Principal Biographies
RALPH LEWIS conceived and directed the "Den of Vice" performance party in The Judson House Project and, since 1995, has explored cyberspace with the Internet performance of Privileged & Confidential. More recent success includes mounting the company's entry in last spring's acclaimed peace event The Lysistrata Project and co-founding stART, a new arts program at Judson Church. In addition to many PWP producing achievements, he has directed company productions of Mitya's Ordeal (The Culture Project); 3Christs (with Barry Rowell); Jonah's Escape? (Performance Zone and Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play festivals); aRT (15-Minute Play Festival finalist); "...Take 3..." (The Field's 90 Plays in 9 Days). Ralph currently serves as a representative of the Artist Congress, a year-old collaboration from NY Foundation for the Arts and The Field. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.
CATHERINE PORTER has served as lead and/or co-producer for PWP's 80+ site-specific plays and large-scale performance events, featuring the work of over 100 artists annually from across disciplines. She has performed many leading roles in PWP productions; appeared Off Broadway in Mac Wellman's Obie Award-winning Crowbar; and acted with such Off-off companies as 78th Street Theatre Lab, Empty Space Theatre and Manhattan Punch Line. She co-founded the multi-disciplinary arts series, stART, at Judson Church. Catherine is the Development Director for the renowned performance space, Dixon Place, where she also served as Interim Executive Director (winter '01). From 1999-2003, she worked as Individual Giving Coordinator for HERE Arts Center. A Texas native, Catherine graduated from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth with a BFA in Theatre. She is a member of Actors Equity Association and Step-Up New York, and is on the board of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York.
BARRY ROWELL has written and directed the PWP productions of Freiheit Makes a Stand, It's Good Enough For Me, Before I Wake, the Guided Tour of The Judson House Project, 3Christs (with Ralph Lewis and S.M. Dale), S.M. Dale's Privileged & Confidential (Los Angeles bi-coastal video conference) and Ruth Margraff's Gat Him to His Place at HERE Arts Center. He is currently directing John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (which he is adapting with dramaturg Christopher Burney and visual artist Myrel Chernick). For the American Symphony Orchestra, Barry staged the Kurt Weill opera The Protagonist at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. He has been a grant panelist for the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York's Nancy Quinn Fund and the Fund for Small Theatres, the Vineyard Theatre, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and serves a graphic design consultant for Dixon Place. Barry holds a BFA in directing from Texas Christian University and studied post-graduate theatre history and criticism at the University of Texas at Austin.
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