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Rebecca Joy Fletcher is a playwright, actress, singer, and a scholar and interpreter of international Jewish cabaret. Rebecca's show, Kleynkunst!, was produced off-Broadway by the National Yiddish Theater in 2007 to criticalacclaim. The New York Times describes Kleynkunst! as "illuminating, ultimately touching... Across an emotional spectrum from saucy irreverence, high spirits and nostalgia to the bitterest despair and back to hope... Ms. Fletcher delivers a richly rounded and eventually heartbreaking performance..." Rebecca recently returned a performance and research residency at the State Yiddish Theater in Warsaw, funded by a Theater Communications Group grant. In December 2009, Los Angeles' West Coast Jewish Theater produced the workshop and staged reading of Nightingale in Warsaw, the new book-musical adapted from the script of Kleynkunst! Cities of Light was first presented as part of Untitled Theater Company 61'sFestival of Jewish Theater and Ideas in May 2009. Rebecca is a proud member of New YorkCity's award-winning Kabarett Kollektif and serves as a vice president of the Association for Jewish Theater. She is a frequent Artist-in-Residence at synagogues across the North East. She also serves as cantor of Temple Israel, in Staten Island.

Barry Goldman (Director) For the past 30 years American born theater director Barry Goldman has been creating theater across the stages of Europe. In 1986 Barry founded Theatre Marcadet Paris and for the next ten years directed and toured his French language productions of Moliere, Sartre, Ionesco and Beckett throughout Europe and Scandinavia. He has directed and adapted many English & American works as well (including: Animal Farm, A Christmas Carol, The Elephant Man) which have been performed in London, Tokyo, Paris, Warsaw, Hong Kong and Helsinki. Since 1996 Barry has been primarily working in national and regional theatres throughout Germany and Austria including : Staatstheater Braunschweig, Theater Oberhausen, Stadttheater Munster, Theater Lubeck and the Salzburger Festspiele. He has worked extensively with musical and cabaret productions including: Shockheaded Peter, The Beggars Opera, and Lola Blau which was featured in The Jewish Culture Festival of Munich in 2008. Currently touring Europe is his world premiere production of Endlich Frei: The Nelson Mandela Story, which has been nominated for the INTEGA Preis (Touring Obie Award) for Germany in 2009. Goldman's production of The Changeling was awarded The Critic's Choice for Best Drama 2008 in the NRW region of Germany. Most recently Barry directed Radio Purgatory with Theater THE in New York City, Handel & Bach in Munich,Germany and Tzaddhik, A Burlesque Anti-War Oratorium which opens in Munich in 2010.
Bob Goldstone (Musical Director) On Broadway, Bob was orchestral pianist for Evita and assistant conductor for Charlie and Algernon. Off Broadway, he was musical director and arranger for Asylum: The Strange Case of Mary Lincoln, Tallulah Hallelujah (with Tovah Feldshuh), Bubbe Meises, Das Lusitania Songspiel (with Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang), Guilt Without Sex (with Marilyn Sokol), and The Coolest Cat in Town. Among the top cabaret and concert artists Bob has worked with are: Eileen Fulton, Tovah Feldshuh, Karen Akers, Bruce Adler, Marni Nixon, Marilyn Sokol, Liliane Montevecchi, Eddie Fisher, and Dick Shawn. Bob did the musical arrangements for the feature film High Stakes and composed the score for the indie film, The Skip. Bob's many show orchestrations include: The Little Rascals, Hannah 1939, Michael Legrand's A Christmas Carol, The Housewive's Cantata, Dragons, and The Phantom Tollbooth. Bob was the music director and arranger for Rebecca Joy Fletcher's sold-out off-Broadway production of Kleynkunst! In the classical world, he was accompanist for the New Haven Opera, has participated in chamber music recitals at the Manes School, and has played orchestral piano for concerts by the 92nd Street Y Symphonic Workshop Orchestra and the Center Symphony.









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