"We sleuth the world today with online investigatory tools. We live in a dataverse that is at our fingertips . . . we wanted to make a piece—not about the internet—but inside the internet."
Whit MacLaughlin, director of Extremely Public Displays Of Privacy

“New Paradise Laboratories is a wild, sensory, erotic experience. . . . Mindbending. Fearless.”
The Louisville Courier-Journal

Emily Rea Originally from Northern California, Emily is a freelance theater artist between New York and Philadelphia. This March, she directed and co-produced an original piece with Them Hands Productions titled Sandy and Soil at the Brooklyn Lyceum. She has worked with New Paradise Laboratories as an assistant director, dramaturg, stage manager, and production manager since 2007. A graduate of the University of the Arts, Emily has worked in Philadelphia with Emmanuelle Delpech, Philadelphia Theater Co, Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and Pig Iron Theatre Co among others. She currently lives in Brooklyn and has worked extensively in New York at HERE Arts center; favorite projects include rainpan43's machines machines machines machines machines machines machines and Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge .Last season in New York she also production managed for Target Margin Theater, Nichole Canuso Dance Co and 3 Legged Dog. This fall she will begin an MFA program at CUNY's Brooklyn College in Performance and Interactive Media.

Jorge Cousineau has designed sets, lights, sound and video for dance and theater in and out of Philadelphia for 14 years. He has joined New Paradise Laboratories as a member after he worked with the company on Batch , which premiered at the Humana Festival in Louisville in 2007. Two years later he expanded his repertoire with the immersive production of Fatebook . Jorge has received several Barrymore Awards, including the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist in 2004, as well as a Lortel Award for his sound design on the NYC production of Opus .

Whit MacLaughlin is originally from Kansas City, Missouri. The time he spent in that town, along with years spent in Chicago, rural Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia, influenced how he understands his own sense of place, of location. He remembers his first trip out the country (1974) and his first time online (1994) as life-changing events. Those experiences impressed upon him that the mind, the imagination, and this sense of geo-location work together to create what it feels like to be present in the world. He founded New Paradise Laboratories in 1998 with a group of brilliant young artists to create work about physical presence as the core of human experience. Now, in a series of web-based pieces beginning with 2009's Fatebook , he is charting changes in how the body experiences itself in the digital age. Extremely Public Displays of Privacy marks NPL's 16th original work.

Larry Loebell*'s plays include La Tempestad , The Shanghai Kaddish , The Ballad of John Wesley Reed , Girl Science , The Dostoyevsky Man , Pride of the Lion , Angie and Arnie Sanguine , But Who’s Counting , Just Before the War Between the Plates and the Barrymore nominated House Divided . Larry has been awarded four Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in playwriting, an EST/Sloan Science Foundation rewrite commission, and was awarded a new play commission from the National Council for Jewish Culture. As a dramaturg he has worked for InterAct Theater Company, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, PlayPenn, and elsewhere. He was the dramaturg on the 2005 New Paradise Laboratories Production of Planetary Enzyme Blues . Larry teaches playwriting on the adjunct faculty of Arcadia University in Glenside, PA, and film history at the University of the Arts.