Ariana Reines (Playwright) is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, FenceBooks: 2006) and Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007) . Two volumes of translation, My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire (Mal-O-Mar), and a collection of texts by Grisélidis Réal (Semiotext(e)), will appear in 2009. Writing and translations have appeared in Soft Targets, The Open Face Sandwich, Lacanian Ink, and other places. She will be Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in Spring 2009. TELEPHONE is her first play.

Ken Rus Schmoll (Director) Credits include Anne Washburn’s The Internationalist (Vineyard Theatre; 13P) and October/November (EST Marathon), Rob Handel’s Aphrodisiac (Long Wharf Theatre; 13P) and Millicent Scowlworthy (SPF), Jenny Schwartz’s Cause for Alarm (NY Fringe) and God’s Ear (Cornell University), Jordan Harrison’s Amazons and Their Men (Clubbed Thumb), Kristen Kosmas’s Hello Failure (PS 122), Kate E. Ryan’s Mark Smith (13P), Anton Dudley’s Honor and the River (NY Stage and Film; SPF), Erin Courtney’s Demon Baby (Clubbed Thumb), Kim Kefgen and Loren Noveck’s Girl Blog from Iraq (The Culture Project), Ethan Lipton’s Meat (ATA), and Hedda Sjögren’s Glauke är idag and Mina violer, din mustasch (Teater Giljotin, Stockholm, Sweden). Coming up: Ann Marie Healy’s What Once We Felt (About Face Theatre).

Matthew Dellapina (Watson) Off-Broadway/New York: Gone Missing (Barrow Street Theatre), The Parrot (Flea Theater), I Am Nobody’s Lunch (59E59), The Angel Project (Lincoln Center Festival), Like I Say (Bat Theater Compay), and Shakespeare’s Pericles (SLANT Theatre Project).  Regional/International: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Playhouse, Pittsburgh City Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Sundance Institute, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Chautauqua Theatre Company, Edinburgh Festival, London’s Soho Theatre. Associate Artist of The Civilians.  TV/Film: “Law & Order,”  Proud Iza (Accolade, Boston Film Festivals).

Gibson Frazier (Bell): Off Broadway: God's Ear (The Vineyard, New Georges); The Internationalist (The Vineyard, 13p); Heddatron (Les Freres Corbusier); Eat The Taste (The Barrow Street Theatre).  Associate Artist: The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb.  Regionally: Changes of Heart (Mark Taper); Rough Crossing (w/ Tony Randall); Death of a Salesman (w/ Jack Klugman).  Television: Law & Order Trilogy; Ed; Titus.  Film: Illusion (w/ Kirk Douglas), Man of the Century (also co-writer/producer, Excellence in Independent Filmmaking by National Board of Review), Yellow.  Upcoming: Floating Underground (also writer/director).

Birgit Huppuch (Miss St.): NY credits include SPRINKLER (Drama League DirectorFest), SA KA LA (Oslo Elsewhere), WOMEN OF TRACHIS (Target Margin), MOURN THE LIVING HECTOR (NY Fringe 2008/PL115), TAKE TEN (59E59/Theater Masters), HAYMARKET (Alchemy Theatre Co. of Manhattan), SCAPIN (NY Classical Theatre). Readings at the Public, NYTW, Classic Stage, New Dramatists, Little Theatre/Dixon Place, Urban Stages, Prelude Festival.  Regional work includes performing with Pig Iron Theatre Company (title role in ISABELLA and PAY UP).

Marsha Ginsberg (Set Designer)

Carol Bailey (Costumes) has been commissioned to design costumes and scenery by various companies including: Target Margin Theater, Mai Yi Theater, the Juilliard School; Gotham Chamber Opera; Spoleto USA Festival; Alliance Theater; the Royal Danish Opera; New York City Opera; Glimmerglass Opera; Opera Zuid, the Netherlands; San Francisco Opera Center; Pittsburgh Opera; Skylight Opera Theater; Wolf Trap Opera; Long Beach Opera; L'Opèra Français de New York; Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Festival, Ailey/Citicorp Theater.

Tyler Micoleau (Lights) Assorted New York credits: Sixty Miles To Silver Lake, Blasted (Soho Rep); God’s Ear (Vineyard Theatre); 1001 (P73), Disfarmer (St. Ann's Warehouse); Basic Training, Orson’s Shadow, Eat the Taste, Bug (Barrow Street Theater); Underneath the Lintel (Soho Playhouse). Regional: Dallas Theater Center, The Old Globe, Trinity Rep, Shakespeare Theater, American Repertory Theatre and Long Wharf Theater. Awards: Off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Award, a Village Voice OBIE, the Connecticut Critics Circle award. Education: BA, Bowdoin College.

Matt Hubbs (Sound) has recently designed Architecting with the TEAM, 1001 at Mixed Blood Theatre, 613 Radical Acts of Prayer for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, and 100 Saints You Should Know at Playwrights Horizons.  As an associate designer, he has recently worked at MTC's Friedman Theatre, the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, and The Public Theater.  He has also toured with SITI Company and the rachel’s band. He received his BA in Philosophy as a University Scholar at Xavier University.

The Foundry Theatre was formed in 1994 in New York City as a producing theatre fed by an artists think tank. Led by Co-Artistic Producers Melanie Joseph (founder) and Sunder Ganglani, The Foundry commissions, develops, premieres and tours new theatrical works that merge the exploration of social and political questions with unique theatrical forms. Foundry productions have been recognized with eight Obie Awards and three Drama Desk nominations for "Unique Theatrical Experience." Simultaneously, The Foundry hosts public dialogues that bring artists together with other public thinkers to investigate the workings of a changing polis. These civic dialogues and the artistic works born out of them, brought the Foundry a special OBIE Award citing the company for "creating envelope-pushing work and taking on some of the thorniest issues of the world we inhabit." Most recently The Foundry was honored with the national Peter Zeisler Award in recognition of "innovative practice and dedication to freedom of expression."