Penny Jackson’s plays have been produced off Broadway at The Lion Theater at Theater Row & in Dublin, Toronto & Scotland. Awards include a MacDowell Fellowship, The Pushcart Prize & The Elizabeth Janeway prize from Barnard College. Penny’s screenplays include an adaptation of her novel, Becoming the Butlers, published by Bantam Books, which was optioned by Warner Brothers. Her play, I Know What The Boys Want, will be taught at The University of Georgia & is published by Next Stages Press. She is a member of The League of Professional Theatre Women & The Dramatists Guild.

Shira-Lee Shalit is an award-winning director, chosen by Steven Spielberg as one of 18 Finalists out of 12,000 directors for his Fox/DreamWorks TV show, ‘‘On The Lot.’’  Associate Artistic Director of the Barefoot Theatre Company, she has directed at the The LAByrinth Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actors Studio,  TBG Theatre, NYMadness, Nylon Fusion Theatre Company, The Lark, Vertigo Theater Company, Jewish Plays Project, Stonestreet Studios & Writers Guild Screenplay Series. A Presidential Scholar of the Arts, Shira-Lee is a member of the Actors Studio PDU & new Directors Unit. Shira-Lee is on faculty at NYU & Columbia University.

Ilene Kristen has appeared on Broadway in Henry Sweet Henry, Grease & Mayor. A member of Ensemble Studio Theatre since 1984, she has appeared in 5 of their One-Act Marathons. TV sightings include Family, The Black Donnelly’s, Deception, Unforgettable, Law and Order, SVU, Show Me a Hero & The Sopranos, Another World and Loving. Probably best known for her portrayal of Delia Ryan on Ryan’s Hope and her ten year stint as Roxy Balsom on One Life to Live for which she received two Emmy nominations, she is currently reprising the role of Delia on General Hospital. A regular on the club circuit, Ilene just released her self-penned album I’m Not Done With U Yet available on Amazon and Itunes.