CREATIVE

Anna Fishbeyn (Playwright) began her career on the stage with a collection of essays entitled, Conversations With My Breasts, which she performed as a solo-show at Cornelia Street Café.  Her second one-woman solo show, Sex in Mommyville, played at the Flea Theater in August 2010. The show received rave reviews from WCBS Radio, Backstage Review, Flavorpill, Capital New York, Elevate Difference, and was recommended by culture.wnyc.org as the show not to miss. Ms. Fishbeyn transformed the solo show into a rich, multi-character play for its premiere at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, where it had a sold out run in the summer of 2011 and was extended for further performances in September, 2011.  Ted Merwin from The Jewish Week said, “The show...is a lusty, unbridled Russian Jewish updating of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.”  Jeremy Gerard from Bloomberg News called the show “Furious” and said he would “…take her [Fishbeyn's] spleen over the sitcom slickness of Zach Braff's All New People." 

Ms. Fishbeyn holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, an MFA in Fiction from New School University, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Ms. Fishbeyn's articles, such as, “Wall Street Makeover,” “The Silence of Jane Eyre,” and “The Miniskirt Dilemma,” examine the media-engendered pressures and socially acceptable double-standards affecting women and mothers today.  Her novel, The Matrimonial Flirtations of Emma Kaulfield, depicts a woman grappling with feminism, love and a splintered identity.

Molly Ballerstein (Director) is a theatre artist with a concentration on directing and new work. She recently Stage Managed the world premiere of Oswald at the Richmond Shepard Theater. In January she participated in Here Arts Center's Culturefest. In Boston she worked on the world premiere one man show According to Tip with Ken Howard. Molly studied Theatre Production at Northeastern University in Boston where she worked with designers and directors to develop a concentration on collaborative new performance piece.

Nicole Cotton (Associate Producer) is an active musician, playing with the Astoria Symphony and other ensembles in the New York City area. Nicole is also a sought after wind instructor, teaching privately and at the Woodmere Music School and production manger in many areas. She is currently the Production Manager for a classical music production company that is in Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall, at Lincoln Center, almost weekly.  Along with this, she has three years experience in Carnegie Hall and Weill Recital Hall.  Last year she was on the ground floor of a show by Eric Whitacre called, Paradise Lost, which she served as Production and Stage Manager.  This March the show went to Chicago's Auditorium Theatre, and she followed it to Disney Hall in Los Angeles on June 25th. Originally from Arkansas, she obtained her B.A. in Music from the University of Arkansas and completed her Masters Degree in Clarinet Performance from New York University. Nicole had the opportunity to be a performer and personal assistant to Dr. Esther Lamneck for the New Music program in Florence, Italy.

Amanda Donnelly (Web Design) is a Manhattan based Web and Graphic designer who specializes in the arts and alternative health. She was lead to design by a love a photography and illustration. In 1997, having never touched a computer and having no idea how to turn one on, she signed up for a Photoshop and Illustrator course to see what it was all about. Quickly obsessed, this led to studying Graphic Design and within a few years, Web Design. She has designed web sites, graphic materials and developed identities for artists' and small businesses throughout the United States, as well as Europe and Australia.
www.amandadonnellydesign.com

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