Staff

Britton Buttrill

Artistic Associate

Britton is a graduate of Oglethorpe University where he studied English Literature and Theatre. He also studied Playwriting and Romantic Literature at Trinity College; Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a freelance writer who has been published in Atlanta INtown Paper, Telefunkin' Magazine, Opium Magazine, and The Oxford Review. Prior to working with Pinch n' Ouch, Britton held a dramaturgy internship with Georgia Shakespeare Festival, in addition to a public relations internship in the Governor's Office of Communications. His play Uffizi was recently presented at the 2012 Strawberry One-Act Festival in New York City and the Atlanta Fringe Festival. Britt will be getting his MA as New School University in NYC.

Daryl Fazio

Artistic Associate

Daryl’s writing for the stage includes Greyhounds (American Theatre of Actors; Theatre Row; NYC), Georgia Out of My Mind (Minnesota Fringe Festival), Split in Three (Eudora Welty New Plays Series winner), and three musicals written with composer, Aaron McAllister: POPart, The Musical (2010 New York Musical Theatre Festiva), lift (staged reading, York Theatre, NYC) and Blackout (October reading at the Alliance through Working Title Playwrights). She holds a B.S. in Theatre/Acting (Northwestern University) and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design (University of Memphis). Daryl pays the bills as a freelance graphic designer specializing in the Arts (her design can be seen in local theatre venues as well as national ones). She is a member of Working Title Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild. She most recently performed in Body Awareness at Pinch 'n' Ouch and In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play at Synchronicity Theatre.

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Grant McGowen

Producing Artistic Director

Grant McGowen is a founding member of the Pinch n’ Ouch Theatre. His Producing credits include: Suzi Bass recommended Body Awareness and Tape, Bachelorette, The Issues Project, Autobahn, Lobby Hero, Reasons To Be Pretty, and Tits & Assets. Theatre Performance credits include: Tape, Autobahn, Reasons To Be Pretty, Five Flights, The Shape of Things, The Glass Menagerie, Hamlet, Burn This, Golden Boy, Threes a Crowd, La Ronde, and Strange Snow.  Directing credits: Speed-the-Plow, Bachelorette, Autobahn, The Issues Project, Lobby Hero, and Tits & Assets. Playwright credits: Tits & Assets which world premiered at the Churnichin Theatre in New York City and Lets Make It. Grant is a graduate of the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts where he studied the Meisner Technique. He teaches PnO's Meisner Acting Classes.

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Justin Anderson

Artistic Associate

Justin directed Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre's "Body Awareness" in 2011. Previous directing credits include Autobahn, Ordinary Days, The Last Romance, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (Synchronicity Theatre), The Unexpected Showcase (Alliance Theatre Education), Say de Kooning and Lady of Fadima (The Jameson Project), and numerous high school productions during his four years as a theatre educator in Cartersville, Georgia. Since the summer of 2009, Justin has served as the production director for KidStuf at North Point Community Church. He holds a BA in theatre arts from Campbell University (Buies Creek NC), and a MA in theatre studies from Regent University. His upcoming works include: ONE-MINUTE PLAYS at Actors Express, TIME BETWEEN US at Serenbe Playhouse, TIGERS at Aurora Theatre, ASSASSINS at Fabrefaction Theatre, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at Stage Door Players, HARABEL at Theatrical Outfit, the remount of PETITE ROUGE with Synchronicty Theatre, and THE FABULOUS LIPITONES at Theatrical Outfit.

Kenneth Camp

Artistic Associate

Kenneth Camp II is a graduate from SC Governor's School of the Arts and Humanities and College of Charleston. He has appeared in Pinch 'n' Ouch productions Autobahn and Lobby Hero, and Assitant Directed Speed-the-Plow.

Mandy Butler

Artistic Associate

Mandy Butler holds a BA in Theatre Performance from Georgia College & State University and an MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University. She specializes in applying the Meisner Technique to Longform Improvisation and has taught Meisner in Improv master classes at many improv festivals and studios, as well as at the Southeastern Theatre Conference Convention. As an adjunct faculty member at VCU, she taught undergraduate classes in Meisner, Acting, and Longform Improvisation.  Mandy, who has been studying the Meisner Technique for twelve years, earned her Meisner teacher certification through Larry Silverberg’s True Acting Institute at Willamette University. She is currently working on turning her thesis, Meeting Sanford Meisner: An Investigation of the Origins, Development, and Practical Application of the Meisner Technique, into a very nerdy book.  Mandy has studied and performed improv at Chicago's Annoyance Theatre, Atlanta’s Whole World Theatre, Improv Nashville, and the Richmond Comedy Coalition. She has trained with instructors from BATS Improv, Upright Citizens Brigade, iO, and Steppenwolf West. Mandy coached youth improv for the YMCA artEMBRACE program and headed up the improv curriculum at Bravo Creative Arts Center in Nashville.  She was also co-founder and artistic director of FuseBox Theatre.

Michael Henry Harris

Artistic Associate

Michael directed the Suzi Bass recommended Tape at Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre in 2011. Other directing credits include: Sylvia and Proof both at OnStage Atlanta. Acting credits include the unnamed narrator in Connor McPherson's one man show St. Nicholas and Ned/Walker inThree Days of Rain. As a producer and Co-Artistic Director of NYC based InViolet Rep, he has produced three world premiers including Melanie Maras' Kiss Me on the Mouth directed by downtown theater stalwart and newly produced Broadway playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis (The Motherfu**er with the Hat, Jesus Hopped the A Train). InViolet recently produced Michael's first play 40 Weeks which also premiered in Atlanta at OnStage. Michael's most recent play Crimes Against Humanity premiered at the Atlanta Fringe Festival.

Susan Reid

Artistic Associate

Susan Reid will direct Pinch 'n' Ouch Theatre's Some Girl(s) in September of 2012. An active member of the Atlanta theatre community, Ms. Reid was named Director of the Year in The Sunday Paper 2010 Spotlight awards. She holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of North Carolina Greensboro and a B.A. in English from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. From February of 2008 until September of 2010, Susan served as Director of Education and Artistic Associate at Aurora Theatre where she helped create and build the Aurora Academy programs bringing in countless students to see shows and further their theatrical training. Additionally, Susan served as Head of the B.F.A. Acting Program at Columbus State University from 2001-2004. She has also served on the faculty of Kennesaw State University, University of West Georgia, High Point University and as an acting instructor for both students and working professionals at several theatres. She was a participant in the 2009 Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab. Favorite directing credits include: Theatre in the Square: Rabbit Hole, Tuesdays with Morrie, A Piece of My Heart, The 1940’s Radio Hour (2003,2004,2005), Red Herring; over a dozen productions for Aurora Theatre: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Boeing,Boeing, Tranced, Corpse!, Annie Get Your Gun; Actor’s Express: 100 Saints You Should Know; Jewish Theatre of the South: Hard Love, Brooklyn Boy, Chopped Liver in Paradise; Theatrical Outfit: It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (2007,2008 voted “Best Holiday Show” by AtlantaIntown), Cotton Patch Gospel.

Topher Payne

Artistic Associate