Born: Hopkinsville, KY • Raised: Salem, OR • College: NYU Tisch School of the Arts, BFA • Most Recent Role: "Dex" in the U.S. premiere of Irvine Welsh's (author of Trainspotting) play You'll Have Had Your Hole for the Boomerang Theatre Company at the NY International Fringe Festival. • Day Job: Accounts Payable department of Starlite Media LLC. • Time in NYC: Seven years (four in school and three out) • Dream Gig: Playing "Hamlet" at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. "Also, a job on a television drama or something." • Me in 3 Words: Intense, Playful, Open. •On Acting: "I love learning something new every time I go to work."

Born: Los Angeles, CA • Raised: DesMoines, IA • College: B.A. Journalism, University of Iowa; MFA Stage Management, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of Arts. • Most Recent Gig: Production Stage Manager for the National Tour of Rent 2001-2004. • Time in NYC: Four years. • Favorite Thing About My Job: "I love my job. It changes enough to keep things interesting and stimulates my creativity/imagination." • Least Favorite: "Telling people to be on time." • First Gig: 1995. 25 years-old. The project was Dog Breath. "A friend asked me to be her stage manager and I said, 'Sure, if you teach me.' I knew immediately this was going to be my career." • Other Theatrical Interests: "I am rare -- I have never wanted to do anything but stage manage." • On Theatre: "It is real. It's so close to you that you can touch it -- and let it touch you."

Born: Massachusetts. • Raised: Virginia • College: Longwood College in Farmville, VA. • Chosen Career: Playwright. • Day Job: "It's difficult to keep up with my 'day job.' My schedule is a little different every day and night. I teach yoga four times a week, spinning (yes, on a bike) once a week, and toning twice a week. I tutor. I direct two plays a year at the Browning School for Boys. I write a newsletter for a WISTA, a Women's International Shipping and Trading Association, four times a year. Though it doesn't meet daily, I'm active with the National Coalition Building Institute, which is an important part of my life. This organization works to build bridges between groups. I feel lucky that as an artist, I enjoy my 'day job'--all of them. I find that there's huge overlap in everything that I do, and my 'day jobs' influence my playwriting. There's no doubt about it. It's all about seaching for and trying to bring more peace and more hope into a world that sometimes doesn't feel peaceful or hopeful. And it's the small moments that make it worthwhile--a woman who says she used deep relaxation to relax during a cat scan; students who say working on your play was the most important influence of their year--things like that."

College: North Carolina School of the Arts. • Time in NYC: 3 years. • Recent Credits: Production Stage Manager and Assistant Lighting Designer for Sean Curran Dance Company. Also the lighting design for Palissimo's Blind Spot at the Chashama Theatre on 42nd Street. • Other New York Credits: Urban Stages, The Looking Glass Theatre, The West End Theatre, The Present Theatre Company and The Brooklyn Lyceum. • Day Job: "When not designing, I am usually working at The New 42nd Street Studios and the Duke on 42nd Street, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Jewish Community Center, and The Roundabout Theatre Company."

Born and Raised: Minneapolis, MN • College: Emerson College in Boston. • Most Recent Role: "Cynthia" in Matter, "...which I wrote and produced with One Arm Red and Woman Alone Theatre Co., of which I am Artistic Director. Matter is about psychogenic fugue and post-traumatic-stress-disorder and the struggle to face personal demons." • Day Job: Cocktail Waitress at a sports bar "...serving drunk professional men who ask how much it would be to have sex with me." • Time in NYC: Almost 2 years. • Dream Gig: "Hedda" in Hedda Gabler or a lead character on a TV show in the same vein as Will & Grace. "I would love to work with the LAByrinth Theatre Company, who have produced some of the most honest, compelling work I've ever seen." • First Gig: "I started acting when I was 7 in a school drama class -- an improv of Watership Down. I felt as if the lights had been turned on inside of me." • Miscellaneous: "I'm also a member of Present Tense Theatre Project and Algonquin Productions."

Born and Raised: Holyoke, Massachusetts. • College: Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. •  Most Recent Gig: Milk Can Theatre Company's SHU: Resolutions - writer and director. • Day Job: Membership Services Administrator at the Entertainment Services & Technology Association - ESTA, the North American Trade Association for the entertainment technology industry. • Time in NYC: 19 years. "After meeting and working with company members of Mabou Mines Theatre Company during my last semester at Hampshire I was invited to join the group as an intern for a year. So I packed my bags and boarded an Amtrak to the Big City - never looked back!" • Other Theatrical Skills: "A jack of all trades - I have acted, written, designed, directed, managed and produced for the theatre in New York City. I have a strong background in technical theatre and administration from marketing to box office - I have used these talents wisely and thus have had continual paychecks that have prevented me from being homeless or from working in a food service field." • Me in 3 Words: Loyal, Lethal, Absurd • First Gig: "I grew up amidst a community theatre environment - both of my parents were heavily involved in local theatre and actually ran a community based company for most of my formable years - so as a children my sisters, brother and I would do our homework in the back of the house while rehearsals were in progress - we were also employed as extras when ever we could fit into the story line - I have a picture of my first acting part - my sisters and myself as waifs with a live goat in a scene from Tea House of the August Moon - I don't remember much of the experience except that the goat smelled."

Born and Raised: Los Angeles area • College: University of Arizona in Tucson, BFA Musical Theatre • Most Recent Role: "Mala," the courtesan, in the workshop production of SIDD, the musical at Manhattan Theatre Source. Based on the Hermann Hesse novel, Siddhartha. • Day Job: Jewelry Designer. • Time in NYC: "I woke up one Thursday morning in the final week of Me & My Girl in L.A. and my first thought was, 'What the hell am I doing here????' So, I leaped off the sofa (I was staying at a friend's house during the run) and got on the computer and bought a one-way ticket to move to NY a week later. I left everything familiar -- my family, a boyfriend, what was my HOME to be here. And from the day I got here, it was as if all the stars were aligned! For the first time in my life, I felt like I made the right decision at exactly the right moment. I will never move back. I absolutely love NY!" • Dream Gig: "Kate Monster/Lucy T. Slut" in Avenue Q and "Millie" in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Also, "Rosalind" in As You Like It and "Isabella" in Measure for Measure. • Me in 3 Words: Real, Wacky, Sweet • First Show: FAME. • Other Skills: "For a while I considered pursuing a recording career. I was going to go the country route and wrote a ton of country songs. The guy who was interested in signing me wanted me to do mainstream stuff and I wasn't interested -- what the hell was I thinking?!" • The Negative: "The rejection and competition is still alive in this profession. I also hate that I am constantly forced to be a toothpick. I wish we could all be judged solely on our talent -- but that will never happen, unfortunately. So, diet, diet, diet. Being Italian, that is definitely my least favorite part of this profession."

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Born and Raised: Texas. • College: Texas Women's University. • Most Recent Project: Dr. Tedrow's Last Breath -- "...a show so beautifully touching, I got chills each show." • Day Job: Bookstore Manager/Order Department Manager at Samuel French. "I order plays and try to keep them in stock." • Time in NYC: "I've been here since January. I moved here with my family to work in theatre. On my daughter's first day here (she joined me and my husband after a month), I had to drive the livery car we were in through a busy intersection when the driver got out to direct traffic." • Dream Gig: "Just working on shows that I feel passionate about. That's what makes me the most happy." • Me in 3 Words: I like Twinkies. • Favorite Thing About Theatre: "It's never the same old thing. Always changing and evolving." • Negative: "It pisses me off that the arts aren't funded enough and that there are theatres that get flooded and scooping out water was my own private hell."

Born and Raised: NYC. (Attended Bronx High School of Science) • College: Notre Dame • Most Recent Role: "Mrs. Palmer" in Teen Thriller -- the mother of two spoiled, troubled teens, who was popping pills to achieve a constant high state of cheerful enthusiasm. • Brush With Fame: "I interviewed George Clooney here in a hotel last year and the camera kept rolling when it was finished and they caught him squeezing my arm. I still have the tape!" • Other Skills: "I write. I've written lots of sketches and mini-plays -- including an eight-week episodic "black comedy" series. I am working on a play and a screenplay." • Favorite Gig: Cucaracha Theatre's Underground Soap. "This was a weekly series (comic soap opera) that took place in an everchanging space. I got to play a high paid prostitute with a heart of Gold." • Dream Gig: "A sitcom where I would be able to be part of the writing team and maybe get a chance to direct episodes as well." • Extra: "I LOVE THIS BUSINESS!"

Membership: Nick is a member of the Dramatists Guild, an artistic associate at the Milk Can Theatre Co., and a member of Mu Phi Epsilon, the professional music fraternity. •  Milk Can Credits: Sound design and/or original music for Twelfth Night and The Joshua Tree, a ten-minute musical which was part of "The Receipt Plays."  • Upcoming Gig: This spring, Nick will be composing original music for Milk Can's Mushroom in Her Hands.

Awards and Membership: Anne is a two time Albee Foundation Fellow. She is an award winning and published playwright. She has been a Guest Artist at the Julliard School, Playwright-in-Residence at the William Inge Theatre Festival, and is a Milk Can Artistic Associate. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Born and Raised: Allentown, PA (like the Billy Joel song). • College: Long Island University. • Most Recent Gig: Damnee Manon, Sacree Sandra by Michele Tremblay. "It was my directing honors thesis at college for the Post Theatre Company.   It was by far the most challenging show that I've ever tackled directorially, but extremely beautiful and giving." • Time in NYC: About 2 months.   "I came to continue my work in theatre, and I stay (and probably always will) because even though I've traveled to a lot of places around the world, New York is absolutely my favorite place on earth even though I got hit by a car 2 weeks after I got here. That was kind of funny." • Me in 3 Words: Intuitive, Expressive, Independent. • Dream Gig: "To have a theatre company where I can direct new work that I feel is important to put into the world and work that I feel passionate about." • First Gig: "I started in theatre in Jr. High as an actor.   When I encountered directing my senior year of High School I kind of knew that it's what I wanted to do, the show was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum." • What I love about Theatre: "Theatre is immediate, it is art that changes the world and demands responsibility from everyone involved: actors, director, production team, and audience." • Negative: "How commercial it has become.   Theatre should be about the work, not only about the money."

Born: Long Island. • School: SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theater Arts and Film. • Time in NYC: 1 year. • Most Recent Gig: Metamora at The Metropolitan Playhouse. • First Gig: Big River at age 16. • Dream Gig: "A major play on Broadway, I'm not a big fan of musicals in their standard format." • Other Theatrical Skills: Lighting Design • Me in 3 Words: Hard Working Designer • Day Job: Scenic Designer. (Lucky Boy!) • What Makes Theatre Special to You: "The people and the lifestyle. I love the collaborative process."

Born: Oceanside, Long Island. • Raised: "I moved to Plano, Texas when I was ten because my dad's company relocated." • College: B.A. in theatre arts at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY • Most Recent Role: "Mariana" in Measure for Measure and "Margaret" in Much Ado About Nothing in rep at Riverside Shakespeare Festival in Iowa City. • Day Job: "Senior Secretary" at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health (Department of Epidemiology).   "I assist the Department Administrator, and that includes everything from copying/faxing/answering phones to helping to put grant proposals together for our faculty members and maintaining personnel databases and directories.   The highlight is that my commute is about a 3-minute walk, and I don't have to cross any streets on the way!" • Time in NYC: 4 years. • Dream Gig: "I would love to be a resident company member with a regional theatre like American Players Theatre or Oregon Shakes and just do really good work with really good people and be paid a living wage to do so--simple as that." • Me in 3 Words: Introspective, Energetic, Curious. • Favorite Thing About Acting: "Catharsis.   The challenge of inhabiting an emotional/physical/psychological world that may be very different from your own, along with the satisfaction that comes with achieving it, I find very freeing and therapeutic.   That, and it's a helluva lot of fun." • Least favorite: "It doesn't pay very well, at least so far!   And auditioning pretty much sucks, at least the monologue part of it.   I've never been good at delivering monologues into space or to a wall.   It's artificial, and in my opinion, not a very good measure of who can act and who can't." • On Theatre: "It's enticingly elusive.   Whatever happens on stage or between the audience and the actors during any one performance will never happen that way again.   Theatre refuses to be pinned down or captured for posterity.   It lives and breathes at a particular moment in a particular time and then vanishes.   It helps you learn to let go of things."