Fiasco Theatre
Co-Artistic Director
Head of Marketing and PR
Jessie Austrian has acted in Fiasco's productions of Two Gentlemen of Verona and Cymbeline and co-taught the Voice and Table Work sessions of the Free Training Initiative in 2009. Other acting credits include Roundabout Theatre Company, the Guthrie, Pioneer Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Virginia Stage Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare Co, The Kennedy Center, and Trinity Repertory Company. She has worked as a dialect coach for Babel Theater, Trinity Rep and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Jessie received her BA in Theater from Brown University and her MFA in Acting from Brown/Trinity.
Co-Artistic Director
Head of Producing
Noah Brody’s acting credits include Portland Stage Company, the Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Madison Rep, and Trinity Repertory Company, as well as European tours with the Reduced Shakespeare Company. He has appeared on Law and Order and as recurring characters on both All My Children and As the World Turns. As an adjunct faculty member at NYU and the Stella Adler School of Acting he taught Voice & Speech, Scene Study, and directed plays. Noah is a fight choreographer for stage and film who trained with Richard Ryan, Master at Arms at RADA and J. Allen Suddeth. He is the author of the plays “The Vexed Question” and ”Cold.” Noah received an MFA in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.
Co-Artistic Director
Head of Artistic Development
Ben Steinfeld co-directed and acted in Fiasco’s productions of “Cymbeline”, “Twelfth Night”, and “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” and co-taught Voice and Rehearsal Technique for the Free Training Initiative in 2009. In the spring of 2010 he will appear in “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson” at The Public Theater. Other acting credits include: Center Theatre Group, Portland Center Stage, Bread Loaf, Williamstown Theatre Festival, SpeakEasy Stage Co., Seven Angels, and Trinity Repertory Company. Ben has been seen on television on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” He is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study where he teaches acting, musical theater, and theater history. He has narrated three Young People’s concerts with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at NJPAC. Ben received a BA in Theater Arts from Brown University, and an MFA in Acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium.
Company Member
Paul L. Coffey - with FIASCO: Cymbeline, Twelfth Night. New York: The Public, Ars Nova, HERE, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Mint Theater Co., blessed unrest, Theatre Lila, Gorilla Rep, Aquila Theatre Co. Regional: Trinity Repertory Co., Pig Iron Theatre Co., The Vineyard Playhouse, The Theater at Monmouth, Lost Nation Theater, BoarsHead Theater, The Peterborough Players and The Berkshire Theater Festival. Paul received his M.F.A. in acting from the Brown/Trinity Consortium where he was a Stephen Sondheim Fellow.
Company Member
Andy has toured nationally with the Guthrie Theater and the Acting Company (Henry V/The Spy, dir. Davis McCallum) and internationally with the Glass Contraption. Recently, he appeared in Fiasco Theater's acclaimed and extended Cymbeline (dir. Noah Brody/Ben Steinfeld). Other credits include Servant of Two Masters (Yale Rep, dir. Christopher Bayes), Lucy Thurber's Monstrosity (13P, dir. Lear deBessonet),The Scariest (The Exchange, dirs. Ari Edelson/Meredith McDonough), The Glass Contraption's The Amazing Ted Show! (Ars Nova), Clowns. (The Public/NY Clown Festival, dir. Christopher Bayes), Don Cristobal, Billy Club Man (St. Ann's Warehouse, Here, dir. Erin Orr), Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ (Women's Project), and Twelfth Night (Fiasco Theater). Other regional credits include the Guthrie, Arizona Theatre Company, and Trinity Rep. (Moliere Impromptu, dir. Christopher Bayes). Andy is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep. Consortium (MFA) and is a Fiasco Theater company member. He is currently apprenticed to Christopher Bayes studying the Clown, and he's from Iowa.
Company Member
New York: Theatre Breaking Through Barriers’ Romeo and Juliet at Theatre Row (Juliet, Mercutio, Paris and five others); staged readings of Back to Methuselah: Part 2, The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet and Major Barbara with Project Shaw at The Players; Summer Play Festival's Colorado(Tracy). Regional: King Lear (Cordelia), Much Ado About Nothing (Hero) at the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; Loves Labor’s Lost (Katherine), Henry V (Alice), Much Ado About Nothing(Margaret) at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival; Cherry Orchard (Anya) at Trinity Rep, Emma (Emma) at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. Emily also recently completed work as the lead in the short musical film, Manhattan Melody, which will be released this winter. Training: Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium.