KYRA ROBINOV (Lyricist & Librettist)
KYRA ROBINOV (Librettist/Lyricist) Musicals: To Dance: The Legend of Penelope; Catherine; Stand By; Singled Out. Radio Producer/Host: The Ballet Beat (WNYU-FM). Author: “Red Winter” and “The Urge to Rome” (forthcoming in 2016). Tisch School of Film & Television (BA) and Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (MFA). KyraRobinov.com
TIBOR ZONAI (Composer)
Composer/Lyricist/Librettist: THE KEY; TWO WORLDS; and THE MAN WHO LAUGHS. Producer: Children’s CDs. Nominated for FONOGRAM HUNGARIAN MUSIC PRIZE for Best Children’s Album Producer (2005-2008) and WINNER of the award in 2007. Lives and works in Hungary.
JEFF WHITING (Director)
JEFF WHITING (Director) NATIONAL TOUR: Bullets Over Broadway, Young Frankenstein. NEW YORK: Single Wide (NYMF), James Taylor Live (Carnegie Hall). REGIONAL: Chasing Rainbows (World Premiere), Big Fish (Milwaukee), Big. ASSOCIATE CREDITS, BROADWAY: Bullets Over Broadway, The Scottsboro Boys, Hair, Wicked (5th Anniversary), Young Frankenstein, Big Fish. Founder, StageWrite. Artistic Director, Open Jar Institute.
BALINT VARGA (Musical Director/Piano Conductor)
BALINT VARGA (Music Director) is an award winning composer, conductor, music director. US MUSIC DIRECTION CREDITS: Jesus Christ Superstar, The Wiz, Aida, A Little Princess, West Side Story, INTERNATIONAL: I Love You, You're Perfect...! (China Tour), Oliver! (France), Jekyll and Hyde (Austria), Chess (Hungary), Roman Polanski's Dance of the Vampires (Hungary/Belgium/Russia). Berklee College of Music Grad (composition/conducting). Proud member of BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. balintvarga.com
RALPH STAN LEE* (Stage Manager)
RALPH STAN LEE* (Stage Manager) NEW YORK: Second Stage Theater (Whorl Inside A Loop, Invisible Thread), Classical Theatre of Harlem (Dutchman, The Tempest), Disaster Off-Broadway. NATIONAL TOURS: Nice Work If You Can Get It, Dreamgirls, A Christmas Story, Hello, Dolly! starring Sally Struthers, The Hip Hop Nutcracker (Russia).
KIM MARIE JONES (TRU Tech Director)
KIM MARIE JONES (TRU Tech Director) has over 20 years experience in theater as an AEA Stage Manager, Tech Director, Production Manager, and Casting Assistant. Alumnae of St. John's University and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
ADAM BONCZ (Producer)
ADAM BONCZ (Producer) Born and raised in Hungary, Adam is the Founder of SceneHouse Productions, a company dedicated to enriching the New York stage and film scene by introducing new, Eastern European works. Recently he produced the world premiere of Fatelessness based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész (NY Innovative Theatre Awards Nomination). Adamboncz.com
HALLE MORSE (Producer/Assistant Director)
HALLE MORSE (Producer/Assistant Director) is a professional actress with Broadway, National Tour, and TV credits. She has stage managed Off-Broadway (The Public Theater, National Black Theatre, etc.) and currently works for the General Management office of Hamilton: An American Musical, where she manages the infamous Ham4Ham lottery. UPCOMING: Stage Managing Martha Redbone’s Bone Hill at Lincoln Center. Hallemorse.com
ELYSE SHOLK (Producer)
ELYSE SHOLK (Producer) is an Executive Producer at Mightee Shero Productions, a social enterprise committed to telling the stories of women and girls, and providing an artistic platform for effecting change. Producing credits include Here To Be Seen: Women and Justice (Brooklyn DA), The Vagina Monologues (Taconic Correctional Facility and Cherry Lane Theatre). B.S. Economics, The Wharton School. M.S.Ed., University of Pennsylvania.
*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.
Actors' Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance the careers of its members by negotiating wages, working conditions, and providing a wide range of benefits (health and pension included). #EquityWorks www.actorsequity.org