CATHERINE LAMM literary & casting director of TRU, is a director and private coach who has trained with the Royal National Theatre (Edinburgh), the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation, and the American Film Institute. She was formerly the casting director for the Chelsea and West Side Theaters. Catherine is also a feature writer and reviewer for Stage Press Weekly and British Theatre Guide . A veteran theatre professional, she has worked with The Players' Guide , Samuel French, and Broadway producers Mordeccai & Associates, and is a sometime dramaturg/literary consultant to various NYC-based theatre companies and producing organizations. A former professional actor with Off Broadway and West End roles to her credit, Catherine has been teaching actors about the business of performing since 1986. www.catherinelamm.com

• JAMIBETH MARGOLIS, CSA — Casting Director, Jamibeth Margolis Casting. Previously at Johnson-Liff Casting and Margolis-Seay Casting, for which she was co-owner, Jamibeth is now an independent casting director with twelve years of professional experience in NYC casting for theater, film, and television as well as industrials. She is currently directing and casting a new musical drama called Warsaw, which is being developed for Broadway as well as casting a new rock musical and a new play called THE PARIAH by Paul Grossman and about Hannah Arendt. She is an artistic director and casting director for the Midtown International Theatre Festival. Recent projects include KABOOM at the 2008 Fringe Festival, ALICE at the Midtown International Theatre Festival and VIRTUOSA, a new play. She is also doing casting for a number of prominent regional theaters. Jamibeth focuses a great deal on casting new works and has a number of readings and workshops coming up too of new plays and musicals that are being developed for commercial productions. Additional past credits include serving as casting director for over two dozen shows on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and on national tours. Jamibeth is also a professional stage director and member of the SSDC.

• ROGER HENDRICKS SIMON (monolog coach) - A graduate and founding member of Robert Brustein's Yale Repertory Company, Roger went on to direct and act for Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, and also London's Royal Court Theatre, Dublin's Abbey Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, La Mama, Roundabout, Los Angeles Theatre Center, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Folger Shakespeare Group, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, PBS, Metromedia and BBC-TV, and National Public Radio. Elected to Notable Names in American Theatre, Roger has directed in London, New York and international festival premieres by Tennessee Williams, Sam Shepard, David Hare, Michael Weller and William Saroyan. He has directed John Lithgow, John Travolta, James Earl Jones, James Woods and Dick Shawn, to name but a few. Roger has directed plays and taught all aspects of communications in India, Pakistan, Iran, Nigeria, South Africa and throughout Europe for the U.S.I.A. and U.S. State Department. In the United States he has taught at UCLA, Columbia University, Yale University, Juilliard and Brooklyn College. Roger is the founding artistic director for both The Simon Studio (for three decades) in New York City and the Los Angeles Theatre Center Classical Theatre Lab.

Mr. Simon teaches classes and does private coaching at THE SIMON STUDIO - celebrating its 30th. anniversary year. And he just starred in the award winning feature film THE SUBLET, was recently awarded an NEA grant as producing director of National Public Radio’s Simon Studio Presents, and recently adapted and directed the American premiere of Stig Dalager’s "I Count the Hours" at La Mama in New York City and off-Broadway at Theatre Row Theatre.

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