Seeing Stars (2009)

The Breithaupt Brothers – Don (composer, left) and Jeff (lyricist, right) – host a regular revue of their songs at New York’s Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater. Past performers include Tony Award-winners James Naughton and LaChanze, multiple Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara, Norm Lewis, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Carolyn Leonhart, Catherine Russell, Denzal Sinclaire, Rebecca Martin, Adam Brazier, BETTY, Jamie Leonhart, Sarah Slean, Patricia O’Callaghan, and recent Grammy nominee Kate McGarry, among many others. Their songs have been featured on Showtime’s The L Word and have been recorded by Brent Carver, Dione Taylor, Adi Braun, Rikki Rumball, Denzal Sinclaire, Joe Coughlin, and Lorraine Lawson. Seeing Stars, an original "boxing musical" for which they wrote the music and lyrics, was read as part of the York Theater’s Developmental Reading Series in February 2009 and was selected as one of 12 "Next Link" shows for this year's New York Musical Theater Festival in October 2009. The Breithaupt Brothers Songbook revue will return to the CanWest Cabaret Festival in Toronto this fall (October 29 - November 1) and to Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater on Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Also this fall: the release of "Toronto Sings the Songs of the Breithaupt Brothers," a live CD recorded at the 2008 CanWest Cabaret Festival in Toronto. In August 2009, Don won an Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Original Song - Main Title and Promo" category for the theme to the animated series "6teen" (Cartoon Network). Don is based in Toronto; Jeff is based in Manhattan.

Shelley McPherson is a New York based performer and writer. Seeing Stars, an original "boxing musical" for which she wrote the book, was read as part of the York Theater’s Developmental Reading Series in February 2009. As an actress, New York Theatre includes: many shows at Joe's Pub at The Public Theatre, Queen's Theatre in the Park, HERE, New York Theatre Workshop, E.S.T., The Rude Mechanicals, and The Workshop Theatre Company. Regional Theatre includes: The Foreigner, The Crucible, and She Stoops to Conquer at The New Harmony Theatre; Wait Until Dark at Shadow Lawn Theatre; and Why Marry? at East Lynne Theatre Company.  Film and TV includes: the award-winning feature Fall Before Paradise and Guiding Light (CBS). M.A.: Northwestern University.

Ms. Thompson is both a company member and Associate Producer of TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, having appeared in several productions and, most recently, directing last season’s critically-acclaimed production of Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce. Other directing credits for TACT include The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (included in the The New York Times “Top Ten Theatre Picks for 2008”), Ladies in Retirement, My 3 Angels, Rain and Kind Lady.  Other recent NYC directing credits include the world premieres of Badge by Matthew Schneck (Rattlestick), Term Limit by Viki Boyle (American Globe Theatre), The Brilliance Of Bernstein (featuring Phyllis Newman - American Musicals Project at the NY Historical Society) and Richard Thompson’s critically-acclaimed play Big Doolie, which sold out its run at the 10th Anniversary NYC Fringe Festival. As a Producing Director and founding company member of Connecticut’s award-winning River Rep Theatre Company, she has performed in over 40 plays and musicals and has, most recently, directed productions of The Foreigner, Dinner With Friends, The Heiress and Damn Yankees. As an actress her credits include extensive TV and Film appearances as well as the Tony Award-winning Broadway productions of Ah, Wilderness!, The Heiress, and Annie in addition to Off-Broadway productions at Playwrights’ Horizons, The Public Theatre; Soho Rep, The York; American Jewish Theatre; The Hudson Guild; W.P.A., Protean Theatre Company; Perry Street Theatre and Ubu Rep and work at many of the finest regional theaters across the country. This November, she will direct the Off-Broadway production of The Late Christopher Bean at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row.

LIZA GENNARO choreographed the  revival of  ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, and the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA, directed by Gerald Gutierrez. Her choreography for Roundabout Theater Company’s, TIN PAN ALLEY RAG is currently performing Off-Broadway. Regional theater credits include Stephen Flaherty and Frank Galati’s  LOVING, REPEATING: A MUSICAL OF GERTRUDE STEIN for the About Face Theater in Chicago, HAIR at Actor’s Theatre Of Louisville, directed by Jon Jory, the world premiere of A MY NAME IS STILL ALICE at The Old Globe in California, and the world premiere of MARTIN GUERRE at Hartford Stage, directed by Mark Lamos, BABES IN ARMS at Guthrie Theater, directed by Garland Wright, KISS ME KATE and THE MOST HAPPY FELLA at The Goodspeed Opera House, FIORELLO, GYPSY, MY FAIR LADY and THE SECRET GARDEN at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, GYPSY and RAGTIME at the Paper Mill Playhouse and eleven consecutive seasons of musicals at The St. Louis “Muny” Opera. Her choreography for the 30th Anniversary tour of ANNIE is currently touring the US and Canada. In 2005 Ms. Gennaro began interviewing influential musical theatre dancers and choreographers for the oral history division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Library. Ms. Gennaro teaches at Barnard College and holds a master’s degree in Dance Studies from New York University. Her essay, “’Evolution of Dance in the Golden Era of the American 'Book Musical'” will appear in The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical to be published in 2010.

On Broadway Mark has conducted Rent, Smokey Joe's Café and Blood Brothers. He’s played lead piano on Hair, Dreamgirls,The Boy From Oz, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Life, Rent etc. In 2008 he music directed/played and co-conceived Hot ‘n Cole  with James Naughton at the Westport Country Playhouse (music of Cole Porter). Also in 2008 he music directed/played/orchestrated and arranged the Transport Group’s world premier of Marcy in the Galaxy at the Connelly Theater. He has written music for HBO's Sex and the City. SHOWTIME’s Nurse Jackie, among many other television programs. Mark’s piano can be heard on the iconic Sex and the City theme! Berman has played and recorded with some of the biggest names in rock pop and jazz including, Aretha Franklin, Phoebe Snow, Carole King, Gladys Knight, Elvis Costello, Buddy Miles, Illinois Jacquette, Jackie McClean, Phil Ramone, etc.He has toured internationally having played such venues such as The Meadowlands, Palais des Congres (Paris), Hammerstein Ballroom, The Pantages (LA), Fox Theaters (US), The Blue Note(s) (New York/Japan) BB Kings, Birdland (NYC), Carnegie Hall and countless other US theaters.

Broadway: Kiss Me, Kate; The Life; Crazy for You; An Inspector Calls; City of Angels; Moon Over Buffalo; Voices in the Dark. Off-Broadway: Signature's The Late Henry Moss; Thief River; Theatre for a New Audience's Troilus and Cressida; Julius Caesar; Evil Dead: The Musical. The Met: Don Giovanni; Carmen; Otello; Il Trovatore; Faust. Film: The Impostors; Glory; The Addams Family; Mulan. TV: "All My Children." Drama Desk, Obie awards for Sustained and Consistent Excellence. Co-founder, Shakespeare and Company and Blue Light Theatre Co. www.BHBarry.com

 Broadway: A Tale Of Two Cities, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Les Miserables. National Tour:  Les Miserables . World Premieres: Can ~ Can (Re-Envisioned), Sleeping Beauty Wakes, and It Came From Beyond. LA Premiers: Side Show and The Ten Commandment. Awards: LA Drama Critic’s Circle Award (Rutledge, 1776), Joseph Jefferson Award (Balladeer in ASSASSINS), B. Iden Payen Award (Curly, OKLAHOMA), Three Robby Awards and Four LA Ovation Award Nominations. Concerts: LA Philharmonic at The Hollywood Bowl and California Philharmonic at Disney Hall. Debut CD "Earley Standards" (accessible at iTunes). Coming in December: CD and PBS Special of A Tale Of Two Cities. Proud to have studied at Webster Conservatory in St. Louis where he earned his B.F.A. and encountered his best friend and wife, the lovely and always supportive Julie Ann Emery.

Most recently, Michael originated the role of George Brush in the world premiere of Lee Blessing’s adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s Heaven’s my Destination, at The Cleveland Playhouse. Broadway: A Tale of Two Cities (Gaspard); 2006 Tony-Award winning The Pajama Game (Cyrus; u/s Harry Connick Jr.) at Roundabout Theatre Company; The Boy From Oz (Standby for Hugh Jackman); In My Life (Nick); and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Also in NY: New York City Opera’s Candide. National Tours: Les Miserables (Enjolras); The Full Monty (Teddy Slaughter). Other Tours: Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Atlanta TOTS. Off-Broadway: The Streets of New York (Mark Livingstone) at The Irish Rep. In addition, he has performed principle roles at regional and stock theatres across the country including: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pittsburgh CLO, Stages St. Louis, Pioneer Theatre Company, Ogunquit Playhouse, Connecticut Rep, North Shore Music Theatre, St. Louis MUNY, and The River Rep. B.A. University of Minnesota.

New York: Bedroom Farce (TACT/The Actors Company Theatre), Long Island Sound (TACT, World Premiere Noel Coward); Christmas Carol (Lucille Lortel), What You Will (original musical based on 12th Night-world premiere, Moonwoork Prods), Naked (Gene Frankel Theatre, Themantics). National tour: Les Miserables. Regional: Jane Eyre (SF Critic's Circle Award- Best Actress; Theatreworks, Mtn. View, CA); A Little Night Music (Dean Goodman Award- Best Supporting, Post Street Theatre, SF, CA); Urinetown, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Gypsy, Little Shop and others (Weston Playhouse, VT). TV: “All My Children.” Margaret is a graduate of the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Dept. and attended the Marymount London Drama Program.  She is a company member of The Actors Company Theatre (TACT), with whom she has appeared in 23 productions in the city over the last 8 years. 

Most recently, Jane appeared as “Ellie” in Glimpses of the Moon in the Algonquin Hotel’s Oak Room.  Other recent credits: Prudy Pingleton/Female Authority Figure in the Broadway tour of Hairspray and Mazeppa in the Ravinia (Chicago) production of Gypsy with Patti LuPone.  Other New York credits include Widow Corney in Oliver! and Woman 1 in the off Broadway premiere of Nancy Friday’s My Secret Garden.  Tours: Scrooge with Richard Chamberlain; Side By Side By Sondheim, touring the Middle-East; and Into the Woods (Baker’s Wife).  World premieres in Chicago: Elizabeth Willard in Winesburg, Ohio (at Steppenwolf) and Winnie in Pulp both with About Face Theatre; Creon in God and Country and Sally in Blissfield at the Tony award winning Victory Gardens Theater; and Elaine in Muscle (by James Lapine, William Finn and Ellen Fitzhugh) at Pegasus Players.  You may have killed her in Grand Theft Auto 4. Jane is also a founding member of the Sweat Girls (www.sweatgirls.org) and a proud member of Actor’s Equity.

Jerry is thrilled to be a part of Seeing Stars, having participated in the reading at York Theatre. New York appearances include The Proposition, the long-running improvisational revue, The London Cuckolds and Great Catherine, both for Protean Theatre Company, two stints as Ambrosio in The Barber of Seville for the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Hail Scrawdyke at the Cricket Theatre, and Rain at TACT. Stock appearances include six seasons with River Rep, seven seasons at Forestburgh Playhouse, and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.

John has recently returned from the Resident Ensemble Players at the University of Delaware Professional Theatre Training Program where he played Curley in Of Mice and Men directed by the legendary Adrian Hall. In the fall of 2008 he played Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at Portland Center Stage in Oregon. National companies: Five years as Timon in the national company of The Lion King. Barrymore, with Christopher Plummer, directed by Gene Saks; Neil Simon's Laughter On The 23rd Floor, directed by Jerry Zaks. New York: Primary Stages; Mint Theatre Company; NorthEastern Co.; Riverside Shakespeare Co. Regional: Yale Rep; Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC; Mason Street Warehouse; Capital Rep; Fairfield Theatre Co.; Missouri Rep; PlayMakers Rep; North Carolina Theatre; Merrimack Rep; Paper Mill Playhouse; Shakespeare festivals across the nation. International: Suzuki Company of Toga. Television: "Law and Order: SVU;" "7th Heaven;" "One Life to Live;" "Another World;" "Guiding Light." Film: 'Til There Was You. Training: MFA, University of Delaware, Professional Theatre Training Program. John has taught workshops at over 50 colleges, and at multiple conferences of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His essay “Stories Make The World,” is published in the Northwest Theatre Review. Married to Celia Smith.

Broadway: 42nd Street; On The Waterfront.  Off-Broadway: Bat Boy The Musical; Wicked Philanthropy.  Regional:  Lotsa Stuff, including Macbeth, Ten Little Indians, Jesus Christ Superstar, A View From The Bridge, Great Expectations, The Baker's Wife and a few zillion others.  Also lots of Off-Off Broadway, Dinner Theatre, Summer Stock, Children's Theatre, Guest Artist and just about everything else.  Richard has been in two previous NYMF productions.  One of them was pretty good.  He will be on the road this holiday season with the National Tour of Irving Berlin's White Christmas.  Richard's proudest productions are his two sons--Cody, a recent graduate of NYU, and Jesse, a First Year student at the University of Virginia.

Broadway: It’s So Nice To Be Civilized and the revival of The Canterbury Tales. Regionals:  Urinetown, The Laramie Project, Sweeney Todd, The Golden Apple, 110 in the Shade, A Little Night Music, Guys and Dolls, City of Angels, Camelot, Follies, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The King and I, Kiss Me Kate, High Society, As You Like It, Misalliance, Rain.  National tours: Sound of Music (covering Richard Chamberlain), Torch Song Trilogy. Movies: Night Train to Kathmandu, Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh, Calling it Quits, My Sassy Girl, Demonic Toys (rent them if you dare). Television: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Gossip Girl,” “Who’s the Boss,” “Love and War,” “Weird News.”

Favorite New York credits include: Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller and Opal both at the Lamb's Theatre,  Philemon at the York Theatre, Romeo & Juliet at the Lucille Lortel, Frankenstein at Soho Rep, Dark Lady of the Sonnets with Protean Theatre Company and Winters Tale & Taming of the Shrew with the West End Theatre Company.  Musical roles include: the title role in the musical adaptation of Jane Eyre, Cinderella in Into the Woods, Julie in Carousel, Helena Landless in Edwin Drood, Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Phyllis in Follies and Lilli Vanessi in Kiss Me Kate.  Counted among her many regional credits are more than 30 Shakespearean productions and appearances at Geva Theatre, Studio Arena, Asolo Theatre, Stages Rep, Papermill Playhouse, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, River Rep, Snowmass/Aspen Rep, Premiere Stages and Seven Angels Theatre. She has appeared as Rosalind in As You Like It, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Goneril in King Lear, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth,  Amanda in Private Lives ,Catherine Sloper in The Heiress and Karen in Dinner with Friends.  Film and TV credits include: The Deadly Spawn, Hide & Seek and Legwork. www.jeantafler.com

Evan is delighted to be working again for his favorite director.  He has appeared on Broadway in Ivanov and An American Daughter (both for Lincoln Center) and the musicals City of Angels, 1776 and Jimmy; and Off Broadway in Everybody's Ruby (for the New York Shakespeare Festival), the Brecht/Weill opera Mahagonny, George Orwell's 1984, Stretch (a Fantasia) with The New Georges, Housebreaking at the Cherry Lane and Big Doolie (also for his favorite director) in the 2006 Fringe Festival.  Evan's regional credits include Grey Gardens for Portland (OR) Center Stage, Noises Off, A Christmas Carol and Sleuth at the Portland (ME) Stage Company and two DayTony Awards for his work in Copenhagen and Painting Churches with the Human Race Theatre Company. He has co-starred with his wife, Joan Shepard, in The Subject Was Roses at New Harmony IN and in many of his 67 roles in 20 seasons with the River Rep Theatre Company in Connecticut, including Joe Keller in All My Sons, Elwood P Dowd in Harvey and the title role in The Mikado under his other favorite director, son Owen Thompson.

Jessica is a recent graduate of Elon University where she most recently performed the role of Maggie in A Chorus Line. She has also been the park swing for Hershey Park’s show The Ultimate Road Trip. She will be performing at the Goodspeed Opera House this Christmas in Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas. This is her first NYMF show and she is thrilled to be a part of such an exciting new production!

Cooper was born and raised on the isle of Manhattan, which means land of many hills. He loves to sing, play piano, compose and play basketball. He has played Danny in Grease, Javert in Les Mis, Mr. Snow in Carousel. Cooper has sung many a classical concert with the NY Philharmonic, been in the NY primer of Grendel at City Opera directed by Julie Taymor, and been in Zaide as part of the Mostly Mozart Festival directed by Peter Sellars. He was a national finalist in 2009 and 2007 in the Lotte Lenya / Kurt Weill competition. He thanks his family for being there for him, always. 

DAVID H. HAMILTON (Reporter/Referee) Off Broadway: The Importance of Being Earnest (Algernon) Starring Quentin Crisp. Other New York appearances: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Snoopy), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Geronte), Seven Stories (Therapist), Hay Fever (Simon), She Loves Me (Georg), Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew). Regional: Annie Get Your Gun (Tommy) starring Karen Ziemba, Damn Yankees (Sohovik) Starring Valerie Wright The Mikado (Pish Tush), Once Upon a Mattress (The Minstrel), Into the Woods (Jack). David is so grateful to all those behind Seeing Stars, for giving him something to take his mind off the Mets.

New York Theatre: Celebration (Angel), The York Theatre; Foxy (Celia), Musicals Tonight!; The House of Desires (Laura), Storm Theatre; final cast of the original production of The Fantasticks (Luisa), Sullivan St. Playhouse. Nat’l Tour:  West Side Story (Maria). Other Tours: Beauty and the Beast (Belle u/s), Atlanta TOTS. Europe: West Side Story (Maria). Regional:  My Fair Lady (Eliza), Northern Stage; Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), River Rep; City of Angels and Honk! (Penny), North Shore Music Theatre; Carnival (Lili), Connecticut Rep; West Side Story (Maria), Atlanta TOTS and Houston TUTS; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Eloise) and Fiddler on the Roof (Chava), Casa Manana; A Little Night Music (Anne), Theatre Three.  B.F.A. Southern Methodist University.

Gwen is excited to join the cast of Seeing Stars, having just finished Click Clack Moo at the Lucille Lortel. Favorite credits include: Broadway Tour of Little Women (Amy, Carbonell Award: Best Supporting Actress), Beauty and the Beast (Belle, Carbonell Nomination), Urinetown (Hope Cladwell), Evita (Mistress, Carbonell Nomination), National Tours of Footloose and Titanic, and the premiere of See Rock City and Other Destinations at Barrington Stage. TV: Tom Hanks’ HBO miniseries “From Earth to the Moon,” Nickelodeon’s “Mystery Files of Shelby Woo,” and the webseries “Acting School Academy” (www.koldcast.tv). Love to Bendy! www.gwenhollander.com

Drew is thrilled to be performing in this festival.  Performance Credits include Broadway: White Christmas. New York: Of Thee I Sing (Encores!), Freshly Tossed (NYMF), 42nd Street (1st Natl. Tour). Regional: Singing in the Rain (Goodspeed), The Music Man, “Tommy Djilas” (The Muny), Thoroughly Modern Millie (North Shore).  Many thanks to his family and friends for their constant love and support.

Dustin is a recent graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace College Music Theatre program, Dustin is excited to be making his NY debut.  Recent credits include:  Regional premieres of [title of show] and Phantom of the Opera as well as Parade, You Can’t Take it With You, Big River, The Fantasticks, Godspell, Joseph…Dreamcoat, and Kiss Me, Kate. Love and thanks to Mom and Dad, my agency, and AW, JG, RM, MT, MV.

Robert is making his New York debut with Seeing Stars, after having just graduated from Washington DC's Catholic University of America with his Bachelor's of Music.  His DC theatre credits include The Kennedy Center's Broadway: Three Generations directed by Lonny Price and Signature Theatre's The Visit directed by Frank Galati (part of Signature's Tony Award- winning season), along with other local productions. Robert was also chosen to perform at The Kennedy Center with the National Symphony Orchestra as part of their 2007 New Year's Eve Concert.

Buzz joins Seeing Stars hot off the heels of Scandalous People (NY International Fringe Festival). He started the season off at Ivoryton Playhouse co-starring with his wife, Laurie Dawn in Moon Over Buffalo; then it was off to The Oxford Roof Climber’s Rebellion at Capital Rep. Next Buzz sang of the joys of prostate exams in Mid-Life! The Crisis Musical at Seven Angels Theatre; then to Northampton, MA for The Last Of The Red Hot Lovers at New Century Theatre.  Other NYC credits include: Flora, The Red Menace, Why We Shot John and Perfect Crime. Other regional highlights: Beauty And The Beast (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina); Gypsy (Gateway Playhouse); Dracula (Delaware Theatre Co.)  Movies & TV: “The Cowboy Way;” “Quick Change;” “The Taxman;” “As The World Turns;” “Law & Order” (original recipe and the rest) and “Flight Of The Conchords.” He lives in The Bronx and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. www.buzzroddy.com

Jason is making his NYMF Debut.  Favorite Credits include: All Shook Up (Carousel Dinner Theatre), The Grecian Formula (2008 NYC Fringe), STOMP (Stuart Street Playhouse), I Love You, You're Perfect...(Seven Angels Theatre), A Christmas Carol (National Tour), and Urinetown (Smithtown Performing Arts Center).  Special Thanks to the cast and Crew of Seeing Stars, his wonderful parents and AEA! www.jasonrosoff.com

Michael is a designer of theatre, opera, TV, and live events.  New york City Productions include Astoria Performing Arts Center “Ragtime”, “A New Brain”, “Proof”, and “Triumph of Love” - each (nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre award for Outstanding Set Design) “Play about the Naked Guy” - Emerging Artist Theatre. “For the Love of Christ” – 2009 NYC Fringe Festival, “A Good Farmer” & “Flyer” - 3Graces Theatre Company. “The Wake of Jamey Foster” - Cherry Lane Theatre, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” - Gallery Players, and “Spike Heels” - Sanford Meisner Theater. Regional credits include - “Gianni Schicchi” and “Cavalleria Rusticana” - Pine Mountain Music Festival, “The Miracle Worker” and “Evita”- Foothills Theatre Company. TV designs include – ESPN’s SportsNation, MTV’s Silent Library, Heisman Trophy Award Presentation, Bassmaster’s Classic 2007, Comedy Central series - “Stand up Nation”, & Basketball College Gameday. Special event designs include: The Papal visit to Ground Zero and Broadway on Broadway 2007, 2008 & 2009. Michael is a proud native of New Orleans, LA.  Where he graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1997 and then later went on to grad school at Western Illinois University receiving an MFA in Scenic Design - 2001. Dedicated to my 3 nephews and fiancée Nicole.  

David Toser is pleased to once again work with Jenn Thompson and the wonderful cast and crew she has assembled. His work is often seen off-Broadway, most frequently at the Irish Repertory Theatre.

Marty has designed numerous shows around the country including:  Altar Boyz and Into the Woods this summer at Sacramento Music Circus as well as 42nd Street, Anything Goes, A Funky Fairytale (Atlantic City). Showboat, Singin’ in the Rain, and Cinderella (North Shore Music Theatre).  A Christmas Story (Maltz Jupiter Theatre). Little Women, Crazy for You (Engeman Theatre).  Martin has designed at many theatres including: PS122, Cherry Lane Theatre, American Theatre of Actors, Milkcan Theatre, Personal Space Theatrics, New Harmony Theatre, Virginia Musical Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Stoneham Theatre, Worcester Foothills Theatre, River Rep, The Alley, Surflight and Troika.  Martin has also assisted on several Broadway productions including The Lion King, Voices in the Dark, Swing, and How to Succeed.  Martin is an alumnus of Syracuse University and happy to be making his NYMF debut.

New York design credits include last season's acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Allan Ayckbourne's Bedroom Farce (TACT/The Actors Company Theatre) and the world premieres of Matthew Schneck's Badge (Rattlestick) and Richard Thompson's Big Doolie at the New York Fringe Festival. He was the resident Sound Designer for the award-winning River Rep Theatre Company in Connecticut for seven seasons where some of his favorite designs include: The Heiress, Dinner With Friends, The Good Doctor, The Foreiger and Proof. In his other life Stephen is an actor whose work include Television, Film and Broadway.

CATHY BENCIVENGA serves as both the General Manager for TACT/The Actors Company Theatre and the Managing Director of The Internationalists. Her credits as producer include: Incident at Vichy by Arthur Miller, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn, The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams, The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt, The Sea by Edward Bond, and Home by David Storey (TACT at Theatre Row); Tejas Verdes by Fermín Cabal (THALATTA!); Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, Bury Him by Joe Lauinger, The 10th Annual Black Box New Play Festival, The Actor's Nightmare & Sister Mary Ignatius… by Christopher Durang (The Gallery Players), and as associate producer on Take Me Out (TGP), and Word and Thought (Austin, TX).

Allison Estrin (Casting Director) Casting Associate at Barden/Schnee casting. Film/TV Credits include: Betty Anne Waters starring Hillary Swank; Every Day starring Liev Schreiber; Everybody's Fine starring Robert DeNiro; Winter's Bone directed by Debra Grannick; Dare, starring Emmy Rossum; The Winning Season starrig Sam Rockwell; Happy Tears starring Demi Moore and Parker Posey; Cupid on ABC; Important Things with Demetri Martin on Comedy Central and the upcoming Failure To Fly on STARZ. Theatre credits include: New House Under Construction at 59E59 and Ivanov and The Creditors with the Miscreant Theatre Company. 

Susan's recent credits include: ASM - The Dishwashers (59 E 59 Theaters), PSM -  Beyond Words (dre.dance at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center), Cool New York Festival 2009 (White Wave Dance), Caligula (Horizon Theater Rep at Theater Row), Wave Rising Series 2008 (White Wave Dance), The People (dre.dance at TPAC), Esther Demsack (SPF at The Public), ASM - The Bully Pulpit (Herrick Theater Foundation at Theater Row). Susan was awarded a Fellowship in Stage Management by the Atlantic Theater Company and worked on 10 Million Miles, Scarcity, and Human Error.  Susan received a B.A. in Theater from Wesleyan University.

Patrick is a 5th grade Math/Science teacher in Paterson, NJ.  He has a BFA from Rider University, and a Master’s in education from the University of Phoenix. He is two time veteran of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and New York Fringe - Union Squared (Bay Bridge Productions). Patrick is presently the resident TD at 3Graces Theatre Co., Astoria Performing Arts Center (APAC), TACT/The Actor’s Company Theatre, and Push Productions. Most recently Patrick opened Loft The World scene shop in Paterson, where he spends most of his time creating art for New York companies and the children of Paterson.    

Glenn has been props master for Sacramento Music Circus’ productions of ‘Gypsy’, ‘My Fair Lady’, ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ and ‘Altar Boyz’. Previously he worked as a set designer and prop stylist for Stefan Beckman, Inc. for such clients as: The New York Times, Vogue, Marc Jacobs, Oscar de la Renta, Gucci and many others. He is a graduate of Parsons School of Design’s Interior Design program in NYC, and previously earned his BFA in Painting and Musical Theatre from The University of Hartford.  In his spare time he has been a songwriter and has just entered the BMI Musical Theatre Writing workshop as a lyricist.

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DANA HAYNES has music directed productions of West Side Story, Zanna Don't!, The Secret Garden, Grand Hotel, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Seussical, among others. He is the arranger and MD for the HonkBark series of cabarets at Don't Tell Mama's and The Duplex, and wrote original music for their productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Country Wife. He also works as a music copyist, and runs a website devoted to transposing music for singers: www.quicktranspositions.com. His engravings have been published by Oxford University Press and Boosey & Hawkes. Love to SEM.