Empty Chair Theatre Company
About the Founders:
Elizabeth Nearing is a recent graduate of the HB Woodlawn Secondary Program in Arlington, Virginia, where she worked extensively in the theatre department. During her time at H-B Woodlawn Nearing directed Shakespeare's Macbeth, Diana Son's Stop Kiss and A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room. Most recently, Nearing assistant directed HB Woodlawn's Cappie award winning production of As Bees in Honey Drown by Douglas Carter Bean, and as the Artistic Director of the theatre program for the year she oversaw many aspects of all the plays performed throughout her senior year there. She co-directed ECTC's first production (a showcase of scenes from Shakespeare's most famous plays), trained at the American Shakespeare Center, and completed the High School Fellowship Program at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Nearing will be attending Carnegie Mellon University in the fall of 2008, to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Directing.
Julia Sears graduated as valedictorian from the Emerson Preparatory School. She will be attending the University of Washington (Seattle) in the fall to double major in English and Theatre. She has worked in the Washington, DC theatre community for three years, training with Classika Theatre, Synetic Theatre, The Studio Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The American Shakespeare Center and The Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2007 she worked as an artistic intern at the Shakespeare Theatre Company and took part in a fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library. She recently completed an internship with the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. Although Sears has worked in nearly every aspect of production she intends to pursue a career in acting and stage combat choreography.
Members of the Company:
The Shakespeare Showcase
Greg Benson
Ashleigh Brown
Brian Delp
Kyle Eichner
Julian Morris
Elizabeth Nearing
Thomas Schratwieser
Julia Sears
Taming of the Shrew
Joan Cummins
Frances Koogler
Amalia Oswald
Matthew Minnicino
Elizabeth Nearing
Alex Richardson
Julis Sears
Ian Terry
Nico Zevallos
Richard III
Caroline Brent
Ashleigh Brown
Tilney Brune
Daniel Cackley
Joan Cummins
Michael Gibbs
Frances Koogler
Drew Levin
Allison Miller
Matthew Minnicino
Olivia Myers
Elizabeth Nearing
Quill Nebeker-Monch
David Rodriguez
Julia Sears
Rebecca Speas
MaryLynne Smith
Mark Tucker
Michael Van Ness
Mollie Welborn