LISA-MARIE JANKE (Kati) completed her training as an actor at the Westphalia Acting School Bochum in 2001 and then performed at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, the Munich Kammerspiele and at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. At these theaters, she worked with the directors Armin Petras, Peter Kastenmüller, Stefan Pucher and Jan Bosse, among others. She has created numerous short films with the artist Stefan Panhans. In addition, she has acted in short films and thesis films from the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, including ATOME and KIRSCHROT. Lisa-Marie Janke is an avid jogger, does yoga and speaks English, French and Luxembourgian. For more information, please visit: www.inka-stelljes.de (Agentur Inka Stelljes Berlin).

NILS NELLESSEN (Rob) completed his training as an actor at the Film & Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. He has worked as a freelance actor since 1998 and has appeared in numerous film and television productions. Most recently, he has appeared in DIE AUGEN VON JONNY DEPP (directed by Alexander Hörbe), KLEINRUPPIN FOREVER and DIE DATSCHE (directed by Carsten Fiebeler) and ERSTE EHE (directed by Isabell Stever). On stage, he last appeared at the Ernst Deutsch Theater in Hamburg and worked with Johanna Schall at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Nelleßen was named best new actor in 1997. For more information, please visit www.agentur-pauly.de (agenturpauly Berlin).

ROLAND SANDS (Ike) received his classical training at the Professional Theater Training Program at the University of Delaware. He began his acting career in 1969 with Clay Stevenson at the Soul and Latin Street Theater. He was worked with the Public Theater at the Delacort in New York, with the Negro Ensemble Company and has acted in various television and soap opera roles. Roland Sands is indebted to his teachers, the late Clay Stevenson, the late Lucille Saint-Peter, Mark Stone and Dan Hamilton. He would like to especially thank the Buddhist organization “Nichiren Shoshu”.*

NICOLAI TEGELER (Micha) completed his training as an actor at the Fritz Kirchhoff Acting School in his home town of Berlin in 2003. Alongside onstage roles at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, Theater Magdeburg and the Hansa Theater in Berlin, he has acted in numerous film and television productions, including DER TUNNEL, ALARM FÜR COBRA 11, PRAXIS BÜLOWBOGEN and the feature film DREI STERN ROT (directed by Olaf Kaiser). Among others, he has worked with the theater directors Stefan Huber, Dieter Hallervorden and Uwe Eric Laufenberg. He has performed cabaret for the last two years with the Stachelschweinen in Berlin. Tegeler produces and directs short films and writes screenplays. For more information, please visit www.marmulla-management.de (Marmulla Management).

MYXOLYDIA TYLER (Liz) is a 2005 graduate from the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium MFA program. She has worked at regional theatres including Trinity Rep and Syracuse Stage as well as at the Public Theatre in New York City doing a new plays preview called ON THE THRESHOLD. She recently played "Addy" in a new play by Cheryl West called ADDY: AN AMERICAN GIRL STORY at Seattle Children's Theatre. Myxolydia is excited to work with GTA and enjoyed spending her first trip to Europe in Berlin for the rehearsal process. She would like to thank God and her family for all of their love and support.*

DANIEL BRUNET (Translator/Associate Director/Associate Producer) studied theater and film at Boston College, moving to Berlin in 2001 to begin his directing career with the support of a Fulbright grant. Brunet was the 2003 Director in Residence at the English Theater Berlin, where he also founded and curated their development series, the Lab. Most recently, Brunet produced the International WOW Company’s YOU BELONG TO ME at Performance Space 122 and translated Heiner Müller’s DIE UMSIEDLERIN for David Levine’s BAUERNTHEATER project. In the last three years, Brunet has translated more than a dozen contemporary German plays and screenplays, including Michael Haneke’s FUNNY GAMES. Now based in Brooklyn and Berlin, Brunet has been a member of GTA since 2002 and, alongside numerous other projects, served as the Associate Producer of the STADTTHEATER NEW YORK project.

DAGMAR DOMRÖS (Co-Producer) studied political science, German studies and American studies in Hamburg and Massachusetts after training as a publishing assistant at the firm Gruner + Jahr. She worked as the assistant to Wynn Handman, Artistic Director of the American Place Theatre in New York City during the 1997/1998 season. She was employed as a dramaturg at Theater Heidelberg from 2001 to 2005 (during the artistic directorship of Günther Beelitz), where she curated the ”Heidelberger Stückemarkt – Forum junger Autoren” (Heidelberg New Play Festival). Domrös has worked as a freelance dramaturg, lecturer and producer in Berlin since 2005 and has worked for the Berliner Festspiele, the Spree Agenten and GTA, among others.

SVENJA GRZYMALLA (Office Management/Germany) studied German studies and education in Bonn. She has assisted on numerous theater productions in Bonn, Cologne and Berlin and spent a season working in the artistic administration office of the Junge Kammeroper Cologne. After a brief foray into management, Grzymalla has worked in the artistic and administrative departments of K&K VolkArt (Berlin) and is the office manager of GTA since August of 2007.

DIANA INSEL (Stage Manager/Germany) completed her studies in linguistics, literature and media studies at the University of Potsdam in 2007. While still at college, she held several directing and dramaturgy assistantships at the Maxim Gorki Theater, the Berliner Ensemble and the Jugendtheaterwerkstatt Spandau, among others. She also worked on various independent projects at Theaterdiscounter and the Volksbühne. In addition, she completed a cultural journalism internship at Theater der Zeit. After ROOF OF GREAT PROMISE, ROAD THEATER USA is her second project with GTA.

JASON KAISER (Stage Manager/USA) is delighted to be working with GTA again. Previously, Mr. Kaiser stage managed the American premiere of Roland Schimmelpfennig's THE WOMAN BEFORE, which was produced by GTA at HERE Arts Center in New York. Most recently, Mr. Kaiser stage managed MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Favorite projects include PRIVATE LIVES and THE BLUE ALBUM at Long Wharf Theatre, THE MAGIC FLUTE conducted by Victor Borge, two European tours of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, and installing "The Gates: Project for Central Park NY, 1975-2005". Mr. Kaiser is the resident stage manager for Jennifer Muller/The Works dance company in New York.

BIRGIT LENGERS (Dramaturg) studied theater, film and cultural studies in Cologne and Hildesheim. She taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Hildesheim from 1997 to 2002. Lengers teaches as a guest professor at numerous universities since 2001, including the Berlin University of the Arts and the Theater Academy of Hessen in Frankfurt am Main. She moderated the events of the Stückemarkt (New Play Festival) and the International Forum for the Berliner Festspiele. She is a correspondent for the "Kulturmanagement Network" and deputy chair of the German Dramaturgical Society. Her writing has recently been published in “Text + Kritik” and “Theater der Zeit”. She has worked as a dramaturg and producer for THEATER T1. Birgit Lengers has worked as a dramaturg for GTA since 2004.

MALVE LIPPMANN (Costume Designer) studied stage design at the State Academy of Visual Art in Stuttgart under Professor Jürgen Rose. She has worked as a freelance set and costume designer at theaters including the Deutsches Theater and Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, the Bühnen der Stadt in Cologne, the Schauspiel Haus Graz and the Staatstheater Mainz as well as at operas including the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, the Opernhaus Graz, the Opera la Monnaie/de Munt in Brussels, the Staatsoper Darmstadt, Oper Linz and the Schlossfestspiele Schwetzingen. Lippmann frequently collaborates with the playwright and director Jenny Erpenbeck. In addition, Lippmann creates installations and displays for exhibitions and is a production designer for films. She previously worked for GTA as the scenographer and costume designer for the project STADTTHEATER NEW YORK in 2006. For more information, please visit www.alina-alicia.de.

RONALD MARX (Director/Producer) was born to German-Jewish parents in New York and grew up in Germany. He studied psychology and acting in Düsseldorf. He acted under Hans Günther Heyme at Schauspiel Essen in the 1992/1993 season and then in Salzburg and Gießen. At the same time, he began acting on German television. Marx founded GTA in 1996 with Christian Kahrmann and Jarreth Merz and continues to serve as Artistic Director and Producer. Marx is responsible for the conceptualization and realization of all of GTA’s projects. With GTA, Marx has appeared in numerous readings and 2006’s production of THE WOMAN BEFORE, directed by Daniel Fish, and directed A IST EINE ANDERE for the PLAYSTATION Festival in Düsseldorf and Adam Rapp’s BLACKBIRD in the RED EYE SERIES as well as over 40 readings at the GTA Shop in Berlin.

CLAUDIA ROHRMOSER (Video Art) was born in Salzburg, Austria and studied multimedia arts at FH Salzburg and media art/documentary film at the Berlin University of the Arts. Her animation and video work has been presented internationally, including the Inventionen Festival in Berlin, the International Computer Music Conference in Barcelona and Singapore and at Stanford University in California. Rohrmoser has received numerous media art scholarships and grants. Her collaboration with the composer Kotoka Suzuki, UMIDI SONI COLORES, was awarded the first prize in multimedia at the 2004 Bourges Electroacoustic Music Festival. Together with Marcel Schobel, she won the Salzburg regional media art prize for the Heimatfilm/live performance SCHNITZEL WITH NOODLES AND CRISP APPLE STRUDEL. Rohrmoser lives and works in Berlin and teaches animation at FH Salzburg. For more information, please visit www.rohrmoser.tv.

MARTIN ROHRMOSER (Sound Design) was born in Salzburg, Austria. After attending the Musischen Gymnasium and the Higher Technical Institute in Salzburg, he has studied electrotechnology audio engineering at the University of Technology and University of the Arts in Graz, Austria. In addition, he has worked as an audio technician on numerous film and television productions and recently worked for Austrian Radio at the Salzburg Festival. He has worked as the live audio technician for the a cappella group “Ois Voice” in Graz since 2004 and produced their debut album in 2006.

ROLAND SCHIMMELPFENNIG (Playwright) At 35, he is one of the most produced contemporary German playwrights. His name is on the playbills of the most prominent internationally renowned theaters from Hamburg to Paris – Roland Schimmelpfennig. A name that has truly become something of a trademark of contemporary theater. (Bühne) Roland Schimmelpfennig was born in Göttigen in 1967 and, after a lengthy residence as a journalist in Istanbul, studied directing at the Otto-Falkenberg-School in Munich. He then became an assistant director at the Munich Kammerspiele and joined the theater's artistic staff in 1995. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1996. He spent a year in the United States in 1998, where he worked primarily as a translator. In the same year, he received the Schiller Memorial prize. Roland Schimmelpfennig worked as a dramaturg at the Schaubühne in Berlin from 1999 to 2001 and was playwright in residence at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg during the 2001/ 2002 season. Since 2000, Schimmelpfennig has been working on numerous commissions from the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Staatstheater Hanover, the Burgtheater Vienna, the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, among others. He lives in Berlin.
Plays (Selected): THE ARABIAN NIGHT (2001) // PUSH UP 1-3 (2001) // BEFORE/AFTER (2002) // ALICE IN WONDERLAND (2003) // THE WOMAN BEFORE (2004) // ON GREIFSWALDER STRAßE (2006) // START UP (2007)

MARCEL SCHOBEL (Video Art) was born in Bregenz, Austria and studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, multimedia art at the University of Salzburg and experimental film design at the Berlin University of the Arts. He founded the VJ collective Renegadez in Salzburg in 1998. He has worked as a freelance moving image designer and artist in Berlin since 1999. His installations have been displayed at Steirischen Herbst in Graz, at the Klangwerkstatt in Berlin, in the Monsun Theater and Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, as well as the Mabadaa Theater in Jerusalem. Marcel Schobel has produced various websites, CD-ROMs, DVDs and commercial animations. He has been able to conduct additional projects in Berlin in the last few years with the support of the DAAD and the Berlin Capital Cultural Fund. Schobel has received multiple awards for his artistic work. In 2006, together with Claudia Rohrmoser, he won the Salzburg regional media art prize for the Heimatfilm/live performance SCHNITZEL WITH NOODLES AND CRISP APPLE STRUDEL. For more information, please visit www.herrschobel.at.

ANDREA SCHWIEGER HIEPKO (Press Agent/Germany, schwieger@g-t-a.de) studied French, Spanish and Latin American literature in Berlin, Paris and Barcelona. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the topic of cultural theoretical questions of globalization at the FU Berlin. In this context, she taught at the FU Berlin and Denver University and is the author of numerous academic and journalistic articles. As a press agent and publicist, she has worked for theaters (Berliner Ensemble, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz), art organizations (the Professional Association of Visual Artists and numerous exhibitions) and science organizations (the Brandenburg Academy of Science: European Forum). She has been GTA’s press agent in Germany since 1999.

EVA-KAREN TITTMANN (General Manager) earned her Master of Arts from the Freie Universität Berlin in theater and German studies. In addition, she completed a certified continuing education course in management, marketing and communication at FH Potsdam in 2005/2006. She is the managing director of the act Media Support GmbH and on the board of directors of the Regional Association of Freelance Theater Artists in Berlin, the art association art.passages e.V. and a member of the artist group ifunk. She has worked in the areas of production, project development, project management, accounting and publicity for lunatiks produktion, the Schiller Days of the National Theater of Mannheim, Gerd Schneider Gesellschaft, solo tunes theater production, Gregor Seyffert, the Long Night of Museums, Shakespeare Company Berlin, the Summer Opera of the Humboldt University and the Orphtheater.