MARISSA KAMIN (Playwright/Producer) wrote and produced the Los Angeles hit Red Wagon Poesy at the Hudson Theatre (LA Weekly “Pick of the Week”). She worked as the Director of Creative Development for Q Media Partners, a San Francisco based production company with first look deals at HBO and Touchstone. She also worked in development for Sony Pictures and Dreamworks. Credits include: Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and “Spin City.” Marissa produced the sold-out Joe’s Pub debut of Natalie Joy Johnson with Our Lady J and the Pink Champagne Orchestra and Scott Nevins’ Celebutant. She is a contributing writer to several online magazines.

BEN RIMALOWER (Director/Producer) directed and produced the New York premiere of John Fisher's Joy and its Off Broadway run at The Actors' Playhouse (Out Magazine: "Top Ten Theatre 2005" #6 & HX nomination: "Best Musical"). Other directing credits include Snoopy the Musical (starring Sutton Foster), And/or (Dixon Place) and Sodom the Musical (Kraine Theatre) as well as staged readings for Second Stage, The York Theatre Company and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Mostly recently Ben conceived and directed Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches at San Francisco’s Empire Plush Room after a wildly acclaimed four-month-run at Joe’s Pub (Special Time Out New York MAC Award & “Top Ten Cabaret 2006” #2) in addition to a slew of solo shows including Lindsey Alley's Look Ma, No Ears (six week run at the Laurie Beechman Theatre), Scott Nevins’ Celebutant (MAC nomination), John Hill's Skinny Corpse, Kate Pazakis' The Sexless Years (MAC nomination), Lance Horne's How Love Goes, and Natalie Joy Johnson with Our Lady J and the Pink Champagne Orchestra featuring the Bubblies (Ars Nova, The Cutting Room and Joe's Pub). Assistant Director credits include Lonny Price’s productions of A Class Act (Manhattan Theatre Club, Broadway and Tokyo) and A Little Night Music (starring Patti LuPone, George Hearn and Zoe Caldwell) as well as the Emmy-winning Sweeney Todd. Ben studied Dramatic Art at U.C. Berkeley where he was the founding Artistic Director of BareStage (now celebrating its 12th anniversary.)

BEN STANTON (Lighting Designer) Currently Running in New York: Neil Labute's In a Dark Dark House (Lortell Theater), Spalding Gray: Stories Left To Tell (Minetta Lane). Selected New York credits: Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theater), Sandra Bernhard: Everything Bad & Beautiful (The Daryl Roth), Play Yourself, Light Raise The Roof, Bexley, OH!, & Throw Pitchfork (New York Theatre Workshop), The Thugs (Soho Rep), The Triple Happiness & The Dear Boy (Second Stage), Orange Flower Water & Stone Cold Dead Serious (Edge Theater), Finer Noble Gases (Rattlestick Theater), Esoterica, Indoor/Outdoor (DR2), Orange Lemon Egg Canary (PS122), Caligula (AUDELCO Nom. Classical Theater of Harlem). Regional: Godspell (Paper Mill Playhouse), Persephone & Love’s Labour’s Lost (The Huntington Theatre), The Cook (Hartford Stage), The Crucible (Actors Theater of Louisville), Bus Stop & The Chekhov Cycle (Williamstown Theater Festival), Loot (The Intiman), The Great Game (Duke Theater Previews).

ERICA JENSEN -- CALLERI CASTING (Casting Director) With James Calleri, Paul Davis, and Duncan Stewart, Erica casts for a variety of theater, TV, and film projects. Current projects include New York Stage and Films’ Powerhouse season as well as the 4th annual Summer Play Festival. Recent projects include "The Masterson’s of Manhattan" (NBC pilot); "A Raisin In the Sun" (ABC tv movie); and the film Winter of Frozen Dreams (starring Thora Birch and Keith Carradine). Erica is thrilled to work with the creative team of The Fabulous Life…, and extends many thanks, especially to Ben and Marissa.

CHRISTIE EVANGELISTO (Dramaturg) is the Director of Musical Theater and Dramaturg at Playwrights Horizons. At Playwrights, Christie has helped develop and produce Grey Gardens, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, Essential Self-Defense, The Pain and the Itch, On The Mountain and The Busy World is Hushed, among others. She frequently collaborates with writers Chris Miller & Nathan Tysen; True Fans, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Rey Pamatmat; New, Deviant, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; True Fans, Golden Age, and Sarah Treem; a feminine ending, Mirror Mirror. Christie also helps produce Playwrights' musical theater recordings, most recently The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin by Kirsten Childs. In Washington, D.C., she served as Dramaturg at The Studio Theatre and as a dramaturg and writer with the Washington National Opera, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. She serves on the selection committee for the O'Neill Music Theater Conference and is a consultant with The Shuman Company in LA. Christie earned her MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from Yale School of Drama and has a BA in Dramatic Literature, Theater History, and Cinema from New York University.

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ISAAC ROBERT HURWITZ (Producer) is co-founder and executive producer of the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which has premiered 99 new musicals since 2004. Currently, he serves as a member of the Advisory Committee for City Center’s acclaimed Encores! series, where for three seasons he served as Music Associate, assisting music director Rob Fisher o¬n fifteen concert productions and overseeing the score restoration of A Connecticut Yankee, Bloomer Girl, Golden Boy and House of Flowers, among others. With a varied background as a producer, director, dramaturg, and musician, Isaac has developed new works throughout the United States. Before founding NYMF, Isaac headed Ensemble Studio Theatre's musical theatre development program, The Rusty Magee Music Project, which he helped establish. He served for two years as a director-in-residence at EST, and returned there in 2005 to produce the world premiere of Carey Perloff’s play, Luminescence Dating. Isaac received the Westin Award in Musical Theatre from Brown University, where he headed two producing organizations and developed several new musicals including Stephen Karam's award-winning Emma. He is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the Commercial Theatre Institute, and a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

JP SARNI (Producer, Métropole Ink) is a producer and writer who holds a BFA in Media and Performing Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design. Producer credits include: “Heartland” (short / set to premiere at the 2007 San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Fim Festival), “The Launch” (short), readings of the rock opera Utah’s Crying under his Métropole Ink production entity, plus “Play Ball! A Trilogy of Baseball Films” (associate producer) and “Flashback” (producer / showcase production) for Weird Sisters. For two years, he worked as a producer and on-air reporter for SIRIUS Satellite Radio (on programs including “The Judith Regan Show”). He has just finished line producing the feature-length documentary, The Pennhurst Project, for Radioaktivefilm NYC (The Ground Truth), and will next be line producing Charles Forbes’ Minor Gods for the Summer Play Festival at Theatre Row. Additionally, he has worked for legendary publicist Bobby Zarem, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, and numerous film production credits, including: Alfie, WTC View, and the upcoming P.S., I Love You.

AMANDA WARD (Producer, Métropole Ink) Founded in 2005 by two SCAD students, Métropole produces a variety of artistic endeavors such as Utah's Crying, a new rock opera and an entertainment website called JoyHog.com. Additionally, the company has several projects in development for television and feature films. Ward is a producer at Radioaktivefilm (The Ground Truth) since 2003. She has produced independent films such as We Will Not Die Like Dogs, which profiles African AIDS activists from Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia and Palestine Blues which follows the repercussions of the Israeli Security Wall and Settlement expansion in the engulfed/annexed Palestinian farming communities of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Her recent projects include The Pennhurst Project profiling the long running institute and showing how, without proper attention, our fellow neighbors can endure some of the most horrific abuses and live to tell the tale and Quad Squad a feature comedy about a roller boogie therapy session.