Tania Katan – Playright/Performer: Tania writes about life…and her life is quite a story. Her critically acclaimed book My one Night Stand with Cancer has been adapted into the stage production Saving Tania's Privates. It's a touching memoir of her struggle with breast cancer and her genuine take on a few more of life’s little

surprises. As a playwright, Tania’s plays have been seen at Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Circle Repertory Theatre, Theatre of N.O.T.E., and other venues throughout the U.S. She has received the American College Theatre Festival Award in Playwriting as well as the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award, among others. She also pens her own brand of personal narrative comedy and performs nationwide at such venues as Comedy Central’s Sit-n-Spin and the Painted Bride Art Center. Tania is also a regular contributor to The Advocate and has been interviewed by editors at the New York Times, Bust, Running Times, DIVA, MAMM, VelvetPark and other international publications.

Tania, originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., now lives in Phoenix with her girlfriend, Angela.

Carys Kresny – Director: Carys has created work for stages ranging from  A Christmas Carol  on a tabletop to Opening Day in Giants Stadium with the Cal Marching Band and 59 jugglers.She has collaborated with a diverse range of performers and producers, among them opera singers, jugglers, juvenile detainees, jazz musicians, inanimate objects, actors, and children.   Past experience includes directing the Flying Karamazov Brothers in the Berkeley production of L’Universe and in Catch! which originated here at A Contemporary Theater and toured nationwide.  She’s worked with Seattle playwrights on productions such as Keri Healy’s Penetralia and the Webster/ Bret Fetzer version of The Changeling.  Her production of Cymbeline for Wooden O received a Footlight Award for “Best Local Shakespeare.”  Other past productions include The Cherry Orchard,  As You Like It,  Camino Real, Endgame, Ruthless!,  Top Girls, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.  She has created ensemble-generated work with both professional and amateur groups.   Carys has taught and directed at Cornish College of the Arts, the University of Washington, Broadway Bound, Taproot Theater, Highline and Olympic Community Colleges, Northwest Actors’ Studio, and The Annie Wright School.  She spent her formative years in Las Vegas, Nevada in a house at the edge of the desert and grew up believing that she was going to become an oceanographer.

AJ Epstein Producer and Lighting Designer: In 1997 AJ Epstein and Tania Katan made a show together for the first time when they conjured up the infamous Holiday? Schmoliday! AJ is based in Seattle, where his company, The Ethereal Mutt – Limited produces theatre and indie film with an eye towards the exploration of Science through Art. In 1995, AJ presaged the webcam revolution with the broadcast of the world premiere production of Rich Howard’s Cowboys in Love: The Hank Plowplucker Story live to the Internet. 5 People watched. More recently as producer: The Flying Karamazov Brothers’: L’Universe; Starball, A Dreamy Musical Astronomy Show; Brent or Brenda?; An Oak Tree. Executive Producer of Guy Maddin’s new film The Brand Upon the Brain! His work as a designer has been seen in theatres nationwide. He sits on the boards of The Lark Center for Play Development in New York and Humanities Washington. He studied with Mabou Mines and toured with AC/DC, Rod Stewart and the Eagles.

Richard Lorig – Scenic Design: Rick is a freelance scenic designer whose recent work includes Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Taproot Theatre, Travesties at Seattle Public Theatre and Monteverdi’s L'Incoronazione di Poppea with the Early Music Guild. Additionally, he has designed for Village Theatre, Empty Space, Tacoma Actor's Guild, Exchange Theatre, Bathhouse Theatre, NWAAT, Alice B. and Childsplay Inc. Rick has also worked as an exhibit and display designer and has authored a children’s book with his wife, Steffanie. He is currently an instructor and resident designer in the Drama department at Highline Community College in Des Moines, WA.

Robert G. Leigh - Sound Design: Robertrecently returned to the Seattle area after nearly twenty years of directing and teaching at numerous colleges, universities, and theatres in Southern California. Formerly the managing director of the Long Beach Playhouse, he received Dramalogue and Backstage West awards for Outstanding Directing for productions of Tracers, Strange Snow, and Little Malcolm and his Struggle Against the Eunuchs, and the Orange County Reader Outstanding Direction Award for That Which Remains: Beckett Dramaticules. More recent credits include Peer Gynt and The Mail Order Bride at Cornish College of the Arts, The Philadelphia Story at Bellevue Community College, and Laundry and Bourbon and Lonestar at North Seattle Community College. A frequent collaborator with Seattle playwright Edward Mast, Bob is also in post production for Mast’s Conquest, an audio play adapted from Aeschylus’ The Persians and is slated to direct S2, Mast’s political satire of desire and consumerism at the Annex this Spring.  This is his second sound design for longtime colleague Carys Kresny, having collaborated on her production of Gods and Girls, at CHAC last Spring.

Emily Reitman – Production Stage Manager:

Liza Comtois – Associate Producer:Liza has served as dramaturg on the premiere adaptations of Cry the Beloved Country, Giant,Plainsong, Broken for You and The House of the Spirits with Book-It Repertory Theatre, Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963 for First Stage in Milwaukee and Veronica Decides to Die at Freehold Studio/Theatre Lab.  She was production dramaturg for Strawberry Theatre Workshop’s The Life of Galileo, upstart crow’s King John,Vincent in Brixton at ACT Theatre, The Awakening at Book-It and for Intiman Theatre’s Living History program. She also assisted William Berry on Wonderful Town at The 5th Avenue Theatre.  Liza is currently a script evaluator for the Sundance Theatre Program and has participated in the ’04 and ‘05 Theatre Labs as well as attending their White Oak Lab in ‘07.  Her producing credits include Invisible Ink and Project X:  When the Comet Comes for House of Dames Productions (Nikki Appino, Artistic Director).  Other experience includes working with ShadowCatcher Entertainment on Sherman Alexie’s Smoke Signals, the National Performance Network tour of O, Say a Sunset written and composed by Robin Holcomb and as Intiman Theatre’s Artistic Associate for seven years.  She is currently the Associate Producer at Ethereal Mutt - Limited.