Jason Slavick (Director) is the Artistic Director of Liars & Believers. He is a director, writer and educator. For the LAB, he conceived and directed Who Would Be King, Yellow Bird Chase, and ICARUS, which premiered in Cambridge, played Outside The Box in Boston and made an acclaimed New York debut at the 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival (honorable mention for book and design). Jason directed 28 Seeds, he co-wrote and directed, Song of Songs: a LoveRomp, and wrote and directed Le Cabaret Grimm: a punk cabaret fairy tale {sans fairies}, which premiered in Boston and played at the 2012 New York Musical Theatre Festival (best featured performer and best design, honorable mention for choreography). Jason also directed the LAB’s experimental project, Talk to Strangers. Jason wrote and directed Heaven & Hell: The Fantastical Temptation of the 7 Deadly Sins, a musical excursion commissioned by The Boston Conservatory. As a company member of Boston Theatre Works, Jason directed Othello (Elliot Norton Award nominated for Best Production and Best Actor), The Tempest, Antony & Cleopatra, and Macbeth. He developed and directed Emily Mann’s critically acclaimed Meshugah, Olga Humphrey’s Veronika Vavoom Volcanologist, and his own play J: a one-act improvised tragi-comedy. He also directed numerous developmental workshops and readings including Joyce Carol Oates’ The Tattooed Girl. Jason has directed throughout New England, in Tel Aviv, and in Philadelphia. Besides the shows above, Jason has written and directed The Golem, Icaphish, and Alice: a Grotesque Turn in Twelve Scenes. Jason has taught at colleges and schools throughout New England. He earned his MFA in directing from The Trinity Repertory Conservatory in Providence, where he was awarded the inaugural Pell Scholar Award.
There he had the great fortune to work with Oskar Eustis, Brian Kulick, and Kevin Moriarity. Jason also studied at the Dell Arte International School of Physical Theatre, the Eugene O’Neill National Theatre Institute, and the Warsaw Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Poland.
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Glen Moore (Poodge) As an artistic ensemble member with Liars & Believers, Glen Moore played Saul in Who Would Be King, which he helped devise over the course of 2015. He was last seen in the New England Regional Premiere as Gene in The Last Schwartz with Gloucester Stage Company. Boston area credits include; BLINDERS (Flat Earth Theatre), The Importance of Being Ernest (Moonbox Productions), Of Mice and Men (Boston Children’s Theatre), CLOSER (Bad Habit Productions), Of Mice and Men (Moonbox), The Time of My Life (Zeitgeist Stage Company), And Nither Had I Wings to Fly (BHP), Arcadia (BHP), Eurydice (Independent Drama Society) Regional Theatre; Speech And Debate (Curious Theatre Company). He holds a B.A. in acting from The University of Northern Colorado and also studied briefly at The National Theatre Conservatory. Glen is an Equity Membership Candidate with AEA and has worked as an acting coach in Boston and Denver both privately and with Model and Talent Management Agency. He would like to thank his friends and family for all their support.
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Rachel Wiese (Tootles McBarglehorn) LAB Artistic Associate: Who Would Be King. Regional: Metamorphoses, and Wildflowers (Zach Theatre). Boston area: Beowulf (Poet’s Theatre). Austin area: Lifelines and Hometeam (Vetworks), Sacred Space Redux and A Streetcar Straight to Hell (The Exchange Artists), Frankenstein and The Jungle (Trouble Puppet Theatre), Marvelous Things, People Will Talk About You Sometimes, and Her Little Prince (Poison Apple Initiative), Oceana (The Vortex). Filmography at imdb.com. She is also the Producing Artistic Director of The Exchange Artists.
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Karina Ithier (Bübles Harmonika) she/her, is an actor, writer and arts educator based in Boston! She fell in love with theater through her joy of reading- actually she would read aloud every book (including textbooks) as a youth. She graduated from Wellesley College and has an MFA in Acting from the University of Houston. Currently, she tours with L.A.B., playing the joyous goof, Bübles Harmonika in Yellow Bird Chase (L.A.B). Past credits include Mary in Pride and Prejudice (Peterborough Players), Velveteen Rabbit in The Velveteen Rabbit (Theater at Monmouth), and Theresa in Circle Mirror Transformation (Studio 208).
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Ulrika Brand, she/her (Assistant Director) is a director and playwright. Her play, Yours, Isabella, tells the story of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s drive to collect art and build her Boston museum. It was performed last year at Wistariahurst Museum, supported by the Mass Cultural Council. As a member of the cooperative Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble, in Venice, CA, Ulrika directed Molière’s The Misanthrope, Strindberg’s Crimes and Crimes, and Lee Blessing’s Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music. In New York City she joined Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab and translated and directed Strindberg’s Playing with Fire for LCT’s American Living Room series (her translation was later produced by the Negro Ensemble Company). She co-directed a production of The Vagina Monologues at Columbia’s Miller Theatre and was co-organizer of the Boston Strindberg Centennial Festival and the affiliated symposium at Harvard University, where she presented and directed her translation/adaptation of Strindberg’s Crimes and Crimes. She is delighted to be working at Central Square Theatre for the first time!
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