Mark Campbell (Lyricist) has written lyrics and libretti for traditional and non-traditional musical theatre, as well as performance art, opera and dance. His work has been performed in diverse venues: from BAM's Majestic Theatre to the Joyce, Off-Off Broadway to Off-Broadway. A panel headed by Stephen Sondheim honored Mark with the first Kleban Foundation Award. He also received two Richard Rodgers Awards, a Drama Desk Award nomination for Splendora, a Rockefeller Foundation MAPP Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship for his adaptation of Zola's Therese Raquin. Mark is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, a member of the Dramatists Guild and a member of the New York Theatre Workshop's "Usual Suspects." His opera, Volpone, which he has written with composer John Musto, will premiere at Wolftrap in March 2004.                                                 page top>>
 

Sonoko Kawahara (Director) received directing fellowships from The Drama League and NYTW. Currently she is working on a new music- theater piece The Rose Project with Obie award composer Deidre Murray for Music Theater Group. Her recent full production was Thousand Years Waiting at Performance Space 122, a multi-disciplinary new work with text, dance and music, written by Chiori Miyagawa composed by Bruce Odland. She has been collaborating with composer and lyricist such as Mark Campbell, Daniel Shonenberg, GiHieh Lee, Fred Ho, and Randall Eng. Her work has been supported by Rockefeller MAP grants, NYSCA, Fund for Woman Artist, Japan Foundation and others. Usual Suspect of NYTW, a Resident Artists at Mabou Mines. MFA in Directing from Columbia University.                                                                   page top>>
 

Chiori Miyagawa (Playwright) Plays include: America Dreaming (directed by Michael Mayer, music by Tan Dun, produced by Music-Theatre Group and Vineyard Theater), Nothing Forever and Yesterday’s Window (both at New York Theatre Workshop, Nothing at HERE by New Georges, published in Positive/Negative Women, Yesterday published in TAKE TEN) Woman Killer (Crossing Jamaica Avenue in co-production with HERE, published in Plays and Playwrights 2002), Jamaica Avenue(New York International Fringe Festival, published in "Tokens - The NYC Asian American Experiences on Stage"), FireDance (Voice&Vision Theater), Remembering America (commissioned by New York Theatre Workshop, presented at Just Add Water Festival), Stargazers (commissioned by The Public Theater and presented at New Works Now Festival; translated into Japanese and presented in the 2001 Asian Women and Theater Conference in Tokyo.) and Crossings (Voice&Vision). She was recently awarded The Ensemble Studio Theater/Alfred P. Sloan Science & Technology Project Commission to write a new play, Comet Hunter. She is a recipient of many grants and awards including NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, Van Lier Playwriting Fellowship, McNight Fellowship, Yale School Drama/ Binkie Playwright- in-Residency. She is a board member of A.R.T./NY, a member of NYTW’s Usual Suspects and Vineyard Theater Community Artists and an associated professor of theater at Bard Collage under the chair, JoAnne Akaliaitis.                                    page top>>
 

Brian Nishii (Actor) Brian has been seen in CJA’s productions of Awakening and Broken Morning. He is a member of MAURA DONOHUE / IN MIXED COMPANY, last seen at PS 122 with Rip it Open, as well as with La Mama’s Great Jones Rep., Greek Trilogy (SERBAN). He has worked and toured with ROBERT WILSON, The Days Before, Persephone, Promethius. He is currently in PROJECT 400/2nd GENERATION show, The Karaoke Show at the El Flamingo and is appearing in Imua! Theatre Company's Karaoke Stories in August. TV/FILM: 100 Centre St., Robot Stories. You may visit brian at www.BrianNishii.com.                             page top>>
 

Margi Sharp (Actor) Margi was most recently seen in New York as Mehitabel in Ralph Lee's production of Communications From A Cockroach. An actress and singer, she has appeared regionally at the California Shakespeare Festival, the UCF/Orlando Shakespeare Festival and the Hangar Theater and locally at Here, PS 122 and La Mama. Credits include Rosalind in Love's Labours Lost, the Courtesan in Comedy Of Errors, and Hermione in The Winters Tale. She has workshopped and performed several plays with Crossing Jamaica Avenue in the past three years. Most recently, she appeared in CJA's production of Broken Morning at HERE. She is a graduate of Columbia's MFA program in acting        page top>>
 

Sophia Skiles (Actor) Sophia has appeared in Crossing Jamaica Avenue productions of Broken Morning at HERE, Awakening at P.S. 122 and Jamaica Avenue at SOHO Rep. Other credits include Richard Foreman's production of Now That Communism Is Dead, My Life Feels Empty at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Amsterdam and Vienna tour), as well as performances directed by Andrei Serban, Anne Bogart and Mary Zimmerman. An active teaching artist, Sophia is also a member of Local 116 Theater Company and Baubo Performance Project (Chicago). MFA Columbia University, BS Northwestern University.                page top>>
 

Daniel Sonenberg (Composer) Daniel Sonenberg's concert music has been presented by the Da Capo Chamber Players, American Opera Projects, the New York Singing Teachers Association, Friends and Enemies of New Music, the American Composers Alliance, the Ground Base Artists Society, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra and others. He has received grants and fellowships from Meet the Composer, the Corporation of Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Daniel has also written theater songs and incidental music for Crossing Jamaica Avenue and the Compass Rose Theater Company, and is currently composing an opera based on the life of Negro league baseball legend Josh Gibson. He holds a D.M.A. in composition from the City University of New York, and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music.                                                                        page top>>
 

Dale Soules (Actor) She is currently performing the role of "Sarah Good" in the Broadway production of the Crucible . She has created the highly acclaimed role of "Sugar" in Karen Hartman's Girl Under Grain winner of Best Drama, NY Fringe Festival. She has created roles Off and On Broadway in such landmark productions as Hair, The Magic Show, Whose Life is it Anyway? Getting Out, and Jet Lag, appearing at the Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop. Atlantic Theatre Co., Manhattan Theatre Club, HERE, Mabou Mines, Lincoln Center, and regionally at the Guthrie, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Portland Stage, Center Stage, and many stops in-between. TV/Film: Sesame Street, American Playhouse, Really Rosie, Love God. Awards from: Mabou Mines, New Dramatists, Spencer Cherashore Fund, Richard Porter Leach Fellowship, SUNY.                                                         page top>>
 

Hilary Spector (Associate Artist) Hilary works in theater and opera in the U.S. and in Europe. In France she has choreographed The Tales of Hoffman (L’Opera de Nantes) and Thais (L’Opera de Nice). In Copenhagen she directed a critically acclaimed production of Orphee aux enfers at the Tivoli Theatre. She has worked with various opera companies in the U.S. including L.A. Opera, Seattle Opera and Cincinnati Opera. In New York she has directed with EST(for Octoberfest), Target Margin Theatre Lab, and the August Group. She has also created/choreographed/directed movement theater pieces for her own company, Red Poppy Theater, as well as for 12 Miles West Theatre, Hotel Savant and Nomad Theatre. As an actor she has performed at A Contemporary Theatre, the Bathhouse Theatre and the Water Street Theatre in Seattle, at L.A.T.C., the Matrix Theatre and Firebrand Theatre in Los Angeles, and at HERE, the 78th Street Theatre Lab, SoHo Rep, and Danspace at St. Mark’s in New York.                                                                          page top>>
 

Theresa Squire (Costume Designer) Theresa Squire has been designing costumes for theatre and dance in and around New York for the past eight years. CJA credits include Awakening and Woman Killer. Other credits include The Cuchulain Cycle directed by Sonoko Kawahara. Can’t Let Go, Three-Cornered Moon, Museum, The Voice of the Turtle (off-Broadway), The Good Thief (off-Broadway), and The Second Man produced by the Keen Company, Far and Wide at The Mint, Signals of Distress (Soho Rep) and Utopians with The Flying Machine. Pirates of Penzance (Directed by Worth Gardner) at Virginia Opera, Tony Kushner’s Hydriotaphia (Directed by Michael Wilson) and The Golden Bird (Directed by Andrei Serban) at La Mama Etc. Dance credits include Imago’s Unbecoming Snow White, Stefa Zaverucha’s Legal While Moving at DTW; Melissa Briggs’ Quartet at Joyce SoHo and Frozen at Blair Academy; Douglas Becker’s An Extremely Quiet Party and Darlene Casanova’s Amazonia both with NYU’s 2nd Avenue Dance Company and most recently Red Dive’s Peripheral City. Theresa holds an MFA from NYU. page top>>
 

Mia Yoo (Actor) She performed in La Mama's production of The Trojan Women (Andromacha), in New York, Korea and Taiwan, and Oedipus (Jocasta) and Geranos (Ariadne) in Eastern Europe. She has also performed in The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Grusha) at La Mama and Cymbeline (Helen) at The Public Theater/ New York Shakespeare Festival, Peter Hall's production of Tantalus at Denver Center Theatre which toured in Europe. She played writer/activist Agnes Smedley in Masahiro Shinoda's film Spy Sorge, and most recently performed in Shakespeare's Pericles as Thaisa at the American Repertory Theatre directed by Andrei Serban.                                                                        page top>>