Erica Gould's recent directing credits include: the world premiere productions of Neil LaBute’s plays autobahn and Stand Up with Mos Def (MCC at Circle in the Square), and the workshop production of autobahn with Bill Pullman; At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq (by Cory Hinkle, Rajiv Joseph, Jose Rivera, others) with David Strathairn, Bebe Neuwirth, Daniel Sunjata, Peter Sarsgaard (THE FIRE DEPT, 45 Bleecker/National Arts Club); What Light From Darkness Grows by Janine Carter, with Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Harry Lennix (NPR—Gracie Allen and Golden Reel Awards for Best Radio Drama); SpeakEasy, a theatrical event by LaBute, Theresa Rebeck, Anton Dudley, Edwin Sanchez, others (THE FIRE DEPT at Joe’s Pub/Public Theater); As You Like It (The Shakespeare Theatre/ACA, DC); The Tempest (Fordham @ Lincoln Center); Adopt a Sailor w/ Sam Waterston and Liev Schreiber (Brave New World, Town Hall); Gould’s adaptation of Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars, Part 1 (Culture Project, also Williamstown, Yale); development workshops of: Constance Congdon’s Paradise Street (NY Theatre Workshop, w/ Olympia Dukakis), Jose Rivera’s Brainpeople (Playwrights Horizons, Hartford Stage, ACT), Lynn Rosen’s Puddy Tat (CenterStage, Baltimore), Crystal Skillman’s The Vigil (New Georges), Cory Hinkle’s Phosphorescence (Rattlestick). Recently, as Director/Choreographer: City of Angels (Buffalo). Fall ‘08: the world premieres of Edith Freni’s KidStuff (Partial Comfort Productions, Theatre Row) and Max and the Truffle Pig by Suzanne Bradbeer (NY Musical Theatre Festival/45th Street Theatre) and Aphra Behn’s The Rover (The New School). Upcoming: Gregory Moss’ radio play Amanda Tears (Electric Pear).

In 2002, Gould was Associate Artistic Director/co-creator of BRAVE NEW WORLD: AMERICAN THEATRE RESPONDS TO 9/11 (Town Hall)—50 new works by writers including John Guare, Chris Durang, John Patrick Shanley, Warren Leight, Beth Henley, Lee Blessing, Lynn Nottage, Alfred Uhry, Eve Ensler, and John Henry Redwood. Honors, grants, and awards include the Drama League Directors Project Fellowship, the Senior Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, the Gracie Allen and Golden Reel Awards, and grants from TCG, NYSCA, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Tony Hawkins Foundation, and the Baker-Steyer Fund at Yale. In the fall of ’05, Gould traveled to Serbia through a TCG grant, where she worked with DAH Theatre Company, and did research for her theatrical adaptation of Milorad Pavic’s epic novel Dictionary of the Khazars.

She has taught voice/speech, stage combat, movement (Butoh, Le Coq, etc), Michael Chekhov technique, mask, Greek Theatre, Restoration, and Shakespeare for such institutions as Yale, NYU, SVA, Pace, and the O’Neill/National Theatre Institute. Gould is currently collaborating with composer Stefania de Kenessey on a music-theatre adaptation of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. She is a co-founder and one of the Artistic Directors of The Fire Dept.

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Audrey Rosenberg, an actor and producer in theatre and film, is currently working as a Producer on a documentary about Barack Obama for Edward Norton’s Class 5 Films. She was also part of the producing team, with Killer Films and Warner Independent, on Douglas McGrath's Truman Capote film Infamous, starring Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Toby Jones, and Sigourney Weaver. Other film credits include Where's Daddy, co-produced with writer/director Terry George (of Hotel Rwanda), and The Code, co-produced with Ina Mayhew. She also produced a video and PSA for Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Camp Association (serving children with cancer and blood diseases). Audrey has a number of film projects in development, including Pete Smalls is Dead (Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell) with writer/director Alexandre Rockwell, and is currently partnering on a project that will document the journey of two cutting-edge hip-hop artists—one American and one Iranian.

In 2002, she co-founded the theater company The Art Party with Alan Cumming and Nick Philippou, where she served as Executive Director and producer of its inaugural production of Genet's Elle at The Zipper Theater, featuring Cumming, Stephen Spinella, and Anson Mount. With THE FIRE DEPT, of which she is a founder and Co-Artistic Director, Audrey developed and produced SpeakEasy at Joes’ Pub at The Public Theater, (written by company members including Carson Kreitzer, Rajiv Joseph, Neil LaBute, and Theresa Rebeck), At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq at the National Arts Club, and an expanded version of At War at The Bleecker Street Theatre, featuring David Strathairn, Bebe Neuwirth, Bobby Cannavale, and Daniel Sunjata.

Her work as an actor on stage and film includes The Vagina Monologues, part of V-Day 2006; A Talent for Trouble with Marlan Wayans and Mekhi Pfeifer; The Golddigger’s Rush with Jake Robards and Sean Gullette; and the TV pilot Little Us. With THE FIRE DEPT, she performed in SpeakEasy with Josh Lucas, Janeane Garafalo, and Kathleen Chalfant, and in At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq, playing opposite Peter Sarsgaard (at National Arts) and Derrick Philips and Denis O’Hare (at The Bleecker Street Theatre) in Jonathan Schaefer’s FUBAR. She studies acting with master teacher Carol Fox Prescott. Audrey also works as a career coach for artists.

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