From the Hip: Horror Festival Actor: Elisa Pupko

Elisa Pupko is excited to be performing in From the Hip Festival this year! New York credits: A Wonderland (Anonymous Ensemble/Ice Factory Festival), The Children’s Hour (Astoria Performing Arts Center), Ready, Set, Story! (The Looking Glass Theatre), Satin Dolls (Broadway Baby Cabaret), Joseph …Dreamcoat (Narrows Theatre), and Central Park - the Musical (Arthur Seelen Theatre). You may also catch Elisa in various episodes of College Humor Originals. A native of Seattle, Elisa loves coffee and hates the rain. BA in Drama from the University of Washington. Elisa sends her love and thanks to Mike for always believing and to Mom for all her support. www.elisapupko.com

From the Hip: Horror Festival Director: Heather Arnson

Heather Arnson (Director) - NYC credits: Very, Very… (dir.) 45^th Street Theatre, The Permanent Night (dir.) Barrow Street Theatre, You Stole My Script (dir.) Nagelberg Theatre , The Art of Being Psychotic (dir.) Gene Frankel Underground; Girl Meets Boy (dir.) Cherchunin Theatre – best director nominee Strawberry Festival; Your Title Goes Here (dir.) Theatre Row; 52-PickUp (dir.) Gene Frankel Theatre; Tammy (dir.) Payan Theatre; directing team of A Stone Carver, Robert Kalfin (dir) Soho Playhouse; Anais Nin (PSM) Beckett Theatre; stage management teams of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Abigail's Party (The New Group) Acorn Theatre, and In The Continuum (Primary Stages) Perry Street Theatre; Big Shot (AD) Trilogy Theatre.

Los Angeles credits include: Dario Fo's, Elizabeth: Almost By Chance A Woman (dir) Ruby Theatre @ The Complex; Steve Martin's WASP (dir) Met Theatre; The Whole Shebang (dir) Met Theatre; Menopause the Musical (P/ASM) Coronet Theatre; Eddie Izzard (PSM) Coronet Theatre; and Gatsby in Hollywood (AD/PSM) Met Theatre.

From the Hip: Horror Festival Director: Joshua Paul Johnson

Joshua Paul Johnson is a dramatist, director and actor living in NYC. This is his fourth festival with Left Hip Productions. He is a graduate of AMDA and currently studies at the New School University. He is the producer and writer of Prompt!, an new, episodic audio theater series. He is currently directing two one-act plays for Kick It short play festival. josh.kaexo.com

From the Hip: Horror Festival Actor: Meredith Sladek

Meredith Sladek is thrilled to once again work with From the Hip in another outstanding production. Previously, she performed in Getting Over as Jonie, Nerve Damage as Amanda (as part of the Shotgun Theatre festival series), and Laurina in Scenes From the Staten Island Ferry with the Sundog Theatre Company. On November 21 and 22, she will participate in a revival of Attack of the Bedbugs at Where Eagles Dare. Other favorite roles include Andy in Out the Window, Mrs. Hale in Trifles, and Rose in Unity (1918). She would like to thank Diamando, Jason, Danika, and Bob for inspiration and inclusion, and Pete, Ruby, and Mr. Kite for love, support, and warm feet at night. Enjoy the show!

From the Hip: Horror Festival Actor: Jared Stanfield

Jared Stanfield is originally from Charleston, SC and is excited to be performing for From The Hip Horror Festival! Jared attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and has appeared on “As The World Turns” and an “I Love New York” American express commercial.

From the Hip: Horror Festival Playwright: Sara McDermott

Sara McDermott holds a master's degree in publishing and writing from Emerson College. In addition to other writing awards, she was the recipient of the 2005 Evvy Award for Best Script, Drama for her screenplay Left. She both wrote and directed the play Lovers, Loners, and Those Who Live, and the film Beginning-of-Life Crisis. She currently works as the international marketing coordinator for the Perseus Books Group and Publishers Group Worldwide. As a free-lance script-writer, she has worked on the television shows Access Asia and Stock Rockets, and traveled to Alaska to write new tour guide scripts for the Klondike Gold Dredge. She was also co-screenwriter on the film Lincoln Green and recently published a book, Memoirs of Meanness, with her sister Melissa McDermott.

From the Hip: Horror Festival Actor/Director: Michael Freeman

Michael Freeman is an actor, clown, choreographer and director. He most recently performed in the off broadway horror spectacle Club Purgatorio, and at the Coney Island and Los Angeles Short Film Festivals in Jonny Von Golden’s horror film series with Ms. Horrorfest star Victoria Timm and burlesque star Gigi La Femme. He will appear in an upcoming television pilot as the demon Zeon in Vortex Cinema’s “B.R.O.O.D.” He has directed several horror themed dance and theater pieces. The Hell Festival at the Brick Theater, HERE Arts Center FUSE Festival, Mulberry Theater New Steps Series, Ralph Lee’s Metawee Theater Company, Toronto Festival of Clowns, Wilmington Delaware Fringe Festival, BAAD in the Bronx, Dixon Place and is currently working on a dance theater piece with musician Robert Jackson’s Twilight Theatre.