Terry Berliner (Director and Choreographer)
Terry Berliner (Director/Choreographer) In 2008 Ms. Berliner received the San Francisco Critic's Circle Award for Outstanding Achievement for her direction and choreography of Bingo and a Roe Green Artist Grant for direction and choreography of the new musical Beneath the Surface. Her Broadway credits include The Lion King, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, The Sound of Music and The Red Shoes. Off Broadway: Time and Again, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Captains Courageous, Violet and Merrily We Roll Along. Other New York Theatre: Emma (NYMF 2007), The Mercy Seat, TheatreWorks Gala, Spine, seven seasons of the Drama Desk Awards Show and Allegro (City Center Encores!). Regional: Beneath the Surface, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Carmen (with Franco Dragone), Bingo, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Little Shop of Horrors, Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will?, Urinetown, A Little Princess, Five Course Love, Getting To Know You, Theophilus North, Phantom, Love Letters, Guys and Dolls, The Fantasticks, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, The Royal Family, Once On This Island, Gypsy and The Music Man at such theatres as the La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Geva Theatre Center and Arena Stage. For more than 14 years Ms. Berliner has written, directed and choreographed corporate theatrical events for clients such as The International Mystery Writers' Festival, Blue Cross Blue Shield, MasterCard, the PGA Champions and many others. In the spring of 2006 her six-part feature article on new musical theatre development, "A Game of Love and Chance," was published in American Theatre magazine and she wrote the script for the New York City Drama Desk Awards Show hosted by Harvey Fierstein. Ms. Berliner is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Lon Hoyt (Musical Director)
LON HOYT (Music Director) is also music supervisor for the Hairspray national tour and Toronto company. Other credits: Dream a Little Dream (Supervisor), The Rocky Horror Show, Footloose, Street Corner Symphony, Forever Plaid, Song of Singapore, The Diva Is Dismissed, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Blackbirds of Broadway, Calamity Jane, 42nd Street and Anything Goes. As an actor, he had lead roles on Broadway in Tommy, Baby, Leader of the Pack, Starlight Express and Rock ‘N Roll! The First 5,000 Years. He can be heard playing piano for Whoopi Goldberg in the film Boys on the Side. Lon attended Cornell University to become a veterinarian, ended up in show business and still finds his degree in animal science useful for working on Broadway.

Wendy Robbins (Additional Book Writer)
Wendy Robbins is the recipient of two emmy's for documentary film, "Holes in Heaven" and the HBO special, "Kids Killing Kids, Kids Saving Kids". She is the co-inventor of "The Tingler" (Head massager), a radio-host, and prosperity coach. Wendy joined the Bubble creative team this year and the team of Robbins and Paull are already writing a new project entitled, "Atlantis".

Lisa Dozier (Producer / General Manager)
Recent NY producing credits include: Pure Heaven (Emelin), Jeffrey Hatcher's Murderers (Emelin), The Piper (NYMF 2007), Surface to Air (Off Broadway, Symphony Space), The Polish Play (Walkerspace/ Katharsis); Character (Prospect); Brian Charles Rooney: Live (Zipper); Warrior (NYMF 2006); Behind the Limelight (NYMF 2006); Hot and Sweet (NYMF 2006); Ibsen + Fosse 2006 with Oslo Elsewhere at 59E59: Rosmersholm, deathvariations; Manhattan Madcaps of 1924; Jeff Daniels' Apartment 3A; The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde (NYMF 2005). Previously, she was the associate producer at Symphony Space and was on the artistic staff at Manhattan Theatre Club (Doubt, Reckless, Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, 5 by Tenn, A Picasso, etc.) and has also worked at the New 42nd Street, American Repertory Theatre and New York Stage & Film. Upcoming projects include: Katharsis Theatre's new adaption of Moliere's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Martin Fox's Two Handers, set to be directed by Austin Pendleton, and Frank Strausser's The Split. Lisa will also be the general manager for this year's NAMT festival in October. In January 2008, Lisa formed Across the Pond Theatricals with Andy Vitolo, a company that focuses on creating musicals in an organic process with collaborations between artists in the US and in the UK, upcoming Across the Pond projects include Pollyanna written by Neil Berg and Dan Remmes. She is also the Executive Producer of Oslo Elsewhere, the American voice for internationally produced playwright Jon Fosse, and the producer of Katharsis Theatre. She also produced a major NY benefit for the Save Darfur Coalition last year and has also produced countless musical readings. Lisa holds a BA in theatre management from Florida State.

Geoff Cohen (Associate Producer)
His current projects include a series of productions and concerts with RGA Productions in Ontario, Canada; The Velveteen Rabbit with the Enchantment Theatre Company on a National Tour; and this production of The Bubble. Other recent work includes L’Histoire de Soldat with Hopeful Monsters at the Boston Symphony; Gemini the Musical (Acorn Theatre); Production Managing and Speech Writing for the 2007 Honors Awards for the New York office of the Grammy’s. Geoff co-founded and Executive Produced the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2004 and 2005, and also co-produced the Unzipped Concert Series in 2005. Cohen has worked as a Vice President for Radio City Entertainment, where he produced and general managed the Menken/Ahrens/Ockrent production of A Christmas Carol and The Wizard of OZ in New York and on tour. He was also an Associate Producer for Minnelli on Minnelli on Broadway and for the cast albums of The Wizard of Oz (Grammy-nominated) and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. 

Prior to joining Radio City Entertainment, Geoff was General Manager of the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ; General Manager of the George Street Playhouse with Producer Eric Krebs; and three years at Yale Rep. Geoff earned a degree in Theatre Administration from the Yale School of Drama where he was honored to have studied with Ben Mordecai and Lloyd Richards.

Rick Joyce (Associate Producer)
Rick is a theater director , new media guru, and occasional producer, and is pleased to be part of a show that combines all his interests.  Recent theatrical endeavors include directing  A Shot In The Dark (Midtown International Theater Festival), Pischer by Ted Nusbaum (Winner, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Play Festival), Wit by Margaret Edson at the Fringe Club in Hong Kong, and the Nha Hat Kich Theater in Hanoi; Into the Woods (Rider University), The Baker’s Wife (Westminster College of the Arts), Metamorpohoses, Wasp, and  Theodore & Claire ( all in the Random Acts Festival in NYC). Rick has also directed regional productions of shows like The Odyssey, Bat Boy, The Baker’s Wife, Songs for A New World, Merrily We Roll Along, Man of La Mancha and South Pacific. Rick has his MFA in Theatre Directing from the New School for Drama /Actors’ Studio Drama School . Rick holds a BA from Dartmouth and an MBA from the Columbia Business School .  As a consultant in media & entertainment, Rick previously worked as a partner at Accenture and at Booz Allen & Hamilton.  Rick is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at the Perseus Books Group in NYC, a distinctive publisher and the leading independent book distributor.

John E. Brady (Dot God)
After playing being in the LION KING for ten years John is thrilled to be doing a role where he wears human clothes and doesn’t have to tote a twenty pound puppet on his chest. He is even more thrilled to be working with Terry Berliner again. Credits include: OFF-BROADWAY – The Fantasticks, Little Me, TheaterSports NY, etc. REGIONAL: Papermill, Cleveland Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Co. Co., American Stage, Virginia Stage, Delaware Theater Co., Vienna’s English Theater, etc. TV: “Law & Order,” “One Life to Live,” “Conan O’Brian.” FILM: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II and the soon to be released Ten Stories Tall. He has also done over a hundred radio and TV commercials..

Andrea Dora (Broadband #2)
 

Emily Drennan (Broadband #1)
Broadway/Off-Broadway: 75th Radio City Christmas Spectacular; Toxic Audio; Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love. Las Vegas: Toxic Audio (Planet Hollywood and The Luxor Resort & Casino). Favorite roles: Narrator (Joseph…Dreamcoat); Ann (SWING!); Amneris (AIDA); Sheila (HAIR); Pattie (Smokey Joe’s Cafe); Kitty (WARM); Shotzi (Starmites); Sarah (Sessions). Fitness Videos: Denise Austin’s Fit Families; celebrity trainers’ Rehab Abs. Other: albums; concerts; readings; USO Troupe; National Presidential Scholar in the Arts–White House, Kennedy Center solo performance, President Clinton; published lyricist and composer. Education: B.S Economics; B.A. Spanish; Minors-Finance, Marketing, International Business, Latin American Studies; Oklahoma State University, summa ***** laude. Thanks first to God from whom every blessing flows and to family and friends for the plethora of love and encouragement! 
www.emilydrennnan.com

Anthony Giaimo (Bob)
Stage: Death Defying Acts, The Rothschild’s, Rags and Master Class at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Juno And The Paycock at the Long Wharf Theater, the Miami company of Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah and at the Folger Shakespeare Theater The Merry Wives of Windsor and the world premier musical Wind In The Willows. Feature films: Bad Boys II, All About The Benjamins, Wild Things, Striptease, My Girl, Fair Game, Drop Zone, South Beach, Silent Hunter, Runaway Dreams, Speaking of the Devil, Seven Sundays, Deadly Rivals and The Birdcage for which he received a Screen Actor’s Guild Award for being a member of the best ensemble cast. Television: (NBC)“3rd Watch”, “Hurricane Andrew Triumph Over Tragedy”, (CBS) “Keys”, (Disney) “The Many Lives Of Black Jack Savage”, (USA) “Sins Of The City”, (W.B.) “Safe Harbor”, (FOX) “America’s Most Wanted” and the ABC soap “All My Children”.

Danielle Lee Greaves (Portia)
This native New Yorker has been blessed to perform across the United 
States, Canada and abroad. Her credits include: Broadway - Rent (Joanne), Hairspray (Lorraine/us Motormouth Mabel), Sunset Boulevard (Katherine/Psychiatrist), ShowBoat (Ethel). Other - New York Shakespeare Festival’s revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona (Milkmaid), Purlie for City Center Encores! National - The Lion King Cheetah Tour (Shenzi), Rent Benny Tour (Joanne), Rent Angel Tour (Mrs. Jefferson and Others). International - Rent Asia (Joanne), ShowBoat Toronto (Ethel), Hair Europe (Dionne). Regional – Working, Swinging on a Star, Nunsense, Barnum. Television: “Damages”, “Whoopi” on NBC (12 episodes as one of Whoopi's poker playing friends) and “100 Centre Street”. Voiceover - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Industrial - Rite Aid, Elidel. “Leap and the net will appear!”

Jene Hernandez (Broadband #3)
SJené has entertained throughout the world in theater,televison,film and as a soul/R&B recording artist. Credits include-Screen:Conviction,Jonny Zero,One Life To Live,Naked,L Word,Guiding Light,Law & Order and Law & Order:Criminal Intent. Stage:The European & North American Tours of Fame The Musical,Worldstage Premiere of Footloose,In The Heights,originating the role of Vanessa.Off Broadway-Magpie,Bobos,School House Rock Live,Mama I Want To Sing,and 365 Days/365 Plays at The Public Theater.Little Shop Of Horrors,Evita,The Boyfriend,A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Smile,Chicago. She has appeared internationally on several music televison shows such as Top Of The Pops-London,WOM-Berlin and Smash Box Hits-Paris.Please enjoy her music at myspace.com/jenesoul.

Victoria Huston-Elem (Joey Blue)
is thrilled to be returning to the NYMF after last year's glam-rock hit, The Rockae. She recently starred in the Village Theatre's production of Little Women as the headstrong Jo March. Other credits include Tess (York Theatre Co), Meet John Doe (Goodspeed Operahouse), and Greenbrier Ghost (Curtain Call). As always, she dedicates this one to her parents.

Max Jenkins (Colin)
SRecent theater: Wig Out! reading (Vineyard), Checkpoint (Peter Jay Sharp Theater), Under Construction by Charles Mee (SITI Company), seatingARRANGEMENTS (The Flea), Rembrandt! The! Musical! (title role). Recent film: Watching TV with the Red Chinese (dir: Shimon Dotan), Breaking Upwards (dir: Daryl Wein). BFA: NYU/Tisch '07.

John Jeffrey Martin (Matt)

Mario Matthews (Benjamin Face)
is excited to making his NYMF debut! National Tours: Mamma Mia! (u/s Sky), Seussical:The Musical ( Horton). International Tour (Korea) : Fame:The Musical (u/s Nick and Joe). New York: R.E.S.P.E.C.T ( Bo Phillips/New York Stage and Film). Regional Credits Include: Radio City's Christmas Spectacular; The Buddy:The Buddy Holly Story ( Ritchie Valens);The King and I (Lun Tha). Film: Across The Universe. Mario is a graduate of Oklahoma City University. Love and thanks to all of my crazy friends and to my very supportive family!

Aalok Mehta (Raj)
Aalok is excited to be back in NY after a few years and do his first NYMF show! Original singer/songwriter and indian classical music on sitar (student of Pt. Nayan Ghosh) shared the stage and studio with Devo, G. Love and Special Sauce, Ray Manserek (The Doors) LA Music Award Nominee; Broadway: Bombay Dreams original cast;Snapshots, Film:The Trident, American Chai, Movin In',Redline,TV: The New Adventures of Old Christine,Bones,The Singles Table, Joey,Law and Order SVU,The Tonight Show; Thanks to all my life-changing teachers over the years at The Beverly Hills Playhouse! Thanks and love to Anisha and all my family ("go for it"), thanks Edie and everyone at Station Three and KSA!

Amy Rutberg (Britney)
Recent NYC credits; Meghan in Perfect Harmony at the Clurman, Zelda Fitzgerald in the The Jazz Age at 59E59th as well as Clementine in Charles Busch's Our Leading lady at Manhattan Theatre Club. Amy was also a company member of Don't Quit Your Night Job at the HA and regularly performs in Gravid Water at Upright Citizens Brigade. In Los Angeles favorite roles include; Janet The Rocky Horror Show at the Tiffany, Grave White way at the Hudson, and originating Lucy in Dracula the Musical at La Jolla Playhouse. National Tours The Civil War Man of La Mancha. TV/Film; "Law and Order", "Everwood", "Pacific Blue", "As the World Turns" recurring, and HBO's "Recount". Graduate UCLA.

Mariand Torres (Harmony)
Mariand is thrilled to be a part of The Bubble! She was seen at NYMF last year in the staged reading of Cutman: The Boxing Musical. Other credits include Mona in The People Vs. Mona (Abingdon Theatre,), My Way: A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, Violet, andFalsettos. BM in Musical Theatre, University of Miami. AEA member. Thanks to the entire Bubble creative team and Michael and Lindsay for this opportunity! Love to my wonderful friends who make this city feel like home, and to my amazing family, especially Mami.

Chris G. Eleftheriades (Associate Director/Choreographer)
Broadway: The Tale of the Allergist Wife, The Sound of Music (1998 Revivial); Off-Broadway: Dinah Was, Captain's Courageous (MTC), A Class Act (MTC); Tours/Regional: A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, Hair, Evita TV: 'Guiding Light' (Recurring).

Jen Rogers (Production Manager)
is a freelance Production Manager living and working in New York. Prior to moving to NYC, Jen was the Production Coordinator at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center as well as many theatres in Washington DC. While working in DC, she worked with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Washington Women in Theatre, soundincentive and Georgetown University. Recently Jen has worked with The Gallery Players, Two Guys and a Credit Card and Mushroom Cloud Press. Currently she has projects with Oslo Elsewhere and NYMF 2008. Jen holds a BA from Georgetown University.

Michael Cassara (Casting Director)
Michael Cassara, CSA and associate Lindsay Levine cast for theatre, film and television in New York City. They serve as the resident casting office for the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the White Plains Performing Arts Center, the Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts, the Kitchen Theatre Company, and Central City Opera in addition to casting many readings, workshops and developmental productions in New York and beyond each year. NYMF credits include over two dozen productions since the festival's inception in 2004 and other recent theatre projects include …Forum (Sondheim Center, starring Richard Kind), End Days (by Deborah Zoe Laufer, starring Amy Aquino and Adam Heller), Perez Hilton Saves The Universe (or at Least the Greater Los Angeles Area) and Green Eyes in FringeNYC, and Cassandra's Angel (workshop, starring Malcolm Gets). Member, Casting Society of America. Please visit www.michaelcassara.net
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Cory Pattak (Lighting Designer)
NYC: The Blue Flower (Prospect Theatre), Mercy Thieves (Outhouse Theatre), International Women’s Day (St. Barts Cathedral), Do Not Disturb (59E59), Castronauts, A Puppet Music Thing (NYMF) Regional: Footloose, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Annie, Fiddler on the Roof (Pittsburgh Musical Theatre), Fully Committed (Syracuse Stage), Rounding Third, Our Lady of 121st Street (The Redhouse), Great Expectations (Prime Stage),Young Playwrights Festival (Pittsburgh City Theatre), Private Lives (South Park Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate, The Front Page, Twelfth Night, Floyd Collins, and The Shape of Things (Syracuse University) and many concert/cabaret designs at Ars Nova.  Assistant lighting design for Chicago (2008 US Tour), Les Miserables (TOTS Tour), Shamu’s Xmas Miracle (Seaworld), Gem of the Ocean, I Am My On Wife (Pittsburgh Public), Girl’s Room (Queen’s Theatre in the Park), Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons), The Internationalist (Vineyard), Altar Boyz, Love Song (Adirondack Theatre Fest), BC/EFA Easter Bonnet, Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, Westport Country Playhouse and New World Stages.

Upcoming:  Ride (Outhouse Theatre @ 59E59), The Sparks Fly Upward (Hoyt Sherman Place)

BFA: Syracuse University.
www.corypattak.com

Jeremy C. Doucette (Set Designer)

Paul Miller (Co-Lighting Designer)

David Margolin Lawson (Sound Designer)

Tony Castle (Projections Designer)

Chris Rinaldi (Production Assistant)
Mhails from Secaucus, New Jersey, and is a recent graduate of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University stage management program. Recent New York stage management credits include Project Y Theatre Company's Thérèse Raquin Desire at Stage Left Studio and Write Club NYC's Do Not Disturb at 59E59. Chris is also currently stage-managing The Comedy of Errors for Hoboken, New Jersey's Mile Square Theatre. Upcoming projects include performances of Thérèse Raquin Desire in New Jersey and the New Orleans Fringe Festival.

Ryan J. Davis (New Media / PR)
Ryan J. Davis has coordinated New Media for Broadway's The Two And Only (also Director's Assistant) and Off-Broadway's Jacques Brel...(also Assistant Director) & Jackie Mason: The Ultimate Jew.  Recently he directed Street Lights For Obama, The Broadway Beauty Pageant (aka Mr. Broadway), and a reading of the new musical Vote!  Other NYC Directing Credits include: My Life On The Craigslist, Grace Falls, & Genius Famous.  In 2006, he conceived & directed White Noise at NYMF, which was featured on ABC Primetime and Good Morning America and is scheduled to open on Broadway in 2009.

As a politico, Davis worked on Gov. Howard Dean's 2004 Presidential Campaign, Mark Green's 2006 Attorney General Campaign, and is currently consulting on Maria Derr's NY City Council Campaign.  He writes for The Hill & The Huffington Post and is on the Board of Directors of The Deconstructive Theatre Project, a member of the Obama Pride NYC Leadership Committee, and the Secretary of The Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club.
	
Kane Albarron(Graphic / Web Designer)