Lucy Cashion (Director/Composer) is a New York-based theatre artist beginning her third year as an M.F.A. Theatre candidate at the Columbia University School of the Arts.  Previous works with frequent collaborators Becca Poccia, Samara Weiss, and Nate Grams include the academic production of AK-47 Sing-Along (also with Devin Bokaer), The Waking Edge, and Your Call Cannot Be Completed as Dialed (which she also produced), with work by Camila Le-Bert, James Ryan Caldwell, Matt Hurley and other talented theatre artists from the School of the Arts.  She has also directed polis, by Camila Le-Bert, and Snow Fleas by Otso Huopaniemi.  Her theatre company ERA proudly produces this production of AK-47 Sing-Along.  She looks forward to deepening the work of ERA with Regina Vorria, bringing audiences MAKE HAMLET, an ERA creation, and providing a laboratory for artists and other creators to experiment with ideas.  ERA promotes multi-disciplinary, ensemble works, an international theatre community, sufficient rehearsal time, the dissolving of artistic hierarchies, treating artists as artists, sufficient and equal salaries, and the hope to form a better, more perfect actors' union.

Brett J. Banakis (Scenic Design) is currently working on The Little Death, Vol. 1 (Ontological). Credits include On Your Toes (REPRISE! Broadway’s Best), They’re Playing Our Song (Valley Musical Theatre), A Funny Thing…,  Side by Side by Sondheim and Junk: A Rock Opera (Lyric Theatre LA), The Storm, A Map of the World, and Romantic Roulette (NYU), Smoking Gun (Studio Tisch) and Urinetown (UCLA).  Brett holds a BA from UCLA and an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from NYU.

Beth Goldenberg (Costume Design) received her BFA in Costume Design from Boston University.  Costume design credits include How I Won the Campbell Prize (Triskelion Arts Center); Tooth Fairy/Sugar Daddy (Garage Ensemble);  Be the Dog, Theremin, Dressing Miss Julie (NY Fringe Festival); Me, My Guitar & Don Henley (Crooked Neck Productions); The Drowned World, The Tempest, Rimers of Eldritch (Boston University). Assistant design credits include Aliens With Extraordinary Skills (The Women's Project); Up In the Air (Kennedy Center); Tamburlaine (The Shakespeare Theatre) and the film The Imperialists Are Still Alive! (Hi, Jack Films). She is an MFA Candidate in Costume Design at New York University

Becca Poccia (Dramaturg/Technical Director) is an MFA candidate in Dramaturgy at Columbia University, where her credits include A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill, The Waking Edge by Samara Weiss, Lifetime Fairytale by Zhu Yi, Room 603 created and directed by Carin White, and Duchess by James Ryan Caldwell.  She has also contributed dramaturgical research to Freshwater and Enchantment at the Women’s Project, and to Coryphaeus Theater Company’s production of The Crucible.

Samara Weiss (Playwright/Composer) received her BA in Theater from UCLA, with a semester as a visiting student in the Masters program at the Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Arts.  Other works include The Waking Edge, Dirt and Touch/tones, an authorized adaptation of Douglas R. Hofstadter's book Le Ton beau de Marot.  Her work has been produced on both coasts, and in India.  Forget the City, an adaptation of Euripides’s Bacchae with music by Angelique Mouyis, can be seen in parks around New York City in early August.  She is pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University.  www.undecipheredscript.com  To Chuck, Kelly, and everybody:  !شكران

Jing Lu (Assistant Stage Manager) comes from Beijing, China. She just received her BA in music performance from the top music school of China, Central Conservatory of Music.  She will be attending Columbia University in the fall for an MFA in Stage Management. She has been involved in hundreds of performances and 3 solo concerts at the National Center for the Performing Arts. She established the World Music Quartet, and organized the concerts they were invited to perform for presidents or ambassadors of Chile, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Bengal, Japan, and Kuwait. She took part in the Dulcimer Performance Band, Jasmine. The band published an album and performed on CCTV many times. She was honored to be the Excellent Teacher of the National Instrument Competition.  She became a stage manager just 15 days after she landed in New York, a big challenge and a life-changing event. She would like to thank the AK-47 Sing-Along team for giving her this precious opportunity. She will treasure this memorable first theatre experience in her heart for her whole life.

Chrissy Capobianco (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with the cast and crew of AK-47 Sing-Along.  A recent graduate of Marymount Manhattan College, Chrissy will be attending Columbia University in the fall for an MFA in stage management. Previous credits include Rave- adaptation of the Bacchae in Scotland's 2005 Fringe Festival, ASM for Save the Children's Foundation 75th Anniversary at Lincoln Center, and production manager for 1VoiceWorld Rock for Humanity  poverty events. She would like to thank the AK-47 Sing-Along team for this wonderful opportunity and experience!

Jimmy Lawlor (Lighting Design) is an MFA candidate in Lighting Design for Stage and Film at New York University.  He is currently working on The Little Death, Vol. 1 (Ontological).  Previous work includes Indistinct Boundaries and Incidence (Wooly Mammoth), Angels in America: Perestroika, Dummy, and AntiModern (NYU), and Looking for Love, or, The Centaur Play (Columbia Stages).  Previous work with Lucy Cashion, Becca Poccia, and Samara Weiss includes The Waking Edge and Your Call Could Not Be Completed As Dialed (Columbia Stages).  www.lawlordesign.com