Dan O'Brien (Director) Dan O'Brien's stage work includes a season at The Flea Theater in THE VOMIT TALK OF GHOSTS and 13P playwright Gary Winter's THE LAKE, Robin Goldwasser's THE PROBLEM IS YOU at The Vineyard Theater, Adam Bock's THREE MOVERS at the Atlantic Theater and Brian Parks' AMERICANA ABSURDUM at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe  (Fringe First Award).  Dan spent 2002-2003 with the Present Company developing Julie Barclay's Multi-Genre Collaborative, WORD TO NO ONE, performed at the Camden People's Theater in London and at the SITI Company in New York.  Dan's directing credits include Julie Shavers' GO ROBOT GO at FringeNYC, Nick Colt's BIRDY AND THE GOLDEN PUTTER at The Gene Frankle Theater, NYC,  Julie Shavers' THE INCONTINENT LIFE OF PLANTS at The American Globe Theater, and Julie Shavers' DISSECTING JIMMY STAR at Sticky, NYC.
Julie Shavers (Playwright) "Indie Theater All Star Julie Shavers" (nytheare.com) spent 2006 in residence as a playwright with the Royal Court Theater and in The Present Company's playwrighting lab, The Pool. SILVER BULLET TRAILER earned her a place as an alternate for the Public Theater's emerging writers workshop. Her plays include GO ROBOT GO (FringeNYC), THE KITCHEN IS SMALL (Detroit's Planet Ant Theatre) and THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS (American Globe Theater). As an actress, The New York Times praised, "the compelling Julie Shavers" for her work as the title character in Len Jenkin's MARGO VEIL at The Flea. Other acting credits include Adam Bock's THREE GUYS AND A BRENDA at the Lucille Lortel and Julia Barclay's WORD TO NO ONE with the Present Company.
	Phil Carluzzo (Composer) has written and performed in a wide variety of musical genres including popular, classical and music for film. In his most recent project, Carluzzo and other members of his group, The Snark Ensemble, created the original, fully notated score for 'Harry Langdon: Lost and Found,' a DVD box set of silent films. Released in December 2007, this collection received rave reviews, set a record for number of sales in a single month at All Day Entertainment and was named a New York Times 'Critic's Pick'. Upcoming film projects include scores for the box set 'Becoming Charlie Chase: The Chase Begins'. Phil has also written concert music for chamber, orchestral, and choral ensembles, receiving performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other venues throughout Washington, DC. He wrote and performed music for Julie Shavers' GO ROBOT GO (FringeNYC) and served as both Musical Director and musician/actor in the Charleston, SC, production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Phil has also written and performed a substantial amount of popular music. His most recent pop project, 'The Boyfriends USA,' is available on Community B Records. He received his MM in Music Composition in 2005 and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Music Composition from Catholic University.
Kevin Bartlett (Scenic Design) has had the good fortune of working as a theatre artist for 25 years, as an actor, director designer, teacher, and producer. Currently he is the Special Events Director for The New York International Fringe Festival, for whom he also sits on the adjudication panel reviewing roughly 800 multi-arts projects per year. Kevin is a hired gun for exploration, using the microscope of dramatic focus to open the gate to growth and understanding. In that vein, he has developed educational theatre programs for all ages in schools around the country on the subjects of improvisation, playmaking, design, conflict management, reading, and linguistic skills. In addition, he is a certified shiatsu practitioner. Kevin’s directing credits reflect his passion for new work, including THE GREAT CONJURER for Fluid Motion at Theatre Row; PASSION RHAPSODY at CityStage Ensemble; and TWO LOUS at the Summerplay Festival in Denver, as well as an appreciation for established writers with Thornton Wilder’s THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH; Pinter’s ONE FOR THE ROAD; and TIGER AT THE GATES by Jean Giradoux for CityStage Ensemble. As a designer in New York, Kevin has created the lighting for THE ACCIDENTAL ACTIVITS for Mighty Ruckus and A 95% CHANCE THEY'LL END UP LIKE LARVAE for Lightning Strikes Theatre at FringeNYC ‘01. He designed and installed the space at Gotham City Improv, and a full renovation of the Present Company’s Downtown Variety Lounge at the Theatorium. He is also a regular guest artist scenic & lighting designer at Greens Farms Academy where he works with students to create designs based on understanding and interpretation of text. He also works around the tri-state region as a production manager and technical director.
	Libby Emmons (Production Stage Manager) is a playwright and multi-talented collaborator.  She is Producing Director of Blue Box Productions and curator of it's Sticky series, which has produced over 100 10-minute plays in New York since 2004 at Bowery Poetry Club, Galapagos Art Space, and in non-traditional L.E.S. spaces.  A prolific writer, her short plays have been produced around New York with Desipina, Crown Point Festival, Working Man's Clothes, LaMaMa Etc., Atlantic Theater School, Polybe + Seats, Manhattan Theater Source and Sticky, among others.  Regional credits include: Sacramento, Philadelphia and Buffalo; international showings in Sheffield, U.K. and New Zealand.  Full length plays include The Sustainable Future (Blue Box), Decomposition in Blue and White (a co-production with Blue Box and Theatre Double Rep, Phila.) and Dirty and Leo in Tokyo, which she is currently workshopping with Angelica Torn's Geraldine Page Academy Santuary Playwrights Workshop.  She collaborated on the MacBeth Project with RAT Conference, Rosario, Argentina, and The Charlotte Salomon Project with Polybe + Seats.  BA in theater and philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College, where two of her plays received mainstage productions, and an MFA in playwrighting with honors from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she received the Liberace Fellowship and Miller Scholarship, among others.  Her thesis play, Eyes of the Prophet, won the John Golden Award for best thesis.  She was commissioned by the Williamstown Theater Festival to write a play for the Act 1 Company, 2006, and was nominated for the Dramatists' Guild's inaugural Wasserstein Prize.
Laura Mroczkowski (Lighting Design) is glad to be working with Nataki Garrett, Fellow Co-Artistic Director at the Celebration Theater in Los Angles on a new production of COFFEE WILL MAKE YOU BLACK, adapted from the award-winning novel by April Sinclair. Laura will also be working with Los Angeles based Choreographer Jennifer Li this spring, on a new piece DIRTY PRETTY THINGS at the Unknown Theater. More of Laura's Recent Lighting Design Credits include: THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLES (3-Legged Dog NY), THE MIRACLE WORKER (New School of Drama NY), Ovation Award Winning ABANDON (La Mama Etc. NY), TRANCE (4th Street Theatre NY), LA SANTA (a Sintroca production @ 4th Street Theatre NY), THE PENITENT HOURS and HOME BIRTH (The Bushwick Starr NY), IN CASE OF LOVE: BREAK GLASS (a site specific work at the Emerse Tile Building LA), JUST ANOTHER COWBOY LOST IN STEINLAND (Triskelion Arts Center NY) BAZZAR! A NEW MUSICAL (Electric Lodge LA), L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA (Cal State LA), the BTD productions of DINO (Elephant Asylum LA), MACHINAL (Lee Strasburg Theater LA), TRIPPIN' WITH NO LUGGAGE (Edinburgh Festival, Scotland), WEEK 29 OF 365 DAYS/365 PLAYS (Celebration Theater LA), WET; A NEW OPERA and COUPLES COUNSELING (REDCAT LA). Laura is currently the Lighting Director for the world tour of Big Dance Theater's THE OTHER HERE as well as the Lighting Designer for the Minneapolis, MN based architectural company Live House, LLC, and for the Event Company, Open Studio in Cinncinati, OH. She has had the opportunity to work with many opera, theater, dance, and music groups from around the world including, Dumb Type, Delfos Dance Company, Dance Theater Workshop, Los Angeles Opera (Resident Assistant LD), Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Builders Association, The Vineyard Theatre, Company of Strangers, New York Theatre Workshop, Trinity Repertory Company, Saint Joseph's Ballet, REDCAT (Resident Lighting Designer), Carter Tuti, Collage Dance Theater, and Sintroca. Laura is a Co-Artistic Director and a Founding Member of Blank-the-Dog productions .
Ian Savage (Filmmaker / Animation) From 2000-2003 Ian was an off-Broadway theatre carpenter, electrician, and rigger in over 100 shows. In 2003 he had the extreme pleasure and luck to be employed as Joel and Ethan Coen's (No Country for Old Men) personal assistant. Shortly after working with the Coen's, he directed his first short film THE BARISTA. In 2005 he associate produced a travel show for the Fine Living Network, ANY GIVEN LATITUDE. He went on to produce for the popular daily video blog, WWW.ROCKETBOOM.COM . Ian now works as a Freelance director, producer, cameraman, editor, animator and photographer. His client list includes IFC, AMC, ROOFTOP FILMS, BLOOMINGDALES, and VERIZON. He is a Teaching Artist at the CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE ARTS in Soho, where he teaches film and stop-action animation to 6-13 yr. olds. Ian's work can be viewed at www.iansavage.com.
Alisha Silver (Costume Design)
Joe Vena (Animation)