Philip Cruise(he/him) is a New York-based actor, writer and director who formed Thin Duke Productions in 2003. His directorial credits include TWELFTH NIGHT (or WHAT YOU WILL), the political comedy KING GEORGE II, BRIGHT DAY, Mac Wellman"s 7 BLOWJOBS, and two by Dean Haspiel: THE LAST BAR AT THE END OF THE WORLD, and THE WAR OF WOO, all produced by Thin Duke. Acting credits include FINAL BOARDING CALL (Ma-Yi), PLAYDATE (7 Days Prior), REFUSE (Gemini Collisionworks) HARAKIRI KANE (GCW), LET TRUMP BE TRUMP (Making It Happen Production) and ABORTION: A RACE REDUX (Making It Happen). Philip was a staff writer and Voice Artist on the Science Fiction Podcast LIFE WITH ALTHAAR (GCW) for two and a half seasons. Film: THE FOX SISTERS (Cineteca Films), THE COUCH, THE FAILURE, and the upcoming short BIGBY’S DEAD BUNNY. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Bernadette, daughter Catherine and their cat, AT-AT.

Ed has worked consistently as an off-off Broadway actor/producer in NYC with The Habitual Theatre Company, The Attic Show, and Sparkplug/Thin Duke Theater Companues. He has also worked at ArtsConnection for almost as long fighting for and supporting arts programming in the NYC public school system. He is a graduate of the SUNY Purchase Acting Program. Thank you for joining us for this production and thank you for fostering new work. 


Christopher Lee (he/him) is an actor and writer whose training began at North Carolina School of the Arts, continued with extensive classically based studies at Oxford University (Baliol College), and concluded with a Bachelor’s degree in Theater from Loyola University New Orleans. He has performed in over twenty stage productions in New York with multiple appearances at the Ensemble Studio Theatre as well as a national tour, and has studied Improv at UCB. His television credits include recurring roles on the daytime dramas One Life to Live, All My Children, and As the World Turns. His film endeavors include Tim Robbins’ Dead Man Walking, In Good Company, and the Indie film A Dream of Love.

ADAM SZYMKOWICZ’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, Wales, The Isle of Man, Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Turkey, Switzerland, South Korea, Thailand, Sweden, Austria, Slovenia, Malaysia and Lithuania. Published plays include Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, Hearts Like Planets, Incendiary, The Why Overhead, Adventures of Super Margaret, 7 Ways To Say I Love You, Rare Birds, Marian Or The True Tale of Robin Hood, Marian Or The True Tale of Robin Hood The Musical, Kodachrome, Clown Bar, Clown Bar 2, Clown Bar Christmas, Mercy, The Bookstore, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, The Parking Lot, The Night Children, The Wooden Heart, Stockholm Syndrome, When Jack Met Jill, Heart of Snow, Christmas Tree Farm, 100 Things I Never Said To You, 100 Love Letters I Never Sent and Nerve. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service, Concord/Samuel French, Playscripts, Broadway Play Publishing, Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Stage Partners and Original Works Publishing, and are featured in numerous Smith and Kraus and Applause books. His monologue book, Small Explosions came out from Applause in early 2023. His book on playwriting, Letters to a Young Playwright comes out from Applause in fall of 2024. Adam received a Playwright’s Diploma from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and an MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writer’s Guild of America, and was a member of Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and of the very first Ars Nova Play Group. He has interviewed over 1100 playwrights on his blog.

Stage: Othello, King Lear, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Antony and Cleopatra, Girl Gone, The Maids, and Richard III. Film: Starship Troopers, TAR, Courage Under Fire, Still Alice, Teen Wolf:The Movie, Lady of the Lake, Joey Breaker. TV: Oz, Teen Wolf, The Walking Dead, The Wire.