Staff and Resident Artists
Jennifer Pierro, Director of Productions
Jennifer Pierro is the Director of Productions of Manhattan Repertory Theatre. Jennifer is an Actress/Model/Voiceover Artist
and has performed in and around NYC doing Theatre, Film, and TV.
For more information, please visit: www.jenniferpierro.com
Ken Wolf, Artistic Director
Ken Wolf is the artistic Director of Manhattan Rep and the author of over 20 plays. His favorite plays include: The Match Game, The Eyes of Love, Conversations with Dog, Professor Albert’s Lessons of Love, MEN, Mr. Cupcake and Sleeping with God, all produced in NYC in the last 9 years. He has also directed over 35 productions including The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Three Sisters, Tales of Terror, Men, The Match Game and GHOST. Last Winter, he performed in his astonishing one-man play THE PEOPLE IN MY HIPS, a tour-de-force about Split-Personality and the indomitable spirit in us all. The People in my Hips will be re-opening at Manhattan Rep sometime this year. He is currently blogging about his experience of the play and of PTSD and multiple personalities at
http://www.thepeopleinmyhips.com. Please check it out. it is awesome.
He is thrilled to be here at Manhattan Rep supporting artists and thrilled to be here creating and creating and creating.
Liza Lentini, Resident Playwright
Liza Lentini’s surrealistic drama Drowning in Euphoria received an extended Off-Broadway run at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre in 1999 where it was hailed by Showbusiness Weekly as “poignant and haunting…almost musical”.
Other favorite productions include: The Euthanasist (Manhattan Rep), The Gentleman Caller
(Women’s Project & Chicago Dramatists), Psychotic & Weird (but enough about me) (American Theatre of Actors, NYC & London), Life in Exodus (Milagro Theatre), Brain Children (Rubicon Theatre Project, Chicago) and The Low Road to Phoenix (Actor’s Workshop, Boston).
Liza is the Creative Director of Elephant Ensemble Theater (www.elephanttheater.com), a company that brings children’s theatre to NYC hospitals, and has also written their inaugural production of Thumbelina: The Story of a Brave Little Girl. Liza holds an MFA in Playwriting from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. For more information, please visit www.lizalentini.com.
OUR MASCOT and LOVE OF OUR LIFE,
ROMA PIERRO-WOLF
with Artistic Director, Ken Wolf(Daddy) & Director of Productions, Jen Pierro (Mommy)
Roma Pierro-Wolf was first seen on Film in Hotels for Dogs and Beverly Hills Morkie where she performed as herself in multiple roles. Known for her expressive voice and barking ability, she will soon be appearing in Conversations with Dog by Ken Wolf, replacing Anthony J. Ribustello from The Sopranos at Manhattan Rep. Roma studied at the American Academy of Dogmatic Arts and will be soon be appearing at The White House in a Political farce with Obama’s Dog Bo. Next season, she will be appearing with her Mommy and Daddy at Manhattan Rep in MOVING IN.
Roma caught playing dress up!
Chillin’ at home!