Nighttime Traffic (2010)

Alex Wyse is honored to have his musical at NYMF. Previously, Nighttime Traffic received a workshop production in 2009. Other works includes Home Again, which played at both Boston University and Kalliope Stage, a regional theatre in Cleveland, and Seamless. Alex has been seen mostly as an actor, and appeared in NYMF’s Academy at the Daegu International Musical Festival in South Korea, and last year’s Rated RSO and The Last Smoker in America. Other credits include productions at The Paper Mill Playhouse, The Cleveland Play House, The Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston, The Barnstormers Theatre, The Huntington Theatre, and more. He has also been seen in a recurring role on HBO’s Bored to Death, on several national commercials, and can be heard on the audiobook, The Danger Box. For more information, visit www.AlexWyse.com

NYMF debut! Broadway: A Little Night Music (swing, u/s Henrik). Workshop of Little Miss Sunshine (Dwayne). Favorite credits include Allen in Babes in Toyland at Lincoln Center, Marius in Les Mis (Forestburgh Playhouse), and Wayne Frake in State Fair (CAP21). Matt is a 2010 graduate of NYU and CAP21. Love to Mom, Dad, Anna and Emily for their constant support. Thanks to Ben and David and the folks at The Mine! 

Jacob Hoffman makes his NYMF debut with Nighttime Traffic.  Most recently, he was seen opposite Mary Testa in Jaradoa Theatre's I'll Be Damned.  Other credits include And a Wake-Up (Reverend Waters/Tommy), Lend Me a Tenor: The Musical  (Mickey, World Premiere), The Secret Garden(Dickon, Joseph Jefferson Nom.), She Loves Me (Arpad), and Parade (Frankie Epps, Chicago Premiere).  While in Chicago, Jacob co-founded and served as Artistic Director of Renegade Theatre Co.  He is a graduate of NYU/CAP21.  Love and thanks to Alex, the Mine, and Mary Beth.

Liz was part of the Tony Award winning revival of South Pacific and its PBS live broadcast. In 2008 she was part of the ground-breaking reconnection of Working at the Asolo Repertory Theatre, containing new material written by Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda. Liz has received critical acclaim for her portrayal of Florence Foster Jenkins in Souvenir at The George Street Playhouse.  She also played Ruth in the new version of Pirates! at Paper Mill Playhouse.  She is a veteran of many Broadway musicals: Mamma Mia as Rosie (she is also on the commercial) and she was part of the final cast of Thoroughly Modern Millie.  In 2003 she originated the role of Sue Tilly in the Boy George musical Taboo; she also created the role of Rebecca in The Dance Of The Vampires.  Other Broadway credits include Carlotta in The Phantom Of The Opera and Madame Thenardier in Les Miserables.  She has worked extensively in many regional theaters around the country and her own show Rosemary and Time, a musical tribute to the life of Rosemary Clooney, won her a Bistro Award and can be seen in and around New York.  Liz makes her living as an actress, and recently a writer, and resides in New Jersey with her husband and two daughters.

DIRECTING/WRITING: The Boy in the Bathroom (NYMF, Most Promising New Musical Award, Best Book, Honorable Mention: Best Direction, ASCAP/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop with Stephen Schwartz, Richard Rodgers Award Finalist, New World Stages Workshop, The Festival of New American Musicals at The Chance Theatre), The Geranium on the Windowsill Just Died (Urban Stages), 1,000 Cats (UCB, HBO’s Funny Or Die Presents), Twelfth Night (SRT/Theatre at St. Clements), Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab. ACTING: NATIONAL TOUR: Dirty Dancing. OFF-BROADWAY: Studs Terkel’s American Dreams: Lost and Found, Pudd’nhead Wilson, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Heaven Knows. NY: The Acting Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lucille Lortel, The Culture Project, Samuel French Festival Winner. REGIONAL: The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Casa Mañana, Capital Repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, (Carbonell Award Nomination), Pioneer Theatre Company, among others. TV: “CHAPPELLE'S SHOW” (Comedy Central). EDUCATION: North Carolina School of the Arts, Acting Company alumnus.

Eve is happy to be producing Nighttime Traffic which marks her third show with the festival. Previous credits include The Jerusalem Syndrome (08') and Judas and Me (09'). She is happy Nighttime Traffic is not a biblical musical for a change of pace. She is also an Associate Producer for the festival co-running the Student Leadership Program. Other selected credits include the industry reading of Wallenberg, Love Inc., and A Little New Music concert. She has worked at several theaters in NY as a director and producer. Graduate of Sarah Lawrence College.

Jason Haft is currently Company Manager on John Tartaglia's ImaginOcean at New World Stages.  He recently co-conceived and produced the first installment of Songs You've Never Heard and Shows You've Never Heard Of, a new concert series devoted to the presentation of in-development musical theatre works by emerging writers.  Previous producing credits include A Little New Music (Laurie Beechman Theatre), Move Over Mrs. Markham (NYU Skirball Center), and Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Triad).  Jason has assisted on several concerts for jokr Productions, including Rated RSO (Joe's Pub) and Kerrigan and Lowdermilk: Under the Influence (Birdland).  He is also an Associate Producer for NYMF, where he works on the annual NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation competition at New World Stages and produces the winner's concert at Joe's Pub. 

Kristen Lee Rosenfeld recently returned from music directing the first National Tour of the Tony-award winning musical Spring Awakening.  NYC music directing credits include Emma at NYMF 2007, Prospect Theatre Co, Family Opera Initiative and Manhattan Children's Theatre.  Regional credits include the Barn Theatre in Michigan, Cortland Rep and Saxtons River Playhouse.  In addition to her work as a music director, Kristen has a Masters degree in composition, and her work has been performed around the country.  She has received commissions from Red Fern Theatre Company and the Atlantic Acting School in NYC.  Her one-act musical The Nightingale was premiered at Sprouts! Children's Theatre in 2005 and her new musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor was premiered at Wooden O Theatre in Seattle in 2007.  Upcoming projects include creating a new musical version of the classic children's book Holly and Ivy and continuing her work as resident music director at JP Taravella High School in south Florida.  www.kristenleerosenfeld.net

NY credits: Twelfth Night (Sonnet Rep.), Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova), Missed Connections(Ars Nova), Power Burn 3! (Cat Fight Prod.), Heart of the the City (Davenport Theatricals), Bedroom Farce (TACT). Regional credits: Company/Stage Manager: 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle) and Studio East's StoryBook Theater (Kirkland). Selected shows: Memphis, andHello, Dolly! (5th Avenue Theatre), The Gypsy King (Village Theatre), Zanna, Don't! (Contemporary Classics), Gypsy (Kirkland Performance Center), Voices of Christmas (ArtsWest), The Women (A Contemporary Theater). BA  from the University of Washington. Sara believes that music, love, laughter, wine and food - not necessarily in that order - are the key ingredients for an amazing life. She hails from Seattle originally, but is proud to call Brooklyn home now. She is eternally grateful for her support system: her 'friends from before.' Life is good. (Proud member of AEA). 

Seth Easter is a production designer and art director for television and theater. Selected credits include: WNET / WLIW studio at Lincoln Center, The Apprentice live season finale, The Tony

Awards, Nascar Hall of Fame Induction, The ABC upfront, We Are One Inauguration of Barak Obama at The Lincoln Memorial, focus earth with Bob Woodruff, Democratic and Republican Presidential debates, ABC News, James Taylor, One Man Band, production designer (Don Mischer Productions). Theater and dance design credits include The Boy in The Bathroom; September 19 (Via Dance Collaborative); The Geranium On The Window Sill Just Died (Urban Stages), How Love Is Spelt (The Lion, Theatre Row), Courting Vampires (The Kirk, Theatre Row). Seth is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Select design credits include: Walter Dundervill: Dear Emissary, Reggie Wilson/ Andreya Ouamba: The Good Dance (BAM), Sarah Michelson: Dover Beach (The Kitchen), Sonya and Layla Go Camping (The Kitchen), Daniel Charon: Conduit (Joyce Soho), Helen Simoneau (Joyce Soho), VIA Dance: Lullaby in Surrealism (Ailey Citigroup Theatre), A Dream Play (St Ann’s Warehouse), Ivy Baldwin: Could Be Nice (La Mama), The Boy in the Bathroom (45th Street Theatre), Ivy Baldwin: It’s Only Me (Dance New Amsterdam), The Siege of Corinth (Baltimore Opera), New York is Here! (Sitelines NYC), The Money Show (Dance New Amsterdam), Wonder of the World (The Lion Theatre), Giant N Variation (Center Stage), The Geranium On The Window Sill Just Died (Urban Stages). Carrie has been the assistant lighting designer on various shows including: West Side Story (Palace), Cry-Baby (Marriot Marquis), Wicked (Pantages Theatre, LA), The Threepenny Opera (Studio 54). Carrie is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Recent Designs: underneathmybed (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre),Twelfth Night (Sonnet Repertory Company), The Last Five Years (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow, Around the World in 80 Days (Triad Stage) Peter Pan, Candide, Broadway By The Year (Berkshire Theatre Festival) Flyin’ West (The Clarence Brown Theatre) Suddenly Last Summer (The Actor’s Express, Atlanta) The Santaland Diaries, Dracula (Upstage Cabaret at Triad Stage). Oliver! (Playmakers Repertory Company). Janie received her MFA in Sound Design from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Ryan Park is a painter, designer, and stylist from Pittsburgh. NY productions include Twelfth Night for Sonnet Rep; Game of Love and Faultlines for Ruffled Feathers. In addition to Nighttime Traffic, Ryan is also designing Fingers and Toes for NYMF. He received his BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied design and theater.

Ryan Wineinger is a recent graduate of the UNC School of the Arts School of Design & Production.  Since graduating Ryan has had the opportunity to design scenery and projections for companies such as Hubbard Street Dance (Harold and the Purple Crayon: A Dance Adventure), No Rules Theatre Company (You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown), the Children’s Theatre of Charlotte (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Goodnight Moon: The Musical, and Disney’s Aladdin), Orchestra London (Giulio Cesare), American Century Theatre (Treadwell: Bright and Dark), and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical).Ryan is looking forward to designing It Takes A Ville for Second City this coming fall. You can view Ryan’s work online at:www.ryanwineinger.com. Ryan currently resides in Louisville, KY where he is the Resident Assistant Scene Designer for the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Henry Williamson is an actor/director/playwright native of Texas.  A recent graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts, he studied directing with Gerald Freedman, Laura Henry and John Langs.  Prior to attending UNCSA, Henry studied drama at Columbia College Chicago with Sheldon Patikin and David Cromer.  While at Columbia College, he was enticed by the lively store front theatre scene and began assisting Beau O'Reilly at the Curious Theatre Branch and Tonika Todorova, artistic director of the Silent Theatre Company.  In 2003, he moved to Texas mounting experimental plays in unconventional spaces before ultimately pursuing classical training at UNCSA.  He has directed several plays in Austin, Texas and Winston Salem, North Carolina. As an actor Henry has performed at the MUNY, The Rose Marine Theatre, The Underground Theatre, The Old Bicycle Shop Theatre, the Coffee Haus, and in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (2004 Region VI Finalist). Previously, Henry assisted director Michael Lluberes on Sonnet Repertory Theatre's production of Twelfth Night. 

Max Friedman is thrilled to be continuing his love affair with NYMF as a part of 2 full productions in this season's festival. In addition to Nighttime Traffic, he is a Production Assistant on V-Day, also here at Urban Stages. Max previously worked as a PA on Open The Dark Door in last year's festival, and spent this past Spring working in the NYMF offices as a Literary Intern. When he is not working to further the musical theater works of others, Max is a playwright and director. His first full-length play, Going Deep, recently premiered as a workshop at Manhattan Rep, with a full production in the works for the near future. He is thrilled to have taken part in readying Alex Wyse's brilliant work for production and to have been a part of this outstanding team.

Michael Cassara, CSA has cast over 40 new musicals in NYMF since the festival’s inception in 2004, and has served as the Resident Casting Director for the festival since 2007.  Recent regional theatre: Old Globe, Olney, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Gulfshore Playhouse and more.  Other recent credits include Fat Camp, the off-Broadway run of Falling For Eve at the York Theatre, Lillian Hellman's rarely-seen Another Part of the Forest at the Peccadillo Theatre company, the films Clear Blue Tuesday and Alienated, and 6 other shows in this year’s NYMF.  Member, Casting Society of America.  Please visit http://www.michaelcassara.net.  He is thrilled to work with this terrific team, including his longtime friend (and fellow native Clevelander) Alex Wyse.  

Cory Spinney is thrilled to be joining such a creative and talented team!  He currently works as an Assistant Account Executive at SpotCo: Entertaining & Arts Advertising, clients have included: Roundabout Theatre Company, Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway and Blue Man Group.  Cory also served as the Company Manager/Assistant to the Director of Marketing and Publicity at the Ogunquit Playhouse from 2005 to 2007.  In the fall of 2006, he worked as the Marketing and Casting intern at the New End Theatre in London; the opportunity afforded him the chance to cast the UK premiere of Menopause the Musical and Steven Berkoff's Sit and Shiver.  He is a 2007 graduate of Boston University. 

Shoshana Greenberg is thrilled to work on her first NYMF show! She has worked in the marketing departments at Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages, and Theatre for a New Audience. She graduated from NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, where she wrote book and/or lyrics to Lightning Man, Soon Never, and Sophia Venetia Voyager.