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Cast, Crew and Connections

SIBBIE O’SULLIVAN is a writer who enjoys working in multiple genres. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in a variety of publications, most recentlyin West Branch, and upcoming in Enhanced Gravity: More Fiction by Washington Area Women (May 2006). Three times the recipient of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, Sibbie also received the l989 ArtScape Literary Arts Award presented by the city of Baltimore. Her essay “Out of the Loop” was cited as Notable Essay of the Year in Best American Essays, 200l. Her play The Body, starring Sarah Pleydell, was performed at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD in 2004. Other dramatic ventures include a collaboration with Re*Cher*Chez Avant-Garde Studio of New York City, and a performance of “Voices from the Straw: Poetic Monologues Referencing the Great Witch Hunts” at the District of Columbia Arts Center. Sibbie teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is Senior Lecturer in University Honors. She can be reached at: sibbie@wam.umd.edu.

ROSE SOLARI’s second book, Orpheus in the Park, was published in 2005. Her writing awards include the Randal Jarrell Poetry Prize and an Academy of American Poets’ University Prize. She is the Visiting Writer of the Mitchell Gallery at St. John’s College, Annapolis, MD, and also teaches at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. She can be reached at: www.rosesolari.com.

DEAN HEBERT is the l988 winner of the Sophie Kerr Prize at Washington College, and has worked with Honors students at the University of Maryland, College Park, since l994. He’s a motorcycle-riding poet who likes to cut his own firewood. You can reach him at: http://www.honors.umd.edu/dean.

SARAH PLEYDELL is a London-trained actor who has played leading roles with the Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare Company, among others, both in Europe and the United States. She and Dr. Victoria Brown co-authored The Dramatic Difference, which won the Association of Theatre Educators Award for outstanding drama book of 2000. Along with Dr. Brown, she is cofounder of the Luce Institute for the Creative Arts. She is available for audio work, and can be reached at: pleydell@juno.com.

CINDY MATSAKIS is an artist, a therapist, a mask maker, and a creator of children’s games. She holds both a M.F.A. and a M.S.W. She can be reached at: cindymatsakis.starpower.net.

SANDY MACK teaches English at the University of Maryland, College Park.A distinguished teacher, he was Director of University Honors for l0 years but is now back in the classroom full time. He can be reached at: mmack@umd.edu.

TANYA JUNG is an art historian and artist working,living, and teaching in College Park, Maryland. She can be reached at: tjung@umd.edu.

ROBBIE ROBINSON has a background in both jazz and classical music. A New York studio musician for over l0 years, he has toured widely with various jazz groups. While in New York, he studied at Julliard and individually with such notables as Harold Bennett and George Coleman. He now teaches in the Washington.D.C metro area. He can be reached at sibbie@wam.umd.edu.

BOB HITCHCOCK was the engineer on this recording. He owns Albion Recording Company, and can be reached at: www.albionaudio.com.

ERIC LUMLEY mastered Little Wheel at El Audio in Kensington, MD. He can be reached at: vanlemley@aol.com.

RUTH SIEVERS is an artist and photographer living in Arlington, VA. You can reach her at : homepage.mac.com/ruthsievers.

KATHY KELER is a visual artist and graphic designer who has been active in the Washington,D.C. area for 25 years. Her graphic design web site is: http://washingtonart.net/kweb/k.html