Eleni Kourti is a writer/performer in New York. She has extensively performed her stories and short comedic pieces in venues like the Cornelia street café, the Magnet theatre, Dixon Place, The Bowery Poetry Club, and more. She is the author of a collection of shorts ‘Tirza Winebath and other inappropriate stories.’ She holds a BFA in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Her poetry has been featured at venues like the Parkside Lounge, KGB Bar and her poem ‘The Man the Penis and the Sea’ was published by Great Weather for Media in this year’s Suitcase of Chrysanthemums anthology.  Her solo show ‘The Magic of Too Late’ was performed at the United Solo Theatre Festival which took place this year at Theatre Row in Times Square.

Austin Pendleton (Director) I s an actor, director, and playwright. He has acted in about 250 movies and appeared several times in such TV shows as Homicide, OZ, and the different versions of LAW AND ORDER. Onstage in New York he has acted on Broadway (Choir Boy; The Diary of Anne Frank; and as Motel the Tailor in the original cast of Fiddler on the Roof); off-Broadway (Obie winner for The last sweet days of Isaac; Rosmersholm; Up from Paradise; Educating Rita); and off-off Broadway (title roles in King Lear, Hamlet, Richard the Third, Richard the Second; new plays such as City girls and Desperadoes, Dress of fire, Consider the lilies). As a director he has been represented by the premiere productions of A thousand pines; Between riverside and crazy; Fifty words; Chekhov productions at Classic Stage Company such as Three Sisters (for which he won the Obie), Ivanov, and Uncle Vanya; a lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; War of the Roses; Hamlet; The Little Foxes(five Tony nominations).