Bad Jews

Who's Who

TRACEE CHIMO (Daphna). Broadway: Harvey, Irena's Vow (Eugene O'Neill Award). Off-Broadway: Bachelorette (Lucille Lortel nom.), Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and OBIE Awards, Lucille Lortel nom.), Break of Noon (LA Stage Scene Award). Film:The Five-Year Engagement, as well as the upcoming God's Behaving Badly, Bitter Pill, Concussion, others. TV: Dylan on 'I Just Want My Pants Back', 'Louie' and Michelle in Funny or Die's new series 'First Dates w/ Toby Harris'. Recipient of the 2011 Clarence Derwent Award.
 
PHILIP ETTINGER (Jonah). Off-Broadway: Edgewise (dir. Trip Cullman). Film/TV: Compliance (Official selection, 2012 Sundance Film Festival), Twelve (dir. Joel Schumacher), Sleepwalk with Me (dir. Mike Birbiglia), The Maid's Room (upcoming), “Girls”, “Blue Bloods”, “The Closer”, “Mercy”, “Law and Order SVU”. Graduated with BFA from Mason Gross School of The Arts at Rutgers University.
 
MOLLY RANSON (Melody). Molly Ranson appeared most recently as “Carrie” in Carrie, directed by Stafford Arima. Broadway: Jerusalem, directed by Ian Rickson, Steppenwolf’s August: Osage County, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. August: Osage County at the National Theatre (Olivier Award Nomination–Best Company Performance) and the Sydney Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: Vineyard Theatre and Playwrights Horizons co-production of The Burnt Part Boys. Regionally: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, directed by Mark Lamos. LaGuardia Arts High School (Drama Desk Scholarship Award).
 
MICHAEL ZEGEN (Liam). Michael Zegen previously starred off-Broadway in Liz Meriwether’s Oliver Parker! (dir. Evan Cabnet) and Greg Moss’ punkplay (dir. Davis McCallum). His TV credits include recurring roles on "The Walking Dead," "Rescue Me," "How To Make it in America," and, currently, "Boardwalk Empire."  Film: Adventureland, The Box, Taking Woodstock, and the upcoming Untitled Noah Baumbach Project.
 
JOSHUA HARMON (Playwright). Plays include A Boy Named Alice, Bad Jews, Love in the Time of Channukah and an adaptation of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin. His work has been produced and developed by Hangar Theatre, Ars Nova, The Lark, Prospect Theater Company and Actor's Express, where he was the 2010–2011 National New Play Network Playwright-in-Residence. He has received fellowships from MacDowell, Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Eudora Welty Foundation, and won the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting (2nd Place). He has taught playwriting at Actor's Express, Carnegie Mellon and Horizon Theatre. Graduate of Northwestern (BA), Carnegie Mellon (MFA). 
 
DANIEL AUKIN (Director). Most recently Daniel Aukin directed the critically lauded 4000 Miles by Amy Herzog at Lincoln Center. Selected credits include The Ugly One by Marius von Mayenburg at Soho Rep, This by Melissa James Gibson at Playwrights Horizons and for Center Theater Group and Paraffin by Adam Rapp at Rattlestick. Also: [sic] (OBIE Award for direction), Mark Schultz’s Everything Will Be Different, Quincy Long’ The Year of The Baby, Melissa James Gibson’s Suitcase and Brooklyn Bridge, Mac Wellman’s Cat’s-Paw and Maria Irene Fornes’ Molly’s Dream (OBIE Award), all world premieres. Also, Itamar Moses’ Back Back Back, Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge.  His work has been seen at Center Theater Group, Rattlestick, Lincoln Center, The La Jolla Playhouse, The Guthrie, Arena Stage, The Children’s Theater of Minneapolis, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights’ Horizons and Woolly Mammoth. From 1998–2006 Daniel was Artistic Director of Soho Rep where he developed, produced and occasionally, directed plays by many of the country’s most iconoclastic playwrights and theater-makers including Richard Maxwell, Adam Bock The Flying Machine, Anne Washburn, Big Art Group and Young Jean Lee.