The Villains' Supper Club

Barlow is a Boston-based actor and thrilled to be making his MRT debut! He has performed on many local stages including: Speakeasy Stage Company (Kurt Vonnegut’s Make Up Your Mind, Reckless, Almost Maine, Fuddy Meers); Nora Theatre Company (Marjorie
Prime, Operation Epsilon, On The Verge, The Swan, Stop Kiss); Underground Railway (Paradise, Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M.); Lyric Stage Company (Chinglish, Time Stands Still, The Scene, Private Lives, Noises Off, Red Herring); Boston Playwrights’ Theatre (The Honey Trap - Elliot Norton nominee for best actor, Elemenopea, Reconsidering Hanna/h, Matters Familias, Haymarket); Huntington Theatre Company (The Maiden’s Prayer, A Month In The Country); Bridge Repertory Theater (Sixty Miles To Silver Lake); Gloucester Stage Company (The Norman Conquests, Dinner With Friends); New Repertory Theatre (A Christmas Story). Barlow is an artistic associate of the Mill 6 Collaborative and directed its productions of Shakespeare’s R+J, Bunbury: A Serious Play For Trivial People, and The Monster Tales. He also directed the world premieres of John J King’s From Denmark With Love and Bear Patrol for Vaquero Playground

A native of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area, Lorene grew up studying ballet and tap but quickly segued her love for performance into acting. She studied theater at Temple University and furthered her pursuit with an MFA, Acting at UCSD. Stage credits include playing Valerie Johnston in Smart People at Arena Stage, Cassandra in The American Woman at The Pasadena Playhouse, Delilah in Memphis at La Jolla Playhouse and playing Jessi Ramsey in Zephyr Theater’s production of BCS: Mary Anne/Wedding. On television, Lorene has appeared on TNT’s Perception, Showtime’s Shameless and Freeform’s The Fosters. She recently wrapped the third season of her YouTube talk show Looks, Lunch, Love with Lorene. Her faith book entitled The Perfectly Imperfect Christian will be released the summer of 2018.

Kristen most recently appeared at MRT in Lost Laughs: The Slapstick Tragedy of Fatty Arbuckle and is thrilled to be back for more fun. Last year she wrapped up her role in the First National Tour of the Tony Award winning musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Off-Broadway she has performed in NEWSical The Musical and many editions of Forbidden Broadway (including the original cast recording of FB Goes to Rehab). Regionally she has appeared at Geva Theatre Center, Gateway Playhouse, Moonlight Stage, North Coast Repertory Theatre, The Theatre in Old Town (Miracle Theatre Productions), The Welk Theatre and Southern Colorado Repertory Theatre. Television: Veronica Mars. From 2007-2009, Kristen was the co-founder/co-producer of Ampersand Theatre Company in New York City. Kristen is a graduate of San Diego State University’s Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre program. Following graduation, Kristen taught for two years as a professor with the same university. A native of Wichita, Kansas, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from Emporia State University. Love to MRT and the ferociously talented company of this "Supper Club." kristenmengelkoch.com

MRT: Little Orphan Danny, Silent Sky, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend, Women in Jeopardy!, The Making of a Great Moment, 45 Plays for 45 Presidents, Home of the Brave, Tinker to Evers to Chance, I and You, The Lion. Sean has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club (The Lion, Drama Desk Award & Theatre World Award, nominated for Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle), Lynn Redgrave (NYC), The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), St. James (West End, London – The Lion, winner of Best New Musical), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre, Old Globe, The Geffen, Playmakers Rep, A.C.T., Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Rep, Alliance Theatre, California Shakespeare, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, Swine Palace, Neo-Futurists, Aurora Theatre, Crowded Fire and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Sean has been named “one of the top fifteen up & coming artists in the U.S., whose work will be transforming America’s stages for decades to come” & “One Of 7 People Reshaping And Revitalizing The American Musical” by American Theatre magazine. His direction and shows have won “Best Play” and “Best Director” in the Bay Area, Portland, Rochester and Atlanta. He’s previously served as the Artist-At-Large for Geva Theatre Center and spent four years at the Tony Award-winning Actors Theatre of Louisville as the theatre’s Associate Artistic Director (where he directed 17 productions including five Humana Festivals). Mr. Daniels is the former Associate Artistic Director/Resident Director of the California Shakespeare Theater and before that spent a decade as the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Dad’s Garage Theatre Company in Atlanta. He has developed new work with the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, Ars Nova, PlayPenn, Lark, PlayLabs, New York Stage and Film, Asolo Rep, Goodspeed Opera, Weston Playhouse, Bay Area Playwrights, Magic Theatre and was the first American director asked to attend the Baltic American Playwrights Conference in Hiiumaa, Estonia. He’d love to hear from you, on Twitter @seandaniels or email him at sean.daniels@mrt.org.

MRT: The Making of a Great Moment. Regional: Tinker to Evers to Chance, No Child, Geva Theatre Center; The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry VI part 1, Utah Shakespeare Festival. Education: MFA in Scenic Design from Temple University, B.A. in Theatre Arts from Nazareth College. Other: Moth, Shitheads, Azuka Theatre; Son of a Dog, Walnut St Theatre, Studio 5; Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Mercury Theatre; Galileo, The Side Project; Ragnarok, Tantalus Theatre Group; The Gap, Azuka Theatre; Peaceable Kingdom, The Brownings, Orbiter 3;  as well as shows for various companies in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Richmond, and Rochester. apolloweaver.com

MRT: Over 25 productions including: Little Orphan Danny, KNYUM, Silent Sky, Women in Jeopardy!, The Making of a Great Moment, Going to See the Kid, 45 Plays for 45 Presidents, The Realness: a breakbeat play. Regional: Over 250 productions at: Huntington Theatre; Arizona Theatre Co; Milwaukee Rep; Cleveland Playhouse; Pasadena Playhouse; South Coast Rep; Actors Theatre of Louisville (60 productions; 20 world premieres); Geva Theatre Center; The Kennedy Center; Gloucester Stage; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Arden Theatre; Trinity Rep (over 25 productions); Playmakers Rep. Opera: Long Beach Opera; Bard Summerscape; and Portland Opera Repertory Theatre. Awards: Los Angeles Ovation Award for lighting design; MRT’s Artistic Achievement Award, 2016; nominated multiple times for Boston’s IRNE Award. Education: MFA: California Institute of the Arts. Other: Teaches lighting design at Tufts University; member of Patriots Program at MRT; Resident Lighting Designer, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center 2007-2015.  Mr. Lilienthal lives in Somerville with wife, Emily, daughter Eliza, and dog Babe.  He plays drums in a rockabilly/jump blues band that plays throughout the Boston metro area. www.BrianJLilienthal.com

MRT: Debut. Zabet is delighted to be designing at MRT for the first time. Her recent endeavors include designing projections in-the-round at North Shore Music Theatre: A Christmas Carol '16 + '17, 42nd Street, Evita, Young Frankstein, and Mary Poppins. Zabet’s B.A. Media Arts at the University of New Mexico includes working with their Full Dome & several Immersive Art Instillations. Special thanks to her incredibly supportive fiancé, friends, and family. zabet.space

Angie is a fight director, actress, and professor in the Boston area. Fight directing credits include: Tiger Style!, Becoming Cuba, and M with the Huntington Theatre Company, Romeo and Juliet with Com-monwealth Shakespeare Company, Fences with Gloucester Stage Company, The Scottsboro Boys, Appropriate, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Bad Jews with SpeakEasy Stage Company, Camelot with New Repertory Theatre, and Guards at the Taj with Central Square Theatre, among many others. As an actress, Angie has worked with many of the same companies, and as a professor, Angie currently teaches at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, the American Repertory Theatre Institute program, the New England Conservatory, and UMass Boston. In addition to her career as a theatre artist, Angie is a mom to a rambunctious and joyful toddler. She is thrilled to work on Lila Rose's fantastic script that combines two of her greatest passions: motherhood and superheroes! Angie received her MFA in Acting from Brandeis University, and she is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors.