KATALINA MUSTATEA (Playwright) is the author of three full-length plays, most recently The Model, first read at Naked Angels before premiering at the Incubator Arts Project’s New Performance Series in August. As a director, she has staged innovative interpretations of master American playwrights in Germany and New York, together with the experimental theater group she founded in 2008, InOktober Productions. Their dance re-imagining of the early Eugene O’Neill one-act, FOG (2010), appeared at HERE Arts Center. She recently contributed the text for Nu Dance Theatre's Dorian C and is currently writing a new play called Caleb is Pregnant, which will be workshopped in January 2012 by True False Theater.
RICHARD VETERE’s (Director) recent writing includes The Marriage Fool, Three Sisters from Queens, Gangster Apparel, The Vows of Penelope Corelli, The Engagement, One Shot, One Kill, Machiavelli, and Caravaggio. He wrote The Third Miracle published by Simon & Schuster, and co-authored the screenplay produced by Francis Ford Coppola starring Ed Harris and Anne Heche. He has directed productions of Caravaggio at Manhattan Theatre Source, Maria Michele's Around the Night Park at Theater for the New City, and Three Sisters from Queens at the Cherry Lane Studio Theater.
ANTHONY DRAZAN (Tuesday) is the producer-director of the award-winning films Hurlyburly (1998) with Sean Penn and Kevin Spacey, and Zebrahead (1992), for which he also wrote the script. He is currently developing LEAKS, a solo performance piece to be produced in Spring 2012. He has written an original screenplay, to be directed by Alexander Payne (Sideways), about a Mexican music promoter hustling tejano bands across Nebraska. This is his stage debut.
MIZUO PECK’s (Mercedes) theater work includes All’s Well that End’s Well as a company member of the Public Theater’s Shakespeare Lab 2010, 365 Days/365Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks, and Burning Botticelli for the NY International Fringe Festival. Her Film and Television work includes All My Children, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; the German film Nicht Heulen Husky, Scenes of the Crime with Jeff Bridges, and the 20th Century Fox Films Night at the Museum and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian as the role of Sacajawea. For more go to Mizuopeck.com
DOUGLAS ROSSI (Trevor) has appeared in 3 plays directed by Katalina Mustatea: Eugene O'Neill's "FOG" and Eric Fallon's "Basic Plumbing" and "Behind the Wheel". He has recently performed with FringeNYC, Abingdon Theatre Company, The Samuel French Festival, Naked Angels, Midtown International Theatre Festival (Best Supporting Actor Nomination), Columbia University Mainstage, The HB Ensemble and The Planet Connections Fest (Best Featured Actor Award). He has studied with Austin Pendleton, James Bundy, Anne Bogart, Raymond Bobgan and Stephen Root among others and is a graduate of The Second City Conservatory and The Alabama Shakespeare Festival's MFA Program.
KATE GARFIELD (The Model) studied at University of Michigan, and the British American Dramatic Academy. Since arriving in New York, Kate has worked with the Drilling Company, the Irondale Ensemble Project, Co-op Theatre East, Panoply Lab, and at the Disk Theatre in Prague. She studies with Joan Rosenfels and at UCB. (KateGarfield.com).
SAM CRAWFORD (Sound Composition) completed both his B.A. in English and A.S. in Audio Technology at Indiana University in 2003. A move to New York City led him to Looking Glass Studios where he worked on film projects with Philip Glass and Björk. His recent sound designs and compositions have included works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (Venice Biennale, 2010), Yin Mei Dance (Beijing, 2010), Jennifer Nugent, and David Dorfman Dance. He currently resides in Brooklyn where he works as a freelance composer, designer, and engineer. He also plays lap steel and banjo in the groups Bowery Boy Blue (Brooklyn) and Corpus Christi (Rome).
ROYA ABAB (Lighting Design) is currently the Assistant Lighting Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. She has recently designed for Helen Simoneau Danse and choreographer Doug Elkins, and is in her third year as an assistant lighting designer at Arc3Design.
LINA MATI (Stage Design) is a multi-disciplinary artist and has been working for the past ten years as an Art Director and Set Designer for commercials, photo shoots, videos, and films. Her latest project was set design for “Sad Song,” The Cars 2011 music video. Lina has also created a sculptural jewelry line (linanoel.com) with exquisite custom made pieces that have been featured in Zink! and Brides magazines
COLIN WOODWARD (Assistant to Director) is a writer from the UK and has lived in New York for ten years. He received the Billie Ehrenberg Award for Excellence in Literature 2010, and is currently studying English and Film Studies at Queens College.
