Gillian Riley Nogeire: Artistic Director and Founder
Gillian Riley Nogeire is a freelance director of musicals, classic plays and operas. Her most recent directing credits include Angry Birds, Best/Worst Day Ever, Alone World for which she won honorable mention for best direction, the award winning new musical The Man in the Iron Mask performed at the Jerry Orbach Theater, Stuck with Left Hip Productions and Abnormal Psychology for which she won the West Village Music Theatre Festival award for best direction. Gillian is a member of The Lincoln Center Directors Lab and associate member of SDC.
Corinne Woods: General Manager
Corinne Woods is a stage manager and arts administrator. With Snorks and Pins, Corinne stage managed two summer productions, Love's Labour's Lost and Romeo and Juliet. She's dabbled in all types of theater, but she loves coming back to Snorks and Pins. By day, Corinne is the Associate Producer and former Production Manager for the All For One Theater Festival. By night, she's a bit of a dork.
Chris Fiz: Resident Playwright
Chris Fitz is a New York based playwright and lyricist. His work has been performed at The Arclight, Roy Arias Off Off Broadway Theatre, Manhattan Rep, and various venues around Manhattan. He is a graduate from New York University's Steinhardt School and currently a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop as a lyricist. Chris has written for three Snorks and Pins productions and hopes to write for many more in the future.
Tarun Shanker: Resident Playwright
After tragically losing his childhood innocence by watching Steven Seagal kick a man under a train in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Tarun Shanker emerged from the shadows of Boston's suburban sprawl to become a writer of genre fiction, screenplays, stageplays and film criticism. He's a graduate of New York University with a BFA in Film/TV and English Literature and is happy to have been a part of four Snorks and Piñs one-act festivals with How to Win a Balcony Scene, The Many Universes of Elizabeth Brooks, The Snow Queen and Poppy Seeds. He will soon be in Los Angeles attempting to search and/or sell his soul for answers to the questions of the universe and/or money.
Gowan Cambell: Resident Performer
Gowan Campbell is not an actor intentionally; he is an English major who kind of stumbled into theatre, and for some reason feels compelled to keep doing it, though he's of an introverted temperament and feels very uncomfortable about it and is convinced that you are all snickering at him behind your hands, ah ha ha ha ha ha. He has appeared with Snorks and Pins in "As You Like It" (2010) and "Romeo and Juliet" (2012). He has done a great deal of work with the Folding Chair Classical Theatre Company as Waffles in "Uncle Vanya", Don John in "Much Ado About Nothing", Cymbeline and Belarius in "Cymbeline", Simonides and Pandar in "Pericles", Bosola in "Duchess of Malfi", Jim in "The Weir", Bottom and Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and Polonius and the Gravedigger in "Hamlet". In the summer of 2012 he appeared as Brabantio and Gratiano in the Gallery Players' production of "Othello".
Justin Jones: Resident Performer
A silly man with a mixture of a northern attitude and southern hospitality. He has worked with Snorks and Piñs a total of five times including As You Like It, Love's Labours Lost, and Willy's Lounge. He also has done many other projects, but none he is more proud of than the productions for the Snorks. There is nothing better than quality theatre that forces you to be a better artist all around and brings a great level of education to the audience.
Nick Neglia: Resident Performer
Nick has acted with the Snorks and Piñs in As You Like It (Jacques) and Willy's Lounge (Alonzo). Other New York and Regional productions include roles in The Misanthrope (Acaste), The Comedy of Errors (Dromio), Mr. 80%, 4Play Sex in a Series, A Little Class and Here Comes The Night (one-man show). Nick holds a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where his primary training was at The Stella Adler Conservatory.
Gwenevere Sisco: Resident Performer
Gwenevere Sisco is an actor and stage director in New York City. In Snorks & Pins’ inaugural production, she played the lead role of Isabella, and she later appeared as Phoebe and William in As You Like It. Favorite stage roles include Violet in Small Craft Warnings, Lavinia in Titus Andronicus, Sonya in Uncle Vanya, Joan in Saint Joan, Nina in The Seagull, and of course, the pill-popping, cross-dressing bewhored lounge singer in Shakespeare's classic, A Twelfth Night's Dream About Nothing. Directing Credits include 36:24:36 (touring company), Beirut at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and The Threadbare Sex at Manhattan Theatre Source and at The Strawberry One-Act Festival, which earned her a Best Director nomination. She is a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, & also studied with the Moscow Art Theatre, The British American Dramatic Academy, and earned her BA in Drama at Loyola University in New Orleans. Miss Sisco is a founding member of Ivy Theater Company.
Graham Stevens: Resident Performer
Graham Stevens is an actor and singer, based in New York City. He is very proud to be joining the Snorks and Piñs company, after appearing as Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet” in 2012. Graham began acting in his native San Diego, appearing with the San Diego Comic Opera, and San Diego Symphony. He earned a BA in Theater at Yale University, with a concentration on acting. While at Yale, Graham was a member of the world-famous Yale Whiffenpoofs a cappella group, and performed all over the world, from Tokyo to Beijing to Nepal to Austria to St Petersburg (Florida). In 2011, Graham won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble for his performance in “In Transit” Off-Broadway at Primary Stages. He is currently appearing as an understudy for Lord Aster, Mrs Bumbrake, and many, many others in “Peter and the Starcatcher” at New World Stages.
Lily Warpinski: Resident Peformer
Lily Warpinski has a BFA in Acting from NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, she also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Recent credits include cheeky Aramanthe in Jean Anouille's satire Cecile ( nominated for a Planet Connections Theater Festivity award, Best Actress), Maggie in Equalogy's One Night (Regional Tour), and Amiens/Audrey in Snorks' As You Like It. Her most cherished role is Petruchio from Taming of A Shrew at RADA.
Aside from acting and all things theater, Lily likes to take adventures, write, garden, and bake.
Aside from acting and all things theater, Lily likes to take adventures, write, garden, and bake.
Jill Wurzburg: Resident Performer
Jill Wurzburg has been delighted by the opportunities she's had with Snorks and Pins to explore characters like the homicidal Caroline, the sex-crazed Snow Queen, and Richard II. She moved to New York in 2009 after studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, American Conservatory Theater, and Stanford University. Favorite roles include L'il Bit in "How I Learned to Drive," Don John in "Much Ado About Nothing," The Mute in "The Fantasticks," and Kathryn in "Splendour."
Kelly Zekas: Resident Performer
Kelly graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and The Stella Adler Studio with a BFA in Acting and a BS in Sociology. Since then, favorite roles include a lot of Shakespeare: Celia in As You Like It (S&P), Benvolio in Romeo & Juliet (S&P), Cordelia in King Lear (American Bard) - and plenty of newer works: Martirio in Alba (Planet Connections), Elizabeth in The Many Universes of Elizabeth Brooks (S&P), and Neara in The Empress of Sex (Planet Connections). Kelly is also a resident artist with The Shakespeare Forum and a founding member of Articulate Theatre Company.
