a member/muse of The Present Company's Pool, where she inspires the development of new plays. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and knows how to make some mean fried chicken.

Special Thanks To

Samanthe Burrow (photography)
Micah Freedman (graphic/web design)
The Barrow Street Theatre
The cast, crew, and producers of Our Town