Meet the Company

Company

Karen Lange, Artistic Director

Karen is a proud DC actor, singer, improviser, and producer. Ten years later, she is still amazed that Pinky Swear exists and has done so many awesome shows.

Selected acting credits: TAME. (WSC AvantBard); Happy Days (Flashpoint Theater Lab); Assassins and code name: Cynthia (Pallas Theatre Collective); The Carolina Layaway Grail and Our National Museum of the Unforeseen Tragedy (The Welders); Perfect Arrangement (Source Festival); LIZZIE, Over Her Dead Body: A Bluegrass Benediction, the Cabaret XXX series, Bleed, Killing Women, Carol’s Christmas, Be Here Now, and Freakshow (Pinky Swear Productions); A Killing Game (dog & pony dc); Henry IV Part 1 & 2 (Brave Spirits Theater’s re-gendered repertory, role of Falstaff); Romeo and Juliet (Red Eye Gravy Theater Company); A Bright Room Called Day (Nu Sass Productions).

Additionally, she performed with Washington Improv Theater’s iMusical: The Improvised Musical for ten years and Vox Pop, a three person musical improv troupe which has been darling of festivals across the country.

Ryan Maxwell

Ryan is a director and photographer. Recently, he was dramaturgy assistant for Daniel Beaty’s THE TALLEST TREE IN THE FOREST at Arena Stage, directed by Moisés Kaufman. Also at Arena, he was directing assistant to David Esbjornson on Arena’s production of GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER. In DC, he has directed for PinkySwear Productions (Cabaret XXXY: Who Do You Think You Are?), the Inkwell, the Source Festival, the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival, Adventure Theatre MTC, Young Playwrights’ Theatre, and Flying V. Before landing in DC, Ryan spent two years as Artistic Associate at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston, directing touring productions and assisting artistic director Steve Maler on SHAKESPEARE ON THE COMMON. He was also assistant director for Anthony Rapp’s WITHOUT YOU at the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival.

Ryan is a proud member of Young Playwrights’ Theater’s company of artists, Flying V Theatre, InstantDC, and Pinky Swear Productions.

John Bavoso

John Bavoso is a DC-based playwright, editor, copywriter, and blogger who’s thrilled to be joining Pinky Swear Productions as an associate! His first play, Olizzia, premiered at the 2014 Capital Fringe Festival and prompted DC Metro Theatre Arts to dub him “a playwright to watch out for.” His work has appeared on websites like Jezebel.com, Lambda Literary Review, and DC Theatre Scene and in magazines such as the Diplomatic Courier, the 2009 G8 Summit Magazine, and Metro Weekly.

Previous company members: We thank them for helping us grow!

Jessica Aimone

Colin Brush

Maureen Boman

Amy Couchoud

Joan Cummins

Christina Frank

Liz Gossens

Dexter Hamlett

Allyson Harkey

Amanda Herman

Christopher Herring

Laura Esti Miller

Tori Miller-Liu

Kenny Neal

Rachel Lee Poole

Donna Rachelle Reinhold

Toni Rae Salmi

Shane Solo

Lauren Uberman

Natalie Valentine

Tristan B Willis

Anastasia Wilson

Laura Wood

Halah Zenhom