Co-Producer/Editor
Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History

Production Designer
The Life and Times of Herbert Hector, Day 23

Costume Designer
For a Love of Nature

Composer
The Life and Times of Herbert Hector

REZA JACOBS recently received his MFA in Musical Theater Writing from NYU/Tisch. In 2006 Reza won the Daryl Roth Award for Plastic! The Musical - a one-armed-man geek-pop extravaganza. He is also a recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Frederick Loewe Scholarship. He has music directed for William Finn, Goodspeed Musicals and NYU. His music for dance has been performed in New York at Dixon Place, Joe's Pub and the Cool New York 2007 DANCE Festival. In 2006, he completed a composition fellowship at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Reza has also collaborated with a Cambodian puppet dance company (in Cambodia, and then Vermont) on The Story of the Dog.

Most recently, Reza wrote music and lyrics for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Toronto Youth Theatre), he wrote music and music directed Macbeth (Classical Theatre Project at Hart House) which was nominated for a Dora award for outstanding production. He also just completed a workshop of the classical Indian legend, Sakuntala (Pleidas Theatre) for which he wrote music and music directed (stay tuned for a production opening in 2008.)

His musical, Plastic! (co-written with Robert Maddock and Joe Iconis) was awarded and received a reading a the York Theatre in New York in June 2007, and was also featured in Bound For Broadway 2006 and the NAMT Festival of New Musicals Songwriters Showcase.

Upcoming work includes music for an adaptation of Hamlet (Why Not Theatre), as well as music direction and arrangements for an evening of Beatles songs interpreted by Canadian musical theatre performers (Acting Upstage).

You can check out Reza's music (including tracks from Plastic!) at www.homepage.mac.com/rezajacobs

Playwright/Performer
Cassandra

Raised in the village of Bayfield, Briana is a graduate of York University's theatre program (Honours BA) where she specialized in playwriting and directing. She has produced and performed in a number of her own works including More Than Breath (co-written, Paprika Festival, Tarragon Theatre), The Star (Spring Arts Fair, Tarragon Theatre) and her one-woman show Cassandra, which she toured to fringe festivals across the country, and will be remounting as part of FemFest in Winnipeg this October. Recent directing credits include: Speech! (Toronto Fringe Festival), Timebomb (Toronto Fringe Festival, assistant director), and The Photograph (New Ideas Festival). Recent acting credits include: The Vagina Monologues (V-Day Toronto 2007), stay. (York U Independent Study), This is A Play (Actors Without Equity), and The Outdoor Donnellys (Blyth Festival). She is an Associate Member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, and recipient of the George Ryga Award for playwriting.

Cinematographer
Day 23, For a Love of Nature

Production Manager/AD
For a Love of Nature

Production Designer
For a Love of Nature

Cinematographer
The Life and Times of Herbert Hector