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Michole Biancosino is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company,

where she has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C., New York City and

internationally for over 25 years. With Project Y, she has led various professional

productions, as producer, director, creator and writer.  Credits included the long-running

shows, Trump Lear (co-created and directed) and the award-winning, David Carl’s Celebrity One-Man Hamlet (co-created and directed), both of which toured regionally and performed at Edinburgh Fringe, as co-productions with Richard Jordan Productions (UK), The Pleasance, and Underbelly.  She directs solo artist Peter Michael Marino’s long-running solo shows, ShowUp! and Show Up Kids! which is now running in Spanish- and Japanese-language versions. Other work includes both the digital and on-stage versions of the Infallible Award-winner PLANET OF THE GRAPES LIVE FROM NYC (Zoo Venues, Edinburgh 2021), the cosmic raga opera, Waves of Gravity with Neel Murgai (LaMama CultureHub), and David and Katie Get Re-Married, which is headed to Edinburgh Fringe this summer. As a performer, Michole has spent the last two years acting as Jillian in Lia Romeo’s Yoga With Jillian, in NYC, regionally, and abroad. Michole is a producer of Project Y’s yearly Women in Theatre Festival.  She has been featured by Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and The Brooklyn Rail. Recipient: SDC Gielgud Fellowship for classical directing.  Her work has been supported by grants from The Puffin Foundation, ART/NY, NY Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA), The Dramatists Guild, and New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA). She holds an MFA in Directing from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. She is an Associate of Theatre at Middlebury College.

Andrew W. Smith is the Co-Founding Artistic Director of Project Y Theatre Company, where he has developed and directed new work in Washington, D.C., New York City and throughout the United States and internationally. With Project Y, he has served as Producer, Company Manager, Director, Technical Director, and Actor over the 25-year producing history of the company. He is a professional Actor and Director whose work has been seen throughout New York City, regionally, and internationally. Selected regional acting work includes: Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Roundhouse Theatre, Potomac Theatre Project, Ars Nova, Studio Theatre, and Olney Center for the Arts. He toured with The National Players on their 50th anniversary as Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac. Filmwork includes Lucid, Shooting Script, Death of a Nation (Winner:  Best Short, IndieFest 2011; Best in Show, Best Shorts Competition 2011), Under-Ground. Television work includes American Rust, GONE, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, One Life to Live, As the World Turns, Guiding Light. Directing: Yoga with Jillian, world premiere in New York City as a part of the Women in Theatre Festival and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2023 and 2024 at the Pleasance Courtyard. With Project Y, he has received grants funding for work from New York State Council on the Arts, New York Department Cultural Affairs, Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Brooklyn Arts Council, and The Puffin Foundation. He was an invited guest and Master Teacher at the Summer Theatre Academy, in Sozopol, Bulgaria, in 2019. He is currently an Associate Professor of Acting at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. He is also graduate of the MFA Acting program at the University of California, San Diego, from which he received the Teaching Excellence Award upon graduation. www.smithandrewwilliam.com. 

Lia Romeo is a recent graduate of the Juilliard playwriting program. Her plays have been developed at the O’Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, the Lark, and elsewhere, and have been produced at companies such as Colt Coeur, Dorset Theatre Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Unicorn Theatre, Project Y Theatre, and New Jersey Repertory Theatre. Four of her plays have been recognized by the Kilroys List. Her plays are published by TRW, Broadway Licensing, and Broadway Play Publishing. She is the associate artistic director of Project Y Theatre, a company member with Colt Coeur, and the co-founder of the Parent-Caregiver Playwrights Group. She teaches in the M.A. program in creative writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Eliza Bryson is a current junior in the Wesleyan University theatre major, where they study acting, directing, and space design for performance. At Wesleyan, they have assistant directed several productions, including a thesis production of The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol as well as the theatre department MainStage production of The Moors by Jen Silverman. They have acted in several student film and theatre projects as well as playing the role of Joan in a thesis production of Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl. With Project Y, they have worked as an assistant producer and assistant stage manager as well as operated sound for The Pied Piper of Hamelin in New Ohio off Broadway theatre. 

Patrice Cahill is a student and actor at Middlebury College double majoring in Neuroscience and Theatre. She is from Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Her previous Middlebury acting credits include King Lear (Cordelia), Legally Blonde (Elle Woods), and Polaroid Stories (Skinhead Girl). She has also been a part of The Laramie Project 10 Years Later (Leigh Fondakowski), The Miracle Worker (Helen Keller), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania). She trained at NYU Tisch School of Drama before transferring to Middlebury and has performed at several NYC venues including Lincoln Center, 54 Below, and Symphony Space. Patrice was a member of Manhattan Girls Chorus and sang in several operas at Carnegie Hall. Outside of acting, Patrice enjoys singing with the Middlebury Mamajamas acapella group and tap dancing. Patrice is so excited to be working for Project Y this summer.