Feed Me
Janielle Kastner, Writer
Janielle Kastner is a playwright and actress based in Dallas, TX. Believing art-making to be an efficient means of changing the world, she considers herself an artist + activist, or “artivist” with particular interest in gauging the success of a community by the stories and experiences of its young women. Recent projects include the world-premiere of OPHELIA UNDERWATER, PROJECT: GIRL a trans-media installation, and the solo piece GIRL:andotherbeautifulworksoffiction. Janielle is a founding member of the arts incubation group The Tribe, and an inaugural member of the Dallas Playwrights’ Workshop at Dallas Theatre Center. Favorite stage credits include "Decline of Ballooning" with The In Laws, "The Firestorm" at Kitchen Dog Theatre, "A Midsummer Nights' Dream" with Shakespeare in the Bar, and "Uncle Vanya" with Dallas Actors' Lab. Janielle received her BFA from SMU Meadows School of the Arts.
Devon M. Schwartz, Director
Devon M. Schwartz has directed nearly 30 plays over the years, as well as various short films and other creative projects. He relocated to Los Angeles from New York with “Mortal Coil,” an award-winning drama he produced here at the Stella Adler Theater and later directed at multiple other venues.
Favorite NYC directing credits are Henry Becque’s "Woman of Paris" for Chain Lightning Theatre, the world premieres of Steven Fechter's “Intimacies” for EST’s OctoberFest, “Night Travel” at the Trilogy Theatre, and “Enter Attendant Disguised or What You Willy” at both Expanded Arts and Theatre-Studio Inc.
Since moving to LA, directing highlights include "Who Made Robert DeNiro King of America" by Jason Katims, “The Straight Bozo” by the Adler's own Tim McNeil, "What the Butler Saw" by Joe Orton, "Raised in Captivity" by Nicky Silver, and Julianne Grossman’s critically acclaimed “From Bonkers to Botox,” which was chosen to be part of HBO’s U.S. Comedy Festival in Aspen.
Devon is also a writer and working actor, making guest appearances on numerous popular TV series, including "House," “Monk,” "Numbers" and "Without a Trace." He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Bill on the hit CW show “Gilmore Girls.” More recently he played the prime antagonist in a Hallmark film and received rave reviews starring in Wicked Lit's "The Fall of the House of Usher."
Meet the Cast
Montana Roesch, Daughter
Montana Roesch is a member of the Stella Adler Lab Theatre company. Past Lab Theatre credits: Den of Thieves (Boochie, Dir. Alex Aves), Six Degrees of Separation (Tess, Dir. Milton Justice), and Titus Andronicus (Young Lucius, Dir. Alex Aves). After a year away from the Adler stage it is a pleasure to rejoin her Adler family in Feed Me for the A Light In Dark Places play festival. Thanks to the McNeils for always pushing, Devon Schwartz, The Adler, the playwrights, and the festival producers for bringing us such a poignant weekend of theatre.
Fanny Rosen, Cat
In 2011 Fanny Rosen left Sweden to enroll in the Stella Adler 2-Year Conservatory in Los Angeles.
Since graduating she has remained close to the Stella Adler community and worked in several productions with the Lab Theatre Company including “Schism”(Milla) and “Isaac Babel and the Black Sea”(Antonina). Other recent theatre credits include ”A Streetcar named Desire” (Stella) and ”Medea” (performed at the LA Greek Film Festival).
Some of her film and TV credits include ”Giorgio Moroder ft. Sia - Déjà Vu” (Dir. Alexandra Dahlstöm) and “ Bunnyman 3” (Dir. Carl Lindbergh).
Robert Sprayberry, Dad
Robert Sprayberry received a post-graduate in music composition and conducting from The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, England and studied privately in Paris with the renowned Nadia Boulanger.
Acting credits include: "The Miracle Worker", "Pullman Car Hiawatha", "The Spoon River Anthology", "Romeo & Juliet", "The Apple Tree", "Sweet Charity", "The Tempest", "NightDreams of Napoleon" by James McLure, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee", "The Tempest", "Coriolanus", "Golden Boy" and "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" (at Stella Adler).