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David Birn is a set designer. His New York credits include A Circle (Theatre for the New City); Briar Patch (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Winners (Irish Repertory Theatre); Triptych (Manhattan School of Music), and Fallen Angel (Circle in the Square Downtown). Regional credits include Our Town, Speed-the-Plow and Inherit the Wind (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Julius Caesar (Minnesota Opera); the world premiers of Shining Brow (Madison Opera); Carcass (New Worlds Theatre Project) and The Amulet (New Worlds Theatre Project);The Magic Flute and A Little Night Music (Skylight Opera Theatre); The Sound of Music and A Midsummer Night's Dream at the (Northshore Music Theatre), Major Barbara and M. Butterfly (Hangar Theatre); Three Tall Women and Crimes of the Heart (Syracuse Stage); and The Alchemist (Yale Repertory Theatre). Mr. Birn is on the faculty at Vassar College, and lives in Cold Spring, New York, with his wife and daughter.
Sabrina Braswell is a lighting designer. Among her most recent lighting credits include New Worlds Theatre Project’s The Amulet; Splinter Group's Christine Jorgensen Reveals at 59E59 and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005; All Here Together Productions' Snapshot at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2005 and The Capetown Arts Festival 2006; Clay Mcleod Chapman's The Pumpkin Pie Show: Cardiac Shadow and Junta High at Performance Space 122; Volume of Smoke at The Fire House Theater in Richmond, VA; and John Cameron Mitchell's Scissor Sisters music video Filthy/Gorgeous.
Kimberly DiltsKimberly Dilts is an actor/director/choreographer based in NYC and LA. For New Worlds, she recently directed a reading of a scene from Carcass at the CUNY graduate center. Other recent projects include choreographing War Music, an adaptation of Christopher Logue's poetic take on the Iliad, for FirstWorksProv, The Chicago Humanities Festival and the NY Council for the Humanities; and co-directing Faust for Aurea (Providence, RI), in which she played the role of Mephistopheles. She also recently directed I'm Gonna Run Away for NJ Rep's Theatre Brut festival. NY credits include understudying and assistant directing for The Revenger's Tragedy (Off-B'way), and performing in Alice2, The Information She Carried, the Turnip Festival, and readings at the Pearl Theatre, NYTW and The Directors Company. She has also appeared as a guest star on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Dirty Sexy Money. Kim is a graduate of UT Austin's MFA Acting program and a member of NYU's First Look Theatre Company in addition to being a member of the company of New Worlds Theare Project.
Marc Geller (Resident Director) most recently directed the world premiere of Acts of Love at the Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row. Prior to that he directed Two-Headed at the Berkshire Theatre Festival and the world premiere of Ascension at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row. Other favorites include the world premieres of The Frankenstein Summer and More Than This, the first NYC revivals of Unidentified Human Remains... (Judith Anderson Theatre) and Exit the King (Theatre Row Theatre), and productions of Marat/Sade (Clurman Theatre), Adjoining Trances (Beckett Theatre), Faustus (INTAR), Holy Ghosts (Judith Anderson Theatre), Dark of the Moon (Theatre Row Theatre), The Shadow Box (Hudson Guild Theatre) and As Is (45th Street Theatre). Marc is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Topu Lyo (composer/cellist) is a diverse and multi-faceted musician. He has played in almost every setting from the Arizona Opera Company to headlining at the Knitting Factory. In addition to his cello playing he also experiments in live electronic sampling (with his electric cello) with many groups in NYC, including Skidmore Fountain. He has also scored and helped produce Off-Broadway shows such as The Giving and Freedom Happening. He has studied with Nancy Greene, Einar Hom and Gordon Epperson, and has participated in master classes with Yo Yo Ma, Guarneri and Tokyo String Quartets.
Scott Shaw MatthewsScott Shaw Matthews is an actor who was last seen in New York in The Scales. Other credits include, Andre's Mother, by Terrence McNally, and Beautiful Dreamer. In Regional Theatre he has performed the role of Cowboy in I'm Not Rappaport. Recently he has been featured in a number of short and independent films. He is a student of Vivian Matalon.
Matt Temkin is a percussionist who hails from Chicago where his family has deep music and theatre roots. It was there that he began playing for musicals, which he continued to do in Boston, Mass. during his undergraduate days. Since moving to New York, Matt has been playing drums Off Broadway and designed supertitles and projections for concerts, shows, and national touring productions. Matt provided percussion for New Worlds Theatre Project's The Amulet. He is currently the drummer at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue. Matt has been heard at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center performing with clarinetist David Krakauer and the New Yiddish Chorale. Matt is currently finishing his masters degree in musicology at Brooklyn College (CUNY) and serves as a volunteer Sound Archivist for YIVO. He also plays drums and percussions for Weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, which he rates on the quality of the dancing and the food. When not playing drums, Matt rides his bicycle and roots for his beloved Cubbies, though he doesn't actually know if he wants them to win a World Series.
Jeffrey Evan ThomasJeffrey Evan Thomas is an Actor and Director. Past favorite roles include; Lennie in Of Mice and Men (Cleveland Playhouse), Marc Antony in Julius Caesar (Theatre at Monmouth), The Man in the Yellow Hat in Curious George (TheatreWorks USA, Original Cast), Mendel in Carcass (New Worlds Theatre Project). As a Director he has worked for The Bridge Theatre Company (Blue Window, Downtown), Andiamo Productions (Rosemary with Ginger), Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (Horribly, Horribly Average, Muriel's Birthday) as well as directing and adapting The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe for The Theatre at Monmouth and Medea for Hidden Agenda Theatre Co.

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