Yasmina Reza is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter best known for her plays ‘Art’ and “God of Carnage.” Many of her brief satiric plays have reflected on contemporary middle-class issues. The 2011 dark comedy film “Carnage” directed by Roman Polanski, was based on Reza's Tony Award-winning 2006 play “God of Carnage.” In 1987, she wrote “Conversations after a Burial,” which won the Molière Award, the French equivalent of the Tony Award, for Best Author. The North American production premiered in February 2013 at Players by the Sea in Jacksonville Beach Florida. Her second play, “Winter Crossing,” won the 1990 Molière Award for Best Fringe Production, and her next play, “The Unexpected Man,” enjoyed successful productions in England, France, Scandinavia, Germany and New York. In 1994, ‘Art’ premiered in Paris and went on to win the Molière Award for Best Author. Since then it has been produced internationally and translated and performed in over 30 languages. The London production, translated by Christopher Hampton, and with Albert Finney, Tom Courtney, and Kenn Stott, received the 1996–97 Laurence Olivier Award, and also the Evening Standard Award; the former is the British equivalent of the American Antoinette Perry Award. ‘Art’ also won the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play in New York.

For Falcon Repertory Company, Frank recently directed David Mamet’s “Oleanna” as well as “A Life In The Theater,” Arthur Miller’s “Incident at Vichy,” “Educating Rita,” “Agnes of God,” Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” “Quiet! Three Ladies Laughing,” and including his original War II dramas: “Hedgehog,” and “Of No Pleasant Side,” as well as other original plays: “Facing Berel,” “Harvest,” and “Briar Hall.” Locally, Frank has directed “Suddenly Last Summer,” “The Elephant Man” and David Mamet’s “Uncle Vanya” at Stamford Theatre Works, as well as at The Pound Ridge Theater Company, Greenwich Repertory Company, The Acting Company, Diamond Hill Theater, Curtain Call & The Dressing Room Theater, The Town Players of New Canaan & STAGE II, The Sterling Barn Theater & Sterling Barn Studio Theater, and Cameo Theater. In New York City, he also directed at Theatre Ten Ten, The Chelsea Playhouse, The Lamb’s “Little Theater,” on 44th, Studio 1 at Weist Barron, the Ted Bardy Studio Theatre in Chelsea, and at The Belmont Italian-American Playhouse in the Bronx. He is the co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of The Acme Stage Company in NOHO, served as the Artistic Director of Theater Ten Ten (NYC’s oldest AEA approved off-off Broadway Showcase Theater) on Park Avenue, co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of A Place for Actors (APA) at the Ted Bardy Studios in Chelsea, and the Managing Artistic Director of The Oakwood Players at the original Actors’ Alley Theater in Los Angeles. Frank’s affiliations are with the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, The Dramatists Guild, and as an associate-member of the Writers Guild of America, East prior to the Guild’s retirement of the associate-screenwriter program.

Nancy Sciglimpaglia has a long-standing love affair with theater. She appeared in a production of O’Neil’s “The Long Voyage Home” and worked on set design and lighting/sound board operation at the Sterling Barn Studio Theater. For the next decade Nancy was the director of the TORCH Players for their annual pageants. After a hiatus Nancy had come back and lent her talents to Wilton Playshop as a lighting/sound board operator “West Side Story”, “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, “Guys and Dolls”, and “Godspell”. She has also worked with Powerhouse Theater, and Frank Petrilli ,as a Stage Manager and Property Manager on “Born Yesterday” Nancy has also worked as a Production Coordinator and Board Operator for performances of “Incident at Vichy,” “Educating Rita,” David Mamet’s “A Life in the Theater,” David Ives’ “All In the Timing.” “Bakersfield Mist,” Harold Pinter’s “The Dumb Waiter,” “Agnes of God,” Ibsen’s “Ghosts,” and David Mamet’s “Oleanna” and “Lone Star/Laundry & Bourbon,” along with the original plays “Harvest,” “Downstairs, Front,” “Briar Hall,” and “Quiet! Three Ladies Laughing.” “Hedgehog,” and “Of No Pleasant Side.” Nancy has also worked on films for DERELICT Films and Belair Productions as Property Manager for “CAL-12” (2014). Then again, as Property, Wardrobe, & Location Manager, and Craft Services on “Within and Without” (2020) and in a similar capacity as Production Coordinator, aka An Army of One, on the film “Charlie Roo” (2025).