| DAVID STALLINGS (Playwright) David has written five full-length plays: Folie a Deux (MTWorks production: Oct 06-The Rock Theatre, NY), Deceiving Chance (reading-Feb 07 Interborough Theatre, NY), Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell (readings: NewBorn Festival 07-NY, 1st Prize Winner UnBound Festival-BOS, Michael Howard Studios-NY), Arpeggio (MTWorks production: Oct 07-45th Street Theatre) and A Daughter of Israel (reading: NewBorn Festival 08). His short-play The State of the Art premiered as a part of Women Center Stage (Culture Project-NY). He is a founding member and Artistic Director of MTWorks. David has a BFA in theater from the College of Santa Fe, NM. |
| CRISTINA ALICEA (Director) Cristina has worked with 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 and Arpeggio by David Stallings, Conversation with a Kleagle by Rudy Gray and The State of the Art, a short-play by David Stallings (Women Center Stage for the Culture Project). Cristina Alicea is a founding member and Executive Director of MTWorks. She has a BA in Theatre Performance from George Mason University. |
| JOEL BUTLER (Digital Retouching) Born in Dominican Republic, he got his photography training at the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale and later back in D.R. got his degree in Graphic Design. Joel has since been working from his homeland in the fields of Beauty, Fashion and Commercial Photography, Digital Retouching and Graphic Design. |
| DAN GALLAGHER (Light Design) was the 2005 Gilbert Hemsley Lighting assistant at Lincoln Center, where he worked for New York City Opera, New York City Ballet, the Lincoln Center Festival, Julliard, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. He has taught lighting design at the University of Wisconsin – Madison where he received his MFA and designed shows for the University Opera and University Theatre including, The Secret Garden, The Memorandum, Dialogues of the Carmelites and The Physicists for which he won the 2003 Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival award for best lighting design. He has also designed for CTM Madison Family Theatre, Madison Savoyards, Renaissance Theaterworks (WI), Mary Washington College, Endstation Theatre (VA), Arizona State University, Manhattan Children's Theatre, AMDA, the Forestburgh Playhouse (NY), and the New York, D.C. and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals. |
| MARTHA GOODE (Sound Design) Design credits include Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner? (Intravenous Theatre Company), Edward II ((re:) Directions Theatre Company), Every Man (Ignited States: winner Samuel French Short Play Festival), Bordertown ((re:) Directions Theatre Company), Don't Shoot Your Eye Out! (The Brick Theatre), Love Is Good (Love Creek Productions), Training Wisteria (NY International Fringe Festival; Kennedy Center/ACTF, Boston Playwright's Theater), Translations of Xhosa (Kennedy Center/ACTF, Boston University), Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night & As You Like It, Blood Wedding, No Place To Be Somebody (Boston University). Martha is the Managing Director of Ignited States. |
| JULIE GRIFFITH (Producer) Recent New York producing credits include MTWorks' Underworld: A Night with Broadway's Understudies, Cody Daigle's Providence, Arpeggio by David Stallings, 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 Director of Fundraising for Maieutic Theatre Works and is the co-founder and Producing Director of Intravenous Theatre Company. She 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 at 321 Theatrical Management, which general manages over seven companies of Wicked worldwide. |
| 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. |
| ANTONIO MINIÑO (Producer-Audience Building) 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. 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 such clients as Emerging Artists Theatre, Nicu's Spoon, T. Schreiber Studios and Astoria Performing Arts Center. Antonio is the Editor in Chief of www.thefabmarquee.com. |
| LINDSAY MOORE (Graphic Design) 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. |
| ERICA PARISE (Photographer) |
| STEPHANIE TUCCI (Set Design-Prop Master) NYC Scene Design credits include Cowboy Poems My Daddy Taught Me (Abington), Wendy Complex (Vagabond), Lysistrata (Gallery Players), Mottel, the Cantor's Son (Kaufman), Shapeshifters (TBG), Sunday On the Rocks (Ampersand) and Strange Snow (Eos). Props credits include The Importance of Being Earnest (Pearl), Ghosts (Pearl), Night Over Taos (INTAR) and Boy In the Bathroom (NYMF). |
| DAVID WITHROW (Costume Design) Off and Off-Off work includes, but is not limited to, the following companies: Emerging Artists Theatre, The Gallery Players, Milk Can Theatre Company, Monarch Theatre Company, MTWorks, NeoPack, Prospect Theater Company, (re)Directions Theatre Company and Thriftshop theater workshop, etc. DW has been designing regional theater and assisting on and off Broadway for the last eight years. Winner of the 2007 NYIT Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Bug Boy Blues with Looking Glass Theatre. |