MICHAEL SCHLITT (playwright, performer) is a founding member of the Actors' Gang Theatre, a co-recipient of the Margaret Harford award for outstanding contribution to Los Angeles theatre. Since 1983, he has worked on over 40 productions with the Gang, directing the American premiere of George Tabori's Mein Kampf, adapting and directing Gogol's The Inspector General, developing (with Michael Neimand and Joe Grimm) and directing Little Man in the Box-included in LA Times 10 Best Productions of 1997, and performing his solo piece Drive, He Said. Mike has made short films for Epic Records In the Studio with Tenacious D, FXM Network Joe's Gyro Palace and Sony Pictures Studio Head . He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter, and works in the oxymoronic field of "Creative Marketing".

NANCY KEYSTONE (director) is a theatre director/playwright/designer, and visual artist. She is the 2003 recipient of TCG's prestigious Alan Schneider Director Award, and was named one of the "Faces to Watch in 2005" by the L.A. Times. In Los Angeles, she is the founder and Artistic Director of Critical Mass Performance Group, whose latest multi-disciplinary piece Apollo [Part 1]: Lebensraum premiered at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in June 2005 and was named one of the "Top Ten Plays of 2005," (LA Alternative Press); and "Pick of the Week," (L.A. Weekly). In 2000, with Critical Mass, she created and directed The Akhmatova Project. A movement-based piece, inspired by the life and writing of Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, it was named one of the "Ten Best Productions"for 2000 by the L.A. Times, and garnered four L.A. Weekly nominations including Production of the Year. She is currently developing Apollo [Part 2] which will premiere at Portland Center Stage (Oregon) in 2008. She has also directed and designed award-winning productions at Actor's Express (Atlanta), Portland Center Stage (Oregon), Georgia Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and was Resident Director for The Continuum in Los Angeles. Other directing forays include operas, festival performance events, and film. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Drama League of New York, TCG/Pew Charitable Trusts, and the California Community Foundation. A frequent visiting professor at UCLA and Cal State LA, she is also an instructor in arts-in-education programs nationwide.

KEVIN CORSTANGE (producer) is currently in post-production on the documentary feature, Dance Around the Pool, a searing account of one woman's journey to confront and forgive her sexually abusive father. Dance Around the Pool has received funding from Latino Public Broadcasting and New York State Council on the Arts. Kevin also produced the short film The Man in 3G and the full-length play Noble & Weller. More recently he directed a short mocumentary called The Pickles. As a dramaturg he's worked on the film scripts Wolves in Shyler by Rose Lee Riordan and My Giant by David Seltzer, as well as several plays by the award-winning playwright Leroy Clark.

LUCRECIA BRICENO (lighting designer) is a native of Lima, Peru and has been designing in the States since 1997. Recent collaborations include In Delirium at the Vortex Theater; Arabian Nights at the John Jay Theatre; The Northern Quarter at the Vortex Theater; the stage reading of Paul Auster's Timbuktu at the Baryshnikov Arts Center; Queens College Annual Dance Concert; A Long History of Neglect at the Berlind Theatre; Wounded Giant at The Kitchen; Agamemnon at the St. Veronica's Church; X kills Y and Vice versa at the Chocolate Factory; Split Wide Open at the SPF Festival; The Playwrights Series at Columbia University, which featured directors Rajendra Ramon Maharaj, Trip Cullman and Jonathan Silverstein. Other works include: The Medea directed by Jay Scheib (NYC and Istanbul productions); YokastaS with Richard Schechner; Unbound with Davis McCallum; Nobody's Lunch with The Civilians (Associate); her Spring Awakening was a World Stage Design 2005 Finalist (Toronto March 05); Pasion por el Arte (Bogot‡, Colombia); The Cure at Troy at the Amaroussion Theatre in Athens, Greece.

RAUL VINCENT ENRIQUEZ (Video Animation Design) is a media artist whose work has been exhibited in diverse locations including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, Performance Studies International, Cal Arts, New York University, the Knitting Factory, the X/Fest, Sin-e, Mastel + Mastel Gallery, the Prix Electronica and the Berlin Resonant-Wave Festival. As a sound designer, he created soundscapes for all of Reza Abdoh's U.S. and European Dar A Luz Theatre Productions. He also makes burritos.

COURTNEY ERMAC (Stage Manager) has stage managed this production from its inception. She has also stage managed Nancy Keystone's workshop of Apollo at the Ivy Substation, Ken Roht's Growing Up With Ghosts for the New Works Festival at Center Theater's Kirk Douglas Theater, and has worked on countless productions for the Mark Taper Forum, East/West Players and numerous theater companies in Santa Barbara.