Knife Edge Productions Presents Red Light Winter

Is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose plays include Ghosts in the Cottonwoods, Animals and Plant, Blackbird, Nocturne, Stone Cold Dead Serious, Finer Noble Gases, Faster, Trueblinka, Dreams of the Salthorse, Gompers, and Red Light Winter (for which he received the Jeff Award for Best New Work 2005). Starting September 25^th he will be directing his new play Kindness at Playwrights Horizons. A graduate of Clarke College Dubuque, Iowa, Rapp also completed a two-year playwriting fellowship at Julliard.

Directing credits include Eden End, N.C. School of the Arts, The Blue Room and The Last Supper, Asolo Conservatory (FSU), Exit Neon, Calif. State Fullerton, Tape, Abingdon Theatre, This is Our Youth, Medicine Show Theatre, Orphans, Chelsea Arts, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Producer's Club, The Dumb Waiter, Ward Studio, and Mary MacGregor, Neighborhood Playhouse. David holds an MFA in Acting from Rutgers University, and is on the Acting Faculty at the William Esper Studio.

Kate August is an elusive creature of the off-off Broadway theater. Past projects include but are not limited to: Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire, 2Gents, 99 Degrees, 516 and the After Dark series sponsored by the Potomac Theater Company, and many other kamikaze theater events. They have always been her favorite types of theater endeavors. She was last spotted on off Broadway as Dancing Lesbian Nun #2, in Blair Fell's Burning Habits (in which she also did the sound, stage managed, and assistant-directed). She has studied with UAA in Anchorage Alaska, and The School for Film and Television of NYC. She's worked within the Denver Center with The National Theater Conservatory. Often times she can be found teaching "children how to lie" in Long Island, or out in the Midwest touring with the Beijing Opera. She also has a profound enjoyment of waffles...

Christina has designed sets and lighting for numerous plays in Manhattan and Staten Island, including The Zoo Story, Lone Star and Dress Suits to Hire. Christina produced and designed sets for the award winning feature film Liar’s Pendulum. She received the award for Best Art Direction at the 2007 Long Island Int’l Film Expo and was given a nomination at the Action on Film Int’l Film Festival. Christina graduated with honors from the BA Program of the City University of New York with a BS in Entertainment Production Design. While freelancing as a set and web designer, Christina currently works as the Production Manager of the Center for the Arts in Staten Island. Please visit www.christinawerkmeister.com for details.

Is originally from Buffalo, NY. He has worked at B.A.M. and the Nokia Theatre, and for the The View and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. RJ is also a musician and is currently recording an album.

Is originally from New Jersey. Her credits include: Ugly Betty, I Hate Valentine's Day starring Nia Vardalos, and the independent film Boreal. Havi will be assistant costume designing for the upcoming film Solitary Man, starring Michael Douglas. She holds a B.A. in Costume Design from Hofstra University.

Has directed and choreographed regionally The Wizard of Oz, Honky Tonk Angels, High School the Musical; and choreographed The Music Man, Nunsence, The Jude’s Law. She has performed in the National Tours: The Music Man (female swing) and Annie Get Your Gun (ensemble/dance captain); Regional: A Chorus Line (Cassie), West Side Story (Teresita), Jesus Christ Superstar (Mary), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Carpet/ Silly Girl). www.danamaddox.com