Who's Who at The WorkShop

Executive Staff Biographies
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Scott C. Sickles
Artistic Director/Dramaturg

Scott has dedicated his entire adult life to new play development. Sickles hails from Pittsburgh where his work -- producing the long-running reading series Sunday Night Live and as artistic director of Pittsburgh New Voices, a company devoted to new plays by local authors -- inspired Pittsburgh Magazine to name him one of the city's three most influential theater personalities. Since arriving in New York City, he has served as company manager of Playwrights Horizons and helmed the Off-Off-Broadway companies Running Start Productions and Antipodes Theatrical before finding an artistic home here at the WorkShop. As a playwright, Sickles received his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for his play Shepherd's Bush and the 1999 Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award for his play Lightning From Heaven. WorkShop audiences are familiar with his full-length plays Moonlight & Love Songs, Intellectuals, The Philosopher's Joke, Perfecting the Kiss and From the Top, as well as many of his one-acts. Intellectuals has been published by Smith & Kraus in New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2007 and his short play murmurs was published by Samuel French, Inc. in Festival Plays #21.  Smith & Kraus will also include his piece Beautiful Noises in its forthcoming Ten-Minute Play anthology.  As a dramaturg and teacher, he has advised playwrights and taught at Carnegie Mellon University's Graduate Dramatic Writing Program, Pittsburgh New Voices and here at the WorkShop.  In addition to being the WorkShop's artistic director, Scott is currently a writer at ABC Daytime's One Life to Live.

David M. Pincus
Managing Director

David became Managing Director of the WorkShop Theater Company after having served as a WST Producing Director for four years. WorkShop credits include acting with and directing Olympia Dukakis in two readings of RULES on our Main Stage. Additional directorial efforts at the WorkShop include SOLACE, GRACELAND, and WHEN YOU TRY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE YOU LOSE IT. Other NYC credits include the role of "J.J." in BLOOMSDAY ON BROADWAY with William Hurt, Marian Seldes, and Fritz Weaver at Symphony Space; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM as "Demetrius", "Thisby" and "Flute" with Theater for a New Audience at Lincoln Center; and in MEDEA as the Blind Messenger, directed by David Herskovits for Target Margin. Before joining WST, David served as Artistic Director of Lightning Strikes Theater Company. Mr. Pincus is a member of Actors' Equity, Screen Actors' Guild and serves on NYC Community Board 4 as an advocate for the preservation of theater on the west side of Manhattan.

Cecily Benjamin
Artistic Associate

Kathleen Brant
Producing Director

Anne Fizzard
Producing Director

Anne became a WorkShop member in 2002, and remains active (here and elsewhere) as an actress, writer, and producer. Originally from St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, she got an honors degree in English from Mount Allison University, took summer school at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and completed the two-year acting program at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts here in New York. She has also interned at Ensemble Studio Theater, acted in the Women's Project and Productions Directons Forum, and studied acting with Alfred Molina and Laura Esterman. At the WorkShop, Anne has performed in The Alpha State by William Kovacsik, The Bow-Wow Club by Levy Lee Simon, M is for the Million Things by Scott C. Sickles, and Audience by Mick Stern. She has written and produced her own sketch comedy show Off-Off-Broadway, and one of those pieces, Marry Me or Else, was staged as part of Weaving the Words here at the WorkShop in autumn 2002. Anne produced her full-length comedy Good Opinions in the Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2005. Also that year at the WorkShop, she co-produced (with Virginia Roncetti and Libby Hughes) Unknown Country, a Canadian playreading series, and most recently served as Coordinating Producer for Never Missed a Day here on the mainstage in 2006. As a cartoonist/illustrator, she has done illustrations for several WorkShop postcards/posters Intellectuals, Liberty: The Musical). Anne is also a proud member of Equity, AFTRA, ACTRA, the Independent Feature Project, and the ASPCA.

Christina Romanello
Producing Director

Charles E. Gerber
Director of Classical Theater

Mr. Gerber has been acting, teaching, coaching and directing Shakespeare in NYC steadily since 1985. In January 2007, he directed Macbeth to unanimous raves and a sold-out run on the WorkShop Main Stage. In 2005, Charles had the privilege of collaboarating with his mentor, Moni Yakim, in the Unbound Theatre's production of The Workroom. Charles has played Osric on Broadway and Richard II at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Carol Bennet Gerber directed Charles at the WorkShop as Bottom, Iago, Malvolio, Brutus, Trinculo, Dogberry, Shylock and as Moliere's Tartuffe. National Tours: Arnold in Torch Song Trilogy and Maurice in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Film: the title role in SHOOTING JOHNSON ROEBLING and Wonk#1 in VOTE AND DIE: LISZT FOR PRESIDENT. Television: the "Law and Order" franchise and "Third Watch" as a drug dealing Chasid. Charles created the Then Came Each Actor series and is the founder of Will’s Playshop.

Steven Petrillo
Director of Musical Theater Development

A performer for many years, Steven's Broadway and National Tour credits include Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby, Man of La Mancha, starring Robert Goulet and Jesus Christ Superstar, starring Carl Anderson. TV and Film credits include Law & Order C.I., The Sopranos, The Stepford Wives, and the mini-series A Will of Their Own, opposite Lea Thompson and Thomas Gibson. As a director, he received critical acclaim for Rumors for Parkside Players; the East Coast premier of Route 66 in the Berkshires; Operaplay at the WorkShop Theater Company, as well as for choreographing Fiddler on the Roof for The Gateway Playhouse, and Love! Valour! Compassion! in St. Louis. Steven has been an Associate Director/Choreographer in theatres across the country including North Shore Music Theatre, The North Carolina Theatre, Seattle's Fifth Ave Theatre and Theatre Under the Stars in Houston. Mr. Petrillo, an Associate Producer and Director at Algonquin Productions in NYC, is currently developing a new musical, SESSIONS, by Al Tapper, slated for Off-Broadway in the spring of 2007.

Richard Kent Green
Operations Manager

Richard has worked with many theater companies of note in New York City as an actor, director, designer and producer. He joined the WorkShop as a director in 2002 and soon found himself doing all of the same. He was the Associate Producer for the first Main Stage production in our current space, From the Top, by the WorkShop's current Artistic Director, Scott C. Sickles, and for the Main Stage production of Skin Deep, by Jon Lonoff. Richard's first directing project with the WorkShop, The Barksdale Confession, by William C. Kovaksic, opened our 2004 Main Stage season. He designed lights for Opera Play, by Rick Eisenberg. Along with company artist Nelson Lugo, he created and co-hosted the WorkShop's long-running variety show, Vaudeville Nouveau - An Extravaganza of Burlesque Proportions. In 2008, he produced both A Brush with Georgia O'Keefe (written by and starring Natalie Mosco, which went on to an Off-Broadway run and was comissionedby the Smithsonian American Art Museum to perform a concert reading in Washington, D.C.) and our 2008 Benefit, A Very Special Edition of Vaudeville Nouveau, starring Bill Irwin, André De Shields and Heather Mac Rae, featuring members of both the original and 2009 casts of HAIR. His WorkShop acting credits include Verbatim Verboten, directed by Jonathan Pereira; Anthony in My Dinner with Rocco, by Bob Manus; Danny in LOL, by former WorkShop Artist Director Tony Sportiello; John in Certain Souls/The Brightest Light, by Ken Jawarowski and a handful of characters in King Henry IV, Parts 1&2, directed by Jerry Less, to name just a few. In 2006, Richard became a Producing Director, a position he held until June of 2010. He now serves as Operations Manager, while continuing to act, direct, produce and sometimes design. As an actor, Richard also works in film (Stanley Cuba, The Fallen) and on TV ("One Life to Live", "Sex & the City", national commercials for APPLE and TRUTH.ORG).