Kim Schultz, playwright and actor
Kim Schultz is a NY based actress/writer and has performed for The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, Oberon Theatre, Themantics Group, Midtown International Fringe Festival and The Zipper Factory Theatre. Nationally, she has performed at The Guthrie Theatre, Childrens’ Theatre Co. and Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Chicago Improv Fest, The Brave New Workshop and in a HBO Comedy Showcase in LA. Internationally, she wrote and performed a show for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and improvised on the Disney Wonder Cruiseship comedy club. Kim wrote and performed a critically acclaimed autobiographical solo show performed off-Broadway called, The F Trip. In addition, Kim is also an improviser and runs an improv school. www.kimschultz.net

Sarah Cameron Sunde, director
Sarah Cameron Sunde is a New York-based director/translator specializing in new American work and contemporary plays in translation. She has directed four U.S. debut productions of plays by international master playwrights. Sunde is the Associate Director of New Georges, one of NYC’s premiere downtown theater companies. She is also co-founder of Oslo Elsewhere and Translation Think Tank, and has spoken in venues throughout the country on the art of translation. Her work as a translator has been published by PAJ (Performing Arts Journal) and Words Without Borders. Alumni: Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Women’s Project Directors Forum, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Awards/Honors include:  a Voice & Vision Residency, an Hermitage Foundation Residency, an American Scandinavian Society Artist Award, a NYtheatre.com Person-of-the-Year Award, and a Princess Grace Directing Award.

Amikaeyla Gaston, musician
Proclaimed one of the “purest contemporary voices…” by National Public Radio, powerhouse Amikaeyla Proudfoot Gaston embraces the best of many types of music.  From the Washington, D.C. area, Amikaeyla has performed and recorded with numerous Grammy Award winning artists across the world including at the commemoration of the Golden Buddha at the Inaugural Festival of Sacred Chanting and Singing in India.  Her debut album “Mosaic” was recognized with 12 Music Awards including Best Jazz Vocalist, Best Urban Contemporary Vocalist, Best World Music Vocalist, and Best Debut Artist.  She was named DC’s best Female Composer in 2006 and 2008.  Amikaeyla’s latest project entitled “Uncertain Odyssey” is based on conversations with Iraqi Refugees in Beirut, Amman, and Damascus.   http://www.amikaeylacollective.com

Sarah Izzo,  Production Stage Manager
Credits include Broadway: XANADU, CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCERS LIFE, HEARTBREAK HOUSE, THE CARETAKER; Off-Broadway: BLACKBIRD (Edge Theater), JAYSON WITH A Y (The New Group); Regional/stock: Two River Theater, Peterborough Players, Hamptons Shakespeare Festival. Various concerts, events, staged readings for Lincoln Center American Songbook, Carnegie Hall, 92^nd Street Y, BAM, New Dramatists. BFA, New York University.

Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, lighting and video design
Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew is a lighting designer and has recently started working with video design.  Her designs have been seen in New York, Los Angeles, Havana (Cuba) and other cities in between.  Recent: The Closest Farthest Away with Chi-wang Yang, Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant at The Ohio and Club Oberon, Kaspar Hauser: a founding’s opera with Elizabeth Swados, The Great Recession at The Flea, Oph3lia (video & lighting) with Aya Ogawa, Frankenstein (Mortal Toys) with LA based Automata, Invisible Glass with Janie Geiser at REDCAT, and video design for Invisible Man with Arthur Yorinks and for The Civilian’s The Great Immensity workshop at Princeton and The Public Theater.  Jeanette is the recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program.  www.jeanetteyew.com

Jian Jung, set and costume design
Jian Jung is a New York based set and costume designer.  She designed sets for The Marriage of Figaro at Juilliard School, Die Fledermaus and The Coronation of Poppea at Hofstra University (director Isabel Milenski), The Tempest (director Brian Kulick) at Classic Stage Company; Kiss of the Spider Woman, In Delirium,Agamemnon (director Gisela Cardenas); Pen Knife, Floridita, Uneventful Death for Agathon, Never as Happy, Don Juan:DJ Remix and Away with Her (director Javierantonio Gonzalez); Three Sisters and Kasimir and Karoline and (director Pavol Liska) and many more.  She received an MFA in Environmental Design in Korea and worked as an interior designer specializing in commercial spaces in Seoul.  She received an MFA in Design for Theater and Film from NYU.

Carla Linton, Associate LD
Most recent productions include Dice Thrown (CalArts), Funny House of a Negro (CalArts), Invertigo Dance Reeling (The Odessy, LA), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum-ALD (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Oleanna-ALD (The Golden Theatre NYC) Ragtime-ALD (Eisenhower Theatre Kennedy Center DC) MFA from California Institute of the Arts, BA SUNY New Paltz.

Our Iraqi Advisory Circle also provides creative input and support. We wish to thank Tholfikar Altie, Mazen Al-Badri, Ola Mahmood, Farah Moshen, Adalet Garmiany and Wafaa Bilal as Iraqi Artistic Advisor.