	Michael Barra top (Producing Artistic Director) Michael is a producer and general manager who serves as the Producing Artistic Director of Gotham Stage Company, which he co-founded. For Gotham Michael has developed and produced the world premiere of Randall David Cook's Sake With The Haiku Geisha at The Perry Street Theatre, the New York premiere of Eric Houston's Becoming Adele at Theatre Row, as well as the world premiere of Randall David Cook's Fate's Imagination at The Players Theatre. As principal of Michael Barra Productions he has been an active theatrical investor, has executive produced the Conway Brothers/ Sedagive Entertainment film Waiting for Maggio and has general managed each of Gotham Stage Company's productions. He is currently developing the film adaptation of Randall David Cook's play In a Town Called Faith (which he commissioned for Gotham Stage Company) as well as a television pilot based in the world of Off-Broadway. Michael is a member of the Producer Development Program and the New Producers' Alliance at the League of American Theatres and Producers and is a graduate of the Hollywood Film Institute, the Commercial Theatre Institute, Bentley College (BS), and Suffolk University (MBA). Other affiliations include the LAByrinth Theatre Company and Manhattan Theatre Club (Vice-chair, Young Patrons Program). Michael is also a member of The Players Club.
	Peter H. Smith top (Producer/Director) comes from a background of extensive television production and new media and Business Development. He has served as an Associate Producer and Producer on various television projects for HBO, CBS and ABC Sports and is currently a Supervising Producer for HBO's New Media and Programming Group working on such shows as "The Sopranos", "Six Feet Under", "Carnivale" and "Rome". For Gotham Stage Company he has produced Sake with the Haiku Geisha and the upcoming New York premiere of Eric Houston's Becoming Adele. He has also served as Executive Producer for the Conway Brothers' film Waiting for Maggio. He recently won the 2006 Webby Award in the Television category for his work on Carnivale. Mr. Smith is a graduate of Canisius College (BS) of Buffalo, NY.
	Katie Dietz top (Actor/Singer/Producer) Katie is a founding member of Gotham Stage Company and has worked in NY Theater on volume of smoke (dir Isaac Butler), St. Scarlet (dir Chris Messina), Following Wolf (dir David Grimm), and Baal (dir Paul Zablocki) among others. Regionally Katie has worked at The Hangar Theatre (dir Kevin Moriarty), New London Playhouse (dir Thom Sesma), and the Surflight Theatre. Television credits include "Stood Up" (abc) and "Tinsley Bumbles" (WE Network). Films include "Valor to Venom" and "The Seventy-Two Ounce Steak Challenge". Katie received her BFA from Ithaca College.
	Julia Haubner top (Actor/Singer/Producer) has understudied Fantine and Eponine in both the National tour and Broadway companies of Les Miserables.She recently appeared in Sake with the Haiku Gesiha and with Len Cariou in the new musical Passin it On at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. Regionally she has worked at the Merry Go Round Playhouse, North Carolina Theater, Goodspeed Opera House and Northshore Music Theater as well as appearing in "The Education of Max Bickford" on CBS and various television commercials. She has a BFA in Acting/Musical Theater from Carnegie Mellon University.
	Jason Adams top (Master Electrician/Carpenter/Actor) Jason Adams is both an actor and a technician. He has done several productions with Sudden Theatre, Italian American Reconciliation (Aldo), Storm Theatre, Impulse Theatre and Dance, Jerry Finnegan's Sister (Brian), and Cherry Street Theatre's world premiere of A Person's Proof (Nicholas). Electrician experience includes, Sake with the Haiku Geisha (Gotham Stage Company, Master Electrician), Not a Genuine Black Man (DR2, Master Electrician), Ice Theatre of New York, ABC Showcase, Miss Alabama, Merry Widow (NYU). Carpentry experience includes, Massacre and All the Bad Things (Labyrinth Group), Dr. Sex (The Signature, Head Deck Carp), Revenger's Tragedy (Culture Project), Indoor, Outdoor (DR2) Summer Play Festival, The Cataract (Women's Project).
	Randall David Cook top (Playwright) After earning his International MBA from the Moore School of Business at USC and after work stints in Japan and Paris and at Newsweek magazine in NYC, Randall David decided to finally reveal his secret passion to be a playwright beyond his close circle of friends, so in 1999 he started writing his first play and has never looked back. The results: Off-Broadway: Sake with the Haiku Geisha (Gotham Stage Company), directed by Alex Lippard at the Perry Street Theatre. Regional: Southern Discomfort at the Aronoff Centre in Cincinnati, and Open Call at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Off-Off-Broadway: Third Finger, Left Hand (Regardez-Nous Theatre Company), directed by Michael Berry at the Flatiron Playhouse. Radio: Sushi and Scones (BBC Radio). Screenplays: Quintet and Revelation, both finalists for the Sundance Filmmakers Lab. Etc.: Among the venues where his plays have also been performed, developed and workshopped are EST, the Chernuchin Theatre, Greenwich Street Theatre, John Houseman Studio Theatre, Westbeth Theatre Centre, Neighborhood Playhouse, Trilogy Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Source, Sumter Opera House (SC), Cincinnati Museum of Art, Abingdon Theatre, Halifax Grammar School (Nova Scotia) and a rather remote villa in the South of France. Festivals: The Dawlish Arts Festival (U.K.), Octoberfest, BareBones One-Act Play Festival (NC), 8-Minute Madness Play Festival, the inaugural South Carolina Playwrights' Festival ("Best Play" award) and the International JETAA Conference at the Japanese Embassy in NYC. Organizations: Proud member of The Dramatists Guild and Gotham Stage Company. Proud co-owner (with Jennifer Lea Reed) of both The Zoo Crew and Big Apple Dog School, cause no matter how bad a day may be going, a dog will set it right. Whereabouts: Originally from Irmo, South Carolina, Randall David now lives in Manhattan, but despite having worked on three continents and having been a New Yorker for a decade, he still has an accent and misses sweet iced tea. To learn more, check out www.RandallDavidCook.com.
	Alison DeSantis top (Assistant Stage Manager) NYC: "Sake with the Haiku Geisha" (Gotham Stage), "Rope" and "The Big Time" (Drama Dept.), "Dear Land" (PS122). Regional: Alison spent three years at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY. Highlights there include "36 Views", "Convenience", "A Christmas Carol", and "House" and "Garden". She holds a BA in English from the University of Rochester. www.alisondesantis.com
	Ikuma Isaac top (Actor) Ikuma Isaac’s lifelong dream came true when he portrayed a transsexual, an over-sexed monk and a cantankerous father all in one play – none other than Gotham’s inaugural production, “Sake with the Haiku Geisha”. Okay, his REAL dream was to become a professional baseball player and that almost came true when he played one in Richard Greengerg’s “Take Me Out” at The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and The Studio Theatre (DC) - both of which won regional awards for best production. Other regional: Caldwell Theatre Company. TV: All My Children, As the World Turns, 2005 NFL Pro Bowl (Nippon TV - Japanese network tv). Ikuma works with Family Life Theatre, an educational theatre company who performs shows in New York City high schools. Ikuma also works as a freelance producer for Nippon TV’s New York City bureau and covered SuperBowl XXXIX & XL, 2005 MLB World Series, and 2004 US Presidential Election among other things. Ikuma received his BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
	Lucas Benjaminh Krech top (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway: Becoming Adele and Sake with the Haiku Geisha (Gotham Stage Company); The Last Word (Dir, Alex Lippard). Other NY: Artfuckers (Dir, Eduardo Machado); Windows (INTAR); Hitting the Wall (Dir, Drew Barr); Cupid and Psyche (Dir, Alex Lippard, ITAward Nomination); Heliantha (Dir, Rachel Schroeder); Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap (Dir, Marcy Arlin). Regional: House of Lucky (Dir, Josh Costello); Young Zombies in Love (Dir, Curtis Elfenbein); and numerous productions with Impact Theatre. Site specific: The Seven Deadly Sins: A Fire Opera (Dir, Roy Rallo; Oakland, CA); Medea (Dir, Isabel Ramos; San Juan, PR); and Foucault’s Pendulum (Nevada Desert). Dance: A. DeMille Celebration (NYTB), Force/Quit (Niccolo Fonte); More Eather, Extra Instinct (Sean Curran); Mother Goose! (Keith Michaels); and Blueprint (Johannes Wieland). MFA from New York University. Website: www.lucaskrech.com.
	Allison Leyton-Brown top (Composer/Sound Designer) Allison Leyton-Brown has written more than 30 original music and sound scores for theatre, opera, dance & film productions across the U.S. and Canada. Recent projects include: Sake With the Haiku Geisha (Gotham Stage Company), The Snow Queen (Urban Stages), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, and Hecuba (Friendly Fire). Allison is composer-in-residence with Archipelago Theater in North Carolina, whose productions of The Woman in the Attic and The Trojan Women (with Duke University) landed on several of the area’s Top 10 Lists for 2005/6. Other music-theatre pieces include Last Days in Vegas, Aloha Flight 243: a one-act opera (lib. S. Chapadjiev), and cult favorite How Many Annas (words by A. Tolk). She has scored several independent films including a one-minute silent short for Coca Cola, and two feature films screened at the Telluride Festival and New York’s MIX festival. Allison is on the music faculty of the American Dance Festival and NYU’s Playwrights Horizons Theater School.
	Angela Lin top (Actor/Singer) Angela Lin played the role of Haiku Geisha and Sumiko in Gotham Stage Company's inaugural production of Sake with the Haiku Geisha. She will be making her Broadway debut as Miss Price in Coram Boy this Spring (2007). With the unbelievable support of her parents, Angela graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in Musical Theater. She has since worked professionally across the country and in NYC at theaters such as MTC, Lincoln Center, Partial Comfort, McCarter Theater, Cincinatti Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Pioneer Theater, TheatreWorks, and more. For more on Angela, visit her website at www.angelalin.net.
	David Shih top (Actor) Dave appeared in Gotham Stage Company's Sake with the Haiku Geisha at The Perry Street Theater. Other theater credits include: 365 Plays/365 Days (The Public Theater/SALT Theater); The American Clock and Caged Visions (HB Playwrights Foundation); Ping Pong Diplomacy (59E59 Theaters; Stockholm Brooklyn (Cherry Lane Theatre); Rounding Third (Millbrook Playhouse). Film/TV credits include: "Saving Face" (Sony Picture Classics), "All My Children" (ABC), "Interpol Investigates" (National Geogaphic Channel). Dave directed "The Cranverries: Doors and Windows" cdrom for the Irish Rock band The Cranberries. His voice can be heard in the video games "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" and "The Warriors" (Rockstar Games). He sings in The Collegiate Chorale at Carnegie Hall.
	Marci Skolnick top (Production Stage Manager) Marci Skolnick (Stage Manager) NY Credits include Sake…Geisha (Gotham), On Second Avenue, A Novel Romance, The Lady Next Door (Folksbiene), Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding (Artificial Intelligence), The Madwoman of Chaillot (Acting Company Salon Series), Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Animus (INTAR), Madame Killer (Clubbed Thumb), Savage Nursery (Tandem Otter), The Merchant on Venice (Lark Play Development Center), The American Living Room 2004 (HERE), Cooking with Lard (White Bird), Dr. Julia Wonder (Dixon Place), Burgular of Suburbia (the WorkShop), Waiting for Godot-50th Anniversary Production (tangent), Mr. Gallico (Widemouth), The Lucretia Jones Mysteries (Gideon) and Henry IV (Boomerang). A proud member of Actor’s Equity, Ms. Skolnick is a graduate of Hofstra University.
	Betsy Werbel top (Singer/Actor) Betsy Werbel is proud to be an official member of Gotham Stage Company, She was recently seen on the National Tour and in the Broadway company of "Les Miserables." Betsy can be heard on the recordings of "The Canterville Ghost", and "To Paint the Earth," and can also be seen in many workshops of new shows throughout the city. Betsy is a proud member Actors Equity Association, and a graduate of the Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music.