Biography of Bryn Manion

BRYN MANION is a writer/director, and sometimes still an actor. She was born on August 8, 1975 in Concord, MA, and grew up in Springfield, MA. She attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and graduated as a Commonwealth Scholar with magna cum laude honors with a BA in Theater and English. Bryn is the Co-Founder of Aisling Arts, a New York-based theatre ensemble for which she directs and writes, and sometimes acts. Along with her creative partner, Wendy Remington, she has produced over twenty productions for Aisling Arts in the past five years. She was also the Co-Producer of Free Shakespeare Project, which performed and toured free performances of Shakespeare's plays throughout New England from 1999-2003. Bryn's plays include Eleanor, Apocalypse Not Now (I Have a Headache), A Few Hallelujahs, Dispersal, Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum's Peculiar Penchant for Plosives), and the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence). Her directing credits include A Beggar's Opera, Macbeth, Love's Labour's Lost, Twelfth Night, and Playboy of the Western World. As an actress, Bryn has appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena), Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice), The Taming of the Shrew (Kate), and Life is a Dream (Rosaura). Her play Convergence will published by NYTE in February 2007, and she is currently directing the Force Trilogy (Wanderlust, Threshold, Convergence) for repertory production at New York City's theater for emerging artists, The Chocolate Factory, in January 2007. She works in publishing, and lives in Long Island City, NY, with Sam David and their two cats, Buddhasaurus Rex and Pachuka.