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Bios

Lia Romeo (Playwright) is a playwriting fellow at Juilliard. Her plays have been developed at the O’Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, the Lark, and elsewhere, and have been produced Off Broadway at 59E59 and ART/NY as well as regionally at venues such as Dorset Theatre Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Unicorn Theatre, New Jersey Repertory Theatre, and others. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays are published by TRW, Broadway Licensing, and Broadway Play Publishing. She is the associate artistic director with Project Y Theatre Company and the co-founder of the Parent-Caregiver Playwrights Group, and she teaches playwriting at Primary Stages/ESPA and in the MA program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her play, STILL, received an Off Broadway run this spring with Colt Coeur.     

Andrew W. Smith (Director) is the co-founding artistic director of Project Y Theatre Company, where he has developed and directed new work in Washington, DC, New York City, and throughout the United States. With Project Y, he has served as producer, company manager, director, technical director, and actor over the 25-year producing history of the company.

Michole Biancosino (Actor) is the co-founding artistic director of Project Y Theatre Company, where she has developed and directed new work in Washington, DC, New York City, and internationally over the past 25 years. With Project Y, she has led various professional productions, as producer, director, creator and writer. Credits included the long-running shows, Trump Lear (co-created and directed) and the award-winning David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet (co-created and directed). She directs solo artist Peter Michael Marino’s long-running solo shows, Show Up! and Show Up Kids! Other work includes both the digital and on-stage versions of the Infallible Award-winner Planet of the Grapes Live From NYC (Zoo Venues, Edinburgh 2021) and the cosmic raga opera, Waves of Gravity with Neel Murgai (LaMama CultureHub). She is a producer of Project Y’s yearly Women in Theatre Festival. Michole was featured by Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and The Brooklyn Rail. Recipient: SDC Gielgud Fellowship for classical directing. Her work has been supported by grants from The Puffin Foundation, ART/NY, NY Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), The Dramatists Guild, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is an Associate of Theatre at Middlebury College.

For more information: www.micholebiancosino.com