Cast
Vincenzo - Michael Brusasco   X-Dogg - Kyle Robert Carter   Eddie - David Demato   A-Dogg - Shabazz Green   The Don - Bruno Iannone   Mfume - Leajato Amara Robinson   Callie - Courtney Romano   Luther - Tally Sessions   Joanie - Deborah Tranelli   Willie May - Tom White

Video Cast
Newsreader - Kim Berk   Wanda - Milena Davila   Geissler - David Sitler   Cynthia - Stacy Harris   Hipster - Andy Lindberg   Newsreader - Peter Davenport   Freddy the double-crossing waiter - Jordan Scott Gilbert   Forensic Philosopher - Gayle Holsman   Interviewer - Rick Zahn   Cultural Expert - Renee Claire Bergeron   Sitcom Slob - Jason Scott Quinn   Academic Colleague - Todd Alan Johnson   Student - Kris Hayes   Major - Tony Dadika

Crew
Written and directed by - Liz Peak and Barry Peak   Scenic Design - Julia Noulin-Mérat   Costume Design - Sarah Cogan   Lighting Design - Carl Weimann   Sound Design and Original Music - M. Florian Staab   Editor - Wyatt Peak   Projection Design - Bart Cortright   Videos created by - Blake Drummond   Fight Director - Trampas Thompson   Properties Master - Lauren Genutis   Stage Manager - Jessa Nicole Pollack   Assistant Stage Manager - Kristine Schlacter   Casting - Wojcik/Seay Casting   Production Manager - Aislinn Curry   General Manager - Adam Fitzgerald   Master Electrician - Jake Platt   Costume Design Assistant - Jazmine Harper   Associate Scenic Designer - Liz Sherrier   Wardrobe Supervisor - Gigi Barreca   Marketing/Advertising - The Pekoe Group   Press Representative - Richard Hillman Public Relations   Additional Marketing - Malini Singh McDonald

Off-Broadway: Misalliance, The Playboy of the Western World (Pearl Theatre), Electra in a One Piece (Good Company). Other New York Credits: A Crucible (Perfect Disgrace), Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower (Ars Nova), Of Monsters and Prodigies (Lincoln Center Festival). Regional: Venus in Fur (Cleveland Playhouse), Twelfth Night (Folger Theatre), Private Lives (Pittsburgh Public Theater), See How They Run (Barrington Stage Company), Pride & Prejudice (Roundhouse Theatre), as well as seasons at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Theatre, A.C.T., Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, and The Shakespeare Theatre. www.michaelbrusasco.com.

National Tour: In The Heights (Benny) Off-Broadway: Storyville (Butch "Cobra" Brown) NYC Readings: 21 (Roberto Clemente), Sweethearts of Swing (Willy), Debbie Allen Dance Academy's The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker. University of Notre Dame, B.A. Studio Art and Design, minor - Italian. www.kyle-r-carter.com.

spent over three years in the Las Vegas company of Jersey Boys. New York credits include Anatomy of Woman (Lincoln Center-Clark Studio Theatre), My Big Gay Italian Funeral (St. Luke's), The Winter's Tale Project (FringeNYC), and The Time of Mendel's Trouble (Beckett-Theatre Row). Regional: The Full Monty, Sweeney Todd, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings. Film: Man on Wire.

Regional credits include: Humbug at Kean Premiere Stages, Complete History of America Abridged and Epic Proportions at the Winnipesaukee Playhouse in New Hampshire, and Midnight Madness for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. He most recently completed the national tour of How I Became a Pirate with the Omaha Theatre Company.

New York highlights: Bruno Gadenza in Vesey Street, Clint in Mammaw's Apron, Tony D'Angelo in Chance, Gabriel in Valentino's Wing, Louis in The Gravedigger's Tale, Antoni in The Iris Picker, Salvy in The Head Hunter. TV/Film: Tiramisu (premiered at Soho International Film Festival and Cannes Short Film Corner), Spotters, The Perfect Witness (Showtime), Plan B w/Diane Keaton and Paul Sorvino, Mob Queen (w/David Proval and Tony Sirico), Pinero (w/ Benjamin Bratt), Once Upon a Time in America (w/ Robert DeNiro and James Woods), The Money Pit (w/Tom Hanks and Shelley Long), Heart (w/ Brad Davis), Law and Order (SVU), Third Watch, 100 Centre Street. Currently, his screenplay Closer to Evening is being marketed by Brilliant Earth Pictures, LLC for feature film production. Member of The Indies Lab NYC.

Off-Broadway: Storyville (The York Theatre Co.) NYC credits: Greasemonkey (Robert Moss Theatre), Ghostdancer (Mint Theatre Stages), Shinbone Alley (Mc Ginn- Cazale Theatre). Regional: Pippin (The Depot Theatre), Old Man and the Sea (Long Wharf Theatre) Vices: A Love Story (Caldwell Theatre), Where I Come From (Kentucky Rep.) Film: Alien Dawn (Nickelodeon), 666 Park Avenue (ABC), Boardwalk Empire (HBO).

NYC: My Hero in Concert (XL Cabaret). Regional credits include: The Drowsy Chaperone, Janet van de Graaff (Connecticut Repertory Theatre, starring Pat Sajak); Kiss Me, Kate, Lois Lane (Glimmerglass Opera, directed by Diane Paulus); Thoroughly Modern Millie, Millie Dillmount (Media Theatre, Barrymore Award Nominee for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical); A Chorus Line, Legally Blonde, Sunset Boulevard, 42nd Street (Maine State Music Theatre); High School Musical 2, 42nd Street (North Shore Music Theatre). Muhlenberg College. AEA. courtneyromano.com.

Broadway: Big Fish, The House of Blue Leaves. Tours: South Pacific, Legally Blonde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Off-Broadway: Giant (Public Theatre), Queen of the Mist (Transport Group), Yank! (York), The Mad Show (York), Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!), Godspell. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, The Muny, The Old Globe, Signature Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre, Arvada Center. TV: "Elementary." Recordings: Big Fish, Yank, Giant, Queen of the Mist. Awards: Florida's Carbonell Award (twice), Denver's Henry Award.

NYC: On The Record (Stage 72) Hereafter (Theatre 80), Levittown (St. Clements), Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (Triad), Jungle Queen Debutante (NYMF), newyorkers (MTC), Tallulah's Party (Kaufman) & more. Tour: Company, Mamaleh. Regional: A Little Princess, Hairspray, Food Chain, Full Monty, Sound of Music, Dames At Sea,Sweeney Todd, 1776, Baby, 42nd Street, Man Of La Mancha & more. Television/Film: Dallas (Phyllis 11 seasons), Law & Order, Three's Company, Hart to Hart, Murder in Manhattan, Dance For One (indie) & more. Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Kennedy Center, Lyrics & Lyricists & 100+ venues in the US. Backstage Bistro Award for solo CD, A Lot of Livin'. Proud graduate of Northwestern University and member AEA. For my father.

NYC: Bike America (Ma-Yi / Ensemble Studio Theater), Spring at the Willowbrook Inn (The Wild Project). Regional Credits: Bike America (Alliance Theater); Emma, Inherit the Wind, Angels in America, Arcadia, Autobahn, All's Well That Ends Well (Cleveland Playhouse); The Merry Wives of Windsor, You Can't Take It With You (Great Lakes Theater Festival); Dream/Home, Matt and Ben, This is Our Youth, The Death of Frank, Heaven and Hell (Dobama Theater). Television: "The Good Wife" (CBS), "Gossip Girl" (CW). Tom was a core artist in Hendricks Gin's "Voyage to the Unusual" that toured the US. MFA from the CWRU / Cleveland Playhouse Acting Program.

are producers and exhibitors in the Australian film industry. Philosophy For Gangsters is our first production in New York. The play is set in a criminal environment with established mores and traditions, and Australian crime cannot even loosely be described as organized. The options were Sicily, Moscow, Tokyo and New Jersey. We don't speak Italian, Russian or Japanese, but have passable English, so here we are across the Hudson from the "Sopranos." The play is a comedy that throws various popular culture myths, story forms and memes into a Mafia melting pot and subverts them. Maybe it has something to say about the transformative potential of the media, too. But let's not get that serious.

is the principal designer at Noulin-Mérat Studio, an intrepid New York design firm that has designed over 200 productions for opera, film, television, and site specific immersive theatre. She is the Associate Producer at Boston Lyric Opera, the Director of Design and Production for the Boston-based, Guerilla Opera, and is the resident designer for New York companies Attic Theater and Exit, Pursued By a Bear. Her studio has created environments for the New York Aquarium, the Bronx Zoo, The Intrepid and Times Square. Her theatre work includes Moonchildren, Dark Rapture, The Argument, The Tutors with the Attic Theater; Penelope of Ithaca, November, Rocky Horror Show with The Hangar Theatre; Dani Girl, King Lear, Lesser Mercies, Arok of Java, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler with Exit, Pursued by a Bear, and These Seven Sicknesses, Restoration Comedy with the Flea Theatre. For more visit www.noulinmerat.com

Recent credits include: The Freedom of the City, Juno and the Paycock and Beyond the Horizon (Irish Rep); Midsummer Night's Dream (Classic Stage Company); The Rivals (CENTERSTAGE); The Indifferent Lover (Greenwich Music Festival); The Old Boy (Keen Company); Out of Iceland (Culture Project); The Suitcase Opera (Belfast, Ireland); A Bright New Boise (Partial Comfort); Die Winterreise (Chicago Opera Vanguard); Piece Of My Heart and Tina Girlstar (New York Stage and Film); Blueprints of Relentless Nature and Darwin's Wife (World Premiere in Japan). Staab is the resident sound designer at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. BA: Oberlin College; MFA: U of I - Krannert Center. www.florianstaab.com

is a lighting designer for theater, dance, opera, and architecture. He was a member of the 2011 Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, he is the lighting director for dance company The Chase Brock Experience, and he is a founding member of Exit Pursued by a Bear. In 2009, Carl founded Sense Lighting Design, a consultancy in architectural and exhibit lighting design specializing in high-end retail, residential, hospitality, and gallery projects. Beyond the architectural realm, Sense partners with artists and creative agencies to develop branding experiences, exhibit designs, fine art engagements, and temporary installations. Carl is a member of the Board of Directors of the Designers' Lighting Forum (DLFNY), a 79 year old organization devoted to promoting the power of light in design. More project info at carlwiemann.com.

Sarah Cogan received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in Costume and Lighting Design. Her work has been seen throughout London, the East Coast and California in stage and film productions. Her costume credits include: Shakespeare's Queens (Art's Theatre, West End), Totally Tubular Time Machine (Off-Broadway), The Trial of Murderous Mary (Kimmel Center, Phil.), South Pacific (Summer Theatre of New Canaan), Grease (STONC), A Man of No Importance (Gallery Players-2012 Nominee for Best Production), Blood Privilege-World and UK Premier (Second Skin Theatre, NYC and London), Days of the Commune (White Bear, London), Revenger's Tragedy (UCSD-Directed by Christopher Ashley), Kasimir and Karoline (UCSD), Mighty Morphing Power Rangers: Blue Ranger Fan Film, The 39 Steps US Tour-Assist. Costume Designer (La Jolla Playhouse), FOX's Us and Them-Costume Coordinator. Other accolades: Nominee for Best Design 2014 by the International Academy of Web Television.

is a NYC based theatre designer. Recent work includes: The Old Man and the Old Moon (Writers' Theatre, Gym at Judson Church), All the Rage (Playwrights Horizons, Two River), Charlatan (Ars Nova), Eggs by Adam Rapp (NYU), La Brea, Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb), Barbarous Nights (Invisible Dog), Party in the USA(Incubator Arts Project), Illustrated Man (St. Ann's Warehouse). Animation and Assistant work includes A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder, Here Lies Love, Last Five Years, Bring it On, Magic/Bird, Newsies.

studied fine art at School of Visual Arts. She now works as a freelance sculptor specializing in prop fabrication, and set dressing/property design for photographers, advertising and entertainment companies. She also sculpts for fashion designer Asher Levine creating unique relief pieces incorporated in his high end menswear. Lauren taught high school art in the Bronx for six years.

joined the Noulin-Mérat Studio in August 2012 and has since been working on over 35 projects including Boo at the Zoo, Ascarium at NY Aquarium, La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers with Gotham Chamber Opera, BlueBeard's Castle at Opera Omaha, Goosebump's 20th Anniversary, Restoration Comedy at the Flea Theater, Drama League, The Man Under at 59E59, The Notebook of Trigorin and The Mnemonist of Dutchess County at the Attic Theater Company, Clemency at Boston Lyric Opera, Candide at Amarillo Opera, South Pacific at STONC, etc. Previous assistantships include the Bold & Beautiful on CBS, Big Love at Northeastern University. She holds a BS from Northeastern University in architecture.

Off Broadway: One Night, Jessica Jahn; F#%ng Up Everything, Melissa Trn; Totally Tubular Time Machine, Sarah Cogan. Other: Bubble Boy, Liz Groth; Milliner Assistant to Corrina Griffin for Radio City's Christmas Spectacular, Costume Administrator at Glimmerglass Theater Festival. MA NYU Visual Culture: Costume Studies; BA UCSB History and Theater, emphasis Costume Design.

was born in California in 1985. She graduated from Rutgers University with a BA in Sociology and Religion and received a MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Sarah Lawrence College. She has worked as a Costume and Wardrobe assistant, Shopper, professional Jerry rigger, Bedazzler, Finger Maker, Spray Painter, and Jill-of-all-trades. Sarah Cogan rules!

is the Artistic Director of kef theatrical productions and a founding partner of FIFTY2&NINE. General Management credits include Tina Packer's Women of Will, Michelle Clunie's US, Wendy Beckett's Love Therapy, A Charity Case and Modotti. Selected NYC directing credits include The Awake (The NY Times Critics' pick) Methtacular! (TimeOut NY critics pick), Killing Women and Lyric is Waiting (all with kef); Getting the Business and Dish for the Gods (Rachel Reiner Productions) the Town Hall concert event A Heart Full of Love (Ali Ewoldt and Adam Jacobs), and a Directing Fellowship at Playwrights Horizons. Regional directing credits include John Patrick Shanley's Defiance at Playhouse West (Critics Circle Award noms, Director, Production) and Santaland Diaries at the Home Made Theater. With FIFTY2&NINE, Adam wrote and directed the winning PSA for the "Think B4 You Speak" campaign (GLSEN, TalentHouse, Brett Ratner), and directed and co-wrote the GWIST web series, Conversations W/ My Ex. www.directorfitz.com

NYC: The Awake (kef), Women of Will (Gym at Judson), Songs For A More Funnier World (NYMF), Billy Witch, The Secret Garden (APAC), Chekhovek (ArcLight), Friends and Relations (June Havoc Theatre), Langston in Harlem (Urban Stages), Reasons to be Pretty, Spain (MCC), First Prize (kef), Mimi le Duck (with Eartha Kitt), Picking Palin (2010 NY Fringe Festival). Workshops and Readings include The Black Suits (MCC), Red Clay (NAMT), Tina Girlstar (Olympus), and Island Song (kef/Libra). Other New York credits include the Drama Desk Awards, Nightlife Awards, Broadway Backwards, and The Late Show with David Letterman. Graduate of Indiana University.

Recent productions include: It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Harbor Lights Theatre Company), Cyrano De Bergerac, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Waterwell Drama Program at PPAS), The Great Society (York Shakespeare Company), Swiss Family Robinson (NYMF 2013), There's a Ligth on Yonder Mountain (Amios & Horse Trade),Fireflies the musical (DR2 Theatre), Bumbug, Bumbug Unplugged (LAUGHistan Productions), Billy Witch, The Secret Garden(Astoria Performing Arts Center), Suds, The 39 Steps, Nunsense Jamboree, Greater Tuna, Church Basement Ladies (Mountain Playhouse). BFA: Stage Management, Syracuse University. Special thanks to my family for all your support.

Is the partnership of Scott Wojcik & Gayle Seay. Along with Ashley Squires they cast theatre, commercials as well as TV/ Film. Off Broadway: Tennessee Williams' "The Two Character Play" starring Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif, "Handle With Care" starring Carol Lawrence," Triassic Parq", " National Pastime"& "666" Tours: "Joseph..Dreamcoat", "Oklahoma!" and "A Chorus Line". Many regional Theatres across the country including Riverside Theatre-FL, Theatre Raleigh-NC, Stages St Louis-MO, Theatre Aspen-CO, The Astoria Performing Arts Center-NY and the Tuacahn Performing Arts Center-UT. Film "Best Man In The Dark", Pilot: "Upstate", Short Film: "Prologue", Web Series: "Expert Witness" . Commercial clients include: Capital One, Bank Of America, Canon, Verizon, Bose and many pharmaceutical companies. www.wscastingonline.com

The Pekoe Group is a full-service advertising and marketing company for theatrical events and attractions, specializing in niche marketing and tailor-made strategic campaigns based on each event's target demographic. Clients include Mint Theater Company, Second Stage Theatre, TACT, Peter And The Starcatcher, Natasha Pierre And The Great Comet of 1812, Murder For Two, Riding The Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Philosophy For Gangsters, and more. www.thepekoegroup.com