Bios

Anne Bogart

Anne Bogart is a theater and opera director and former Co-Artistic Director of the SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. She is a Professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. She is the author of six books: A Director Prepares; The Viewpoints Book; And Then, You Act; Conversations with Anne, What’s the Story and The Art of Resonance.

Kathleen Chalfant:

In a career spanning more than five decades, Kathleen Chalfant’s performances on stage, screen and television have garnered her praise from critics and audiences alike. 

Perhaps best known for her shattering portrayal of Vivian Bearing, a scholar battling cancer, in Wit, she received the Obie, the Drama Desk, the Lucille Lortel, the Outer Critics Circle, the Ovation, Connecticut Critics Circle, the Garland and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for her work. BROADWAY: Angels in America (Tony and Drama Desk nom.), Racing Demon, Dance With Me. She most recently appeared in DINOSAURS with Playwrights Horizons, HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES with New York Theatre Workshop and THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING with Keen Company, Long Wharf, and Theatre Aspen. NY/OFF-BROADWAY: A Woman of the World, Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador(NYTW), Wit (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League, Connecticut Critics Circle, Obie Awards), HELLZAPOPPIN’ with Yvonne Rainer, Four Quartets (BAM) For Peter Pan on Her 70th Birthday, A Walk in the Woods (Drama Desk nom.), Talking Heads (Obie Award), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Nine Armenians (Drama Desk nomination) Television/Film: “The Copenhagen Test” “The Affair”,”Rescue Me”, “The Blacklist”, “Elementary”, “High Maintenance”, “House of Cards”, “Madam Secretary”, “Duplicity”, “Old”, “Kinsey”, “Lackawanna Blues”. Chalfant currently stars in the acclaimed film FAMILIAR TOUCH, for which she won Best Actress at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti Competition.

Erin B Mee

Erin B. Mee has directed at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, SoHo Rep, HERE, The Magic Theatre, and The Guthrie Theater in the United States, and with Sopanam in India. She is the Founding Artistic Director of This Is Not A Theatre Company, with whom she has conceived and directed Pool Play, A Serious Banquet,Readymade Cabaret, Ferry Play, Subway Plays,Festival de la Vie for the Avignon Festival, Versailles,Pool Play 2.0  for the International Theatre Festival of Kerala, Theatre In The Dark: Carpe Diem, Play!, Readymade Cabaret 2.0, Play…In Your Bathtub 2.0 (also translated into Russian and performed by WOWWOWWOW in Moscow), Guru of Touch for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Tree Confessions(starring Kathleen Chalfant)for the Edinburgh, Brighton, Camden, Melbourne, Greater Manchester, Hamilton, Sydney, and Philadelphia Fringe festivals and the Nepal International Theatre Festival, and Adentros y Afueras, Confesiones de un Árbol, y Una Obra en tu Bañera for the International Theatre Festival of Buenos Aires (FIBA). Her productions have been experienced in over 36 countries, including Argentina, Australia, China, England, France, India, Italy, Nepal, Russia, Scotland, and Singapore. She is the author of Theatre of Roots: Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage, co-editor of Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage, editor of DramaContemporary: India, and co-editor of Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000. She has written numerous articles for TDR, Theatre Journal, Performance Research, American Theatre Magazine, and other journals and books. Her born-digital Scalar article “Hearing the Music of the Hemispheres” won the ATHE-ASTR Award for Best Digital Article in 2016. She has lectured and taught in India, Italy, China, Argentina, Nepal, England, Spain, and Bulgaria. She is Associate Arts Professor in the Department of Drama, Tisch, NYU. www.erinbmee.com

Charles Mee

Charles Mee has written Big Love, True Love, and First Love; bobrauschenbergamericaand Hotel Cassiopeia; Orestes 2.0 and Trojan Women A Love Story; and Summertime and Wintertime among other plays–all of them available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org.  His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, 2nd Stage, La Mama, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. He was honored with a full season of his plays at the Signature Theatre. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Award of Merit in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Obies, of a Laura Pels Award, the Booth Award, and of the Richard B. Fisher Award. He is also the author of a number of books of history (Meeting at Potsdam, The Marshall Plan, The End of Order) that have been selections of the Book of the Month Club and the History Book Club. He is the former editor-in-chief of Horizon magazine, a magazine of history, art, literature, and the fine arts. And he is a lifetime trustee of the Washington think tank, The Urban Institute. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.

Owen McAnuff

Owen McAnuff is an actor, writer and comedian based in NYC. He is a recent BFA graduate of Tisch Drama, where he trained at the Experimental Theatre Wing, the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, and the Tisch Special Program: Stanislavsky, Brecht, and Beyond; integrated approach to actor training in Berlin. He also performs stand-up comedy around New York & New England and was 1st runner-up in the 2025 New England’s Funniest Comedian Competition. He would like to thank Erin & Charles Mee for this wonderful opportunity. 

Ella Martin

Ella Martin is an actor from South Carolina studying at the Experimental Theatre Wing at NYU Tisch. Her recent projects include various Experimental Theatre Wing independent projects, a 54 below showcase, and is currently pursuing sketch comedy on social media! She is absolutely thrilled to have the opportunity to perform at LaMaMa especially to honor the work of Charles Mee. She wants to thank Charles, Erin, and everyone involved in making this celebration possible!