Joey Brenneman (Director) is the artistic director of STAR Theater. Other directing credits include A Burial Place, SLUT, Vestments of the Gods, Two Girls, The Timing of a Day and Abstract Nude. Also a playwright, Joey is currently an artistic resident at Access Theater developing her new play, An Uninterrupted Thought. Joey’s produced plays include Better Left Unsaid, Fast Break, Of Loss and Grace and Off (Heideman Award Finalist). She has also written and directed several films. Her film, Taking a Step Back, was selected by the Urban Visionaries Festival and won the “Best of Specials” award from MNN. Joey also works as an actor in New York and regionally. She has two children and is married to actor Craig Waletzko.

Michael Vegas Mussman (Managing Director) is a playwright, lyricist, and producer. In 2022 he founded his own production company, Colibri Theatrical. His musical “Alan Turing & the Queen of the Night,” a queer fantasy, is in development, while the opera “Ghosts,” for which he wrote one of the libretti, is premiering at San Diego Opera in April, 2023. Other works have appeared at the Hollywood Fringe and the San Diego International Fringe Festival. He lives in New York City.

Brian Freeland (Projection / Scenic design) is a designer, director, writer, sound + media artist, and community builder. He has designed for Mind The Art Entertainment, The Public Theatre, The Aurora Fox, The LIDA Project, Countdown to Zero, Curious Theatre Company, Lone Tree Arts Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, HERE Arts Center, TheatreWorks, About Face, and The Catamounts. Mr. Freeland just completed the remounting of Countdown to Zero’s provocative work about the Abu Ghraib detention facility, Uncle Rooster by Tami Canaday as part of The Brick Theatre’s Not Normal Festival. Recent work includes scenic design for Whiskey Pants: The Mayor of Williamsburg with Mind the Art Entertainment (MTAE) at HERE Arts Center, projection and direction for a new performance work based on the 1942 book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge, direction of Jack of Hearts, Master of None for (MTAE) at HERE Arts, sound design for Quiara Alegría Hudes’ trilogy of plays Elliot, a Soldier’s Fugue, Water by the Spoonful, and Happiest Song Plays Last at Curious Theatre Company, projection design for Silent Sky at Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, and projections for Randel Myler’s Muscle Shoals: I’ll Take You There at the Lone Tree Arts Center. As a deviser/writer, recent works include Watershed: Part 1, The Sea is Not Full and Watershed: Part 2, Soiled (meta-media works which explored the environmental crisis through the lens of mythological structure) and a reimagined view of the Ludlow Massacre, Ludlow, 1914 (a dramatic vaudeville). He is a founding member The LIDA Project where he served as artistic director from 1995-2015 and co-founder of Countdown To Zero, a political theatre company. Brian received his education from the University of Colorado at Denver and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

Andy Evan Cohen (Sound Design) credits include Off-Broadway: Dear Jane and In Bed With Roy Cohn (Perry St Theatricals), If Only (Cherry Lane), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Master Works), Ay Carmela! (Repertorio Español). Touring: Hamlet, Sense and Sensibility, and Our Trojan War (Aquila Theatre); The American Soldier and A Soldier's Journey Home(Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, and other venues); The Hungry Hungry Games (Mills Entertainment). Immersive theater work includes SommernachtFraktal and Bluebeard (Werdenberg Castle in Switzerland) and Static Apnea (in a floating shipping container in New Zealand). Off-Off-Broadway work includes many shows for Animus, Boomerang, New Light Theatre Project (including Hal and Bee at 59E59 and A Burial Place at the Dorothy Strelsin Theater), Nylon Fusion, Stable Cable, Strindberg Rep., T. Schreiber, and White Horse Theatre. Film and TV credits include scores for PBS documentaries, the short films The Mall and Show and Tell Tango, and the web series Off Off Kilter. Andy's theatrical work has won awards from the New York Innovative Theater Awards, Planet Connections, The New York International Fringe Festival, and many others. Education: Manhattan School of Music and Oberlin (where he almost was a math major.) Contact: www.rolypolyproductions.com @AndyEvanCohen (Twitter & Instagram).

Josiah Parsons (Additional Scenic Design) Currently for The Clairvoyants (Recently on America’s Got Talent), The Naturalists (The Pond Theatre Co.), The Confession of Lily Dare by Charles Busch (Theatre for the New City), Death of the Moon (Jerry Orbach Theatre), Awake, The Thing with Feathers, and A Walk in the Woods (The Barrow Group), and The Mentor Project (Cherry Lane Theatre). Other credits include national tours of The Illusionists: Live from Broadway, The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible, and The Producers; and Off-Broadway productions of Jersey Boys, Here Lies Love, Peter and the Starcatcher, and A Man’s a Man. Alumnus of the University of New Hampshire with a B.A. in Theatre.

Crystal Arnette (Additional Projection Design) is a Storyteller. She tells stories through her work as an actor, director, producer, cinematographer, editor, songwriter and designer. She is the co-founder of the non-profit arts initiative SEQUIN & the founder of Adventure We Can, a production collective. She has created & directed over 600 video media projects for Warner Music Group, Macy’s, Unilever, Reuters, Ethena, Geometry Global, HSBC, Aldo, Oath:, clover Health, Pretty Big Deal with Ashley Graham, The Broadway League, The USO, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Dramtists Guild Foundation, Woolly Mammoth, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Flea, The New Group + many more. She was awarded Best Indie Director for her work on The Hunted: Encore Season 2 which won over 50 international awards and over 75 festival selections, and her short film Andy & Kaliope (co-directed with Catriona Rubenis-Stevens) was nominated for Best Film & Best Director at the 2022 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge. Her short film Committed (co-directed with Rachel Alana Handler) was awarded the AT&T Film Award and Slamdance 2021 official selection. She is currently on the festival circuit with The Hunted: NYCSS and the short film November Ninth, and in production on feature hybrid documentary 그리다 (Keurida) She is in development on narrative features DIVERS and Maureen. Along with The Bats, she was a founding member of #serials@theflea in 2010 and served as co-producer from 2014-2016. She has also performed with Atlantic Theater Company, The Bushwick Starr, Woolly Mammoth, Wellfleet Harbor Actos Theatre, The PIT, The Flea and Webster Hall. She has worked on campaigns & films with Olson, Droga5, Radical Media, Sony/RCA Records, M ss ng P eces, Supply & Demand, Carousel NYC, and Mass Appeal. She is a BFA graduate of the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Matt Cowan (Technical Director) Professional experience includes technical direction, production, consulting, and design, with a special interest in education, including serving as the Technical Director and Lighting Design Teacher at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School. Memorable credits include Frankenstein at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Painting Churches at the Majestic Theater; Catalyst Dance Company’s production of The Uncommon Era; and national tour lighting design for CORDIS. Notable building projects include Springfield Symphony Hall, PVPA Theater, and the Northampton Community Arts Trust. Matt enjoys using his varied experience to provide high caliber design work and consultation to all clients while prioritizing each project’s particular needs. He is a certified technician for ETC rigging and lighting controls and is passionate about connecting his clients to the highest quality suppliers of theatrical equipment. Above all, Matt takes pride in being at the helm of Down Right, which has become a fast-growing company with an exciting team.

John Olson (Executive Producer) is an Arts Presenter, Classical Guitarist and Scientist. Since 2007 he has served as President of the New York City Classical Guitar Society, revitalizing the organization and making it a thriving and central part of the city’s guitar community. He served as a member of the Guitar Foundation of America Board of Directors for six years, and has directed the Ben Verdery Maui Master Class since 2013. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He has performed with a variety of New York–based ensembles, including the Brooklyn Guitar Quartet and Nylon Wound.

Katie Payne (Production Manager) is a stage manager, project manager, and performer currently based in Western Massachusetts. Katie’s passion for people and live performance drives her meticulous stage management practice, which aims to free performers up to be their best on stage. Katie is an alumna of Pioneer Valley Performing Arts, and received her BFA in the discipline of dance from the University of the Arts under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Kati has also trained and performed with Vertigo Dance Company’s International Dance Program in Jerusalem, Israel, and has been featured in works and repertory by Vertigo Dance Company, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Company, Nacera Belaza at Danspace Project, Summation Dance, James Morrow / THE MOVEMENT, Sidra Bell, Vanessa Anspaugh, Dante Brown, Shakia Johnson, and in Saleka Shyamalan’s music videos Clarity and Seance. Stage management credits include Vanessa Anspaugh’s New York Live Arts premier Mourning After Mornings, music festivals Barbès in the Woods and Springfield Jazz + Roots Festival, and many local dance, theater, and opera productions. Kati serves on the Hampshire Board of the Springfield Diocese’ young adult initiative Young + Catholic.