Edward elefterion
Edward Elefterion (Director) is the Artistic Director and a founding member of Rabbit Hole Ensemble. He recently won the award for Outstanding Direction for his work on Nosferatu: The Morning of My Death (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2007). Other recent work includes A Rope in the Abyss, The Night of Nosferatu, Land of the Undead, Nosferatu (atop the arch at Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza), The Transformation of Dr. Jekyll (FringeNYC 2006), and The Siblings (MITF 2006). He also directed If She Screams by Stanton Wood at The Juilliard School, the world premiere of Therese Raquin by Neal Bell, the New York premiere of Figaro Gets a Divorce by Odon von Horvath, and acclaimed productions of In the Jungle of Cities, Macbeth, The Misanthrope, and Under Milk Wood among others. While in England, he spent time working with refugees of the war in Kosovo and created two commissioned pieces with them for the Midlands Refugee Council: Nobody You Know and A Refugee Story. Edward is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and New York Theatre Workshop's artistic community (The Usual Suspects) and has received annual production assistance grants from NYTW since 2001. He holds a BFA from NYU's TISCH School of the Arts and an MFA from Indiana University. He teaches acting at Hofstra University and an advanced scene study class in Manhattan. For more info visit www.edwardelefterion.com.
Stanton Wood
Stanton Wood (Playwright) is a playwright, screenwriter, and game designer whose plays include Eating Dirt (City Theatre), Down the Drain (adobe theatre company), and The Night of Nosferatu (Rabbit Hole Ensemble). He was resident playwright at Urban Stages Theatre Company for three years, and his plays The Snow Queen, The Magical Forest of Baba Yaga, and The Blue Bird (with Lori Ann Laster) were produced by the company over successive seasons. He is the recipient of an ACTF Playwriting Award, a City Theatre Hamburg Partnership Grant, and the Urban Stages Emerging Playwright Award. Manhattan Class Company, The Hangar Theatre, Primary Stages, and New York Theatre Workshop have supported the development of his work, and he is a resident artist at Offworld Theatre Company and Rabbit Hole Ensemble. Credits in film and television include a stint as dialogue writer on South Beach Story, a daytime drama, and as screenwriter on Heart to Heart.com, an independent feature film comedy now owned by the Starz Network. As a game writer, he has written dialogue and designed characters for award winning projects at Zoesis Studios and Pandemic Studios, including Otto and Iris, Mr Bubb in Space!, and Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers. www.stantonwood.com
