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Days and Nights: page 121, lines 11 and 12

Crew Bios

ELIZABETH B. CARLIN (Costume Design)  Originally from Austin, TX where she simultaneously earned a BA in Theatre and a license in Cosmetology, Elizabeth recently celebrated her 1st anniversary as a NYC resident. In addition to her freelance costume design gigs, she also works full time as the Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor for The Juilliard School costume shop.  Days/Nights is the second FringeNYC production she has designed for (Broken Hands was her NYC design premiere). Other credits include Laundry and Bourbon/Lone Star (costume design), Radio Macbeth for SITI Company (costume construction), Ancient Greek Weaving film for The History Channel, (costume design, construction), The Tempest (co-designer), and Rising, an original dance play based on the music of Yoko Ono set to premiere this Fall, (costume design).

ANDI COHEN (Props Design) is a recent NYU Grad. Past prop experience includes Broken Hands (FringeNYC 2006), This Modern Love (Studio Theater), and a prop internship with The Public Theater. She is also a director, sound designer and stage manager with recent projects including The Second Tosca (SM), The Madness of Lady Bright (director), and The Lesson (sound design). She would like to thank her ever supporting family, Alex, and of course Marc for the wonderful opportunity to work on this project.

ALEXIS DISTLER (Set Design)  Alexis is in her final year pursuing an MFA in Scenic Design from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Recent credits include Ladyhouse Blues (3 Graces), People Like US, Found in Translation, and The Dripping Portrait of This and That, or His Lordship's Isolated Spright (Tisch Department of Dance). She is currently production designing a music video for Laura Veirs.

RACHEL FOWLER (Casting)  Casting credits include: The Sea with The Actors Company Theatre, as well as their salon series productions of Rain & Dandy Dick; Cyrano and A Midsummer Nights Dream for Mile Square Theatre, where she is an Artistic Associate; and she assisted Rich Cole last fall for many of his regional casting projects for the Pioneer, St Louis Rep & Cincinnati Playhouse.  She is a professional actress and expecting her first child (a girl!) in September.  www.rachelafowler.com

CARA ANGELA LIGUORI (Choreography) received her B.A. in Dance (Performance & Choreography) from Connecticut College in 2005, where she studied with distinguished guest artists and faculty such as Dan Wagoner, David Dorfman, Jeremy Nelson, Gail Gilbert and Eddie Taketa among others. She has participated in Summer Dance Intensives with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and with Doug Varone and Dancers. Since graduating, she has performed in the theatrical and dance works of Heidi Latsky, Mary Fulham, Stefanie Nelson, Betsy Miller, Natalie Desch, and Aviva Geismar as well as in her own choreography and as the dancing robot Supersonic in UpandAtThem's educational outreach play Bird's Words.  Cara is a founding member of Propel-her Dance Collective.   She is currently creating a new dance supported by a FAR Space grant from The Field for Propel-her's Fall 2007 concert.   Cara teaches and choreographs for student dancers ages 8-18 at The Dance Project in Queens and she is currently performing with Drastic Action/Aviva Geismar and Stefanie Nelson Dance Group.

SETH REISER (Lighting Design) is in his final year at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts MFA program, where he is studying design for dance and theatre. Recent credits include: People Like US, The Dripping Portrait, Found In Translation, But I Expected…, I am a Camera, The End. Seth is also the resident designer for NOVISI Productions for whom he is currently designing Shakespeare’s Tap Sonnets. This is Seth’s first production with Purple Man Theater Company and FringeNYC.

MARC STUART WEITZ (Adaptor, Director)  NY Credits include: Award-winning production of Broken Hands (2006 fringenyc award for Outstanding Playwriting and Outstanding Actor), Patriot Act (Winner – Best Actor, NY 15-Minute Play Festival), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Queens Theater in the Park), Ladyhouse Blues (3Graces Theater), Studio Portrait (Rude Mechanicals), Hunger and Thirst (2001 Ionesco Festival).  He has assisted at theaters across the country, including Lincoln Center, The Old Globe, Indiana Rep and Syracuse Stage, working with playwrights such as Arthur Miller, A.R. Gurney, Wendy Kesselman, and D. Tucker Smith.  He has taught and/or directed at the North Carolina Governor's School, City University of NY, Fordham, Fairleigh Dickinson, DePauw, and University of San Diego.  Marc is Artistic Director of Purple Man Theater Company, and is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and Rude Mechanicals Theater. MFA: American Conservatory Theater.

CONSTANCE ZAYTOUN (Associate ProducerConstance has worked with Purple Man to produce plays, workshops, and readings of works by both Moby Pomerance and Deb Margolin. Acting credits include – NEW YORK: Broken Hands (NY International Fringe Festival, FringeNYC Encore Series), Seen by the Dog, rabid dog.doc (Six Figures Theatre Co.), Why We Have a Body, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Love's Labour's Lost (Women's Shakespeare Co.), The Piano Men (Purple Man Theater Co.), Sex Lives of the Superheroes (Ha! Festival), The Lysistrata Project (Urban Rock Project), Admit One Inhuman Beast (Synchronicity Space), Damn Fango (NY International Fringe Festival). FILM: The Stepford Wives. She received a Masters in Interdisciplinary Arts at NYU's Gallatin School and is completing her Ph.D. in Theatre Studies at CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches theatre and acting at Marymount Manhattan College and New York University.