The Cast:
Rebecca Benhayon, Eric
Slater
Robert Attenweiler
(playwright / producer)
Robert is a playwright, screenwriter and independent producer living
in New York City. He received
a BA in English from John Carroll University, a MA in English from The
Ohio State University, a MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York
University and
is the author of over a dozen produced plays,
including …and we all wore leather pants (published in Plays
and Playwrights 2008 and Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2008),
Kansas City Or Along the Way (published by the New York Theater
Experience, 2011), Thick Like Piano Legs and All Kinds of
Shifty Villains. He created, wrote and produced the
award-winning web series, Apt1B (www.disgracedtv.com) and writes
the online comic The Adventures of Max Quarterhorse, an
illustrated spin-off of his play Shifty Villains. He was a 2008
nytheatre.com “Person of the Year,” a 2010 New York Foundation for the
Arts Fellow in Playwriting/Screenwriting and a Resident at the
Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY in 2011. Robert is a member of
the Lark Play Development Center, the Actor’s Studio Playwright/Director
Workshop, the Dramatists Guild and the League of Independent Theaters.
He founded his independent production company, Disgraced Productions (www.disgracedproductions.com),
in 2005 and continues to produce material through DP, Disgraced Comics
and DisgracedTV.
Scott Henkle (Comic Writer / Illustrator)
Born in Cleveland, Scott holds a BA
in English from John Carroll University, an MFA in fiction from the University of
Washington and has published prose work in Columbia: A Journal of
Literature and Art, and The Massachusetts Review, where he
was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His visual/textual work has
been featured in Web Conjunctions, Seattle's City Arts
Magazine, and on the City Arts blog. More of his work can be
found at scotthenkle.com and he features weekly comics/drawings at
scientistsupremeallologies.com. He is currently in various stages of
development on a novel, a dissertation, a graphic novel, and two sons.
Anna Brenner (Director)
Recent work: Our Greatest Year (Disgraced Productions/The Brick
Theater), 3 Women (Columbia Stages), John Douglas Weidner’s
The Main Attraction (3LD), Stone Open House with Laurie Anderson,
The Girl Who Shared His Room (Philadelphia Shakespeare), Are We
Here Yet? (undergroundzero PS122), Uncanny (Littlefield),
Three Sisters (Columbia), The Misanthrope (undergroundzero
2009 Audience Award PS122), The Birds (HERE, Target Margin Lab).
Internships with Big Dance Theater, Tina Landau, Wooster Group.
Training: SITI Company, Włodzimierz Staniewski and Gardzienice in
Poland, BA University of Chicago, MFA Columbia Directing 2011.
Rebecca Benhayon (Actor:
Elton)
Rebecca is a frequent Disgraced Productions collaborator, having starred
in Kansas City Or Along the Way, …and we all wore leather
pants, The Butterfield Tones, Cowboy Mouth, and
Places Like Here. She can also be seen in Disgraced
Productions’ award-winning Web series Apt1B. Other credits
include: A Song of Solomon (Classic Stage Company), Julius
Caesar (Theater for the New City) and Emily in the short film
Reunion (Executive Produced by Clark Gregg). Training: NYU-Tisch
School of the Arts, Atlantic Theater Company’s L.A. Conservatory, and
Committed Impulse with Josh Pais. Rebecca is most well known for her
work on the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV, where she voiced and
provided movement for Gracie, the loud mouth, wild-child daughter of the
mob boss.
Eric Slater (Actor: Harvey)
Prior to Our Greatest Year, Eric was most recently seen in The
New Ensembles’, Fornicated from the Beatles at American Repertory
Theatre in Boston as well as The Glasslands in New York. The
Dudley’s! A Family Game (Outstanding New Play of the Summer, Talkin’
Broadway) at The Theatre for a New City, and Juvenal Players at
The Kitchen. He has also been seen in Black Snow and,
nonplay: Shadows of a Dream with The New Ensemble while in NYC.
Past credits include Permanent Collection at Madison Repertory
(WI), What the Butler Saw at Court Theatre Chicago; Revenge of
the Space Pandas and Honus and Me at Goodman Theater (IL);
Spite For Spite, Butley, and Misalliance (Jeff Award
Nomination) at Writer's Theatre Chicago; Major Barbara at Remy
Bumppo Theatre Co. (IL); Measure For Measure at Next Theatre
Chicago, and Hunchback at Redmoon Theatre among many others.
Eric is from Chicago, by the way. A member emeritus of the
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble Eric has appeared in Silence, Expecting
Isabelle, and Self Defense (After Dark Award) which was
co-produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble. Film credits
include Inside and Melting Crayons directed by Scott
McCall, and Slappy's Sliding Scale a Mike Rosette film.
Eric attended The Theatre School at DePaul University.
Jay Tekus (Animator / Editor)
A native of Cleveland Heights, OH,
Jay has called Brooklyn home for the last 13 years. Currently a
freelance editor, he received a BA in Film/Political Science from
CUNY-Hunter College in 2009. When Jay's not editing or doing
something extreme, you might find him playing backgammon, eating salted
peanuts or cheering for the NY Rangers. This is Jay's first motion
comic.
