Julie Jigour received her BA in English and creative writing from Santa Clara University. A California native and founding member of the Bay Area–based Cardboard Box Theatre Project, she has had staged readings and productions of her plays in San Jose, San Francisco, and Berkeley.

She was selected for the Theater Masters 2014 National MFA Playwrights Festival, which produces ten-minute plays in Aspen and New York.

Julie currently lives in Pittsburgh, where she’s pursuing an MFA in dramatic writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

Randy Kovitz is a veteran actor who’s television credits include “Parks and Recreation,” “Supah Ninjas,” “Fringe,” “E.R.,”“The Practice,” “King of Queens,” and many others. Film credits include the soon-to-be-released “The Fault in Our Stars” and the George Romero films “Dawn of The Dead” and “Knightriders,” among others.

He appeared on Broadway in Burn This with John Malkovich and Joan Allen, Othello with James Earl Jones, Christopher Plummer, Diane Weist and Kelsey Grammer and Macbeth at Lincoln Center. Regional theater credits include Yale Rep., American Shakespeare Festival, Laguna Playhouse, L.A. Theatre Center, Shakespeare Festival/L.A. and many others.

Pittsburgh audiences have seen Randy in shows at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Playhouse Rep, P.I.C.T., Bricolage, barebones and others. Most recently, he played The Librarian in the solo show Underneath The Lintel for 12 Peers Theater. In Los Angeles in the 1990’s, he fronted the spoken word band, “Lies Like Truth” and has played drums in many other live and studio projects over the years.

He wrote and directed the short films “The Specials” and “Lightweight.” Both have played at film festivals around the country. “Lightweight” was awarded the jury prize for best short last spring at the Worldfest-Houston film festival.

As a fight director, Randy stages violence for many theaters in town, as well as for film and video projects. Randy also teaches acting at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, directing at the Point Park department of cinema and leads private acting workshops.

Bio: Dennis Schebetta is a playwright, director and actor whose work has been seen off-off- Broadway and regionally at theatres such as Ensemble Studio Theater, 13th Street Rep, fringeNYC, Gallery Players, Vital Theater, Portland Theatre Works, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, Theatre Schmeater, Bricolage Theater and the Samuel French Off- Off Broadway Play Festival. Last year his play W@STE was in The Road Theatre’s Summer Play Festival in L.A. and had a staged reading by 12 Peers theater in Pittsburgh. As an actor, he was recently seen in AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY at the Pittsburgh Playhouse and in SHINING CITY at Off The Wall. His play DOG PARK OR SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN MAGNUSON was published in “Ten 10-Minute Plays Volume III” and has enjoyed several productions after its premiere in Seattle, including as far away as Iceland, Australia, and Morocco. Dennis holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, studied acting with Bill Esper in New York, and was the Dramatist Guild Regional Representative for Seattle. Originally from Reno, he now lives in Pittsburgh and works in the School of Drama and the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Yulin Kuang recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she studied creative writing and film.   She now resides in Los Angeles.

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