How to Find a Husband in 37 Years (or Longer...)

JJ Pyle - Actor / Writer JJ Pyle is an actor and writer based in New York City. She attended Purdue University majoring in Apparel Design Technology. Her working creative life started in Los Angeles. Fashion design, turned wardrobe department, turned costuming, quickly made her realize she preferred to be on the stage instead of dressing it. In Los Angeles she studied with the likes of Sal Dano, Howard Fine, Lesley Kahn, and others. She co-founded the Gangbusters Theatre Company with Christian Levatino. Producing and playing in two productions of David Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago as Deborah, Dale Wasserman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as Candy Starr, and Darlene in Lanford Wilson’s, Balm in Gilead. She went on to produce and act in David Rabe’s In the Boom Boom Room playing Chrissy, with TILT (Tell It Like This) Productions which she founded. TILT and Gin Joint Productions collaborated to do Shelia Callaghan’s, Scab in which she played Christa. She also worked with The Blank Theatre Company in many capacities, producing, costuming and acting in their Living Room Series, Young Playwrights Festival and one main stage show. She played with the Elephant Theatre Company where she met Paul Hoan Zeidler of Lightning Rod Theatre. She originated the role of Matchgirl in his play Time’s Scream and Hurry on both coasts at the Elephant Lab in Los Angeles and the Cherry Lane in New York City. Since moving to New York she has acted in four productions with Elsinore County and is a member of InViolet Theatre Company. She co-founded Solo Heroes with Ivy Eisenberg, a group of artists workshopping and developing solo shows. She studies Strasberg Technique with David Gideon. TV and Film credits include, Criminal Minds, Boardwalk Empire, Life, Coached, FBI: Most Wanted, 24 Hour Restaurant Battle on the Food Network with her restaurant concept ...& Jelly, which was the $10,000 winner, as well as many others. She is currently working on two new projects. Another solo play titled, Oooops, I’m an Asshole, the Life and Times of Jennifer Wynne Reeves; Artist and a full-length play called Don’t Ruin It For Me.

In the Press:

[JJ] is an absolute master of storytelling. Sneaky even. The audience is lulled into the false sense that they are merely here to be entertained, amused and to passively listen. By the end of the show however, we are not only charmed and entranced, but we also understand a little more about ourselves and our patchwork connections with the people in our life." Samantha Simmonds-Ronceros, NoHoArtsDistrict.com

A brilliant script full of brave and honest moments of sadness, humor, and hope... the story is told with lots of heartbreaking emotional moments as well as her ability to grab us with her humor. Great beginning and an incredible moving ending!!" Amalisha HuEck, Discover Hollywood Magazine

I wanted to explore the juxtaposition between the overwhelming ecstasy of falling in love and the soul-crushing despair of heartbreak—and maybe help others through it." Laura Foti Cohen, Larchmont Buzz

Mark Cirnigliaro - Director NY world premieres: The Net Will Appear by Erin Mallon starring Richard Masur (59E59), The Hounds of War by Bill Holland (Abingdon Theatre), The Little Princess by Jennifer Bowen (June Havoc Theatre), The Judgment of Fools by Bernardo Cubria (INTAR Theatre). Comfort Women: A New Musical by Dimo Kim (Peter Jay Sharp Theater – Associate Director), His production of Honour: Confessions of a Mumbai Courtesan, by Dipti Mehta, currently tours North America. Mark directed the first academic productions of Annie Baker's The Aliens and Rajiv Jospeh's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. He was formerly the associate artistic director of Mile Square Theatre, resident director of InViolet Theatre, and co-founder of Wee Man Productions. Mark currently works with Jersey City Theater Center with their new play development, and is on faculty at The Peddie School. He graduated from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts with his MFA in Directing, earning the Dean John I Bettenbender Award for Artistic Excellence.

Sloane Fischer - Stage Manager Sloane Fischer is a New York based Stage Manager and recent graduate from PACE University with a BA in Stage Management. Some Pace credits include; A Midsummer Night's Dream (ASM), Julio Down By the Schoolyard (ASM), Twelfth Night the Musical (PSM) and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (PSM). Outside Stage Management work includes; Future Fest at 54 Below, Grease at Studio Tenn, a staged reading of the new play, Blood, Sweat, Tears at The Tank, a reading of a new play, Best & Only, The Keen Teens Festival at Theater Row, and Christen the Place at IRT. She is thrilled to have gotten the opportunity to work on such a great show with such an amazing group of people! She hopes you enjoy How to Find a Husband in 37 Years or Longer!

Jane Guyer Fujita - Voice Coach Jane Guyer Fujita is a Voice and Speech specialist based in New York City. Her work as a teaching artist and voice trainer centers on helping individuals connect with a strong and centered sense of self and find freedom in vocal expression. Jane also works as a dialect coach across media platforms. She has coached productions on Broadway: Bronx Bombers and Dear Evan Hansen. Off-Broadway at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, LCT3, La Mama, The Playwrights Realm, Page 73, Primary Stages, The Public Theatre, Signature Theatre, Theatre for the New City. And around the USA at the American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theater Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, The Curran Theater, Actors Shakespeare Project. Her most recent Film and TV credits include: Loki Season 2 (Marvel/Disney +), A Small Light (Disney +), and Cat Person (StudioCanal)

Alessandra Cronin - Projection Designer Alessandra is a Brooklyn based designer, programmer, filmmaker, editor, and animator. They have a passion for experimental and non-conventional forms of storytelling and pushing the boundaries of the theatrical experience. They work with The NY Neo-Futurists as a technical collaborator. Their most recent work includes associate projection designer for Bhangin' It (La Jolla Playhouse), and projection designer for curiouser/CURIOUSER (Friends Seminary).

Ryan O'Dea (She/Her) - Sound Designer Ryan O'Dea (She/Her), is a professional playwright, composer, performer, sound designer, and sound engineer. She has recently graduated from NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program where she began developing Glen or Glenda: The Musical with collaborator M.L. Redstone. Notable productions: B in The Silver Child (SoHo Playhouse), Violet in Sisterhood (The Tank), Sound Designer of Monsters of the Villa Diodati (AMT Theatre), Sound Designer/Composer of Time Hole (The Tank), Sound Engineer of The Trouble With Dead Boyfriends (The Players Theatre) Her album, Transitional Funk, is available on all streaming platforms, and currently has a stage show adaptation in development.