Director
Michael Loporto

Michael is a founding member of New York City's acclaimed Barefoot Theatre Company, which has just finished a successful collaboration with renowned playwright Israel Horowitz. Barefoot has been called by OOBR "A spark of genius Off-Off Broadway." Recent directing credits include the 35th anniversary production of The Indian Wants The Bronx by Israel Horovitz at The Gloucester Stage Company, which The Boston Globe said "breathed with the fury of life…a chilling evening," Birds In Church and Dirty Talk by Joe Pintauro at The Pantheon Theatre, Sam Shepard's Tongues at BRIC Studio, Complete Control by Stephen Gracia at the DUMBO Theater eXchange, Jonathan Marc Sherman's Women and Wallace at The 78th Street Theatre Lab, and, at The Looking Glass Theater, Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie? By Don Peterson about which Backstage said "Michael LoPorto's production…is powerful, engrossing, and commanding." Other directing credits include subUrbia by Eric Bogosian, Love Letters by AR Gurney, Getting Hitched by Stephen Beal, Marisol by Jose Rivera, Behind The Fence by Richard T. Stremme, and When We Sleep… a work that he co-wrote. Michael is also an actor and musician. He received a BFA in acting from Brooklyn College and has toured most of the East Coast as a drummer in several bands performing at such notable venues as CBGB, The Continental, L'Amours, The Midway Café, Acme Underground, The Pipeline, The Elbow Room, The Tune Inn, and Coney Island High. Favorite roles include Treat in Orphans by Lyle Kessler, Valere in Moliere's The Miser, Jack in Sweet Citrus by Jen Boutell, and Nathan Leopold in Never The Sinner by John Logan.

Choreographer
Geoffrey Doig-Marx

NAMED ONE OF "NINE DANCEMAKERS MAKING HISTORY"....2001 Cover Story Dance Spirit Magazine Geoffrey Doig-Marx is the Artistic Director and Founder of "The Mantis Project" Dance Company, and Creator/Artistic Director of "The Elan Awards" an annual showcase that in 2005 along with then Co-Producer DanceSpirit Magazine honored SUSAN STROMAN (A choreographer who has changed the face of dance) and showcased the work of fourteen additional choreographers. Mr. Doig-Marx received a Certificate of Excellence in Cultural Achievement from C. Virginia Fields Manhattan Borough President office of The Mayor of New York City for his work with The Elan Awards. Past honoree's include Graciella Daniele,Jerry Mitchell Ann Reinking, Rob Marshall and Lar Lubovitch. Mr. Marx is also the founder of The Elan Awards Master Class Series, The Elan Awards School Program and The Mantis Project Summer Dance Workshop. His piece entitled "Need" based on Punk Rocker Sid Vicious girlfriend Nancy Spungen, premiered at Suny Purchase in May 2006 and currently he is assisting Director/Choreographer Denis Jones for Broadway Bares 2006. He is a member of "Actor's Equity" and an Associate Member of "The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers".

Mr. Doig-Marx is currently on staff at Marymount Manhattan College, ARB's Princeton Ballet School,The Pulse, NY, The Lawrenceville School and The Professional Center for the Arts .

Previously on Staff at Broadway Dance Center, Broadway Dance Center Childrens Program, STEPS, Ballet Arts, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, and *PDT (*Princeton Dance and Theatre-New School of Susan Jaffe).

Mr. Doig-Marx is listed in "What's Hot New York" and has choreographed for various theaters, throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.

As a performer Mr. Doig-Marx appeared in the Equity National Tours and Regional Theater Productions of West Side Story, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Dames at Sea, Cabaret, La Cage aux Folles, Fiddler on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar and many others.

Previously, Geoffrey received "The Harkness Choreographers Grant" from Suny Purchase and a Choreographers grant from New Dance Group in New York City.

Mr. Doig-Marx wrote a tell all book about his days as a Disney dancer entitled
"Not Only Magic Floats".-publishing date to be announced

Musical Director
Dale Zurbrick

DALE ZURBRICK -begins his twenty fifth year in professional and educational theatre. After his first few years of teaching, he left the classroom and premiered as "Curly" in a stock production of OKLAHOMA! Currently, he resembles Daddy Warbucks and it's been a long trek of hilarity for lucky audiences and inspiration for the many students he has seen achieve success in show business after he returned to the classroom. He has directed and/or musical directed over forty productions, many of them award-winning. For close to thirty years he was a member of the prestigious Choir of The Riverside Church in the City of New York, while teaching, directing and appearing in summer stock, primarily at Music Theatre North. Among his representative roles are "David" in COMPANY, "Horace Vandergelder" in HELLO DOLLY, "Sancho" in MAN OF LAMANCHA, "Florenz Ziegfeld" in FUNNY GIRL, "Uncle Max" in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and "Zoltan Karpathy" in MY FAIR LADY. But his huge claim to fame is found in the children's favorite PETER PAN. Soon after landing in New York in the early 70s, he was cast as the title character in the rock musical version of this beloved story which was adapted and produced by The Kings Players at The Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Mercer Arts Center. Recently, he appeared as CAPTAIN HOOK in the famous musical treatment by Jule Styne, Comden & Green, and Moose Charlap. Who knows what role he will assay next? He brings to Park Playhouse his expertise as a dramaturg, and historian, and his attention to detail and fastidious devotion to the authors' intentions will be in evidence here in Albany. Soon after leaving, he will start a brief tour of LOVE LETTERS with his acting partner Marie Puma (GODFATHER I and II) throughout the Mid-Atlantic States. Currently, he is President of the Alumni Board of SUNY Potsdam and recently produced a Gala Benefit in New York City which featured four illustrious graduates of that college, opera stars Renee Fleming, Margaret Lattimore, Tamara Mesic, and PHANTOM OF THE OPERA's longest-running Christine, Lisa Vroman.

Stage Manager
Scott Harrigan

Scott Harrigan is currently a junior stage management major at Boston University's College of Fine Arts in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Scott began his career in regional theater as a Stage Management intern with the New York State Theater Institute where he earned the company's "Exellence in Stage Management" award. Other regional credits include two consecutive seasons with Park Playhouse in Upstate New York. Boston credits include numerous productions with the Huntington Theatre Company, as well as Boston Playwright's Theatre where he has served as the Production Stage Manager for two of their annual entries into the Atlantic College Theater Festival.

Technical Director
Jessie Sullivan