John Clancy, Executive Director, is an OBIE award winning director and Executive Artistic Director of Clancy Productions, Inc. He is the founding Artistic Director of The Present Company, a leading Off-Off Broadway theatre company, and a founding Artistic Director of The New York International Fringe Festival, North America’s largest theater and performance festival. His plays have won The American Shorts Contest and The San Francisco Playwrights Center Dramarama, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First and have been short-listed for the Julie Harris Playwrighting Award and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award. Directing credits include Americana Absurdum, winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2000, Cincinnati, winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2002 and Adelaide Best of Fringe 2004, Horse Country, winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2002, Scotsman Best of the Firsts 2002 and Adelaide Best of Fringe 2004 and Fatboy, Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 2004. He directed C.J. Hopkins’ screwmachine/ eyecandy: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Bob at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005, garning him his 5th Fringe First in 4 years. In 2007, Clancy Productions was awarded the inaugural Edinburgh Festival Award by the Edinburgh International Festival and will present a new work at the arts festival in August of 08. John serves on the Advisory Council of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., the city’s preeminent advocacy and resource center for downtown theater, and the Advisory Board of the 24:7 Theatre Festival in Manchester, England. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and his writing has been published in Off, Edge, Village Voice, The Sunday Herald and The New York Times. He was awarded The New York Magazine Award in 1997 for 'creativity, enterprise and vision'. In 2002 he was awarded a Glasgow Herald Angel for excellence in direction at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He lives on the Lower East Side with his wife, Nancy Walsh.

Jennifer Conley Darling, Managing Director of Operations, has served as the Artistic Director of the terraNOVA Collective since 1999. Producing credits with terraNOVA include: Blue Before Morning by Kate McGovern (DR2 Theatre); Subterranean 2009, a performance party series (D-Lounge); terraNOVA Goes: Unconscious (New Works Series at Collective: Unconscious), An Evening with Linton Kwesi Johnson (The Zipper Theater), Masquerade: calypso and home by Roger Bonair-Agard (Barrow Street Theatre, Center Stage, NY, BRIClab, US tour); Buck Fever by Juan C. Sanchez (Blue Heron Arts Center); Baby Steps by James Carter  (Theatre Row); The Cuchulain Cycle by W.B. Yeats (Lovinger Theater at Lehman College); Our Bar by Charles O’Hara (Chelsea Playhouse, as well as a midwestern tour); soloNOVA Arts Festival 2005, 2006, 2008 (Center Stage, NY, The PIT, PS122); Groundbreakers Bi-Annual Reading Series 2006-2008 (Center Stage, NY, PS122, The Culture Project). Jennifer has also worked with esteemed companies such as 651 Arts, Ping Chong & Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Synapse Productions, Naked Angels, Second Generation, Collective:Unconscious, East River Commedia. She served as Human Resources Manager for The Araca Group, Senior Executive Associate for American Express marketing and sponsorships, and Managing Director of Rattlestick Productions. She is also a proud member of Women’s Projects Producers Lab 2008-2010.

Paul Bargetto, Managing Director of Public Affairs, is the Founder and Artistic Director of East River Commedia, an international theater company headquartered in New York City, and the curator of the undergroundzero festival. He holds an MFA from Columbia University in Directing and a BA in Drama from San Francisco State University.

Tom Berger is a director, producer, musician, and performer. His work has been seen all over the country in around 250 productions. He is the founding Artistic Director of (re:)Directions Theatre Company, a critically acclaimed independent theatre that focuses on reinvention of classics, new works, not often-produced musicals and championing successful regional playwrights who rarely have their voices heard in New York. His work in independent theatre has encompassed Untitled Theater Company #61, Hypothetical Theatre Company, Just ASK, Lovecreek, Ripetime and many others. RTC is a charter member of LIT and a member of the Independent Producers Alliance, and an avid fundraiser for BC/EFA.

Martin Denton is the founder, editor, and chief reviewer of nytheatre.com. He is also Executive Director of nytheatre.com's nonprofit parent organization, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (NYTE); the editor of NYTE's annual Plays and Playwrights anthologies (nine volumes so far since 2000), along with the collections Playing with Canons and Unpredictable Plays; and the founding producer of nytheatrecast, NYC's first original, regularly scheduled theatre podcast. Martin blogs at the nytheatre I.

Amanda Feldman is the General Manger of the Lark Play Development Center. Her producing credits include: Blackouts (Center Stage NY); Global Warming: The Women Chill (World Financial Center); Neighborhood 3 and Unfold Me (Summer Play Festival '08 and '07); Dressing Miss Julie (NYC Fringe Festival); The Deepest Play Ever, They’re Just Like Us, The Astronomer’s Triangle, The Trading Floor (CollaborationTown, a Theatre Company, Inc. 2003 – 2006). She is a founding member of the NYC World Theatre Day Coalition, Producer in the Women’s Project 2008 – 2010 Lab, the Vice President of The Community Dish, and a Judge-At-Large with the NYIT Awards. She was the founding Managing Director of the award winning company CollaborationTown, A Theatre Company where she currently serves as a Trustee. She has worked at Richards/Climan, Inc., The Shubert Organization, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Theatre Row, and Baltimore’s CENTERSTAGE.

Shay Gines graduated from the Actors Training Program at the University of Utah with a dual degree in theatre and marketing. Since then she has done everything from spackling walls at the Pasadena Playhouse and running follow-spot for the Pioneer Theatre Company to serving as the Artist in Residence for Touchstone Theatre. She has performed in theatres of all sizes from 30 seats to 1,000 across the country, from L.A. to NYC. She is an award winning producer whose Off and Off-Off-Broadway shows include: Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig, Ritual of Faith, What the F**k?!, Hamlet and Muse of Fire. Shay was a Founding Member and the Producing Director for Esperance Theatre Company, served for 5 years as an Associate Director for Emerging Artists Theatre Company and is a Founding Director for the New York Innovative Theatre Foundation.

Chris Harcum is an actor and playwright. He received a BFA in acting from UNC-Greensboro and an MFA in acting from the University of Virginia. His teaching artist work includes the Neighborhood Playhouse Junior School and the University of Virginia. He is the Artistic Director of Virgodog Theatre and a member of Transport Group, NJ Rep, SAG, AFTRA, AEA, and Dramatists Guild. His play, American Badass, was recently published in Plays and Playwrights 2009.

Christopher Heath is a playwright whose plays include Truth Is (MITF 2008), Four Quarters (2010 FRIGID Festival Top Grossing Show and 2002 NY Fringe), and Wally and Jesus (Emerging Artists’ EATFest Fall 2005). Other plays include Big Boy Two Scoop; Delays on the Weekend; ...digressions... ; In Stereotype, Where Available; Out and About; and Who Art In. He's currently working on a series of 175 short plays, Over the Table and Under the Bar. As Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Agony Productions, he produced Crash Comedy I and II, several short screenplay competitions, roundtable discussions on filmmaking, and the Writers in Agony Workshop Series. He is currently head of the Communications Committee for LIT.

Robert Honeywell is the Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of The Brick Theater. He is a playwright, composer, actor and director. New York works include Every Play Ever Written: a distillation of the essence of theatre ("a must-see for anyone who has been onstage" - New York Times), Greed: a Musical Love $tory, Ich Liebe Jesus! , Francoise Changes Her Mind, and World War III shall be a lovely daydream. He recently appeared in the revival of Notes From Underground at The Brick (Michael Gardner, dir.), and has also appeared at The Brick in Mountain Hotel, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, and In a Strange Room.

Leonard Jacobs is an arts journalist, arts advocate, theater critic, editor, author, reporter, playwright, director and dramaturg with 20 years invested in the New York stage—specifically Off-Off-Broadway. He edits the Clyde Fitch Report, the nexus of arts and politics; contributes pieces on film and television to America Online; regularly appears on the Strategy Room, FoxNews.com's live-streaming daily show, representing left-of-center politics; and is a former national editor of Back Stage.

Erez Ziv has joyfully dedicated the last ten years of his life to creating Horse Trade Theater Group, an entirely self sustaining off-off-Broadway theater company in New York City. His three stage performances include a bomb shelter performance of Hit the Road Jack at the age of 10 and speaking roles in two Yiddish productions (the last of which had him singing a Yiddish version of "the Age of Aquarius"). He has learned that he hates being on stage. His educational history includes a BA in Jewish and Religious studies with a minor in comparative religion from the University of Minnesota, a semester at Oxford, and a never to be quite completed Masters Degree in Talmud and Rabbinics from JTS. He is a licensed fireguard, Handsom Cab Driver, sprinkler systems inspector, flame proofing Supervisor and wedding ceremony officiate. He is very happy to have helped to firmly establish Horse Trade's reputation in the downtown theater scene and to create a well respected, self sufficient organization that has created and continues to create a home for some the New York City's most innovative, talented and hard working theater artists. Thankfully the World keeps providing him with both fresh and refined talent to let loose on NYC.