James Bedell
(Lighting designerat The Brick) James is a founding partner of Lively Arts Productions LLC. Light Design highlights include, The Tempest (Looking Glass Theatre, FHB Productions), winner: SpotlightOn Award for best lighting design, The Snow Queen (FHB Productions), nominated SpotlightOn Award, and The Baby Jesus One-Act Jubilee (The Brick). Bedell also coordinates lighting for Pace University’s Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, which hosts Inside The Actor’s Studio. web.mac.com/jamesbedell

Rachel Feinberg
(Choreographer, Largo Desolato) Rachel Feinberg has a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts. She has been teaching and choreographing movement for more than thirteen years. Rachel is also a registered yoga teacher specializing in vinyasa style yoga.

Jillian Harrison
(Choreographer, An Evening With Family) Directing Credits: OFF Stage – the West Village Fragments (Peculiar Works Project), The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year and JUMP (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Reckless (Theatre Outlet), On the Pier (TSI Inc.), Celebration and Lucky Stiff (Stagedoor Manor), What the Butler Saw and A Funny Thing … Forum (Lehigh University Theatre). Other Credits: Lucy and the Conquest (assistant director – Suzanne Agins, director – Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Mistress Cycle (production assistant - AWOL Productions/ New York Musical Theatre Festival). Love to Family, Friends, and Tom.

Ken Hashimoto
(Composer/musician, Largo Desolato) Ken studied cello performance and chamber music at Peabody Institute and University of Cincinnati. After playing bass and cello for six years in bars, cabaret venues, and theatres with bands and songwriters in Los Angeles, Ken moved to New York, where he now performs and records regularly, including music for theatre productions. Most recently, Ken scored and performed music for A Feeling of a Beard (Ksenia Dragunskaya), The Swan (Elizabeth Egloff), and Angelina (Timothy Braun).

The Mendoza Line
(Festival band) The Mendoza Line is a rock band living in Brooklyn.

William Sullivan Niederkorn
(Composer and music director, The Havel Festival, and composer and sound designer for The Memo, Increased Difficulty of Concentration, Audience and Motormorphosis) has composed music for theatrical productions Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway and is an editor on the staff of The New York Times. He is honored to have his music for the festival played by The Mendoza Line.