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SARAH BENSON (Director) is Artistic Director of Soho Rep (since 2006). New York credits include: NY Premiere Sarah Kane’s Blasted (Soho Rep) Drama Desk nomination, OBIE award; Erin Courtney’s Quiver & Twitch (New York Stage & Film); The Lottery (HERE Arts Center). Sarah moved to New York from London on a Fulbright for Theater Direction. She co-curated the PRELUDE Festival at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center for two seasons. At Soho Rep she has commissioned and produced work by artists including: Annie Baker, Thomas Bradshaw, Cynthia Hopkins, Young Jean Lee, John Jesurun, Nature Theatre of Oklahoma and Anne Washburn.
POLLY STENHAM (Playwright) wrote the 2007 theatrical hit That Face at just 19 years old. It was produced at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court and was directed by Jeremy Herrin. It later transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in 2008 by Sonia Friedman Productions and like the original production starred Lindsay Duncan and Matt Smith. That Face is also receiving it's US premiere production at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York from 28th April this year with Sarah Benson directing. Awards for That Face include: Winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best New Play 2007, Winner of the Most Promising Playwright Award, Critics' Circle Awards 2008, Nominated for Best New Play, Olivier Awards 2009. Her second play Tusk Tusk also received fantastic reviews and sold out the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court in May 2009. Tusk Tusk was also directed by Jeremy Herrin. Polly is currently working on a new commission for the Royal Court's Downstairs theatre. She is also working on two film projects - one is an adaptation of Tusk Tusk which is being developed with Film4, the other is a project called DOPE GIRLS which Adam Smith will direct and is also being developed with Film4.
 
DAVID ZINN (Scenic & Costume Design). Broadway: costumes for In the Next Room…, Xanadu, A Tale of Two Cities. Recent Off-Broadway: sets/costumes for Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons), Back Back Back and The Four of Us (MTC), Chair (Theatre for a New Audience) and set design for The Pride (MCC), The Sound and the Fury (Elevator Repair Service/NYTW) and Paradise Park (Signature). Recent theatre and opera: sets and costumes at A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Curtis Institute of Music and the Yale Repertory Theatre. Nominated for Lortel, Hewes and Helen Hayes awards. 2008 Obie Award for sustained achievement.

TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting Design). Select Off-Broadway credits: When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater); The Aliens (Rattlestick); Oohrah! (Atlantic Theater); Blasted (Soho Rep); God’s Ear (Vineyard/New Georges); Gutenberg! The Musical! (Actors’ Playhouse); Orson’s Shadow, Bug (Barrow Street Theatre); Underneath the Lintel (SoHo Playhouse). Regional: Dallas Theater Center, Old Globe, Trinity Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, American Repertory Theatre and Long Wharf Theatre. Awards: Henry Hewes Award (Blasted), Lucille Lortel Award (Bug) , a Vi l lage Voice Obie (Bug) . Education: B.A., Bowdoin College.

MATT TIERNEY (Sound Design). Recent productions include This (Playwrights Horizons) and Blasted (Soho Rep, Hewes Award). Current associate of Elevator Repair Service (The Sun Also Rises; The Sound and the Fury at New York Theatre Workshop, Lortel nomination), Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (Lear; The Shipment; Church) and The Wooster Group (Hamlet at The Public, Lortel nomination; the film There’s Still Time..Brother; Who’s You Dada? at MOMA; and The Emperor Jones). Music director for several productions with Ridge Theater Company including The Death of Klinghoffer (BAM), Decasia and Jennie Richee (Obie Award).

J. DAVID BRIMMER (Fight Director). Fight Master, SAFD. Broadway: Speed-the-Plow; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; Come Back, Little Sheba. NY premieres: Ages of the Moon, Equivocation, Blasted, The American Pilot, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe. Also: The Public, Atlantic, MTC, TFANA, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Center Stage, Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Guthrie. Teaching: NYU/TSOA, RADA Guest Instructor, Strasberg Institute, Yale. Favorite collaborations: Stella Adler, Joe Chaikin, JoAnne Akalaitis, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli. “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.”— G. Fox

BEN FUREY (Dialect Coach). Broadway: Billy Elliot, Spamalot. Off-Broadway: That Face, Gabriel. National tour: Billy Elliot, Spamalot, 101 Dalmatians. Regional and international theatre credits include productions at the Guthrie Theater, The Gate Theatre (Ireland), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theater Center, Colorado Shakespeare Festival and North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Film: Eyeborgs, The Key Man, Pete’s Meteor. Teaching: UNC School of the Arts, Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin), Laura Henry Studio (L.A.).

HANNAH COHEN (Production Stage Manager). Off-Broadway: The Burnt Part Boys (Vineyard Theatre/New York Stage & Film), Humor Abuse (Manhattan Theatre Club), This Beautiful City (Center Theatre Group/Vineyard Theatre), Indian Blood (Primary Stages), The Mistakes Madeline Made (Naked Angels), The Wooden Breeks (MCC), slag heap (Cherry Lane). Touring: Sweeney Todd (Richard Frankel Productions), Spongebob Squarepants Live! (Broadway Asia). Regional: Boston Marriage (Guthrie Theater); Landscape of the Body, Travesties (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Graduate of Boston University’s School of Theatre Arts.

KYLE GATES (Stage Manager). At MTC: Humor Abuse, Back Back Back, Regrets Only, Shining City. Broadway/tour: The Country Girl (Jacobs), The Seafarer (Booth), Shining City (Biltmore), Brooklyn The Musical (1st national). Off-Broadway: This, Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons); Ethan Coen’s Offices (Atlantic); The Fever Chart, Yellow Face (The Public); War, Badge (RPT); Fugue (Cherry Lane Theatre); The Flying Machine’s Frankenstein (Soho Rep). Regional: BTF and USF. Thanks to Gudbjorg.