MIDWIVES & STAFF

Cristina Alicea
Executive Director | Resident Director | Midwife.

Cristina Alicea is a founding member and the Executive Director of MTWorks. She has worked for various theatres throughout the city, some of which include The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Michael Chekhov Theatre Company, The American Globe Theatre, Thirteenth Street Repertory Company, Creative Stages Theatre, The Soho Playhouse, and the FringeNYC Festival.  Some directing highlights include Blackbird by Adam Rapp, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan,  Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs, Arpeggio, and Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell by David Stallings, Conversation with a Kleagle by Rudy Gray, and The State of the Art, a short-play that premiered as a part of Women Center Stage - a national festival highlighting 4 Emerging Female Directors - for the Culture Project (Off Broadway).  Cristina is directing MTWorks' production of  The Oath by Jacqueline Goldfinger opening April 2009.

David Stallings
Artistic Director | Resident Playwright | Midwife.

David has been involved in New York Theater for the past seven years.  He has worked with several theater companies including The Culture Project, Intravenous Theatre, Prospect Theater Company, Early Stages and Square Peg Theater Company. He is a founding member of Maieutic Theatre Works, and serves as their Artistic Director. David has written seven full-length plays and numerous short pieces.  Maieutic Theatre Works produced Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs in the fall of 2006 in New York City.  Brandon Voss of HX Magazine called the play, "Riveting" and named Stallings as the "playwright to watch".  Other plays include Deceiving Chance, Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell (1st Prize Winner Boston Theatre Works--Unbound Festival 2007--Semi Finalist for the Princess Grace Award 2008), Arpeggio (produced Fall '07 at the 45th Street Theater), A Daughter of Israel, and The Family Shakespeare.  On MTWorks' 2008 NYC Fringe production of Anais Nin Goes to Hell, the Village Voice said, "Thank the gods for David Stallings' 'Anais Nin Goes to Hell'... a uniquely polished presence at the Fringe", and The New York Press said, "For a play about women but written by a man, it captured the greater female psyche."  David is currently working on Barrier Island, which will be  featured in MTWorks' National NewBorn Festival in January 2009.

David has a BFA in Theater from the College of Santa Fe, NM.

Sarah Chaney
General Manager

Sarah Chaney has been working in the performing arts for ten years. Some NYC highlights include the Wings Theatre, Broken Watch Theatre, and the Abingdon Theatre. You can hear Sarah's voice as either the character of 'Isoku' on The Cartoon Network's "One Piece", or singing with her band, i like orange, in music halls throughout the city. Regionally, she has worked with Enchanted Hills in Indiana, The Ohio Theatre, Theatre West Virginia, and the Gates-Abbelgan Theatre in Miami. She has toured nationally with Theatreworks USA and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and has appeared on "Late Night" with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live.

Julie Griffith
Producing Director

Recent NYC producing credits include: To Barcelona! by Michael Neiderman (Ignited States),  Anais Nin Goes To Hell by David Stallings (FringeNYC), MTWorks' Underworld: A Night With Broadway's Understudies (D-Lounge), Cody Daigle's Providence,  Arpeggio by David Stallings (45th Street Theatre); Intravenous Theatre's Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner? by Jennifer Lane, and IVT's '06-'07 Oh, Hello! Reading Series.  Ms. Griffith is a graduate of the George Washington University with honors in Theater, the recipient of the Presidential Arts Scholarship for four years and The Kevin Peter Hall Memorial Award for strength, creativity and determination in the art of theater.  She is the Producing Director for Maieutic Theatre Works and is the co-founder and Producing Director of Intravenous Theatre Company.  She has worked in booking at Richard Frankel Productions, which included several touring shows, such as Hairspray, The Producers, The Rat Pack and Movin' Out.  Currently, she is working for 321 Theatrical Management, which general manages over eight companies of Wicked worldwide.

Antonio Miniño
Marketing & Communications Director | Press Agent | Midwife.

Is one of the founding members of MTWorks, served as Managing Director of the Company from 2006-2008, and is currently the Director of Marketing & Communications.  He is a native of the Dominican Republic, where he studied Theater at the School of Dramatic Arts. He has been involved in NY Theater since he moved in 2005 to attend the Michael Howard Studios Summer Conservatory and the One-Year Conservatory in 2006.  NYC acting credits include: Arpeggio, Trojan Women, Elevation, The Queen Mary, Intermission, Ilka's Dream and The Seagull. In the Dominican Republic he appeared in productions of A Doll's House, Amadeus, Lysistrata hates Politics, The Bald Soprano, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Zoo Story.  Producing credits include: Underworld: A Night with Broadway's Understudies, Providence, Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner?, MTWorks' NewBorn Festival '07 and '08, Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs, Immigrants, Sex on the Beach (HOLA Award Winner) and various productions in the Dominican Republic. 

Antonio is an Associate Press Representative for Kampfire PR, working with clients such as Emerging Artists Theatre, Nicu's Spoon, T. Schreiber Studio and Astoria Performing Arts Center. He is also the Editor in Chief of The Fab Marquee, a new theater source with listings, features & reviews. 

Martha Goode
Fundraising Director

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Diánna Martin
Audience Development Manager

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Madalyn McKay
Company Actor Manager

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Katie Rosin-Kampfire PR
Press Agent

Off-Broadway: Play About the Naked Guy, Claymont, &Sisters’ Dance, Baruch Performing Arts Center;Mother Load, Sage Theater; Wasps in Bed, Beckett Theater; Anaïs Nin: One Of Her Lives, Beckett Theater; Triple Threat: 2007 Drama Desk Nominee (mis)UNDERSTANDING MAMMY: The Hattie McDaniel Story, Real Danger & Elephant Girls, Theatre 5; The Monument, Clurman Theater; Don Juan in Chicago, Kirk Theater. Rosin was instrumental in the launch of the Broadway musical Brooklyn. Rosin's clients include: Ateh Theater Group, Emerging Artists Theatre, The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, Nicu's Spoon, (re:) Directions Theatre Company, T. Schreiber Studios, Maieutic Theatre Works, Woman Seeking...A Theater Company, as well as, various productions at the Midtown International Theater Festival and the New York Fringe Festival. Rosin worked in the publicity office at Miramax Films. Rosin teaches Marketing the Arts at NYU. For more information visit www.kampfirefilmspr.com.

Lindsay Moore
Graphic Designer

After spending much of her life as a classically trained musician and actor, Lindsay became a self-taught graphic artist and web designer for theater designer, music and film.  Lindsay maintains several websites for film composers and bands, one of which won an award for best jamband site in 2006. She also builds custom social network pages for films, bands, and clubs. Lindsay currently resides in Fort Worth, TX, and is proud to be a part of MTWorks creative team.

Jillian Zeman
Resident Stage Manager | Midwife

Is currently on the National Tour of Winnie the Pooh with Two Beans Productions. NY credits include: Arpeggio (Producer) for MTWorks, Greetings from Yorkville (PSM) at the SoHo Playhouse and Jamaica Farewell for its NY Fringe encore performance at SoHo Playhouse (PSM/Lighting Designer).   Other recent credits include:  Greetings From Yorkville (PSM/Lighting Designer), Jamaica Farewell (PSM/Lighting Designer), Oh Virgil! A Theatrical Portrait (PSM/Lighting Designer), Backwards (SM/Sound Designer) and Almost Obscene (SM) at the Woodstock Fringe Festival 2007.  Dark of the Moon (PSM) with Thirsty Turtle Productions, Serenading Louis (SM) at Stella Adler Studios, Maieutic Theatre Works' 2007 Playreading Series, Folie A Deux (PSM) with MTWorks, A Christmas Carol (SM) with Manhattan Children's Theatre, Dido (SM) with Scratch Theatre, There's Always a Band (SM) in Manhattan Repertory's One Act Play Series, The Woodstock Fringe Festival 2006 (PSM), Women on Fire (PSM) at the Byrdcliffe Theater, The Boys Next Door (SM), Not Another Showcase (SM) and Trojan Woman (ASM) at Michael Howard Studios and Approaching the End of a Summer (PSM) and Finding the Sun (PSM) at Marymount Manhattan College.  She is has a BA in Production and Stage Management from Marymount Manhattan College.