Writers & Staff

Jacquelyn writes for theatre and television. Her plays include String Fever, (EST, starring Cynthia Nixon and Evan Handler), A Story About a Girl (JAW at Portland Center Stage), A Very Very Short Play (EST), Girl Gone (MCC Theatre), 2B (or not 2B) (Actors Theatre of Louisville), For-everett (HB Playwrights), Dear Kenneth Blake (EST), Tunnel of Love (Naked Angels), and Freeze Tag, have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, across the U.S., in London, Belgrade, Berlin, and Hong Kong.

Jackie wrote the Mia episodes for Emmy nominated Gabriel Byrne and Hope Davis in HBO’s In Treatment, Executive Producer, Warren Leight. Other TV includes: Law and Order Criminal Intent, Miss Match, and Daria.

Awards include: 2006 Playwriting NYFA, EST/Sloan Foundation commissions, New Dramatists’ Whitfield Cook, the Kennedy Center‘s Fund for New American Plays, and a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist. She has been published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2003, several Best American Short Plays, various Best Monologues, by Samuel French and Smith & Kraus. A collection of her one-acts Things Between Us is published by Dramatists Play Service.

A New Dramatists alum, Jackie has a Playwriting MFA from Ohio University, and wrote an “A-train play” this year, while, yes, riding the A train. www.jacquelynreingold.com

Allison Leyton-Brown is a composer, pianist, and musical director based in NYC. Allison has composed for many New York companies including Urban Stages, The Culture Project, City at Peace, Gotham Stage, HERE Arts Center, NYU, The York Theater, Friendly Fire, LaMaMa, The Women’s Project, Bindlestiff’s Family Circus, Thread Dance Theater, and choreographers Jennifer Nugent + Paul Matteson, and Neta Pulvermacher. Allison is composer-in-residence for avant-garde company Archipelago Theater, for whom she has composed two award-winning shows and is writing a score for Out of the Blue (2010). Most recently she collaborated with puppeteer Basil Twist on a live score for a 2009 Duke University production of Exit the King. Film credits include feature-length documentary Millions: A Lottery Story, which screened nation-wide, several independent films, and a silent short for Coca Cola. Television credits include music for the Food Network, Lifetime, and the WE Network.

Allison is on the faculty at Playwrights Horizons Theater School (NYU), and works regularly as a musical director, band leader, and private vocal coach around the city. Most recently Allison acted as musical director/band leader for the concert of Lewis Black’s and Rusty Magee’s The Czar of Rock & Roll at Joe's Pub, and the run of Mary Testa & Alison Fraser's "Together Again" at the Laurie Beechman Theater. She can be seen performing with various musical groups around NYC.

www.allisonleytonbrown.com

Credits include Smoking Bloomberg (New York Music Theater Festival 2006, Verizon Audience Pick Award), Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), The Middle of No Where (Prince Music Theater), Nerds (New York Stage & Film), Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years (Repertory Theater of St. Louis), A Good Man (NAMT Festival 2004 and Musical Theater Works), Liz Tuccillo's Fair Fight: A Mean Little Dance (Aspen Comedy Arts Festival, New York Stage and Film, Naked Angels) and Fair Fight 2: The Sequel (Naked Angels), Second Skin by Chay Yew (Brave New World), Stephen Sondheim’s Company (Actor's Express), The Rothko Room by Stuart Spencer (EST Marathon 2000), Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine by Warren Leight (Penguin Rep, NY Premier), Mark St. Germain and Randy Courts's The Gingerbread House (New Harmony Project and Playwright's Horizons), Avenue X (Repertory of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park & Merrimack Rep), Little Kit and Appelamando's Dreams (prodeuced by the Vineyard Theater), The Music Man (Sundance Theater Institute), , a national tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella with the Joffery II, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Charles Playhouse), Hair (Emelin Theater), as well as productions with the Juilliard School, Ensemble Studio Theater, New York Stage & Film and Naked Angels and Goodspeed Musicals. He heads the Music Theater program at Playwrights Horizons Theater School, is on the faculty at Pace University and teaches the on-going professional musical theater forum THE GYM (www.thegymnyc.com). John is a Drama League Directing Fellow and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.

Lee Terry (Lighting Design) is a graduate of the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and has spent much of his career working around the country with Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown, rock'n roll events in Texas, and music and industrial events in Las Vegas. In the Past year he has worked with Urban Stages, Soho Rep, Here Arts Center and other theatre companies in New York in various lighting design roles. Most recently Lee designed Heavens of Hell for Brooklyn One Theatre and was the Associate Designer for Keen Company's Keen Teen Show at Theatre Row. For more information about Lee Terry and his work please visit www.LMTlighting.com

Andy Yerkes’ television work has appeared around the world on networks like Fox, HBO, PBS, The BBC, ITV, Comedy Central, and The Disney Channel, to name a few. He has received 6 Emmy nominations for his work in children’s television. He has been the head writer of the shows Bear in the Big Blue House, Mirabelle’s Home Movies and Word World, as well as the BAFTA award winning Pocoyo, Stanley, and the upcoming Disney series, Jungle Junction, to name a few. His theatrical work has appeared in New York at Naked Angels, the Rushmore Theatre Arts Festival, and the Grove Street Theatre; in Los Angeles at the Coast Theatre, and in Chicago. His fiction has appeared in the journals Skylark, Odyssey, and Epiphany; he is currently working on completing a book of connected short stories, entiltled A Trick of the Light. But the best thing he ever did was his part in creating his children, Lilly and Luke.