Company members

Heather Grayson Heather Grayson (co-founder) is currently gearing up to take her final bow in her one-woman show as part of the Imagine Festival at P.S. 122. She just finished a stint as a 79-year old granny with a groove in Moving Parts Theater's Lovers and Other Stranglers. She recently played Rosalind in As You Like It after running around touring her one-woman show After the Storm. Previous NYC theater credits include Young Valerie in Valerie Shoots Andy, the title role in Hamlet, the off-Broadway run of Even Steven, the original cast of A Town Called Shame, Escape from Happiness, Macbeth, Triptych, Clay McLeod Chapman's Broken Boughs, Judeth Oden's Spoilt Milk and Miles Below Zero. Regional Theatre includes The Visit, The Nutcracker, The Seagull and Playing for Time. Favorite stage credits: The Merchant of Venice, Dancing at Lughnasa, Laundry and Bourbon and A Coupla White Chicks Sitting around Talking. Heather got to be killed in a fun and gruesome way in the recently released independent film Pandora Machine, and has been seen in a number of unremarkable television spots. Heather was awarded two bronze stars, and she's quite proud of one of them. She is also a vocal coach and fight choreographer in New York City. MFA, UNC-Chapel Hill. BA, Vanderbilt University. Member, AEA, AFTRA.

Catherine Banks Catherine Banks (co-founder) was most recently seen in Bombshell's Escape from Happiness and Major Deagan Lab's Wine, Women, & Song at the Access Theater. Other New York credits include Sea Change by Tom Fitzsimmons and Bombshell's Fall 2000 production of Hamlet. Regional credits include Polaroid Stories, Dancing at Lughnasa, and Cloud Nine.

Tessa Leigh Derfner Tessa Leigh Derfner has worked with various directors such as Robert Wilson, Joanne Akalaitis (with author Michael Oondatje), David Wheeler, Ron Daniels, Estelle Parsons, Gene Saks, François Rochaix and Robert Woodruff (with playwright Charles L. Mee). As a director, she has developed new works for Ensemble Studio Theater, New Georges, Drama of Works, Dixon Place, HERE/Dream Music Puppetry Program, San Francisco Fringe Festival, Working Group and Shakewell Productions. Ms. Derfner is also a writer of plays and prose, and has directed her own creations Miles Below Zero (Currican Theatre, NY Int'l Fringe Festival) and Getting Back to Alice (in development). She enjoys on-going affiliations with the Actors’ Studio and the Drama Dept. Incorporated. Currently the manager of live performance for composer/pianist/singer Diamanda Galás, Ms. Derfner previously served as company manager for the Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater, Lincoln Center Festival, The New Victory Theatre, Urban Tap and the acclaimed British stage production of Shockheaded Peter.

Amy Heidt Amy Heidt (associate producer) played Guildenstern in Bombshell’s maiden production of Hamlet in the fall of 2000. She is a native of Mount Airy, NC and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. She's been seen around town most recently in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at HERE, and in readings of The Coffee Girl and The Musical Box, and if you were in Prague or Warsaw a while back, you might have seen her in the hugely unpopular Food for Bears. Favorite roles include Martha in The Secret Garden and Aunt Maggie in Dancing at Lughnasa. Amy was last seen in Mac Roger’s newest play here at the INDIVISIBLE festival.