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Carey Crim is proud to be a
founding member of Write Club NYC. Her first full-length play, Growing Pretty, was produced as an
Equity showcase by Write Club and was subsequently given a full production by The Purple Rose Theater
(founded by Jeff Daniels) in 2008. Her second play, Wake (a comedy set in a funeral home), is slated
for production at The Purple Rose in 2009. Her short play Knives and Spoons Go on the Left premiered
at 59E59 Theaters in August 2008 as part of Write Club’s production of Do Not Disturb, and two of her
ten minute plays, Taking up Space and Pirates, were selected and produced as part of a 2007 New York
Short Play Festival. Her newest full length, The Third Day, was given a reading in February at
Ensemble Studio Theatre. Carey was an ensemble member of one of Second City’s Touring Companies and
served as a ghostwriter for the award winning radio series Second Thoughts. She studied at The Royal
Court Theater in London and at The Ensemble Studio Theater in New York and is a graduate of Northwestern
University with a BA in Performance Studies.
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Peter Macklin is the
author of Someplace Warm (published by Samuel French with excerpts in Smith & Kraus' Best
Women's Monologues), A Different Time, the one act Oh! California! (at 59E59 Theaters as
part of Write Club NYC's Do Not Disturb) and the works in progress Coming Together, One
and the screenplay The Legend of Monica Ramsey. As an actor: Off-Broadway and National Tour:
Trinculo in The Tempest and Queequeg in Moby Dick Rehearsed (The Acting Company). Regional:
What You Will (Bristol Riverside Theater), Place Setting (New Jersey Repertory), as well as
numerous productions at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival and many more. New York: A Christmas
Carol (reading with F. Murray Abraham and Lynne Redgrave for The Acting Company), After the
Ball (part of Do Not Disturb at 59E59 Theaters), The Importance of Marrying Wells (Fringe
Festival at the Lucille Lortel) and many more. Film: Horizon (Drew, lead), The Future Is Now,
The Day I Ran Into All My Ex-Boyfriends and Light Sleeper.
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Geoffrey Scheer
(Co-Artistic Director) is the author of The Ex (published by Samuel French), After the Ball
(part of Write Club’s Do Not Disturb at 59E59 Theaters), The Ritual (part of Where Eagles Dare’s
One-Page Play Festival), Accept and Follow (staged at The Kennedy Center) Love Lies and the
children’s musical Blue Picasso. Plays written for Write Club NYC’s 5x5 series include Take
This Job and Shove It and Guy Talk. As an actor, Geoffrey has appeared
Off-Broadway as Duke in The Great American Trailer Park Musical
(New York Musical Theater Festival), Greg in gregslist:
the musical (Prospect Theatre Company) and Moses in Runners in a Dream (York Theatre). He has
also performed onstage as a guest artist at Columbia University and Randolph-Macon College.
Geoffrey can currently be seen performing around the country as part of the musical comedy
troupe The Water Coolers.
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Benjamin T. Scott
(Co-Artistic Director) founded Write Club NYC in the living room of his Hell’s Kitchen apartment.
He is the author of Empty Stares (American Theatre of Actors New Director’s Festival),
In Hiding (official selection of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival),
and The Other Shoe (part of Write Club NYC’s Do Not Disturb at 59E59 Theaters). In August
of 2009, Write Club NYC will present Ben’s play Walter Vs. The Water Authority at 59E59
Theaters. Ben is currently working on a theatre appreciation book for kids.
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Carrie Yaeger is proud
to be a founding member of Write Club NYC. Write Club credits include Lucy in
Growing Pretty and Tami in The Other Shoe (part of Do Not Disturb at 59E59 Theaters).
Television credits include "Gossip Girl", “Rescue Me”, “The Black Donnellys”,
“Law and Order”, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” and “30 Rock”. Film: Mentor
(Tribeca Film Festival), The Collective (Vail Film Festival), and When The Evening
Comes. Theatre: Life Under Water (Steppenwolf).
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