Marilyn Plotkins has directed, produced, and facilitated professional and student productions at Suffolk University for almost 30 years.  As Chair of the Suffolk University Theatre Department and Artistic Director of Suffolk University’s new Modern Theatre, Marilyn has nurtured collaborations with the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and URT to develop new work, build a collaborative environment for theater in Boston, and provide educational opportunity for Suffolk students. Marilyn is the Founding Director of Boston Music Theatre Project at Suffolk University, which develops new musicals for the professional stage. She also supports development of new work by serving on the National Alliance for Music Theatre’s New Works and Festival panels.  Marilyn is the author of The American Repertory Theatre: The Brustein Years.

Jim Kaufman has had the great fortune of working with and learning from brilliant, dedicated colleagues (Marilyn Plotkins, Wes Savick, and others) and gifted students at Suffolk; and serving as URT board member, working with Catherine Carr Kelly, Debra Wise, and others at the Central Square Theater. “It’s such a joy that these two wonderful organizations are bringing this production of Car Talk: The Musical!!! to you.  Anna and I have driven used Toyota Camrys to cover our car miles over the last few decades – currently a 2002 with 131,000 miles.”

Ronald J. De Marco is the Properties Director for the Performing Arts department at Emerson College in Boston, where he teaches classes that focus exclusively on properties work for theater, television, and film. Originally from the Chicago area, he has been a Production Manager for Victory Gardens Theater (winner of a Regional Theater Tony Award), Master Carpenter at Northwestern University, and the Resident Stage Manager for the Buffalo Theatre Ensemble in Chicago’s suburbs. In Boston, Ron has worked with more than a dozen of the area’s most well-established theatrical organizations, including SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Lyric Opera, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and The Nora Theatre Company. He has taught one-day intensive workshops for the Wisconsin Area Theatre Festival and the State University of New York in Oswego and been a guest lecturer at UMass Boston. He is a member of the Society of Property Artisan Managers, an international organization of props professionals.

Sam Sewell is a recent graduate of Northeastern University. Since graduating, she has been freelancing as a props and sound person in the Boston theater scene. Her recent credits include Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M., Arabian Nights, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and Matt & Ben (CST); Futurity and BOB: A Life in 5 Acts (Oberon); St. John the Divine in Iowa (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); and Wild Swans (A.R.T.).

Jeff Adelberg+ (Lighting Design) (he/him) Previously at Central Square Theatre: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Vanity Fair (Elliot Norton Award), Frankenstein (IRNE award), Constellations, When January Feels Like Summer, mr G., Car Talk: The Musical!!! and Yesterday Happened: Remembering HM. A Massachusetts-based designer, Jeff has designed over 350 productions in New England and beyond. Recent Work: Hamlet, The Effect, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Topdog/Underdog (Gamm Theatre, RI); The Dybbuk (Arlekin Theatre); El Matrimonio Secreto (Florida Grand Opera); Million Dollar Quartet Christmas (Capital Rep, Albany NY); Heroes of the Fourth Turning and People Places and Things (Speakeasy Stage, Boston); Frankenstein (Cincinnati Shakespeare Co. and Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure (Cambridge, MA and Belfast, NI); and Boston’s Midwinter Revels every December since 2010. Jeff attended the University of Connecticut and teaches at Harvard University. He lives in Holliston, Massachusetts with wife Tess and baby Jo. Member of United Scenic Artists 829.www.jeffadelberg.com / ig: @jdadelberg

+Member of United Scenic Artists.