Who We Are

Stacy Klein is the Founder / Artistic Director of Double Edge. Under her leadership, Double Edge has grown for over 28 years into one of the foremost laboratory, ensemble theatres in the U.S. Klein founded Double Edge in 1982 at Tufts University. The company applied rigorous physical training and the principle of an actor’s autonomy to create work in an ensemble, laboratory setting. The first work created by Klein with Double Edge was a series of plays collectively called the Women's Cycle (1982-1986), followed by the Song Trilogy (1987-1999).

The Garden of Intimacy and Desire performance cycle was created from 2001-2009 and remains in the company’s repertory. the Disappearance is based on a story by Ilan Stavans and premiered at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles (2008).  Republic of Dreams premiered in 2007 and was drawn from the life and work of Polish-Jewish artist Bruno Schulz, whose artistic courage and fertile imagination have served as inspiration for Klein's own work for over twenty years. the UnPOSSESSED, based on Don Quixote, premiered in New York (2004), and was revived at the Kennedy Center and at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque (2008, 2009).

Beginning in 2002, Klein began directing an annual Summer Spectacle series, indoor/outdoor traveling performances that take place throughout the grounds of the Farm Center. The 2010 Spectacle The Firebird, inspired by painter Marc Chagall’s designs for Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ ballet, marked the beginning of a new stage in Double Edge’s work, The Chagall Cycle, a five-performance cycle involving artists from five countries, planned for 2010-15.

Organizing and producing extra-theatrical events has also been central in Klein's work. Her projects include the 1980-81 International Womyn's Theatre Festivals in Boston, the US / Latin American Spiral Mirror Project (1996-2001), the summer Ex-CHANGE programs (2002-4) and, with Poland's Gardzienice Theatre, the International Consortium for Theatre Practices (1999–2001). The ongoing Conversations series, convened with Philip Arnoult, brings internationally renowned artists, writers, and thinkers to the Farm for wide-ranging discussions, broadcast live over the internet.

Klein was mentored in the 1970's and 80's by Rena Mirecka, lead actress of Jerzy Grotowski's Teatr Laboratorium, as well as directors Jacques Chwat and Maxine Klein. She holds a doctorate in Theater History and Criticism from Tufts University (1988), writing her dissertation on Eugenio Barba and Odin Teatret, as well as a BFA (Directing) from Boston University, and an MA (Political Theatre Education) from Goddard College. She was a recipient of the OTTO award for Political Theater, and has received major grants from the Trust for Mutual Understanding, CEC ArtsLink, the Multi-Arts Production Fund of Creative Capital, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Mass. Foundation for the Humanities. Klein received an MCC Artist Award for excellence in theatre creation, an InRoads grant, and was a Mentor in the Doris Duke / Andrew Mellon / TCG New Generations Mentorship Program. Recently, she presented at the NEFA Creative Communities Exchange. Klein is currently co-authoring a book with renowned Moscow Times writer John Freedman.

Carlos Uriona (Master Actor/ Producing Director) has worked with the company since 1996. He is presently working on The Grand Parade, which officially marks the beginning of the five-performance, five-country Chagall Cycle, planned for 2010 – 2015. Uriona is a co-creator of the theatre's most recent cycle of work, the Garden of Intimacy and Desire, and has created leading roles in all four performances of that cycle, including Maarten Soetendrop in the Disappearance and Don Quixote in the UnPOSSESSED. In 2002, Uriona co-founded Double Edge's annual summer series of Indoor/Outdoor Traveling Spectacle performances. Closely connected to this work is Uriona's role as the leader of Double Edge's grassroots campaigns and audience development initiatives. For this he has drawn from his previous work in Argentina, particularly the PLAZA performance project, which brought together thousands of young participants and spectators in squares throughout Buenos Aires. Uriona received an Arts International Inroads Grant, a Lila Wallace APAP award, and was a co-recipient of the Doris Duke/Andrew Mellon/TCG New Generations Mentorship Award. 

Before coming to Double Edge, Uriona founded the award-winning puppet theatre Diablomundo, named one of the "Top Ten Most Important Argentine Theatres of the 20th Century¨ by the Association of Argentinean Critics. Uriona co-created and performed in more than 15 performances with Diablomundo, both original works and adaptations, which toured internationally. In addition, Uriona organized groups of self-managed actors and artist cooperatives as his contribution to the Argentine fight for freedom during the military dictatorship that lasted from 1976 to 1982. These groups included the Agrupacion para el Teatro Rioplatense (1978), Teatro del Ateneo (1978) and Nucleo de Artistas del Sur (1982). Uriona also served as Managing Director at the Clarence Brown Theater in Tennessee in 1995-1996.

Matthew Glassman (Core Actor/ Co-Director) has worked with Double Edge since 2000. Most recently, he directed a three-week training residency at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, culminating in the presentation The Chagall Tales, as well as a final presentation for Double Edge's Fall 2010 Program for Emerging and Professional Artists. Glassman is currently working on The Grand Parade, which hails the beginning of Double Edge's upcoming five-country, five-performance Chagall Cycle. He has co-created the last three performances in Double Edge's Garden of Intimacy and Desire cycle in leading acting roles. In Republic of Dreams, he created the role of Joseph/Bruno and portrayed the autobiographical character from Bruno Schulz's writings "with a stunning vulnerability¨ (Boston Metro). He also created the role of Sancho Panza in the UnPOSSESSED. Glassman leads the theatre’s year-round training programs, which have tripled in enrollment over the past five years. He also co-directed the training residencies/performances at Brandeis University and Yale University's School of Drama. As the leader of Double Edge’s touring initiatives for a number of years, Glassman brought the ensemble to two countries and over twenty US tours, and was also Double Edge’s producer of two sold-out tours of the acclaimed Polish theater, Gardzienice, to New York’s La MaMa E.T.C. He serves on the board of the Fostering the Arts and Culture Project in rural Franklin County, the Network of Ensemble Theaters and has served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Glassman has written plays, stories and poems, including Joby’s Music, which showcased at Hartford’s New Plays Festival and won First Prize in Playwriting at Trinity College. He has worked extensively in elementary schools throughout New England under National and State Arts in Education grant funding teaching movement, circus arts, monologue writing, mask and character work. For this work he was recently awarded the Mary Lyon Foundation “Spirit of Adventure Award” for innovative support of local education.

Jeremy Louise Eaton (Core Actor / Program Director) has worked with Double Edge since 2004 and became a core group member in June 2009. She has created roles in three company and eight Summer Spectacle performances including Adela in Republic of Dreams, and Sheherezade in The Arabian Nights.  Eaton manages the company's student outreach and development initiatives and leads training for the theatre's student and university training programs, including the company's 2007 performance residency at Brandeis University. She also assistant directed a recent training residency at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Eaton graduated from Guilford College with a BS in Criminal Justice and a BA in Theatre, and served in Greensboro, N.C. as a grassroots organizer for the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the US. She represented Double Edge for the US Artists Initiative at the 2009 Year of Grotowski in Wroclaw, Poland, in June 2009.

Adam Bright (Ensemble Actor, Company Manager / Technical Director) is originally from London, England. He began working with the company in 2005 and became a core group member in January 2010. He created the role of Detective Demotte in the Disappearance, and has appeared in seven Summer Spectacle performances. Bright manages the theatre’s facilities and grounds, production/ tech, as well as company calendars and scheduling. He leads training for the company’s student training programs, including the 2007 performance residency at Brandeis University. He holds an honors degree in Theatre from Hull University, where he was an assistant director and actor in a national award-winning original performance Unlucky for Some (2004). In England, he worked with the National Youth Theatre, Theatre Training Initiative, and Israeli artist Yoram Monzensan among many others.

Hayley Brown (Core Actor / Program Manager) has worked with Double Edge since 2003, creating roles in three company and ten Summer Spectacle performances including Madame Petra / The Barber in the UnPOSSESSED, and the Firebird in The Firebird (2010). Brown manages the company’s box office, materials, student accounting, and development databases, and leads training for the company's student programs. Prior to Double Edge she was a competitive gymnast and participated in the All Western District Music Festival Choir from 1995-99. Brown holds a BA in Theatre Studies from the University Without Walls program at UMASS and is currently studying aerial arts at the New England Center for Circus Arts.

Hannah Jarrell (Ensemble Member / Development Associate) began working with the company in 2006. She has developed supporting roles in four summer spectacle performances, including Penelope in The Odyssey (2011) and co-created two Double Edge Second Stage performances, most recently The Unanswered Question: a Charles Ives Project. She is also a trainer for Double Edge’s student programs and leads the theatre's work with K-12 programming. Jarrell currently servers on the board of the Fostering Art and Culture Project. Prior to Double Edge, she was Managing Director and Performer with Time & Space Limited, an experimental theatre group and community arts organization in upstate New York, where she spent four years. She is a graduate of Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX where she received her BA in Theatre, German, and Spanish.

Milena Dabova (Ensemble Member / Program Associate) began working with Double Edge Theatre in 2008. She performed in Double Edge Second Stage presentations The Unanswered Question: A Charles Ives Project, and Iphigeneia: Vocal Fragments, and played the role of Julanar in the 2009 Arabian Nights. Dabova was part of the 2010 Moscow research trip that hailed the beginning of the Chagall Project. Originally from Plovdiv, Bulgaria, Dabova has worked with several performance groups both in the US and abroad, including Frida Dance Company and Wire Monkey Dance. She holds a BA summa cum laude in Theater and Dance and Psychology from Amherst College.

Carroll Durand (Ensemble Member / Co-Founder) co-founded Double Edge Theatre with Stacy Klein in 1982. She has developed numerous roles for the theatre, most recently Maarten’s Mother / Hugo/ Antonio in the Disappearance, and the Mother/ Maximilian in Republic of Dreams. Durand also created roles and performed in Double Edge’s The Song Trilogy (1987-1999) and The Women’s Cycle (1982-1986). Prior to Double Edge, Durand designed over 100 productions and established an international reputation as an authority on baroque sceneography. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation grant, and was recognized as the "Best in Boston¨ twice for scenic design and once for performance. Durand holds a BFA in Painting, an MFA in Stage Design and a PhD in Theatre History and Criticism from Tufts University.