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Alice Eve Cohen is a memoirist, solo theatre artist, and playwright. Her memoir, What I Thought I Knew (Viking / Penguin, 2009) won the Elle's Lettres 2009 Grand Prix for Nonfiction, it was selected as one of Oprah Magazine’s 25 Best Books of Summer and Salon's Best Books of the Year. She has written for Nickelodeon, CTW, and CBS, and has toured her solo shows and plays to theatres, festivals and schools, nationally and internationally. Her writing about arts in education has been published in nine languages, and she has written for various print and online publications. The recipient of fellowships and grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a 2011 Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellow, and an artist in residence at the Voice & Vision Envision Retreat. She holds a BA from Princeton University and an MFA from The New School. She teaches at The New School, and lives with her family in New York City.

Elizabeth Magrid
Director

Elizabeth is delighted to collaborate once again with Ms. Cohen, having worked with her on Thin Walls and Hannah and the Hollow Challah. Ms. Margid has directed for Yale Rep, Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Hangar Theatre, Soho Rep, McCarter Theatre, NYU’s Musical Theatre Program, New Dramatists, and Fordham College at Lincoln Center, where she is the Head of the Directing Program. She is the librettist of a music-theatre adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles, which received a workshop at Orlando Shakespeare Festival and a production by the Fordham Alumni Company with generous support from the Henson Foundation. A Visit From The Footbinder, a music-theatre work she conceived and directed, was developed by BMI and Goodspeed Opera, produced by Lincoln Center at the Arclight Theatre, and won the Jerry Bock New Musical Award. Ms. Margid received an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama

Restaged for the Kitchen by Rachel Lampert

Rachel is a playwright, director and choreographer.  Her work at the Kitchen includes: Playwright: Main Stage Musicals Book & Lyrics for Waiting for Spring, Bed No Breakfast, Comfort Food, Tony & the Soprano, The Angle of the Sun and Precious Nonsense. Main Stage Non-musical plays:  Losing Myself, The Trial, The Book Club, Frankenstein and The Soup Comes Last. Main Stage Movement Pieces: In the Company of Dancers and Summers at Rock's Edge. Family Fare: I Have a Song to Sing O!, Scoot, Sizzle & Slide, The Mozart Mystery, The Odyssey parts 1 & 2, A December Suite, and A Christmas Carol, among others. Director: Broke-ology, Red Light Winter, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Mary’s Wedding, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Secret Order, Last Train to Nibroc, The Glass Menagerie, The Price, Master Class, A Delicate Balance, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Swimming in the Shallows among many others. For the 2012-13 season she will direct Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Opus, and Crooked and will premiere in May a new piece And, Lately... in collaboration with composer/pianist Richard Montgomery. She is proud to have been involved in the building of the new theater and, after two years in the new space, continues to be awed by its possibilities and always grateful to everyone who supported this amazing project. Rachel is active in the Ithaca arts community beyond the Kitchen, having directed and choreographed at the Hangar Theatre (director: Sweeney Todd, Falsettos, The Sisters Rosensweig; choreographer: 2007 production of Hair) Other collaborations include: Rounds for Orchestra with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, A Soldier's Tale with Ensemble X, and dance pieces with Music's Recreation.  Her play Bet You Can't Catch It? was commissioned by AIDSWORK of Tompkins County as part of an educational program for teens, and toured Central NY for three years. Directing and theatrical choreography credits outside Ithaca include productions at Cal Rep, Arkansas Rep, Portland Stage Company, New York's Public Theatre, Mill Mountain Theatre and Hawaii Opera Theatre. Her concert dance works have been in the repertories of numerous dance companies in the U.S. and abroad. Her trip to China in 1997 to stage West Side Story resulted in her writing The Soup Comes Last, produced off-Broadway at 59E59 Theaters in Fall 2004. The Angle of the Sun (written by Lampert & Pressgrove) was selected by the New York Musical Theatre Festival to be presented in NYC in September 2007. Rachel is a 4-time recipient of NEA Choreography Fellowships and a CAP Individual Artist Grant. She received a SALT Award for Best Actress 2004. She attended Mount Holyoke College and has a BFA and MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Raised in Brooklyn, she moved to Ithaca as a trailing spouse right behind her husband David Squires in 1995. They enjoy a wonderful house, two terrific dogs, and the joy of having family join them in Ithaca and friends always visiting. This is her 16th season as Artistic Director – a job that is always exciting.

Tyler M. Perry
Lighting Design

Tyler is a recent graduate of Ithaca College where he received a BFA in Theatrical Production Arts with concentrations in Lighting and Scenic Design. Past Kitchen Theatre credits include: Crooked, Opus (Scenic & Lighting Designer), The Motherf**ker with the Hat, The Whipping Man, Frankie and Johnny in... Lune, Waiting for Spring, The Mystery of Irma Vep, In the Company of Dancers (Lighting Designer), Broke-ology (Properties Designer), Bed and Sofa (Assistant Scenic Designer). Ithaca College credits include: The Magic Flute (Scenic Designer), The Light in the Piazza, How Learned to Drive (Lighting Designer), The Little Prince (Assistant Lighting Designer), among others. His work has also been seen with Running to Places Theatre Company: Hairspray, Joseph and...Dreamcoat (Scenic and Lighting Designer), A Christmas Carol, Annie, Oklahoma, Noises Off, Oliver, Cinderella (Scenic Designer), Urinetown (Lighting Designer). He also has extensive work as an assistant/associate designer to Steve TenEyck with such companies as Ithaca College, Kitchen Theatre Co., Hangar Theatre, Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Florida Grand Opera, Mill City Summer Opera, and the Herson Group Ltd. www.tylermperrydesign.com

Eric Nightengale
Sound Design

Design credits include work for the Barrow Street Theatre, The Manhattan Theatre Club, Circle in the Square, Minetta Lane Theatre, The Barrow Group, 78th Street Theatre Lab, HERE, 59 East 59th, EST, Symphony Space, The Acting Company, and CSC. Chicago design credits include Victory Gardens Theatre, Baliwick, and Second City. He has taught at Brooklyn College, Rollins College, Towson University and Antioch. His work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has resulted in seven Fringe First awards and a London transfer.

Jennifer Schilansky Stage Manager