Production Team

Taylor Bibat
NTI Fall '06 and Chicago Artist
Producer/Actor: We Three

In 2007, TAYLOR BIBAT (Chicago) graduated from Oberlin College with a BA in Theater where she concentrated in acting and directing.    Upon graduation she was presented with the Nash Drama Award and an award for activism from the Psychology department.  She immediately moved back to her native Chicago to pursue a theater career and fell in love with the city and especially the energizing theater scene she found there.  As an actor, Taylor has worked with companies such as Circle Theatre  (where she was also a Junior Associate Company member), Redmoon Theater, Thresholds Theater Arts Project, Victory Gardens, and Blair Thomas and Company and trained at NTI, CAP21 in NYC for musical theater, Gallery 37, and Chicago Academy for the Arts.  In addition to theater she enjoys making things with her hands, teaching Filipino street kids, and working with adults with developmental disabilities and with mental illness.

Alexis Randolph
NTI Fall '06 and Chicago Artist
Producer/Director: Ida et al

ALEXIS RANDOLPH (Stockton, CA, Chicago) graduated in 2007 from Ithaca College with a BA in Drama. From a young age, theatre has been a constant inspiration to her life from acting, designing, stage managing, and directing. She has worked with Dimensions Theatre Project, Changing Faces Theatre Company, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and California Music Circus. Recently she returned from a semester abroad at the Moscow Arts Theatre Center in Moscow, Russia.

Alex Balestrieri
Chicago Artist
Wingman/Actor: Vulnerable/Director: 7 Short Pieces

Alex Balestrieri is a Chicago-based theater artist currently performing with THE HYPOCRITES in Brecht's THREEPENNEY OPERA at the Steppenwolf Garage.  He was recently seen as MARTIN in the 'bun raku hobo opera' BONEYARD PRAYER with REDMOON THEATER where he has been a consistent collaborator on spectacle and installation theatre in recent years.  He is the opera singer in the award-winning LAIKA'S COFFIN, which was recently seen in the Great Small Works Festival in NYC. Alex is a COLLABORACTION ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE.  Alex has also spent the better part of the last two years touring symphony orchestras across North America with two-man shows about the lives of Beethoven and Mozart.

Lindsey Austen
NTI Fall '06
Fundraising/Playwright: One Stockinged Foot

Lindsey Austen (Brooklyn) is excited to reunite with the city of Chicago and with the National Theater Institute, class of Fall ‘06.  Beginning in arts administration, Lindsey worked for the Goodman Theater and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Development.  Both theaters enriched her passion for American Theater.  She currently lives in Brooklyn and is a founding member of the Misfit Toys Repertory Company in Manhattan which recently produced a reading of her one-act play, Meal Times Averted.  Other productions include Exchange (director) written by Ben Fisher ’06 and Chemosynthesis (director).  Lindsey writes short stories and essays for her blog, starsniffersgalaxy.blogspot.com. 

Anna Stevens
NTI Fall '06 and Chicago Artist
Actor: Qualified/Fundraising

Anna Stevens (Chicago) recently graduated from Kenyon College with a BA in
Drama. She also studied at the National Theatre Institute at the
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. Having grown up just
north of the city, she returned to Chicago to pursue a theatre career
as an actor, director, and theatre educator.  She is currently working
as a kindergarten drama teacher (are 6 year-olds too young to learn
elements of kabuki???) Favorite acting projects have included How I
Learned to Drive, Blood: of Brothers and Sisters. and The Importance
of Being Earnest.  She will be performing in Premiere Theatre &
Performance's U.S. premiere of Seven Doors by Botho Strauss this
October.  She is thrilled to be working again with her NTI family!

Dax Tran-Caffee
Chicago Artist
Logo Artist

Dax Tran-Caffee is an interdisciplinary artist, originally from California, who is busying himself making epic street games "with teeth."  He is currently studying puppetry with Blair Thomas & Co., while finishing up an MFA in Performance Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  More information can be found on his website, www.norestforthewicked.biz

Meridith Friedman
NTI Fall '06
Playwright: Ars Memorativa/Legal Consultant

Meridith Friedman (Hawaii, Chicago) recently graduated from Connecticut College with a B.A. in theatre. During her time there, she acted in numerous productions, as well as wrote and staged original work. She has devoted her summers to theatre, apprenticing the New York Stage and Film Company, interning at the Pearl Theatre Company, and most recently apprenticing the Orchard Project., a retreat in the Catskills for theatre companies to develop new work. She is now starting her M.F.A. at Northwestern University in their Writing for the Screen and Stage Program.

Joey Boren
NTI Fall '06
Playwright: Retarded/Atlanta Fundraising

Joey Boren (Atlanta) has been playwriting since since he was 15. He has participated in the New South Young Playwrights Festival, The Sondheim New York Young Playwrights Festival, and is an alumni of  the Eugene O' Neill National Theatre Institute and The National Theatre Institute's Advanced playwriting program. He is currently working on a screen play.