2011 WASHINGTON, DC PRODUCTION

David Eric Davis (Music, Lyrics, Book)

 A lyricist, composer, visual artist, writer and director, his rock musical comedy F#@KING UP EVERYTHING won Best Book and Honorable Mention for Best Lyrics at NYMF. He is the recipient of grants from Theater League and Anna Sosenko Assist Trust and a participant in CAP21’s Writers Co-op. He directed TAROT READING: Love, Sex and Mommy at the NY Fringe Festival and wrote and directed Strike!, a performance piece based on the sounds of bodies moving through air and colliding, at Judson Church. His band can be heard at www.uncleizzy.com and his photo collection Contemplating My Pipik can be seen at www.davidericdavis.com.

Sam Forman (Book)

Sam is the lyricist and co-book author for the musical I Sing! which has been produced  commercially off-Broadway and in theaters around the world. A CD recording of I Sing! is available in stores worldwide from Jay Records. Sam’s other plays and musicals include: The Moscows of Nantucket (Theater J, Washington DC) The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Theater J, Washington DC, Helen Hayes Nomination) We The People (TheaterWorks USA) F#@king Up Everything (NYMF Award for Outstanding Book) The Grille Room (Cherry Lane Mentor Project), Quarterlife (Pico Playhouse, Los Angeles, CA) Please Stop Talking (Cherry Lane Theater), Fringical! (Ars Nova, NYC) Schmoozy Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival) The Quiet Game (Hangar Theater, Ithaca NY) Krankenhaus Blues (Blue Heron Theater, NYC) Hunter for Hunter Green and Narcissus and Goldstein (Singularity Company, NYC)

Jay D. Brock (Director)
Jay D. Brock is a professor of musical theatre at Catholic University and the artistic director of both Limelight Theatre: The Last Five Years, Closer Than Ever; and Opera Alterna: Padrevia, Magnum Opus, Signor Deluso, The Women, and Dido & Aeneas. Other recent DC credits: Life in Death (Kennedy Center), Ubo Roi (Journeymen Theatre); The Magic Flute, In Good King Charles's Golden Days, The Medium, Trouble in Tahiti (Catholic University), Tango! Tango! (Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia). Los Angeles area credits; world premiere of Dance for Her (Pasadena Playhouse); Eleemosynary (Boo Box Theatre); Zeno's World (Ensemble Theatre); After Hours in the Whale Room (Dana Point Theatre). Jay holds an MFA in directing and is an associate member of SDC.

Taylor J. Williams (New Orchestration and Arrangements, Music Direction)
Taylor J. Williams is a DC based pianist, arranger, music director, and composer. He has had the pleasure of working several times with recent Helen Hayes Award recipients No Rules Theatre Company, most recently co-arranging/orchestrating their production of "The Stephen Schwartz Project." As a composer he has written his own musical "Olympus" as well as a new Latin mass which was recently performed in Ghana, Africa as part of "The Yonkofa Project." Find more at www.taylorjwilliams.com

Matt Hinkley (Original Orchestrations and Arrangements)
Matt is a musician, music director, and writer for both theater and pop in NYC.  Other notable orchestration credits include Bloodsong Of Love (Ars Nova), Cutman (Goodspeed) and an arrangement of William Finn's "Sailing" for Lisa Howard's Songs of Innocence and Experience.  Music Direction/Associate:  White Noise (NYC & Chicago), ROOMS (New World Stages, cast recording), Jason Robert Brown’s Bridges of Madison County, Natalie Weiss’s debut album, The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons, cast recording), Bloodsong Of Love, Things To Ruin (and cast recording), Lizzie Borden, F#@king Up Everything at NYMF 2009.  Instrumentalist:  Glory Days (Bway cast recording), Rated RSO, Kerrigan & Lowdermilk’s Our First Mistake, numerous other recordings, workshops, and shows.

Virginia Scott (Dramaturge)
Virginia specializes in writing, co-creating and directing comedy. Her work has appeared at the US Comedy Arts Festival at Aspen, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Ars Nova, 59E59, The Guilded Balloon at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Comedy Central Theatre in LA, The Barrow Group Theatre, The PIT, The Centaur Theatre in Montreal, Grahamstown International Festival in South Africa, The International Clown Festival in Brooklyn, the NY Fringe Festival and festivals throughout Canada. With her comedy partner, Ryan Paulson, Virginia has created award winning comedy shows that have toured the world.

Jessica Moretti (Production and Costume Design)
Jessica Moretti is a recent graduate of the UNC School of the Arts Masters Program and very excited to be a part of the D.C. Fringe Festival for the first time.  This past year she partnered with the Kennedy Center as a Kenan Fellow in Scene Design and was given opportunities to design for The Hub Theatre (Merry, Happy… What? ), Washington Shakespeare Company (Juno and the Paycock) and Taffety Punk Theatre Company (Owl Moon). Other favorite past designs include Kid Champion, The Elixir of Love, and Saint Joan at the School of the Arts, and Machine Play and Psycho Beach Party at Catawba College.  Jessica would like to thank her friends and family for their everlasting love and support!  

Daisy Long (Lighting and Sound Design)
Daisy is a recent Yale graduate and is thrilled to be lighting her first show in the D.C. area! Recent credits include Wise Blood, Floyd Collins, Utility Monster (Yale University) and Cold Turkey (Ars Nova ANTFest). Upcoming: The Private Sector (Less Than Rent Theatre). Many thanks to the cast and crew of F#@CKING UP EVERYTHING!

Adam W. Johnson (Sound Design/Engingeer)
Adam W. Johnson has worked with sound in various capacities at Trinity Repertory Company, the American Repertory Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Heritage Theatre Festival, Florida Studio Theatre, and the Lost Colony. This season, he assisted John Gromada on the design of Sabrina Fair at Ford's Theatre and toured the country as a sound engineer with Menopause: The Musical. F#@king Up Everything marks his Capital Fringe debut. Previous designs include Always...Patsy Cline (Stoneham Theatre), The Wedding Singer (Palace Theatre), Aesop's Network (the BTF PLAYS! program at Berkshire Theatre Festival), Metamorphoses (Live Arts) and Hair (UVA). Engineering credits include Altar Boyz (FST) and Forever Plaid (HTF).  Adam is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia.

Tara Rice (Graphic Design)
Tara is a freelance Art Director in New York City. Recent clients include Black Dynamite Feature Film, Dagr & Bott, LPNY, Christopher Lee Sauve Collections, Jocelyn Fortier Communications (Kensie, KensieGirl, Mac&Jac, Calzedonia), Diane Von Furstenberg, Sweden Unliited (Visionair 56 & Belle), New York City Opera, Ferazzi Grennlight (Who's Got Your Back), India Pop Festival and La Rampa (Via Com Deus). Please visit www.tararice.ca for further information.

David Valentine (Puppet Design/Construction)
Puppet Design/Construction for Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company: A Beginners Guide to Deicide (2005), Living Dead in Denmark (2006), Fight Girl Battle World (2008-Henry Hewes Design Award nomination), Soul Samurai (2009) HERE Arts Center.  Other puppet work includes productions for McCarter Theatre, Philadelphia's Theatre Ariel, French Woods Festival, and Hershey Theme Park. David holds a BFA in Acting from Ohio University. Congrats to Cast, Crew, and Creatives of F#@CKING UP EVERYTHING! Need Puppets? e-mail PrinceSirki@hotmail.com

Daryl Eisenberg, CSA (Casting Director)
Theatre credits include: My First Time, Altar Boyz, The Awesome 80s Prom, VOTE! A New Musical (Fringe '09), Street Lights (NYMF '09), Gay Bride Of Frankenstein (NYMF '09), Tales From The Tunnel (Fringe '09), The Garage Band Project, Tully (NYMF '07), Jihad: The Explosive New Musical (Edinburgh Fringe '07). Film credits include: You Can't Fix Her, S.O.L., The Book of Caleb, Tabitha's Aquarium. TV credits include: Casting Associate on "Gossip Girl" (Warner Bros/The CW) and "Cashmere Mafia" (Sony/ABC). Web credits include: The Batterys Down.com, Standard Deviants. Graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Member of Casting Society of America. www.decasting.com.

Jeremy Handelman/Off The Leash Productions (Producer)
Jeremy is founder and president of Off The Leash Productions, LLC where he produces theater and video. He is on the producing team of the upcoming London and Broadway productions of David Seidler’s The King’s Speech. In addition to F#@king Up Everything, Off The Leash is developing three other exciting shows for the stage: Cruel Shoes, Shim Sham and Seriously Trivial People. Past productions include White's Lies, CYCLE: A Vaudeville Comedy, The Aspern Papers, Five by Tenn, and Fritz & Froyim. Jeremy also is the author of The Bronx Balmers, Tic-Tac-Toe and numerous short plays. Jeremy’s video work includes corporate video, commercials, web video, promos, event coverage, tributes and actor reels. Additional information at www.OffTheLeashProductions.com 

Charlie Fink (Presenter)
Charlie Fink is the founder and producing artistic director of the not-for-profit New Musical Development Foundation, which supports the development of new musicals by underwriting the costs of readings and workshop productions. Last summer, Charlie's production of "Super Claudio Bros" won "Best Musical" in the 2010 DC Capital Fringe Festival. This year, Charlie is excited to concurrently present two fantastic new musicals at Woolly Mammoth, "F#@king Up Everything" and "Who's Your Baghdaddy, or How I Started the Iraq War". Previous new musicals presented at DC Fringe: "Finn McCool", "The Saints", "Titus X", & "Powerhosue". http://newmusicalfoundation.org

Brian R. Sekinger (Production Stage Manager)
Brian is currently a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University pursuing a MFA in Production Technology & Management with an emphasis in Stage Management.  Previous selected Stage Management experience includes work at the Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, The Library of Congress, Pittsburgh Opera, Sinking Ship Productions, and Tenement Street Workshop.  He also has the honor to be Stage Managing the American International Competitive Team at the Prague Quadrennial this summer.  Brian is thrilled to be rejoining Charlie, Marshall, and the New Musical Foundation after a successful run of Super Claudio Bros. last summer.

Hope Villanueva (Stage Manager)
As a DC-area newcomer, Hope comes off two seasons in Hawaii as Resident and Touring Stage Manager for Honolulu Theatre for Youth.  In Los Angeles, she has worked for The Theatre @ Boston Court, The Zephyr Theatre, and The Fountain Theatre, among others.  She has also been Associate Production Manager on Ringling Bros and Barnum  Bailey’s Bellobration, which featured Bello Nock and world record holding daredevil, Nikolas Wallenda.  Some of her favorite stage management projects include Theory of Mind, Courting Vampires, Into the Woods, and SHOUT the Mod Musical.  Her directing credits include Assassins, Dinner with Friends, Seussical the Musical and Once on this Island. 

Dominic Traino (Assistant Director)
(MA, Theatre Education; BM, Musical Theatre, The Catholic University of America) is a vocal instructor for the musical theatre division, guest lecturer for Drama department and current production manager for the School of Music at CUA. He graduated in February, 2009 as the first graduate of the CUA Drama Department’s MATE (Master of Arts in Theatre Education) program.  In the fall of 2008, Dominic wrote and directed his first musical, The Golden Door, a theme theatrical piece on immigration, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. For more information on The Golden Door, go to http://goldendoor.synthasite.com/

Sarah Korn (Production Intern)
Sarah Korn is a sophomore at the University of Michigan, majoring in design and production with a concentration in stage management.  In addition to stage management, Sarah is very interested in costume design and scenic artistry and plans to pursue them at the University of Michigan.  Recent credits at Michigan include Brigadoon (ASM), Boy Gets Girl (Props), and Reindeer Monologues (ASM and Sound Design).  She is very excited for the incredible opportunity to work on these amazing new musicals this summer.

Dana Marcus (Marketing and Web Intern)
Dana Marcus is thrilled to be interning with F#@KING UP EVERYTHING. Dana is currently studying Entertainment and Arts Management with a concentration in performance at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Recent theater credits include Our Town (Mrs. Soames) and A Flea in Her Ear (Antoinette).  She has previously worked with Burning Coal Theatre Company (North Carolina) and Philadelphia Theatre Company and looks forward to where her next adventure may take her! West coast, anyone?