ABBIE SPALLEN (Playwright)
Has worked as an actor for over ten years in television, film and theatre. She is the winner of an E.M.A. best actress nomination. Pumpgirl (published by Faber and Faber) was on at the Traverse and Bush Theatres directed by Mike Bradwell and won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in 2007. Previously, Abbie's play Abeyance was produced as a Druid 'Debut' and directed by Kirsten Sheridan. In 2005 Abbie was awarded the Dublin City Council Bursary for Literature. At time of going to press, Abbie is one of three finalists in the BBC N.Ireland 'Tony Doyle Award' for her first screenplay Seven Drunken Knights. She is currently under commission at the Bush, London and for Fishamble, Dublin.

CAROLYN CANTOR (Director)
New York: In a Dark, Dark House (MCC); Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons); Orange Flower Water, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Living Room in Africa, Now That's What I Call A Storm, and Life is a Dream (Edge Theater), EVE-olution (Cherry Lane), Kitty Kitty Kitty (SPF).  Regional: Rabbit Hole (Geffen), The Violet Hour (Old Globe), Diary of Anne Frank (Paper Mill), The King Stag (Williamstown), Get What You Need (SAF), Rabbit Hole (Pacific Playwrights Conference), After Ashley and Finer Noble Gases (O'Neill Playwrights Conference), Nocturne (Ojai Playwrights Conference). TV: “Bravo Profiles: Roger Ebert,” “The Green Room.”  Recipient of the Seldes-Kanin Fellowship (Theatre Hall of Fame), the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships (Williamstown) and a Drama League Directing Fellowship.  Founding artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Edge Theater. 

DAVID KORINS (Scenic Design)
MTC: The Receptionist. Broadway: Bridge & Tunnel, Godspell (upcoming). NYC: The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Roundabout, upcoming); Yellow Face, Passing Strange (Public Theater); Jack Goes Boating (Lortel & Drama Desk noms., LAByrinth); Essential Self-Defense (Drama Desk nom., Edge Theater & Playwrights Horizons); Floyd & Clea…, Miss Witherspoon (Playwrights Horizons); Swimming in the Swallows (Lortel nom., Second Stage); Blackbird (Hewes Award & Drama Desk nom.), Orange Flower Water (Drama Desk nom.; Edge Theater); Walmartopia, Stories Left to Tell (Minetta Lane).

MIMI O'DONNELL (Costume Design)
Previously with MTC Where's My Money?. Othecredits include On the Mountain and 100 Saints You Should Know (Playwrights Horizons), Suburbia (Second Stage), Fat Pig, Some Girls...and The Glory of Living (MCC), Comedians (New Group), Frame 312 (Atlantic Theater Co) Pavilion (Rattlestick). A View from 151st Street, Jack Goes Boating, Last Days of Judas Iscariot and Jesus Hopped the A Train all with Labyrinth Theater Co.

DAVID WEINER (Lighting Design)
Broadway: Butley, Dinner At Eight (LCT), Betrayal (RTC), The Real Thing. Other New York: The Roundabout, Second Stage, Playwright’s Horizons, The Public, New York Theater Workshop, Theater for a New Audience, M.C.C., The Vineyard, Atlantic Theater Company, Culture Project. Regional: The Guthrie, Baltimore Center Stage, The Alley, McCarter Theatre, Huntington Theater Company, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown, Bard Summerscape, Cincinnati Playhouse, A.C.T. – Seattle, New York Stage & Film, Berkeley Repertory Theater. www.DavidWeinerDesign.com.

ROBERT KAPLOWITZ (Music & Sound Design) Select favorites: Tracy Scott Wilson’s The Story (the Public), The Jo Adler/Mabou Mines Request Concert, Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist (The Vineyard), Kia Corthron’s Light, Raise the Roof (NYTW), Heather McDonald’s An Almost Holy Picture (Broadway/Roundabout), Adam Bock’s The Thugs (SOHO Rep), Eric Jackson’s Carrie (PS122), and five Neil LaBute premieres. He holds an OBIE for Sustained Excellence, designed for the O’Neill (2000-04), was a Sundance Fellow twice, is the Producing Artistic Director for Relentless Theatre Company, and dedicates his work to KMO.

DEBORAH HECHT (Dialect Coach)
Broadway: over 40 productions including Year of Magical Thinking, Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, Festen, A Streetcar Named Desire, Night Mother, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Crucible, Dirty Blonde, Titanic, The Lion King, Cabaret, and Angels in America. Off-Broadway: LCT, Signature, Public, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Roundabout, NYTW, others. Regional: Long Wharf, Guthrie, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Yale Rep, others. England: Winter’s Tale (RSC), Buried Child (National). Film: Spinning Into Butter (upcoming), The Producers, Kinsey, others. TV: “Damages.” Faculty: NYU Grad Acting.

RACHEL E. MILLER (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be returning to MTC after working on LoveMusik at the Biltmore this Spring. Other New York credits include the 2006 Broadway revival of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Macbeth (NYSF), In the Heights, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, Durango (Public Theater), Ghetto Superstar (Public Theater/Joe's Pub), Jerry Christmas (NAMT). Regional: New York Stage & Film, Long Wharf , McCarter, Paper Mill, NJPAC. Opera: Glimmerglass, Lyric Opera of Kansas City , NJ Opera Theatre. Member of AEA.

KASEY OSTOPCHUCK (Stage Manager) is pleased to be back at MTC. Credits include Translations (Manhattan Theatre Club). Broadway: Anna in the Tropics . Regional/opera: McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Bard Summerscape, NYU Grad Acting, NJOT, NYCO, OCNC. Love to Annie.