Who Are We?

The Creative Team

Composer Paul Crabtree is committed to breaking down the architectural barriers that concert halls and opera houses create.

Conductor Mark Shapiro, a three-time ASCAP Award winner for Adventurous Programming, enjoys working with orchestras, opera companies, and choruses. He is Artistic Director of Cantori New York and the Monmouth Civic Chorus, and Music Director of the Opera Company of Middlebury. In December he will conduct the Bridgeport Symphony and Metropolitan Opera soprano Harolyn Blackwell. Shapiro’s appearances have included Works & Process at the Guggenheim Museum, The Actors Studio, Two River Theatre, the Center for Contemporary Opera, American Opera Projects, and PBS, where he was heard conducting the soundtrack for Ric Burns’s special on New York City. Upcoming engagements include Handel’s Saul in the amphitheatre of Vaison-la-Romaine (France) and Ragtime with Cabaret for Life; his recording of Michael Dellaira’s opera Chéri was recently released on Albany Records. Shapiro teaches conducting at Mannes College the New School for Music, and is Assistant Professor of Music at the CW Post Campus of Long Island University. Each summer he directs the Conducting Program at the European American Musical Alliance in Paris.

Director Alex Harvey is a freelance Director/Adapter based out of Brooklyn. Recent directing credits include for American Conservatory Theater, O Lovely Glowworm Underneath the Lintel at the Alley Theatre, The Rivals for NYU Graduate Acting, Houston premieres of Mr.Marmalade for Stages Repertory and I Am My Own Wife for Stages Repertory Theatre in co-production with Stage West Des Moines, a five-person staging of Macbeth for the Mirror Repertory Company in New York and his own radical adaptation of The Mock-Tempest for Shakespeare Santa Cruz. With renowned composer John Gromada and author Michael Pollan, he is currently adapting Pollan’s book, The Botany of Desire, which has been developed at American Conservatory Theater, The Orchard Project and UC Berkeley, where Alex and Gromada were artists-in-residence at the Arts Research Center. Upcoming: Will Eno’s Oh The Humanity and Other Exclamations at Stages Repertory Theatre and site specific interpretation of Anthony Neilson’s The Wonderful World of Dissocia for needtheatre in Los Angeles.

The Travelers (casting soon)