Bill Army (Producer, Co-Artistic Director) {he/him}. Before founding Sketchbook Theatre with David Barlow and Christopher Marshall, Bill began his career as an actor. Born in Boston, he graduated from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre and then received his Master of Fine Arts from the Graduate Acting Program at New York University. He has originated roles on Broadway in The Band’s Visit (Winner of Ten Tony Awards including “Best New Musical,” The Grammy Award for “Best Musical Theater Album,” and the Daytime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program”), Act One written and directed by James Lapine at Lincoln Center Theater, and Relatively Speaking three one-act plays written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen directed by John Turturro. He was also an original company member of the hit Off-Broadway review Old Jews Telling Jokes. He has performed with Red Bull Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company, and The Public Theatre for Shakespeare in the Park. Regionally, he has worked at The Westport Country Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, and with the National Players of Olney Theater Center in Washington DC. His Film/TV credits include appearances in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Deadbeat,” and the web series “COHAB.” Bill was also a company member of the Off-Off Broadway company the Potomac Theatre Project for seventeen years. He has written and adapted plays and musicals, the book of his original musical “The Family Business” was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Bill has also taught and directed at Middlebury College, and The LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts.

A Dad from Queens, Bill looks to his two daughters every day help him understand the true meaning of the word “Play.”

David Barlow is a native New Yorker, actor, mover, storyteller and theatre maker. Alongside founding Sketchbook Theatre with Bill and Chris, David has performed in works ranging from the classical and kitchen sink to the avant-garde and off-the-wall. He has helped devise new works with various theatre artists including Phil Soltanoff, Rinde Eckert, and David Glass. His original written piece LA Party (directed by Soltanoff) has toured the US and Canada. He enjoys performing in Europe where he has appeared at various venues in France and Switzerland with director Arthur Nauzyciel (Splendids and Julius Caesar), a rocky potato field in East Germany (Bauerntheater directed by David Levine), and Norway’s National Opera House in Oslo (The Hamlet Complex directed by Alan Øyen). Back home he has worked at New York Theatre Workshop, Theater For A New Audience, Primary Stages, and The Play Company for whom he performed in Andy Bragen’s This Is My Office and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for best solo performance. He has appeared in nine seasons of the off-Broadway company PTP/NYC, performing in plays by Howard Barker, Caryl Churchill, and Vaclav Havel. Regionally, he has performed at Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Portland Center Stage, Kansas City Rep, Berkshire Theater Group, Philadelphia Theater Company, and many more. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and the NYU Grad Acting Program.

Christopher Marshall {he/him} is an actor, director, and theatre educator. Before founding Sketchbook Theatre with Bill Army and David Barlow, Christopher was a fellow company member of theirs with PTP/NYC at the Atlantic Stage 2 in Chelsea for 8 seasons. His regional work as an actor includes: The Colorado Shakespeare Festival, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre, ACTTheatre Seattle, The Aurora Theatre, The Riverside Theatre, and Milwaukee Rep. Christopher is an Artistic Producer with the Tampa Repertory Theatre, and a Co-Artistic Director of Transversal Theatre Company. With Tampa Rep, he most recently directed The Dreamer Examines His Pillow and All My Sons and was recently seen onstage as Frederick Treves in The Elephant Man and as Heisenberg in Copenhagen. With Transversal, Christopher has directed and performed in multiple productions with runs in Gdansk, Poland, Amsterdam, and Cluj, Hungary. Christopher is the co-founder (with Bryan Reynolds) of Transversal Acting Theory, which he has taught at the Grotowski Institute in Brzezinka, Poland. Christopher holds a BA from Middlebury College (where he did many shows with David Barlow), and an MFA in Acting from UC Irvine. He splits his time between NYC, St. Pete FL, and Brevard NC, where he can most often be found on a trail with his beautiful wife Laura and their two dogs.