Marc Erdahi is a SWANA (South West Asian / North African) artist, theatrical director and producer, who conceived and is directing the NYC-bound new musical Fat Kid Rules the World with Rob Ahrens Productions. He has recently recommitted to his Selected directing: "Camp Morning Wood: A Very Naked Musical", "Get GOT: A New Musical", "Death Party", "Hedwig & the Angry Inch", "Liner Notes, The Affair in 22B", "That’s Showbiz!" (MITF), "Wilhemstrasse" (NY Fringe), "Standby" (NY Fringe), "Really Bad Things" (NYMF), Forgiving the Franklins. Marc began his career as a stage manager and was able to hone his directing craft while studying from behind the table with some great directors. Stage managing: "50 Shades: The Original Parody", "The Very Hungry Caterpillar", "Seussical" (Nat’l Tour), "The God Committee" (Lamb’s Theatre), "All The Bad Things" (LAB Theatre), "Children’s Letters to God" (1st Nat’l Tour), among others.

Jay Falzone has written the book and additional lyrics for"Cooking with The Calamari Sisters" as well as its 8 follow-up shows, all of which have beentouring the country since 2009. Other selected writing credits: "Camp Morning Wood" atPlaywright’s Horizons (Book/Lyrics), "Divorce Party, The Musical" (Lyrics / Co-writer), "DearMom" (Co-writer), "Parenting 101" (Co-writer/ Director/ Choreographer), and "You Don’tKnow Jack" (Book/Lyrics). Currently, Book/Lyrics for "Fat Kid Rules The World" (optionedfor B’way) and Book/Lyrics for a musical adaptation of the movie Once Bitten.

Selected directing directs include Arlington (The New School), Salome (The New School), The Prisoners of Quai Dong (The Tank/Prism Stage Company), New York Mining Disaster (Hangar Theatre Lab Co.), Marat/Sade (Fordham University), The Laramie Project (Theatrical Outreach Program). Selected assistant director credits include Girls and Boys (Minetta Lane), The Lightning Thief (National Tour, Theatreworks USA), Constellations (Hangar Theatre) and Angels in America (Broadway, 2018). Jane is an Associate Member of SDC and received a MFA from the New School where they were awarded the Doug Hughes Directing Scholarship.

Trent Jeffords is a performer, singer, composer, and lyricist basedin NYC. Regional performances include "Kiss Me, Kate!" (Bill Calhoun), "Hello, Dolly!"(Barnaby), “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (J. Pierrepont Finch). As avocalist, they have performed with Holland America and Carnival Cruise lines as well aswith the band New Fashioned. As a composer and lyricist Trent’s shows include“WikiMusical” (Pearl Theatre, NYMF, Music), "The Imaginary" (Music and Lyrics, Indevelopment), "Within Elsewhere" (Music and Lyrics, the 2020 winner of the Live and InColor New Works Program), "Camp Morning Wood" (Asylum Theatre, Music), and "How toRepair a Mechanical Heart" (Music).

Scott Wasserman is an orchestrator, electronic music designer, and music director. Broadway credits include "Hamilton", "Dear Evan Hanson", and "The Great Comet" as Ableton Programmer, "Escape to Margaritaville" as Sub Conductor, "Annie" (2012 revival), "Leap of Faith", and "Diana" (upcoming) as Electronic Music Designer. Regional credits include "Gun & Powder" at Signature Theatre as Co-Orchestrator with John Clancy, "Becoming Nancy" at The Alliance Theatre as Electronic Music Designer, "Blackbeard" at Signature Theatre as Co-Orchestrator with David Holcenberg, and "Austen’s Pride" at ACT of Connecticut as Orchestrator. Other New York orchestration and electronic music design credits include "Other World" and The Radio City Summer Spectacular and Christmas Spectacular with Christopher Jahnke, "The Bad Years", "Invisible Thread", "To Hell and Back", "Standardized Testing - THE MUSICAL!!!!", and "21 Chump Street" with This American Life. Film/Television credits include "Fosse/Verdon", "The Greatest Showman", The 71st Tony Awards, "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend", "Sesame Street", and "Wallykazam".

Broadway: Caroline Or Change, A Strange Loop, The Addams Family, Million Dollar Quartet, Broadway Backwards (2012-2016), The National High School Musical Awards Off-Broadway: Want The Change (MD / Arrangements / Orchestrations), A Strange Loop (Arranger) National Tours: The King And I, Spongebob Squarepants, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory New York: White Girl In Danger (Michael R. Jackson), Another Word For Beauty (music by Grammy-winner Hector Buitrago), Railroad! (Louis St. Louis) International: The Joker’s Game (Beijing; music by Grammy-winner Louis St. Louis), The Monkey King (Beijing) Adam’s orchestrations can be heard on Michael R. Jackson’s album Dirty Laundry (2018) and his arrangements can be heard on his chart topping cast recording of A Strange Loop. His keyboard programming can be heard in Australia (Wicked), Argentina (Seussical), China (The Joker’s Game, The Monkey King).

Anant Das is a creative producer, theatre investor, and CEO of Broadway Boxed Up, the longest-running theatre-themed subscription. He is currently a creative producer of the new musical, HOW TO REPAIR A MECHANICAL HEART, and of the Broadway Makers Marketplace, the first Broadway Pop-Up Shop, and has experience as an investor with FAIRYCAKES Off-Broadway and the Museum of Broadway. In 2022, Anant was selected as a member of the Theatre Producers of Color (TPOC) cohort and the TEDxBroadway Young Professionals cohort. He also serves as a member of the New York Theatre Workshop’s 4th Street Bar Association. With a background in financial valuation, computer science, and as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Anant is passionate about the intersection of theatre, tech, and finance, as well as energized to increase access to both theatrical opportunities and theatre education. He also serves as a film screener for the Washington West Film Festival.

Karen "Kay" Gunn  was most recently she was on the producing teamand company manager of the Off-Broadway musical “Camp Morning Wood” (2019) and onthe producing team of “Fat Kid Rules The World” in NYC. She is currently the executiveproducer of the digital documentary series “Stage Left” by Ashley Marinaccio and was aproducer on the independent film “Nicky Newark” from Feenix Films. Ms. Gunn is the ownerof Soiree Fair, Inc. a talent and literary management company she founded in 1995 based inNew Jersey serving the talent in the NY metro area.

Dina El-Aziz is a British-Egyptian Costume Designer basedin New York. Born and raised in the UK, she moved to Egypt to study Art andCommunication and Media Arts at the American University in Cairo, where she discoveredher passion for costume design. A graduate of the Design for Stage and Film MFA programat NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts, Dina has worked on numerous film and theatreproductions in NYC and across the US. Regional venues include Portland Center Stage,Northern Stage, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, Williamstown Theater Festival, Actors Theatreof Louisville, and Geva Theatre. Recipient of the JS Seidman Award.

Paige Hathaway is based in the Washington, DC area. She hasdesigned regionally at The Muny in St. Louis, Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Arden TheatreCompany in Philadelphia, the John W. Engeman Theatre in Long Island, People’s Light inMalvern, PA, among others. In the Washington, DC area she has designed at the KennedyCenter, Arena Stage, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theater J, Imagination Stage,Studio Theater, Woolly Mammoth, and Olney Theatre Center. Her upcoming productionsinclude "Mary Poppins" at The Muny, Dance Nation at Olney Theatre Center, and "Nathan theWise" at Theater J. She received her BFA from the University of Oklahoma and her MFAfrom the University of Maryland. She is a member of USA 829.

Aja M. Jackson is a Boston-based lighting designer. Creditsinclude "A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet" (off-Broadway, DR2), "Hear Word!"(American Repertory Theatre and Under The Radar Festival at the Public Theater NYC),"Black Odyssey Boston" (Central Square Theatre), "Ragtime" (Wheelock Family Theatre),"We Are Proud to Present..." (Brandeis University), "Nat Turner in Jerusalem" (Actor'sShakespeare Project), "Straight White Men and Nixon's Nixon" (New Rep), "Hot Water OverRaised Fists" (Modern Connections), and "FireBird" (Abilities Dance Boston). Aja is also theResident Lighting Designer and core collaborator for site-specific movement company,HOLDTIGHT and serves as Board Chair on the Board of Directors for Brighter Boston.Brighter Boston is a live event training program that pays, trains and places Bostonteenagers in long-term internships.

Selected credits include: Broadway: "Chicken &Biscuits" (designer and co-composer), "Company" (design apprentice). Off-Broadway: "TheLast" (Atlantic Theater Company), "Little Girl Blue" (New World Stages), "A CommercialJingle for Regina Comet" (Daryl Roth Theater). Regional: "Justice" (Arizona TheaterCompany), "The Sound of Music" (Dallas Theater Center), "Frankenstein" (Kansas City Rep),"Extinction" (Baltimore Center Stage). Film/TV/Media: "The Girlfriend Experience" (STARZ;apprentice sound editor), "Dr. Death" (NBC; apprentice sound editor), and multipleaudiobooks and podcasts. Member United Scenic Artists 829 and Motion Picture EditorsGuild 700. Special thanks to Yale School of Drama.

Broadway/Tour: A Christmas Carol, In Residence on Broadway,  May We All, The Jimmy Awards, Notre Dame de Paris (Lincoln Center). Regional: American Prophet, Bruce: The Musical, Anne of Green Gables, Grace: The Musical, How to Dance in Ohio.  OB: A Sherlock Carol. Upcoming: Romy & Michele, Room, Syncing Ink, When Playwrights Kill.

Chris Ogren is an NYU Tisch educated, LA-area native and has been supporting “Mechanical Heart” as a production assistant and more since the beginning. Thrilled to be along for the journey of a new musical. Primarily an actor, New York Theatre Guide has called him "a focused actor with a powerful enthusiasm on stage”. Chris acts with Broadway veterans, was Derek in the Off-B’way “Camp Morning Wood”, and appeared in the Public Theater's "Twelfth Night" in Central Park alongside New York Deaf Theatre. His other skills include American Sign Language and Shakespearean verse. Check out chris-ogren.com for past film roles!

Sagan (they/he) is an actor, filmmaker, and theatre artist, and he is thrilled to be on the Mechanical Heart team! As a queer nonbinary Chinese-American artist they center their work on uplifting underrepresented narratives onstage, onscreen, and on the page. Onstage: Joy of Painting (Clubbed Thumb), Two Mile Hollow (Yale), Six Years Old, Stone, and delicacy of a puffin heart (Corkscrew Theater Festival), Something for the Fish (CPR), Exposed Bone (The PIT Loft). Onscreen: High Maintenance (HBO), Girl Talk, Here We Wait, and Sideways Smile. Narrator of Ana On the Edge and All The Things We Don’t Talk About.

MiMi Scardulla is a performer, director, and choreographer based in New York City. She has been seen on Broadway in Kristin Chenoweth's For the Girls and Off Broadway in We are the Tigers and Gigantic. MiMi just completed her run as Belinda in the Britney Spears musical, Once Upon a One More Time. She has worked as an associate to Chase Brock, Lorin Lotarro, and Spencer Liff. She is a fierce advocate for Size Diversity on Stage and is also a Body Positivity educator.

Kyra Bowie is a multi-hyphenate artist based in Brooklyn and the co-founder of Transcend Streaming. She is incredibly grateful to be a part of this special project. Select Credits: SHOOTING CELEBRITIES (PSM | The Flea), CAMP MORNING WOOD (PSM | AsylumNYC), OSF O! Staged Reading Series (Streaming Producer), Next Chapter Podcasts (Coordinating Producer). NYU Tisch. Never-ending gratitude to her chosen family.