PAULA ALPRIN, WRITER/PERFORMER
Paula Alprin is a playwright, composer, lyricist, poet and actress whose works have been performed at the National Theatre and the Source Theatre, both in Washington, D.C., and at a variety of New York venues. Her recent "dramedy" play The Crawl-Space Waltz concluded its six-week run at the Old Town Theater in Alexandria, Virginia in November 2002, with Paula in the lead role. Paula's other recent stage roles have included Molly in Molly Sweeney and Estelle in No Exit, winner of the British Embassy's Ruby Griffith award for outstanding achievement in a play (both with Port City Players) and Rose in A Second Coming (with Little Theatre of Alexandria). She is a principal in the recent feature film Good-Bye Merry-Go-Round, which was screened at the New York Independent Film Festival in February 2002. Paula holds a B.F.A. degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied playwrighting with Terrence McNally (the writer of Master Class, A Perfect Ganesh, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune) and acting with Nikos Psacharopoulos (from 1955 to 1989 the artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival).

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CATE ARCHULETA, PERFORMER
Cate Archuleta is an actress, performance artist and dancer. She has performed in various shows and plays through the D.C. area including The George Washington University, the University of Maryland, Lisner Auditorium, Sanctuary Theatre, Source Theatre, Studio Theatre and Horizons Theatre. Cate sponsored and directed The Children's Song and Story Hour every Christmas for twelve years as owner and chef of Cate's Bistro Pizzeria in Old Town Alexandria, VA.

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AMY MIHARU HARD, PERFORMER
Amy Miharu Hard most recently appeared as the title role in the Little Theatre of Alexandria's Sylvia, for which she received the Washington Area Theatre Community award for "Most Outstanding Actress," as well as LTA's season award for her work. She has performed with, among others, Theatre of the First Amendment, Tsunami Theatre, Classika Theatre, and various dance companies around the nation. Currently a theatre teacher and director in Fairfax County, VA, she continues to choreograph, dance, and act at area community and professional theatres.

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JO-ANN HOVEY, PERFORMER
Jo-Ann Hovey has been singing professionally in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area since 1993. She has performed in operatic productions of Don Giovanni (Zerlina), The Marriage of Figaro (Susanna), The Magic Flute, Abduction from the Seraglio, Hansel and Gretel (Mother), Elixir of Love, and Dido and Aeneas. She has also relished the challenge of musical theater roles in The Mikado (Katisha and Pitti-Sing), The Sound of Music (Maria), Legend of Moxham's Castle (Lady Moxham) and Brigadoon (Fiona). Jo-Ann has found many different styles of music to sing, but none loved any more than the traditional Celtic tunes of her youth. A native of Nova Scotia, Jo-Ann received her Bachelor of Music degree from Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, with a major in vocal performance. She continued her studies at the Aspen School of Music, with further graduate studies in voice at the University of North Texas. Jo-Ann has received many awards, including three consecutive Nova Scotia Talent Trust Artist Development grants and the Aspen Music Festival Opera Theater Scholarship.

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HOLLY TWYFORD, PERFORMER
Holly Twyford has been acting professionally for over a decade. She has been seen in more than thirty productions in the Washington metropolitan area, where she is proud to have worked in many of the highly acclaimed theaters that are in and around Washington, including Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Studio Theatre, and Source Theatre, to name a few. Nationally, she has appeared in various productions and readings in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Santa Cruz, and she performed Lee Blessing's one-person play Chesapeake in Milwaukee. Holly has been nominated for eight Helen Hayes Awards and received the Outstanding Lead Actress Award both for her portrayal of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Folger Shakespeare Library and for her performance as Evelyn in the Studio Theatre's The Shape of Things. Though most of her work has been on the stage, Holly also enjoys working in front of the camera. She has appeared in several independent films, including John Waters' Pecker, and on the small screen in the hit show Homicide: Life on the Street. Her credits also include numerous commercials, voiceovers, and educational and training films. She is a resident of Washington, D.C.

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LINDA WILLIAMS, PERFORMER
Linda Williams most recently appeared with The American Century Theatre as Topsy, the wild child, in Uncle Tom's Cabin. Other credits include Inherit The Wind (Melinda), Savages (Callie), Monologues (Shock), and For Colored Girls… (Green Girl). She will appear as Frances Driggus in the upcoming WNET-PBS documentary Remembering Slavery. Linda has worked on various film, television, and industrial projects and is a first-time author with her book Pieces of A Poet, The Symphony of an Adolescent.

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BRIAN ALPRIN, DIRECTOR/MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Brian Alprin has directed his bride's works at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. and at the Old Town Theater in Alexandria, Virginia. He holds a B.A. in English from Yale University where he studied literature and literary criticism with Cleanth Brooks, Richard Benson Sewall and Harold Bloom and prosody, stylistic analysis and early English with Marie Borroff and Dorothée Metlitzki.