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Cast/Creatives

	Cast Nicole LaLiberte Will Janowitz Asher Grodman Jessica Kaye Tuomas Hiltunen J.J. Kandel Emily Tremaine		Creatives Michael Domitrovich Eduardo Machado

	NICOLE LALIBERTE (Bella) Most recently seen as “Roxanne” in Real World Experience, Nicole’s TV credits include: Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Rescue Me, and the national campaign for Belvedere Vodka shot by Terry Richardson. She is currently shooting a film written and directed by Warhol collaborator Paul Morrissey. Nicole LaLiberte also stars in the upcoming feature film, My Normal (2008).

	WILL JANOWITZ (Owen) TV credits include The Sopranos (HBO), Law and Order (NBC), & Babylon Fields for CBS. Film credits: George Washington, David and Layla, Bristol Boys. Will currently has a development deal on his project GNOME www.gnomeshow.com a single camera comedy based on the life and times of Gnome Stein. He loves nature too.

	ASHER GRODMAN (Trevor) Asher has been acting on stage since high school and has appeared in numerous independent films including Mo and Steven Kampmann's BuzzKill. Asher studies with Susan Batson and Carl Ford at Black Nexxus and is an undergraduate at Columbia University majoring in English and Film.

	JESSICA KAYE (Maggie) Favorite roles include “Miss Julie” (dir. Rebecca Holderness); “Frederick” King Kong: the Musical (dir. Diane Paulus); “Charlotte Corday” Marat/Sade (Edinburgh Fringe) and “Selminha” The Asphalt Kiss (dir. Sarah Cameron Sunde). Jessica has played leading roles in several short films including the award winning The Audition. Training: Harvard University (BA); Columbia University (MFA)

	TUOMAS HILTUNEN (Max) Theater: The Magnificent Cuckold (The Connelly Theater), The Life of Spiders (The Culture Project) & Benvenuto Cellini (The Metropolitan Opera). TV/Film: Conan O'Brien (NBC); Jonny Zero (Fox); Destination America (PBS). Upcoming projects include: Confessions of a Shopaholic. Training: Guildhall School of Music & Drama, (BA); Columbia University (MFA)

	J.J. KANDEL (understudy) NYC: Real World Experience by Michael Domitrovich & Merwins Lane by Keith Reddin (Summer Shorts 59 E 59), Intermission, by Will Eno & The Great Pretenders, by Leslie Lyles (EST), Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline, directed by Felix Ivanov, and the world premiere of A Time Piece, by Neal Bell (Red Room).

	EMILY TREMAINE (understudy) NY Theatre: Insomnia/InSexton, part of the Living Room series at HERE, and Been There in the NY International Fringe Festival. Television: ESPN'S The Bronx is Burning. Film credits: Strangers with Candy, and the upcoming feature film, Multiple Sarcasms. Training: Sarah Lawrence College.

	MICHAEL DOMITROVICH (Playwright) Michael Domitrovich's Real World Experience was part of "Summer Shorts" at 59E59, directed by Eduardo Machado. His plays Dirtfag, Caregivers, Goatgod, and Godbrothers have been presented in BlueBox Productions' Sticky at Galapagos, The Bowery Poetry Club, and La Mama etc., all directed by Ali Ayala. He directed his play, Women with a Purpose, at Dixon Place. His new projects include the book for Breach, with music by David Nehls (The Great American Trailer Park Musical), working with the incomparable Angelica Torn and the Geraldine Page Center for the Arts to develop his new play A Perfect Arrangement, and an untitled musical collaboration with the irresistible crooner Adam Green (of "The Moldy Peaches"). He is co-author of Eduardo Machado's food memoir, Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile's Hunger for Home and a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

	EDUARDO MACHADO (Director) Mr. Machado is currently the Artistic Director of INTAR Theatre in NYC. In 2007, he directed the premiere of Artfuckers at Theater for the New City. Other directing credits include Rogelio Martinez’s They Still Mambo in Havana, Margo Jefferson’s Fifty Minutes with Harriet and Phillis and Sixty Minutes in Negroland, and productions of his own plays. Mr. Machado has also directed plays at the Cherry Lane Theatre, the Culture Project, the Flea Theater, and EST, among others. He wrote and directed the film Exiles in New York. As a playwright, Mr. Machado is the author of over forty plays including The Cook, Havana is Waiting, The Floating Island Plays, and Once Removed. He began teaching at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2007. Tastes Like Cuba: An Exile’s Hunger for Home, a food memoir by Eduardo Machado and Michael Domitrovich, was recently released by Gotham Press.