Ali Harmer, Performer
Ali is originally from Sanibel Island, Florida. She received her BFA in dance from Ohio State University. While at OSU, she was lucky enough to work with Bebe Miller, Tere O’Connor, Dana Bella, Karl Rodgers, and Elisha Clark. Harmer now lives in NYC and has enjoyed working with Sara Sweet Rabidoux/Hoi Polloi, Burnidge Clark Dance, Annie Kloppenberg, and Marisa Grunberg and White Road Dance Media.

Brad Kisicki, Scenic Designer
Brad has worked with those people over there and you may have seen his work at that one place… you know that one place. He worked with that really cool guy with the sweet shoes and the killer mustache. You may have even seen Brad dance in that one piece recently. Brad is currently the Technical Director at Dance Theatre Workshop in New York and the Production Manager of The Aspen Music Festival, as well as a freelance Scenic Designer. He is a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) and has an unlimited monthly Metrocard, on occasion.

Chloe Z. Brown, Lighting Designer
Chloe is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer and production manager. She's been doing both at Dance Theater Workshop since 2002. Previous to her work at DTW, she traveled the world, lighting things up along the way for the likes of LAVA, Jeanine Durning, Julie Altas Muz, Lisa Race, Luciana Achugar, David Neumann, Yvonne Rainer, Cynthia Hopkins, Liz Lerman David Dorfman, Dan Froot, Susan Marshall, Vicki Schick, and Amanda Loulaki for which she won a Bessie Award. Chloë is the resident lighting designer for RMM, and Old Tricks is her second collaboration with the company. She loves her work.

Gina Samardge, Musician
Gina grew up in the middle of Ohio where she spent countless hours directing her stuffed animals (and the neighbor boy her mom babysat) as well as polkaing at family gatherings. She went to school, worked, traveled, worked, went to school, and then came to NYC. She’s performed with VOICETheatre, The Soon-To-Be-World-Famous Female Clown troupe and plays accordion with the Main Squeeze Orchestra and Maestrocities. Gina teaches children to sing, move, and use their imaginations, and she likes to play the banjo and guitar. When Gina grows up she want to be an astronaut. Or a fairy.

Gretchen Weber, Stage Manager/Props Designer
Gretchen graduated from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Communication. Since graduation, she has been active in the technical production field in New York, working as a freelance electrician and stage manager at Dance Theater Workshop, the Kitchen, Dancespace Project and the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Recently she returned from a tour to Houston, TX with HT Chen and Dancers as their lighting designer/technical manager. Gretchen also works on the other side of the lights, performing in work by LeTania Kirkland, Sera Huenergard and Leanne Schmidt and Company as well as making her own performance work.

Jared Ranere, Dramaturgical Advisor
A director of his own work and occasional performer, Jared is one of the many irreplaceable brains behind RMM.

Mary Maxfield, Playwright
Known for her plays, poetry, and perpetually-changing hairstyle, Mary currently attends an endearingly small Midwestern university, where she is exploring social work, English, and women and gender studies. When not forcing herself to finish yet another last-minute essay, she slings words across the Internet, which land in various places, including her poetry blog, Gosling and her shy gir's spoken word endeavor missmarymax on YouTube. She continues to write plays (and endless to-do lists), and was a 2001 recipient of YPI’s National Young Playwright Award. As an intern at Girls Speak Out in San Francisco, Mary is now helping to launch the Women Telling Truth to Power project, which collects creative works from women and houses them in cozy cyberspace. She believes in revolution one stanza and one scene at a time.

Mary McKenzie, Costume Designer
Mary is a Brooklyn-based costume designer who is fascinated with all things tactile and textile. Mary holds a degree in textiles and photography from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She has costumed previous shows for Red Metal Mailbox including Old Tricks, Fractal Remainder, and Space Karaoke, as well as designed for numerous solo dance-artists in New York City.

Matthew Kinney, Performer
Matthew recently concluded the year-long run of THE MACGUFFIN? with the Lucid Theatre Company at the Bowery Poetry Club. His other New York credits include: SPACE KARAOKE, PROJECT C: IS THIS A DREAM? (NY Fringe 2002), NEVER LIVE LONG IN CAGES (NY Fringe 2001), HO HO HO (The Access Theater), THE SECOND STRING (Gideon Theatricals), and THE 24 HOUR PLAYS. His regional credits include HAY FEVER, THE REAL THING, 1940’s RADIO HOUR, THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED), and performing with the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Matthew is a native of North Carolina and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a co-founder of The Collection Agency Theater Company.

Michelle Ries, Dramaturgical Advisor
Prior to contributing towards a better world through her degree in Public Health from Columbia University, Michelle performed with RMM. She continues to contribute to the company with invaluable feedback throughout our long development process.

Rachel Tiemann, Performer
Rachel graduated from Southern Illinois University with a degree in Theatre Performance. Her New York credits include: Everywhere Leaks Are Appearing at Dixon Place and WAX, Fractal Remainder at the Ground Floor Theatre and the West End Theatre as part of the Artists Of Tomorrow Festival, and an excerpt of Old Tricks at Galapagos as part of the Catch Series. She has also performed with Red Metal Mailbox as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in Safety Pop. She will next be seen in How To Raise the Dead with the Tennessee Project and Measure For Measure with Hipgnosis Theatre. Rachel is a company member of Red Metal Mailbox and teaches for the New Acting Company in Greenwich Village.

Randall Middleton, Performer
Randall is a graduate of New Actors Workshop in New York City where he studied with Mike Nichols, George Morrison and Paul Sills. His credits include Angelo in the Paul Sills directed MEASURE FOR MEASURE, Jed Rowen in THE KENTUCKY CYCLE and John Proctor in THE CRUCIBLE. Randall has also performed with St. Louis Shakespeare Company and Magic Smoking Monkey Theater in St. Louis.

Sarah Gancher, Composer/Musician
Sarah G. is a playwright, director and violinist who sometimes works with puppets and clowns. She plays mostly jazz but has recently begun forays into the world of bluegrass. Past theatrical composition and musical-direction experiences include Picasso's Desire Caught By the Tail (with her theater company Curious Noise), Troy Women and Breasts of Tiresias. She is currently writing a one-woman show about con-artists with actress/writer Sasha Cucciniello.

Sarah Maxfield, Artistic Director
Sarah grew up in the cornfields of southern Illinois where she dreamed of moving to New York City. Now she lives in New York City and dreams of wide open spaces. She is the Artistic Director of Red Metal Mailbox, and has directed each of the company’s previous productions, as well as written a few, and even performed in one. Maxfield curates THROW, a works-in-progress series at the Chocolate Factory Theater, writes for The Inquisitive Owl, and is the Capital Project Director at Danspace Project.

Sasha Cucciniello, Performer
Sasha's acting credits include LOVEBIRD WITH A MIRROR, SHORTS, DESIRE CAUGHT BY THE TAIL, CITY FOR SALE, and TRAVELOGUE - A MOTIONPICUTRE OF MEMORY. She studied with the San Francisco Mime Troupe and participated in the Sundance Film Festival retreat in the summer of 2002. Sasha is a founding member of Curious Noise Theater and a company actor with Red Metal Mailbox.

Steve Grote, Producer
The list of animals which interest Steve includes but is not limited to: great white sharks, wolves, hippopotami, giant squid, bats, aardvarks, octopuses, pandas, sting rays, coati, cuttlefish, polar bears, blue whales, ring-tailed lemurs, lobsters, elephants, Sterling jays, and most all types of monkeys. Steve would also like to learn all about outer space.