Actor Haskell King's theatre credits include The Great Pretenders, Bitter Taste, Heaven Knows, and PTSD (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Brother (Paradise Factory); Take Me Out (Caldwell Theatre); Moons of Jupiter and Tales from the Schminke Tub (One Solo Arts Festival); Sweet Eros (Mary's Space, dir. Austin Pendleton); Elvis and Juliet (Abingdon Theatre with Fred Willard and David Rasche), Mother (The Wild Project with Buck Henry and Holland Taylor); The Ball of Roses (The Sanford Meisner Theatre); Film credits include Brother; Pagans; In Praise of Shadows (dir. Jay Anania); Jimmy Crane; Cannonball Luke. Television: Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Directing: Truth-O-Matic (Winner, Best Commercial, GSFF), Anti-Rockefeller Drug Law Ad Campaign. Producer: Getting Through To The President (Sundance Channel; Official Selection 2004 Full Frame Fest, Silver Docs). Haskell is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Daniel Talbott, Rising Phoenix Repertory began by producing an ongoing reading series of new plays and has continued to add workshops, festivals, and highly praised productions of new plays. Recent productions include the acclaimed, sold-out Off-Broadway runs of Slipping, produced with Piece by Piece Productions and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and Too Much Memory (also with Piece by Piece Productions) which transferred to the New York Theatre Workshop's Fourth Street Theatre after winning the FringeNYC award for Outstanding Play in 2008. Other recent productions include Birthday and Don't Pet the Zookeeper (Seventh Street Small Stage); 365 Days/365 Plays (Jimmy's No. 43 and The Public Theater); What Happened When (HERE Arts Center); Fall Forward (part of the Sitelines/River to River festival produced by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council); The Telling Trilogy (including The Ride, 2006 NYIT Award Nominee - Outstanding Original Short Script- Crystal Skillman), Rules of the Universe (Winner, 2007 NYIT Awards for Outstanding Original Short Script - Daniel Reitz and Director - Daniel Talbott), and Three Sisters (Seventh Street Small Stage at Jimmy's No. 43); and Gift by Mark Schultz and Ponies by Mike Batistick (FringeNYC).