NACL COMPANY MEMBERS
& CURRENT COLLABORATORS

Brad Krumholz is co-founder and artistic director of NACL Theatre.  Since founding the company in 1997, he has directed The Secret Storey, A Canon for the Blue Moon, The Passion according to G.H., ASPHYXIA and Other Promises, Arca Nova, The Time Cycle, an outdoor stilt show entitled Invisible Neighborhood, TERROTICA, and The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes. He has toured to Canada, England, Italy, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania with NACL as director and teacher. Since 1990 he has worked in the field of ensemble experimental theatre, first as a student at the Odin Teatret in Denmark, and then with Richard Fowler of Canada’s Primus Theatre. Krumholz was a founding member of Cleveland’s Theatre Labyrinth (dir. Raymond Bobgan), an experimental troupe with whom he developed and performed major roles in Pinocchio Rising,  Inanna’s Descent, and Transformations of Lucius. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and his essay, “The Problem of Movement Theatre” was published in the Allworth Press book, Movement for Actors.  Recently, he was a collaborating actor on NACL’s The Mystery of Lakewood House, an environmental theatre performance which premiered at the 2005 The NACL Catskill Festival of New Theatre.
email: nacl@nacl.org

Tannis Kowalchuk is co-founder, actress, and artistic director of NACL Theatre (North American Cultural Laboratory), an ensemble that operates a theatre and artists residence in Highland Lake, NY. Prior to coming to New York in 1997, she was a graduate of The University of Winnipeg Theatre department and a core member of Primus Theatre, a prominent experimental theatre troupe based in Winnipeg, Canada. With NACL she has toured to Canada, England, Italy, and Balkan Europe, and has created and performed lead roles in The Secret Storey, A Canon for the Blue Moon, ASPHYXIA and Other Promises, Arca Nova, The Time Cycle, Invisible Neighborhood, and 10 Brecht Poems. 10 Brecht Poems has toured extensively to over 30 venues including: PS 122, The Brecht Forum, Theatre Building Chicago, The KO Festival, NYU, Penn State, Brown University, Rutgers, Muhlenberg College, Maryland Ensemble Theatre, The Goethe Institute in Washington DC, The Bowery Poetry Club and Pontine Theatre in New Hampshire. Her one-woman performance, The Passion according to G.H. has played in New York, Toronto, Cleveland, Washington, DC, Maine, Philadelphia, Halifax, and Montreal. She created The Confessions of Punch and Judy with director Raymond Bobgan (Cleveland Public Theatre) and actor Ker Wells (Number Eleven Theatre, Toronto). The Confessions of Punch and Judy has toured to Cleveland Public Theatre, HERE Arts Center (New York City), Theatre Centre (Toronto, Canada), On the Waterfront Festival (Halifax, Canada), The Network of Ensemble Theatre’s Festival (CA), The Mad River Festival (Blue Lake, CA), Manitoulin island, and Theatre Projects Manitoba in Winnipeg. In 2005, Tannis was a guest lecturer at Rutgers University where she played the role of Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children. She is a collaborating artist/performer on The Mystery of Lakewood House, a site specific performance developed collaboratively at NACL with an international company in 2005/6. Kowalchuk continues to tour her repertory throughout the year and is currently working on NACL’s newest show, The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes.   
email: tannis@nacl.org

Brett Keyser is Artist in Residence at NACL, and a current collaborator on NACL's new Production, The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes.

 

 

 

Ophra Wolf is a current collaborator on NACL's new Production, The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes.
email: ophra@nacl.org

Sarah Dey Hirshan has been a performer with NACL since 2003.  She originated her roles in Terrotica, American Value, The Mystery of Lakewood House,  and The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes.  Sarah has also performed with New York City based companies including Under The Table,  and The International WOW Company.  Outside of NACL’s daily actor  training, Sarah continues to train with Brooklyn based acrobatic/dance company LAVA and Odin Teatret actress Roberta Carreri.   Sarah received her B.A. in theatre from Wesleyan University.
email: sarah@nacl.org

Glenn Hall is a performer, playwright and director. His first show as ensemble member of NACL is The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes. Before coming to NACL in 2006, he worked with three emerging experimental performance companies in Winnipeg, Canada. As co-founder and ensemble member of Avera Theatre, he developed roles in Forgotten Rooms and the site-specific Stories for Late Night Drinkers, which played in a turn of the century mansion. With out of line theatre he created roles in Life of a Secret, Before the Law, and S&M. He has also worked with Sight Unseen Productions, most notably on the dance/film piece How to Live Alone. He has directed a new work (Ease), an old work (Miss Julie) and a collaborative work (Solid and Shade), as well as co-directing NACL’s annual Teen Drama Workshops (2007's Romeo & Juliet, 2008's A Midsummer Night's Dream). In the spring and fall of 2007, Glenn studied with Odin Teatret's Roberta Carreri.
email: glenn@nacl.org