tripod pictures is Robin Reed, Will Schenk, Katie Brack and Ian MacRae.
Robin Reed is originally from Lowell, MA and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is the voice of Campbell's Soup, and can also be heard in voiceovers for Bounty Extra Soft, TiVo, HGTV, PBS Kids, CNN, Oxygen, WE, Soup2Nuts, Tumi Luggage, Captain Morgan, TAG Worldwide, E-Spaces (Belgium), Prime Outlets and the pop singer Duffy. She recently voiced the Restore America Awards for HGTV and was also the voice of Ms. Libri on the animated series Word Girl.
Stage work in New York includes the Brick Theater in Brooklyn, the Kitchen, Tonic, the Present Company Theatorium as well as the New York International Fringe Festival. She has also performed in London and San Francisco. She is an occasional contributor to the review squad of nytheatre.com .
With tripod, Robin co-produced and was featured in The Therapist for the Benchcoach web video series and wrote, directed and played Wanda in Thursday.
Will Schenk is originally from Binghamton, NY and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is the brains behind this operation. He co-produced both the Benchcoach web video series and Thursday.
Katie Brack is originally from Salt Lake City, UT and now lives in Los Angeles. She received her BA in Dance Performance from Butler University and trained on scholarship at the Merce Cunningham School in NYC. Recent theater credits include Penny Dreadful 6.5 with Third Lows Productions and Suite and Like Dirt with Racoco Productions.
With tripod, Katie was featured in The Therapist for the Benchcoach web video series and as Phoebe in Thursday.
Ian MacRae is orginally from Scotland and now lives in New York City. He has performed in various theatre and film projects, including narrating The Devil Among Us, a documentary about the Connecticut Witch Trials and was featured as Vladimir Putin in the Sarah Palin Disney Trailer on CollegeHumor.com.
With tripod, Ian was featured in The Cops for the Benchcoach web video series and as Jim in Thursday.
Collaborators
Ben Beckley (actor, The Doctor -- Benchcoach web video series)
Niels Bolle (actor, The Office -- Benchcoach web video series)
Ren Casey (writer/director, Benchcoach web video series)
Kevin Draine (actor, Benchcoach web video series)
Matthew Hanley (actor, Benchcoach web video series) is originally from Albany, NY and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is an actor and writer. He has performed with and is a member of Aisling Arts (Force, Much Ado About Nothing) and Feed the Herd (Zoo Human (Bootleg); Prints (Dismember); 'Tis Pity She's a Whore). As a writer, his play Dismember was presented by Feed the Herd at the Trilogy Theater. He is currently writing and will perform his newest play, The Transporter, at Edinburgh in 2009.
Heather Male (actor, Benchcoach web video series)
Bryn Manion (writer, Thursday) is originally from Springfield, MA and lives in Long Island City, NY, with her husband, Sam David, and their two cats, Buddhasaurus Rex and Pachuka.
Manion is a Pulitzer Prize nominated playwright/director and the co-founder of the Long Island City based theater company, Aisling Arts. Her plays include Eleanor, Apocalypse Not Now (I Have a Headache), A Few Hallelujahs, Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum’s Peculiar Penchant for Plosives), and the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence). Her directing credits include The Force Trilogy, Wanderlust, Threshold, Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum’s Peculiar Penchant for Plosives, Don Quixote, A Beggar’s Opera, Macbeth, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, Ruth and Me, Eleanor, When the Levee Breaks, and Playboy of the Western World. As an actress, Bryn has appeared with Shakespeare and Company, SITI Company, the KO Festival for Performance, the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, the International Symposium for Performance Art, HERE, Aisling Arts and the New York Irish Center.
Her play Convergence was published by NYTE in February 2007, and she directed the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence) for repertory production at New York City’s theater for emerging artists, The Chocolate Factory, in January/February 2007; the play was subsequently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Bryn most recently directed Obie Award-winning Peculiar Works Project’s Off Stage, The Plays of the East Village, and is working on a new play, Private Conversations, and a film adaptation of the Force Trilogy.As a theatre educator, Bryn taught for five years at the Drama Studio, a conservatory for young actors in Springfield, MA. She has also taught workshops and summer programs as the Williston Northamton School, Smith College and was an instructor for the towns of Westfield and Southwick, MA. She developed and taught theatrical outreach for the Massachusetts Cultural Council throughout the state from 1999-2003. She has also created an annual creativity retreat called Work/Dream for adult artists in New York City and was awarded a fellowship by the prestigious White Oak Foundation in 2005.