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OUR TEAM

Erik joined Theatre Now as in-house Casting Director in 2020 and became Development Director in 2023 and Managing Director in 2024. He previously worked with Artistic Director Tom Morrissey as Casting Director for the Genesius Theatre Guild. Erik founded Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh (MTAP) in 2011, supporting the development of new musicals and bringing musical theatre creators together in the Pittsburgh area. He returned to NYC in 2016 and works as a freelance casting director and musical theatre performer.

 

NY casting: Powerline Road (Theatre Now), The Jury (Theatre Now), Thistles (White Horse), Box (Genesius Guild), Dalliance in Vienna (Genesius Guild). LA Casting: Broken Story (White Horse). Numerous developmental readings including The Pelican, Fountain of You, Sunday Brunch, The Sustain, and K-Pax. Internet: Something to Be Desired (4 seasons), The Baristas. Film: Red Flag (upcoming). Erik started casting over 20 years ago in the offices of Margolis-Seay Casting, assisting with the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) and other projects. He still serves as the in-house Casting Director for Theatre Now New York and has cast the annual SOUND BITES Festival of 10-Minute Musicals since 2020.

 

Erik is also an accomplished musical theatre performer who has toured the country in Jekyll & Hyde and Grease and recently made his off-Broadway debut in Welcome to the Big Dipper at the York. Regional credits include Westchester Broadway (Jekyll & Hyde), the Engeman (Rock of Ages), Pittsburgh CLO (Beauty and the Beast, Grease, A Christmas Carol), Oklahoma City Rep (Avenue Q, The Grapes of Wrath), and WV Public (High School Musical, The Wedding Singer). Erik was a regular on web series Something to Be Desired for 4 seasons and has appeared on Law & Order, The Sopranos and Gotham. Member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA. erikschark.weebly.com

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Land Acknowledgement

 

Our office is on the original homeland of the Munsee Lenape tribal nation. Theatre Now acknowledges the painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and we honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we and our artists live and work.

 

As an organization and as artists, we often gather in virtual space. Take a moment to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technologies, structures, and ways of thinking we use every day. We are using equipment and high-speed internet not available to all communities. Even the technologies that are central to much of the art we make leave significant carbon footprints, contributing to changing climates that disproportionately affect indigenous peoples worldwide. Theatre Now invites you to join us in acknowledging all this as well as our shared responsibility: to make good of this time, and for each of us to consider our roles in reconciliation, decolonization, antiracism, and allyship.

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