Kalle Macrides, Executive Director Kalle Macrides began her theater career with a red nose and big floppy feet performing as a clown in a traveling theater troupe in her hometown of Worcester Massachusetts.  She is now the Executive Director of Adhesive Theater Project as well as a Brooklyn-based playwright and performer.  With Adhesive Theater Project, she has co-produced and performed in Jake Hooker's Les Mauvais Garçons and Hysteria: HYSTERIA!, Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, Chikamatsu Monzaemon's The Battles of Coxinga, the premiere of the collaboratively written Kirby as well as I, Object!, Edmond Rostand's Chantecler, and R.U.R. A Futurist Folk Opera – Adhesive's original adaptation of Karol Capeks Rossum's Universal Robots.  Kalle is a resident playwright with America-in-Play and has been a recipient of a writing residency at the Espy Foundation.  Her most recent play, a multimedia/dance/theater piece titled NOIR, was presented at the Voorhees Theater.  Her 10-minute piece A Play was produced by the Hackley Upper School Theatre and The Women's Drama Project in their festival, A Girl's Guide to Chaos.  Staged readings of her plays Wallpaper: A Horror Story and The Name Game have been produced by Paper Beats Rock.  Kalle has taught writing at Brooklyn College and NYU-Poly and has lead theater residencies in various New York City public schools.  She has served as Education Director for the Cypress Hill Local Development Corporation, and as Program Coordinator for Hospital Audiences Incorporated.  Kalle holds a BA in Theater from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and an MFA from Mac Wellman's Playwriting Program at Brooklyn College.