DANA LESLIE GOLDSTEIN (Book & Lyrics)

Dana is Playwright-in-Residence of Theater Garden, Ltd., which has produced Equity tours of her plays and musicals throughout the tri-state area. Her work has also been seen at The Cherry Lane Theater, The Culture Project, The Julia Miles Theatre, New Dramatists, Hartford Children’s Theatre, The York Theatre, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center, Center Stage, BMI, Bickford Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, Pulse, Theatre Row Theatre, Jewish Theatre of the South, Gene Frankel Theater, Different Voices, The Lark, Neighborhood Playhouse, WorkShop Theater Company and Pacific Theatre (Vancouver).

Dana’s writing has won the New England New Play Competition, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Prize for Excellence in Playwriting, Different Voices New Play Award, ACTF New Play Award, Henry Hoyns Fellowship in Poetry, AWP Intro Award for Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is the librettist & lyricist for Cyclone (and the Pig-Faced Lady), a new musical which began its development with a Collaboration Initiative Grant from The Women’s Project & Productions.

Dana’s play Next Year in Jerusalem will be produced by The Workshop Theater Company in its 2008-2009 season. Dana is a published poet and playwright and holds MFAs in both Playwriting and Poetry. She has been a lyricist at BMI and a member of the Playwrights’ Lab at The Women’s Project. Dana is a member of The Workshop Theater Company, NewShoe and The Dramatists Guild of America.

JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN (Composer)

Jon’s work has been seen at The Cherry Lane Theatre, The Culture Project, Hartford Children’s Theatre, WorkShop Theater Company, The York Theatre, Helen Hayes Performing Arts Center, Flushing Town Hall and on Equity TYA tours in NY/NJ/CT through Theater Garden. Previous composing credits include Lady of Copper; Enough For All, Spark & The Strangers, and Next Year in Jerusalem. Jon is the author of The Road to Freedom.

ROBERT BRUCE McINTOSH (Director)

Rob is the artistic director of City Lights Youth Theatre, which provides young people from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to participate in theatre experiences in order to develop confidence, responsibility, teamwork, and a greater sense of self and community.

Previously with the Children’s Aid Society, Rob founded and directed the nationally recognized, award-winning Advantage Theatre and Film Program, a comprehensive after-school performing arts program for New York City Junior High School students.

As a senior teaching artist with ENACT Inc., he developed curriculum and trained teaching artists to use theater games and improvisation to teach conflict resolution in New York City classrooms. Rob is also a co-founder of Theater Garden, a non-profit Equity theatre company dedicated to the production of original educational theater that brings history to life for audiences of all ages.

Directing credits include: The Laramie Project, The Crucible, Lady of Copper, The Road to Freedom, Enough for All, First Lady, and Romeo and Juliet. Rob is a member of Actors Equity and The WorkShop Theatre Company. He also juggles knives and flaming torches and rides a unicycle. Rob holds an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University and a BA in Theatre Studies from Emory University.

JOHN BRONSTON (Musical Direction and Vocal Arrangements)

John has worked across the country as a musical director, actor, and teaching artist. His work as a musical director has been featured in the East Coast tours of Enough For All, First Lady, and Lady of Copper for Theater Garden, Celebration for (re:)Directions Theatre in Manhattan, and for productions of Into the Woods, The Wiz, Carousel, and Little Shop of Horrors.

He has also served as the associate/substitute conductor for national tours of Five Guys Named Moe and Smokey Joe’s Cafe for Irving Street Productions. He has served as a teaching artist for City Lights Youth Theatre and the Children’s Aid Society in New York, as an adjunct faculty member at Earlham College, and on the staff of the Dayton Jewish Community Center.

Some of his major performing credits include The Rocky Horror Show (multiple regional productions as Dr. Frank-N-Furter), Hair (multiple regional productions as Hud or Walter), Ain’t Misbehavin (as Man 2), Into the Woods (as Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf), Edward II (Leicester) at the 14th Street Theatre and Cyclone (and the Pig-Faced Lady) at the York Theatre and the National Comedy Theatre in Manhattan.

In addition he has worked as arranger and pianist for cabaret performances with Broadway stars Michael Cerveris, Judy McLane, and Trisha Jeffrey at the Copacabana and the Triad and for special performances with members of the Broadway casts of All Shook Up, Wicked, and A Chorus Line.

LA VIE PRODUCTIONS / R. ERIN CRAIG (General Manager)

Recent credits include: Capture Now (Fall 2008) Rainbow Kiss (The Play Company at 59E59 Theatres) The Jazz Age (59E59 Theatres); 1001 (P73 Productions); Unlock’d ( NYMF 2007); Sherlock Holmes (The Early Years) (NYMF 2007); In The Heights (37 Arts); High Fidelity (Boston / Broadway); Brilliant Mistake: Broadway Sings Elvis Costello (Benefit for Friends in Deed at John Jay College Theatre); Hurlyburly starring Ethan Hawke and Parker Posey (37 Arts); Shockheaded Peter (The Little Shubert Theatre); De La Guarda in Seoul, Korea & Tel Aviv, Israel, NYC and Las Vegas. As La Vie Productions, Ms. Craig, joined by Michele Weathers and Erin Ashland, is dedicated to managing, developing and producing new shows, fostering new talents and attracting new audiences.

THERESA WOZUNK (Producer)

Theresa is an associate producer of Unlock’d, which won the Audience Award at the 2007 NYMF Festival. She also is president of Wozunk-Hester Music Productions, Inc., which operates Music Together of Park Slope and Musical Bridge of Brooklyn, two family music programs. She is a playwright whose works have been seen at WorkShop Theater Company, The Triad, Don’t Tell Mama, SoHo Playhouse, and the Samuel Becket and Harold Clurman theaters (pre-Theater Row redevelopment!)