Carole Buggé (Playwright) aka Elizabeth Blake, C E Lawrence, Carole Lawrence Carole Buggé aka C.E. Lawrence has nine published novels, six novellas and a dozen or so short stories and poems. Her work has received glowing reviews from such publications as Kirkus, The Library Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Herald, Ellery Queen, and others. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Winner of both the Euphoria Poetry Competition and the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award, she is also a Pushcart Prize nominee and First Prize winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition, the Chronogram Literary Fiction Prize, Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award,and the Jean Paiva Memorial Fiction award, which included an NEA grant to read her fiction and poetry at Lincoln Center. A finalist in the McClaren, MSU and Henrico Playwriting Competitions, she has read her work at Barnes and Noble, The Knitting Factory, Mercy College, Merritt Books, the Colony Cafe and the Gryphon Bookstore. She has received grants from Poets and Writers, as well as the New York State Arts Council. Her story “A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin” received an Honorable Mention in St. Martin’s Best Fantasy and Horror Stories, and she was a winner in the Writer’s Digest Competition in both the playwriting and essay categories. Her plays and musicals have been presented in New York City at The Players Club, Manhattan Punchline, Pulse Theatre, The Van Dam
Alexa Kelly (formerly known as Mary Kelly), is the co-founder of Pulse Ensemble Theatre in New York City, and has been Pulse’s Artistic Director for the past 29 years. Born of a Greek mother and a Scottish father, she was raised and educated in London, England. Alexa studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, for 3 years. She then visited the US, where she got an MFA at UNC, and worked on a Ph. d. at Florida State University. She has directed 51 of Pulse’s main stage productions. She has worked regionally as a host for PBS-TV, and as an actor, director or teacher at the Alliance Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Attic Theatre, Academy Theatre, Little Five Points, etc. She was the Literary Manager for the Walnut Street Theatre for two years, and ran a drama program at FCI in Tallahassee for 3 years. She has taught and/or directed at UNC, FSU, U of M, Tisch School of the Arts, and Adelphi University. Alexa also founded and produced the Harlem Summer Shakespeare Project. Producing for 15 years in the beautiful Amphitheatre in Riverbank State Park, Harlem. Union affiliations: SSDC, AEA, SAG, League of Professional Theatre Women, Dramatist Guild of America.
Jessica Parks (Scenic Designer) – has been working as a scenic designer and props designer since 2003. Currently she is working as the resident scenic designer and props designer for the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch. Most recent credits for NJ Repertory include: The Forest, The Pin Up Girls and Hummingbirds. Her set designs at Theater Row include: The End of Hester for New Light Theater and Dan Lauria’s Dinner with the Boys. Set designs at 59E59 ST. Theaters include: Michael Tucker’s Fern Hill, Butler, The Housewives of Mannheim, Jericho and Poetic License. And other credits include: Brecht: Call & Respond at Paradise Factory Theatre.
Joyce Liao (Lighting Designer) – is a Brooklyn-based theatre Lighting Designer. Selected credits: Andy Warhol in Iran (Barrington Stage Company), Sweat (Dallas Theatre Center), Azul (Southern Rep Theatre), Party Face, starring Hayley Mills (New York City Center Stage II), Hero, starring Omari Hardwick (Billie Holiday Theatre) and The Pill (La MAMA), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Cherry Lane Studio Theatre). Soul of Soulin (Broadway, Marquee Theatre), Chasing Andy Warhol, Dead Dog Park, The English Bride(59E59), The Glass Menagerie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream(47 Street Theatre), Breakfast with Mugabe, Final Analysis (Signature Theatre). Her lighting design on Brothers from the Bottom was nominated for an Audelco Award. www.joyceliaostudio.com
Louis Lopardi (Sound Design) – has won awards for Lighting, Sound Design, Original Music, Playwrighting, and Direction. He was awarded by the Musicians’ Union for “promoting live music for the dance.” Sound Design credits include his own The Frankenstein Journals & The Purgatory Project, plus 12th Night, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Priestley’s They Came to the City, 3 Fassbinder plays, and original music for Ladies In Retirement, Brecht’s Galileo, and Anouilh’s Antigone. SDC.
Elizabeth Grunenwald (Production Stage Manager) – Previous credits include OFF BROADWAY: Sealed for Freshness, STOMP. TOURING: Gold Over America Tour, Bachelor Live on Stage, School of Rock the musical, Shaping Sound: After the Curtain, STOMP. NEW YORK: Major Barbara, Top Girls, and Blues for an Alabama Sky with NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program. REGIONAL THEATRE: Christmas Carol with Trinity Reparatory Company; Alone Together, a Delicate Balance, the Tempest,Seussical: The Musical, Copenhagen, the Nerd, the Underpants, Green Gables, and the Retreat from Moscow with The Human Race TheatreCompany. Elizabeth is a proud member of Actor’s Equity.
Sarah Hooper (ASM) – Sarah is delighted to make her first NYC debut with this company and production. Originally from Norwalk, CT and a graduate of Western Connecticut State University ‘18, she has done a number of different professional works in Connecticut and some smaller staged readings in NYC. Most recent credits include: 2021-2022 season Production Stage Manager and Production Manager at Downtown Cabaret Theatre in Bridgeport, CT; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Production Stage Manager) with Shakespeare on the Sound in Rowayton, CT; and Cyrano (Production Stage Manager) with Valley Shakespeare Festival in Shelton, CT.
Jamibeth Margolis (Casting Director) is a professional casting director based in New York City. She was with Johnson-Liff Casting, Cameron Mackintosh, and Margolis-Seay Casting and is now out on her own as a freelance casting director and owner of Jamibeth Margolis Casting And Productions. Previous credits include the Broadway and National Touring Companies of such hits as Les Miserables, The Phantom Of The Opera, Miss Saigon, Cats, and Jane Eyre as well as two dozen other shows on Broadway. She currently casts for Off Broadway, National Touring Companies and shows for prominent regional theaters and all of the major theater festivals in NYC. She is proud to cast for the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, New City Music Theatre, and most recently Sistas The Musical (Off-Broadway) and Harmony by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman (Off-Broadway) . Her casting office is dedicated to the development of new plays and musicals. Jamibeth won an Artios Award for her casting of Fiddler On The Roof In Yiddish at Stage 42 (directed by Joel Grey). Thank you to Alexa for the opportunity. Member: Casting Society Of America www.jamibetharts.com
Christine Cirker (Associate Producer) Off-Broadway productions: Letters to Sala by Arlene Hutton, Renata Hinrich’s Random Acts, Jean Taylor’s The Basement Plays, The R Word and Downsizing for Our Workshop East, Einstein & Mileva on Theatre Row. With Lee Brock, she is producing director for F.A.B.Women@tbg (The Barrow Group’s women’s development group) where she has directed and produced since 2010. In addition to producing, she directs in NYC and regionally, in Florida. Graduate of the University of Michigan. Member of The League of Professional Theatre Women.
Joseph Longthorne (Company Manager) – Joseph is a Tony Award Winning Producer, General Manager, Blogger, and Theatrical Entrepreneur. Favorite Lead Producing credits include Our Dear Dead Drug Lord by Alexis Scheer, Off-Broadway at the WP Theater, and OSCAR at The Crown by The Neon Coven which recently played a 2019 run at 3 Dollar Bill. Favorite Co-Producing credits include Waitress Broadway, US National, and London Productions, Oh Hello on Broadway, and The Band’s Visit Broadway (Tony Award) and US National Tour. Proud graduate of The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and current MBA candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Joe is the founder and writer of Creative Finance with Broadway Joe www.CreativeFinanceBroadwayJoe.com.