MARK SCHULTZ (Playwright) Recent plays include: Everything Will Be Different (SoHo Rep/True Love Productions) which won the 2005 Oppenheimer Award and the 2006 Kesselring Prize; Polar Bear (Birmingham Rep, UK); Gift (Rising Phoenix Rep/NY Fringe Festival).  Everything Will Be Different was produced by the Actors Touring Company with Theatre Royal Plymouth as A Brief History of Helen of Troy at the Soho Theater, London after a UK tour.  Other plays include The Gingerbread House, Magic Kingdom, Brightness.  Readings and workshops: MCC Theater, The Vineyard, Rattlestick, MTC;, New York Theater Workshop, The Public, Studio Dante, Woolly Mammoth.  He was a founding member of Theater Mitu, is a member of Rising Phoenix Rep and is coordinator of MCC Theater’s Playwrights’ Coalition.  He holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University and is represented by CAA.

WENDY C. GOLDBERG (Director) is the Artistic Director of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.  Directing Credits Include: Third, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Living Out and The Clean House (Denver Center); world premiere, False Creeds (Alliance Theatre); The Chosen, (Actors Theater of Louisville); world premiere, A Marriage Minuet (Florida Stage); The Goat; Proof; Book of Days, On The Jump, K2 and over 30 readings/workshops in the new play program she led for five seasons (Arena Stage). Wendy has been a company member at Denver Center Theatre Company for the past three seasons, was Artistic Associate at Arena Stage in Washington, DC (2000-2005), and proudly serves on the Executive Board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Upcoming:  Doubt (co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Actors Theatre of Louisville.

ALEXANDER DODGE (Scenic Design). Broadway: Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler.  Off-Broadway: Zerline’s Tale (Little Shubert); Antony and Cleopatra (TFANA); Measure for Pleasure, Paris Commune, Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles? (Public); The Water’s Edge (Second Stage); Observe the Sons of Ulster…(Lortel Award); Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center); Force Continuum, Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Atlantic); and Downtown Plays (Drama Dept.). Regional: Alley, Arena, Centerstage, Denver, Dallas, Hartford, Huntington, Geffen, Taper, Globe, Triad, Westport, Williamstown, Yale Rep. International: The Gate-Dublin, Calgary, Stratford. Opera: (all sets and costumes) Il Trittico (Berlin); Waffenschmied (Munich); The Flying Dutchman (Würzburg); Lohengrin (Budapest). Training: Yale.

ANNE KENNEDY (Costume Design). Off-Broadway: Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky (Playwright’s Horizons); Opus (Primary Stages). Regional: Ring of Fire (National Tour); Third, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, The Clean House (Denver Center); Degas’ Little Dancer, False Creeds (The Alliance); Lincolnesque (The Old Globe); Passion (Sondheim Celebration/Kennedy Center); The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Proof (Arena Stage); The Geometry of Fire (NYSF); Living Out (Round House); Elegies, The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theatre Co.); Tooth and Claw (Arden Theatre); The Bluest Eye (Playmaker’s Rep). Signature Theatre Artistic Associate: Assassins, Urinetown, Side Show.

JOSH EPSTEIN (Lighting Design). Off-Broadway: New Georges, Naked Angels, Clubbed Thumb, Rattlestick, Theater for The New City, Target Margin, La Mama ETC, Juilliard and SPF. Regional Theater: Cincinnati Playhouse, Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Alliance (with Wendy Goldberg), Long Wharf, Wolf Trap, resident lighting designer at O’Neill Playwrights Conference. Josh has worked with directors Pam MacKinnon, Steffan Novinski, Maria Mileaf, Jesse Berger, Brian Mertes, Curt Columbus, Melissa Kievman and David Herskovits, among others. Josh is an adjunct professor at Sarah Lawrence College. He received his MFA from NYU and was a recipient of the 2004-2006 NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers.

RYAN RUMERY (Sound Design). New York: Beauty on the Vine (Epic Theatre Center); Rearviewmirror (59E59); Based on a Totally True Story (Manhattan Theatre Club); Getting Home (Second Stage); The Seagull (Blue Heron); Mayhem (SPF at Theatre Row); Macbeth (Theatre of the Riverside Church); Edward II (Connelly Theatre). Regional: Center Stage, Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Playmakers Rep, Hartford Stage, Virginia Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Ford’s Theatre, Florida Stage, Alley Theatre, Round House Studio, Syracuse Stage, Trinity Rep, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Hangar Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Alliance Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and Penguin Rep. For more information and music please visit myspace.com/peno3.

STEPHANIE GATTON (Stage Manager). Off-Broadway credits: eurydice, Some Men, The Dear Boy (Second Stage); 365 Days/365 Plays: Week One, King Lear workshop (The Public Theater); Southern Comforts (Primary Stages); A Spalding Gray Matter (The New Group); Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits: Mere Mortals (Two River Theater Company); Misalliance (The Old Globe); Stephen Wadsworth's Don Juan (Shakespeare Theatre D.C., The Old Globe); Suitcase, Fraulein Else (La Jolla Playhouse); Nocturne, Rhinoceros, The Oresteia, The Laramie Project (Berkeley Rep). Concert: Peter & The Wolf (Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum). MFA in Stage Management from the University of California, San Diego.

RACHEL MOTZ (Assistant Stage Manager). Score (NYTW and tour); The Cherry Orchard, The Bald Soprano and The Lesson (Atlantic Theater Company); Much Ado About Nothing (NYSF); Mr. Fox: A Rumination (Signature Theater); 1984 (Synapse Productions); Silver Nitrate (Juggernaut Theatre); Miss Julie (Theatre Trouve. Regional Theater: A Small, Melodramatic Story, Deeds, Mr. Fox: A Rumination (O’Neill Playwrights Festival); three seasons with the American Repertory Theatre as assistant stage manager on productions including Enrico IV, Marat/Sade, Absolution, La Dispute (with the SITI Company); and The Sound of a Voice (with Philip Glass and David Henry Hwang) and as production stage manager of the children’s play The Island of Anyplace.

PETER DEAN (Production Manager). New York credits include American Dream and The Sandbox directed by Edward Albee (Cherry Lane); Celia, the Musical (New World Stages); A View From 151st Street, Jack Goes Boating, The Worst of Bogosian, A Small, Melodramatic Story (LAByrinth); School of the Americas (LAByrinth/Public); Opus Cactus, Baseball and Passion (MOMIX). Regional Credits include A.R.T., Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, The Huntington Theater Company, The Denver Center Theater Company and Trinity Rep. Peter is a graduate of Otterbein College (PBS/OFA). Peter is very happy it's 2008!

THE SPLINTER GROUP (General Manager) was formed by Seth A. Goldstein in 2002 to produce works of singular vision for the stage and screen. Producing credits include Shakespeare's R&J (UK Premiere & West End); Christine Jorgensen Reveals (2006 Drama Desk Award); Masked. In addition to Deathbed, general management clients include Fan Yang’s Gazillion Bubble Show (New York & Las Vegas), Masked, Candy & Dorothy and The Intergalactic Nemesis. Previous clients include Gutenberg! The Musical!, Duse’s Fever, Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Apparition, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (2006 & 2007) and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals (2005-2007), among others.

APPARITION PRODUCTIONS (Producer) was founded in 2004 by David McMahon and Emily Donahoe to provide and sustain the environment in which good plays can happen.  Projects include: 2004 New Play Development Series (workshops of plays by Jordan Harrison, Julia Edwards and Kyle Donnelly); 2005 Off-Broadway production of Apparition by Anne Washburn, directed by Obie-winner Les Waters. Recipient of two Lucille Lortel Nominations and listed in Time Out New York's Best Plays of 2005; (I am) Nobody's Lunch, associate producer, Edinburgh International Fringe Festival, 2006. Winner, "2006 First in Fringe" Award.