Bradford Louryk (Christine Jorgensen).  Selected NY Theater: Klytaemnestra's Unmentionables at HERE, Clay McLeod Chapman's redbird and Rob Grace's The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark at The Culture Project for Studio 42, the American Premiere of First You're Born at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons, Jewish Mothers (also by Clay McLeod Chapman) for the Culture Project's Women Center Stage Festival, New Georges' ManFest, in which he performed his Elektra, and, most recently, his solo play Christine Jorgensen Reveals at 59E59 Theaters in July and at The Assembly Rooms at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August.  With director Josh Hecht, performer Jack Ferver, and writers Mike Albo, David Grimm, Lisa Kron, Bryony Lavery, Wendy MacLeod, Theresa Rebeck, and Kate Robin, he is currently developing Version Mary, his latest performance piece.  In May 2005, Bradford was a finalist for PS122's inaugural Ethyl Eichelberger Award.  He is a founding member of Studio 42 (for whom he served as Artistic Director from 2001 through 2005) and continues to sit on its Board of Directors, a founding member of The Starving Artists Award Fund (and two-time Co-Chair of The Starving Artists Ball), and the newest addition to The Vineyard Theater's SpringBoard.  BA: Vassar.

Josh Hecht (Director) has most recently staged new works by Bob Morris (MCC), Theresa Rebeck (Slant), John Guare (MCC), Victor Lodate (O'Neill Playwrights Conference), Winter Miller (13P), Ann Marie Healy (Ontological), Itamar Moses (MCC), Ross Maxwell (EST), and Joe Hortua (NY Fringe -- Best in Fringe), in addition to readings at Primary Stages, The New Group, New Dramatists, Rattlestick, The Directors Company, New Georges, and many others.  In development: Version Mary a performance piece created with writers Bryony Lavery, Theresa Rebeck, Wendy MacLeod, Kate Robin, Lisa Kron, David Grimm, and Mike Albo and performance artists Bradfrod Louryk and Jack Ferver; and Something's Wrong with Amandine with playwright Winter Miller and composer Lance Horne.  Upcoming:  Megan Mostyn-Brown’s Girl at the Cherry Lane Theatre, April 06.  Affilliations: SoHo Rep Writers/Directors Lab, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Wooster Group (observership, '02-'03).  Josh is the former Director of Playwright Development at MCC.

Rob Grace (Mr. Russell) is an actor, playwright and comedian.  His New York credits include the American premiere of First You’re Born, The Bakkhai, which he performed with the internationally-acclaimed Black Moon Theater Company, and the role of God in his play, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. He won the Marilyn Swartz Seven Playwriting Award for his plays Paper Hearts and Suffern.  His plays have been produced at HERE, New Georges’ Manfest, and the Culture Project Main Stage. He is a member of After School Special, a sketch comedy group that performs at the Comedy Central Stage in Los Angeles. 

Wilson Chin (Set Design).  New York: The Dear Boy (Second Stage) Joy (Actors’ Playhouse), Holy Cross Sucks! (Ars Nova, sets and costumes), Boise (Rattlestick), Golden Age (Tobacco Bar), Say You Love Satan (FringeNYC), Dido and Aeneas (New York Chamber Opera).  Regional: Iron Kisses (Geva Theatre), Cyrano (Weston Playhouse), Rough Magic (Hangar Theatre), Breath, Boom (Yale Rep), A Streetcar Named Desire (Yale Drama School), L’italiana in Algeri (Berkeley Opera).  MFA: Yale School of Drama (Oenslager Travel Fellowship Award).  www.wilsonchin.com

Josh Bradford (Lighting Design). Recent designs include The Bald Soprano and The Lesson, Arrangements and The Hiding Place for the Atlantic Theater, Sin: A Cardinal Deposed and A Likely Story for The New Group, and The Breadwinner, Outward Bound, Pyretown, The Hasty Heart and Pullman Car Hiawatha for Keen Company.  Josh also serves as the Resident Lighting Designer for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Playwrights and Cabaret Conferences.   He began studying design at Middlebury College and holds an MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts

Robert Kaplowitz (Sound Design) has worked on a couple hundred new plays as a composer and/or dramaturgically driven sound designer.  Favorites include: Tracy Scott Wilson’s The Story at the Public (Lortel Nomination), The Jo Alder/Mabou Mines residency of Request Concert, Kia Corthron’s Light, Raise the Roof at NYTW, Emily Mann’s Meshugah for Naked Angels, Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig for MCC, and Yasmin Godder’s Hall at the Kitchen.  He spent five years as the resident sound designer at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference (2000-2004), is the Producing Artistic Director for Relentless Theatre Company, and dedicates this, and all of his work, to KMO.

     Mary Ping (Costume Design) graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Art at Vassar College, and spent a year in London attending the London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martin’s, and working with Robert Cary-Williams.  Ping apprenticed in the design studios of Han Feng and Anna Sui and the history-laden halls of the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute as a research assistant. She launched her eponymous label in 2001. In 2004 Ping was awarded the prestigious Ecco Domani award for womenswear and presented her most accomplished collection at Lincoln Center.

Kevin R. Frech (Video Design). Selected credits included: Video Designer, Shrinkage Manhattan Theater Source; Video Designer, Nerds, New York Musical Theater Festival; Associate Video Designer, The Regard Evening with Bill Irwin, The Signature Theater; Intrigue With Faye, MCC Theater; Trumbo, Westside Theater; Blue Man Group: Live At Luxor, Luxor Theater, Las Vegas.  His documentary on the connection between trendy restaurants and gentrification on skid row, Bowery Dish, just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. He is delighted to be working with Josh and all of The Splinter Group on this show. 

Christie Evangelisto (Dramaturg) is the Associate Literary Manager at Playwrights Horizons, where she oversees the Musical Theatre division of the Literary department. She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama and a BA in Dramatic Literature, Theater History, and Cinema from NYU. In Washington, DC, Christie worked as the Dramaturg/Associate Literary Manager at The Studio Theatre and as a dramaturg and writer with the Washington National Opera, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. She is on the selection committee for the O'Neill Music Theater Conference and is a consultant with The Shuman Company in LA. Christie has most recently worked on plays by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Rolin Jones, and Rey Pamatmat, as well as the new musicals Grey Gardens and Broadcast.  She is thrilled to be working with Bradford and Josh again on the upcoming Version Mary.

The Splinter Group (Producer) was formed by Seth A. Goldstein to produce works of singular vision for the stage and screen. The company produced the UK premiere of Joe Calarco's critically acclaimed Shakespeare's R&J, which transferred to London's West End before touring the UK, and recently received a Drama Desk Award for its production of Christine Jorgensen Reveals. Management clients include the award-winning hit Confessions of a Mormon Boy, Apparition by Anne Washburn, Fascinating Aida’s Absolutely Fascinating, The Riot Group in Pugilist Specialist and Ami Dayan’s A Tale of a Tiger and The Man Himself. The Splinter Group managed the 2006 New York Musical Theatre Festival and The National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s 2005 and 2006 Festival of New Musicals. Current and upcoming projects include Gutenberg! The Musical!, Murder Mystery Blues,  Candy & Dorothy, and The Intergalactic Nemesis. www.splintergroupproductions.com.

Highbrow Entertainment (Producer). After only two years of existence, Highbrow already has an eclectic selection of credits for the screen and stage: from the documentary Inside the Bubble about the Kerry campaign, to the fiction films Milk and Honey by Joe Maggio (2004), and The Tollbooth by Debra Kirschner (release Feb. 2006). Stage credits include: Dario Fo's A Tale of a Tiger at 59E59, Christine Jorgensen Reveals (at this year's Edinburgh Festival with The Splinter Group), as well as Performance Art, (as a sponsor of Christian Marclay's Screen Play for the Performa '05 Biennial). Currently at the Zipper, Rope, in a co-production with the Drama Dept. Next will be a production of Vernissage, a farce by Simon Fortin.

Sterling Bridge Productions LLC (Producer) was formed in the summer of 2005 as a partnership made up of husband and wife team Christian Pimsner and Pamela Lloyd. Credits include: Christine Jorgensen Reveals (59E59 Theaters, 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Dodger Stages December-January 2005/2006) Christian is an Advertising Sales Director at Choice Media, a leader in online marketing and advertising services for the healthcare industry. Pamela is a member of Broad Horizons Theater Company and a graduate of Penn State University and Commercial Theater Institute. She is currently Producing Associate to Michael David and Edward Strong at Dodger Theatricals (The Music Man, 42nd Street, Urinetown, Into the Woods, Dracula, Bare, Good Vibrations, Drumstruck, Jersey Boys).

Sandra Garner (Producer) is currently General Management Associate at Playwrights Horizons where she has worked most recently on Miss Witherspoon by Chris Durang, Fran's Bed by James Lapine and B.F.E.  by Julia Cho. Upcoming shows at Playwrights Horizons include spring productions of Grey Gardens: A New Musical by Doug Wright, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie based on the documentary film by the Maysles brothers and Pen by David Marshall Grant. Recent producing credits include the New York premiere of Christine Jorgensen Reveals at 59E59th Street, Golda’s Balcony and Prim Butterfly.