That Uppity Theatre Company

Biography: Joe Salvatore

Joe Salvatore is a director / dramaturg / teacher / writer, and now suddenly a performer. His most recent directing project, "Quinceanera", has been seen at New WORLD Theater's "Intersections" in Amherst, the Del Corazon Festival in Chicago, INROADS: The Americas in Miami, and Jump-Start Performances Space in San Antonio.

He has also directed plays by John Guare, Terrence McNally, Susan Glaspell, John Patrick Shanley, and David Ives. In the summer of 1998 he directed premieres of Pablo Medina's "A Trumpet Sounds" and Robert Ripley's "Life Goes On". In November 1998, he also dramaturged "Dreaming in Tongues" for LAByrinth Theater Company in New York.

His own new play, "full of grace...", received the James Baldwin Playwriting Award in January 1998. Joe served as the dramaturg for the premiere of "Who She is Herself: A Traveler's Guide" at the Ko International Festival in 1996, he co-created and performed in an original piece called "Dashboard Photographs" in 1997, and he worked as the assistant dramaturg on the world premiere of Constance Congdon's new play, "So Far" in 1998.

Joe co-founded the Gloucester County Summer Drama Workshop in 1991, a theater company located in southern New Jersey devoted to providing young artists with opportunities to create theater in a safe environment, and he served as its artistic director from 1995 through 1998. Joe has worked in a literary departments of the Public Theatre / New York Shakespeare Festival, New WORLD Theater, and Foundation Theater. He is currently a guest lecturer in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts and a teaching artist for Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York.

Biography: Kate Nugent

Kate Nugent is a founding member of Sleeveless Theater whose plays have been featured at the Lucille Ball Festival of New Comedy, the Public Theater New Works Now! Festival, WOW Cafe, and the Organic Lab Theater. She is the author of "The Mad Dad Show" and the co-author and director of "Emily: Unplugged". Most recently, she directed "Painted Rain" for the Winter Shorts Festival at the Drama Studio, where she is a faculty member and "When I Look in the Mirror: A Clown Show" for the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School, where she also teaches.

You can see Kate in WGBY educational films, such as "Her Place in History", and hear her on WRNX radio, where she does voice-overs. She is also a guest artist in the Theater Department at the University of Massachusetts this year.