About MST
Chris O'Connor / Rachel Fowler / Jenny Levison / Raymond McAnally

 

 

Chris O'Connor
Founder and Artistic Director
Chris founded Mile Square Theatre in 2002. He conceived and produces the annual 10-minute play festival 7th Inning Stretch. His MST directing credits include St. Columba and the River, The Souls of Black Folk, John Redding Goes to the Sea, Charlie Peter's Striking Out the Babe for the 2003 7th Inning Stretch, Warren Leight's The Love of the Game for the 2004 Stretch, Jenny Levison's Homefield Advantage for the 2006 Stretch, the inaugural MST Mainstage production, Cyrano, and he co-directed (with Jeff Steitzer) last summers The Scams of Scapin, for which he played the title role. As an actor, Chris has been associated with 12 Miles West, A Contemporary Theatre, The Culture Project, Soho Rep, the 78th Street Theatre Lab, Target Margin, Gloucester Stage, Book-It Repertory, City Theatre in Pittsburgh, Provisional Theatre of Los Angeles, The Bathhouse, Seattle Children's Theatre, among others. He is a theatre educator, and his original plays for young people have been produced at The Seattle Children's Theatre. He has taught theatre at Colgate University and Fairleigh Dickinson University, as well as schools in Hoboken. He will be teaching at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2007-08. He holds a BFA in acting from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University. He lives in Hoboken with his wife Annie McAdams and their daughter Willa Jean.

 

Rachel Fowler
Artistic Associate
Rachel Fowler started producing in 1999, with My Elizabeth, which won first place in the Strawberry Festival at the Riant Theatre that year. Cloud 9 followed in 2001 with the Florida Project, to critical acclaim. She developed a new piece with director Stephen Hollis, The Pagans by Ann Noble, which was produced at the Abingdon Theatre Company in February 2004. As an actress, her New York credits include The Daughter-in-Law at The Mint (Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival), The Triangle Factory Fire Project on Theatre Row with TACT, and The Pagans at the Abingdon.  Regional theatre credits include:  the West Coast Premiere of Fiction at the Old Globe, All My Sons at the Denver Center, Hobson's Choice at Playmakers Repertory Triangle Award for Best Actress in a Comedy), Amadeus at the Pioneer Theatre Company, Proof and King o' the Moon at Cincinnati Playhouse as well as Antigone & Huis Clos in French with Théàtre du Rêve.  She is a company member of The Actors Company Theatre, and of the Urban Rock Project.  A graduate of Northwestern University and the Apprentice Program at Actors Theatre of Louisville, she resides in South Orange, New Jersey and sits on MST's Board of Trustees.


Jenny Levison
Literary Associate
Jenny Levison is a playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. Her plays include Shtil, Mayn Corazon -- A Yiddish Tango Cabaret, Don't Kiss Me I'm In Training, Dia de los Muertos, The Scams of Scapin, and The Next Big Thing. Her work has been produced, developed, and screened in theaters across the U.S. Jenny holds a BA from Bates College and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, where she now teaches. For more info: www.dotellproductions.com

 

 

Raymond McAnally
Artistic Associate

Raymond hails from Franklin, Tennessee.  In 2005, he completed his M.F.A. in Acting at Rutgers University:  Mason Gross School of the Arts.  Since that time, he has appeared as a principal performer in union television, radio, commercial, print, and theatre.  He has performed in New York for theatres such as LAByrinth, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La MaMa E.T.C., The Ohio, and the Abingdon.  Regional theatres include Long Wharf, Florida Rep, and of course, Mile Square.  Mile Square credits include roles in St. Columba & the River, Scapin, and the 2005 & 2006 7th Inning Stretch.

When not performing, Raymond is a dedicated Teaching Artist in the New Jersey/ New York area.  He teaches workshops in the fields of acting, speech, dialects, Shakespeare, stage combat safety, and business.  He is also the founder and head coordinator of the East Coast chapter of the Rutgers Theatre Alumni network (The RTA). 

He holds a BA in Philosophy from Sewanee:  the University of the South.  He is a member of AEA, AFTRA, the Michael Howard Conservatory (Summer 2000), and is a ‘LAB Friend’ at LAByrinth Theatre.