SHOCK OF GRAY ENSEMBLE

Carol Bay [Artistic Development, Dramaturgy, Ensemble] has been involved in women's theatre since the early 1980's as both dramaturge and actor [Paris Project Ensemble, 1981-1987; Shock of Gray Ensemble since 1992. She is a psychotherapist in private practice in NYC.

Margot Fitzgerald [Ensemble] retired from the NYC Alternative High Schools in 1995 and continues to write stories with the support and encouragement of her writing group of the past eight years. She has been involved in theatre since the early 1970's [Womenrite Theater 1975-1977; Paris Project Ensemble, 1981-1987; Shock of Gray since 1992].
 

Berenice Fisher [Ensemble] has studied movement and dramatic improvisation since the early 1980’s. She is a retired NYU professor who taught and continues to write in the field of women’s studies [Shock of Gray since 1992].

Marge Helenchild [Choreography, Ensemble] Founding member Women's Interart Center 1972. Founding member Soho 20 Women's Collective Arts Gallery 1973. Founding member Garden Variety Mime Theater 1974. Hysterical Herstoricals, 1975. Radical Lesbian Feminist Terrorist Comedy Group, 1976. Shock of Gray, 2002.

Deborah Sherman [Choreography, Ensemble] has worked in experimental theater since 1981, first with the Paris Project Ensemble [1981-87], then with Shock of Gray [1992]. She was originally trained in ballet and Laban Movement Analysis, and now works as a psychotherapist and dance/ movement therapist in NY and Philadelphia.

Beverly Brumm [Director and Lighting Design] is a theatre teacher, director, and sometime playwright who relocated to Chicago three years ago after retiring from the faculty of the SUNY New Paltz Theatre Department. Beverly has worked in various venues, including theatres in Santa Fe, Northampton, Chicago, and Off-Broadway theatre in New York, as well as in and around the Hudson Valley. She also served as staging director of the annual “Village Voice” Obie Awards for eight years. Beverly has been an associate of Shock of Gray Ensemble since 1999. She holds an MFA degree from Yale Drama School and a Ph.D. from NYU.

Flavia Rando [Costumes] first costumed members of the company in 1983 for their roles in The Paris Project. She is an art historian who teaches in the Women's Studies Program at Brooklyn College where she has just taught the first course in Lesbian Experience and Representation to be offered in more than ten years. She is working on a study of first generation artists and scholars empowered by liberation movements of the 1960's and 1970's. One aspect of this study is a project on the Lesbian Art Community of the East Village.