Ianthe Demos (Artistic Director) is a founding member and the Artistic Director of One Year Lease. With OYL, Ms. Demos has directed Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano, Ariel Dorfman’s Resistance Trilogy which includes Death and the Maiden, Widows, and Reader; Brendan Cowell’s Bed; Caridad Svich’s Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that Was Once her Heart (a rave fable); PHAEDRA x 3 which included Jean Racine’s Phèdre, Matthew Maguire’s Phaedra and Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love; Jean Anouilh’s Antigone; Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal; John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger; August Strindberg’s Miss Julie; and Oresteia, translated and adapted from Aeschylus by Iason Demos and Yannis Papatheodorou. Other directorial credits include: Elizabeth Egloff’s Phaedra, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and King Lear. She is Vice President of CAMI Spectrum, a division of Columbia Artists Management.   Jessica Kaplow Applebaum (Production Dramaturg) has worked as Production Dramaturg with One Year Lease for the past seven years. Other credits include artistic advisor for the Debate Society’s A Thought About Raya, performed at CSV (New York) and dramaturg for Bradford Louryk’s Klytemnestra’s Unmentionables, performed at HERE (New York). While earning her Master’s in Performance Studies at NYU (2004), she served as editorial assistant to TDR: The Drama Review. A contributing scholar for Columbia University Press’s Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, Jessica is currently writing articles for an upcoming book on performance studies.   Amanda Culp (Assistant Dramaturg) received her B.A. in Drama and Asian Studies at Vassar College. She began working with OYL in 2007 as an apprentice in dramaturgy, where she assisted in the creation of Ariel Dorfman’s Widows. Amanda trained at the Darpana Academy of Performing Arts in Ahmedabad, India, studying Bharata Natyam and other forms of classical Indian theater. Other internships include New York Theater Workshop (Vassar Residency) and The Public Theater (Macbeth, Mother Courage). She served as production dramaturg for Twelfth Night (Woodshed Theater Ensemble) and Polaroid Stories (Woodshed Theater Ensemble) and assistant director for Merrily We Roll Along (Dir. Chris Grabowski).   Sarah Parvis (Publicity Director) is a writer and editor who has been producing independent theater with One Year Lease since 2000. As a publicist with Marina Maher Communications, she launched new products and created platforms for accounts such as the Hain Food Group and Procter & Gamble. At Nike Communications, she handled the public relations for Dewar’s Finest Scotch Whisky and Vonage broadband phone service. She is the author of TIME for Kids President Obama, Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, Ghost Towns, Creepy Castles, The Quotable Feast, Good Girls Finish Last, and a contributor to The Kennedy Mystique, among other titles. Sarah is currently developing books for Downtown Bookworks.   Mike Riggs (Resident Lighting Designer), a founding member of One Year Lease, is proud to design lighting for theater, opera and dance companies at all points on the spectrum, from the scrappy to the venerable. He works regularly with One Year Lease, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, the Kennedy Center, various regional opera companies, and the Debate Society among others. He was nominated for the NY Innovative Theatre Award in 2007 for 6969. For many years Mike worked as production manager and/or lighting supervisor on several world tours including Momix, Parsons Dance Co., the Flying Karamazov Brothers, and The Presidents featuring Rich Little. Please visit www.mikeriggsdesigns.com.   James Hunting (Resident Set Designer) James moonlights as a set designer in the Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway New York theater scene. His recent productions with One Year Lease include Reader, Death and the Maiden, Bed, Iphigenia Crash Land Falls…, PHAEDRA x 3, Antigone, and Machinal. He treasures his experiences creating art with OYL and the people there he gets to work with. James’ day job is as an Effects Supervisor/Pyrotechnician with J&M Special Effects and includes work for NBC, ABC, CBS, MTV, VH1, various print adds, catalogs, special events, and various films.   Kay Lee (Resident Costume Designer) is a costume designer, production designer, and sculptress. Some recent theater credits include Beyond the Horizon, a new movement-theater piece adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s original play, Machinal, Phaedra x 3, and Iphigenia Crash Land Falls…. Other theater and film credits include Still Life, Perfect Profile, Nothing of Origins (Studio 42), Saturn’s Wake (HERE Arts Center) Pay Day, American Dream, Mean Solar Day, Jesus H. Christ, winner of a 2003 Student Academy Award, and Swish-Pan with Digit Collaborative. She received her B.A. in Urban Studies and Visual Arts from Brown University, where she earned the Ann Belsky Moranis Prize for Artistic Excellence.   Dave Chessman (Resident Sound Engineer) has worked on many shows in many capacities, but takes particular joy from the theatrical productions he designs for One Year Lease. From New Year’s Eve in Times Square, The Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, and the New York Auto Show, to the Papal arrival and departure ceremonies, the World Science Summit 2008, and the Tony Awards, Dave Chessman has been making people heard for years. Dave’s impressive client list also includes American Express, Hewlett Packard, KPMG, Deloitte & Touche, Diageo, AOL, NBC, ABC, A&E, National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, Avon, The New York Public Library, Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama League, Carnegie Hall, Nickelodeon, and Disney. He is a project technician with PRG Audio.   Brian Michael Thomas (Resident Graphic Designer) runs Our Hero Productions, a graphic design, video, book design, and photography agency currently based in charming Greenpoint, NY. Past and current clients include: USA Today, LIFE Magazine, The Culture Project, CAMI, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, Backstage, The Debate Society, Splinter Group Productions, The Worth Street Theatre Company, Studio 42, and One Year Lease, among others. He recently designed Matthew Mead’s Monster Halloween and is both the designer of and puzzle creator for Sports Illustrated Kids All-Star Picture Puzzles for Time Inc. Both books are on sale now wherever books are sold.