The Pack is based in Brooklyn, New York.

We hail from New Hampshire, New Jersey & New York, and in between have had other homes in: New Haven (CT), West Java (Indonesia), Philadelphia (PA), Edinburgh (Scotland), Monte Grande (Chile), Boulder (CO), Dillon (MT), Juneau (AK), San Francisco (CA), Sardinia (Italy).

Erika Kate MacDonald, Co-Founder

Erika Kate is a yoga teacher and theater artist, healer and vagabond, sister and daughter, listener and lover. She toured her last solo piece (VOTING RITES, an interview-based exploration of NH women’s attitudes towards voting, 2004) to schools and community groups throughout the Granite State. She is currently a member of Second Percussion: The Band, and sings from time to time with Aaron Lisman and the True Thats. She is also a coveted audience member at live performance events throughout the Northeast.

Other: As in, please check one: __ Hetero / __ Homo / __ Other. As in, the white girl speaking Indonesian.

Sophie Nimmannit, Co-Founder

Under the umbrella term "theatermaker," Sophie performs, directs, does drag, & builds masks & puppets for the live stage. She received her BA in theater at Yale, and has trained in mask, clown, Suzuki and other forms of physical theater. As a member of the International Theatre Collective, she performed in Seattle, Boulder, St. Louis and Canadian Fringe Festivals. In 2006, she toured with Denver's LIDA Project and performed her solo show "Arachne" at the 2006 Boulder Fringe. She performs with the South Wing and appeared in "The Gospel According to Jack Vitrolo" at HERE Arts Center in January of 2008. In March, she will perform in East Third Ensemble's upcoming show Seeing is Believing.

Other: Always checks that Other/Mix/Mixed Race box, the final option. Notoriously cast as the animal, foreigner, man, non-speaking role.

Michelle Elsammak

Michelle is the only official shoe princess ever to have lived in the state of New Hampshire probably stemming from her roots as a true Jersey girl born and raised! She now kicks it in Manhattan, working in the glitzy world of high Finance by day and now the seedy underworld of theatre at night, leaving little time for sleep. Being a mix herself and another member of People Who Check the "Other" Box, she likes to mix it up in the kitchen and on the dance floor any chance she gets.

Other: Being fluent in Mandarin and French allows her to navigate all types of farmers markets and food markets with the greatest of ease and the best deals from the merchants suffering from shock when she replies in their native tongue.

Jonathan Farmer

Jonathan Farmer is an actor/writer/director and photographer living in the hipster haven of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He is a founding member of High Fidelity Theater, and a staff member Andy's Summer Playhouse, where he will direct "Pinocchio/Frankenstein" this summer. As a musician, he performs with the Obscuras and Second Percussion. Farmer received his BFA in Acting from Syracuse University.

John Leo

John Leo is a performer, teacher and director. He has studied theatrical dance at Bard College and is a graduate of the Dell ‘Arte School of Physical Theatre. He has studied with Clown masters: Ronlin Foreman, Sue Morrison and Ricardo Puchetti. For the past seven years he had been landlocked in the quirky little town of Juneau, Alaska creating clown, opera, drag and contact improvisation with Perseverance Theatre, Kitschy Yum-Yum Burlesque and Wild Rumpus Clown Theatre (Best of San Francisco Fringe 2003). Mr. Leo has toured his work throughout Mexico, Canada, Alaska and the ‘Lower 48’ and has received funding from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation.

He is psyched to be living in the Truly Wild city of New York.

Brian Pickett

Brian left his home in Jersey first for the shores of Philadelpia, eventually landing in Brooklyn. If he had it his way, he'd be a folk musician in the spirit of Joe Hill or Woody Guthrie. But as it happens, Brian is a theatre artist and educator, earning his keep teaching kids while trying to find new and radical ways to create and use theatre as means to affect change. He sits on the steering committee of THAW (Theaters Against War) and is a member of the Emergency Broadcast Artists and PEP (the Palestine/Israel Education Project.)

Other: Likes to ride his bike in the snow. Believes in a life after capitalism.