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Mark Shanahan
George Love
Westport Country Playhouse: Sedition, Journey's End and David Copperfield. New York Stage: The 39 Steps (Cort Theatre); As Bees in Honey Drown (Lucille Lortel Theatre); The Appearance of Impropriety (Abingdon Theatre Company); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Roundabout Theatre); The Internationalist (45 Bleecker and Fairfield Theatre Company); Downwinders, Madame Killer (Soho Rep); and others. Regional: Journey's End, Witness for the Prosecution, Tryst, Hitchcock Blonde, Treasure Island (Alley Theatre), Andromeda Shack (Kennedy Center), Augusta (Merrimack Rep), One Foot on the Floor (Denver Center), West End Horror (Bay Street Theatre, Pioneer Theatre), Noises, Off!, and more.  Film & TV: Safe Men, Bug, Endsville, "David Letterman," "All My Children." Education: BA Brown University, MA Fordham (adjunct faculty). Award-winning voice-over artist, Edgar Award nominated playwright. Co-storywriter of screenplay The Troubleshooter (Universal).
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Andrea Maulella
Adelaide
New York credits include Richard Vetere's One Shot One Kill (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) at Primary Stages and directed by Joe Brancato, as well as turns at Circle Repertory Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre and Irish Arts Center. Regional theatre appearances include Tryst and To Kill a Mockingbird at Alley Theatre, along with appearances at McCarter Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Hangar Theatre and most recently, Penguin Rep. On television she has been on “The Sopranos,” “Guiding Light” and “Spin City,” in addition to the independent film, Love Ludlow.
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Karoline Leach
Playwright
Karoline's first play was an adaptation of The Snow Queen for Orchard Theatre, in 1989. She was Artistic Director of Bootstrap Theatre for three seasons. Her first full length play The Mysterious Mr. Love was produced in 1997 at the Comedy Theatre in the West End. It received its first US performance in 2000, at Penguin Rep. Her first book, In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll, was published in 1999, and created a considerable controversy when it claimed that Carroll's biography was more myth than fact. Tryst premiered Off-Broadway in 2006.
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Joe Brancato
Director
Joe is the Founding Artistic Director of Penguin Rep in Stony Point, Rockland County, NY, where he recently directed the NY premiere of Joel Drake Johnson's The Fall to Earth starring Tony Award winner Michele Pawk. Named by The New York Times as "one of America's most insightful directors,” Joe directed the NY premiere of Tryst at Promenade Theatre produced by Morton Wolkowitz, as well as the Drama Desk Award-winning Cobb by Lee Blessing produced by Kevin Spacey at Lucille Lortel Theatre and Falcon Theatre in L.A. His Off-Broadway credits include From Door to Door; The Devil’s Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith; One Shot, One Kill; 21/2 Jews; Last Romeo; My Italy Story; Escape from Happiness starring Marsha Mason; The Big Swing starring Madeline Kahn, Sarah Jessica Parker and Marisa Tomei; Christopher Hampton's Treats; and William Mastrosimone's The Understanding. Others include NYSF, Naked Angels, Melting Pot, Primary Stages and regionally at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Houston's Alley Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Boston's New Repertory Theatre and Hartford’s Theatreworks.
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Alejo Vietti
Costume Design
New York: Grace, Make Me a Song, Tryst, Roulette, The Last Sunday in June, 16 Wounded, 2 X Tennessee, The Wau Wau Sisters, Servicemen, Waiting for Godot, Five Flights, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure and Othello among others. Regional: Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Colorado Ballet, Columbia University, Florida Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Hangar Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Stage & Film, Northlight Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Signature Theatre, Theatreworks Hartford. International: Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Donetsk Opera in the Ukraine. Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Gold Unit 2007.
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Jeff Nellis
Lighting Design
Broadway: Prymate.  Off Broadway: Tryst (NY Outer Critics Circle Nomination), The Milliner, The Fifth Column, John Ferguson, Treason, Flight, Shylock, From Door to Door, Zanna Don't!, The Daughter-In-Law, One Shot One Kill, Cobb, Our Sinatra, The Devils Music, The It Girl, My Italy Story.  Regional: Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alley Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, TheaterWorks, North Shore Musical Theatre, Bay Street Theatre, Florida Stage, Madison Rep, City Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Los Angeles Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera.
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Johnna Doty
Sound Design
Off-Broadway: Tryst (Promenade Theatre); From Door to Door (Westside Theatre); Menopause the Musical (Playhouse 91); In Spite of Myself (Urban Stages); Call the Children Home; One Shot, One Kill (Primary Stages); The Gorey Details (Century Center); Freedomland (Playwrights Horizons); Men on the Verge of a Hispanic Breakdown; My Italy Story (47th St. Theatre); Two and a Half Jews (American Jewish Theatre); Nuyorican Stories (INTAR); Subtle Bodies (Theatre Row Theatre); Skyscraper (Greenwich House Theatre). Regional: Alley Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, New York Stage and Film, Pearl Theatre Company, Penguin Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Provincetown Repertory Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Trinity Repertory Theatre. Film: Aurora, The Blue Room.
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