Directors, Writers, Songwriters

Ian Belton (off-Broadway stage director)
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, Medeamachine, Finer Noble Gasses, The Maids, Cafe Antarsia, The Picture, MFA from The Juilliard School

Tom Caruso (stage director)
Don't Talk to the Actors, Mimi Le Duck - Director, Diagnosis, Associate Director: Momma Mia! and Bombay Dreams, Follies, Stanley (Broadway), Butcherhouse Chronicles, The Middle East in Pieces, Bingo, Earth to Bucky

Josh Chambers (director, playwright, composer)
Artistic Director of Fovea Floods, Medusachrist, MFA from CalArts

 

Michael Counts (avant-garde director)
Founder of GAle GAtes et al., So Long Ago I Can't Remember, 1839, CEO Counts Media

 

Brian PJ Cronin (playwright)
The Curvature of the Earth (Ohio Theatre, NYC), I Am At My Best When I Am Singing Very Quietly (AndHow!), Footlight Theater (Charleston, SC), Miami City Theatre Summer Shorts Festival

Liv Cummins (lyricist)
Vanishing Point, The Big One, Wild Blue, NYC's Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, teaches writing and songwriting at Marist College and Hudson Valley Community College

Jessica Davis-Irons (off-Broadway stage director, artistic director)
AndHow!, Superpowers (adobe theatre company), After Loyal (New Georges), Twelth Night (Expanded Arts)

Yehuda Duenas (director, choreographer, performer, designer)
Don Juan, One Million Moments, 00:07 Seconds - based on Malcolm Gladwell's Blink (NYU Experimental Theatre wing), Founding Member of The National Theater of The United States of America (X9601733, The Disappearing Act, Brains, 7 Minutes in Heaven, 5, hors-la, Phase-I (SELLING OUT TO THE BARE WALLS!). Has performed with Richard Maxwell (House, Ute Mnos v. Crazy Liquors), Richard Foreman (Pearls for Pigs) and MadDog (to whom it may concern), BITEF (Serbia), Festival D'Automne (Paris), Theatre Der Welt (Berlin), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Dublin Fringe Festival, Wienner Festwochen (Vienna), de Singel (Antwerp), Dans in Kortrijk (Kortrijk, Belgium) Festival Theatre Des Ameriques (Montreal), Teatro San Martin (Argentina), Teatro Valle (Rome), The Roxy Theatre (Prague) and the Williamstown Theater Festival. Studied Clown and Le Jeu with Philippe Gaulier

Emma Dweck (director)
The Bachae (Baliwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago), The Shadow Box (Heart and Soul Theatre Project)

Peter Hays (playwright, literary manager)
Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, Foreign Exchange, Grimm Virtues, The Party Line, My Rife, My Pony and Me, Director of Play Development at Soho Rep, reader for New Dramatists, the Sundance Film Festival and Haft/Nassitir, MFA from NYU, member of Dramatists Guild and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

Andrew Irons (producing director, playwright)
Non-D, Paschal Full Moon, Tunnel, Little Suckers, Pascal Full Moon, AndHow!, New Dramatists, Ontological Hysterical Theatre, Gilgamesh Theater Group, Expanded Arts, New Georges

Jonathan Jacobs (director, playwright)
Space (film), NTUSA, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, SoHo Rep

William Ladd (screenwriter)

Ben Lasser (director)
Geography of a Horse Dreamer (Baliwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago), The Other Side
by Kitty Dubin

Beth Kurkjian (Off-Off Broadway Director and Performer, NYU PhD candidate)
Crochet: I Dream Ballet, AgeLess (Ontological Theater, Mo Pitkins, and NYU), Solo works for PS 122's New Stuff and Avant-Garde-Arama, Ontological's 7-Minute and Blueprint, Tonic's Little Theater, Dixon Place's BodyBlend, and Galapagos Phat Tuesdays and Catch series, Age Less (London's ICA), Ensemble work includes Saint Latrice, Twas, Lapse, Pageant, Out of Time: A Puppet Spectacle, I Cancan 2

Elizabeth LeCompte (director)
Artistic Director, The Wooster Group

 

Chris Moore (musician and songwriter)
Performance artist, musician, puppeteer, and on the staff of the Arts at St. Ann’s series in Brooklyn; Studied with mandolin master Andy Statman; founded the band Rust Farm (released two albums); has composed, performed, and recorded music for dance, film, and television.Soloist with the Portland Symphony Orchestra; Maine Artist Fellowship; Songs have been recorded and performed by Adrienne Young, Mark Erelli, Rani Arbo, Carol Noonan, Northern Lights, Dennis Brennan, and others.

Jamie Peterson (writer & director)
Building a House Out of Feathers (presented by The Paper Industry at the Ontological Hysterical Theatre)

Allison Prouty (stage director, producer)
The Good Body (Eve Ensler), The Boston Marriage, Executive Producer of Stillpoint Productions, Associate artistic director for V-Day, Throat (producer, member of the Producer's Lab at Women's Project)

 

Jo Anne Sedwick (TV director)
The Guiding Light, Directing Guild of America Award Nomination, Emmy Award Governer (NYC Directing), Carnegi-Mellon MFA

Risa Shoup (playwright)
Programming Director at chashama, a NYC non-profit arts organization that transforms temporarily vacant real estate into theaters, rehearsal space, visual artists studios, and galleries, playwrighting workshops with Lee Breuer and 13P's Rob Handel, reading of Search and Seizure (The Ontological Hysteric Theatre)

Ahna Tessler (TV & film writer)
Middle Class Poverty (NBC pilot), 8th Grade Washington Trip (feature film for Miramax), Valet Girls (pilot for Relativity Productions), Almost Women (pilot for NBC)

Jonathan Whitton (director)
Urintown: The Musical, A Man of No Importance (HomeMade Theatre), Hello Again (Southeastern Premiere), Phaedra's Love (East Coast US Premiere), The Laramie Project (Collegiate Premiere), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Vermont & Montreal Premieres)

Jamie Wylie (writer)
London's Central School of Speech and Drama (Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media)