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Performance History

Matrix Theater, Los Angeles CA

Hudson Theater, Los Angeles CA

Venice High School, Los Angeles CA

West Adams High School, Los Angeles CA

WordTheatre, Los Angeles CA

East Village Playhouse, New York NY

Rikers Island Jail, New York NY

Cherry Lane Theatre, New York NY

Dixon Place, New York NY

The Kitchen, New York NY

The Horse Trade Theater, New York NY

Performance Studies International Conference, Wales UK

Victoria Theatre, Portsmouth England

The Gas Station, New York NY

Collective Unconscious, New York NY

The Performance Studio, New Haven CT

Art In Heaven, New Haven CT

Wardrobe & Costumes Provided by East Village Vintage Collective.

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About Us

Playwright/Performer

Robert Galinsky is a contributing writer to The Fresh Toast, is Head Speaker Coach for TEDxTeen, TEDxFultonStreet, and teaches writing and performance at Rikers Island Jail, through the non-profit Literacy for Incarcerated Teens and GalinskyCoaching.com. His work as an artist activist has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, and on The VIEW, NPR, ABC Nightline News and many media outlets

Presenters

Christopher David Noth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, to Jeanne Parr, a CBS news reporter, and Charles James Noth, an attorney. He rose to prominence as Detective Mike Logan on the original Law & Order(1990), where he spent five seasons before going on to set hearts aflutter as the iconic Mr. Big on HBO's groundbreaking series Sex and the City(1998).

Equally riveting on the big screen, small screen or on stage, veteran actor Barry Shabaka Henley draws from a rich history of acting in many high profile films, television shows and theatre productions.Over the past 25 years, Henley has amassed an impressive amount of film and television credits. He has starred in the big budget hits including "The Terminal", "Rush Hour", "Patch Adams", "How Stella Got her Grove Back" "Bulworth" and “Carrie”. 

Director

Jay O. Sanders most recently appeared at the Public Theater in a trilogy of new plays written and directed by Richard Nelson called The Gabriels; Election Year in the Life of One Family, with a company including his wife, Maryann Plunkett.

Producers

Terry Schnuck is the Managing Member of Linden Park Productions LLC. He is a five-time Tony Award winning Broadway and Off-Broadway producer whose numerous Broadway credits include: Bandstand; Sunset Boulevard; Fun Home (Tony); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Matilda the Musical; Clybourne Park (Tony); The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony); Hair (Tony); Spring Awakening (Tony); You Can't Take It With You

Associate Producers

Benjamin Quinto is Co-President of Natural Immunogenics Corp, makers of the #1 selling silver supplement, Sovereign Silver. His background in youth advocacy and global organizing includes initiating the United Nations Youth Assembly Project at age 18, and founding the Global Youth Action Network (GYAN) at 21.

Shannon Hamm is an actress, producer and meditation teacher in NYC. Born and raised in Erie, Pennsylvania, Shannon moved to New York City to study in the Integrated program at The American Musical And Dramatic Academy. 

Chinedu Echeruo,  co-founder of The Love and Magic Company. believes that individuals, empowered by imagination and inspiration, can solve virtually any problem.

Design Pioneer Pamela Abalu, co-founder of The Love and Magic Company, delivers cutting edge work infusing consciousness and inclusivity into global workplace transformation. Pamela has practiced enterprise scale, cross cultural, human centered design and is a proselytizer for the “Love and Magic” required to build environments which help people be their best selves and share that impact societally

Mark Schoenfeld

Adi Sideman 

Public Relations

Joe Trentacosta  began his career in public relations over 15 years ago as an assistant at Springer/Chicoine PR. He was a PR assistant on the Tony Award winning show Side Man and NAT’s Judgment at Nuremberg. In a short time, he rose in the ranks and eventually became Vice-President of Springer Associates PR, overseeing all live theatrical and special events including running the pr campaigns for campaigns for the Earth, Wind and Fire musical Hot Feet and the multi-cultural Broadway productions of Tennessee William’s A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with James Earl Jones and Terrence Howard and A Streetcar Named Desire with Blair Underwood to name a few. 

Company Manager & General Manager

Company Manager: REED RIDGLEY  urrently works as the Development Manager at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Previous General Management positions include the Vineyard Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Manhattan Class Company, Red Bull, and The New York Musical Theatre Festival.

General Manager: JEFF CHRZCZON has 25 years of experience as Producer and General Manager of live entertainment. His Broadway credits include: The Temptations & Four Tops on Broadway, Billy Crystal 700 Sundays, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, The Lyons, Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony, and more.

Set Design & Graphic Novelization

DAPHNE ARTHUR received an MFA from Yale in 2009 and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Solo exhibitions include: RARE gallery in NY and the University of Massachusetts Boston and group exhibitions nationally and internationally at the Honfleur Gallery in DC, City College of NY, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, Laviolabank Gallery, Marvelli Gallery, Rush Arts Gallery, Arena 1 in Santa Monica, California African American Museum in LA, Land of Tomorrow in Louisville, Mexic-Arte Museum, 59 Rivoli gallery in Paris and Florence Biennale VIII in Italy.

Audio Design

DEEP SINGH has been steeped in music since the age of three and has led to some very innovative collaboration’s with leading artists from the East and West. Singh has composed music for the prime minister of India (“Anthem of US”), as well as for Broadway musicals and has worked on various projects with Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

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