3rd Annual One Act Play Festival Creative

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Director
Luke Ferrell
Luke is a New Jersey-based Stage Director and Teaching Artist and the proud Owner and Artistic Director of Ferrell Studios! Some credits include Puffs (Director), Songs for a New World (Director), The Last Five Years (Director), Into the Woods (Music Director), Alice in Wonderland (Co-Director), Ideation (Co-Director), Spring Awakening (Music Director), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Director), Sweet Charity (Director). He is a Teaching Artist with Fresh Theatre Arts, where he is the Fall Drama Director and Spring Musical Technical Director for Highland Park High School. He is also the Technical Director at Henry Hudson Regional School and an Instructor and Music Director at the Middletown Arts Center.
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Playwright
Holly Stefanik
Holly Stefanik is currently a Pre-K 4 teacher, director, actress and playwright based in NJ. Holly is a graduate from Drew University with a Master Degree in Teaching and a Bachelors in Theatre Arts. In 2022, she won the Oxnam Playwright Award for her play, “In The Name of the Mother.” Most recently, she has directed the WHATCo One Act Play Festival (2024), Tony Ricci Has Acid Reflux (2021), 21 Chump Street (2021), and ON THE BRINK (2020). She has also stage managed off-off Broadway at La MaMA in 2020 with “Bro-tox.” Recent performance credits include: Carrie (Miss Gardener), Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Twelfth Night (Maria) and Almost, Maine (Gayle).
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Playwright
Uchenna Agbu
Uchenna Agbu is a writer and director from Willingboro, NJ. She currently works as a freelance director and arts administrator throughout New Jersey and New York City. She is currently working on the management team for the Broadway Revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. This past May, she graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s in theater arts and minors in creative writing and human resource management. Directing credits include: Stephen Sondheim’s Company, The Last Five Years, The Niceties, Twelfth Night, and tick, tick…BOOM! @the682exhibition
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Playwright
Sam J. Rabinowitz
Sam J. Rabinowitz sees his life as a series of acts. In Act I, "Education," he was an accordion player for 18 years, performing both as a solo artist and with classical ensembles, orchestras, a garage band, his own trio, and a USO Troupe. He wrote his first song in Junior High School, and his first musical during his freshman year in college. Following graduate school and an MBA from Wharton, came Act II, "Vocation," and he was a small businessperson for 42 years. Retiring in the fall of 2018, he is now in Act III, "Inspiration." He resides in Cherry Hill, N.J.
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Playwright
Sophia Frances
Sophia Frances is a New Jersey based actress, writer, and filmmaker. She has been performed in local theaters since she was eleven years-old in shows such as The Crucible and Much Ado About Nothing. Over the past three years, Sophia has acted in ten short films and two network television shows. Having recently graduated from the theater department at Rutgers University, Sophia plans to continue acting in theater and film, as well as develop and officially launch her film production company within the next year.

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