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Playwright Ed Stevens Ed earned an M.A. in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University, where he specialized in playwriting and directing. He interned at La Jolla Playhouse and The Globe Theater. His play After, a post-9/11 story, received the Kennedy Center’s 2005 David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award. Ed’s work has been produced in New York City, Provincetown, St. Petersburg and San Diego and has received honors at the George R. Kernodle Playwriting Contest, Attic Theatre’s One Act Marathon, Kennedy Center Ten-Minute Play Competition, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Actors Theatre New Works Festival, American Theatre Co-op, Valencia Character Company, Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, Hidden River Arts Playwriting Award, Ashland New Plays Festival and Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Ed splits his time between New York City and St. Petersburg, FL. Email Ed Stevens Director Cynthia Dillon Cynthia Dillon was resident director and artistic director for the American Southwest Theatre Company, founded by Tony Award-winning playwright Award-winning playwright Mark Medoff, where she directed contemporary drama by Shepard, Vogel, Medoff, Miller, Pinter and Guare, as well as Mr. Medoff's musical, A Christmas Carousel. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar award and spent 6 months directing and researching directing practices in Germany. She was one of the founders of The Desert Apple Theatre Company in New York, and in August 2003 she produced and directed its inaugural production of The Wood Demon by Anton Chekhov. She also produced and directed the American premiere of Push-Up by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig for DATC. Most recently, Cynthia directed a production of The First Quarto of Hamlet (Q1: The Bad Hamlet) for New World Theatre at the Stella Adler Studios and again as part of the Brick Theater's Pretentious Festival. Cynthia has an M.A. in directing and a Ph.D. in performance theory from the University of Colorado and has taught (CUNY and New Mexico State) and directed since 1984. She has directed over 50 productions in professional and academic theatres, and spent 6 seasons with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as an assistant director and dramaturge. Stage Manager Sean McCain Sean moved to New York City after graduating from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, and since then, he has worked with Naked Angels, Abingdon Theatre Company, The League of Professional Theatre Women and, most recently, Resonance Ensemble on its production of The Master Builder. While in Sioux Falls, he stage managed more than a dozen productions, from Big River and Pirates of Penzance to Urinetown: the Musical. For the past three summers, he has taught the Musical Theater Camp at The Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science.

Playwright Ed Stevens
Ed earned an M.A. in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University, where he specialized in playwriting and directing. He interned at La Jolla Playhouse and The Globe Theater. His play After, a post-9/11 story, received the Kennedy Center’s 2005 David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award.

Ed’s work has been produced in New York City, Provincetown, St. Petersburg and San Diego and has received honors at the George R. Kernodle Playwriting Contest, Attic Theatre’s One Act Marathon, Kennedy Center Ten-Minute Play Competition, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, Actors Theatre New Works Festival, American Theatre Co-op, Valencia Character Company, Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival, Hidden River Arts Playwriting Award, Ashland New Plays Festival and Bay Area Playwrights Festival.

Ed splits his time between New York City and St. Petersburg, FL.

Email Ed Stevens

Director Cynthia Dillon
Cynthia Dillon was resident director and artistic director for the American Southwest Theatre Company, founded by Tony Award-winning playwright Award-winning playwright Mark Medoff, where she directed contemporary drama by Shepard, Vogel, Medoff, Miller, Pinter and Guare, as well as Mr. Medoff's musical, A Christmas Carousel.

She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar award and spent 6 months directing and researching directing practices in Germany. She was one of the founders of The Desert Apple Theatre Company in New York, and in August 2003 she produced and directed its inaugural production of The Wood Demon by Anton Chekhov. She also produced and directed the American premiere of Push-Up by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig for DATC.

Most recently, Cynthia directed a production of The First Quarto of Hamlet (Q1: The Bad Hamlet) for New World Theatre at the Stella Adler Studios and again as part of the Brick Theater's Pretentious Festival. Cynthia has an M.A. in directing and a Ph.D. in performance theory from the University of Colorado and has taught (CUNY and New Mexico State) and directed since 1984. She has directed over 50 productions in professional and academic theatres, and spent 6 seasons with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as an assistant director and dramaturge.

Stage Manager Sean McCain
Sean moved to New York City after graduating from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, and since then, he has worked with Naked Angels, Abingdon Theatre Company, The League of Professional Theatre Women and, most recently, Resonance Ensemble on its production of The Master Builder. While in Sioux Falls, he stage managed more than a dozen productions, from Big River and Pirates of Penzance to Urinetown: the Musical. For the past three summers, he has taught the Musical Theater Camp at The Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science.