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ELLEN MANDEL (she/her) (Resident Artist) has created music for over
ninety plays: As resident composer for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble:
Phoenix Festival: Skin of Our Teeth, Importance of Being Earnest, and
Crime and Punishment. Also Death of Ivan Ilyich, Medea (NYITA nom
Best Music/Sound design), Don Juan in Hell (NYITA Best Revival), Judas,
Tartuffe, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Gambler and Agamemnon Home;
also New Yiddish Rep’s Death of a Salesman (Drama Desk nom Best Revival), Antaeus (Scenie Award: music: Top Girls), Peterborough Players (nom Best Music and
Musical Director) Jean Cocteau Rep Resident Composer, Mint, Arkansas Rep, Asolo.
Ellen has composed many songs to poems by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, WB Yeats,
Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Mew, and her own lyrics, and performed them at many venues in
New York City, at the Sirena Poetry Festival (PA), In-Series in (Wash DC), Florio Street Concerts (CA), Peterborough Players (NH), New Gallery Concert Series (Boston), and in Ireland,
Scotland, and England. Singers from all over the United States and Canada, and in Europe,
perform her songs, and the Royal Conservatory, Toronto, and Trinity College, London, have
published them. New York Times raves: “Mandel’s songs are ardent and spiky…refreshingly
organic,” and as a theatre composer she is “worth her weight in gold.” Ellen has produced 昀椀ve
song CDs: a wind has blown the rain away, the 昀椀rst of all my dreams, There Was a World, The
Cat and the Moon, and I So Liked Spring, and Every Play’s an Opera, theatre music. Dizzy
Gillespie called her a “Wonderful musician.” ellenmandel.com
GLYN MAXWELL (he/him) (Resident Artist) has worked with the
Ensemble since 2005, when he lived on the Upper West Side, met Craig
and Elise at a last-night party and immediately wanted in. The next year
the Phoenix staged his verse-plays Broken Journey and Wolfpit. Five
other plays followed, and though Glyn is now based back in London, his
heart remains very much In Residence. His several books have won or
been shortlisted for all the major UK poetry prizes, most recently the T. S.
Eliot Prize for How The Hell Are You (2020). His latest, The Big Calls, is a (not very 昀氀attering)
study of England now, taking in the UK government’s Covid response, its refugee policy, its
conduct over Afghanistan, police corruption, Grenfell Tower – all in the rhymes and metres of
Tennyson, Kipling, Rossetti, Oscar Wilde. He has just begun writing a book called Silly Games
To Save The World, which you can read for free on Substack.
His plays have been widely staged in the UK and US, most notably Liberty at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2008, and The Lifeblood at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, which won
the British Theatre Guide’s ‘Best Play’. He has written several opera libretti, including The
Firework Maker’s Daughter (2013) which was nominated for an Olivier Award and came to
the New Victory on Broadway, Mozart’s The Magic Flute (2017) at Soho Theatre in London,
and, touring port cities of the UK this summer, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. Glyn is Head
of Studies for the Poetry School MA at Somerset House in London.
JOSH “J” FELICIANO-SANCHEZ MOSER (they/them) (Resident
Artist) is an NYC based actor and voice/dialect specialist represented by
Brickhouse Talent. A proud resident artist of Phoenix Theatre Ensemble,
Josh has also coached for: Utah Shakespeare Festival; Breaking the Binary
Festival at The Public; Pro昀椀le Theatre Portland; Brown U/Trinity Repertory;
CNN’s Harry Enten; Savannah Stage Company; Savannah Shakes; and
others. Josh is a Certi昀椀ed Teacher of both Fitzmaurice Voicework® and
Knight Thompson Speechwork, with an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design.
Currently, Josh is an Assistant Professor in Kean University’s Theatre Conservatory, as well as