TRACEY STROOCK (Mira) arrived in New York City via Hamilton College and the MFA Acting Program at UCLA. After appearing in Same Time Next Year and Sexual Perversity in Chicago with CitiLine Players, she spent three years performing in the Berkshires in Massachusetts where her work included the voice of Mary Ann in the CD-ROM game "Louis Cat Orze." Favorite roles there include Rita in Prelude to a Kiss, Corey in Barefoot in the Park, Harley in Accomplice, Emma in Betrayal, and Meg in Crimes of the Heart. Tracey's most recent NYC appearances include Diane in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, The Scales with Soaring Eagle Productions, Young Americans with In Their Own Write, and Alexander with CitiLine. Tracey spends her days at The Booking Group, a theatrical booking agency whose roster includes Rent, Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk and Nickelodeon Presents Rugrats--A Live Adventure.

JEFFREY YATES (Richard)Glen in Velocity of Light at the Miranda Theatre. Henry in the American premiere of the South African play Mooi Street Moves written and directed by Paul Slabolepszy. Developed new works under directors Pam Berlin and Richard Caliban at Theatre for the New City, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HB Playwrights, and New York Theatre Workshop. Regional: Source Theatre, Washington, DC; Papermill Playhouse, NJ; North Shore Music Theatre, MA; and the Palace Theatre in New Haven, CT. First professional role at the age of six months and toured for twenty years with his eleven-member family's Equity repertory theatre company. Films: In the Line of Fire (director A. Palula), The Devil's Own (director W. Peterson), and the lead in the soon-to-be-released independent The Wel-Bilt Girl directed by Academy Award-winning director Randall Blair. Studied with Joe Papp, Harold Guskin, and Austin Pendleton.

GABRA ZACKMAN (Madeleine) New York credits include The Big Fat Naked Truth (Expanded Arts), Unity Fest at Altered Stages and Just Desserts. Educated at Northwestern University, Gabra performed at many venues in Chicago before touring the country with Boston Chamber Theatre and moving to NY. Favorite roles: Lina in Misalliance, Sarah in The Lover, and Marguerite in Red Noses. In addition, she was recently seen on t.v. in Law and Order. Gabra would like to thank her wonderful parents, the Gumps, and Sean, who has put up with more than any man should really have to.

LARRY KUNOFSKY (Playwright) has had plays produced at the Greenwich Street Theatre, the Love Creek/Samuel French Short Play Festival, as well as on WBAI in New York, and on National Public Radio. His other plays include (IN)FIDELITIES, What to Do When You Hate All Your Friends, and bender/gender/straight/& neutered. Larry is the three-time winner of the John Golden Award for Drama ('90,'91,'92), a 1997 winner of the Moving Arts Premiere One-Act Competition, and was resident playwright at the Edward Albee Foundation in August of 1996. Larry lives in Manhattan, where he is a member of The Tuesday Group, a developmental lab run by playwrights, and a member of the Dramatists Guild.

MICHAEL RUPERT (Director) makes his Off-Broadway directing debut with The Lunch Anxieties. Off-Off-Broadway he directed City for The Filling Station and two one-acts for The Threshold Theatre Company's Caught In The Act at HERE. As an actor, he appeared on Broadway in Falsettos (Tony nomination), City of Angels, Mail, Sweet Charity (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Shakespeare's Cabaret, Pippin, and The Happy Time (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway he has performed in: Putting It Together, Falsettoland, March of the Falsettos, Ancient History, Festival, and Fragile: Handle With Care. Mr. Rupert's regional credits include: Breaking and Entering, Merchant of Venice, In the Blue Room, Avow, Relativity, Brecht: Sacred and Profane, and Play With Fire. On television he has had roles in: All My Children, Big Brother Jake, Cheers, Outrage (Movie of the Week), No Place to Hide (Movie of the Week), Short Walk to Daylight (Movie of the Week), Alice, The Waltons, and One Life to Live. Mr. Rupert has composed for Mail, Three Guys Naked From the Waist Down (Drama Desk nomination), and the upcoming Strange Vacation.