About the Artist

Philadelphia-based theater company Lightning Rod Special (SPEECH, The Appointment, and Underground Railroad Game) explodes complex questions with precision and play to make live performance from the ground up. They specialize in raucous and contemplative theater works that scramble theatrical conventions and intellectual assumptions. Their work has won an Obie Award, the Wolfson Award, and been listed as Best Theater of the Year by “The New Yorker, ” “Vulture, ” “Time Out New York, ” “The Washington Post, ” and “The New York Times.” Their shows have toured to 15 cities in 5 countries. www.lightningrodspecial.com 

LEE MINORA is a writer, performer, and theater maker in Philadelphia. Her 4th-wall-smashing solo shows, Cheeks and White Feminist, have been presented at Ars Nova, The Wilma, Edinburgh Fringe, London’s Sick of the Fringe, Philly Fringe, Z-Space, Good Good Comedy and UMS’s No Safety Net.

SCOTT R. SHEPPARD is an Obie Award-winning theater artist and a Co-Artistic Director of Lightning Rod Special. Co-creator and performer of Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova): winner of Edinburgh Fringe First Award and named by "The New York Times" as one of the 25 Best Plays of the past 25 Years.

NELL BANG-JENSEN has been directing and creating theater in Philadelphia for ten years and is the Artistic Director of Theatre Horizon. She has created five original works in addition to directing and producing for Philly’s major theater institutions including FringeArts, People’s Light, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Wilma, and Pig Iron.

MATTEO SCAMMELL is a Barrymore Award-winning actor, musician and theater maker based in Philadelphia. He is a member of two theater companies: Obie Award-winning experimental theater co. New Paradise Laboratories, contributing to

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