The Fire Dept.

Erica Gould

Audrey Rosenberg

Erica Gould's recent directing credits include: At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq, featuring David Strathairn, Peter Sarsgaard, and Michael Cerveris (The Fire Dept at The National Arts Club); the world premiere production of Neil LaBute’s autobahn and the workshop production of autobahn w/ Bill Pullman; development workshops: a new music-theatre adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, which she is creating with composer Stefania de Kenessey (w/ Melissa Errico & Chuck Cooper), Constance Congdon’s Paradise Street (NY Theatre Workshop), and Jose Rivera’s Brainpeople (Playwrights Horizons, Hartford Stage, ACT); 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 Theresa Rebeck, Neil LaBute, Edwin Sanchez, Carson Kreitzer, Anton Dudley, Rajiv Joseph, others (The Fire Dept at Joe’s Pub/Public Theater); premiere of LaBute’s one-act play Stand Up with Mos Def in Escape: 6 Ways to Get Away, An Evening of One-Acts (MCC at Circle in the Square); As You Like It (The Shakespeare Theatre/ACA, DC); The Tempest (Fordham @ Lincoln Center); Adopt a Sailor with Sam Waterston, Bebe Neuwirth, 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); the award-winning radio-theatre series for NPR The Archaeology of Lost Voices, which she directed, sound-designed, and co-produced. Workshops/readings for Ma-Yi, Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, EST, Cherry Lane, Vineyard, NYSF, Circle Rep, Naked Angels, Rattlestick, and others. Recently, as director/choreographer: City of Angels (Buffalo). Upcoming: the world premiere production of Edith Freni’s Kidstuff (Partial Comfort Productions/Theatre Row). She is a co-founder and one of the Artistic Directors of The Fire Dept.

In 2002, Gould was Associate Artistic Director and a co-creator of BRAVE NEW WORLD: AMERICAN THEATRE RESPONDS TO 9/11 (Town Hall)—50 new works by writers including John Guare, John Patrick Shanley, Chris Durang, Warren Leight, Beth Henley, Lee Blessing, Alan Menken, Alfred Uhry, Eve Ensler.

Her directing 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.

Her teaching experience includes voice/speech, movement technique (Butoh, LeCoq, others), Michael Chekhov technique, improvisation, stage combat, mask, Shakespeare, Greek Theatre, and Restoration—for Yale, NYU, SVA, Pace, others.

Audrey Rosenberg, an actor and producer, co-founded the theater company The Art Party with Alan Cumming and Nick Philippou in 2002, where she served as Executive Director of the company and producer of its inaugural production of Genet's Elle. The sold-out run, featuring Cumming, Stephen Spinella, and Anson Mount, was performed at The Zipper Theater. Audrey developed and produced SpeakEasy at Joes’ Pub at The Public Theater as the inaugural event for The Fire Dept Theater Company, of which she is a founder and Co-Artistic Director. Also for The Fire Dept, Audrey produced “At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq” at the National Arts Club, and will be producing an expanded version of the piece this winter.

Audrey was 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. She is currently Executive Producer for an upcoming political documentary with Class 5 Films. 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 recently 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 work with Zachary Sklar (writer of JFK for Oliver Stone) and an original screenplay, Adelaide, written and directed by Sydney Sidner.

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, playing the Social Worker opposite Peter Sarsgaard in FUBAR by Jonathan Schaefer in At War: American Playwrights Respond to Iraq. Audrey also works as a career coach for artists.