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MRT: The Exceptionals. Off-Broadway: Square Peg Round Hole, Tectonic; AliceGraceAnon, The Germ Project, Milk, Creature, New Georges; Mourning Becomes Electra, New Group; Originated roles of Marcie, Lili, and Nina Spicer in The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, Fourth Street, 37 Arts; Trouble in Paradise, Mae West in SEX, Hourglass; Speak Truth to Power, Culture Poject; Hedda in Heddatron, Les Freres Courbusier; Originated the role of Lydia in Big Love, BAM; A Streetcar Named Desire, New York Theatre Workshop; Courtney Love in Love in the Void, Self Defense, In Between. Regional: The Veri**n Play, ATL Humana; The Turn of the Screw, Irish Classical-Buffalo; Rag & Bone, Big Love, Long Wharf; Member of the Wedding, All My Sons, Westport Country Playhouse; King Lear, Playmakers; Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Cincinnati Playhouse; Marilyn Monroe in Miss Golden Dreams, ACT Seattle; Big Love, ATL, Goodman, Berkeley Rep; A Clockwork Orange, Steppenwolf. Film/TV: Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Lights Out (FX), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, CopDoc, Focus Group, Gypsy 83, Diminished Capacity, upcoming film LIV by Catherine Eaton.

MRT: Beasley’s Christmas Party (IRNE Nomination), Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation. Broadway: The Glass Menagerie with Jessica Lange, Rock n Roll, The Lonesome West. Off-Broadway: Dead End, 1599 Project, Irondale Ensemble Project; Vieux Carré directed by Austin Pendleton , Pearl Theatre; Bug by Tracy Letts; Beasley’s Christmas Party, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Apartment 3A, The Antigone Project. Regional: Mark St. Germain's Scott & Hem in the Garden of Allah, Neil LaBute's In A Forest Dark and Deep, and Evan M. Weiner’s Captors, Contemporary American Theater Festival; The Pillowman, A Steady Rain, The Shape of Things, Sideman, Rep. Theatre of St. Louis; The Night of the Iguana, The Caretaker, Triad Stage; Suddenly Last Summer, Berkeley Rep.; Kingdom of Earth, Yale Rep.; Proof, Pioneer Theatre; Custody of the Eyes, Cleveland Playhouse; The Glass Menagerie, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, A.C.T. (San Francisco) Film: Dottie’s Thanksgiving Pickle with Olympia Dukakis; Bittersweet. Television: Law and Order, Kidnapped, All My Children, Guiding Light, As the World Turns.  Education: MFA: Alabama Shakespeare Festival, University of Alabama; BA: University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Other: www.joeycollins.net, @MrJoeyCollins

MRT: Debut. Regional: Operation Epsilon, Nora Theatre; These Shining Lives, Strangers on a Train; It’s a Wonderful Life, Stoneham Theatre; Legacy of Light, Arms and the Man, Lyric Stage; Reflections of a Rock Lobster, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Boston Children’s Theatre; The Crucible (tour), New Repertory Theatre; Oleanna, Contemporary Theatre of Boston; Inherit the Wind, Hobson’s Choice, The Winter’s Tale, Little Women; Peterborough Players. Other: Allan is pleased to be making his debut with Merrimack Repertory Theatre!

MRT: Memory House, Two Jews Walk Into A War, The Blonde, The Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, Aunt Dan & Lemon, Something in the Air. Boston: Awake and Sing, Luck of the Irish (IRNE Award Best New Play), Circle Mirror Transformation, Huntington Theatre; The Cherry Orchard, Twelfth Night (Norton Award for Best Production, 2012), Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Shrew, Actors Shakespeare Project; Not Enough Air by Masha Obolensky, Nora Theatre Company. Off-Broadway: Numerous productions at Primary Stages, Manhattan Class Company (MCC), Playwrights Horizons, Bay Street (Sag Harbor), Women’s Project, New York Shakespeare Festival, among others. Regional: Baltimore Centerstage, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre Company (Barrymore nomination for Best Director), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival), San Jose Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, and numerous summers at the O’Neill Theatre Conference. International: Festival Internacional de Teatro, Havana, Cuba; American delegate to the former Czechoslovakia. Other: She is the recipient of an OBIE Award for Best Direction and a Princess Grace Foundation Directing grant, as well as their Statuette Award. Her edition of the Langston Hughes translation of Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding is published by Theatre Communications Group. Ms. Bensussen is featured in Women Directors Speak by Rebecca Daniels and Women Direct Shakespeare by Nancy Taylor. She is Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Emerson College, Boston.