Quiara Alegría Hudes' plays have been performed around the country and praised by audiences and critics for their distinct voice and universal stories. She is currently writing the book for In the Heights, a salsa-hip-hop-merengue musical to be produced by Jeffrey Seller (producer of Rent and Avenue Q) that opens off-Broadway at 37 Arts this coming February after being featured at last summer’s O’Neill Music Theatre Conference. Her play Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue was produced by Page 73 Productions in New York to glowing reviews, and now continues on to productions at the Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), New Theatre (Florida), Teatro Vista/Steppenwolf Garage (Chicago); Elliot is also being translated into Portuguese for a performance at Centro de Cultura Judaica in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Yemaya’s Belly, about a boy’s immigration from Cuba, has been produced around the country at Portland Stage Company, Miracle Theatre, People’s Light & Theatre Company, Signature Theatre and Detroit Repertory; in honor of Yemaya’s Belly, Quiara received the Clauder Prize, The Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, and the Kennedy Center ACTF Latina Playwriting Award. Other plays include The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! (Summer Play Festival, Miracle Theatre) and Holy Broth (Perishable Theatre). Quiara is working on new play commissions for South Coast Repertory, People’s Light and Theatre, and Signature Theatre (Virginia). An award-winning fiction writer, she is currently writing her first novel. She received a B.A. in Music Composition from Yale, an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brown, the Page 73 Fellowship, and is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. She was born and raised in West Philadelphia.

Director Davis McCallum's recent work includes Chuck Mee’s A Perfect Wedding (NYU - Tisch), The Belle’s Stratagem (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Noah Haidle’s A Long History of Neglect (McCarter Theatre), Unbound: The Journals Of Fanny Kemble (co-created with Laura Marks for the Prospect Theater Company), The Turn Of The Screw (The Acting Company), his own adaptation of Cyrano De Bergerac (Georgia Shakespeare Festival), Landscape Of The Body (NYU Grad Acting), Twelfth Night (Shenandoah Shakespeare) and Chuck Mee’s Big Love (Princeton University, where he is a member of the theater faculty). He frequently collaborates with writers Sarah Ruhl (Eurydice at NYS&F, and in London at the MacOwan Theatre and Melancholy Play at Princeton U.) and Noah Haidle (The Dakota Project and Women In Criminals at HERE). In 2003, he was the Killian Directing Fellow at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he directed Adam Bock's The Thugs. He has been a Drama League Directing Fellow, a member of the Writer/Director lab at Soho Rep and a member of the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab.

Sandra Goldmark (Set Designer) Recent work includes A New War, Burning Coal Theatre Co., Raleigh, NC, The Drawer Boy, at American Stage in St. Petersburg, FL, Gagarin Way with the Sugan Theatre Co., Boston, MA, Unbound with the Prospect Theatre Co., NY, NY, The American Occupation at the Juilliard School, and The Mystery Plays, a Second Stage/Yale Rep co-production. Other designs include Changes of Heart, Alcestis, William Shakespeare's Can You Dig It? (costumes), Richard III (costumes), The SantaLand Diaries, Waiting for Godot, Livin' Tired (sets and costumes), and Bold Girls, produced by WET. Sandra is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and teaches design at Barnard College.

Joel Moritz (Lighting Designer) (bio coming soon)

Chloe Chapin (Costume Designer): Chloe is a 2005 graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where she designed costumes for the Yale Repertory Theater (The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow); the Yale School of Drama (Uncle Vanya, The Lonesome West, Love's Labours Lost); and the Yale Cabaret (Ophelia, Funeral Games, The Water Engine, Phaedra's Love, Unwrap Your Candy.) A native Californian, Chloe has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA. In Seattle, she designed costumes for The Empty Space, Book-It Repertory Theater, the Seattle Film Festival, Northwest Asian-American Theater, Freehold Theater Lab and Theater Schmeater. In New York, Chloe has designed costumes for the 52nd St. Project (Oh, No You Don't!) and La Mama (Harvest).

Michael Friedman (Composer) Off-Broadway: Music and lyrics for The Civilians' Nobody's Lunch (PS122), Gone Missing (New York and London's Gate Theatre), and Canard, Canard, Goose? Music for God Hates the Irish, Fully Committed, Public/NYSF, NYTW, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, La Mama. Regional: co-author of Paris Commune (La Jolla Playhouse), music for The Blue Demon (Huntington Theatre Co.), Christopher Durang's Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, Hartford Stage, ART, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Film: On Common Ground, Affair Game. Dramaturg for the recent Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun. Artistic Associate: NYTW, 2003 MacDowell fellow, founding Associate Artist of the Obie-Award-winning Civilians.

Walter Trarbach (Sound Designer): New York credits: 700 Sundays (Associate Designer), Doubt (Assistant Designer), Mr. Marmalade for the Roundabout, Almost, Maine at the Daryl Roth, Indoor/Outdoor at the DR2, Double Infidelity at the Pearl Theatre, and The Greeks at Manhattan Ensemble Theater. Regional Credits: Zhivago, Private Fittings, and Paris Commune at LaJolla Playhouse, Pompeii the Musical at Thalian Hall, The Legend of the Dead Soldier at The Attic in Chicago, and Gamelegs at The Kennedy Center. Walter is a founding member of the design firm SixtyCycle Sound. He holds a BFA in sound design from Boston University.

Gabe Wood (Sound Designer) has been a sound designer and audio technician in New York and Boston for the past four years. Sound design credits include Life During Wartime (Actor's Studio Drama School), Laughing Wild (Huntington TheatreCompany), and The Moonlight Room (SpeakEasy Stage Company). Recently he has worked off-Broadway on Almost Maine and Mr. Marmalade and will be touring this year with Sekou Sundiata's The 51st (dream) State as production sound engineer.

Nicole Bouclier (Production Stage Manager) (bio coming soon)

Stephanie Klapper Casting (Casting Director) Klapper CastingÕs work has been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, internationally, on television, film, and heard on radio. Selected recent projects include: Off- Broadway: A.R. Gurney's Indian Blood; Charles Grodin's The Right Kind of People; and Terrence McNally's Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams all Off-Broadway at Primary Stages; Treason (Perry Street Theatre), Indoor/Outdoor (DR2 Theatre); The Fartiste (N.Y.Fringe Festival); A Time to Be Born (N.Y.Fringe Festival); Warrior (NYMTF); A Prayer for Owen Me! (Roundhouse Theatre, MD.); FRANKENSTEIN (The Musical) NJPAC; Finder's Fee (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); as well as the seasons for New York Classical Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Capital Repertory Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, The New Theatre and Vermont Stage Company. Several independent feature films including The Feast of the Goat (with Isabella Rossellini); Uncertain Terms; Altamont Now!; Fishing. Ms. Klapper is a member of the Casting Society of America and the League of Professional Theatre Women.

R. Erin Craig, La Vie Productions LLC (General Manager) Recent management credits include: In The Heights (workshop March 2006, Off-Broadway Production Jan 2007); High Fidelity (Boston Pre-Broadway fall 2006, Dec 2006 Broadway); Captain Louie (The Little Shubert Theatre); MONICA! The Musical (P73/NYMF); Meet John Doe (NAMT); Hurlyburly starring Ethan Hawke and Parker Posey (37 Arts); Shockheaded Peter ( The Little Shubert Theatre); Children’s Letters To God (The Lamb’s Theater); De La Guarda in Seoul, Korea & Tel Aviv, Israel, NYC and Las Vegas.

Michele Weathers, La Vie Productions LLC (General Manager) For 15 years, Michele was the General Manager of the North Carolina Theatre, a regional theatre in Raleigh that produces large scale Broadway revivals. During her tenure, critically acclaimed productions of Sweeny Todd starring Terrence Mann; The King and I starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Ragtime starring Michael Rupert, Norm Lewis and Julia Murney were mounted. Since moving to New York in 2004, she has worked on the Off-Broadway productions of Orson’s Shadow (Barrow Street Theatre), Captain Louie (The Little Shubert Theatre), Red Light Winter (Stuart Thompson Productions) and In The Heights (workshop March 2006, Off-Broadway Production Jan 2007).