PRODUCTION STAFF:

Stuart Warmflash (Playwright / Director) Other Full Length Plays: Art's Life played an extended run on Theatre Row, and his eight subsequent works have all been read and/or performed in and outside NYC. Lost at Sea, a comic satire, won two National Play Contests including the New Play Festival at the Charlotte Repertory Company. Heart-Timers, won first prize and a production at both the Theatre-in-the-Works contest (Amherst, MA) and the Festival of Emerging American Theatre contest at the Equity Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. For two and half years, Mr. Warmflash toured his highly acclaimed one-man show, A Map And A Cap... which was chosen as a semi-finalist in the Forest A. Roberts/ Shiras Institute Competition. Owning the Knuckleball, developed in part at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, was produced in London and an American premiere is pending. Together Tulane has had readings in Los Angeles, Florida and New York. His most recent work, Bizet's Locket, has, to date, won the Paul Green Award given by the North Carolina's Writer's Network and the Founder's Award Contest sponsored by the Riverside Stage Company in Wilton, CT. The play was a finalist in the Generic Theater's "1999 New Plays for Dog Days", a finalist in the Theatrework Studio Project of New Mexico, a finalist in the South Carolina Playwrights' Festival for 2000, and a finalist in the New Play Project at the Backdoor Theatre. It received Honorable Mention in the Writer's Digest 1999 writing competition. Readings of Bizet's Locket have taken place at the Key West Theatre Festival, the Playwrights Kitchen Ensemble in Los Angeles and at The Harbor Theatre in NYC. His play The Czar of Nothingness was produced to critical acclaim at the Mill Mountain Playhouse as well as at the Actors in the Gym in Miami, FL. It was publicly presented in Los Angeles starring Ed Asner and Thora Birch, in NY with Theodore Bikel and Kathleen Early and at the Sledgehammer Theatre in San Diego. It was one of three finalists for the John Golden Award, a finalist in the FutureFest Contest, a finalist for the 2000 Paul Green Playwrights Competition, a finalist for the Dorothy Silver Playwriting Competition (Halle Theatre, Cleveland), a finalist at the Ashland New Plays Fesitval and a finalist for the Jewish Ensemble Theatre's Festival of New Plays. It was given public readings at CAP 21, the Abingdon Theatre, Urban Stages, Algonquin Productions, The Pulse Theatre and at Hudson River Classics. Shortly After Takeoff was the winner of the Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award presented by the Abingdon Theatre, a finalist for the Ashland New Play Competition, the American Theatre Coop, the Oglebay Institute and a semi-finalist at Mill Mountain's New Play Competition and at PlayLabs. There have been readings produced by the Abingdon Theatre, Hudson River Classics and Broad Horizons Theatre. One Acts: Car Nil Knowledge - First prize and production at the Public Studio Theatre's one-act Festival, Grace - First prize and production at the Dubuque Fine Arts Players one-act festival, Clean Sweep, and Six Inch Adjustable - produced in The Harbor Theatre's one-act Festival (Harbor Currents 2000). Film: Mr. Warmflash's theatrically released, award-winning full-length documentary entitled Unforgotten: Willowbrook 25 Years Later opened to excellent reviews both in LA and New York. Currently he is working on a documentary with director Chris Eyre about The Indigo Girls' involvement with the Honor The Earth organization. Television: Two original sit-coms (Home Sweet Home and Broadway and 69th Street) and an episode for Murphy Brown. Fiction: Mr. Warmflash is the author of a romantic, episodic novel entitled Swamp. Magazine Articles: Cosmopolitan, GQ and Playboy. Corporate: Mr. Warmflash has written for accounts such as Sony, IBM, Kodak, BMW, Avon, Seagrams, Lifetime TV, Andersen Consulting, Hyperion, the USPS, Nokia, and NCR among others. Poets & Writers has awarded Mr. Warmflash numerous grants for writing and performing. Mr. Warmflash is a member of the Dramatists Guild, AEA, AFTRA and SAG.

Mark Symczak (Set Designer) NYC productions include "The Countess" at The Greenwich Street Theater, Samuel Beckett Theater, and The Lamb's, "Macbeth" at Classic Stage Co., "Titus Andronicus" at Soho Rep, "Hiding Behind Comets", "In the Belly of the Beast", "The High Priest of California" Charles Bukowski's "South of No North", "Tracers", "Bible Burlesque" and "The Wake of Jamie Foster" all at 29th Street Rep, "Duet" and "Dirty Works" at The Greenwich Street Theater, "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon", "The Action Against Sol Schuman, "Gun Club", "Quake", "Sitting Pretty", "Buying Time",and "The Garden of Hanne List" all at the Hypothetical Theater Co., "A Love In Great Neck", "The Last Virgin", "The Suicide Bomber", "The Diary of Adolph Eichmann", "The American Jew", "Father of Angels", and "Love Letters to Adolph Hitler" all for the Jewish Theater of NY, The One Act Marathon 1995 & 1996 at Ensemble Studio Theater, the German tour of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and over 25 productions as resident set designer for the Synchronicity Theater Group at Synchronicity Space in Soho.

Jeffrey E. Salzberg (Lighting Designer) The 2003 Tony Award. The 2004 Obie. The 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. These are among the many awards that Lighting Designer Jeffrey E. Salzberg has never won. He has, however, designed the lighting for theatre, dance, and puppetry companies all over the United States. Among the companies with which he has worked are the Houston, Chicago, and Washington Ballets, for whom he has lit such ballets as Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, and (of course) The Nutcracker. The New York Times called his lighting "ingeniously atmospheric." In addition to lighting design and arts administration, Mr. Salzberg also designs web pages (His work can be seen at www.jeffsalzberg.com). He views this upcoming season with great anticipation; after all, this year's Nobel Prizes have not yet been announced.

Peter Sylvester (Sound Design) Peter has designed the sound for numerous productions, primarily for the former Synchronicity Theatre Group. He is also a playwright and a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

Aaron Mastin (Costume Designer) NY Costumes: Gene Frankel Theatre (Cop Out, The Talking Dog) York College (Fences, End Game) Battery Dance Co. (Secrets of the Paving Stones, Zero…Two…Blue, Solo Projects) Manhattan Children’s Theatre (Rumplestiltskin, Miss Nelson is Missing, Brave Irene) Vital Theatre (Gifts of the Magi). Scenery: The Frankenstein Summer (Phil Bosakowski Theatre) Robin Hood, Last of the Dragons (MCT) Riverside Center (Camelot, King & I, Hello Dolly, Funny Thing... Forum, Ragtime) Production Design: Millbrook Playhouse 2004 Season, Zoo Theatre’s Mud (Houseman Studio Theater), Man of La Mancha (Riverside Center). Film: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt- A Marriage Comedy, Costume Design. Production: The Odd Couple (Broadway, designer Ann Roth), Black and White Blues (wigs/wardrobe supervisor), The Good Shepherd (Dir. Robert DeNiro, designer Ann Roth) New York Fashion Week (B-Rude by Boy George, Dutch Fashion Foundation, FORM) BFA Scenic and Costume Design, Carnegie Mellon, 2003.

Maria Cameron * (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be making her NYC début with the premiere production of Shortly After Takeoff. Maria has served as the PSM at Bristol Riverside Theatre for the past nine seasons. There, she had the opportunity to work on many productions of various styles including the Barrymore award winning productions of The Balkan Women, Evita, The Dresser, and Forever Plaid. At the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Maria served as the PSM for Man of La Mancha, The Merchant of Venice, and The Glass Menagerie to name a few. She has also worked on the production staffs of Syracuse Stage, The Walnut Street Theatre and the Arden Theatre Co. Many thanks to Stuart and Julie for this opportunity and a huge kiss to K.C. for sticking by me through thick and thin.

Andrea J. Myers * (Assistant Stage Manager) B.A. in Theater from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. NYC credits include ASM for a staged musical reading of Little Mary Sunshine, and ASM for All The Bad Things with the LAByrinth Theater Company. Regional credits include SM for Reserved Seating Only, Creature/Creations and The Boy King at the Los Angeles Theater Center where was most recently a technician . This summer she was PSM at the Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater in Grand Lake, Colorado for their productions of Annie Get Your Gun, Disney's Beauty and the Beast and A Grand Night for Singing. University SM credits include Candide, The Mikado, Fuddy Meers and Zastrozzi.

* denotes member of Actors' Equity Association.