Jack Tamburri is a director, writer, performer, and musician pursuing his MFA in Directing at Yale School of Drama. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a member of the Chicago-based new works theatre company The Plagiarists. With The Plagiarists, Jack wrote, produced, and performed in the annual American Stage Sessions series as well as the Internet radio comedy series The Brandy Winefingers Mysteries, and directed The Wreck of the Medusa, a new play based on the infamous shipwreck and the painting it inspired.

In Chicago, Jack also worked with the Neo-Futurists, The Hypocrites, The House Theatre of Chicago, American Theater Company, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., and the Court Theatre, among others. Directing highlights include Chuck Mee's bobrauschenbergamerica, Mac Wellman's Seven Blowjobs, and Powerless: Issues 1-3 (a new piece of comic book theatre featuring projection design by a national roster of illustrators).

At Yale School of Drama, Jack has directed productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest and Titus Andronicus, and new plays by MFA-candidate playwrights Justin Taylor, Martha Jane Kaufman, and Amelia Roper. At Yale Cabaret, he directed Young Jean Lee's Church (co-director/co-producer)and Mac Wellman's Dracula. His next production will be Iphigenia Among the Stars, a new adaptation of Euripides's Iphigenia Among the Taurians and Iphigenia At Aulis, October 30-November 3, 2012.

Originally from Washington, D.C., Ethan Heard is a third-year MFA candidate in Directing at Yale School of Drama, where he has directed Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Justin A. Taylor’s Rodeo, and Martha Jane Kaufman’s Eligible Receivers.  He is Artistic Director of the 2012-13 Yale Cabaret, where he previously directed The Future Gone Out of Business, Lovesong, Basement Hades, and Trannequin! A New Musical, which he co-wrote.  As Co-Founder of Umbrella Hat Productions, Ethan presented the inaugural Santa Fe Theatre Festival in 2009 and directed Proof and Iphigenia and Other Daughters.  Other directing includes The Gay Ivy (Dixon Place); Ardo Ardo, L'Orfeo (Yale Baroque Opera Project); Pullman WA and in a word (Williamstown Workshop); In Bocca Alla Lupa (Grotto Theatre); and Episcus & Edendus (Lively Productions).  He has assisted directors Nicholas Martin, Mark Brokaw, Thomas Kail, Gilbert Blin, and Annette Jolles.  As an undergraduate at Yale College, he won the Sledge Prize for Performing Arts and toured the world with the Whiffenpoofs, singing more than 200 concerts in 25 countries.  Ethan’s upcoming production of Sunday in the Park with George will run December 14-20, 2012 at Yale School of Drama.

Margot is currently enrolled at Yale School of Drama where she is pursuing her MFA in Directing (2013). Upcoming in January 2013, Margot will direct Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine at the School of Drama in the Iseman Theater. Other work at the School Includes Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra; A Duck On A Bike by Amelia Roper; and Game Room by Justin Taylor. She moved to the East Coast after spending six years in Chicago where she worked as a director, writer, and performer. She is a founding member of Theatre Seven of Chicago, where she conceived and directed We Live Here; Lies & Liars; and Yes, This Really Happened to Me (all with Cassy Sanders).  Margot spent four seasons working at Lookingglass Theatre, where she served as Literary Manager and Company Dramaturg.

In Chicago she also worked for Collaboraction, Timeline, Pavement Group, Live Bait, Around the Coyote, Bailiwick, Hell in a Handbag, and Steppenwolf Theatre where she assistant directed for both Tina Landau and Austin Pendleton. She spent three years as a storyteller for 2nd Story, and her autobiographical work has been seen numerous times on the Victory Gardens stage, including her one-woman show You Are Here.

Margot originally hails from Seattle where she worked for Seattle Repertory Theatre, Empty Space, University of Washington PATP, Live Girls! and Double Shot Productions. She is a proud graduate of Cornish College of the Arts where she received her BFA in theater with an emphasis in original work.

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