Algonquin theater, new york tourist attractions, off Broadway, Manhattan, NY.


	Tony Sportiello Artistic Director A published playwright, Tony has been Artistic Director for the Madison Avenue Theater and the WorkShop Theatre. He is the author of fourteen full length plays and seventeen one-acts. Some of his plays include Second Chance, LOL, Wild Thing, Absent Friends, Suicide Rings and Tickets, Please! His play Contract Time is in the Baseball Library in Cooperstown, making him a member of the Major League Hall of Fame.

	Mark Sportiello Director of Operations

	Sharon Osowski Associate Producer Sharon Frances Osowski, producer, actor, director, has performed in numerous plays and musicals throughout the country and NYC. She is Artistic Director and co-founder of Liquid Productions. Liquid’s most recent shows include: The Lunch at the Jose Quintero Theatre where Sharon portrayed the role of Chloe, and I, Witness, a staged reading at the Duke on 42nd Street with Michelle Lee and Tony Lo Bianco.

	Joan Pelzer Associate Producer Joan is an actress and producer. She co-founded Liquid Productions in 2002; co-produced and acted in the original comedies THE LUNCH and R.S.V.P.; co-produced IT'S A GIRL THING - A CABARET, an Annual Academy Awards networking event, a reading of I WITNESS, an original play by David Grand starring Michele Lee and Tony Lo Bianco. Joan acted in numerous indie films, in the TV pilot Head's Up. Joan is a member of AEA, SAG, and Aftra.

	Robin Rothstein Associate Producer Robin is a published playwright and winner of the 2006 Sam French Festival for her play Libretto.

	Dawn Bodrogi Associate Producer/Dramaturg/Reading Committee Highlights: Editor of plays, Doubleday and Co; Executive in charge of script development for LWT, London’s ITV network, 1985-1989; Producer, Man, God and Africa” for Channel 4, London; developed the new writers’ series, First Sight, with Channel 4 films; Producer, Silver Crescent Productions, which focused on bringing the works of playwrights to film and television; have had the honor to know/work with many playwrights over the years, among them Arthur Miller, Peter Nichols, and Harold Pinter.

	Thomas Cote Literary Manager/Director Thomas Cote has directed many plays in many places. Favorites include Balm in Gilead, Four Dogs and a Bone, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and In Love with Tracy

	Rick Eisenberg Associate Producer/Reading Committee Rick Eisenberg is the author of The Arrangement, Operaplay, Loving Maureen, The Queen of Comedy, Adoration, and other plays. Rick's work has been staged at Actors Conservatory Ensemble, Arena Players Rep, Stamford Theatre Works, American Stage Company, Vital Theatre, Playwrights Theatre of East Hampton, The WorkShop Theater, The Riant Theatre, and Circle In The Square. Rick is also an actor who has appeared in dozens of plays, industrials and commercials.

	Kate Konigisor Associate Producer/Casting/Reading Committee Kate Konigisor, actor, director and producer, has been seen on stages in New York City to theatres around the country in roles ranging from Emilia in Othello to Shirley Valentine. She has directed both regionally and in NYC, mounting plays, musicals, and classical works. Kate served as Associate Producer for the West End Theatre Company, NYC, produced a summer season for Riverside Shakespeare Company, and guest directed for both Fordham U. and NYU's Tisch School of Drama.

	Michael Lewis Reading Committee Michael Lewis has been seen in New York at Primary Stages, the Signature, Synchronicity Theatre, the Vineyard, New York Theatre Workshop and the Joyce, among others. Regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, the Alley, Huntington Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, and San Diego Rep. TV and film work includes The Guiding Light, American Playhouse's Darrow, and the feature Signs of Life.

	Steven Petrillo Associate Producer/Director Steven Petrillo has worked 20 years as an actor, director and choreographer. Recently, he was Associate Director on Kiss Me Kate for North Shore Music Theatre. Last season, Steven directed Operaplay, by Rick Eisenberg, for The WorkShop Theatre, and the East Coast premier of Route 66, a musical tribute to the Mother Road, in The Berkshires. Performing credits include Broadway & National Tours of Peter Pan and Man of La Mancha, and numerous regional credits. TV: Criminal Intent and The Sopranos.

	Greg Skura Associate Producer/Director Greg brings experience as an actor, director and producer to the Algonquin team. Greg has served as a Production Director and company member of the 42nd Street WorkShop (now the Workshop Theater Company) since 1996, where he helped to develop a number of new plays. He performs regularly in theatre, film, and television, and is currently an ensemble member and Artistic Associate of Tangent Theatre Company. Greg is a graduate of Tufts University and is a member of AEA and AFTRA.

	Randy Schein Publicity Director Randy Schein is pleased to be part of this exceptional endeavor. Randy's television work includes principal roles on Sex and the City, Law and Order and As the World Turns. He played Kristin Davis' "worst date ever" on HBO's Sex and the City.

	Jed Dickson Reading Committee

	Mike Folie Reading Committee

	Ken Javie Reading Committee

	Kathy Gail MacGowan Reading Committee/Scheduling/Director Kathy Gail MacGowan has been busy acting, directing, and sometimes writing for theatre in New York for the last 10 years. She has been a member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre Lab, The Workshop Theater Company, and The New Perspectives Theatre Company where she most recently played The Nurse, in Romeo and Juliet. She is a founding member of Mother's Finding, a theater dedicated to providing mothers with opportunities in the theatre arts. She is delighted to be involved with Algonquin.

	Joanie Schumacher Reading Committee

	John Cerrone Associate Producer John is a producer, writer, and developer for television programming (NBC, MTV, ESPN, Bravo), TV commercials (Universal Records, Simon & Schuster, Arista Records, Columbia Pictures) and music videos (Cyndi Lauper, Jackson Browne, Sheena Easton), which have earned 24 ADDY Awards, International Film & TV's "Best Video", two Billboard Magazine Awards and an American Video Award. In theater he has written the book and/or composed the music for three musicals and one comedy.

	Nicole Taylor Reading Committee Nicole Taylor* can be seen in the short films Rowboat, Central Park and Shift (made for PBS with Christopher Meloni). She performed in LOL at the NY Fringe Festival, as well as in Graceland and Heaven Knows, also at the Fringe. At the WorkShop Theater in New York, she appeared in LOL, Graceland, Certain Souls, The Umbrella Play, The Merchant of Venice, and Fault Lines. Elsewhere in New York, her work was seen at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in Good Opinions, at the HB Playwrights Foundation in The Valentine Fairy and St. George and the Dragon and at Rose's Turn as the lead flight attendant in the long-running musical cabaret Around the World in a Bad Mood. Regionally, she has spent full seasons at the Denver Center Theater Company, Stage One in Louisville, KY, the Gaslamp Quarter Theater in San Diego, CA and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. She is a graduate of the National Theatre Conservatory in Denver and has studied with Uta Hagen.

	Debra Whitfield Reading Committee/Director Award-winning actress and director originally from Columbus, Ohio. Off-Broadway credits include Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown; Mr. Pim Passes By (The Mint Theatre); and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (opposite Orson Bean). Regionally, won Best Actress Awards for her work in How I Learned to Drive (Contemporary American Theatre Company); The Adjustment (Florida Stage); and Relatively Speaking (Dorset Theatre Festival). As a director, she won the Beaux Arts DaVinci Award for Best Revival for her production of Susan Glaspel's Trifles. Debra is also a member of the WorkShop Theater Company.

	Deborah Grimberg *Bounty Hunter* Deborah has been working with Tony and Algonquin for what seems like about 100 years. she is a foreigner which makes her a bit strange to begin with and she also has been known to wear a big ugly hat as she wanders around the city in search of every Mr. Softee Truck she can find. She's an odd bird but she works with the Sportiello Brothers and lets face it how many people are actually willing to do that???

	David M. Sportiello Craft Services Dave has been in the restaurant business for over 20 years, working as a sous chef, manager, area supervisor, and head chef. He has been doing Craft services for Algonquin and other production companies for over 4 years now, as head chef and proprietor of DMS Catering.

	Melinda Marie Prom Web Administrator - Reading Committee Melinda is a true triple threat...Actor, Director, Writer. She has performed in over 20 shows since coming to NYC in 2003. Her writing credits include the critically acclaimed "Table Service". A few of her Directing credits are "Jack's Choice", "The Good News", and the smash hit "Traffic Jam" which premiered in the NYC Fringe Festival in 2008



	Liz Amberly Youth Theater Director Liz Amberly is a writer and actress, who is produced throughout the country and was published by Samuel French in 2004. She has been a winner and finalist in several national playwriting competitions. She is the co-creator of three original series for television and a screenplay. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, AEA, SAG, AFTRA and New York Women in Film and Television.