CAITLIN BEBB is a Brooklyn-based actor and pie baker. Caitlin is the sole company member from the quaint streets of Los Angeles, CA. After graduating with a BFA from SUNY Purchase, she formed Glass Bandits (a theater collective) and co-wrote, produced, and starred in In Memoriam: A Recession Play in 13 Acts. She joined SponsoredBy Nobody for development of ATM or this is [not] new york at University Settlement in New York and its subsequent world premiere in Antwerp, Belgium. She is now slowly weaning herself off of Nutella.

MIKE CARLSEN is an actor and con-artist currently residing in New York City. A graduate of the Acting conservatory at Purchase College-SUNY, Carlsen was an original cast member of The Position from its workshop days in 2005. He recently worked at Lincoln Center with Tom Stoppard on The Coast of Utopia -- which thus far is his only sellout (Broadway) acting job. The Coast of Utopia went on to win the 2007 TONY award for “Best Play” -- largely due to Carlsen’s artistic vision, as was reflected in Mr. Stoppard’s TONY acceptance speech. Carlsen was most recently seen in SBN’s Behind The Bullseye as an Assistant Store Manager with a fondness for De Goya. He remains thrilled to be part of a company committed to making socially relevant theatre that makes you think with a few laughs and a kick in the ass.

MAYRA CASTRO is a native of Chile, where she studied filmmaking in Escuela De Cine De Chile in Santiago. While specializing in Production Design, she worked primarily in independent Chilean short and feature film. Moving to New York in 2007 to study acting, Castro graduated from the New York Film Academy in 2009 and shortly afterwards discovered Sponsored By Nobody. She debuted as an original cast member of Behind The Bullseye and continues to work with the SBN’s side film projects, as well as the development of ATM or this is [not] new york. Castro actively works in New York as an Art Director and actor on The Stimulating and The Experimental. She owns a cell phone which can never be turned off.

KEITH JAMAL DOWNING is a native New Yorker and the sole company member who hails from The Bronx. His journey in the world of theatre and film began at an early age at the Abron Arts Center, where he played Suieman in Don’t See My Bones, which was later featured in the PBS documentary, Africans in America. He graduated from the Acting conservatory at Purchase College-SUNY. His recent credits include: Byron and Emily Go To Work (Dublin Fringe Festival); Sweet Back Bad Ass Song (Classical Theatre of Harlem); the Melvin Van Peebles production of Ain’t Suppose Die A Natural Death (Classical Theatre of Harlem); and NBC’s Law & Order: SVU. A voiceover artist in his own right, Downing has work on the video games Liberty City’s Grand Theft Auto and Rock Star Video’s Warriors. Downing was last featured in SBN’s Behind The Bullseye and is ecstatic to be working with the company.

KEVIN DOYLE grew up in the shadow of a large New York shopping mall. He graduated with honors from the Drama Studies program at Purchase College-SUNY and is a founding member of Sponsored By Nobody and the Mirrornauts. Doyle has written and/or directed nine original plays, while working as a film director in France, Sweden and the United States. The author of several plays -- including The Position, not from canada and The Amputated Years -- his work has been translated into French and Romanian. Since 2005, he has served as the Artistic Director of Sponsored By Nobody. Doyle is the recipient of a Thornton Wilder Fellowship at The MacDowell Colony; a Future Leaders Fellowship from NYFA; a residency in Performance & Media at The Corporation of Yaddo; and playwriting residencies at the Edward F. Albee Foundation and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. In 2012, he was selected as a finalist for the Wooda Arts Award, and received a month residency with full bursary in Cornwall, England.

JOSH EDELMANN is a a native New Yorker and the sole company member who hails from Manhattan. A graduate of the Stella Adler Conservatory, Edelmann began working with SBN on the development of W.M.D. (just the low points) in 2008 and toured with the world premiere production in Belgium and The Netherlands in 2009. He would like to thank his friends and family for all of their encouragement.

SCOTT MILLER is a founding member of Sponsored By Nobody and has had the pleasure of working on The Position, Fox(y) Friends, not from canada, W.M.D. (just the low points) and performing one night in Behind The Bullseye. He's thrilled to be involved in socially relevant theater that both questions our modern American lives and provides ample opportunity for onstage pants-dropping.  He would like to take a moment to applaud Doyle, for his commitment to exploring important issues that miss the front page headlines. Most people refer to Scott by his aforementioned last name.  Miller's been seen throwing people in jail on One Life to Live, getting caught watching adult films in a hospital on All My Children and suffering unrequited love in the Warner Bros.' teen comedy, The Weekend.  Thanks very much to everyone.

SAUDA JACKSON is an actor who for the last ten years has had the distinct pleasure of working at the forefront of experimental New York theatre. Originally from Chicago, Jackson studied Acting at Eastern Illinois University and Brooklyn College-CUNY. Jackson has worked with International WOW Company on Limitless Joy and The Expense of Spirit; producer/director DJ Mendel on his film adaptation of Richard Foreman’s Planet Earth; and finally as a company member of Sponsored By Nobody on Behind The Bullseye and ATM or this is [not] new york.

KATE MORAN studied at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where she began working with the company GAle GAtes et al under the direction of Michael Counts, as well as with directors Bob McGrath and Pascal Rambert.  Following a long research process in which Rambert discovered a new form of theatre and created a new version of his company SideOne Posthume Theatre, Kate performed in Paradis, Le Debut de l’A, and De Mes Propres Mains (partial list), while continuing to work with other companies in New York, Belgium and Paris.  Having made films with such directors as Yann Gonzalez and Martineau / Ducastel, she will next be seen in Chesterfield, directed by Fabrice Chazeneuve and Elle s’appelle Sarah directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner.  Kate was an original cast member, collaborator and co-creator on W.M.D. (just the low points). She lives in Brooklyn and Paris.

MEGHA NABE is the sole member of SBN who left New York for an education in the Midwest. Earning her MFA from the University of Iowa, she returned to her native land of perpetual horns and sirens. Although she misses the sound of crickets, working with Sponsored By Nobody has eased the transition. The development and premiere of ATM or this is [not] new york marked her first show with the company. When she is not traveling to foreign lands with SBN, she is a resident actor at The Flea Theater. Megha is humbled to be working with such great artists -- as she finds the work of SBN evocative, relevant and all-around better time than those Stepford Wive musicals on Broadway.

PAUL NEWPORT is a founding company member of Sponsored By Nobody since it's premiere of The Position in 2005. In 2007/08, he worked on SBN's work-in-progress, W.M.D. (just the low points), Compression of a Casualty at the Brick Theater's Pretentious Festival and not from canada at the New York International Fringe Festival. Other New York theatre credits: Sam Shepard's Buried Child, The Mound Builders by Lanford Wilson and with the Michael Chekhov Theatre Company in the recurring role of Slim in Shepard's Cowboy Mouth. His film Diaper Boy recently premiered in NYC and he holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Brooklyn College (CUNY). For more info, please visit www.paulcnewport.com .

SEAN O’HAGAN is a founding member of Sponsored By Nobody, and has appeared in The Position (ICE FACTORY ’05 and BERKSHIRE FRINGE), Compression of a Casualty, not from canada, and W.M.D. (just the low points) [Belgium/The Netherlands ’09 and ICE FACTORY ’08]. Other theater credits include: Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss [White Horse Theater Company]; Selling Arnold [NYC and Hollywood productions]; and Behind All Lines [Lion Theatre on Theatre Row]. Sean is a member of the Old Vic New Voices network, and appeared in their 2009 US/UK Exchange at the Public Theater. He has done commercial work for ESPN; starred in shorts for Howcast Media; was a cast member of the web series Sweet and Spicy; and can be seen smashing Stephen Colbert's car with a sledgehammer in the film version of Comedy Central’s Strangers with Candy. Sean attended Ballard High School in Louisville, KY; Purchase College-SUNY; and studied acting with Larry Singer. He is always reading four books at once, downloading music he won't listen to for six months and is in constant need of a haircut.

HANNAH LOUISE POSTON is [not] a New Yorker, and the only company member who hails from North Carolina. She spent her childhood in Pennsylvania and in parts of Israel/Palestine, where she began to write poetry at the age of eight. She received the Thomas Wolfe Scholarship in Creative Writing at UNC Chapel Hill, after which she became Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School for Boys in Washington, DC. A recipient of a 2008 Poetry Fellowship at The MacDowell Colony, she continued her work in poetry as Artist-in-Residence at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Poston met fellow MacDowell alum, Kevin Doyle, and was lured to Belgium and The Netherlands to participate in the world premiere tour of W.M.D. (just the low points) -- with the yet-unfulfilled promise of silver lamé leggings. A dedicated and passionate student of Argentine Tango since 2007, Poston has continued her studies under Alex Krebs in Portland, OR. She has worked as a guest artist for Sharna Fabiano Tango Company, writing the script for the multimedia performance Abrazo. Her poems have appeared [or] are forthcoming in several literary journals. ATM or this is [not] new york will be her second stint with Sponsored By Nobody -- and she’s still keeping her fingers crossed for the leggings.

BRENDAN REGIMBAL is a company member of Sponsored By Nobody and serves as Technical Director on each production. A New York theatre artist working in the city since 2004, Regimbal has also served as the resident Stage Manager at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater and serves as one of the co-curators of its INCUBATOR residency program. Regimbal first began working with SBN as a co-designer on W.M.D. (just the low points) in 2007 and has served in that capacity on Behind The Bullseye and ATM or this is [not] new york. He has also been a collaborator with several other downtown NYC theatre companies and artists, including Title:Point Productions, 31 Down Radio Theater, The Paper Industry and the 3LD Technology Center. Regimbal recently served as Assistant Director to Richard Foreman on his recent production of Idiot Savant at the Public Theater (with Willem DaFoe).

GARRET SAVAGE ’s work as a filmmaker spans a variety of formats including documentaries, fiction features, film trailers, short films, television commercials, and theater. His recent film editing work includes an episode of the forthcoming HBO documentary series My American Dream, the feature documentary Paper or Plastic? (Los Angeles Film Festival 2008), and the documentary film version of Naomi Wolf’s best-selling book, The End of America. He is currently editing Generation X Moscow, a Sundance Documentary Institute supported documentary scheduled for broadcast on PBS in 2010. He has directed and edited numerous award-winning shorts and in 2005 he was profiled as one of The Independent magazine’s “Top Short Filmmakers.” His rural documentary, 4-Cylinder 400, continues to be broadcast on the Independent Film Channel. Other editing credits include the fiction feature Olympia (Slamdance, Sundance Channel) as well as projects for a variety of networks and studios including Paramount Pictures, ABC/ESPN, Discovery, WE, MTV, and the Style Network. Savage has worked with Sponsored By Nobody as a photographer, videographer, editor and co-designer on Behind The Bullseye and W.M.D. (just the low points).

WHEATON SIMIS lives in the so-cool secular, urbanite dreamland known as Brooklyn, while working internationally as an actor, writer and deviser of original work. In Paris, he has collaborated on a series of performance pieces at Le Gros Bellec and the Louvre Museum, prior to linking up with SBN at the Monty Arts Center in Antwerp, Belgium. In New York, Simis has performed at Le Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space and the Gene Frankel Theater. He has also worked with SITI Company, The Wooster Group, Pilobolus Dance Theater and has assisted the directors Martha Clarke and Sam Gold at New York Theatre Workshop. Simis trained at Dartmouth College, the National Theater Institute and the Lecoq School in Paris, France. In his free time, Simis skis, collects vices and answers fan mail. If you would like to register a complaint, please surf to www.wheatonsimis.com

SARAH STEPHENS first met Doyle as a playwright while working on his play Compression of a Casualty in 2006 at the Gallery Players New Play Festival.  Like many young women, she wondered why it took Doyle until 2008 to get back in touch. Sarah’s SBN credits include Behind the Bullseye [Ontological Theater] and WMD (just the low points) [Belgium/Netherlands ’09 and ICE FACTORY ’08].   Other notable theatre credits include: The Accidental Patriot (Stolen Chair), and the Pulitzer Prize nominated FORCE Trilogy (Aisling Arts).  Independent film credits: Love You Back (Julio Barros) and Kingdom of Ultimate Power (Pilotlight Pictures). Sarah is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School. Before acting, she was a reporter and taught English in Japan.  More info at www.sarah-stephens.com

MATTHIEU SYS studied Acting and Modern Dance Theater at the Kopergietery theater in Gent, Belgium. After 6 years of training, he was cast in his first professional production Brief (Letter)and toured arts centers and festivals throughout Europe. He has subsequently toured with Marthe, Martha, Mathilde, Matthieu -- a dance production with 4 dance solos by 4 different choreographers; the play Dallas by Johan De Smet and the production Rennen (Run), which is still touring. He has made guest appearances on two of Belgium's biggest TV shows: Flikken and Vermist; and was part of Nic Balthazar's highly acclaimed Ben-X. A previosu resident of New York City, Sys studied Acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse and graduated in 2010, while working on several short films. He began working with Sponsored By Nobody on ATM or this is [not] new york during New York and Antwerp rehearsals and is currently working with Ontroerend Goed at the London National Theatre Studio on the show audience.

VICKI THOMSON serves as the British contingent of Sponsored By Nobody and has worked as stage manager and assistant director on four productions:  Compression of a Casualty, Fox(y) Friends, not from canada, the New York development of W.M.D. (just the low points) and its world premiere tour in Belgium and The Netherlands. Vicki trained in stage management at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and now lives in London working as a freelance casting director. She is ecstatic to be involved with a leading experimental theatre company that doesn't mind her excessive usage of the word “phenomenal”.

Sponsored By Nobody remains indebted to the contributions of the following collaborators and colleagues :

Philippa Wehle, Dan Safer, Brian Snapp, Steve Shakewell, Natalie Kim, Jessa Wildemeersch, Calder Corey, Nicole Colbert, Mokhallad Rasem, Captain Tom, Jean-Philippe Joubert & Julie Morel, Chris Gentile, Gregory Gilmore, Troy Lescher, Keri Meoni, Wesley Reilly, Dan Roach, Mare Hieronimus, Christine Darch, Jonny Cigar, Sofie Van den Bulke, Laura Adams, Cem Baza, Sarah Flanagan, Peter Hoerburger, Macha Ross, Cynthia Ramos, Ishah Jansen-Faith, Elizabeth Woodard, Shelly Bhalla, Michael Criscuolo, Brian Distance, Varick Boyd, Patrick Shefski, McKenna Kerrigan, Aaron Matthias, Michelle Rafic, Patrick Clancy, Peter Mills Weiss, Najib De Brackenier, Shoshana Polanco, Daniel Popa, Gioavanni Salici, and Martin Denton.