Cindy Cooper is an award-winning playwright, journalist and author. Her plays have been produced in New York at Primary Stages, the Women’s Project, Wings, Museum of Tolerance, Art and Work Ensemble, New Circle Theatre Company, and elsewhere, and in Chicago, Minneapolis, L.A. Montreal, Jerusalem, Budapest and more. Reviews of Running on Glass last year called the writing “extraordinary” and said “storytelling is, indeed, the mode of Cooper’s script.” Cindy has won awards from Pen and Brush, the Samuel French Play Festival, Malibu International, and is a two-time Jerome Fellow. She is also the author of eight books, including Mockery of Justice, made into a CBS-TV movie; her articles have appeared in Ms., The Nation, Glamour, National Law Journal and more. She lives in New York City. You can read more at her website, cyncooperwriter.net.
Lisa Pelikan, director, recently directed Cindy Cooper’s Heaven Scent, Ed Valentine’s Walk With Bright Candles, Christopher Goutman’s For Your Love, and Lori Goodman’s New Leaf with the New Circle Theatre Company. With the Ensemble Studio Theatre she directed Julia Specht’s Our Love Story Is Not Very Interesting. She received the ADA Best Director Award for her direction of ‘night, Mother for which both her actors were nominated and one received the Best Actress Award with the Interact Theatre Company. As an actor, Lisa made her feature film debut as the young 'Julia' in Fred Zinnemann's Julia sharing the title role with Vanessa Redgrave, her television debut as the ingénue in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Country Girl with Jason Robards and Shirley Knight, and her theatrical debut starring as 'Wendla' in Spring's Awakening with the Circle Repertory Theatre. In New York City, Lisa also starred in the world premieres of Panache, (ADA Award for Best Actress in a Comedy), Jim Leonard's The Diviners, and Arthur Miller’s The American Clock. More at lisapelikan.com
Anna Ewing Bull: Neighborhood Playhouse Graduate & 35 year Member of AEA Theater: NYC Playwrights Horizons: SMALL WORLD, WEIGHT OF THE WORLD, ALL IT TAKES IS SOMETHING SMALL. NagelburgTheatre: Paul Knox's KHALIGHAT. New Circle Theatre Co: Lori Goodman's THE GREAT DEVOURER, Robyn Burland's MADCAP, 2 plays by Edmund Wilkinson, Ed Valentine's CONSUMPTION. Regional: PA - NOISES OFF; NJ Shakespeare Festival: WAR OF THE ROSES, CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, OUR TOWN. Montreal-BROKEN PLACES. Film: DOWN AT THE TRACKS, CRIMES & MISDEMEANORS, NY STORIES. For You, Mom.
Julie Voshell: Theatre: Barrow Group -The Pavilion (NY Times:Voshell is “Dryly Funny”); Origin-8, Fast and Fab, According to the Chorus, Letters to Sala /writer-Arlene Hutton;
BAM - The Beast; New Circle Theatre Company - Entrepreneur/ Writer- Cindy Cooper;B Street- Asher Lev; Bubbles comedy - Nuyorican, Fabaret; Palm Beach. Film: Al B/Eventually Z (lead), Diva, TBG-Ashes, Scary Movie 5; TV: Diabolical , Shadow of Doubt. Julievoshell.com. Luedtke Agency.