Dorothy Marcic (Playwright)
Dorothy is a professor at Columbia University, and a former professor at Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics-Prague, teaching MBA students and practicing managers. She served as advisor to the US Ambassador of the Czech Republic and was a delegate to both the United Nations Economic and Social Develop Summit in Copenhagen and the UN Commission on the Status of Women. She is the author of 12 books, including the best-selling Understanding Management, Managing with the Wisdom of Love, RESPECT: Women and Popular Music, and the recent Love Lift Me Higher. Several years ago, Dorothy left her full-time academic position at Vanderbilt University to devote herself to playwriting. She turned her RESPECT book into a musical, tracing women's development through Top-40 music, which has played in 20 cities. Last year she debuted the musical, TERMS OF DISMEMBERMENT, a dark comedy about a financially strapped mother who is forced to sell her daughter's body parts. Her newest musical, which opened in New York in summer of 2011 is SISTAS, an uplifting musical journey, of a multi-generational African-American Family. Dorothy Marcic started her career in the arts as a production assistant on the TV program, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, while in college.

Kenneth Ferrone (Director)
KENNETH FERRONE was Associate Director of Wonderland on Broadway as well as the Off-Broadway Premiere of In Transit at Primary Stages. Other recent
credits include work at the Alley Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Steppenwolf, and the Straz Center for Performing Arts. He
currently works on SMASH, a new drama series airing Mondays at 10/9c on NBC. Kenneth is a theatre graduate of Northwestern University.

Edward Staudenmayer (Associate Director)

Hinton Battle (Producer)
Hinton Battle is one of Broadway''s most respected musical stars, and producer of SISTAS: The Musical. Mr. Battle began his career at the age of 16, originating the role of Scarecrow in The Wiz. He has received top honors—the NAACP Awards, Fred Astaire Awards, Ira Aldridge Awards and the Choreographer Media Honors. His choreography has been featured on The Golden Globe Awards, Dance in America, Academy Awards, and Dancing with the Stars. He has appeared in the most successful musicals ever staged including: DANCIN, DREAMGIRLS, SOPHISTICATED LADIES, CHICAGO (BILLY FLYNN), RAGTIME (COALHOUSE WALKER JR.), MISS SAIGON AND THE TAP DANCE KID. Currently, he is getting ready for the multi-city tour of LOVE LIES, a musical comedy he wrote, will direct and appear in. Additionally, Hinton has released a Gospel/praise single, WHEN I WALK that is currently climbing the Mediabase charts.

Jenkay LLC (Producer)
(Jay Harris and William Franzblau ) Jay Harris has produced plays in 20 cities in the USA and Canada, as well as in England and Scotland. He has been involved in 19 London productions including Fool for Love, Oleanna, Some Girls(s), Sunday in the Park with George, Anna in the Tropics, A Life in the Theatre, All About My Mother, Mary Stuart, Fat Pig, Rain Man, Three Days of Rain, The Little Dog Laughed, Design for Living and In a Forest, Dark and Deep, with nominations and awards from the Laurence Olivier Awards, Evening Standard Awards and What's on Stage Awards. North American Productions include, in New York, Say Goodnight Gracie (Tony nomination, Excellence in Touring Broadway Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), American Buffalo, American Rhapsody (MAC Award, two Drama Desk nominations, Lucille Lortel nomination), Bump, Sophie Totie and Belle and Evil Dead the Musical (Best Musical Off-Broadway, Outer Critics Circle nomination) and Wonderland. Over 39 regional productions with numerous nominations and awards, including South Florida, 24 Carbonell nominations, winning 14; Washington, DC, a Hayes nomination; Detroit, three Wilde nominations; Toronto, a Dora Award, USA national tours: Say Goodnight Gracie and his most recent production of Little House on the Prairie staring Melissa Gilbert.

William Franzblau (Executive Producer)
Produced on Broadway - Tony-nominated Best Play, Say Goodnight Gracie, The Moscow Circus American Buffalo, WONDERLAND as well as touring versions of Beatlemania, Little House on the Prairie, the Musical and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Mr. Franzblau also produced Robert Dubac's The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? as well as the musical adaptation of Sam Remi's Evil Dead, entitled EVIL DEAD the Musical and Jewtopia. He managed several multi-platinum international rock recording acts and founded Interfilm Inc., a publicly traded company combining interactive technologies with cinematic art, in which he produced three films. He also produced Disney's Virtual Reality Theme Park attraction, Ride the Comix in Orlando.

Josh Lacovelli (Set Design/Assistant Stage Manager)
Josh is a young local director who is a Technical Director at The Theatres at 45 Bleecker. His most recent directing credits include Woodbury Sketch Club Players, Atlantic City Harbor Festival and Richard Stockton College of NJ. He co-founded and directed the successful Southern NJ summer theatre troupe New Stockton Theatre Workshop that mounted such plays as John Guare's House of Blue Leaves and Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. Additionally he directed mainstage productions at Stockton College, including the sold out productions of Little Shop of Horrors and Precious Damsels.

Kia Rogers (Lighting)
Kia makes her home in New York City now and collaborates with several different theatre companies. "The first time I read through a piece, I see light and shadow; when I hear music and mark through a score I feel the rhythm and want to support it with light." Off Broadway: Made In Heaven at The SoHo Playhouse, Passage through Light and Shadow at Theatre at St. Clement's. Favorite Off-Indie credits: Dog Act, Venus Observed, Universal Robots, Jacob's House, and All The Rage. Kia is the resident lighting designer at Manhattan Theatre Source and lighting director for Estrogenius since 2007. She also designs lights for events and concerts at The Asia Society, working with international artists Yeondoo Jung, KODO drummers and Indian Dance. Regionally Kia works as a returning guest artist at The University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Sam Mattingly, SM Communications (Press Representative)
Sam is a 25-year veteran of public relations and corporate communications. She began her career as a celebrity publicist with clients that included: Nick Nolte, George Peppard, Stacey Keach, Burt Convey, Joan Collins, and has represented Hinton Battle on and off since his Broadway appearances in Miss Saigon and The Tap Dance Kid. She has managed publicity for numerous film projects including two Academy-Award nominated films, Blue Velvet and Crimes of the Heart, and worked with writer/director Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing and many others. More recently she has held executive communications positions with both L'Oréal USA and MasterCard Worldwide.

Nick Cheng (Musical Director)

Germono Toussaint (Additional Arangements)
A playwright, composer, arranger and lyricist, Toussaint wrote the book, music, and lyrics for his original musical Caged, based on interviews he conducted with thirteen women at a halfway house. Caged premiered in 2005, at the Broadway Theater Center in Milwaukee and was featured in the Not for Broadway Theater Festival in New York City in 2006. In 2010, Toussaint's play The Anointed was featured in The Fire This Time playwright's festival, co-produced by Horse Trade Theatre and Freedom Train Productions. Toussaint has composed music for Skylight Opera Theatre, Handful Players, Fishgrease Productions, Diversity Players of Harlem, New Dramatist's Nocturnal Commissions, Tripping: The Musical and productions of The Pied Piper, Hansel and Gretel, The Laramie Project and Love Rides the Rails.

Lauren Lim-Jackson (Choreographer)
Lauren, originally from Orange County California, attended the Orange County High School of the Arts (Conservatory and Academic Valedictorian) and later graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Sociology and a Secondary in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Choreography credits include Carousel, The Rocky Horror Show, Company, The Way of the World, and Expressions Dance Company. Performance credits include Broadway: Wonderland. Finian's Rainbow. Off Broadway: The Wiz. Regional: Wonderland (Straz Center). Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse, 5th Ave Theater), Disney Premiere of High School Musical II (Theater of the Stars). Tour: 50th Anniversary World Tour of West Side Story (Consuela/Anita cover). Film/TV: The Smurfs, Mrs. Santa Claus, Kidsongs, "Well Alright" (CeCe Winans). Ms. Jackson was also a professional cheerleader for the WNBA.

Reneé Marino (Associate Choreographer)
Credits include Wonderland!, the Broadway production of West Side Story (Rosalia). National tours of Jersey Boys (Mary Delgado), Disney's High School Musical (Sharpay u/s, Ensemble), Cats (Swing).

Tricia Barsamian (Costume Design)
Credits include, Off-Broadway: Yank! A WWII Love Story (York Theatre Company). Other credits include The Mousetrap (The Alley Theatre), The Judy Holliday Story (FringeNYC), Fiddler on the Roof (John W. Engeman Theater), Little Shop of Horrors (John W. Engeman Theater), With Glee (The Prospect Theatre Company and NYMF) and Yank! (The Gallery Players). Associate costume design credits: Sondheim on Sondheim (Roundabout Theatre Company) and Wonderland (TBPAC and The Alley Theatre). Assistant costume design credits include Wicked (National Tour), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Roundabout Theatre Company), Things We Want (The New Group) and Election Day (Second Stage Theatre).

Joshua Quinn (Production Stage Manager)
Joshua Quinn: New York: Vet's Fest 2011, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Cold Snaps 2010, The Tenth Floor, POPart, Fellowship..., Yorktown, The Burkinis..., Sister Myotis's Bible Camp, Engaging Shaw, Dreyfus in Rehearsal. University at Albany: Antigone, Family..., Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

Jamibeth Margolis (Casting Director)
Jamibeth has worked for Johnson-Liff Casting, Margolis-Seay Casting, and now is a freelance casting director with her own office. Jamibeth cast some of the longest running shows in Broadway history, including Les Miserables, Cats, Miss Saigon and The Phantom Of The Opera. She is a member of the Casting Society of America.

Lisa Dozier King (General Manager)
Lisa has been the general manager for more than forty full productions and hundreds of special events in NYC. Recent Off Broadway productions include: Bronte, Milk, Diary of a Teenage Girl, The Duchess of Malfi, and How to be a Good Italian Daughter. Lisa is also the general manager for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Musicals. See her website.

Nicholas Cheng (Music Direction & Arrangements)
Broadway: Wonderland. Regional: Wonderland (Straz Center), Rob Evan: The Rock Tenor (Wilma Theatre), Altar Boyz (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Assassins (Arden Theatre), Hair and Striking 12 (Prince Music Theatre), The Music of Frank Wildhorn and world premieres of Waiting For The Moon and The Seduction of Sheila Valentine (Lenape Regional PAC), Ford’s Theatre’s gala concert of The Civil War at National Theatre (featuring Clay Aiken, Trisha Yearwood, BeBe Winans, Hal Holbrook, Dr. Maya Angelou). Album coordination: Linda Eder: Now (Sony Masterworks), Jekyll & Hyde: Resurrection (GlobalVision Records), Linda Eder: Storybook (EMI/Angel Records), Linda Eder: Broadway My Way (Atlantic Records), Wonderland (concept album), Tears of Heaven (concept album), Dracula (concept album). Nick is executive assistant to Frank Wildhorn, composer of the Broadway musicals Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War, Dracula: The Musical, Victor/Victoria, Wonderland, and Bonnie & Clyde.

Matt Cusack (Bass)
Matt is a musician, actor, composer, and writer hailing from the beautiful state of New Jersey. As an actor and musician he's been a part of two broadway national tours, the John Doyle production of Sweeney Todd, and Beauty and the Beast. He spent six months in London working with Decca records (UMG) on a Jazz project, and has just released an album of original songs with his band William Gruff (williamgruff.com). Additionally, Matt's first full length musical "Life, Love, and Happiness" was selected as a finalist in the New Jersey Playwrights Contest.

Brian Adler (Percussion)
Drummer, percussionist and composer, Brian Adler studied at the New England Conservatory and has performed around the world at venues including Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (New York), Thelonious (Buenos Aires), the Ear Shot Jazz festival (Seattle), and Passinger Fabrik (Munich). In 2003, he founded Prana Trio, a group drawing from the ancient/sacred texts of Rumi, Hafiz, Lao Tzu, Kabir, Kukai, Issa and others. Prana Trio has released three critically acclaimed albums: The Singing Image of Fire (2010), Pranam (2006) and After Dark (2004). Brad Walseth of Jazz Chicago writes, "With finger on the pulse of humanity, Prana Trio speaks of the universality of poetry and music across many cultures." Adler's most recent endeavor, the Helium Music Project, is an ongoing global collaboration with dozens of musicians releasing music through a series of phases. His music has also been used in films and featured at the South by Southwest film festival. Adler's musical theater credits include You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Broadway Benefit for Make a Wish Foundation), West Side Story (Light House Theater Productions), Anything Goes (Harlequin Theater Company) as well as others. He also played drums in the show band for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.