Deep Cover

Michael Wolk (Book, Music and Lyrics)

Michael Wolk is CEO and Co-founder of Gorgeous Entertainment Inc., a New York-based company which produces theater, film and special events including PACIFIC OVERTURES on Broadway, and Japan Day @ Central Park, now entering its fourth year . He has written mystery novels (THE BEAST ON BROADWAY, Signet), plays (FEMME FATALE,  Broadway Play Publishing) and films (INNOCENT BLOOD, Warner Bros., directed by John Landis). He has also directed plays and films including the award-winning documentary, YOU THINK YOU REALLY KNOW ME: THE GARY WILSON STORY, which screened at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and is now available on Plexifilm DVD. He performed as a singer songwriter in bars in his native Minneapolis before coming to New York to become rich and famous writing musicals.

Kumiko Yoshii (Producer)

Ms. Yoshii is the President and Co-Founder of Gorgeous Entertainment Inc., a New York-based theater, film, and special event production company, which also counsels major Japanese corporations on entertainment business initiatives, and facilitates the transfer of theatrical productions between America and Japan.

Ms. Yoshii’s producing credits include Pacific Overtures, which was nominated for four Tony awards and was the first Broadway show ever to be directed by a Japanese director (Amon Miyamoto); Big River (US National Tour, Tokyo), The Producers (Tokyo), The Sound Of Music (Tokyo), A Class Act (Broadway, Tokyo), Summer of ‘42 (Off Broadway), Up In The Air (Kennedy Center), Modern Noh Plays (Lincoln Center) and Hamlet (BAM).

She has managed investment, licensing, and transfer deals for Broadway shows such as Drowsy Chaperone, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark, Sound of Music, Scarlet Pimpernel, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Anna Karenina, and The Music Man.

She is a member of The Broadway League, and is on the Board of Directors of The New Group.

Dan Safer (Staging )

Dan Safer originally hails from the wild suburbs of New Jersey, and is artistic director of the dance/theater company Witness Relocation (www.witnessrelocation.org). His work has been presented all over, including Off-Broadway, The Ontological Theater, La MaMa, Dance Theater Workshop (four consecutive seasons), The Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, Fury Festival (San Francisco), Revolutions Festival (New Mexico), Fuse Box (Austin, Texas), in Atlanta, at Les Subsistances (Lyon, France), Patravadi Theatre (Bangkok), Theater Krudttonden (Denmark), The Open Look Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia), Bytom Dance Festival (Poland), The National Opera House in Cluj, Romania, the CUNY Prelude Festival, Dixon Place, Danspace Project; he has choreographed rock videos, operas, films, and fashion shows. Performer with Ridge Theater, Jane Comfort, John Moran, Mabou Mines, the Blacklips Performance Cult, Hong Kong choreographer Dick Wong, and others. He is faculty at NYU, and teaches workshops across the US and Internationally. He was a 2007-9 recipient of the Six Points Fellowship (Performance), and has won two NY Innovative Theater Awards. He used to be a go-go dancer, and once choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Party.

Larry Pressgrove (Musical Director)

Larry Pressgrove has been with [title of show] in all its incarnations. He was music director for Cats (B'way and nat'l tour), Les Misérables (nat'l tour) and conducted Colm Wilkinson's last performance of Les Miz at the National Opera Theatre in Shanghai, China. He was assistant conductor on The Phantom of the Opera tour and has music directed various productions at the Ford's Theatre, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. With collaborator Rachel Lampert, he composed the scores for The Angle of the Sun (NYMF 2007) and Bed No Breakfast and Comfort Food (Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca NY). For two years, he was artistic director of Metro Theater Company in St. Louis.

Kate Ferber (Anne)

Kate Ferber is excited to be a part of Deep Cover at NYMF! Recently seen in new musicals Factory Girls (Ars Nova and upcoming: NAMT), The Daughters (Joe's Pub), and starring in her one-woman original show One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro (The Laurie Beechman Theatre), co-written with Louis Greenstein. Thank you to Dulcina Eisen Associates. Kate holds a BFA from NYU Tisch, and also performs as a singer-songwriter. Please hear her music at myspace.com/kateferber.

Sean Haberle (Rex)

Sean Haberle, Theater:  New York: Teresa Raquin Museum, Most Likely to…Hamlet.  The Guthrie Jane Eyre, Hedda Gabler. Yale Repertory: Hamlet, Edward II; American Repertory Theatre: Enrico IV; Cincinnati Playhouse: Dark Paradise, Stone My Heart; Center Stage: Macbeth; The Cleveland Play House: Moon for the Misbegotten, Enchanted April; Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival: A Nervous Smile; Portland Center Stage: 36 Views; California Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale; Utah Shakespearean Festival: The Merry Wives of Windsor, King Lear, The Merchant of Venice; Market Theater: Swimming into March; Film/TelevisionThe Thomas Crown Affair, Havoc 2: Normal Adolescent Behavior, The Surgeon, The Disappearance of Andy Waxman, The Bookie’s Lament, 3A, Leadcatcher, “Sex and the City,” “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “One Life to Live,” “Soldier of Fortune, Inc.,” “Deadly Whispers.” Training M.F.A., Yale School of Drama

Andy Kelso (Leon)

Andy Kelso, Broadway: Mamma Mia (Sky); Regional: The Drawer Boy, Footloose, Big River, The Dining Room.  Film: The Producers.  Andy studied theater at The University of Northern Colorado and is a proud member of Actor's Equity.

Erin Mosher (Melody)

Erin Mosher recently played the role of Irene in Crazy For You at the John Engeman Theatre this past summer.  Previously she was seen as Sandra in All Shook Up (Media Theatre), Fantine in Les Miserables (Northern Stage Theatre) and Percy in The Spitfire Grill (Bristol Riverside Theatre). Other theatre credits:  Asian Tour of Jekyll and Hyde (Emma), the Las Vegas production of Mamma Mia! Sarah in Frank Wildhorn’s For the Glory (The Civil War), Stephen Flaherty and Frank Galati’s Loving Repeating, The Full Monty (Estelle), The Baker’s Wife (Genevieve), A Taste of Honey (Jo), Hair (Sheila), Company (Kathy).  Film/TV: Our Lady of Victory, Mr. ID, The Great Bend and numerous national commercial spots.  Erin is currently the spokeswoman of Arm and Hammer toothpaste.  Please visit www.erinmosher.com

Deb O (Scenic and Costume Design)

Deb O, some of her recent set and costume credits include Savannah Disputation (The Old Globe, CA) Honk the Musical (Young At Arts, NY) Haggadah (LaMama, NY) The Greeks pt 3 (Julliard, NY) Scrooge the Musical (Fairmont, WV) Uncle Vanya and Platonov (Lake Lucille, NY) Expatriate (Culture Project, NY) Salsalandia (La Jolla Playhouse, CA) The Witlings (The West End Theatre, NY) Elizabeth Almost by Chance a Woman (Stillwater, NC) The Lacy Project (Premiere, Yale & Ohio Theatre, NY) Jihad the Musical (Edinburgh Festival, Scotland) The Mistakes Madeline Made (Yale Rep, CT) debodesignstudio.com

Graham Kindred (Lighting Designer)

Graham Kindred, Off-B'way includes: Lansky and The Rise OfDorothy Hale (St. Lukes), None of the Above (The Lion), Mother Load (Now on National Tour),Wasps In Bed (Beckett Theater), Retzach (59E59), Trolls (Actors Playhouse),Picon Pie (The Lambs Theater), Uncle Jacque's Symphony (SoHo Playhouse),Roman Nights (DR-2), Embers (Chelsea Playhouse) . Regional: Stones In HisPockets, Indian Blood (Florida Repertory Theatre), I Got Merman (TheMajestic Theater-Dallas TX); Suddenly Hope (Denver Civic Center). Love tohis girls.

Ryan Maeker (Sound Designer)

Ryan Maeker is a Sound Designer and Director in the New York City area. Ryan has been working in Off and Off-Off Broadway theater since moving to the City in 2003. A graduate from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Ryan studied with innovative and inspiring artists many of whom he works with today. Ryan is a company member and resident Sound Designer of Witness Relocation and Packawallop Productions. Ryan's credits include; Honor by Pete Mills; The Ensemble Studio Theater Marathon 2007; the NY premier of Broken Hands by Moby Pomerance (winner of multiple Fringe '06 awards); Nerve by Adam Symkowicz; The Roof by Suzanne Bradbeer; silent concerto by Alejandro Morales (nominated for Outstanding Sound Design NYIT awards '07) and Uncle Vanya at CSC. Ryan has designed shows for the Edinburgh Fringe as well as venues in New Mexico; the Columbus Fringe Festival(Braising, directed by Dan Safer). Ryan's international credits include; Speaking in Tongues by Andrew Bovell directed by Dan Safer in Copenhagen, Denmark; Dancing Vs. The Rat Experiment (originally performed at La Mama etc. in New York City) which performed in Cluj Romania; Vicious Dogs on Premises; Which has toured Eastern Europe, France, and Russia. Ryan is an NYIT Award winner for outstanding Sound design along with Tim Schellenbaum for their work on Dancing Vs. The Rat Experiment.

Josh Iacovelli (Technical Supervisor)

Josh Iacovelli is an actor and designer. He moved to NYC 10 years ago to earn his MFA in Acting from The Actors Studio Drama School. Since that time he has acted in and designed several Off-Broadway productions. He has produced for both TV and Film. Josh is pleased to be working on this production that he hopes it will take the next step.