Paul Cohen is a native New Yorker and product of its public school system. His plays have been produced at the John Houseman Theatre Center, Schapiro Theatre, Producer's Club II and Producer's Club Grand Theatre, The Riant Theatre's Strawberry One-act Play Festival, and for extended runs at Theatre-Studio, Inc. He is a founding member as well as the Literary Director of Faction of Fools Theatre Company, Inc. He currently lives and writes in Manhattan.

Michele Clossey recently interned at the Pearl Theatre Company and served as PA for When We Dead Awaken, Double Infidelity, and Persians. New York Stage Management: Moo: The Twisted Tale of Dinky Farms, Gas House Eggs Productions; Macbeth, York Shakespeare; Below the Belt, City Theatre; Love's Labours' Lost, Thirteenth Night; and ASM God's Daughter, Abington Theatre. Regional: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, George M!, America the Beautiful, and Brigadoon, Galveston Island Summer Musicals; Spring Fling Reading Series, Glasslight; Sentimental Journey, Shore Theatre. Michele got her start stage managing with Argus Eyes Drama Society at Saint Peter's College where her favorite projects include Godspell, You're a Good Man, Chalrie Brown, and As You Like It. She has also been back as Lighting Designer for Little Shop of Horrors and Damn Yankees.

Dyana Kimball is a 3rd Year MFA Directing Student at Columbia University and the Founder and Artistic Director of Boston Directors' Lab- Boston, MA. Select Productions: Library Play, by Paul Cohen; New York- John Houseman Theatre Center. Baal, by Bertolt Brecht; New York- Schapiro Studio. Still Life, by Emily Mann; New York- The Belt Theatre. Love & Literautre, by Bixby Elliot; New York- Schapiro Theatre. Dreaming of Chekhov - Three Across: An Evening of Short Plays, by Bixby Elliot; New York - The Belt Theatre. Rubber, by Tom Sleigh; New York- The Raw Space, OOBR Award Production. Chopping, by Magdalena Gomez; New York - HERE Arts Center; Northampton, MA - Smith College; Amherst - New World Festival; Boston, MA - Women on Top Festival. What Will I Do When You're Gone, by Neil Bell; Cambridge, MA - The Market Theatre/BTM. Lysistrata, trans. Nicholas Rudall; Lowell, MA. Traveling Naked, by Debra Lake Fortson; Boston, MA- Boston Playwrights Theatre. Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, by Albert Innurato; Boston - Boston Directors' Lab. Through the Leaves, by Franz Xaver Kroetz; Boston - Boston Directors' Lab. She holds a BA in English Literature from Boston University (1997) and was a visiting student for the 1995-96 term at Oxford University.

Gia Lam is from Saigon, Vietnam, and grew up in three out of the five boroughs of Manhattan. She is a graphic designer and freelance costume and make up stylist. Her Faction of Fools costume credits include Library Play and Between You & Me, both by Paul Cohen. Film: The Last Valentine, a romantic comedy with Citylights Entertainment, Renaissance, a thriller by Ralph Greco, and Iron DJ, a digital movie by Nina Covalesky. Special full-body makeup was created for the latter two features. Period projects includes Assistant Costume Design for Marriage of Figaro (Bronx Opera Company) and Paper Angels (Asian American Playhouse at Cornell University). In television, Gia wardrobed the cast of Upstairs on the Left for ICTV Productions, Ithaca, NY. A fulltime runner, Gia also has several marathon "credits," and the new Millrose Athletic Association running uniforms were created under Gia's art direction. With the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Gia mentors runners for their 1st marathons and in combined efforts has raised over $22,000 for the charity, work she does in memory of My Hanh Luong, her young aunt who was lost to cancer and in honor of other brave cancer battlers. You can find Gia anytime in the 6-mile trail loop at Central Park.

Shaun L. Motley has designed for theater, television, dance, architecture, window display, and museum exhibitions throughout the metropolitan area. Some of his most recent scenic design credits include Chuck Mee's Full Circle for the NYU Undergraduate Drama Dept. and CC&D Dance Performance for NYU Graduate Dance Department. Shaun's design credits also include a penthouse apartment featured in the October 2003 issue of Architectural Digest. Shaun has also had the pleasure of assisting on many Broadway Productions throughout his career. Some of these productions are Power Plays, dir. Alan Arkin, Grace & Glorie, dir Tom Ziegler, By The Sea, dir. Lenny Folgia, Freefall, dir. Sandy Duncan, and Master Class, dir. Lenny Folgia. He also designed window display and visual designs for 5th Ave. Lord & Taylor Department Store. Shaun is currently a third year graduate student at NYU Tisch Graduate Design Dept.

Ashley recently moved to New York City after graduating with a B.A. in Theatre from The School for the Performing Arts of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. She made her acting debut in the fourth grade in the school's holiday production of A Peanut Butter Christmas. Since then, favorite college roles include The Pick Up (Geneva), HONK! (Lowbutt), The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (Mrs. Beaver), All My Sons (Sue Bayliss), and The Yellow Boat (Mother). Directing credits include David Ives' English Made Simple and Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman. Ashley is also the voice of Missy in the animated short "Balls." Visit her online.

Ry Georgia Pepper is a jane-of-all-trades who has worked on many productions up and down the east coast as stage manager, props extraordinaire, and even pyrotechnician. Some stage managing credits include: Library Play, Spurn, Epic Reperatory, ASDS Best of Rep, and the Va Va Voom Room burlesque show. As a props artisan, she has worked on Broadway for Fiddler on the Roof, Golda's Balcony, Bobbie Boland, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Brad L. Strickler is thrilled to be joining the Faction of Fools family. He holds a Masters Degree in Directing from Brooklyn College, where his thesis project, Dario Fo's We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!, was met with outstanding reviews. Some of Brad's past credits include Pirandello's Chee-Chee, Guare's Six Degrees of Separation, Durang's Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You, Ive's Ancient History, as well as several readings of up-and-coming playwrights in New York City. He also worked as Assistant Director on the Jean Cocteau Reperatory Theater's Threepenny Opera. His lighting design credits include Library Play, Les Liasons Dangereuses, Measure for Measure, Baby With the Bathwater, and True West. He received his Bachelors Degree from Loyola College in Maryland in 1999.

Jessica Wegener is a freelance costume designer, stylist, and assistant designer based in New York City. Her NYC design credits include The Great One-Man Commedia Epic created and performed by Matthew R. Wilson, Brooke Berman's Playing House (HERE Arts Center), and Paddywhack (Mint Theatre). You may also have seen her styles in recent advertising campaigns for the History Channel's Investigating History. Regionally, her credits include Cabareet & Main (dir. Christopher Ashley) and Haroun and the Sea of Stories (dir. Evan Cabnet) both with the Williamstown Theatre Festival; Nora, Oklahoma!, An O. Henry Christmas, and Dha-Fuzion for the Clarence Brown Theatre Company; as well as Shadowlands and L'Eboueur Sleeps Tonight for James Madison University. As an assistant she has worked with designers Michael Krass, Linda Cho, Alexander Dodge, Beth Clancy, and Candice Donnelly on productions for the Dallas Theatre Center, the Old Globe in San Diego, Triad Stage, Playwrights Horizons, Ballet Hispanico, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the State Opera of Budapest, Hungary. You are invited to visit Jessica's portfolio online.

Matthew R. Wilson is a freelance actor, director, instructor, and choreographer of physical comedy and stage combat. He has worked throughout Europe and the United States and holds an MFA from the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. His extensive Shakespeare credits include directing Troilus & Cressida and A Midsummer Night's Dream and performing Hamlet, Malvolio, Romeo, Benedick, Sir Andrew Aguecheeck, and Touchstone. Internationally, he has collaborated as co-creator/performer on countless new works of the Commedia dell' Arte (including his own The Great One-man Commedia Epic.) He is a faculty instructor in Italy at Antonio Fava's Stage Internazionale di Commedia dell' Arte and has been a guest lecturer at Georgetown, NYU, and Columbia, as well as numerous schools and festivals across the country. In his hometown, Washington, DC, he is an associated Teaching-Artist with the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Folger Shakespeare Library, Adventure Theatre, and Imagination Stage. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Columbia University and is a candidate for the Master of Divinity degree at Emmanuel School of Religion, and he is a proud member of Equity, SAG, AFTRA, and the SAFD. Visit Matt online.