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 Alexis M. Hadsall
Artistic Director
Director/Stage Manager/Designer/Actress--
Originally from Michigan, Alexis graduated from Winthrop University in South
Carolina with a BA in Theatre and Secondary Education. Alexis has taught both
middle school and high school in the Carolinas as well as owned her own theatre
company, Avant-Garde Productions, down there. Avant-Garde received eight awards
for acting and one for best director in the two years they competed in New York
theater festivals.
In September of 2002, Alexis moved to New York, and in 2003 she joined the team
of Paul and Anna VanEtten and their company TheatreRats. As of January 2004,
Alexis assumed the role of Artistic Director.
Some of Alexis’ NYC directing credits include Dinner at Dario’s,
the one act and complete stage productions of Agrippina, Spike Heels and Getting
Out. Some of her pre-NYC directed works are The Crucible, Fools, The
Night of January 16th, Juvie and The Man with the Plastic Sandwich.
Some of Alexis’ performance credits are Brigadoon, A Mid-Summer
Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Music Man, The
Mikado, and Snoopy. |
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 Michael Ruby
Associate Artistic Director
Director/Writer/Actor/Singer/Member AEA--
Michael hails from nearby Milford, PA and has been fascinated with theater since
he sat four rows from an exploding pinball machine at the tender age of 14. A
graduate of Boston University, Michael acted and directed continuously throughout
college and studied at the undergraduate and graduate levels with Slaughterhouse
Five adapter Stephen Geller, Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott and renowned Broadway
and opera performer Claudia Catania.
Michael moved to New York in February, 2003 and was quickly hired for two consecutive
tours with Artspower National Touring Theater. He assumed the role of TheatreRats
Associate Artistic director in January, 2004
His recent credits include lead and featured roles in Merrily We Roll Along (Gallery
Players), Nymph Errant (Medicine Show) and Lost (Inverse Theater,
NYC Fringe Festival), all of which have earned him high praise in the New York
press. Other favorite featured credits include The Star-Spangled Girl, Gilgamesh, On
the Origin of Darwin, West Side Story, City of Angels and The
Seagull. Directing credits include The Who’s Tommy, Godspell, Little
Shop of Horrors, Neil Simon’s London Suite, self-authored Drinking
the Hemlock and AD for Agrippina. |
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 Rachel
Grundy
Secretary
Actor/Musician/Singer/Stage Manager/Member AEA--
A native of London , Rachel first decided on theatre as a career when
her desire to become a veterinarian died during a biology test. A musician
from the age of 4, she plays flute, cello and saxophone and regularly
soloed as a soprano in several choirs as a teen. Her career in New
York theatre began in 2003, when she interned for Inverse Theater during
their successful run of Lost at the New York International Fringe Festival,
working as ASM/Props. She returned home to complete her Bachelor’s
in English Literature and Drama at the University of East Anglia ,
graduating with honors, and returned to NYC permanently in 2005. She
became Secretary of TheatreRats in October of 2005.
Favorite UK acting credits include: Antigone, Widows, Twelfth
Night, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Remembrance of Things Past and The Screens. In New York
, Rachel has worked with TheatreRats on three productions in both incarnations
of The Chester Horn Short Play Festival and with Native Aliens Theatre Collective
in Funhouse. Stage Managing credits include: Volpone, Ghosts, A
Midsummer Night’s
Dream, The Banger’s Flopera for Inverse Theater at FringeNYC 2005, Beauty
and the Beast in Baltmore and Las Vegas and Le Lycanthrope with Loup Garou International.
ASM for Lost (Inverse Theater) and Coronado (Manhattan Theatre Source). |
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