Is This A Room Event Program - Perth Festival 2025

Will Cobbs Special Agent R. Wallace Taylor

Mariana Catalina Producer

Will has appeared on Broadway in Is This A Room and regionally as Walter Lee in Raisin in the Sun (Arena Theater), Sly in Detroit 67’ (McCarter) and Lyons in Fences (The Resident Ensemble Players at University of Delaware). His TV appearances include Skinny John on For Life (ABC), Prodigal Son (Fox), The Good Wife and Madam Secretary (CBS), Deadbeat (Hulu), The Night Of (HBO) and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix). Will teaches acting and movement classes at Pace University, Brooklyn College and Yale’s Summer Session.

Mariana is a producer of live performance and a theatre artist living in New York City. She is an associate producer at the Perelman Performing Arts Center and creative producer for Tina Satter/Half Straddle, with whom she has produced tours of Is This A Room in Germany, Austria and within the USA. Mariana has worked with artists from a variety of disciplines both independently and through institutions and companies such as Elevator Repair Service, The Kitchen, Performance Space New York and Soho Rep.

Maurina Lioce Stage Manager

In New York City Maurina has been stage manager for Neal Medlyn, Alex Tatarsky, Becca Blackwell, Adrienne Truscott, Bang on A Can, Jim Findlay, David Byrne, Sibyl Kempson, Andrew Ondrejcak, Mike Iveson, Erin Markey, Suzanne Bocanegra and Young Jean Lee. Maurina is the associate artistic director and stage manager for Elevator Repair Service Theater Company.

Pete Simpson Special Agent Justin C. Garrick

In addition to Pete’s work with Half Straddle/ Tina Satter ( Is This A Room, Away Uniform and more) he has also performed principal roles with some of New York’s most lauded theatre artists including Elevator Repair Service ( Gatz, The Select ), Annie Baker ( Infinite Life ), the Wooster Group ( North Atlantic ), Young Jean Lee, ( Straight White Men, Lear ), Will Eno ( Middletown ), Sarah Gancher ( The Wind and the Rain ), Big Dance Theater (BAM etc.), Richard Maxwell, Richard Foreman, Julia Jarcho, and others. He has also performed the work of award- winning choreographers Susan Marshall, Dean Moss, Annie B. Parson and Faye Driscoll. Pete continues his 5,000+ performance run as the titular character in Blue Man Group (as well as being trainer, writer and director). For his work Off-Broadway, Broadway and internationally, Pete was awarded an Obie for Sustained Excellence of Performance in 2017 and an ND Charles Bowden Award in 2024.

Jørgen Noodt Skjærvold Technical Director & Audio Engineer

Jørgen is a designer and technician from Trondheim, Norway. He has been working in theatre and making sounds and music since 2005. Recent artists he has worked with include Half Straddle, Andrew Schneider, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, JoAnne Akalaitis & Philip Glass, Findlay//Sandsmark, Mabou Mines and Eirik Fauske.

Krista Smith Lighting Associate

Philadelphia-based lighting designer and artist, Krista’s designs have been seen in New York at venues including La MaMa, Ars Nova, New York Theater Workshop and The Public Theater. Regionally she has worked for companies including Dorset Theatre, Arden Theatre Co, Hartford Stage, Triad Stage, California Shakespeare Theater and Yale Repertory Theater. Krista received her MFA from Yale School of Drama and is a company member of Krymov Lab NYC and a proud member of USA 829.

Becky Hermenze Company Manager

Becky is a performance artist, writer and producer. She was most recently seen in Snatch Adams and Tainty McCracken Present It’s That Time of the Month (Soho Rep/The Bushwick Starr). She is a full-time company member with the theater ensemble Elevator Repair Service. She has also supported the development of new works with artists such as Radiohole, Half Straddle/Tina Satter and Becca Blackwell.

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