Name: Ann Willemssen

Hometown: The frozen tundra of La Crosse, Wisconsin…dontcha know.  But now my parents live in Minnesota, so I like to pretend I’m from there.  I think it’s classier to be from a state associated with plastic Viking helmets adorned with yarn pigtails instead of foam hats made to look like cheese.

Years in DC: Three.  I arrived just in time for the very first Capital Fringe Festival.

First Capital Fringe Festival? First-time blogger, longtime fan.

Shows I’m Seeing: First two on the list…2 Shorts in Black and White:  Count Dracula’s Cafe and Cover Me in Humanness.

Random Thing You Might Find Revealing About My Sensibilities: I own very few pairs of pants.

“I like ‘hobbit,’ because the hobbits saved the world, and I’m down with that.”
- actor/director Suzanne Richard, explaining under the Baldacchino that ‘midget’ isn’t the preferred term for little people like her

“Gee, Martha, these fringe folks sure are friendly.” …

“Why yes, George. They are. They certainly are.”

Name: Aaron Wiener
Hometown: Princeton, NJ
Years in D.C.: Coming up on one.
First CapFringe? Indeedy.
Shows I’m Seeing: ‘Dust of Babylon’ and ‘May 39th/40th,’ so far.
Random Things You Might Find Revealing About My Sensibilities: My criticism usually involves climate change and biofuels, so theater will be a welcome change of pace.

Name: Brian Reed
Hometown: Shelton, Conn. — proud and glorious home of the Wiffle Ball.
Years in D.C.: Going on one-and-a-half, with a short sojourn in Seattle.
First CapFringe? I may or may not have edited this blog last year. All right, I’m pretty sure I edited this blog last year.
Shows I’m Seeing: Magnum Opus, The Strong Ones, Deconstructing the Myth of the Booty, &c, &c, and so on, so forth.
Random Thing You Might Find Revealing About My Sensibilities: When I was a kid I loved Peter Pan. My fifth birthday party was a Peter Pan party, replete with pirate ship and ticking clock, and not long thereafter I tied my belt loops to the ceiling with a piece of yarn and jumped off a chair in an attempt to fly.

Name: Llewellyn Hinkes
Hometown: Capitol Hill and Kensington
Years in D.C.: 25
First CapFringe? Nope.  Wrote, acted, and volunteered in previous years.  Attended in between.
Shows I’m Seeing: The Fifth Musketeer, Billy The Kid: The First Exhumation, Foley Artist, GS-14, Cover Me in Humaness.  Others I’m still sussing out.
Random Thing You Might Find Revealing About My Sensibilities: Thinks Cassavetes was a hack, Brecht was unwatchable, and Mamet only had a couple good stories in him.  Eager to see a show that puts them all to shame.

Name: Caroline Jones

Hometown: Silver Spring, MD

Years in DC: 20 years (my entire life!) living less than a mile from the District line.

First CapFringe? No, my friend brought me to a show last summer.

Shows I’m Seeing: So far, Self Service and Immoral Combat.  Maybe Slow News Day, The A Cappella Party, and This Is NOT My Life.

Random Thing You Might Find Interesting About My Sensibilities: I go to a college where the majority of student-produced plays resemble Fringe productions, only a lot more serious and with less planning.  I’ll probably never audition for one because watching the “art” happen is far too entertaining.

Name: Ted Scheinman
Hometown: Hamilton, NY
Years in DC: ~1.3 years
First CapFringe? Second; I had the pleasure of editing Fringe & Purge last year.
Shows I’m Seeing: For starters: Cabaret Coo Coo, Slow News Day, and The Escapades of Farty Johnson. About the latter, I am unduly excited.
Random Things You Might Find Interesting About My Sensibilities: Into P.G. Wodehouse, James Brown, and Jacques Villon. On the fence about Jim Jarmusch and Das Mötørbike. Very glad that Happenstance Theater and Dale’s Pale Ale are both returning to Fringe this year.

[Are you an artist? A producer? A distant relative who'd like to spot me a fiver? Come find me! I'll be the dude lurking under the Gypsy Tent at Fort Fringe. See above for gruesome City Paper headshot.]

Name: Matt Siblo
Hometown: Staten Island, New York. Keep your comments to yourself.
Years in D.C.: Come August, it will be 2.
First CapFringe? It is. If this question is meant to make first-time bloggers feel self-conscious than it has achieved its goal.
Shows I’m Seeing: DISORDER/PLANT PSYCHOTIC (their capital letters, not mine), Listen: A Musical Chaos, among others.
Random Thing You Might Find Revealing About My Sensibilities: Too smart for rock operas, not interested in legitimate opera. Speaking of which, the only performance I’ve ever walked out of was Lost Highway: The Opera. Outside of this description, opera usually does not factor largely into my life.

Name: Annie Galvin
Hometown: DC, by way of Chicago
Years in D.C.: 15-ish
First Cap Fringe? Round two for me—last year I heard there were naked dudes onstage, and obviously I showed up.
Shows I’m Seeing: Four Dogs and a Bone, Jamaica Farewell, Skywriter, and Annabel Lee, among others.
Random Thing You Might Find Revealing About My Sensibilities: At age 11, I was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Award at my summer camp for my star turn in Christopher Durang’s The DMV Tyrant. My career—thespian and otherwise—has been pretty much downhill since then.