Creative Team
Producer - actor - Darja
Marisa Van Den Borre is an actor and four-time Emmy-winning producer, recognized for her work on Judge Judy. Her film credits include The Ali’i King, Magdalena, and 117 Years of Movie Bullshit, with memorable television work as an undercover FBI agent opposite Kumail Nanjiani in Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales.
On stage, she received a Broadway World Best Supporting Actress nomination for her portrayal of Miep Gies in Anne Frank and originated the role of Thea in Jon Klein’s Resolving Hedda.
Grateful beyond measure to her husband and family, Marisa draws enduring inspiration from her Oma Kati, the strongest woman she has ever known. This one’s for her.
Chad Coe
Producer - Actor - Tommy
Chad can be seen this fall recurring on MONSTER: THE LIZZIE BORDEN STORY, currently on NETFLIX in On Swift Horses opposite Jacob Elordi. Recently starring in Sam, the first English-language film of Serbian director Luka Bursac, and the upcoming film People Passing.
Recent TV work includes bad boy CEO Jeremy Strong MATLOCK(CBS) opposite Kathy Bates, Seamus Schementti, Melissa’s Italian brother on ABBOTT ELEMENTARY(ABC). Other credits: Modern Family (ABC) recurring on Colony (USA) and Matador (EL Rey Network). Series Regulars on Unfinished Business, Pumas.
Theatre credits include: The Rose and the Rime (The Kennedy Center), Castle in the Sky(Oviatt Penthouse), Resolving Hedda (Victory Theatre), The Lyons (The Road Theatre), Dracula (Noho Arts Center)
Chad is honored to share the stage with his unbelivable wife Marisa and produce this amazing play with his friends.
Director
Kimberly Alexander is a proud New Jerseyian turned Californian, and a sore ballerina turned award-winning actor, producer, and director. Acting credits include ‘Rabbit Rabbit’, currently on a film festival runaround, ‘Seeing Diane Arbus’, in which she plays the famed photographer, and ‘Edge of Space’, shortlisted for the 2025 Academy Awards Live Action Short Film category. She also works in Los Angeles theatre and has performed on stage at The Getty Villa, and with Playwrights Arena, The Triptych Group, The Road Theatre, The Victory Theatre, Circle X, and The Elephant Theatre, amongst others. She has received Stage Raw and Robby Award wins and nominations for her LA Times Critics Choice stage work. Kimberly is probably on your TV right now in a commercial; perhaps it’s for Hershey’s, Hyundai, Toyota, Verizon, Little Caesars, Sleep Number, Hidden Valley, TJ Maxx, or Spectrum. Kimberly’s producing highlights include ‘The Romantics’, winner of the Audience Award for Favorite Short at The Napa Valley Film Festival, and ‘The Engine of Our Ruin’, a political comedy stage play that enjoyed a sold-out run in Los Angeles.
This production of Ironbound marks Kimberly’s directorial stage debut. She dedicates this show to her Polish immigrant grandparents, Mary and Micholas Kurjanowicz, who lived lives of survival much like Darja’s. IMDB @_crispyrick_
JOhnny Clark
Co - Producer
Johnny Clark founded and is the Artistic Director of the award-winning Vs. Theatre Company (voted “Best Of The Decade” by the LA Weekly and “one of the top theatres in Los Angeles” by the Los Angeles Times), a Los Angeles non-profit theatre devoted to producing the best contemporary plays in America on an intimate stage. He founded and is the Artistic Director of The Vs. Studio whose mission is to help artists find and manifest their passion projects. And to do so with excellence and generosity for themselves, their fellow artists and the audience they seek to serve.
He’s also an actor, having performed in over fifty stage productions. Selected theatre credits: A HATFUL OF RAIN, LIFE AND LIMB, BRILLIANT TRACES, THE CREDEAUX CANVAS, MODERN DANCE FOR BEGINNERS, NAVY PIER, BEGGARS IN THE HOUSE OF PLENTY, WASTE OF SHAME, ERIC LARUE, NEVER SWIM ALONE, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, ON AN AVERAGE DAY (Los Angeles and Chicago Productions), EAGLE HILLS, EAGLE RIDGE, EAGLE LANDING, BLACKBIRD for which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for his portrayal of “Baylis”, THE MERCY SEAT, TRUE WEST and COPS AND FRIENDS OF COPS. He has done several commercials and independent films including LOUSY WITH THE SPIRIT (Cannes Film Festival) and LIARS CLUB, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in. The film won First Prize at several film festivals, received strong reviews and had a theatrical release.
He graduated with Honors from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Public Policy and Economics Concentration. Prior to making the unfortunate economic decision to pursue a life in the arts, Johnny worked in Venture Capital for nearly a decade. Investing is still a hobby though.
If you meet Johnny, be sure to ask him what it was like to play basketball with Michael Jordan and the former President, Barack Obama.
Johnny is married to Amy Clark, and has two young sons, Callum and Truman (far and away his greatest accomplishment to date).