Getting to know our Jimmy Gorski is Dead​ production team:

Carly L. Bodnar (Director) is a director, teaching artist, and sometimes actor. She is the Co-Artistic Director and founding member of ReVamp Collective. Last year she directed, a new piece on gender roles, Sh*t Men Have Said or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Patriarchy as part of the Cincinnati Fringe Festival with ReVamp Collective. Most recently Carly directed Sarah Treem’s A Feminine Ending and one of five pieces for the Vs. Series in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She has directed many staged reading and directed for multiple play festivals some of her favorites include a reading of Arlene Hutton's I Dream Before I Take the Stand and Lisa Fischel's one woman show, In The Terminus. Carly was the associate director on Hedgerow Theater’s Uncle Vanya (Barrymore Recommended). Her assist directing credits include Shakespeare in Clark Park's A Winter's Tale, Lantern Theater Company's Taming of the Shrew (Barrymore Nominated), and Plays and Players' A People's History of the United States. Carly received her BA in Theatre from Temple University with a minor in Art History. Next up she will be working as the community director with Shakespeare in Clark Park on a women-centric Coriolanus.
​For more information visit www.carlylbodnar.com

Raven Buck (Scenic Designer) is a native of Philadelphia. She attended the University of the Arts and graduated with a BFA in Theatre Design and Technologies. She is a resident Teaching Artist with Philadelphia Theatre Company as well as a freelance designer, scenic painter, and electrician. 

Damien Figueras (Sound Designer) is thrilled to be composing and sound designing for Jimmy Gorski. Select previous design credits include Moth (Azuka Theatre, Barrymore Nominated), Wolves (Quince Productions), Antihero (Tribe of Fools), Uninvited Girl (First Person Arts), Son of a Dog (Walnut Street Studio 5). This summer he will be designing and engineering for Millbrook Playhouse's summer season. Dfigueras.com

Amanda Jensen (Lighting Designer) has designed for Gunner Montana Productions (Wroughtland), Inis Nua (Radiant Vermin, Spine), The Ritz Theatre Co. (9 to 5), Unstuck Theatre (XY Scheherazade) , Azuka (Tigers Be Still), The Lantern (Screwtape Letters), and Swarthmore College (Revolt She Said, Revolt Again!, The Seagull, Mercury Fur, Dublin by Lamplight) . She has also assisted at 11th Hour, The Arden Theatre, Theatre Exile, The Wilma, Syracuse Stage, The Curtis Opera, PTC, Theatre Horizon, and New Paradise Laboratories. Amanda is part of the inaugural class of design residents at the Philadelphia Design Center. Her Next upcoming project is Fixed at Passage Theatre.

Kristen M. Scatton (Playwright) is the Associate Artistic Director and Resident Playwright for ReVamp Collective, and is thrilled they are producing her first full-length work, Jimmy Gorski is Dead, in Philadelphia. Her work has been performed throughout Philadelphia and the surrounding area; New Jersey; Cincinnati, OH and Seattle, WA. She is a past Board President and past Board Secretary of the Philadelphia Dramatists Center. She holds a BA from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA in Playwriting from Temple University. Much love to her heterosexual lifemate and partner-in-artmaking, Carly. For Pop.