PETE BARRY - The origins of Pete Barry are unknown. Theories range from an escaped zoo animal to an inter-dimensional entity bent on world conquest. He currently resides in Ridgewood, New Jersey and works locally at Quality Multi-Media Productions as a video editor and media designer. Pete has been seen on stage in many a Porch Room production, as well as many standards including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Importance of Being Earnest, Moon Over Buffalo and a live radioplay of It's A Wonderful Life. Pete was a regular extra on HBO's Oz, and has also appeared as an extra on the TV series Ed and Law and Order. He has authored numerous plays including Hangman, Schooltop Nocturne, Body, In the Desert, and The Banderscott, and he co-authored the plays Drop and At the SAG Registry. He is currently concentrating on producing short films. His adaptation of his own Early Morning in the Tenement earned him recognition in the third Official Triggerstreet online film festival, and critics are already raving about the release of his newest short, The White Knight.

JOHN P. DOWGIN - John has been acting, directing, and writing since the age of 13. As an actor, New York audiences have seen him in productions of The Vigil (FAPC Theater Fellowship) and The Belles of the Mill (Looking Glass Theater), which also starred Brian O'Halloran (a.k.a. Dante Hicks of the cult classic Clerks). Other stage credits include George in The Actor's Nightmare (New York Comedy Club), Max in Bent (Circle Players), Bill in Trouble on the PATH (Alliance Repertory), Sebastian in Twelfth Night (Westwind Repertory) and Gary in Noises Off! (Playhouse 22, 1998 Perry Award Nominee). John's screen credits include Early Morning in the Tenement, CONS (flipFantasia Productions, winner of the jury prize at the nodance film festival) , and somewhere in the world there exists footage of John onscreen with James Earl Jones (in the unreleased On the QT). Directorial credits include A Few Good Men, Talk Radio, The Former One-on-One Basketball Champion and The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of A Christmas Carol. His writings have earned finalist honors and other awards from The Actors' Theater of Lousville, NYC Midnight Madness, the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival, and triggerstreet.com.

ADAM B. KAUFMAN - Adam was the first male in the history of Muhlenberg College to minor in dance. Prominent stage roles include the Gravedigger in Hamlet, Ali Hakim in Oklahoma!, and Mark Anthony in A Chorus Line. Since college he has choreographed his own modern dance show and relocated to NYC, where he has appeared as an extra on Oz, Law and Order, Ed, Death to Smoochy, and The Guru. He's been involved in nearly every Porch Room project, and was seen in Five-Cornered Thinking, Burt Reynolds' Amazing..., and The White Knight, as well as cowrote and directed At the SAG Registry. He also recently choreographed a dance piece for the first Alumni Choreographed Dance Show at Muhlenberg College, and can be seen annually during the holiday season as an elf at the famous FAO Schwarz on New York City's 5th Avenue.

Porch Room Charter Members

BRIAN SHERMAN

ERIC WERNER

PAUL ADAMS

MARK STAUDINGER

J. MICHAEL DeANGELIS