Isaac Butler (director/producer). As a director: the world premieres of Dan Trujillo's Talk of the Walk-Up, George Hunka's Sustaining, All the Ships at Sea, In Public and In Private, Clay McLeod Chapman's volume of smoke, redbird and positive i.d., the English Language premieres of Line Knutzon's First You're Born and Peretz Hischbein's The Amulet. A proud Vassar College graduate, he was recently a guest artist at Virginia Commonwealth University and is on the Arts Policy Committee for the Barack Obama campaign.

Dan Trujillo (playwright). 2006 – 07 Dramatists Guild fellow; production of Jingle Spree won Portland, OR's Drammy Award for Outstanding Original Script; won the American College Theatre Festival/Playwrights Center Award (Conference With the Bull); workshop of freestyle verse play Talk of the Walk-Up in NYC with Isaac Butler; received M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University and the Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting; member, The Dramatists Guild and Playwrights Gallery (NYC).

Abe Goldfarb (Abe) studied drama at the Bristol Old Vic, and has worked with such companies as the Jean Cocteau Rep, Studio 42, elsewhere, theatre minima and The Pumpkin Pie Show. He is, with Brian Silliman, co-founder of the Royal Circus. Favorite roles include the Frontman in Hostage Song, Pistol in Henry V, Arthur in In Public, Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera, the Mascot in Junta High and Jaques in As You Like It.

Daryl Lathon (Daryl). New York: Revenger's Tragedy (Red Bull Theatre), The Pumpkin Pie Show: Le Petit Morte (FringeNYC), Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing (Pearl Theatre) and several plays directed by Isaac Butler, including George Hunka's In Public, Clay McLeod Chapman's volume of smoke and Dan Trujillo's Talk of the Walk-Up. Regional: appeared in Henry V, Coriolanus, King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theater, Washington, DC).

JenniferGordonThomas (Jen) is an actor/director living in Brooklyn. She has worked previously with Mr. Bulter on in public at Manhattan Theatresource. Last seen in Mac Rogers' Universal Robots, which will be remounted in february of '09 film Millennium Crisis, Themes and Intermissions.

David Hanlon (composer) is a pianist and composer living in Houston. This past year, he served as principle coach for the world premiere of Chris Theofanidis's The Refuge at Houston Grand Opera, coaching a range of musicians including opera soloists, sitar players and Nigerian choirs. This fall, he continues at HGO as a studio artist. David previously served as musical director of the Rapid Response Team in the summer of 2006

Wes Matthews (keyboardist) is a pianist and composer whose works have been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, among others. A recent transplant to New York, he is currently working on forming his own group and continuing work with the East Coast Composers Ensemble. Wes has taken part in residencies at the Wellesley Composers Conference, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Virginia Commonwealth University.

Sabrina Braswell (lighting designer). Previous lighting design credits include Waterwell's The Persians (Under St. Mark's, Perry St. Theater), many different iterations of The Pumpkin Pie Show, including Ringside Seats at The Belt and Junta High at PS 122, The Debate Society's A Thought About Raya at The Red Room and The Amulet, volume of smoke and In Public, directed by Isaac Butler.

Sydney Maresca (costume designer) recently designed costumes for volume of smoke and The Amulet, both directed by Isaac Butler. Other costuming credits include The Debate Society's The Eaten Heart, A Thought About Raya and The Snow Hen. Sydney is also part of the The Hazzards, New York's baddest ukulele band.

Celia Rowlson-Hall (choreographer) is a 2006 graduate from the North Carolina School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in contemporary dance. She has presented her choreography at Lincoln Center Clark Theater, DanceNow Festival at Dance Theater Workshop, Dance New Amsterdam, Theater for the New City, Dixon Place, Manhattan Theater Source, Ailey Citi-Group Theater, Abingdon Theater, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Times Square Arts Center, Studio B, Hiro Ballroom and New York Fashion Week.

Jaime Green (associate producer/dramaturge) is the literary associate at MCC Theater, where she works as a dramaturge with the writers of MCC's Playwrights' Coalition, including Mark Schultz, Adam Bock, Itamar Moses and Kathryn Walat. She also is the dramaturge for MCC's Youth Company Playwrighting Lab, which is run by Lucy Thurber. Outside of MCC, Jaime is artistic director of Temporary Theatre Company and a producer with the Old Vic/New Voices 24 Hour Plays.

Anne Love (co-producer for elsewhere) is a producer/member of elsewhere. Over the past five years, Anne has served in various theatrical marketing, general management and producing capacities, most recently as the associate general manager at The Splinter Group, where she oversaw such projects as Christine Jorgensen Reveals (2006 Drama Desk Award winner, Unique Theatrical Experience) and the National Alliance for Musical Theater's 17th Annual Festival of New Musicals. Anne is a proud graduate of Virginia Tech,

elsewhere (producing company). Founded in 2007 by Isaac Butler and Anne Love, elsewhere is dedicated to creating the environment where new plays can flourish. Their previous production volume of smoke performed in March of 2007 at the 14th Street Y Theater. Forthcoming projects include a series of commissioned radio plays and an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's Their Back Pages.