After many years of being a core partner of the Lark, Catherine officially joined the team when hotINK became a program of Lark in 2011. She has curated the hotINK Festival since 2002, and has been involved in the development and introduction of new plays, as an actor, director and curator since 1980.  She has taught acting at the Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theatre Wing since 1991; she has also taught at Lang College, Smith College and Brooklyn College as well as in San Antonio de los baños and Havana, Cuba; Santiago, Chile; Minsk, Belarus; and in Graz and Vienna, Austria.  As an actor, she worked with directors such as Lois Weaver, Anne Bogart, Andre Gregory and Anna Deveare Smith, and has herself directed work by Keith Curran, Jessica Litwak, Richard Hoehler and Holly Hughes.  Catherine is a member of the Lark Play Development Center’s Artistic Cabinet and The Fence International Translation Network, and has served on the Board of Directors of the Epic Theatre Ensemble. She is a member of the Theatre Communications Group International Collaborations Task Force, and the International Committee of the League of Professional Theatre Women.  Catherine teaches each fall at the NYU campus in Abu Dhabi, and is currently planning a conference on Middle Eastern Women in Theatre for spring of 2013.

Joined the Lark in January 2011 where he oversees "on campus" artistic opportunities, including Playwright's Workshop and alumni programming. He is the author of plays including American Hwangap, The Children of Vonderly, Happy End of the World, Jesus in India, Great Wall Story, and others, produced with Ma-Yi, The Play Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Magic Theatre (SF), East West Players (LA), and internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines. He was a participient of the NEA Arena Stage New Play Development program, and received an Andrew W. Mellon Launching New Plays Into the Repertoire grant via the Lark, as well fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation of the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Theatre Communications Group and the Dramatists Guild. He was a Lark Playwrights Workshop fellow in 2006 and is a current member of the Soho Writer Director Lab. Previous positions held include Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab (2006-2010) and Artistic Director of Second Generation (2005-2009). BA Indiana University, MFA Actors Studio Drama School at New School University.

An actor, director and playwright with a BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.  While in school, he had his first full-length play "Songs I Never Heard With You" produced by the Tisch GAP Board.  Since graduating he has worked with Fresh Ground Pepper, Tongue in Cheek Theater, and EBE Ensemble to cultivate new work in the city.  He has directed plays at the Barrow Group Theater, Teatro Iati, Arthur Seelen Theater, and Manhattan Repertory.  His writing includes FOURPLAY (The Red Room), DOGGY STYLE (The Tank), and THEME IS GREEN (3LD Art and Technology Center).  His current focus is to surround himself with talented writers in order to observe the different ways in which they work.

A playwriting MFA student at Columbia University and a member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Her work has most recently been presented with Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, Ma-Yi Theater Company, 2g, the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and the SF International Asian American Film Festival. Sam also teaches undergraduate writing at Columbia University, co-runs bicoastal artist salon series Laundry Party, and hosts a podcast on whfr.org. Her first solo play, LYDIA’S FUNERAL VIDEO, is forthcoming from Kaya Press. More information at www.samanthachanse.com