Kathryn Markey - Our Town (Spring 2022)

Heather Edwards - Shrek (Spring 2022)

Heather Edwards graduated from Berklee College of Music. She works as a pianist/songwriter/recording artist who has performed with many types of bands, from funk and rock to jazz and country. Heather writes and performs her own music as well as conducts, directs, and regularly performs in musical theatre around the New York area. In addition to educating children in the performing arts through her non-profit company, AhHa!Broadway Inc., she also enjoys working as a Musical Director, teaching private piano and vocal lessons. She has released several albums, and has also played a wide range of characters as an actress in television, film, and theatre. Heather is a member of AFM Local 802 and Actors Equity Association. www.AhHaBroadway.org, www.HeatherEdwards.net

Matthew A.J. Gregory - The 39 Steps (Fall 2012), Shrek (Spring 2022)

Richard Joyce - Rumors (Fall 2021)

Rick Joyce has directed many university productions, including Carousel (Yale Dramat), Company (Johns Hopkins), Copenhagen (Stevens Institute of Technology), Into the Woods (Westminster Choir College), The Bakers Wife (Rider University). He has also directed many shows regionally, including The Lover, Ragtime, Merrily We Roll Along, Bat Boy Metamorphoses, The Odyssey, Songs for A New World, Spitfire Grill, Man of La Mancha, and South Pacific. He directed the world premieres of Pischer by Ted Nussbaum (winner of the Sam French Off-Off-Broadway Play Festival), and Theodore and Claire by William Meny. He also directed Wit at the Fringe Club in Hong Kong, as well as in Hanoi and Beijing. Rick has an MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School/New School University, and a BA from Dartmouth.

Alex Parrish - Into The Woods (Spring 2019), Footloose (Fall 2021)

Eric Gelb - Footloose (Fall 2021)

Eric Gelb is a NYC based Musical Theatre Director, Producer and Manager. Broadway/Off-Broadway: WICKED (Stage Management Intern), Head Over Heels & Little Shop of Horrors (co-producer). Select Directing: at NYU - Beauty and the Beast, The 25th...Spelling Bee, Legally Blonde, Mary Poppins. Select Regional/Tour: A Christmas Story Nat’l Tour, Footloose (Fordham University), Xanadu (The Rose Theater - Omaha, NE), Maples Repertory Theatre (Macon, MO), Walt Disney World & SeaWorld Live Entertainment. Alum: TEDxBroadway ‘17, Broadway For Racial Justice & Baseline Theatrical Cohorts ‘21. B.S in Educational Theatre, New York University ‘20.

Mark Galinovsky - Spamalot (Spring 2021)

Brandon Bieber - Spamalot (Spring 2021)

Kelly Marie Schaaf - Spring Awakening (Fall 2020)

Miranda Cornell - Spring Awakening (Fall 2020)

Dennis Yeuh-Yeh Li - King Lear (Spring 2020)

Nick Stamatakis - Pippin (Spring 2020)

Nick Stamatakis is a pianist, music director and composer who has worked with professional, educational and community organizations, striving to create collaborative environments that foster the exploration, interpretation and execution of music in theater. Credits include work with Pittsburgh CLO, City Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Musical Theater, Carnegie Stage, Musical Theatre Artists of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Arcade Comedy Theater and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Kristy Chambrelli - Pippin (Spring 2020)

Rachael Murray - Desk Set (Fall 2019)

Ryan Buchanan - All Shook Up (Fall 2019)

Ryan Buchanan is a freelance composer, educator, and performer based in New York City. Working as a teaching artist, he specializes in musical theater, Shakespeare, choral music, improvisation, and social-emotional learning. He has worked for the Conservatory program at the Dwight School (in NYC and abroad), as a TA for Wingspan and LEAP, and most recently as a music director at Fordham University at Rose Hill and the Play Group Theater in White Plains. He has played piano for classes at NYU, Columbia, Brooklyn College, and his compositions were most recently featured in Lincoln Theater Library's Across a Crowded Room series. Ryan also currently performs with Brooklyn Theater Club and sings with Inspire: A Choir for Unity. BM & MA, NYU.

Coleman Ray Clark - All Shook Up (Fall 2019)

​COLEMAN RAY CLARK is a New York-based director and producer of plays and musicals. Last year, Coleman directed the site-aware production of Bare at St. John’s Lutheran Church in NYC. Other directing credits include The Chairs, Detroit, and Punk Rock (Marymount Manhattan College); Kiss Me, Kate (The Arts Center of the Ozarks); The Nina Variations (The Bridge Production Group); Stop Kiss (The Hatchery); Into The Woods, Moon Over Buffalo, Completely Hollywood: Abridged, Charade, and The Iliad, The Odyssey, and All Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less (New Threshold Theatre); The 39 Steps (Trike Theatre). Assistant directing credits include: Frankenstein (Classic Stage Company) and His Eye Is On the Sparrow (Portland Center Stage) with director Timothy Douglas, The 24 Hour Plays On Broadway (Broadway) with director Mark Brokaw, and Superior Donuts (TheatreSquared) with director Sean Patrick Reilly. BA Marymount Manhattan College. SDC associate member. Coleman is the Deputy Director of The 24 Hour Plays, where he produces time-limited theatre all around the world. www.colemanrayclark.com  

Sam French - Proof (Spring 2019)

Sam French is a Brooklyn-based writer and director. Previous work has been seen at FringeNYC, the Brick, Habitat Theatre, Tiny Rhino, the National Theatre for Student Artists, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Third Space Theatre, Atlantic Acting School, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, the Gallery Theatre, the People’s Improv Theatre, the York Theatre, and more. He has assistant directed at Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown, and Hartford Stage, for prominent directors including Oliver Butler, Anne Kauffman, and Darko Tresnjak. Sam is a former member of the Williamstown Directing Corp and a former Robert Moss Directing Fellow at Playwrights Horizons. He is a core member of Third Space Theatre. Education: BFA in directing from Carnegie Mellon University. No relation to the play publisher beyond a mutual respect for top hats. Samuel-French.com

Emily Jackson - Into The Woods (Spring 2019)

Emily Jackson is an artist and organizer whose work focuses on collaboration, fundamental theatricality, and character narrative. Her directing credits include for The Mimes and Mummers at Fordham University: Into the Woods; for Kitchen Theatre Company: I and You, The Soup Comes Last, Physics Fair, Count Me In; for Holmdel Theatre Company: Little Women the Musical; for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, They Promised Her the Moon (assistant director); for Cider Mill Playhouse: Urinetown, Stage Kiss; for Sanguine Theatre Company: Jessica; Hamlet Isn’t Dead: Julius Caesar; for After Darks, PTP/NYC: Scenes of Ascending; for 2X4 in Repertory: Haunted; for Rhapsody Collective: How Steve Died; for Writopia Lab’s Worldwide Plays Festival: Crazy Like a Pumpkin, How to be a Dad. Emily has served as the Artistic Director for Sanguine Theatre Company in New York City and the Artistic Associate and Director of Audience Services for Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY, has been a member of Lark Theatre’s Literary Wing, and has adapted the works of Italian playwright, Dacia Maraini. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Emily received her BFA from The University of Oklahoma’s Peggy Dow Helmerich School of Drama. www.emilyjackson.org     ​

Richie Pepio - Arsenic and Old Lace (Fall 2018)

Richie Pepio is a director, improviser, writer, and a member of Actors' Equity. He recently directed the Mimes and Mummers' production of Arsenic and Old Lace and a touring production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for Hofstra University's 70th Annual Shakespeare Festival. Additional directing credits include: Durang's Titanic and The Actor's Nightmare (Hyper Aware Theater/The Access Theater), Le Cid (The Gene Frankel Theater), and Shall I Continue? (PIT Loft). Performance credits include productions with the Helen Hayes Award winning Synetic Theater, Theatreworks/USA (directed by Kevin Del Aguila), Synapse Theatre Ensemble, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Washington Improv Theater, the Hudson Shakespeare Company, MRB Films, and improv festivals around the country. He holds a BFA in Performance from Hofstra University.

Eric Vitale - The Addams Family (Fall 2018)

Eric Paul Vitale is a New York based director, choreographer, and producer. Currently he produces for Emmy Award winning comedian Jim Gaffigan and is a member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation 2019 Observership Class. Recent directing credits include The Signature Project Off-Broadway premiere, The Sycamore Street Kite Flying Club Lincoln Center, Carolee Carmello at the Metropolis, and the Camp Broadway National Tour. Other credits include Jim Gaffigan's 2019 Amazon Special Quality Time, National Tour: Annie (Associate Director), International Tour: An Evening with Charles Strouse The Pheasantry, London, Cirque du Soleil’s Corteo (Russian & European Tour, Associate Director), The Addams Family Fordham University, Curtains Georgetown Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Olympics Uber Alles MIT, Immortal Journey Theatre Row, Passion YAA.

Michael Flanagan - Bedroom Farce (Fall 2015), Noises Off (Fall 2017)

Michael Flanagan is a New York-area director and Associate Professor at The College of Westchester. He has been very fortunate to have directed The Mimes in Bedroom Farce and Noises Off (2017) and even led an improvisation workshop. Away from The Mimes, he is Associate Producer of Gi60 Live US Edition, the international one-minute play festival. He’s directed for other colleges and universities such as The College of Mount Saint Vincent (Seussical, The Rose Tattoo) and Brooklyn College (Reckless, Side Man). Michael has directed for Off-Off Broadway theater companies like The 13th Street Repertory Company (Kerouac, Nunchuck Ninja Nuns), the Boomerang Theater Company (The Travel Plays) the Prospect Theater Company (Scribbles), and TheatreRats, where he won Best Director for In the Jar. He was the founding Artistic Director for the Roosevelt Island Shakespeare Festival. He has an MFA in Theatre from Brooklyn College.

Travis Greisler - Company (Spring 2009), The Wild Party (Spring 2011), Cabaret (Spring 2016)

Travis Greisler directed the Mimes production of COMPANY in the Spring of 2009, THE WILD PARTY in the Spring of 2011, and most recently our production of CABARET in the spring in 2016. 
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The Mimes invite you to learn more about Travis!

www.travisgreisler.com
travis@travisgreisler.com