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Halley Feiffer is a playwright, TV writer and actress. Plays include I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (World Premiere Atlantic Theater Company, OCC Nom.), Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow (World Premiere Williamstown Theater Festival and MCC Theater, Drama Desk and Drama League Noms), The Pain of My Belligerence (World Premiere Playwrights Horizons), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City (World Premiere MCC Theater) and How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them (World Premiere Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). Her plays have been produced around the country and in the UK, and are published by Dramatists Play Service and Overlook Press.

Interview with New York based director and choreographer, Chloe Treat. Some of her credits include: associate choreographer of Broadway’s Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and Heisenberg. Choreographed (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at Santa Fe Opera and the American premiere of a Philip Glass opera called The Perfect American. She recently directed productions of Cabaret, James Joyce’s The Dead and two workshops of a new musical The Wave at Indiana University.

Theater producer and educator Rob Orchard talks about his life in theater focused in the Boston area with the American Repertory Theater and Arts Emerson.

Obie-award winning director Melia Bensussen, is the artistic director of Hartford Stage. Last year she succeeded Darko Tresnjak, and become the first woman to hold the position in the theater’s 55 year history. In her career she has directed productions across the county, including at Huntington Theatre Company, Shakespeare & Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Playwrights Horizons, among many more.

Randy Danson is an actor of stage and film known for her work in the 1988 Scorcese film “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and many appearances on Broadway including two years as Madame Morrible in “Wicked.” She was also the first wife of Ted Danson, the star of “Cheers.” Her most recent appearances in New York include Lucas Hnath's "The Thin Place," and Ethan Lipton's "Tumacho." 

Anne Washburn's plays include Mr. Burns, The Internationalist, A Devil At Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides' Orestes. Her work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, London's Gate Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, NYC's Soho Rep, DC's Studio Theater, Two River Theater Company, NYC's Vineyard and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Guggenheim, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, and is an alumna of New Dramatists and 13P. Currently commissioned by MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Yale Rep.

Anne's most recent, Shipwreck, just had its U.S. premiere at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington, D.C.