JOANNA RUSH (Actor/Playwright): Writing credits include Asking For It, now called KICK – It’s not how high. It’s how strong. Home Sweet Homeland, Lynne Taylor-Corbett (director) was work-shopped at Stocker Arts Center, Ohio, Best New Play Series readings at Gloucester Stage. Screenplays: Irish Whiskey (co-author, Best Screenplay winner at the Temecula Valley Film Festival,) Mothers Day, a historical drama.

Acting credits include Broadway: Pousse Café, Shirley MacLaine at the Palace. A Chorus Line (Shubert Theater, Los Angeles.) Off-Broadway: Daughters, Inside Out, Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, Broadway Scandals of 1928, Options. Regional: Beyond Therapy, Fifth of July, Freedomland, Little Mahagony, Great White Hope, Women Who Steal (WHAT), concert versions of Two by Two, and Minnie's Boys at Jewish Rep. Film: The Luckiest Man in the World, Sunburn, On the Cliffs (winner Best Short Comedy 2004, Ohio Ind. Film Festival) Saying Goodbye, TV: Shannon, Archie Bunker's Place, A Killing Affair, Cagney & Lacey, and the pilot Straight No Chaser as the inappropriate mother of Bronson Pinchot. Proud member of Actors Equity Association, The Dramatists Guild, Screen Actors Guild, Actors Fund, Board member of the Rockette Alumnae Association, Merrimack Valley Playwrights.

LYNNE TAYLOR-CORBETT (Director): Nominated for two Tony awards for her direction and choreography of Broadway’s Swing! in addition to a Drama Desk award. She also choreographed Chess and Titanic. Off-Broadway she directed and choreographed Wanda’s World for which she won the Callaway award and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award. Her production of My Vaudeville Man garnered a Drama Desk. Cougar the Musical, for which she was director and contributing writer, ran for almost two years and is licensed worldwide. She co-wrote and directed Out of the Shadows, the Good Housekeeping benefit for The National Women’s History Museum featuring Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Jane Alexander at City Center. Her adaptation of The Lion King is in its seventh year at Disney Hong Kong. She will be proudly helping to present KICK this Fall. Her film choreography can be seen in the classic Footloose, My Blue Heaven and Bewitched. She directed Real to Reel a film- live action event developed in China and later presented at the Edinburgh Festival. She and special effects genius, Doug Trumbell, collaborated on a film shot for the Osaka world’s fair which combines table top scenery and blue screen action. Ms. Taylor-Corbett has choreographed for numerous dance companies including American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and New York City Ballet, most notably Seven Deadly Sins starring Patti LuPone. Her work has been filmed for Live From Lincoln Center and Great Performances. This year she wrote and directed, Hibari in Tokyo, a homage to the Japanese icon, Hibari Misora. She has co-written Distant Thunder with Shaun Taylor-Corbett, her Blackfeet son. Having grown up among tribes in Denver, Colorado, it has been a lifelong dream to tell the story of contemporary life on the reservation and to portray characters that really exist, outside the stereotype of “the noble Redman.” Ms. Taylor Corbett serves on the advisory board of the Association on American Indian Affairs and of Rosie’s Theatre Kids.