Springer Associates (Press Representative) is a full service entertainment public relations firm, handling theatre, film releases, film festival, personalities and events. Current projects include: the Broadway revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Gazillion Bubble Show (New World Stages), TACT's The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Babel Theatre Project's Stomp and Shout (45th Street Theatre, Upstairs) and Carl Djerassi's Three on a Couch (Soho Playhouse) Upcoming Broadway productions include: Treasure Island and Busker Alley. Upcoming Off-Broadway includes: Stain (Theatre Row) and Life in a Maritial Institution (Soho Playhouse).  Current film projects include Beauty in Trouble. Recent films include: Rape of Europa Picturehouse’s King of Kong, Archlight’s Macbeth directed by Geoffrey Wright. Film festivals include:  The Other Israel Film Festival, Hampton’s International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Emerging Artists Film Festival (Monte Carlo).

DANIEL KLUGER (Sound Design) Original Music for Metamorphoses (Weston Playhouse), The Dining Room and Keen Teens (Keen Company).  Sound Design for A Murder, A Mystery and A Marriage (Two River Theatre Company), Talley's Folley (Dorset Theatre Festival), Uncle Vanya (Lake Lucille, dir. Brian Mertes), New York Innovative Theatre Awards (dir. Nic Micozzi), Running (Milk Can),  The Woodpecker, The Young Left, Jailbait (Cherry Lane Mentor Project). Upcoming work includes Original Music for The Persians (People's Light & Theatre Company).

REBECCA BERNSTEIN (Costume Design) Credits include Hoodoo Love, Dutchman, Bhutan, Huck and Holden, Mentor Projects 2005-2008 (Cherry Lane Theatre); The rise of Dorothy Hale (The Theatre at St. Luke’s); Bhutan (NY Stage and Film); Welcome to My Garden/Air (The Neta Dance Company); Savages (Back House Productions/The Lion Theatre); See Rock City (The Miniature Theatre of Chester); Miss Julie (ABC Productions/Studio Tisch); Twenty Fingers, Twenty Toes! (The York Theater), Honor and the River (Summer Play Festival NYC); The Brothers Karamov (LaMama, ETC.); The Very Hungry Caterpillar (American Repertory Ballet) and numerous dance pieces for Juilliard and Adelphi University.  Rebecca holds an MFA in Costume Design from NYU.

JITO LEE (Set Design) has been working with Broken Watch Theatre Company for over seven years in various design aspects: Assistant Scenic Designer for Boys’ Life; Costume Designer for both American Storage and The Kidney; Graphic Designer for American Storage, The Kidney, Never Tell, Dibble Does Christmas in New York and Two Third Home; and Video Artist for Never Tell. In 2006, Jito worked in Korea as Art Director and Set Designer to launch a new clothing line for the Home Shopping Channel. Jito has been teaching Scenic Painting at Montclair State University over 3 years. Also, he designed the set for Les Liaisons Dangereuses in Montclair State University Fox Theatre. Jito is happy to be part of The Framer as the set designer. He is an MFA graduate of Boston University’s Theatre Arts Program and is a freelance visual designer.

MEI LING ACEVEDO (Stage Manager) Dutchman (Dir. Bill Duke), Angry Young Women in Low-Rise Jeans (The Players Theatre), All Aboard the Marriage Hearse (Theatre for the New City) Madame Bovary (Dir. Elizabeth Falk), Big Times (Dir. Leigh Silverman), My Father’s Son (NY Fringe Festival 05’), Five Bottles in a Six Pack (Cherry Lane Theatre), U.S./Mexico Word Exchange (Lark Play Development Center), Mentor Project 07’ & 08’ (Cherry Lane Theatre).

KEVIN CONFOY (Director) with Edward Allan Baker: Lila on the Wall (director), Face Divided, Rosemary with Ginger (producer), 25^th Anniversary production of Prairie Avenue (director).  Director: first productions of new plays by Kenneth Lonergan, Warren Leight, Dan O’Brien, three new plays by Joyce Carol Oates, among others.  Producer: new plays by Christopher Durang, John Guare, Marsha Norman, Steve Martin, among others.  Most recently: The Painting by Ionesco (Phoenix Ensemble), Barton’s Crossing (Cherry Lane). OBIE Award, Outstanding Achievement off-Broadway (producer).

EDWARD ALLAN BAKER is a published and frequently produced playwright beginning with Prairie Avenue produced by EST under the direction of Curt Dempster and starred Ed Harris in the L.A. production. His One Acts are done all over the world, most notably: North of Providence, Dolores (starred Joan Allen), Face Divided (starred Sam Rockwell), Rosemary With Ginger, Mafia On Prozac, The Seventeenth of June, A Deadman's Apartment, Lila On The Wall and Up, Down, Strange, Charmed, Beauty and Truth. Dolores is included in Best American Short Plays 1988-89, and was made into a short film that starred Judith Ivey. His other full-length plays produced in NYC include The Bride Of Olneyville Square, Ray On the Water (both produced by Montauk Project), and American Storage produced by BWTC in 2003. He's published by Dramatists Play Service, Applause Theatre Books, Smith and Krause, and Faber and Faber, Inc. He received "The 25th Anniversary Award For Theatrical Excellence" by The Ensemble Studio Theater, wrote for HBO, ShowTime and was one of ten U.S. writers chosen to attend Sundance Writers Conference in 1991. He's a member of the Theater Faculty at Pace University/Actors Studio MFA program, the Dramatists Guild, WGA/East, and The Ensemble Studio Theater. To be back working with the zealous Broken Watch Theatre Company is a timeless and enormous gift.

DARED WRIGHT* (Crowley the Cop) is thrilled to be working on The Framer and with Broken Watch Theatre Company. Originally from Los Angeles, Dared's theatre credits include principal roles in Cyrano, My Fair Lady, Kiss Me Kate, The Pirates of Penzance, Hay Fever, among many others as well as the award winning productions of Light Sensitive in San Francisco and Anything Goes in Boston. Recent TV and Film credits include a Guest Co-Star on the AMC hit series Mad Men, the film Broken Flowers with Bill Murray and the just completed Indie Kiddie Ride. For the last five years Dared has had one of the most unique survival jobs in the business as James Gandolfini's personal stand-in on The Sopranos as well as two of his feature films. Dared holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from the Boston Conservatory, and a Masters Degree from Emerson in Acting and Directing. Dared would like to thank Kevin and Edward, Drew, fellow cast, crew and production staff members, Jamie and Darcy at CTG and his wife Heather.

DAVID FRAIOLI *(Joe) New York: The Trojan Women a Love Story, En Garde Arts, Tina Landau, dir.; The Czar of Rock'n Roll, New York Stage & Film; Keith in Pick Up Ax, Metropolitan Playhouse;  Fifth of July, Kraine Theatre; Masha in The Three Sisters, Chekhov Now Festival. Regional: Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Northern Stage; Mickey in Mojo, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre.  Upcoming: Ariel in The Pillowman, W.H.A.T. Film/TV: Kill by Inches, HBO's Real Jokes, Guiding Light. MFA University of Washington Professional Actor Training Program

LORI GARRABRANT* (Lorraine) Lori is very happy to be working with the distinguished cast and crew of The Framer in this premiere production and once again with Broken Watch Theatre Company where she previously appeared in the NYC premiere of Never Tell (Drew DeCorleto, dir.).  Originally from the East Coast, Lori worked for many years in theatre, film and voiceover in Chicago before relocating to NYC two years ago. Recent stage credits include Witness for the Prosecution at Foothills Theatre (Worcester, MA) and Lady Croom in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia at the Greenwich Street Theatre (QED Productions).  Lori trained in Classical Theatre at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art [LAMDA].

MATT WALTON* (Falcon) Off-Broadway, Matt has created leading roles in the original productions of The Sweepers, Gorilla Man, Rush’s Dream, We’re All Dead and The Tailor-Made Man. Other NY and regional theater favorites include Italian American Reconciliation, A Few Good Men, Proposals, and the first ever Broken Watch production-Howard Korder’s Boys’ Life.  Film work includes the Sundance premiers of Flannel Pajamas and Death in Love; festival winners 200 American, Holier Than Thou, and Montclair; the upcoming Favorite Son, Gigantic, We Pedal Uphill, Armless and the next Coen Brothers’ film Burn After Reading. TV appearances include Law & Order: SVU and CI, The Bronx is Burning, One Life to Live, As The World Turns, Guiding Light, All My Children, Cashmere Mafia and as Cablevision’s IO/Optimum Guy. Matt is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and is very proud to be part of Broken Watch’s final production in the Weller.

SUZANNE DIDONNA* (Patsy) Suzanne DiDonna began her training at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute where she studied for three years under Robert Castle and George Loros. She has produced a number of off-off Broadway plays through her production company, Montauk Project, of which she is the founding member. The Montauk Project’s most recent production along with IAAM Productions was It Had to be you (directed by Doug MacHugh). On its own, Montauk Project produced three of Edward Allan Baker’s plays: Ray on the Water (directed by Ed Bianchi), The Bride Of Olney Ville Square (directed by Robert Castle) and Face Divided (directed by Robert Castle). Other theater credits include The Seventeenth of June by Edward Allan Baker (directed by Doug MacHugh); Sunshine by William Mastrosimone and The Web by Eugene O’Neill (both directed by Wally Strauss); Savage In Limbo by John Patrick Shanley (directed by Dante Alberti); two productions of Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley (directed by Robert Castle and Dante Alberti) and Beirut by Alan Bowne (directed by Greg O’Donovan). Film/T.V. credits include Brotherhood  (SHO), Law & Order SVU (NBC), The Sopranos (HBO), Sex And the City (HBO) The Jury (FOX), Law & Order (NBC), and The $treet (Fox).  Recent Film credits include Revoloution (directed by Brett Carr) and Seduction (directed by Yuvall Adler). She has recently become a member of The Actors Studio and is currently studying at Studio Dante with Michael Imperioli and Nick Sandow.

TOM BRANGLE* (Ronnie) is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio since 1992.  Acting credits at The Actors Studio include Hat Full of Rain, Thunder Rock and Days of Wine and Roses.  Off-Broadway include The Big Vig (Bank Street Theatre) and The Sleeping Girl by Suzanne Bradbeer (Peter Jay Sharpe Theater).  Film: Fish in the Bathtub, Virgil Bliss, Real with Me, Down to the Bone, Chicken Bones, and upcoming Paper Covers Rock by Joe Maggio for which he was also director of casting.  TV: Law and Order, numerous commercials. Directing: Comfort (ATA) and The Blue Room (Black Nexxus student production).  Tom is a cofounder of www.createurlife.org and is a member of SAG, AEA and AFTRA.