Phoenix Festival DIGITAL Playbill 2024 (2) - Flipbook - Page 26
CHRISTOPHER KYLE (Playwright)
Christopher Kyle’s plays include Plunge and The Monogamist, both
of which premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons; The Safety
Net, which premiered at Broken Watch Theatre in New York; Boca,
which premiered at Charlotte Repertory Theatre; and Dessert at Waf昀氀e
House, Breakfast Anytime, which premiered at West Coast Ensemble. As a screenwriter his credits include Serena, Alexander, K-19: The
Widowmaker and The Weight of Water. He is a former Guggenheim fellow in drama and a
graduate of the MFA program in playwriting at Columbia University.
JOHN LENARTZ* (Resident Artist) (he/him)
John Lenartz is a proud Phoenix Theatre Ensemble Board Member,
and was thrilled last fall to be part of the inaugural Phoenix Festival
Live Arts in Nyack, appearing in The Importance of Being Earnest
(Lane/Merriman), The Skin of Our Teeth (Mammoth/Broadcaster),
and The Harmfulness of Tobacco (Ivan Nyukhin). With Phoenix Theatre
Ensemble: The Cult Play (Papa Jaye); Tartuffe (Orgon); Entertaining
Mr. Sloane (Kemp); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Dogsborough/The Actor/Defense
Counsel); The Gambler (General Zagorski); Dogg’s Hamlet/Cahoot’s Macbeth (Easy);
Iphigenia at Aulis (Menelaos); An Enemy of the People (Dr. Stockmann); The Lesson (The
Professor); Wolfpit (Whityard); The Trial (Josef K); and many staged readings. On Broadway: Inherit the Wind (Ensemble), National Actors Theatre. Off-Broadway: Little Women (Mr.
Laurence/March), Primary Stages; The Idiot (Prince Myshkin), Manhattan Ensemble Theatre.
New York: Operating Systems (Stephen); The Sea Concerto (Chappy), Flux Theatre Ensemble;
The Texas Trilogy (Col. J.C. Kincaid), ReGroup Theatre; Under Milkwood (Waldo/Ensemble);
Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry), The Brothers Karamazov (Alyosha), Jean Cocteau
Repertory. Regional & National Tours: Macbeth (Macbeth), National Shakespeare Company;
Camelot (Arthur), Henry V (Henry), Texas Shakespeare Festival; Twelfth Night (Toby Belch),
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble; To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch), Hangar Theatre; The
Grapes of Wrath (Jim Casy), Arkansas Repertory.
SIDDHARTH RAJ (Resident Artist) (he/him)
Siddharth Raj is a Brooklyn-based performer and writer. When he’s
not improvising regency scandals, you can 昀椀nd him performing comedy/clown in his apartment, coaching youth sports, or injuring himself playing coed rec softball. Follow him on Instagram @thesquidraj.
