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Larry is honored to be involved with this production. He has been sound designing shows in Philadelphia and the surrounding area for a number of years. His most recent work includes Notes of a Native Song (Wilma/Fringe Arts), The Elementary Space Time Show (UArts/Fringe Arts), Straight White Men (Azuka), The Polyphone Festival 2015 and 2016 (UArts), and Lobby Hero (Theater Horizon). Larry is currently the Master Sound Design Lecturer at The University of the Arts. Love to his ladies Maureen, Olivia, and Lupita.

Flora Vassar is a freelance stage manager and prop maker. She is also a proud member of the board of directors for The Resource Exchange, Philadelphia's one and only creative reuse center. Recent prop credits include Exile's Tommy & Me, Mrs. Warren's Profession and 36 Views at the Lantern, I Am Not My Motherland with Orbiter 3, and the PAC's He Who Gets Slapped. She stage manages the contemporary circus show Air Play, which most recently appeared at London's Southbank Centre. Next up: ASM for 1812's 16/17 season, props for the PAC's All's Well That Ends Well, and Air Play in Melbourne.

In the area: Wilma (Associate Artist), Arden, Lantern, InterAct, Azuka, EgoPo, Walnut, PTC, New Paradise Laboratories, 1812, Headlong, and Theatre Exile. Other credits include: Roundabout, The Public, Primary Stages, Huntington, Chicago Shakespeare, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cal Shakes, Children’s Theatre Company, Virginia Stage, Roundhouse, CenterStage, Folger Theater, Hangar, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Signature Theater Company, Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep, among others. 3 Barrymores (21 nominations), Jeff Award, 2 AUDELCO Awards, 4 Helen Hayes nominations. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

Robin Burdulis was a child prodigy of pots, pans, alarm clocks and garbage cans. Now she is a multi-dimensional percussionist, performing and recording in a wide range of projects. The New York Times wrote: "Robin... makes her percussion instruments sing like a symphony."

Whether performing for the Bessie Awards at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House or in a floating Dragon Boat for unsuspecting BBQ'ers on Prospect Park Lake, Robin is at home in wildly-varied venues. She has performed with Oscar-winning Bollywood composer AR Rahman in his first U.S./Canadian tour, and her creative improvisation workshops have been featured throughout the East Coast and on London's BBC radio. She has traveled to Cuba, Africa and Brazil to study, perform, and to conduct research on women and drumming.

Robin is also a women's health educator, who for the past 35 years has been providing cutting-edge programming for medical professionals in the metro NY area, and directs a program in the Middle East, providing patient-centered GYN instruction to medical students from around the world. She is featured in the upcoming documentary, "At Your Cervix," and is a participant in Clarity Haines' "Breast Portrait Project," revealing the beauty and power of women's bodies and lives. (She also had the honor of apprenticing with Annie Sprinkle!)

Robin has collaborated over many years with Dan Martin and Michael Biello, including "Breathe," and with Melanie Stewart in "Claire." She is honored to collaborate with them and The Flying Bulldogs on "In My Body." She is eternally grateful to Margaret Morrison, her partner in life and art, for all the unconditional love and support over the past 25 years!!

Patricia Daniels has been a freelance cellist in the Philadelphia area for 25 years, during that time she has performed with most of the local art organizations and theaters, including The Opera Company, The PA Ballet, Forrest Theater, Walnut Street Theater, and Suzanne Roberts Theater. She has also done some recording work with Sigma Sound, Studio 8, and others. Currently she will be playing with the Philly Pops at the Kimmel Center.

Alison Roberts is thrilled to join Flying Bulldog Productions to bring this brand new musical to life. She has a BA in Theatre Arts from Rowan University and an MFA in Costume Design and Technology from Illinois State University. She has been freelance designing in the Greater Philadelphia Area for the last fifteen years. She’s worked with the Arden Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Delaware Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre, 1812 Productions, and Philadelphia Young Playwrights.

For more information check out www.alisonrobertsdesign.com.

Patrick King is an art director, painter and writer living and working in New York. A former Philadelphian, King has also taught graphic design at Philadelphia University and broadcast copywriting at Temple University. King is the recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant for his paintings, which can be seen at patrickking.org.

Growing up in Philadelphia my life was rich with art and a diverse source of cultural experiences. I discovered photography while attending the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr. I took my first college course at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. I thought I would become a photojournalist. However, plans change and as an artist I have always been very experimental. I was passionate about film photography and the female figure. I moved to California and received my Masters and Bachelors Degrees in Photography and also began my career as a teacher and a mixed media artist. In 1999, I returned to Philadelphia to focus on my career. I am an artist and I teach mixed media workshops from my studio and on location as well. I am also a commercial photographer and owner of Jewellea Photography, specializing in weddings and boudoir photography. I am part of the Susan Beard Design Studio in Manayunk and I also own Bliss Books a hand-made book company. I am a prolific artist and I have exhibited in galleries in New York, California, Philadelphia and throughout the United States. I primarily show black and white photographs painted with encaustics.

Statement:

My diversity and experience in the realms of photography, encaustic painting and mixed media continue to merge and compliment one another. A stained photograph and a ripped corner speak of life’s lessons. Each texture is ultimately important to me. My work is close to home and reflects my true self, it hints to my flaws, and I embrace beauty and expression.

My work is a dialogue between my imagination, my curiosity, my imperfections and my desires. I express the tales of womanhood, sharing stories through form, color and texture. I am a portrait artist and I photograph primarily women, and then embellish the photographs with layers of beeswax, colored wax, painting and drawing. Adding wax for texture and color for mood changes the black and white photographs. I use paper as an extension of my skin; I pull it and peel it, a wash it, paint it, tear it and draw on it. Wax embellishes and veils the nudity of my subjects and I draw to decorate and control the image. The ability to layer mediums and constantly change appearance and texture allows me to stray from reality and reach the playground of imagination. I am interested in images from nature and designs with floral and intricate forms.

Chris Burcheri is a Philadelphia-based accompanist, music director and composer. He has music directed with the Walnut Street Theatre outreach program and Kids’ Series, Friends Select School and Friends Central School. He also teaches and accompanies for Walnut Street Theatre School, music directs the Camp Walnut summer program, and serves as a dance accompanist at University of the Arts. He is very excited and grateful for the opportunity to work on IN MY BODY.

Chelsea is ecstatic to be returning as stage manager for IN MY BODY after participating in the workshop. Chelsea is the stage manager at Theatre Horizon with credits including: Fully Committed, Lobby Hero, In The Blood, Holiday Show, Complete Works Abridged. Chelsea’s additional credits include: The Lantern Theater Company (Arcadia), Temple University's (A Fierce Kind of Love), G4 Productions (Menopause the Musical, Motherhood the Musical), White Pine Productions (Luckiest Kid, The Music You Remember), Act II Playhouse (ASM for RESPECT: The Musical Journey of Women & On Golden Pond). Up next: Grand Concourse at Theatre Horizon.

Melpomene Katakalos has been a freelance scenic designer, predominately in San Francisco, NYC, and Philadelphia designing over 100 productions. Specializing in new works, she has designed over 30 world premieres, over 12 west coast premieres, and countless regional premieres. Her designs have been seen on the stages of the Tony-award winning theatres La Jolla Playhouse and San Francisco Mime Troupe, California Shakespeare Theatre, and Cornerstone Theatre in Los Angeles. In NYC, she has designed at HERE Arts Center, La Mama, 45th Street Theatre, and the Triad. In Philadelphia, she has designed at InterAct and Shakespeare in Clark Park. Her designs and devised works have been seen at The Beijing International Fringe and the Singapore International Fringe. Recently she was nominated for a Barrymore Award for design of Christopher Chen’s Caught in 2015. She is the director of the New Play Design Lab at the Playwrights Foundation (SF), and is a co-founder of Crowded Fire Theater Company (SF). This seventeen year old, award-winning company produces poetic, bold theater created by new and contemporary artists. Recently she cofounded 2by4, a theatre company that combines cross-disciplinary collaboration, intellectual and emotional curiosity, and high quality artistry. Among her many nominations and awards are two San Diego Playbill Awards, two Bay Area Critics Circle nominations, and the honor of Best Set Designer from The East Bay Express. BFA, Ithaca College, MFA, UC San Diego. She currently is a professor at Lehigh University.

Lauren Tracy is thrilled working on this production! She serves as the production manager for Theatre Horizon, Simpatico Theatre Project, Inis Nua Theatre Company, and Revolution Shakespeare and Cheltenham High School. She would like to thank her friends, family and Andrew for all of their love and support.

Bryan Buttler Media Relations handles PR and social media for a wide variety of organizations and individuals across the country. Based in Philadelphia, the firm specializes in arts, entertainment, and LGBT clients. Follow them on Twitter, @BB_Media_R.

In 2011, Kate Cipriano and Lis Kalogris started a company in Malvern, Pennsylvania, called Flying Bulldog Productions LLC. They hired Melissa Hays to be their creative and administrative director. The Bulldogs’ mission is to develop and produce meaningful multi-arts projects.

The Bulldogs’ first project IS the IN MY BODY musical. The show was birthed from a non-profit project about body image held in Philadelphia in late 2010. The Bulldogs conceived, created, developed and produced the IN MY BODY musical with the labor of great passion and love. The show reveals true-life physical and emotional body stories with the goal of starting a collective conversation about accepting, respecting, and, perhaps, even loving ourselves and others. What could be more meaningful than that?

On their five year IN MY BODY musical journey, the Bulldogs have worked with brilliant and talented people. This includes those who helped develop the show through mentoring, interviews, working sessions, readings and workshops, and those who are making the premiere a reality. You know who you are.

By the way, since 2011, the Bulldogs have co-produced theatrical works in New York and California. But, they are especially thrilled and honored to be premiering IN MY BODY in their own city where the seeds for the show were sown—Philadelphia.

And most of all, and with so much love, the Bulldogs thank Mike, Frank, Melissa, Steven, Michael and Dan.

Writing for and developing IN MY BODY has given Melissa a chance to explore and accept many issues within her own body. Her experiences with the show have been cathartic and validating and she wishes more than anything that those who see the show will feel the same. She feels very fortunate to have participated in this endeavor in a safe and comforting environment with loving, life-long friends. Melissa is particularly proud to have conceived and helped develop COCKTAIL. She also worked on most of the spoken word pieces and was the lead writer on Big Feet, and a major contributor to My Skin. Melissa has worked for Flying Bulldog Productions as its Administrator and Creative Director. Melissa also has her own company, Melissa J. Hays LLC where she operates as an independent photographer and creative consultant working on various multi-arts projects such as documentation photography, art and portrait photography, and coordination and administration of events, exhibitions and tours. She and her husband Aubrey reside in Downingtown, PA with their beloved twin baby girls, Mae and Bea and their Boston Terrier, Walter.

Kate conceived and helped develop numerous works for the IN MY BODY musical, particularly CHEWING, HOLLY AND HUBBY, and PERFECT. She was a major contributor to Fertility Nation and most of the other spoken word pieces. So many IN MY BODY stories are based on her personal life experiences and observations.

Kate is a partner and the Vice-President of Flying Bulldog Productions, LLC, the producer of IN MY BODY. She is responsible for marketing and business administration.

She also serves as the Executive Director of the Katherine Alexandra Family Foundation, which supports the Arts, Healing and Education. The original IN MY BODY project was funded by the Foundation.

Kate currently resides in West Chester, Pennsylvania with the love of her life Frank, their two super-hero daughters, Hope and Lily, and their French Bulldog, Bruno Ravioli.

Kathryn MacMillan is a Philadelphia-based theater director who has earned a reputation for directing classical and contemporary works with freshness and clarity, tackling plays about big ideas and scientific concepts, and shaping great ensemble acting. She has directed over 25 productions in the Philadelphia area and is currently at work with Flying Bulldog on the development of their world premiere musical, IN MY BODY. Other upcoming productions include The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in Clark Park), Grounded (InterAct), as well as Mrs. Warren’s Profession and the science play Informed Consent, both at Lantern Theater Company, where she is the Associate Artistic Director. An educator and mentor, KC approaches her collaborations with good communication, dramaturgical precision, and joy.

KC’s notable productions include the critically acclaimed The Beauty Queen of Leenane (named Best Production of the 2012/13 season & Best Director by Philadelphia Weekly, who called her “sensationally gifted”), The Liar (Best Production Honorable Mention that same season), Arcadia (Runner up, Best Overall Production & Best Director by Phindie Independent Critic Awards), Doubt (named one of the Best Plays of 2015 by the Philadelphia Daily News), The Breath of Life (Barrymore Award nomination: Outstanding Overall Production of a Play), The Hothouse (Barrymore nominations for Outstanding Direction & Outstanding Production of a Play), I Am My Own Wife (Barrymore nominations for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production of a Play and winner of the Virginia Brown Martin Philadelphia Award). She was an actor in the Barrymore-nominated ensemble of Philadelphia Artists’ Collective’s The Fair Maid of the West.

Steven P. has worked with Disney, SeaWorld, Yosemite National Park and many of the region’s professional theaters; both on and off the stage; and, in all major mediums including television, radio and film. Steve was previously the associate producer and casting director of Theatre Horizon, a professional not-for-profit theatre in Norristown, an instructor at Lower Merion High School and Montgomery County Community College, a casting associate at Mike Lemon Casting and Philadelphia Casting, and the extras casting director for “Philadelphia: The Great Experiment,” an Emmy award-winning documentary which aired locally on 6ABC. Professional theatrical experience includes assistant directing The Big Knife at Roundabout Theatre Company on Broadway under Tony-Award Winner Doug Hughes. BFA, NYU. Equity Membership Candidate.

For 65 plus years, Lis has been getting her act together. She feels she’s finally done it with IN MY BODY. Hooray! In the meantime: she married her soul mate; thrives on mothering, grandmothering, sistering and anting; co-produced shows in New York, San Diego and Philadelphia; conceived, developed and produced numerous multi-arts projects including salons, exhibitions, and healing arts media; helped sustain and support Arts institutions, human rights initiatives, visual and performance artists, and writers. With the help of many hands, she created the End of the Beginning Garden. She is currently working on her first book which will include poetry, memoirs and musings. She adores food, shadows and music. She practices Qigong. She loves to dance. Lis thanks everyone who has ever been associated with IN MY BODY.

K.O. DelMarcelle: Actor, choreographer, teaching artist, yoga instructor. Currently one of six MFA Acting candidates at Temple University. Tenth season as Director of Programming & Lead Teacher for the nonprofit ballroom dance company Dancing With The Students. She holds a Master’s of Arts in Theater from Villanova University. Barrymore nomination for Outstanding Choreography, Emma (The Lantern Theater Company). Two-time Barrymore nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Detroit (Philadelphia Theater Company) & Taming of the Shrew (Lantern Theater Company). Special thanks to the IMB team. Next up: featured as a performer in the world premier of a Kristoffer Diaz play produced by Temple Theaters, spring 2018.

Michael Biello and Dan Martin are award-winning songwriters, life-partners, and longtime collaborators. Their musical Marry Harry was produced at American Theatre Group (NJ) in 2014 following a 2013 production at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and a developmental reading at New York Stage and Film’s 2011 Powerhouse Season at Vassar. The Cousins Grimm was produced in Chicago in 2009 following a staged reading at NYMF and a workshop at the O’Neill Theatre Center’s Cabaret & Performance Conference. A new version of The Cousins Grimm was showcased in London in November 2015 as part of Aria Entertainment’s Festival of New Musicals. Breathe has been produced in Chicago (1999 After Dark Award) and in many other US cities.

Biello and Martin’s songs have been performed from PS 122 to Lincoln Center by a wide range of vocalists including Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba, Bessie Award winner Tom Bogdan, and disco diva Karen Young. Film/Video projects include Clones in Love (Best Short, San Francisco LGBT Video Festival), The Dance (in the permanent collection of MoMA), and the anthem for the First Comes Love Project—a photo/film project celebrating long term LGBTQ couples. The Biello Martin Songbook—a musical revue celebrating the team’s 40 years of songwriting—premiered at The Drake in Philadelphia in April 2016.

Martin and Biello’s early career dance/theatre projects include several pieces with choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones (Two Men Dancing, 1976-1980), How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1983), X-posed (1984), and a series of innovative performance-art musicals in the early and mid 1990's. Their avant-garde musical Claire (1996) in collaboration with director/choreographer Melanie Stewart enjoyed a sold out revival at the 2007 Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Their work has been presented at a variety of venues including New York’s American Opera Projects, New Dramatists, Musical Theater Works, The Century Center, HERE, and BAX, among others; Philadelphia’s Harold Prince Theatre, The Painted Bride, The Arts Bank, and the Walnut Street Theatre 5, among others; Miami’s City Theatre; Washington DC’s DCAC; and San Francisco’s People's Theater Coalition.

Biello and Martin live and work in Philadelphia and in New York, where they are longtime members of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and the Dramatists Guild. www.biellomartin.com

Theater credits include: In the Heights (Walnut Street Theatre), Ghost the Musical (Media Theatre), Motherhood the Musical (Society Hill Playhouse), Rent (Bucks County Playhouse). Donnie is blessed to be continuing her work with Flying Bulldog Productions and would like to thank God, the ancestors, the cast, creative team, and her family.

Theater: Chinglish (International Broadway Tour), Miss Saigon (Midwest Tour), lead roles in many Off-Broadway and Regional theaters, including Walnut Street Theater (Lun Tha in The King and I – 2012 Barrymore Award nomination), Berkeley Repertory, South Coast Repertory (StageSceneLA Award), Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and many more. Other Awards: Dean Goodman & WISE Foundation Awards; also nominated for BroadwayWorld & IRNE Awards. Film: Creative Control, Sleeping With Other People, The Woman in the Dress (on Amazon). TV: "Younger", "The Affair", "Shades of Blue" (recurring on Season 2, 2017 on NBC). Education: Boston Conservatory. Many thanks to Kathryn & the creative team, CTC/DB & AG! www.Austin-Ku.com

April is thrilled to be continuing this journey with all the amazing people involved with IN MY BODY! Many years ago April attended The Curtis Institute of Music, studying voice with Todd Duncan (the first Porgy of Porgy and Bess) and opera with Boris Goldovsky. Later, while serving as Dean of Students at Academy of Vocal Arts, she was the assistant director at the Spoleto Festival, Italy where she worked with Gian-Carlo Menotti, Luciano Pavarotti, and Richard Hickox. Since returning to the stage Ms. Woodall has received the Midtown International Theatre Festival Outstanding Lead Actress award for her performance in Jacques Lamarre’s Gray Matters, and the Best Actress Award for her performance in Tony Glazer’s Reading Under The Influence at The Chain Theatre, both in New York City; as well as Barrymore and SALT nominations for the title role in Souvenir: A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins (Montgomery Theatre and Cortland Repertory Theatre); and a Carbonell nomination for her performance of Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (Maltz Jupiter Theatre.) Other NYC credits: Anna: Love in the Cold War (Anna); A Promise Best Kept; and Mexican Hayride. Regional credits include: Maine State Music Theatre, ME; Fulton Theatre, PA; Seven Angels Theatre, CT; Maltz Jupiter Theatre, FL; American Theatre Group, NJ; Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, MO; Mill Mountain Theater, VA; Cortland Repertory Theatre, NY; Little Theatre on the Square, IL; and Gateway Playhouse, NY. Closer to her Philadelphia home: Act II Playhouse; Bristol Riverside Theatre; Hedgerow Theatre; Media Theatre, Flashpoint Theatre, Center City Theatre Works, Montgomery Theatre, The Seaport History Museum Theatre, and The Devon. Ms. Woodall can be seen in the recently released film North Star with Jeremiah Trotter, Lynn Whitfield, and Keith David. For more information, please visit AprilWoodall.com.

Katie Zaffrann is honored to be part of IN MY BODY. She is the executive producer and star of the musical short film NAKED, a whimsical romp about living life to the fullest, which has won numerous awards and been featured at film festivals around the world. Her one-woman-show Marry Me... a Little: a wedding/anxiety cabaret has played New York and San Francisco, and will be further developed this fall. Theater credits include the New York Musical Theatre Festival, freeFall Theatre (BroadwayWorld nomination, Best Actress in a Musical for Grey Gardens), Shakespeare & Company, Delaware Theatre Company, John W. Engeman Theater, and Chenango River Theatre. Her 2010 debut EP fly woman genius, featuring the songs of five up-and-coming musical theater composers, is available on iTunes. Katie holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Syracuse University, and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. http://katiezaffrann.com

Michael Indeglio is thrilled to join this cast and company for the world premier of IN MY BODY. Tours: Titanic (National), Mame (National), Forever Plaid (Canadian). Favorite Regional: Tick Tick...Boom (Jon), The Last Five Years (Jaime), Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour), I Love You, You're Perfect...Now Change. Love to my wife, Jen and our pup bb. mike-indeglio.com