Most recently, Maren served as the Executive Director of the League of Composers-ISCM, the oldest American organization devoted to contemporary classical music. She recently founded 6 Pound Productions, a theatrical production company.

He recently associate produced the off-Broadway thriller at the Soho Playhouse, MINDGAME by Anthony Horowitz, starring Keith Carradine and directed by Ken Russell and produced SUE MATHYS SINGS BROADWAY & PIAF at Weill/Carnegie Hall, as well as producing the development production of Let My People Come…..Again! A Sexual Musical Comedy by Earl Wilson Jr. directed by Tom Flagg at The Space, NYC.

Mr. Blume, under the auspices of his production/consulting firm, Blume Media Group Ltd, is currently a producer on the following current projects: BUSKER ALLEY the new musical; book by AJ Carothers; music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, starring Jim Dale and directed and designed by Tony Walton; and the forthcoming revival of the hit off-Broadway musical from the 1970’s, LET MY PEOPLE COME ….AGAIN by Earl Wilson, Jr.  He is an Associate Producer on the current off-Broadway show, KING DAVID at The Promise Theater, NYC and a Consulting Producer on two large-scale musicals slated for Broadway, ANGELS and JUDAH BEN-HUR.

London producing credits include Olivier nominated Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ragtime. In Dublin, he produced the world premier of JFK-A Musical Drama. Film credits include the documentary “Show Business: The Road to Broadway” and “Brooklyn Rules,” starring Alec Baldwin and Freddy Prinze Jr.   Mr. Lane also produced for Great Performances on PBS the Broadway Production of Company starring Raul Esperaza, and Cyrano de Bergerac starring Kevin Kline.

A member of the Broadway League, Mr. Lane is the co-owner and operator of the Palace Theatre in NYC where West Side Story is currently running, and he sits on multiple boards for such organizations as The Actor’s Fund of America, The American Theater Wing and The Theatre Museum.  He also created scholarship funds at Columbia University Business Graduate School and Boston University College of Fine Arts Undergraduate School. He is currently in development to produce Stormy Weather on Broadway, which debuted at the Pasadena Playhouse in California in January of this year. Mr. Lane resides with his wife Bonnie Comley in New York City with his 5 beautiful children. 

MICHAEL LELAND Michael LeLand has worked as an actor, singer, writer, theater educator, producer, choreographer and director in New York City and in his hometown of Philadelphia for over fifteen years. Mr. LeLand has produced over forty theatrical productions and ran Theatre Double’s two-theatre complex on Walnut Street in Philadelphia for four years Mr. LeLand has helped developed a dozen new plays that have received professional productions, including Langston Hughes: An American Celebration, Theatre Double’s Just The Boys, Theatre Double’s Jason and Medea, Theatre Double's . . .And The Sky Can Still Fall on Our Heads, Slipping by Yvonne Delet, Gypsy Wagon by Ed Shockley. He also developed and wrote lyrics for the full length children’s musicals The Witch and the Magic Mountain, Nsume Namlou: The Stories of My People, Magic Bookshop: The Snow Queen and The Magic Bookshop Inside the World of Jack and the Beanstalk. Mr. LeLand helped create Just the Boys, a Theatre Double collaboration published by Simon and Schuster in Action: the Nuyorican Poet’s Café Theatre Festival. Portions of his production, The Witch and the Magic Mountain, produced by Freedom Theatre, were performed at the Barrymore Awards and for former Mayor of Philadelphia, Edward Rendell.

In April 1998, Lincoln Center Theatre named Mr. LeLand to the Directors Lab. He was also one of only twelve directors selected by the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab to be showcased at Here Center for Contemporary Arts in the American Living Room Series. Mr. LeLand had the honor of directed Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award Winner, and Academy Award nominee Jason Miller in his one man play Barrymore’s Ghost.

"Small cast quirky plays. Similar to work on Showtime and HBO."

STACI LEVINE is a producer/general manager working in theater, concerts and film. She is the producer for the critically acclaimed production of An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, which recently played 18 cities in 3 countries, including the US, Australia and New Zealand.  Staci also produces the upcoming tour of John Lithgow’s one-man show Stories by Heart and Mandy Patinkin’s solo stage concerts, Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual, Mamaloshen and Celebrating Sondheim.  Mandy’s concerts have played on Broadway, Off-Broadway and continue to tour the US, London and Australia. She has produced works by the playwright David Simpatico including the play Mary, the musical drama The Screams of Kitty Genovese (with music by Will Todd), and the short film Wish Fulfillment. Staci continues to produce independently and recent projects include the documentary film Two Worlds-One Planet (Associate Producer) produced by Ann Reinking, The Drama Desk Awards (Coordinating Producer), events for Just Food, The University of Texas, BBC Radio, Class Productions and has a handful of projects in development. She general managed the 2000 Off-Broadway play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant by Fassbinder and from 2005-2007 was the General Manager for dre.dance, a contemporary dance company created by Taye Diggs and Andrew Palermo. Staci was associated with Dodger Theatricals, working on numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway and touring productions including Titanic, Footloose, High Society, Blast!, The Music Man, 42nd Street, 1776, Wrong Mountain, Into the Woods, Barbra’s Wedding, Bare, Urinetown, Dracula and Good Vibrations, as a member of Dodger Management Group. Staci sits on the board of directors for chashama and dre.dance.

MELANIE MOYER WILLIAMS, Executive Artistic Director, The Red Fern Theatre Company. Melanie, a cum laude graduate of Duke University, is also Co-founder and Executive Artistic Director of the Red Fern Theatre Company. Her credits for the company include MISS EVERS BOYS, AN IDEAL HUSBAND, A PIECE OF MY HEART, WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD?, THE EXONERATED, THE LONG CHRISTMAS RIDE HOME, FOUND A PEANUT, TWO ROOMS, AND PATIENT A. This past summer, Melanie worked with Shirley Lauro on a reading of her new play, THE RADIANT at the Actors’ Studio and Ensemble Studio Theatre. For Woodframe Productions, Melanie directed a reading of MEMORIAL DAYS by John Attanas and the World Premiere of HENRY KISSINGER in FringeNYC where they received rave reviews. She has also directed A TRIBUTE TO ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of El Salvador in El Salvador with Wanderlust Theatre Company. She directed THAT IS THE QUESTION in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival which was named one of the Best in the Festival. Other New York credits include MEDEA excerpts for CYPRECO and the New York Public Library; FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS, WHEN THE WORLD WAS GREEN and ICARUS’S MOTHER for the Michael Chekhov Theatre Company. Prior to moving to New York, Melanie was also a founder and Managing Director of the Camden Shakespeare Company in Camden, Maine.

"We are looking for plays that are production-ready (or very minimal work-shopping necessary). We produce issue based plays so playwrights interested in pitching a play to Red Fern should know that we are a non-profit company whose mission is to produce socially conscious plays. We only consider plays that have a clearly defined social issue at the heart of the play; the issue cannot be ancillary to the plot."

STEPHAN MORROW is an actor/director and producer who has been laboring in the trenches of non-commercial theater in New York and Los Angeles for over twenty years. A staunch proponent of the Off Off Bway arena, it is in that cauldron of creativity that he finds the work to be most compelling and interesting. He came to this calling after surviving a two year global pilgrimage that took him overland from Istanbul to India and then on through Asia.

He has worked closely with playwrights Mario Fratti, Leonard Melfi, John Ford Noonan, Arthur Miller and Norman Mailer among others.  As the founder of The Great American Play Series, which features powerful performances by seasoned professionals in ‘performances on book’ of American classics he has directed : ‘The Crucible’ ( Set in the White House during President Clinton’s impeachment trial), ‘After the Fall’ ( with Rebecca De Mornay, Sally Kirkland, Mark Rydell et al.), ‘The Price’ ( Barry Primus, Lyle Kessler, Judith Light and Paul Mazursky.) ‘Incident at Vichy’ ( four presentations with casts that included F. Murray Abraham, Richard Dreyfuss, Fritz Weaver, Austin Pendleton, et al.), ‘Camino Real’ by Tenn. Williams (with Betsy Von Furstenberg and set in Afghanistan), ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ by Tony Kushner with Judith Malina and Angelica Torn).

In addition to working with Norman Mailer on two plays ( ‘Strawhead - Marilyn, a memory play’ at The Actor’s Studio in N.Y., and The Deer Park at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St. Y.) he also acted in his feature film ( ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’ -  played Stoodie, the tattoo artist.). His most notable efforts have also included working with Arthur Miller who gave him his personal blessing over a three year period to bring his play ‘Incident at Vichy’ to a major venue after attending the first ‘performance on book’  of the play.

"I guess you could describe my sensibility as one that is drawn to poetic dramas laced with some humor and that have a political or philosophical bent."

CYNTHIA FRITTS STILLWELL, CF Stillwell Productions, a full-service intellectual properties development company, specializing in the page-to-screen process of bringing the written word to life in film and television. Cynthia Fritts Stillwell brings years of experience to the company, with a firm belief in the power of the story. A good story sticks. It has the potential to open new windows, stimulate constructive thought, give hope, revolutionize, transform, inspire and provide a view into ever-widening horizons. A good story is all.

Our mission and philosophy is to take our clients and their stories to the outer limits of possibility with no limitations. Stillwell Productions also provides consultation and a wide range of value-added services in other areas of intellectual property, including
theatrical properties and production, as well as presentation, business planning, branding, and marketing/public relations. We work with writers, editors, producers, creative artists, performing artists, directors, and others in the broad range of the arts and media.

We serve our clients based on the variety of services they are seeking. We are able to manage, direct, mentor, advise and guide in all
aspects of the creative process, based on the core question: “What do you need?” We believe in creating a supportive environment of trust. We work to ensure that our collaborations are partnerships which lead to the achievement of mutual goals and desires. Ultimately, Stillwell-Lester is about finding the promise, building confidence and conviction, nurturing talent, stimulating self-valuation and belief, exploring all options, and motivating our clients to always reach their next level of success

"Interested in commercial shows, musical or not, but am also intrigued by unconventional works."

ROY HAVRILACK has been training attorneys and executives in presentation, marketing and management skills for several years.  He has taught and coached attorneys and partners at top law firms including Sullivan & Cromwell, Milbank Tweed, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Brown Rudnick, Allen & Overy, Shearman & Sterling, and White & Case.  He has also worked extensively with senior executives at leading financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.  Other clients include Avon Products, Inc. and Gemini Systems. 

Roy has worked as a Client Services Manager for BusinessTalk, Inc., a training consultancy whose clients include Microsoft Corporation and leading accounting firms.  Roy is co-president of SkyTown Entertainment, LLC, a video and film production company that produces corporate sales and industrial videos, as well as short and feature-length films.   In addition to his experience as a trainer, Roy is also an actor in NYC. He starred in the award-winning independent film, “Say That You Love Me”, and was a recurring character on “One Life To Live”.

Roy holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Oneonta State University.