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TAJLEI
LEVIS (Book & Lyrics) most recently wrote book and lyrics for the
musical A Time to be Born, based on Dawn
Powell’s 1942 novel (with composer John Mercurio). A Time to be Born had a sold-out run
at the Lucille Lortel Theatre as part of the 2006
New York International Fringe Festival. Tajlei is a graduate of
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JOHN MERCURIO (Music) is the recipient of an award from the
Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation and the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Musical Theater Foundation for his work in musical
theatre. He wrote the score and co-wrote the book to Diva Diaries which played in
Chicago and the Broward and Tampa Bay Performing Arts Centers. Last year, The Riverhaven Book Club premiered
at the Lyric Theatre in Florida. With Tajlei
Levis, he composed A Time to Be Born,
which was played at the New York Fringe Festival.
He wrote book, music and lyrics for A Tailor’s Tale which was developed at the Eugene
O’Neill Music Theatre Conference. Current projects include a
new musical entitled Myth and songs for a new play with music, Arturo’s Window. John has
received degrees from the Eastman School of Music and NYU and was a member of
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MARC
BRUNI (Director) won the 2007 NYMF Directing Award for Such Good Friends. He is currently the
Associate Director of Legally Blonde
and Grease on Broadway and staged
companies of White Christmas for
Walter Bobbie this year in Toronto and Boston. He has been associated with
Jerry Zaks, Kathleen Marshall, Walter Bobbie and
Jerry Mitchell on twelve Broadway productions including the Tony winning
revivals of The Pajama Game and La Cage Aux Folles. He has worked at City Center Encores! on Bye Bye Birdie and
70, Girls, 70 and has also worked
at Williamstown, MTC, Goodspeed, NYSF, and LCT
Director's Lab. Additional directing credits include Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at the MUNY. He is a graduate of
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DENIS
JONES (Choreographer) has been proud, for the past three years, to serve as director
of Broadway Bares, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Recent
projects as choreographer include The
Boy Friend for The Maltz Jupiter/Riverside
Theaters, Thoroughly Modern Millie
for The Cape Playhouse, Meet Me in St.
Louis for The Paper Mill Playhouse and Everyone Loves a Winner, A Tribute to John Kander
for The Westport Country Playhouse. Denis is the Associate Choreographer to
Jerry Mitchell for Broadway’s Legally
Blonde and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. |
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TED LEFEVRE (Scenic Consultant) Designs: over two dozen Off-Off-Broadway play premieres and Regional musicals apiece. Las Vegas: revue of Stevie Wonder songs starring Chaka Khan, Associate on Phantom (Venetian), and Spamalot environment design (Wynn). Broadway Associate: The Country Girl, Rock 'n' Roll, Grease, Coram Boy, Sweeney Todd, Hairspray Tour, Invention of Love, Aida. Assistant: Wedding Singer, All Shook Up, Wicked, Sweet Smell of Success, Morning's at Seven, Seagull, Ivanov, Beauty and the Beast, Christmas Carol at MSG, and sixteen Metropolitan Operas. Two seasons each at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Santa Fe and Glimmerglass Operas. |
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DEB
GAOUETTE (Props Designer) Prop Credits: props master for 42nd St. and Cabaret
at the Trump Plaza Casino; props coordinator for the national tours Evita, Sound of Music, Crazy For You, and South Pacific for Troika
Entertainment, and various off-broadway
productions. Set design credits: the workshop of Popera
Rain; projects with City Lights Youth Theatre, and productions of Stage Door, She Loves Me, Meet George
Orwell, and The Retreat.
Currently: assistant props coordinator for New York City Opera. |
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LISA
ZINNI (Costume Designer) Associate Designer for the Broadway and national touring
companies of |
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JIM
MILKEY (Lighting Designer) [bio to come] |
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KATIE
ROSIN / KAMPFIRE FILMS PR (Marketing/PR) Off-Broadway: Mother Load, Sage Theater; Wasps
in Bed, Beckett Theater; Anaïs Nin: One Of Her Lives, Beckett Theater; Triple
Threat: 2007 Drama Desk Nominee (mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story, Real
Danger & Elephant Girls,
Theatre 5; The Monument, Clurman Theater; Don
Juan in Chicago, Kirk Theater. Clients include: Ateh
Theater Group, Emerging Artists Theatre, The New York Innovative Theatre
Awards, Nicu's Spoon, (re:)
Directions Theatre Company, T. Schreiber Studios, Woman Seeking...A Theater
Company, as well as, various productions at the Midtown International Theater
Festival and FringeNYC. Rosin teaches Marketing the
Arts at NYU. www.kampfirefilmspr.com |
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SAMANTHA SCHLUMBERGER (Graphic
Designer) founded Boughton
Design, a multi-disciplinary design firm in 2002. Boughton
Design's work is based on a philosophy that design should reinforce an
emotional connection between clients and their audiences. Commercial graphic
design client work includes branding and logotype for the Breast Cancer
Research Foundation and The Dramatists Guild of America, as well as extensive
collateral design for Clear/Registered Traveler, the Animal Rescue Fund,
Irvington Institute, Scholarship Chicago and Women in Development. Boughton Design also produces a line of custom
stationery. |
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GEOFF
JOSSELSON (Casting Director) Current projects: Allan Knee's The Jazz Age
(59E59), Nickelodeon’s The Backyardigans Live!, and productions for North Shore Music Theatre and
Kansas City Starlight Theatre. Recently, Geoff cast the York Theatre
Company’s Musicals in Mufti, The Last Five Years (Denver Center) and the
premiere productions of Sympathy Jones, Such Good Friends and Going Down Swingin' for NYMF 2007. With Calleri
Casting: the upcoming film, Dragon Ball, and the Ivory Joe Cole workshop.
Previously, Geoff worked on the casting of AltarBoyz,
West Side Story, Carmen, Mimi Le Duck, Fanny Hill and The Great Game.
Graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. |
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REBECCA
A. FRANK (General Manager) Past positions: Event Producer, NYMF; Director of
Business Affairs, Dramatists Guild. General Manager: A
Time to Be Born (FringeNYC), The Digital Age
(WYNE), Golden Prospects (FringeNYC), The
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CARLOS MAISONET (Production Stage Manager) is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights Horizons Theater School, CAP21, and Stonestreet Studios), Carlos's recent credits include Stephe Schwartz's Captain Louie (National Tour), Jihad: The Musical (Edingburgh Fringe Festival), Capture Now (NY Workshop), and The Wild Party (The Culture Project) and currently stage manages Awesome 80s Prom (Webster Hall). |
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ANNA
STRASSER (Production Intern) is a third year Theater/Psychology double
major at Oberlin College. She likes doing theater in the middle of Ohio, but
enjoys New York City theater even more! |
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EDITH
WHARTON wrote the novel Glimpses of the Moon in 1922. It
was an international best-seller at the time and was made into a film in
1923. The 1922 New York
Times review of Glimpses
compared it to her previous novel, The
Age of Innocence, which had received the Pulitzer Prize in
1920, “I think The Glimpses of the
Moon a much better book; it is more interesting, more memorable
and closer to the heart of things." |