RACHEL KERRY (Producer)

Rachel Kerry is an up-and-coming stage director, writer, actor, and multimedia designer. Last fall she staged a 175 person dance in Times Square for Guy Laliberte’s Moving Stars and Earth for Water Benefit Concert. She worked closely with Choreographer Sean Roschman, Cirque du Soleil Creative Director Fernand Rainville and Los Angeles-based production company Control Room to create a performance that was covered by the Associated Press and seen globally. For her work with the multimedia theatre project, Seven Fragments, she received over $12,000 in academic awards as well as the highest accolade given to undergraduates by the institution, the USC Discovery Scholarship Award. She has also she studied at New York University’s Playwrights Horizon Theatre School and The National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney, Australia. Kerry graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in theatre and recognition as a Multimedia Literacy Scholar. www.rachelkerry.com

BENJAMIN MACK (Producer)

Benjamin Mack is a creative consultant specializing in music, film, and video production based out of New York. Some of his recent music production credits include “A2 + B2 = C2”, “PwNiN Halo”, “Let Me Take A Pikachu”, “Entourage Dreamin” (Killa Dem Softly by Jay Kila). “Sellout”, “Private School Anthem”, “Wonder Emporium”, “BHC”, and “Nintendo” (Kila Bros. Vol. 1 by KilaBros). Recent video productions include, “Bad Lunetenant: Port of Call Yosemite” and “Dragonball G”, (RedLabelFilms dir by RedLabelFilms), “Mexican Party Wrestling Night” (sourpatchKID dir. Tarun Hansen) and “Friday Night Frights” (dir. by sourpatchKID). Since 2007 he has been a co-producer for RedLabelFilms production company based in Palo Alto. Currently, he is working in finance while majoring in Media Studies at Hunter College in New York. www.redlabelfilms.com

ASHLEY STEED (Consulting Producer)

Ashley Steed is a producer, writer, and arts advocate. She has worked for several theatre companies in Los Angeles, including Center Theatre Group, Ghost Road Company and Son of Semele Ensemble (of which she is currently a member). She's worked on several projects as an assistant director, most recently White People at the Road and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at the Colony. She's also a writer for LA Stage Times and as a columnist/reviewer for LA Theatre Review. Ashley is a graduate of the University of Southern California where she earned a BA in Theatre with a minor in Cinema and is currently working on her Master's in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. ashleylsteed.blogspot.com

HEATHER J. WEISS (Stage Management Consultant)

Heather J. Weiss is a Stage Manager and Producer. Broadway: Rock of Ages, Next to Normal, A Catered Affair, Company. Off-Broadway: Avenue Q, Altar Boyz, Naked Boys Singing!, Awesome'80s Prom, From Door to Door. NYMF: My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, IDAHO!. NY/Regional:  World Premiere – Disney’s High School Musical 2, A Catered Affair at the Old Globe, Rosie O'Donnell r Family Vacation Cruises, Twilight: LA 1992 at Lincoln Center, Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Gala, numerous Broadway Cares and Artists Striving to End Poverty (A.S.T.E.P.) benefits.  BFA from University of North Carolina School of the Arts.  Proud member Actors’ Equity Association.

SHILOH GOODIN (Choreographer)

Shiloh Goodin is a NYC-based artist, focusing on choreography, performance, and using art to work with kids in need.  Shiloh spent the summer in Southern India, where she taught leadership through dance to leprosy-affected youth. Upon returning she created a pas de duex about the relationship between the American and Indian cultures, contrasting and blending both styles of dance, presented at St Lukes Theatre. One of her favorite dance projects this year was leading 200 professional dancers in a live “spontaneous” dance event in Times Square called Poetic Social Mission, sponsored by Guy La Liberte.  This year, Shiloh also created a pas de duex for singer/songwriter Natekid for his concert “Jafunk Live.” As a performer, she spent last year in Japan working as an aerialist, and has performed all over the country in theatre, most noteably in the national tour of Camelot. With a broad range of experiences in several mediums on both coasts, she is enjoying creating her own work in collaboration with directors and other creatives. Shiloh’s upcoming work will be choreographing and collaborating on a dynamic multimedia solo show for the FRIGID Festival NYC. She earned her Bachelors in Theatre at University of Southern California. Member AEA. www.shilohgoodin.com

JONATHAN HULL (Sound Designer)

Jonathan Hull is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who leads the touring band Momentary Prophets.  They are based in Virginia, but their extensive touring reaches communities as far north as Maine and as far south as Georgia.  He writes arts articles for Norfolk’s alternative news source Alt Daily.  Recently, he has been commissioned to do sound design for theater (Stephen King's Misery) as well as score for film (Gunslinger Grifter Logan.)  Jonathan is a graduate of Christopher Newport University where he received a BA in Music History/Literature, a minor in Anthropology, and a focus on world music and composition.

JAY KILACHAND (Video Designer)

Born and raised in NYC, this fresh new filmmaker takes media to the extreme with break-through ideas and revolutionary concepts. His Jewish and Indian heritage have allowed him to be exposed to a wide mix of the world, and have influenced his urban and hip-hop personality. Jay’s videos and beats can be seen on current.com, greetbeatz.com, letcaliforniaring.com; Jay’s recent video hit LEO STRUT has had 100s of thousands of views on YouTube. Jay graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Film Production. www.youtube.com/jkilaaa

LUKE KANTER (Sound Engineer/Video Operator)

Luke Kanter is a live sound engineer based out of New York and New Haven, CT. He has worked at International Festival of Arts and Ideas and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Notable recent credits include: Sic Industries (dir. Stephen Feigenbaum), Conversations with my Father (dir. Jaime Totti), Carousel (sound designer: Sharath Patel), A Winter's Tale, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Summer & Smoke (sound designer: Sharath Patel). Luke graduated from Yale University with a BA in Film Studies.

TONY LEPORE (Lighting Designer)
Tony Lepore has been working in theatre for the past twelve years as a producer, playwright, tech director, lighting designer, stage manager, and composer/sound designer in dozens of cities worldwide, including New York, Dubai, Edinburgh, Montreal, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Toronto, etc.  As Managing Director of Angry Bubble Productions (est. 1999, NYC), Lepore, along with ABP co-founder Eva Minemar, have been acclaimed for bringing to the stage women’s theatre, including being chosen as the exclusive featured performance for the delegates of the world at the United Nations for International Women’s Day 2001.  Currently, ABP is in pre-production for the new television series, The Ladies Room (Dreyfuss/James Productions).  Recently, ABP produced the La Lupa Italian Cultural Arts Festival in Los Angeles, which featured over fifty artists across theatre, opera, dance, poetry, painting, and photography. www.angrybubbles.com

JIM RAYNER (Set Designer)

Jim Rayner has been an architect and furniture designer for over 35 years. He has donated time and built sets for many theatrical productions for regional and community theatre in Virginia, most notably: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (Mary Folger Shakespeare Festival, DC; dir. Lauren Rayner), Caucasian Chalk Circle (dir. Pamela Ricker) and How to Succeed in Business… (dir. Scott Sophos). He is always happy to help bring his daughter’s work to the stage.

SARAH NEWSWANGER (Creative Collaborator, movement)

Sarah became involved with Mendacity when she helped stage/choreograph it's first staged reading in Los Angeles. Other directing/choreography credits: Vagina Monologues (Studio City), and 4 Girls Are Standing, and The Owl and the Pussycat for Women's Theatre Organization. She is an LA based actor with a BA in Theatre from USC. She also spent some time in London studying classical theatre at BADA. She just wrapped principle photography for an indie feature called Dead Herring that will be making the festival rounds early next year. Welcome Home Kurt, her most recent short film, was runner up for best picture at San Diego's 48 Hour Film Festival. Favorite theatre credits include: Florinda in The Rover (USC Mainstage), Adriana in Comedy of Errors (BADA), Kent in King Lear (dir. Lauren Rayner, WTO), Village in Vagina Monologues (V-Day Studio City), Deborah in A Kind of Alaska (dir. Lauren Rayner, WTO), and Gertrude in Seussical. She is currently represented by Diverse Talent Group. www.sarahnewswanger.com

JOSEPH SAMEUL WRIGHT (Creative Collaborator, words)

Joseph Samuel Wright is an NYC-based playwright, producer, and director. He founded and is the Producing Artistic Director of Roots and Wings Theatrical (www.rawtheatrical.org). His play My Big, Thick Schtick was self-produced at the Shetler Studios Bridge Theatre in July 2010. Additionally, through RaW he has produced three Duct Tape and a Dream festivals of new works, which have included his original shorts Mary, Mary and Mommy Drinkest. RaW also produced his movement play The Mask of Medusa directed by Lauren Rayner in Central Park in October, 2010. Additionally, his play Constellation Nightglow was hosted at the University of Tennessee, and from 2005 – 2007 his LGBT-advocacy play Ours toured campuses in East Tennessee. He has had readings at the Lark Play Development Center, RaW, BE Theater, and is a member of the NyLon Fusion Writers Collective where his one act Uh Fairy Tale is being developed. His play My One and Only was a finalist in the SteppingStone Millennium Playwright Competition. Joseph has interned at New York Theatre Workshop and at the Lark Play Development Center where he continues on as part of their Literary Wing. He also assisted Iris Rainer Dart on two Roundabout workshops of the musical Laughing Matters starring Donna Murphey.  www.josephsamuelwright.com

RYAN SCOBLE (Creative Collaborator, performance)

Ryan Scoble serves as the Board Secretary for Roots and Wings Theatrical. Through this company he has directed Let Me Tell You A Story: Family Style and performed in Let Me Tell You A Story: Drunken Debauchery, Duct Tape and a Dream Festivals 1 & 3, and in The Mask of Medusa (dir. Lauren Rayner). He is also a professional actor and has worked in several shows in New York including Bitty Bear's Matinee: The Family Tree at American Girl Place, Bound for Broadway VIII (Times Center), Broadway's Rising Stars II (Town Hall), and several shows at New York University. He has also performed regionally at the Weathervane Playhouse, Arts Center of Cannon County, and Murfreesboro Little Theatre. He is also a cabaret writer and performer. He has written and performed two shows in New York, Confessions of a True Diva (Barrow Group Theatre) and Sequins, Lame, and Everything Gay...(Bridge Theatre).

GRACE FOLSOM (Creative Collaborator, performance)

Grace Folsom graduated with a BFA from NYU Tisch.  In the upcoming months, Grace will be performing in Philadelphia at ART Underground and filming the feature Things I Don't Understand with director David Spaltro.  She was most recently seen in No Nursery Rhymes Please at the Bridge Theatre, Our Farm at The Tank Theatre, and Cedar City Falls at The Cell and Galapagos Art Space.  Her film Pose was also recently released on DVD.  Grace is trained in interpretation of classical and modern texts, the creation of new work, improvisation, a myriad of different acting techniques, and a basis of ballet and modern dance. www.gracefolsom.com