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Charles Mee (Playwright, September 15, 1938). has written Big Love, True Love, First Love, bobrauschenbergamerica, Hotel Cassiopeia, Orestes 2.0, Trojan Women 2.0, Summertime and Wintertime among other plays – all of them available on the internet at www.charlesmee.org. His plays have been performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, the Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Humana Festival, Steppenwolf, and other places in the United States as well as in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Vienna, Istanbul and elsewhere. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work is made possible by the support of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
 Vanessa Aspillaga (Darling) Broadway: Pulitzer Prize winning Anna in the Tropics. Off-Broadway: Pulitzer Finalist The Clean House (Lincoln Center), The Cataract (Women's Project), As You Like It (Public NYSF), Night of the Assassins (INTAR), They Still Mambo In Havana (Flea), A Park In Our House (NYTW). Other theater: Two Sisters and a Piano (Alliance), Missionaries (BAM, La Mama, NYS&F), Voir Dire (Long Wharf, Arena, Seattle Rep) Film & TV: Petty Crimes, My Best Friend's Wife, Stringer, Mr. Wonderful, 4 episodes "Law & Order," "As the World Turns." Playwriting: hush (INTAR New Works Lab '02) Founding member LAByrinth, Usual Suspect NYTW.
 Satya Bhabha (Vikram) Off-B'way: Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature Theatre); As Yet Thou Art Young and Rash (Ohio Theatre, Target Margin/David Herskovits); Man Ascends (The Atlantic Theatre); Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse, Les Freres Corbusier/Alex Timbers), Talking to Terrorists (Culture Project). Off-off B'way: Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb); The Brig (The Living Theatre/Judith Malina); Between the Lines (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Johnny Applef@#ker (Ice Factory). Readings & Workshops: MCC, CSC, NYS&F, The Lark. Regional: Les Cenci (Watermill Center), PSYCHOHamlet (ArtSpace); Dov + Ali (Icicle Creek Theatre Festival). London: Tropicana (SHUNT); Doublethink (Rotozaza), The Red Ladies (The Clod Ensemble). Education: Yale; National Youth Theatre (UK).
 Veanne Cox (Nancy): Broadway: Caroline or Change, The Dinner Party, Company (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Smile. Off-Broadway: Spain, Last Easter (Drama Desk nomination), The Wooden Breeks (MCC), House and Garden, Labor Day (MTC), The Altruists, The Batting Cage, The Waiting Room, Flora the Red Menace (Vineyard), Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons), A Question of Mercy (NYTW), A Mother A Daughter and a Gun, The Vagina Monologues, The Food Chain. Regional: Private Lives (Guthrie), The Beaux Stratagem (Shakespeare Theatre, Helen Hayes nomination), The Boyfriend (Bay Street), The Imaginary Invalid (Yale Rep), The Importance of Being Earnest (La Jolla), A Flea in Her Ear (Long Wharf). Film: Marci X, Erin Brokovich, Big Eden, Beethoven's 4th. TV: "Seinfeld," "Boston Legal," "Cinderella," "Law and Order CI."
 Gian Murray Gianino (Bob) New York: Eurydice (Second Stage), Radio Macbeth (The Public Theatre), Bone Portraits (SoHo Rep), Psyche (Ohio Theatre), bobrauschenbergamerica (BAM), Crave (TheatronInc/XOProjects), Al Pacino's Salome readings (NY & LA). REGIONAL: Yale Rep, Arena Stage, Provincetown Rep, and with Anne Bogart's Siti Company, the Humana Festival, Stamford Performing Arts, Athenaeum, Krannert Center, Walker Center, Wexner Center, Bobigny Festival, Bonn Biennale, Dublin Theatre Festival. Film/TV: To Muse in Dumbo, Dead Canaries (w/ Charles Durning), Tale of Two Corners, Hospitality, Up to the Roof, "Law and Order: SVU", "All My Children". BA: Wesleyan University. G.M. is the third generation of a New York acting family.
 William Jackson Harper (Benny) Signature: Queens Boulevard (the musical), Off Broadway: The Children of Vonderly. New York: Neglect, Bike Wreck, 100 Most Beautiful Names of Todd, Unwritten Song, (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Full Bloom (Vital Theatre). Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in Santa Fe); Hamlet (Dallas Theater Center), Dance of the Holy Ghosts: A play on memory (New York Stage and Film) TV: "Law & Order: CI."
 Christopher McCann (Morton) NY: The Wandering Boy (SPF'07), Everything Will Be Different, True Love, Attempts On Her Life, Lydie Breeze, Impossible Marriage, Mad Forest, The Devils, The Lights (OBIE, Drama Desk Nomination), Richard III, Richard II, Pericles (BAM) and Robert Woodruff's productions of The Changeling and Buried Child (Premiere). He's appeared at theaters throughout the country. Film/TV: American Inquisition, Michael Glawogger's The Father Game, Mary Harron's The Notorious Betty Page, Antonio Campos' The Last 15, Buy It Now (1st Prize, Cinefondation, Cannes) & his recently finished Afterschool; "Damages", "The Bronx is Burning," Sidney Lumet's Strip Search, & "Law & Order."
 Paul Mullins (Jorge) Off-Broadway: True Love, The Torchbearers, Never the Sinner, The Merchant of Venice (NYSF). Regional: Richard III, Iago, Leontes, Algernon, Lenny, Neschaslitsiev among many during fifteen seasons at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Also Steppenwolf, The Shakespeare Theatre, DC, Yale Rep, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Portland Stage, American Stage. As a Director: Regional: Macbeth, Measure for Measure (The Old Globe), The Time of Your Life, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Richard II, King John, The Illusion, Rhinoceros (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Fat Pig, This Is How It Goes (The Studio Theatre), True West (Portland Stage)
 Alan Semok (Edgar, Mortimer) Regional: Romeo & Juliet (Carolinian Shakespeare Fest); I Love You Madame President (Society Hill Playhouse, Philadelphia); Eenery Beenery Factory (George St. Playhouse); The Cherry Orchard (Yale Rep, technical consultant); Invictus, Family Wills (NJWTC. NYC: Fanny & Walt (Blue Heron Theatre); The Bros. Karamazov (Lincoln Center/Culture Project); Can't Go Nowhere With Ya (John Houseman Theatre); Candide (Drama Committee); She Stoops To Conquer (Troupe Theatre). Film: Over The Counter; Savage Faith; Ridiculous History Of Tobacco; Cradle Will Rock (technical consultant); The Ten (technical consultant). TV: "American Experience"(as Aaron Burr); "KIDS-TV", "Shining Time Station" (series regular)
 Laurie Williams (Ella): Broadway: Sight Unseen (MTC Biltmore, Grete); Off-Broadway: True Love (Zipper Theatre, Polly) (Drama League Honor-Outstanding Performance 2001-2002 Season); Off-Off Broadway: Cat's Paw (Soho Rep), Natural Child, Subterraneans, Malibu; Regional: The Way of the World (Yale Repertory Theatre, Mrs Marwood), The Importance of Being Earnest (McCarter Theatre, Gwendolyn), Learned Ladies (Armande), Loot (American Repertory Theatre, Fay), The Triumph of Love (La Jolla Playhouse, Hermidas), Therese Raquin (Suzanne), The Hairy Ape (Stoker), "THE REAL THING" (Intiman Theatre, Annie), Noises Off (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Belinda/Flavia) Television: "Sopranos," "Law & Order," "Law & Order SVU," "Conviction," "Guiding Light," "As the World Turns."
Daniel Fish (Director) Daniel Fish's work has been seen at theaters across the country and abroad. His recent work includes Tartuffe (McCarter/Yale Rep) The Elliott Smith Project (True Love Productions/Bard Summerscape) and Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf Theatre, Bard Summerscape.) and the world premiere of Our House by Theresa Rebeck ( Denver Center Theatre). Off-Broadway credits include the premiere of True Love by Charles L. Mee (Zipper Theatre), Ghosts with Amy Irving (CSC), and the US premiere of The Woman Before by Roland Schimmelpfenning (German Theatre Abroad). He directed the premiere of Poor Beck by Joanna Laurens for The Royal Shakespeare Company (Stratford and London), Hamlet, Loot, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Learned Ladies (McCarter Theatre), Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor (The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC), The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Cymbeline (California Shakespeare Theatre). His work has also been seen at Yale Repertory Theatre, The Wilma Theatre, Baltimore Centerstage, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Court Theatre, The Intiman and The Juilliard School. Daniel Fish has worked as Associate Director to Sir Peter Hall and Michael Kahn and has taught at The Yale School of Drama and Princeton University. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Department of Performance Studies.
Peter Pucci (Choreographer) Off B'way: Queens Boulevard(the musical), People Be Heard, After Ashley, The Agony and the Agony, The Late Henry Moss, True Love, Eyes for Consuela. Regional: Yale Rep: Safe in Hell, The Cherry Orchard, Miss Julie, The Black Monk; Westport Playhouse: A Marriage Minuet; The Magic Theater: The Late Henry Moss; Great Lakes Theatre Festival: Romeo and Juliet; North Shore Music Theatre: Letters from ‘Nam; Baltimore Center Stage/Berkeley Repertory Theatre: Fall; The Shakespeare Theatre: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night; The McCarter Theater: Mrs. Packard, Hamlet, Fool for Love, The Cherry Orchard, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Learned Ladies; The Hartford Stage: Summer and Smoke, Eight by Tenn, Macbeth, Camino Real. National Tour: The Civil War; TheatreWorks USA: Romeo and Juliet; Baltimore Opera: Samson and Delilah; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Renard Dance Commissions: Pucci Plus Dancers; Ballet Hispanico; Joffrey Ballet; Colorado Ballet; Ballet Arizona; Ballet Pacifica; Pittsburgh Ballet; Pilobolus Dance Theatre; Artist in Residence, Manhattanville College.
WILLIAM SCHIMMEL (Music Director/Accordion Player) Dr. William Schimmel earned his doctorate of Music from Juilliard. A composer, author, lecturer, philosopher and virtuoso accordionist, he performs in a wide variety of styles from classical to pop and has appeared with many major symphony orchestras and recorded with such noted performers as Sting and Tom Waits, whose celebrated remark, "Bill Schimmel doesn't play the accordion-he is an accordion," has entered accordion legend. He is a prolific composer from the concert stage to Broadway theater and is founder of the renowned Tango Project. He was named "Best Accordionist" by Keyboard Magazine.
DAIVD ZINN (Set designer) Broadway: Costumes for Xanadu;. Off-Broadway: Costume and/or Set design at: Second Stage, Theater for a New Audience, NYTW, MCC, Atlantic Theater, Target Margin (Obie Award). Opera: Sets and Costumes for Orlando, Flavio, La Donna Del Lago (New York City Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera); Don Giovanni, La Clemenze Di Tito (Santa Fe Opera); Costumes for The Greater Good (Glimmerglass Opera). Regional: Sets and/or Costumes at A.R.T, the Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Centerstage, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Guthrie Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Intiman Theater, Children's Theater Company.
KAYE VOYCE (Costume designer) Recent work includes Our House (Denver Center), Tartuffe (McCarter and Yale Rep), Orphée (Glimmerglass Opera), Ile de Merlin (Spoleto Festival), Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf), The Frame (Theater Bonn), End of Reality (The Kitchen and international tour), Quartet (Court Theatre) and Hamlet (McCarter)
MARK BARTON, (Lighting Designer) Off Broadway: All The Wrong Reasons, No Child..., Five Course Love, Thom Pain (based on nothing), Valparaiso. Recently: Young Jean Lee's Church, Lisa D'Amour's BirdEye BluePrint, The Tristan Project at Lincoln Center. Productions of Elevator Repair Service's Gatz in Brussels, Amsterdam, Zurich, Minneapolis, Oslo, Vienna, Lisbon, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland. Many productions with many NYC companies: New York Theater Workshop, Target Margin, Salt Theater, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, P.S. 122, HERE, Epic Theater, Edge Theater, Elevator Repair Service, Talking Band. Regional: Woolly Mammoth, American Repertory Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Asolo Rep, Southern Rep, Hangar Theater. With Curtis Opera Theater, Philadelphia: The Magic Flute; Albert Herring; L'Ormindo; Postcard from Morocco; La Voix Humaine; Ainadamar. Member of Target Margin and Salt Theater.
ELIZABETH RHODES (Sound designer) New York credits include the world premiere of Steve Martin's adaptation of The Underpants, the premieres of John Patrick Shanley's Dirty Story and Sailor Song. LAByrinth credits include Stephen Belber's A Small Melodramatic Story, Robert Glaudini's Dutch Heart of a Man and Erin Cressida Wilson's Trail of Her Inner Thigh. Other New York credits include The Winter's Tale with dir. Barry Edelstein (Classic Stage Company), Trial by Water (Ma-Yi), The Woman Before with dir. Daniel Fish, A Soldier's Wife (The Mint), Ajax 100% Fun (Lightbox). Regional credits include Lee Blessing's Winning Streak (George Street Playhouse), Stones in His Pockets (Alley Theatre).
JOSHUA THORSON (Video Designer) A filmmaker who has shown his narrative video-films at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Pacific Film Archive, CinemaTexas, Chicago Filmmakers, the New Festival, the Pleasure Dome in Toronto, among others. This is his first work for a theatrical production.
Winnie Lok (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater/NYSF), Iphigenia 2.0, King Hedley II, Two Trains Running, Seven Guitars, Landscape of the Body, The Trip to Bountiful (Signature Theatre Company). Off-Off-Broadway: Lila on the Wall (EST Marathon One Acts). Regional: Menopause, The Musical (Coronet); Apollo Part I: Lebensraum , The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip , A Perfect Wedding ( Kirk Douglas Theatre ); Slanguage , Sex Parasite (Taper , Too); Wing on Wing (Walt Disney Concert Hall); M.Butterfly (East West Players); Topdog/Underdog , Nickel and Dimed (Mark Taper Forum). A Proud member of AEA.
Chandra LaViolette (Assistant Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Queens Boulevard (the musical), Iphigenia 2.0, King Hedley II (Signature Theatre Company), Pretty Chin Up (LAByrinth Theater Company), Spring Awakening (Atlantic Theater Company), Windows (INTAR), The Great American Trailer Park Musical. Off-Off Broadway: The Female Heart, Equality Playwrights Festival (Diverse City Theater Company), The Bus to Buenos Aires (EST Marathon 2006, Series C), screwmachine/eyecandy (Clancy Productions). Regional: All My Sons (Emerge Theater Company). Chandra holds a BA in theater from The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an MFA in stage management from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Ásta Bennie Hostetter (Assistant Director) is a costume designer whose recent work includes Cagey Production's "Blue Puppy Cycle" (The Chocolate Factory) and Carson Kreitzer's "Flesh and the Desert" (SPF). She is a company member of Target Margin Theater for whom she recently designed "The Argument" and "The Dinner Party" this past June.
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