BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Barbara K. Begley is a founding member and board member of Undiscovered Countries, and a Brooklyn based artist, writer, and art-enabler. Outstanding Undiscovered Countries developed credits: she was nominated for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin’s Ambition; or The American Female Serial Killer Musical, her play MARYSHELLEYSHOW won Audience Choice Award for its venue at the Chicago Fringe Festival, and Half Lives, her graphic novel collaboration with Shakhed Hadaya with accompanying album by Gandor Chorale, hits stands this fall. www.bkbartist.com
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin is a Brooklyn-based writer, producer & performer. Founding member of Undiscovered Countries, co-creator of original series 2 Girls | 1 Asian. Recent credits include Ambition: the female American serial killer musical (Ars Nova, Tom Noonan's Paradise Factory, Dixon Place); wardrobe at Blue Man Group; writer for upcoming series BKPI created by Hye Yun Park. www.kaelameishinggarvin.com
Adin Lenahan is an actor, writer, and receptionist. NEW YORK: Pilgrim Notes (original solo show); U.S. Drag; ArtaudArtaud; Corners Grove; Midwestern Gothic (original solo show); History of the Donner Party: an American Musical!; The Grapes of Wrath; Pvt. Wars; Valhalla; Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol; Lemon Cake. REGIONAL: MaryShelleyShow (Congretional Church of Jefferson Park, IL); Lark/Song (Red Cloud Opera House, NE). New York University (BFA Drama). adinlenahan.com
Zoë Erwin-Longstaff is a theatre maker from Toronto, by way of Montreal and Berlin. She has presented work across Canada at various Fringes, Uno Fest, Lab Cab, the ReVolver Festival, the Paprika Festival and Summerworks (where her play Half Girl/Half Face received honorable mention for the Contra Guys Award); as well as abroad at English Theatre Berlin and The Fresh Fruit Festival in New York. She is a recipient of an Ontario Theatre Creators Reserve grant, Toronto Arts Council grant, and an alumna of Factory Theatre’s the Foundry and the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She received her MFA from Hunter College under the auspices of Branden Jacobs Jenkins and Annie Baker.
CONTRIBUTORS
Cameron Toy has been involved with Undiscovered Countries since the spring of 2013, and serves as unoffical tech director. They are part of Brooklyn rustic electropunk band and UC mainstay Gandor Chorale, who this year created two upcoming albums: the soundtrack for new musical Ambition; The Female American Serial Killer Musical, and the score for new graphic novel Half Lives. They are also available for freelance recording and music production.
Liz Rogers is a photographer, writer, and performer based out of Brooklyn, New York, who has been photographing and performing with Undiscovered Countries since its founding in 2012. See her work at
Shakhed Hadaya is a Brooklyn-based artist and illustrator. Her first theatrical design, for MARYSHELLEYSHOW, was lauded as "beautiful and disturbing" by critics. She is currently working on the graphic novel Half Lives with Barbara Begley, James Brooks Robinson, and Gandor Chorale, and is very excited to help launch Undiscovered Countries Press this fall. Find her at shakhedhadaya.com
ARTISTS
A.J. Ditty
A.P. Andrews
Adin Lenahan
Alessandra Varsano
Alex Grubbs
Alex Vlahov
Alexandra Grunberg
Alexandra Guillen
Alicia Barnatchez
Allon Hadaya
Alton Alburo
Amy Yourd
An-Li Bogan
Ana M. Verde
Anthony Ritosa
Ari Mayer
Atomsk
Barbara K. Begley
BNite
Braulio C. Cruz
Brianna Larson
Brianna Sculley
Brittany Allen
Brittany Moran
Bronx Cheer
Bryn Carter
Cameron Burns
Cameron Toy
Carissa Matsushima
Caroline Kittredge Faustine
Carolyn Cutillo
Cassidy Dawn Graves
Charlie Jordan
Charlie Manoukian
Charlie Poulson
Chloe Erskine
Chris Insignares
Chris Ogren
Cindy Luong
Cody Magouirk
Colin Waitt
Colleen Toole
Dan Rider
Dana Steinhoff
Danie Brawand
Daniel Patrick Smith
Daniella DeJesus
Danielle Sacks
David Bernstein
David Fernandez Patino
Devlin Lewicki
Dorian Carli-Jones
Douglas Waterbury-Tieman
E.B. Hinnant
Eli Walker
Eliana Gottesman
Eliana Mullins
Elizabeth Spano
Eloïse Eonnet
Emily Dixon
Emily Wassung
Eric Mercado
Erin Leigh Schmoyer
Eugene Ma
Faith Lindley
Francisco Huergo
Frankie Wofford
Gabriel Carli-Jones
Gandor Chorale
Garrett Gray
Gianfranco Settecasi
Gina Stevenson
Grace Glass
Grace Smith
Grant Shprintz
Hannah Bennett
Hannah Macdonald
Hollis Beck
Jaime Wright
James Brooks Robinson
Jamie McGonagill
Jason Grimste
Jay Owen Eisenberg
Jay Wilner
Jaye Hunt
Jenn Tash
Jenna Dioguardi
Jenny Nelson
Jessica Dick
Joel Soren
John David Bujalski
Jon Peacock
Jon Theo Norville
JP Faienza
Julie Lucas
Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin
Karyn Joy DeYoung
Kate Szekely
Katie Fanning
Katie Medved
Katrina Day
KAYLO
Kelley Van Dilla
Kelly Colburn
Kelsey Hercs
Kirsten Frisina
Kofi Opam
Kristie Lee
Kristin McCarthy Parker
Laura Hesse
Laure Porché
Lauren Ullrich
Leah Henley
Liz Carlson
Liz Rogers
Loretta Graney
Luke Eisemann
Madeleine Bugeau-Heartt
Mary Ann Clay
Mary Brownlee
Matt Rossiter
Matthew McShane
Max Carpenter
Max Reuben
Megan Griffith
Megan Lynch
Michael Walker
Michelle Croll
Michelle Siracusa
Mima Good
Molly Liu
Molly Vivian McGaughey
Neysa Lozano
Nora Boronkay
Paige Campbell
Par Juneja
Patrick Daly
Peter Clark
Phoebe Dwight
Rebecca Eklund Neglia
Rebecca Russell
Rebecca Vineyard
Ryan Aasen
Sabrina Cheng
Sarah Newton
Sasha Diamond
Sawyer Eason
Sean Daniels
Shakhed Hadaya
Shannon Foy
Sharen Paradise
Sofia Szamosi
Stephanie Guedalia
Susannah Perkins
Taylor Adamson
Taylor Yates
Teri Madonna
Tess Geier
Tess Howsam
Tessa Skara
Tommy Crawford
Tony Vo
Travis Tinney
Truen Kirk
Vincent Graham
Will Turner
William Vaughn
Xavier Rodney
Yonit Friedman
Zack Marotta