Barrett attended the Savannah College of Art and Design, where he received his BFA in Performing Arts. As a member of the 2009/2010 Actor's Express Intern Company, he performed in AE's productions of "Good Boys and True" and "100 Saints You Should Know". He has performed in Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre productions "Body Awareness", "Bachelorette", "The Issues Plays", and "Let's Make It".
Britton Buttrill is currently an MFA candidate in Playwriting at The New School for Drama. His plays have been performed Off-Broadway with The Riant Theatre, and in Atlanta with Rehearsal Room C, Bottled Lightning, and Fringe Festival Atlanta. They have received staged readings at Horizon Theatre, Pinch n' Ouch Theatre, The Essential Theatre Festival and The Drive By Theatre Project. His Directing and Assistant Directing credits include Red at Theatrical Outfit (Assistant Director), Tape at Pinch n' Ouch Theatre (Assistant Director), and Agnes of God with Rehearsal Room C (Director). His dramaturgy credits include Red at Theatrical Outfit (Dramaturge) and The Odyssey with Georgia Shakespeare Festival (Assistant Dramaturge). He has worked as an Arts Administrator with Pinch n' Ouch Theatre and Fabrefaction Theatre Company. Poetry and short story publications include The Oxford Review, Opium Magazine and TELEFUNKIN' Magazine. He is an Artistic Associate with Pinch n' Ouch Theatre and Bottled Lightning.
Grant McGowen is the Artistic Director and a founding member of Pinch n' Ouch Theatre. His Producing credits include: Suzi Bass Awards Recommended Some Girl(s), Body Awareness and Tape, Speed-the-Plow, Bachelorette, The Issues Project, Autobahn, Lobby Hero, Reasons To Be Pretty, and Tits & Assets. Other theatre credits include: Five Flights, The Shape of Things, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, Burn This, Golden Boy, Threes a Crowd, La Ronde, and Strange Snow. His directing credits include: The One Minute Play Festival, Speed-the-Plow, Bachelorette, Autobahn, The Issues Project, Lobby Hero, and Tits & Assets. Playwright credits: Tits & Assets which world premiered at the Churnichin Theatre in New York City and Lets Make It, which will world premiere at Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre in 2013. Grant is a graduate of the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts where he studied Screen Acting and the Meisner Technique. He is also an accomplished Casting Director and has cast feature films and nationally televised commercials. He teaches Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre's Mesiner Acting Classes and loves to inspire the next generation of artists.
Heather Rule holds a BFA in theatre performance from Auburn University. Since moving to Atlanta, she has worked with Fabrefaction Theatre, The Lyceum Project, The Collective Project, and Pinch 'N' Ouch Theatre. Stage credits include: Brighton Beach Memoirs, An Ideal Husband, The Seagull, FLUX 2011, Tartuffe, and The Issues Project. She takes Meisner Acting Classes at Pinch 'N' Ouch Theatre, and will be directing scenes from Reasons To Be Pretty in PNO's Student Showcase this February 2013. Look for her in PNO's upcoming production of "Lets's Make It" by Grant McGowen opening February 14th.
Jackie started off at Pinch 'n' Ouch taking Meisner Acting Classes. She was cast as Karen in "Speed the Plow" and also Bobbi in the Suzi Bass recommended "Some Girls." She also performed in the PNO's "The Issues Project" on the Hertz Stage. She starred in the film “The Promotion” which premiered at the Short Film Corner of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and the Hoboken International Film Festival. When she is not in the theatre, she works at a local university in human resources.
Julissa studied theatre at New York University via The Atlantic Theatre Company, where she began her studies of practical aesthetics and Meisner technique. Her theater credits include Oklahoma! (Ado Annie), Cactus Flower (Toni) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania). She proudly continues studying Meisner technique at Pinch N Ouch and hopes to offer a voice & movement class soon. Julissa now happily resides in Atlanta where she pursues her passion of creating art, both musically & on stage and film.
Justin directed Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre's "Body Awareness" in 2011. Previous directing credits include Autobahn, Ordinary Days, The Last Romance, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Synchronicity Theatre), The Unexpected Showcase (Alliance Theatre Education), Say de Kooning and Lady of Fadima (The Jameson Project), and numerous high school productions during his four years as a theatre educator in Cartersville, Georgia. Since the summer of 2009, Justin has served as the production director for KidStuf at North Point Community Church. He holds a BA in theatre arts from Campbell University (Buies Creek NC), and a MA in theatre studies from Regent University. His upcoming works include: ONE-MINUTE PLAYS at Actors Express, TIME BETWEEN US at Serenbe Playhouse, TIGERS at Aurora Theatre, ASSASSINS at Fabrefaction Theatre, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at Stage Door Players, HARABEL at Theatrical Outfit, the remount of PETITE ROUGE with Synchronicty Theatre, and THE FABULOUS LIPITONES at Theatrical Outfit.
Kenneth Camp is a Theatre graduate from SC Governor's School of the Arts and Humanities and College of Charleston. He has also studied the Meisner Technique at Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre. He has appeared in Pinch 'n' Ouch productions Autobahn and Lobby Hero, and Assitant Directed Speed-the-Plow.
Liz Schad holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from Columbus State University. Since moving to Atlanta, she has worked with Fabrefaction Theatre Company, The Atlanta Lyric Theatre Company, Satin Alley Jazz, and Pinch 'N' Ouch Theatre. When she is not acting, Liz can be found in the tech booth stage managing. Past credits include: The Sound of Music, Speed the Plow, The Seagull, The Music Man and The Zoo Story. She is currently working in content management at a local internet company, and regularly takes Meisner Acting Classes at Pinch 'N' Ouch Theatre.
Michael directed the Suzi Bass recommended Tape at Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre in 2011. Other directing credits include: Sylvia and Proof both at OnStage Atlanta. Acting credits include the unnamed narrator in Connor McPherson's one man show St. Nicholas and Ned/Walker inThree Days of Rain. As a producer and Co-Artistic Director of NYC based InViolet Rep, he has produced three world premiers including Melanie Maras' Kiss Me on the Mouth directed by downtown theater stalwart and newly produced Broadway playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (The Motherfu**er with the Hat, Jesus Hopped the A Train). InViolet recently produced Michael's first play 40 Weeks which also premiered in Atlanta at OnStage. Michael's most recent play Crimes Against Humanity premiered at the Atlanta Fringe Festival.
Topher Payne is the author of more than a dozen produced works for the stage, including LAKEBOTTOM PROPER at The Springer Opera House, TOKENS OF AFFECTION at Georgia Ensemble Theatre, ABOVE THE FOLD, which won the 2009 Metro Atlanta Theatre Awards for Best Original Work and Best Play of the Year, and THE MEDICINE SHOWDOWN (co-authored with Adam Koplan), which Creative Loafing selected as one of the Best Plays of the Decade.A resident of Atlanta since 1999, Topher served as a Grand Marshal for the 2011 Atlanta Pride Parade, and has been honored with numerous distinctions by the community, including: Best Local Playwright (Creative Loafing Reader’s Choice, 2010 & 2011); Best Local Writer and Best Local Actor (GA Voice Reader’s Choice, 2010 & 2011); Artist of the Year (David Magazine 2011) ; Best Local Playwright (Sunday Paper, 2010); Best Actor (2011 Post & Alley Awards, for his performance in Proof.)