I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance.

This heartbeat is louder than death.

Your war drum ain't louder than this breath.

- Suheir Hammad

Joanna Parson 

The Amazing. She of the Happy Hour Salon and "Reddy Or Not" and The A-Train Musicals and "The Audience" and teaching solo performance writing (and also the fastest typist in New York).

Jill Abromovitz

Fantastic actor, singer, and award-winning BMI writer.  Favorite Jill Quote: "I'm tired of 'having irons in the fire' being code for 'I'm Poor!'"

Randall Stuart 

Shaman Elf, provocateur, Artistic Director of Upon These Boards.  Created the largest Lysistrata Project reading at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.  Doing wild, epic, transcendental work.

Donovan King 

If you think Randall is a provocateur... 

Donovan is the Artistic Facilitator of Optative Theatrical Laboratories in Montreal.  Created the coldest Lysistrata Project reading outdoors at 40 below zero. 

Doing great political, viral, invisible, and automotive theatre.  In particular, check out the Infringement Festival - a brilliant act of taking the Fringe Festival back to its populist, fringy roots.

Carmen Mitzi Sinott 

Upon hearing about Lysistrata Project, she asked herself the question: "What do I know about war," and then smote her forehead because she realized she knew a whole lot about war. her father was a Vietnam vet who went crazy upon his return. 

Mitzi promptly created a solo piece called "Snapshot" about her father, has been performing it around New York, and recently went to the Edinburgh Fringe, where she was nominated for BEST ACTRESS!  Go Mitzi!

Jason Jacobs

Dear friend and partner-in-crime.  Co-Artistic Director of Theatre Askew - doing Queer Theatre with social impact and spiritual consequence. 

Longtime (all the way back to college) collaborator who recently directed the premiere of  Vanya/Vermont (which was his idea in the first place).

Jason is particularly adept at developing new work, which is great for the deeply sensitive playwright.

Heather Woodbury 

My solo performance idol.  Has created these epic, novel-length performance pieces with just herself, a microphone, and Cirque-Du-Soleil-like vocal cords. 

Search her out, find her, honor her, worship her.  She's in LA.  Go forth and be stunned.  Or, if you can't get to her in person, pick up the novel-version of her show Whatever.

Make sure you have a patient friend who will let you read long passages aloud to them, because I guarantee that's what you're going to want to do.

Larry Gleason 

One of my favorite actors with whom to work.  He played Dr. Mike Astor in Vanya/Vermont and could not have been more passionate, committed, focused, and generally Right On. 

Also an acting teacher of great sensitivity.  Need help?  Here he is.

Amy Salloway 

David Sedaris better watch his back.  That's all I have to say.  Pee-your-pants funny. 

Based in Minneapolis (the LysProj spearhead there), but starting to tour quite frequently. 

I have to include one more pic because it b-crackin' me up.