Peggy Stafford (Playwright)  Ms. Stafford’s plays have been produced or developed by P73, Women’s Project, Soho Rep, Dixon Place, Bottom’s Dream, HERE, The Playhouse (Northern Ireland), Annex Theatre, On The Boards, and Empty Space Theatre. She was a member of the Soho Rep’s Writer/Director Lab and her play Little Miss 1565 was developed through their Phase 2 Program. She is an affiliated artist with New Georges and a member of the Women’s Project Playwright’s Lab. Her film, A Problem With Sharks, premiered in 2002 at The Seattle International Film Festival and screened nationally. Ms. Stafford holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and studied playwriting with Maria Irene Fornes, Mac Wellman, Paula Vogel, and Jeff Jones through Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops at The Flea Theater. She recently received a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. Ms. Stafford also teaches playwriting at PS10 in Brooklyn.

Rebecca Patterson (Director) is Artistic Director of The Queen’s Company, known for its innovative productions of classical plays featuring all-female casts. Past Queen’s Company productions: The Taming of the Shrew, Edward II, School For Scandal, Much Ado About Nothing, The Lucky Chance, Antony & Cleopatra, The Feign’d Courtesans, The Duchess of Malfi, The Rover, and Macbeth. Past productions for other theatres include: The Gabriels, The Imaginary Invalid, One Flea Spare, Vinegar Tom, Too Tall Blondes in Love, Greeks & Centaurs, Marisol, The Dance and The Railroad and The Lisbon Traviata.

 Marion Williams (Set Design) has worked on numerous New York shows, including: Tristen Skyler’s The Moonlight Room, and Marlene Meyer’s Mystery of Attraction. International: Turn of the Screw (opera) Leipzig, Germany. Regional Designs include: Measure for Measure, The Cherry Orchard, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Othello, (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) The Illusion, The Underpants, Stones in His Pockets, Cyrano de Bergerac, Not About Heroes, (PlayMakers Repertory Company) Othello, Tartuffe, Amadeus, Taming of the Shrew, Arcadia (Sacramento Theatre Company). She also worked on four consecutive commissions with Choreographer Adam Hougland for the Louisville Ballet, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Jose Limon Dance, The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. Ms. Williams holds an MFA in Scenic Design from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  In 2004 she received a Princess Grace Award for Design and in 2007 was a Princess Grace Special Project Grant recipient.

Jenny C. Fulton (Costume Design) Most recently in New Yok, set design for Kathryn Blume's The Boycott. Previously with Rebecca Patterson, costumes for The Imaginary Invalid.  NYC: costumes for Clubbed Thumb; Salt Theatre; Voice Theatre and others. Regional: costumes and/or sets for American Repertory Theatre, Yale Rep, North Shore Theatre, Philadelphia Shakespeare, Virginia Shakespeare, and others.  Long-term artistic relationship with Vermont Stage Company as set and costume designer. Design for Film/TV: /The Undeserved; /PBS/Channel 13; a zombie film.  Based jointly in NYC and Vermont, where she teaches theatre and writing. MFA Yale; member USA Local 829.

Dawn Chiang (Lighting Design) designed the lighting on Broadway for Zoot Suit and Tango Pasion (co-designed with Richard Pilbrow). Off Broadway, she has designed for the Manhattan Theatre Club and Roundabout Theatre.  Ms. Chiang was Resident Lighting Designer for New York City Opera, where her designs included Anna Bolena , Fanciulla del West and A Little Night Music.  Her regional theatre credits include designs for the Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Alley Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company.   She was the creator, designer, performer for a lighting performance piece for the Whitney Museum of American Art, deLights:  Art on 5 Outlets. Ms. Chiang has earned two Drama-Logue Critics' Awards, a Los Angeles Drama Critic's Nomination for Light Comedies (Ahamanson Theatre) and an American Theatre Wing Award nomination for A Man For All Seasons (Roundabout Theatre).

Jane Shaw (Sound Design) – With Rebecca Patterson:  The Gabriels, Antony and Cleopatra, Taming of the Shrew, Lucky Chance.  Recent work: Big Dance Theater’s The Other Here ; TFANA’s Merchant of Venice with F. Murray Abraham, Constant Couple (the Pearl), The Dinner Party (Target Margin), and Return of the Prodigal (the Mint). Recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program, 2005 - 2007, and Meet the Composer 2006.  Graduate of the Yale School of Drama, and a native of Lawrence, Kansas.

Aduro Productions (Production Management) is Carolyn Kelson and Jason Janicki.  Recent Off-Broadway credits include: Production Management of:  Tall Grass, Fugue, Slava's Snowshow, The Fantasticks, My Name is Rachel Corrie, Striking 12, The Spanish Play, Sealed For Freshness,  Mayumana.  International: SpongeBob Square Pants Live, Broadway Asia. Scenic construction for: Jewtopia, The Ark.  

Kathleen Butler (Bonnie) Kathleen originated the roles of B in Three Tall Women; Gillian in Marriage Play and Louis Nevelson in Occupant, all by Edward Albee. Recently in New York she has appeared in The Play About the Baby, Birds, Lucky Rita, Triangles, Hiding on the Outside and served as the Producer/ Director of Voices Over 55. She also appeared in the original productions of The Shaker Chair; Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, and Last Lists of My Mad Mother. Her film and television credits include A League of Their Own, Law and Order and As the World Turns. Kathleen and her husband Dan have two daughters, Patricia and Ann, a son-inlaw, Jeff, and two granddaughters, Katherine and Ann Erickson.

Nancy Franklin (Marylou) Broadway: A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, Charley and Algernon, The White House and Never Live Over aPretzel Factory. Off-Broadway: Howard Katz (Roundabout Theatre); Everett Berkin (Lincoln Center); Messiah (Manhattan Theater Club); Seven Days of Mourning (Circle in the Square). Regional: The Enchanted Maze (Cleveland Playhouse); A Dybbuk (Hartford Stage); Other Voices, Other Rooms (Center Stage, Albany); Eleemosynary and The Actor’s Nightmare (Barrington Stage Company). Off-Off-Broadway: Cat’s Paw (Soho Rep); Blood Letters and Innocent Pleasures (Ensemble Studio Theatre Mainstage). Film and TV: It’s About Time (DVD); A House in the Woods (Independent); Law and Order and numerous daytime dramas.

Lucy Martin (Janice) Ms. Martin is a native Manhattanite with over a dozen Broadway shows in her credits, including The Constant Wife, Hollywood Arms, Joe Egg, The Sisters Rosensweig, Noises Off and Marlene. She can be seen on Law and Order, Law and Order: SUV, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent and The Cosby Show. She created the long-running role of Tiffany Whitney on The Edge of Night. Her movie appearances include The Producers, New Kids and the soon-to-be-released Anamporph starring Willem Dafoe. Her many Off-Broadway shows include Manhattan Theatre Club’s La Terrace, Lincoln Center’s Substance of Fire, Roundabout’s Hotel Suite, Passion Play and Strictly Personal. Ms. Martin’s regional credits include Medea (Asolo Theatre), Hedda (Stage West) and Edward Albee’s The Play about the Baby (Philadelphia Theatre Company). Ms. Martin was most recently seen this summer at the Berkshire Theatre Festival playing Cora in Vivian Matalon’s production of Morning’s at Seven and this fall with the Hudson Stage Company as Lucy in Murderers.

Dale Soules (Bev) made her Broadway debut as Jeanie in the landmark musical Hair. Other Broadway productions include Whose Life Is It Anyway? (Mary Jo Sadler); The Magic Show (Cal), where she co-starred with magician Doug Henning and introduced the Stephen Schwartz songs “Lion Tamer” and “West End Avenue”; Sarah Good in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible directed by Richard Eyre; and most recently, Edith Bouvier Beale in Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway includes Getting Out; The Water Engine (The Atlantic), New Jerusalem, Lotta, The Unknown (The Public), and Maid (Lincoln Center). Regional includes Wintertime (Wilma); Landscape of the Body (SRT); Candid (Gutherie); and Paris Commune (La Jolla). Television includes American Playhouse; Sesame Street; Law & Order; and Maurice Sendack’s Really Rosie.

Kaipo Schwab (Rascal Lev/ Crazy Horse)  Mr. Schwab is an actor/ director who has worked with The Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Public Theatre, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, The New York Theatre Workshop, Hartford Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and The Geva Theater among others. Film and Television credits include: The Royal Tenenbaums, It Could Happen To You, The Protector, All My Children, New York Undercover and Cosby.  He was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, attended The British American Drama Academy and is a graduate of Boston University School for the Arts (BFA).  In addition, Mr. Schwab is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and is the Artistic Director of the Imua! Theatre Company.

Jack Gianino: (Production Stage Manager) Up, down, all around…Broadway: two dozen, including Souvenir; The Scarlet Pimpernel; Dream; Hughie; Inherit The Wind; Black and Blue; Carrie; The Tap Dance Kid; ‘night, Mother; Lena Horne; Brigadoon; The King and I; and A Christmas Carol (MSG). Off Broadway: Souvenir; Address Unknown; Rounding Third; Love, Janis; Tallulah Hallelujah! Tours: The Sound of Music (Marie Osmond); Hello, Dolly! (Paris); Porgy and Bess (Japan); On Your Toes (Makarova). Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf.

Gian-Murray Gianino (Stage Manager)  New York: Eurydice (Second Stage), Radio Macbeth (The Public Theatre), Bone Portraits (SoHo Rep), Psyche (Ohio Theatre), bobrauschenbergamerica (BAM), Crave (TheatronInc/XOProjects), and Al Pacino's Salome readings (NY & LA). REGIONAL: Eurydice (Yale Rep.), Intimations for Saxophone (Arena Stage), Crazy Eyes (Provincetown Rep), Systems/Layers (SitiCo/Nat'l tour). He has toured globally with Anne Bogart's Siti Company including the Humana Festival, Stamford Performing Arts, Athenaeum, Krannert Center, Walker Center, Wexner Center, Bobigny Festival, Bonn Biennale and Dublin Theatre Festival. FILM: “To Muse in Dumbo (upcoming), “Dead Canaries” with Charles Durning, Tale of Two Corners, Hospitality, Up to the Roof. TELEVISION: Law and Order: SVU, All My Children. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Mr. Gianino is the third generation of a New York acting family. Member of AEA since 2002.

Kim Bartling (Assistant Director) Is an Assistant Professor of Communications Studies and Theatre at the University of Sioux Falls in South Dakota. She currently is in New York on an academic sabbatical.  In her ten years at USF, she had directed 30 productions, including, The Shape of Things, Crazy for You, Seussical, Boy Gets Girl, Page to Stage, Reckless and A Doll House. She also is the co-owner and artistic director of Ephemeral Productions which dedicates itself to producing award winning theatre that features women. Past projects that she has directed include Wit, Proof and Matt and Ben.