Dahlia Al-Habieli Recent designs include work with the Publick Theatre Boston (2009 IRNE Award for Best Set Design), New Repertory Theatre, Watertown Children’s Theatre, the Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, the Factory Theatre, and most recently the Summer Festival Theater at Roxbury Latin.  Dahlia currently serves as the Associate Production Manager and Properties Master for The Lyric Stage Company of Boston. She is also the Design Mentor at the annual Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, CT. She holds a BA in Theatre Studies from Wellesley College and is a graduate of the National Theatre Institute. eloquentaction.com.

Brenda Withers  is a writer and actor in New York.  Her credits include work at McCarter Theatre, the Ohio, Denver Center, Arizona Theater Company, the Ontological, HERE, Ivoryton Playhouse, Luna Stage, PS122, Hudson Stage and the Texas Shakespeare Festival.  She is a company member at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater where her most recent play, The Ding Dongs (or What is the Penalty in Portugal?), will premiere in Summer 2011. She is a co-founder of Franch Nom, a former playwriting fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Mindy Kaling is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer who stars as Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of the Emmy Award-winning show’s episodes. She has appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm and was a guest writer for one episode of Saturday Night Live. Kaling’s first film role was in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, followed by Unaccompanied Minors.  Kaling writes about shopping in a blog called “Things I Bought That I Love” and was featured in Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 10 Funniest Actresses in Hollywood.  She graduated from Dartmouth College where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe “The Dog Day Players” and the a cappella group “The Rockapellas”, as well as writing for the college’s humor magazine the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern.  She co-wrote the play Matt & Ben with Brenda Withers, which was named one of Time magazine’s “Top Ten Theatrical Events of The Year”.