AMANDA GRONICH has been a member of Tectonic Theater Project for five years. She served as dramaturg throughout the research, development, and writing of The Laramie Project. Mr. Gronich also originated those roles attributed to her name, performing them in each of the play’s original stagings, including its run Off-Broadway at New York’s Union Square Theatre. A native of Manhattan, Ms. Gronich received her acting training B.A. at New York University. She directed Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company. Ms. Gronich has appeared in numerous New York theater productions and was a featured lead in the Nick Nolte film Weeds, as well as in the HBO Films version of The Laramie Project. She records voice-overs for commercials and animation and is the recipient of a prestigious award in acting from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. A recent San Francisco transplant, Ms. Gronich made her Bay Area theater debut in Leigh Fondakowski’s I Think I Like Girls. She performs stand-up comedy and is coauthor of the sketch comedy revue We Took a Tour. Ms. Gronich is also the creator of an original method of acting that she teaches to students on both coasts.

JOHN MCADAMS (Dramaturg) is a native of San Diego and holds an M.F.A. from UCSD. His acting credits include: How I Learned to Drive at the Actors Theatre of Louisville; The Laramie Project at Sundance, The Denver Center for the Arts, The Union Square Theatre, and at the University of Wyoming; original cast member of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; Mud, River, Stone at Playwrights Horizons; and, on television, Law and Order. Off-Off Broadway credits include: A Devil Inside and Wally’s Ghost at SoHo Rep, Jail Bait at the Womens’ InterArt Annex, Downwinders with Clubbed Thumb and Vortex du Plaisir at the Ohio Theatre.

ANDY PARIS (Dramaturg) has performed in Europe, New York, and on tour in the U.S.A. Most recently he was seen in Tectonic Theater Project’s The Laramie Project. Also as a member of Tectonic, he worked with Moisés Kaufman on the development of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and performed in the original cast. Other credits include: Burt in The Quiet Room, directed by Lucie Tiberghien; Twelfth Night (Pearl Theatre, director John Rando); Red Noses (director Melissa Kievman); Matthew Maguire’s Phaedre; Indelible Flesh by Deb Margolin; The Merchant of Venice; Sarajevo Mon Amor (LaMama, Etc.); Cymbeline; Quick, Bright Things by Jesse McKinley; Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom; ’Tis a Pity She’s a Whore and Love’s Labours Lost. Film credits include: The Laramie Project, A Tissue of Secrets, and A Bird in the Hand. Andy has also been the voice for two recorded books: Bull Run and Sticks for Recorded Books Productions. He is a graduate of the Experimental Theatre Wing and the Classical Studio at NYU.