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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.
 Amir Arison (Vijay) Off-Broadway: A Very Common Procedure (MCC), Armed & Naked in America (Naked Angels), Ramanujan in A First Class Man (Tribeca, AlterEgo, Lark, McCarter), Beast on the Moon, Modern Orthodox, Candy&Dorothy, Merchant On Venice and Omnium Gatherum (Pulitzer finalist). Regional: Centennial Production of Oklahoma! (Lyric, OK), Love's Labours Lost (The RSC, UK / Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.), Black Snow (Yale Rep), The Tempest (Shakespeare Fest. St. Louis), …Allergist's Wife (PaperMill), The Arab-Israeli Cookbook (wkshop, LongWharf), Huntington, Dorset. Readings/Workshops with NYTW, Rattlestick, Ars Nova, 2ndStage, Cherry Lane, The Workshop. TV: "Traveler", "Hope & Faith," "The Jury," the three "Law & Order" series. Film: The Visitor, Anamorph, Day Zero.
 Michi Barall (Shizuko) Signature: John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals. Off-Broadway: Hotel Cassiopeia (BAM), EST Marathon 2007, The Attic (Play Co), Jump/Cut, Carson McCullers (Women's Project), Ivanov (Ma-Yi), Unwrap Your Candy (Vineyard), Saved or Destroyed (Rattlestick), Sueño (MCC), wAve (Ohio). Regional: ATL, Arena, Berkeley Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Court, Hartford Stage, La Jolla, Long Wharf, McCarter, Portland Center, Seattle Rep, Williamstown. TV/Film: "Cosby", "Law & Order", "Thirdwatch", "New Amsterdam", I Will Avenge You Iago.
 Satya Bhabha (the DJ) Off-Broadway: As Yet Thou Art Young and Rash (Target Margin Theatre); Hell House (St. Ann's Warehouse, Les Freres Corbusier), Talking to Terrorists (Culture Project). Off-Off Broadway: Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb); The Brig (The Living Theatre, dir Judith Malina); Johnny Applef@#ker (Ice Factory). Regional: Les Cenci (Watermill Center), Psycho Hamlet (ArtSpace); Dov + Ali (Icicle Creek Theatre Festival). London: Tropicana (SHUNT); Doublethink (Rotozaza), The Red Ladies (The Clod Ensemble). Upcoming: Paradise Park (Signature Theatre). Education: Yale; National Youth Theatre (UK).
 Marsha Stephanie Blake (Doctor 3, Esther) Broadway: The Crucible. Off-Broadway: Speak Truth to Power (Culture Project); All That I Will Ever Be (NYTW); Living Room in Africa (Edge Theatre Co.); The Gentleman Dancing Master, The Master Builder (Pearl Theatre); Aunt Dan and Lemon (The New Group); Twelfth Night (Public Theater/NYSF). Regional : This Beautiful City (Sundance Theatre Lab), Peter and Wendy (w/Mabou Mines at Arena Stage) and projects with Milwaukee Rep, Syracuse Stage, and La Jolla Playhouse. Films: The Architect, A-Alike, Lifted, and the upcoming Indelible. TV: “Six Degrees,” “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Third Watch”. MFA: UCSD.
 Bill Buell (Patrick, Bartender, Bather 1, Bob, Detective) Broadway: The History Boys, Inherit the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, Tommy, Taking Steps, Big River, Annie, Once a Catholic, The First, Welcome to the Club, The Miser. Off-Broadway: The Fourth Sister, Eight Days Backwards (Vineyard), Bad Habits, (MTC), Mysteries, False Servant (CSC). Tartuffe, Winters Tale, Twelfth Night (NYSF), Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Common Pursuit. Film: Across the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Requiem for a Dream, Quiz Show, Palindromes, Kinsey, Dark Water. TV: “The Bronx is Burning”, “John Adams”, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, “Jamie Kennedy Experience”, “Law and Order”, “Cosby”.
 Demosthenes Chrysan (Doctor 1, Cabbie 2, Bather 3, Giorgio, Rabbi, Criminal 3) has appeared in numerous contemporary and classical, regional productions for Florida Stage, Arkansas Repertory, Riverside Theatre, Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, as well as the award-winning regional premiere of Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul at Trinity Repertory Theatre. Recently he appeared in Aswat: Voices of Palestine at NYTW in conjunction with Nibras. Television appearances include “One Life to Live” and “Law & Order: SVU.” Independent film credits include Layla Is Bad and Santa Claus in Baghdad.
 Geeta Citygirl (Vivian, Doctor 5) Serendib (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Kalight (BPAC's Rose Nagelberg Theatre), Air Raid (NAATCO at Here Arts Center), Democracy in Islam and Trail of Tears (Theater for the New City), The Wound (La MaMa), The Happiness Proxy (LES Tenement Museum). Film: Finding Priya A Prom Date (to be released later this year). TV: “Law and Order.” Founder and Artistic Director of SALAAM Theatre.
 Emily Donahoe (Katya, Colleen) Off-Broadway: The Attic, Great Expectations, Apparition, The Hasty Heart. Regional: world premiere of Shakespeare in Hollywood (Arena Stage / 2004 Helen Hayes Award "Outstanding Supporting Actress"), world premiere of Charles Mee's Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse), Honour with Kathleen Chalfant and The Glass Menagerie with Rita Moreno (both Berkeley Rep), Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Williamstown Theater Festival), Noises Off (Cape Playhouse). Films: Zelimo, Weeki Wachi Girls, Telephone, To the Moon. TV: “As the World Turns.” Co-founder of Apparition Productions in New York City. Upcoming Off-Broadway: Deathbed by Mark Schultz at the McGinn-Cazale.
 William Jackson Harper (Flower Seller, Doctor 2, Cabbie 1, Criminal 1) Signature debut. Off-Broadway: The Children of Vonderly. New York: Neglect, Bike Wreck, 100 Most Beautiful Names of Todd, Unwritten Song (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Fall Bloom (Vital Theatre). Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in Santa Fe) Hamlet (Dallas Theatre Center), Dance of the Holy Ghosts: A play on memory (New York Stage and Film). TV: “Law & Order: CI”.
 Jodi Lin (Mimi) Off-Broadway: Alice in War, The Women of Trachis, The Necklace, The Roaring Girle, Anna Devere-Smith's Twilight Los Angeles 1992, New World Rhapsody, With a Hammer and a Nail, The Joy Luck Club. Regional: Richard II, Mother Courage, Antigone (American Repertory Theatre). Film: The Full Moon Fables, Apostasy, Contemplating Emily. Television: “Homicide: The Second Shift”. Education: ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard University.
 Arian Moayed (Abdi, Criminal 5) Off-Broadway: Masked (DR2), American Pilot (MTC, dir. Lynne Meadow), Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A, Kite Runner (dir. Wynn Handman), and Homebody/Kabul (BAM). Regional: Homebody/Kabul (Steppenwolf), As You Like It and Othello (Utah Shakespearean Festival) TV: "MONY" (Series Regular, dir. Spike Lee), all the "Law & Order's", "Six Degrees", and “Late Nite with Conan O'Brien". Films: Arranged (upcoming), The Christians (upcoming) and Church Story. Arian also is a Waterwell co-founder, he has acted/direct/devised 10 drops including In On It, Lost in Yemen, Fuenteovejuna, Chill & Serve, Sweetness & Light, The Persians…, Marco Millions (based on lies) and The/King/Operetta . www.waterwell.org
 Debargo Sanyal (Paan Beedi Guy, Bather 2, Doctor 4, Criminal 2) NYC Stage: Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink (NY premiere, Alter Ego Productions), Port Authority Throw Down (Working Theater), Women of Trachis (Target Margin), audiovideo (Drama League DirectorFest '05), Commedia Dell Smartass (New Georges), Millicent Scowlworthy (SPF '06), Harvest (East Coast Artists), Slag Heap (Cherry Lane-Mentor Project), Barriers (Desipina), Love Sucks (NYMF '07), Smoking Bloomberg (NYMF '06), Browntown (FringeNYC '04), In Transit (FringeNYC '06). The Juilliard School Drama Division (Guest Artist Actor '05). Film: West 32nd (Tribeca Film Festival '07), Made for Each Other, What Happens in Vegas... Red Hook, Ashes, My Sassy Girl. TV: "L&O: Criminal Intent," "The Sopranos.”
 Jon Norman Schneider (Aly, Cabbie 3, Criminal 4) Off-Broadway: Durango (Public Theatre), Blind Mouth Singing (NAATCO), The First Tree in Antarctica (EST), To Eat Bitter (Blue Heron). Regional: Durango (Long Wharf), Citizen 13559: The Journal of Ben Uchida (Kennedy Center). Film: Angel Rodriguez, Hiding Divya. Television: “30 Rock”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”.
 Ruth Zhang (Min, Jenny) Off-Broadway: The Joy Luck Club, China Doll (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre). Regional: The King and I (Mill Mountain Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, Candlewood Playhouse, Music Theatre North). Freedom in the Square (Musical Theatre Works). Film: Saving Face, Whatever Lola Wants, D4Delivery, Face, Hot and Sour, The Fourth Date. TV: “Whoopi Show,” “Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,” “Conan O'Brien Show,” “Saturday Night Live,” and various commercials. Originally from Shanghai, China, was a soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic.
Davis McCallum (Director) New York: Quiara Hudes' Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue (P73 at The Culture Project; Pulitzer Prize Finalist), The Turn Of The Screw, Jane Eyre (The Acting Company), Unbound: The Journals of Fanny Kemble, The Belle's Stratagem, West Moon Street (Prospect Theater Company), Noah Haidle's The Dakota Project and Women & Criminals (HERE) and Charles Mee's A Perfect Wedding (NYU Grad Acting). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playmakers Rep, Chapel Hill, Cleveland Playhouse, Georgia Shakespeare, American Shakespeare Center, Shakespeare Theater, ACA, McCarter Theater, Princeton University, four summers at New York Stage & Film. He was the Killian Directing Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2003) and a Drama League Directing Fellow (2001), and recently received an NEA/TCG Career Development Fellowship for Directors (2007). He trained at LAMDA and studied at Princeton and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Peter Pucci (Choreographer) Off B'way: 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.
Michael Friedman (Music Supervision and Arrangements) Signature: John Guare's Landscape of the Body. Composer/lyricist for the Civilians' Gone Missing, [I Am] Nobody's Lunch, Canard, Canard, Goose? and This Beautiful City, and for The Brand New Kid and the upcoming Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Saved, and Alice in Wonderland. Also: NYSF/Public, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Second Stage, Soho Rep, TFANA, The Acting Company; Kennedy Center, Huntington, La Jolla, Hartford Stage, Humana, ART, Berkeley Rep, Dallas Theatre Center, Williamstown; London's Soho and Gate Theatres; Edinburgh Festival. Artistic Associate: NYTW; Princeton University Hodder Fellow; MacDowell fellow; founding Associate Artist of the Civilians. 2007 Obie award for sustained excellence.
Matt Castle (Music Direction) York Theatre (Enter Laughing, LingoLand, Mirette, Of Mice and Men), NYMF (Austentatious, Gutenberg! The Musical!), Theater Ten Ten, APAC, dozens of new works at NYU, Theatreworks/USA, BMI, NAMT, et al. Mr. Castle has arranged, orchestrated, sung, and played piano with the Omaha and Stockton symphonies, and he is a founding member of the Emerald Trio. As actor: John Doyle's Company (Peter), original off-Broadway cast of The Musical of Musicals (both Willy and Jitter), plus roles at Paper Mill, Cincinnati Playhouse, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Music Circus. www.MattCastle.com
Mimi Lien (Set Design) Ms. Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theatre, dance, opera, and film. Recent work includes The Bald Soprano (Shakespeare Theater of NJ), Greedy (Clubbed Thumb), The Life of Galileo (Wilma Theater), Villa America (Williamstown), Post Mortem (Flea), Love Unpunished (Pig Iron). Dance: Carmina Burana (Pennsylvania Ballet); Sir Isaac's Apples (Juilliard Dance); Mandance Project (Joyce Theater). A recipient of the 2007 NEA/TCG Career Development Program, a 2005 Barrymore Award (Outrage), and a semifinalist for the Ring Award in Graz, Austria. In January 2007, she was selected as Live Design magazine's Young Designer to Watch. MFA: Design (NYU), BA: Architecture (Yale)
Marcus Doshi, (Lighting Design) Marcus Doshi designs lighting for theatre, opera and dance, as well as collaborating with artists and architects on a wide array of non-theatrical ventures. Recent work includes [I Am] Nobody's Lunch with the Civilians (company member) in the US and Edinburgh; The Skin of our Teeth, directed by Bartlett Sher at Intiman; La Boheme for Boston Lyric Opera; the national tour of Pamina Devi, recently at the Joyce; and Above and Below, an installation by Maya Lin for the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Further documentation of his work can be found at www.marcusdoshi.com.
Christal Weatherly(Costume Design) Recent projects include Culture Clash's Zorro In Hell and Orpheus and Eurydice for Human Company. In New York, she has designed costumes for the Acting Company (Jane Eyre), Apparition Off-Broadway LLC (Apparition), and the 2005 Summer Play Festival. Around the country, she has designed for Hartford Stage, The Humana Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, The Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Madison Repertory Theatre and the beloved Rainpan 43, among others. Upcoming projects include Doris to Darlene for Playwrights Horizons, Lydia for the Denver Center Theatre Company and Cardenio for A.R.T.
Ken Travis (Sound Design) Selected shows: The Threepenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park, Steel Magnolias (Broadway); Into the Woods (5th Ave), Twelfth Night, Blue Door (Seattle Rep), Gone Missing, Paris Commune (Civilians); Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Blue Door, (Playwrights Horizons); Abigail's Party, Hurlyburly, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Comedians (The New Group); Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale, and Anna Deavere Smith's House Arrest (NYSF Public Theater); Lee Breuer's Prelude to a Death in Venice, Choephorae; Mabou Mines' Red Beads; The Family Guy Live at Townhall; Kiki & Herb Will Die for You at Carnegie Hall; Look Back in Anger at CSC.
Stephen Gabis (Dialect Coach) Signature: Landscape of the Body. Current: The 39 Steps, The Farnsworth Invention. Recent: The Corn is Green, Blithe Spirit (Williamstown). Broadway/Off-Broadway: 110 In The Shade, Coram Boy, Butley, Legally Blonde, Heartbreak House, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Doubt, Jersey Boys, The Voysey Inheritance, Frozen, Stuff Happens. Venues: Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizon, M.C.C., The New Group, Yale Rep., Hartford Stage, McCarter, Alley, Public Theatre, Atlantic. Film: The Savages, Across the Universe, Bernard and Doris (for Ralph Fiennes), Dark Matter, The Notorious Bettie Page, Boys Don't Cry.
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: 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.
Gaye Taylor Upchurch (Assistant Director) Drama League Directing Fellow (Fall, 2007). Broadway: Garry Hynes' Translations (MTC); Off-Broadway: Michael Wilson Dividing the Estate (Primary Stages); Regional: Michael Kahn Love's Labours Lost (The Shakespeare Theatre), Actors Theatre of Louisville, O'Neill Playwrights Conference. Recent Directing: Charles Forbes' minor gods (SPF), Kirsten Greenidge's Silver Lining (Kennedy Center, workshop), Naomi Iizuka's Language of Angels (Lincoln Center Institute). William Kenan Directing Fellow at Lincoln Center Institute. Alumna of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab 2007 and North Carolina School of the Arts.
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