TEAM
"These women are on a mission to develop beautiful and subversive new works."
-StageBuddy
-StageBuddy
Ashley J. Jacobson
FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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Ashley is a Brooklyn-based playwright and producer, and the Founding Artistic Director of The Dirty Blondes Theater Company. Writing credits include full length plays: The American Play, presented at The Gallery Players, The Lynn Redgrave Theater and Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse; The Tunnel Play, presented at The Kraine Theater, The Miracle Play, co-presented with The Secret Theater; and His Beauty, presented at The Gene Frankel Theater. One-act/short plays: Hers, presented in a reading at The Robert Moss Theater, and The Q Train, presented in The Mastodon Theatre Company’s Pint-Size Plays. She is the Winner of the 2015 Overall Excellence in Playwriting Award at The New York International Festival and was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting at the 2012 Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. A graduate of The New School, Eugene Lang College for Liberal Arts and a member of The Dramatist Guild.
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Elizabeth Sarkady
FOUNDING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
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Elizabeth is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Dirty Blondes Theater Company. Under her leadership, The Dirty Blondes have presented sold-out works at SoHo Playhouse, The Gallery Players, The Lynn Redgrave Theater, JACK, The Kraine Theater, Under Saint Marks, The Brick and Gemini & Scorpio Loft. Additionally, Elizabeth has served as the Associate Director of Development Operations at BAM, and has previously worked with Signature Theatre, New York Musical Festival (NYMF), and Paper Mill Playhouse. A graduate of Western Michigan University
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Olivia Baseman
ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
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Olivia Baseman is a performer writer and producer. She works in theater, film, television, music and fashion. Her acting credits include director Darren Aronofsky’s Oscar nominated film The Wrestler, the iconic "Rick James" episode of the Comedy Central Series Chappelle's Show, Elementary on CBS… and many plays and musicals both Off, and Off Off Broadway as well as regionally. She is a member of the award winning theater company Gemini CollisionWorks, and a regular performer at Brooklyn’s acclaimed experimental theater The Brick. As a producer, Olivia has worked in partnership with her husband, fashion and celebrity portrait photographer Mark Veltman since 2002. Olivia also co-founded the critically acclaimed independent art/culture/fashion magazine Joy Quarterly for which she wrote, and served as managing editor.
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Sean Pollock
LITERARY ASSOCIATE
Sean is a multi-disciplinary writer, director, designer, and artist based out of Brooklyn. His work can be mostly classified as experimental with an emphasis in site specificity, solo performance, horror, and docutheatre with varying styles and room for exploration. Recent credits include the Off-Broadway premiere of Trump Rally (United Solo/Theatre Row) which he directed and wrote (adapted from the documentary of the same name by Sean Dunne) which was originally featured in the Dirty Blondes The Resister Project at the Kraine. He is a proud mom in the writer's group Mom's Insurance for young writers, and now, a proud Dirty Blonde. Training: Ithaca College, NTI, Directors Lab North, Directors Lab Chicago. www.seanpollock.net insta: @seanzyart
Hannah Lemkowitz
COMPANY ASSOCIATE
Hannah is an actor, artist, and recent graduate of Oberlin College from Brooklyn, NY. She is an alumni of Stella Adler’s advanced high school conservatory program, as well studying for three months at the prestigious Moscow Art Theatre School. Currently, Hannah has been working on an original devised show called Why Do You Always Wear Black?, based on the women in Anton Chekhov’s four major plays. After great success at Oberlin, she hopes to revive the show soon for a New York audience. She is also a founding member of Deep South, Oberlin’s only all-woman sketch comedy group.
Want to work with us?
We're always looking for new works to produce and new people to work with!
If you want to volunteer your time to help us produce theater that strives to push the conversation further, send an email to [email protected] with some information about you and a resume.
If you want to volunteer your time to help us produce theater that strives to push the conversation further, send an email to [email protected] with some information about you and a resume.
THE MIRACLE PLAY photo by Will Arvidson