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Who’s Who

~ Gone Missing ~ Laura Ekstrand (actor) is
co-founder and artistic
Clark Scott Carmichael director of Vivid Stage,
(actor) is a Vivid Stage formerly Dreamcatcher
company member, first Rep. She is an actor,
seen in 2001 in Three director, playwright and
Days of Rain and last teacher who has appeared
seen in Harry Clarke in on stages and screens for
2023. He directed The over 30 years. As an
Other Place, String actor: Laura appeared at Vivid Stage in
Around My Finger and 101 Humiliating Stories, Water in My
Widow Kinski for the company. Clark Hands, Be Here Now, The Lucky Ones,
also enjoys contributing to the flipside
and the cabaret series. Last fall he What Stays; Sister Play and
played Paul Sheldon in Misery at Motherhood Out Loud, among many
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center and others, and is a member of the Flip Side
could be seen as Senator Palmer in improv comedy team. New Jersey
Special Ops: Lioness on Paramount+ Theatre: Bickford Theatre, Centenary
starring Nicole Kidman. Locally, he’s Stage, Luna Stage, Passage Theater,
done over 20 productions at the Pushcart Players, The Theater Project,
Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. 12 Miles West. New York Theatre:
He was a Jumper on Broadway in Tom Naked Angels, Ensemble Studio
Stoppard’s, Jumpers. Regional/off Theatre, and New Georges. Film:
Broadway credits: Rep St. Louis, American Zombieland, Split Ends, High
Hartford TheatreWorks, The Acting Art, I Shot Andy Warhol. Television:
Company, Red Bull Theater, Two River Hack, Sex And The City, Law & Order,
Theater, KC Rep, Irish Rep, New York and The Guiding Light. As a director:
Fringe Festival, Williamstown Theater Grief at High Tide, Soft Animals, Twirl,
Festival, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse,
Dorset Theater Festival, Pennsylvania Dead and Buried, Every Brilliant Thing,
Center Stage, Great Lakes Theater The How and the Why, Next Fall,
Festival, Kentucky Shakespeare Distracted, The Pursuit Of Happiness,
Festival, NJ Rep, Mill Mountain Melancholy Play, Pride’s Crossing and
Theater, Hope Summer Rep, Hudson many others. Podcast directing: The
Valley Shakespeare Festival, Weirdness and Young Ben Franklin for
Shakespeare Theatre in Washington Gen Z Media. As a playwright: Losing
DC. Television credits: Tom in My Religion, Life’s Work, What Stays
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Pat Carney in (with Jason Szamreta), Whatever Will
The Politician, Harold on Living With Be, The Neighborhood (Book and
Yourself, Little America, The Plot Lyrics; Music by Joe Zawila), Brink of
Against America, Pose, Blacklist, Life (Book; Lyrics by Steve Harper;
Connor Riley and Gotham, Forever, Music by Oliver Lake) and
Dean Masters on House of Cards, Law Astonishment, How to be Old: A
& Order, Kidnapped, As The World
Turns, Unforgettable, and Boardwalk Beginner’s Guide, and At Ninety-Three
Empire. Film credits:, Martin, in (Adaptations). Laura is a private
Audrey, Ref Chris in Inside Game, The monologue coach and holds a BA from
Irishman, The God Committee, The Yale University and an MFA from Sarah
Kindergarden Teacher, Campbell Lawrence College. Laura is Chair of the
Scott’s Hamlet, Sweet Lorraine and NJ Theatre Alliance Board of Trustees
Hard Sell, Clark holds an MFA from and a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA and
UMKC and a bachelor of science from the Dramatists Guild.
Northwestern University.