"Dazzling" – The Daily Telegraph

JAMES URBANIAK (Thom Pain) won the Best Actor Award at the 2004 Edinburgh International Fringe Festival for his performance in Will Eno’s solo play Thom Pain, which transferred to London’s Soho Theatre after its Edinburgh run. New York theatre credits include Sheridan’s The Rivals (Lincoln Center Theater), Melissa James Gibson’s (sic) (Soho Rep), Jose Rivera’s Sueno (MCC), Keith Bunin’s The World Over (Playwright’s Horizon), Dennis Johnson’s Shoppers Carried by Escalators into Flames (Dimson), and Richard Foreman’s The Universe (Ontological-Hysteric), for which he won an OBIE Award. A downtown theatre veteran, Mr. Urbaniak worked frequently with such companies as Arden Party (which he co-founded with director Karin Coonrod), Cucaracha Theatre, Target Margin, Clubbed Thumb, Elevator Repair Service, and the writer/directors Robert Cucuzza and Todd Alcott. Films include American Splendor (as Robert Crumb), Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Legally Blonde 2, Sweet and Lowdown, Ride with the Devil, Teknolust, The Sticky Fingers of Time and several films for director Hal Hartley including Henry Fool (starring role as Simon Grim), Book of Life, and the upcoming Girl From Monday. TV: "Law and Order: C.I. & S.V.U.," "Sex and the City" and "The Jury." He is the voice of Dr. Venture on the Cartoon Network Adult Swim animated series "The Venture Brothers."

WILL ENO (Playwright) lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow, and was awarded the first-ever Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship by the Theater Hall of Fame, for which he was nominated by Edward Albee. His play The Flu Season recently won the Oppenheimer Award, which is presented by NY Newsday for the best debut production in New York by an American playwright in the previous year. His plays have been produced by the Gate Theatre, the SOHO Theatre, and BBC Radio in London; the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company and Naked Angels in New York; Teatro Companhia Sutil in Brazil; and Hair of the Dog in Sydney, Australia. His new play Thom Pain (based on nothing) premiered in August 2004 at the Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh and then transferred to the Soho Theatre in London in September. The play, in Edinburgh, won the coveted Fringe First Award, the Herald Angel Award, was cited by the Guardian as he best play at the Fringe, received many five-star reviews and played to sold-out audiences. Will's plays are published by Oberon Books, and have appeared in Harper's, The Antioch Review, The Quarterly and Best Ten-Minute Plays for Two Actors.

HAL BROOKS (Director) recently returned from New Orleans' Southern Rep. where he directed Intimate Apparel. Artistic Director of the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company of New York, he has directed the off-Broadway premiere of Don DeLillo's Valparaiso and Will Eno's The Flu Season (Oppy winner). Hal has worked at New York Theater Workshop, Naked Angels, Cherry Lane, The Magic Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, New York Stage and Film, INTAR and the American Conservatory Theater. Last spring, he directed the New York premiere of Keith Reddin's Almost Blue. A Drama League Fall Directing Fellow, Hal worked at Syracuse Stage and the Virginia Stage Company. He directed Beckett's Rough For Theatre #1 for DirectorFest 2003.  He directed Thom Pain (based on nothing) for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Soho Theatre, London. Hal is a proud member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and SSDC.

DARYL ROTH (Producer) is privileged to have produced five Pulitzer Prize -winning plays: Proof, Wit, How I Learned to Drive, Three Tall Women and Anna in the Tropics. Ms. Roth’s upcoming productions include the Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Kathleen Turner and Bill Irwin, and the new Broadway musical The Mambo Kings. Other distinguished productions include: Caroline or Change; Salome; Medea; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; Bea Arthur on Broadway; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Beckett/Albee; De La Guarda; Tea at Five; Talking Heads; Our Lady of 121^st Street; Harlem Song; The Play About the Baby; The Bomb-itty of Errors; Snakebit; Defying Gravity; Old Wicked Songs; Camping with Henry and Tom; The Baby Dance; and Closer Than Ever. Love to Steven, Jordan, Amanda, Michael, Rebecca, Abigail and Emily, and of course, Leo & Lucy.

BOB BOYETT (Producer) has been represented on Broadway as a producer of Spamalot; Dame Edna: Back With a Vengeance; Democracy; The Frogs; Tom Stoppard's Jumpers; Fiddler on the Roof; Edward Albee’s The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (which won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Play); Topdog/Underdog (which won the Pulitzer Prize for 2002); Dance of the Vampires; Hedda Gabler; Sweet Smell of Success; The Crucible; The Elephant Man; Fortune’s Fool and A Year With Frog and Toad.   In London: David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero, Fuddy Meers and the West End production of Jumpers.

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