Amy Hellman has had a fondness for languages and performance from a young age. She recieved her BA in Romance Languages and Literatures  and Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University; she later continued her studies at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, where she received her Masters of Studies in Italian Literature and Drama, with a focus on gender and subjectivity. She is an improvisor and actor, having performed in the U.S. and abroad. She has studied improvisational theater, movement, and voice for twelve years around the world, and recently continued her studies with New York City's own Magnet Improv Theater, as well as the Roving Classical Commedia University.  Amy is also language instructor, improv instructor, writer/poet/playwright, yoga instructor and thai yoga massage therapist. She is a current member of the improv teams Ginger Ninja  and Lingerie and Bourbon, both of which perform regularly through out NYC. 

Cecilia Jourdan was born and raised in Paris, France. She grew up immersed in traditional French values and culture, including studying both as a dancer and a circus acrobat, and helping out in her father's restaurant in the Marais neighborhood in Paris. Cecilia has been simmering in the American melting pot (Miami and New york) for the last four years since moving to the US to study acting and perfect her fluency in the English language. She studied Musical Theatre in a BFA program at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. She graduated from the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, with a focus in film and television. Cecilia is now a member of the Theatre Actors Project Company. She was recently seen inSomething Outrageous, at the 45th street theatre. Cecilia was also the lead actress in THE SNAP, a short film produced and directed by Tullia Zanfini. Cecilia loves to teach French and share her passion for French culture.

Laura Caparrotti has a Master degree in Performing Arts, Cinema and Theatre History from the University "La Sapienza" in Rome. She also studied independently with Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and Annie Girardot. After ten years of professional theatre in Italy, she relocated to New York, where she has directed and/or performed at The Kitchen, The Fringe Festival, the Abrons Art Center, the Bernie West Theatre, and the Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo', among other venues. In 2005 she was the Assistant to the Director of the Off Broadway production of Eduardo De Filippo's "Souls of Naples" featuring John Turturro. She is the world-wide representative of the De Curtis Family, and the curator of "Excerpts of a Prince Named Totò," the official traveling exhibition on the Italian actor Totò. She is also a playwright (one woman shows and children plays), a journalist, a teacher of Italian and Theater, a lecturer, a monitor-consultant-voice over for Italian language for National Commercials and Industrials, a curator and a panelist for NYSCA.  She is member of the Director’s Lab at Lincoln Center, Associate Member of SDC and the Founding Artistic Director of the Italian Theater Company Kairos Italy Theater.

Hannah Kloepfer is an actress and producer.   As an actress, previous credits include The 116th Annual Varsity Show, Let Us Go Out Into the Starry Night, and XMAS4. She has also studied at the Atlantic Acting School part-time program, studying the Practical Aesthetics Technique.  Originally from Buffalo, NY, Hannah was a member of various regional theater troupes and worked as a vocal coach and counselor at Summer Stock Theater Camp. Regional credits include: The Sound of Music, Carousel, Inherit the Wind, The Diary of Anne Frank,and Hello, Dolly!  She is currently studying French and Francophone studies at Columbia University.

Born and raised in Paris , Luma began her acting training with Philippe Duclos, member of the Mesguich company.  She continued her studies at Cours Simon and Florent, with Francis Huster. After obtaining a Masters degree II in French Language  (Sorbonne), she specialized in music, while performing as an extra in  movies  (« Molière » of Laurent Tirard, « Sam suffit » productions du 3ème étage). An actress with a great voice, she completed her professional vocal training with renowned speech therapists B.Amy de la Breteque and E.Fresnel, and as well the Jazz Vocal Vocational Training of Cifap in ‘Sunset Sunside’. She has also participated in the famous Puppet Art Festival MiMa , and given educational performances, including a recent one at Hunter College in Manhattan. Long live the stage!

Julian Mesri is a New York-based Argentinean-American director and playwright. He directs plays in both English (Dixon Place, The Tank) as well as Spanish (Repertorio Español Teatro Iati). He was the 2010-2011 Van Lier Fellow at Repertorio Español where he directed the New York premiere of Rafael Spregelburd's La estupidez (ACE Nominee best Director-Comedies), and Calderon de la Barca's La dama duende. He frequently works in theaters such as Dixon Place, New York Theater Workshop and INTAR. He is a member of the Hemispheric Institute in NYU where he participated in EMERGENYC and collaborates frequently with his mother, Susana Cook. 

Reka is a French theatre practitioner who graduated as a playwright in Scotland, and worked as a performer, director and writer (UK and Hungary). She was trained in Clowning partly by Carlos Gallego in Ecuador, and as a Clown Doctor in Hungary. Reka completed a Masters degree in Social Theatre at London's Central School for Speech and Drama and has been working as a practitioner in theatre for Human Rights, facilitating community theatre workshops with immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees in London, Ecuador and New York. She has been teaching English through theatre, and holds an avid interest in improvization, ensemble theatre devising, playwriting, mime and languages.

Yelena Shmulenson’s stage credits in Yiddish include five seasons with the National Yiddish heatre-Folksbiene. For New Yiddish Rep: The Essence: A Yiddish Theater Dim Sum (which she also performed in Stockholm). For the Joseph Papp Yiddish Theater: Ghetto Cabaret In English she did two seasons at the Ellis Island Theatre. Fringe NYC: Bronx Express and The Unlucky Man In A Yellow Cap. Performed in Frank (‘Klezmatics’) London’s musical of A Night In the Old Marketplace. the tour of Lady of Copper, and Off-Off Broadway productions of Flowers For Algernon, The Lilac Minyan, etc. TV & Film: Life on Mars, Robert DeNiro’s The Good Shepherd, Romeo And Juliet in Yiddish, the Movie (scheduled for release this spring), and the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man. Upcoming: Fire At The Triangle for PBS. She is a winner of the Earphones Award for her recordings of Train to Trieste and Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl and Rosa for Highbridge Audio. Yelena emigrated to the US with her family in 1993. She is fluent in five languages.

Jay Alvarez (Playwright/Actor) is a bi-coastal actor whose Los Angeles theatre credits include: Havana Bourgeois opposite Tony Plana, (Hayworth Theatre), Noblesse Oblige (Stages Theatre) and the Ovation Nominated play The Shelter (The Odyssey Theatre) TV credits include: the unforgettable French waiter on Foxs Til Death with Brad Garrett and Joely Fisher and The Sopranos as well as natioanl commercials for Amercian Express and McDonalds among others.  In addition to NYC and LA theatre, Jay has worked in Washington DC at The Shakespeare Theater, Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, and Gala Hispanic Theatre, among others.  With Be Careful! The Sharks will eat You! Jay embarks on a completely different and new experience, honoring his parents and their journey to America.