Playwright
Jim Knable

Director
Jeremy Dobrish

Cast
Michael Aronov (Conquistador)
Veanne Cox (Diversion)
Erik Jensen (John)
Lisa Kron (Ancient)
Annabella Sciorra (Barbara)

JIM KNABLE (Playwright) Jim Knable's plays have been produced at NYC's Summer Play Festival (2006), The Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Soho Rep, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, New Jersey Rep, Actor's Express in Atlanta, Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis, Yale University, and NYU. Commissioned for touring educational plays by The Hangar Theatre and The Playwrights Project. Reading workshops at The Geva, Interact, Arena Stage, and Playwrights Horizons (Nascent Works). Sloan Award for screenplay in 2000; three-time winner of the California Young Playwrights Contest, two-time winner of National Young Playwrights Contest. Yale for B.A. and NYU Tisch Dramatic Writing for M.F.A. Also a songwriter, Jim's band The Randy Bandits (www.randybandits.com) released Redbeard in February and is currently recording Green Man, an album featuring songs in and related to his play Green Man. Other plays include: The Rapier of Europa and Othamlet.

JEREMY DOBRISH (Director) Recent Off Broadway: Election Day (Second Stage), Underwear Musical, Drift (NYMF), In The Wings (Promenade), The Joys of Sex (Variety Arts), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Century). Regional: Sleuth (Hangar), The Girl In The Frame (Goodspeed), Paul Revere. Jeremy is an Artistic Associate at Second Stage, and was the Artistic Director of adobe theatre company for 13 years, for which he has written and/or directed over twenty plays. Jeremy's plays include Notions In Motion, The Handless Maiden, Blink of An Eye, Superpowers, Orpheus & Eurydice (all adobe) and Eight Days (Backwards) (Vineyard). He lives in Maplewood with his wife Beth and daughters Clea and Quinn. www.jeremydobrish.com

MICHAEL ARONOV (Conquistador) recently won The Elliot Norton Award for Best Actor in Boston for originating the role of Dennis in Theresa Rebeck's Mauritius at the Huntington Theatre. Previously, he was in LA under the direction of Estelle Parsons in Salome, starring Al Pacino. New York theatre credits include his solo performance Manigma (78th Street Theatre Lab), Spain (The Kirk Theatre, SPF '06), Miss Julie (The Cherry Lane Theatre), Playing with Fire (The Actor's Studio), That Tuesday (The Actor's Studio), The Late Henry Moss (The Signature Theatre), The Bacchae 2.1 (The Flea Theatre), King Lear (Chekhov Theatre Ensemble, OOBR Award), The Phoenician Women (The Ohio Theatre) and A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Rude Mechanicals. Television credits include "The Game," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: SVU," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Spin City," "The Beat," "Threat Matrix" and "All My Children." His film work includes Hedwig & The Angry Inch, the upcoming lbs and Amexicano, which premiered at this year's Tribeca Film Festival. Michael has been honored nationally with a Level 1 Award for Acting by the NFAA in association with the ARTS; an IRNE Award nomination; The Greer Garson Award and was the 2004 recipient of The Individual Grant Award by the Belle Foundation, "exhibiting exceptional talent and potential for achievement in the arts."

VEANNE COX (Diversion) most recently starred in Private Lives at The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and in The Beaux Stratagem (Helen Hayes nom.) at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C. Spain is her third play with MCC at the Lucille Lortel; Last Easter (Drama Desk nom.) and The Wooden Breeks. Broadway: Caroline or Change, The Dinner Party, Company (Tony & Drama Desk noms) and Smile. Off Broadway: The Vineyard Theatre: The Altruists, The Batting Cage, The Waiting Room, Flora The Red Menace. Manhattan Theatre Club: House and Garden, Labor Day. Playwrights Horizons: Freedomland. NYTW: A Question of Mercy, The Vagina Monologues, The Food Chain, A Mother, A Daughter, and A Gun. Regional: The Taper and Ahmanson, Bay Street, Yale Rep, The Old Globe, La Jolla, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Longwharf, Papermill, Goodspeed Opera, Pasadena Playhouse. Film: Big Eden, Erin Brockovich, Two Weeks Notice, Marci X, Beethoven's 4th, You've Got Mail, Henry Fool. Television: "Boston Legal," "Side Order of Life," "CSI," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Seinfeld," "Joan of Arcadia" and "Cinderella."

ERIK JENSEN (John) recently portrayed Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson in the critically acclaimed mini-series "The Bronx is Burning," opposite Oliver Platt and John Turturro. As an actor Erik has co-starred in many feature films, including Streams with Whoopi Goldberg, Black Knight, The Love Letter and indies such as Ripe, 5 Up 2 Down, Montana and Colin Fitz Lives. Erik recently starred in the TV series "Love Monkey," with Tom Cavanaugh and Eric Bogosian and is enjoying his 3rd season on "CSI" as A.D.A Jeffery Sinclair. He was a regular on NBC's "Deadline" with Oliver Platt and has made multiple "Law and Order" appearances. He has also made guest appearances on "Damages," "Alias" and "Universal's Century City," among others. Stage appearances include Y2K, Corpus Christi and Waning Poetic. With his wife Jessica Blank, he is author of the play The Exonerated, which won the 2003 Lucille Lortel Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play and a Drama Desk Award, as well as The Edinburgh Fringe First award, an award from Amnesty International and has been produced the world over. Erik and his wife have written additional telefilms for Court TV and Erik is directing a documentary about midwestern farmers. Erik received a BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University.

LISA KRON (Ancient) has been writing and performing theater since coming to New York from Michigan in 1984. Her play Well opened to critical acclaim on Broadway in March 2006 and earned her a Best Actress Tony nomination. It premiered at the Public Theater in 2004 and was listed among the year's best plays by The New York Times, the Associated Press, the Newark Star-Ledger, Backstage, The Advocate and is included in the anthology, "Best Plays of 2004-2005." Her play, 2.5 Minute Ride (OBIE, L.A. Drama-Logue and GLAAD Media Awards, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations, New York Press: Best Of 1999) premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 1996 and at the Public Theater in 1999 and has since been presented all over the world. Kron is a founding member of the OBIE and Bessie Award winning theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers, whose plays Oedipus at Palm Springs, Brave Smiles, Brides of the Moon and The Secretaries have all been produced by New York Theater Workshop and performed widely throughout the country both by The Brothers and by other companies. As an actress she has appeared Off Broadway in The Normal Heart, Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell and The Vagina Monologues. As a playwright she has received fellowships from the Lortel and Guggenheim Foundations, an NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Fellowship, the Cal Arts/Alpert Award and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation and New York Foundation for the Arts. Kron teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama. She is also currently working on a new play for L.A.'s Center Theater Group on the state of American democracy.

ANNABELLA SCIORRA (Barbara) received an Emmy nomination for her highly acclaimed performance in the role of Gloria Trillo on HBO's "The Sopranos". Her film credits include Sidney Lumet's Find Me Guilty; Michael Cuesta's Twelve & Holding; Spike Lee's Jungle Fever opposite Wesley Snipes; The Hand That Rocks The Cradle for director Curtis Hanson; Anthony Minghella's Mr. Wonderful opposite Matt Dillon; Romeo is Bleeding; Abel Ferrara's The Addiction and The Funeral with Christopher Walken; Copland (with Robert DeNiro and Sylvester Stallone). Additional film credits include What Dreams May Come; Domenica (Berlin Film Festival); Whispers in the Dark; Internal Affairs; The Night We Never Met; The Hard Way; Once In The Life; Chasing Liberty; King of the Jungle; Cadillac Man; The Cure; Mr. Jealously; and Sam The Man. For her leading performance in her film debut True Love, Annabella received an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Actress. Her stage work includes appearances at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, where she worked extensively with writer/director Reinoldo Povod. She has also performed in Roar at The New Group and Those The River Keeps, written and directed by David Rabe; and Under the Blue Sky (Williamstown Theatre Festival).