SIGRID HEATH is a member of Actors and Writers, where a number of her plays have had their first readings and she has been priviledged to perform a staggering variety of roles, human and otherwise. Her one-woman play about aviatrix Beryl Markham, WINGBONE, won the Berrilla Kerr award and, following its premiere at Actors and Writers, was produced at the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock and the Wall Street Theater in Kingston. A New York production is planned. Heath was co-founder of Byrdcliffe Actors' Theater where she produced her adaptation of Pirandello's AT THE GATE, with live jazz on stage. Prior to moving to the Hudson Valley, Heath appeared on Broadway with Liv Ullman in I REMEMBER MAMA, and was active in regional theater. She now lives in Kingston's Rondout and is working on her first novel.

JAMES PRENDERGAST New York Theatre: Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Directors Company, BAM. National Tours: HARVEY with Gig Young, MY DAUGHTER, YOUR SON with June Allyson. Regional: Old Globe Theatre, Dorset Theatre Festival, Hangar Theatre, Allenberry, Shadowland, Self Family Arts Center, Public Theater of Maine, National Theater of Washington in BORN YESTERDAY, THREE SISTERS, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, SEASCAPE, MR. ROBERTS, A DOLL'S HOUSE, INHERIT THE THE WIND, THE WOMAN IN BLACK, DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER, THE IMMIGRANT, TEN LITTLE INDIANS, etc. Film: MOSCOW ON THE HUDSON, PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, QUIZ SHOW. Television: AS THE WORLD TURNS, GUIDING LIGHT, ALL MY CHILDREN, PRIME TIME LIVE, DAVID LETTERMAN, CONAN O' BRIEN, DANA CARVEY SHOW. Member: The Actor Company Theater (TACT) in NYC.

NICOLA SHEARA (Director) has been an actress and director on Broadway, Off Broadway and across the country for over 30 years. Hudson Valley audiences have seen her work as an actress in LOVE LETTERS and COLLECTED STORIES for Performing Arts of Woodstock and as a director of THREEPENNY OPERA at the Bardavon; NUNSENSE at Rhinebeck Performing Arts Center; I HATE HAMLET at Shadowlands, THE GREAT NEBULA IN ORION for the Woodstock Fringe; and for PAW: WENCESLAS SQUARE, NECESSARY TARGETS, and most recently the successful production of PROOF.

CHARLES STRANSKY Broadway: GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (James Lingk); THE FRONT PAGE (Wilson, Reporter) Off Broadway: THE PRIMARY ENGLISH CLASS (Dir. Gerald Gutierrez); EXACT CHANGE; DEATH-DEFYING ACTS; PSYCOPATHIA SEXUALIS (MTC); SARAH, SARAH (MTC) Television: ED; LAW AND ORDER; ALL MY CHILDREN; LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT; THIRD WATCH; GUIDING LIGHT; etc. Film: THE SPANISH PRISONER; HOMICIDE; THINGS CHANGE (all Written & Directed by David Mamet); STONE COLD; ANGER MANAGEMENT; etc. Regional Theatre: The Old Globe; Goodman; Williamstown; American Players; Delaware Theatre; Capitol Repertory; North Light; Sacramento; etc.

KEN THOMPSON has appeared in the Hudson Valley area in Performing Arts of Woodstock's WENCESLAS SQUARE, ZOO STORY at UPAC's Back Alley Theatre, Shadowland's Social Security and THE MOUSETRAP; and LAW & ORDER: SVU.