Tony Sportiello (Playwright)
Has written more than twenty-five plays, including “Second Chance”, “Love On Trial”, “Absent Friends”, “Waiting for Al”, “The Bet”, “Wild Thing”, “News Story”, “The Summer of Katya”, “Suicide Rings” and “The Grandfather Paradox”. Two of his plays (“National Pastime” and “Contract Time”) are in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. His one act play “Tickets, Please!” was published by Sam French. He has been Artistic Director of three separate theater companies, including Algonquin Theater Productions, which is focused on moving shows on to the professional level.

Jerry Less (Director)
Adapted and directed the Workshop Theater Company's highly acclaimed production of Shakespeare's HENRY IV PARTS ONE AND TWO. Also at the Workshop, he has directed THE JAZZ AGE by Allan Knee, AUSTIN'S BRIDGE a musical by Bill C. Davis and CHEMISTRY LAB by Ben Alexander. His production of HALF THE BATTLE - the Susan B. Anthony - story toured the U.S. and played the Edinburgh Festival. Jerry's opera directing credits include Britten's SAINT NICHOLAS at Christ Church Opera as well as operas at Bronx Opera and Ashlawn Opera (Va.). Jerry has been a casting director for 'Stuart Howard, the Learning Channel and Rattlestick(including the Obie award winning VOLUNTEER MAN). He is a teaching artist with Theater for a New Audience. This fall he will be directing ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at the Workshop Theater Company.

CK Allen (Larry)
CK is thrilled to be making his FringeNYC Debut. He made his professional acting debut in the Oscar-nominated film LONGTIME COMPANION as a non-union extra in a hospital emergency room scene. He was paid US$10.00 (yes, that's TEN dollars US) and a dry sandwich for the day. Since then, he's been paid more for appearing as homeless rock band member Buddy who was actually a rich preppie on the ABC soap opera LOVING. Buddy was sent out for pizza and the show was canceled before he had a chance to come back with it, but CK re-appeared in roles on all the other soaps shot in NYC, (even using a Ja-fakin? accent as "Island Cop #1" on ALL MY CHILDREN) as well as print ads, commercials, radio voiceovers and independent films. Recent NYC theater credits: Chuck Hooter in Levy Lee Simon’s THE BOW WOW CLUB and Larry (etc) in LOL both at the WorkShop Theater; Joe in the premier of Edmund DeSantis’ I STAND NAKED BEFORE YOU (Harbor Theater's HARBOR CURRENTS Fall 2003/Samuel French Finalist 2004); 6 characters in Tracey Scott Wilson’s EXHIBIT #9 (New Perspectives Theater and Theater Outrageous); 5 characters in Tony Howarth’s JACK IN THE BOX (Kraine Theater); 1 character split in two in Howarth’s MAIDEN VOYAGE and one whole character, "Bernard", in Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. SAG/AFTRA

Jed Dickson*
Jed has performed off-Broadway in The Mask as well as in several off-off-Broadway venues and on regional stages across the country. Recent credits include the world premiere of History of the Word at the Crossroads Theatre. Television work includes recurring or featured roles on All My Children, As The World Turns and the mini-series Crossings. He has appeared in several national commercials and done voice-over work for industrial films and an animated pilot and is a monthly contributor at ELLE magazine.

Heather Gornall*
Heather grew up in Rochester, NY (quite a bit upstage from here). Favorite regional performances: Maggie in Lend Me a Tenor (Shawnee Theater), Bianca in Taming of the Shrew (NYRF), and Belle in A Christmas Carol (Nebraska Theater Caravan). She’s also performed at theaters throughout NYC, including the Connolly, Abingdon, National Arts Club, and Chernucin, and done several productions as a member of Algonquin Productions, the WorkShop Theater Company, and Times Square Playwrights. On screen, she’s been in numerous independent films and commercials, All My Children, and singing back-up for Enya on The View. In her spare time, Heather also figure skates professionally and is a member of the Rangers City Skaters team at MSG hockey games.

Kari Swenson Riely (Jenny)
Kari has appeared at New Dramatists, The Manhattan Theatre Source, The Present Company, T.S.I., The Cornelia Street Café, Don’t Tell Mama and The Workshop Theater Company. She has worked on several independent films, most recently, appearing as Donna in the independent feature Dumped: The Musical. She has been heard regularly around the country and locally on 105.1 FM as one of the voices of HipHopera. She is a frequent volunteer with the The 52nd Street Project and is a member of the Algonquin and Workshop Theater Companies.

Stefania Diana Schramm (Stage Manager)
This is Stefania's second foray into Fringeworld. Last year she was Production Stage Manager for "Graceland" by Donald Steele. She has worked for various theater companies in various productions in various guises. She comes from Los Gatos, CA. She's happy to be here.

Greg Skura* (Danny)
A graduate of Tufts University, Greg trained with Larry Singer at Michael Howard Studios and with Joseph Chaikin. This is his second appearance at The Fringe. Recent NYC stage: theatrainplays, The Lark Theatre Co., The Workshop Theater Co., tangent theatre co., Women's Project and Productions, Plays for Living, PACT, Vital Theatre Co. Regional: Dorset Theatre Festival, Jupiter Theatre, Wayside Theatre. Film/TV: Opposites Attract (Jetset Pictures), Morning Sickness (Season of Light Productions), The Lucky Ones (Cathexis Films, Inc.), Guiding Light. Greg is an Associate Producer of Algonquin Theater Productions, a company member of The Workshop Theater Co., and is an Artistic Associate of tangent theatre company. Big thanks to Stefania for help with the lines.

Nicole Taylor* (Karen)
Nicole has performed in LOL, Graceland, Certain Souls, The Umbrella Play, The Merchant of Venice and Fault Lines all at the WorkShop Theater. Elsewhere in New York she has performed at the Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival in Good Opinions, the HB Playwrights Foundation in The Valentine Fairy and St. George and the Dragon, The NY Int'l Fringe Festival in Graceland and Heaven Knows, and as the lead flight attendant in the long-running musical cabaret Around the World in a Bad Mood at Rose's Turn in the village. Regionally, she has spent full seasons at the Denver Center Theater Company, Stage One in Louisville, KY, the Gaslamp Quarter Theater in San Diego, CA and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. She can be seen in the short films Rowboat, Central Park and Shift (made for PBS with Christopher Meloni).

Ali Valcarcel (Assistant Director)
Ali is a student at SUNY Purchase where she is in the Conservatory for Theater Arts. Former credits include The Dentist, Denial, Little Foxes, Revenge of the Space Pandas and Alice in Wonderland. Besides working on LOL, Ali has been promoting Broadway shows in and around the NYC area so if you see her handing out something, be nice to her and take it! Thanks to.... everyone, for fear of forgetting someone.

Debra Whitfield* (Susan)
Debra is an award-winning actress and director. She has appeared on stage, screen and television in a wide variety of roles. She recently finished an Off-Broadway run playing all the women in Alexander Hamilton's life in Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown. Other Off-Broadway credits include Mr. Pim Passes By (The Mint Theatre) and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde (opposite Orson Bean). Regionally she has played Claire in Proof (Hartford TheaterWorks), Natasha in Rough Crossing (Virginia Stage Company), Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatre Works) and the title role in Charley's Aunt with John Astin. She won Best Actress Awards for her work as Li'l Bit in How I Learned to Drive (Contemporary American Theatre Company), Sharon in The Adjustment (Florida Stage) and Sheila in Relatively Speaking (Dorset Theatre Festival). Television audiences have seen her as Chrissie Sommers on The Edge of Night and Ingrid Brice on As The World Turns. As a director, she won the Beaux Arts DaVinci Award for Best Revival for her production of Susan Glaspel's Trifles. The London Shakespeare Studio. Debra is a member of The WorkShop Theater Company and Algonquin Productions. Debra will start principal photography for the feature film “I Believe In America“ at the end of August.