AIZZAH FATIMA (Performer/Playwright) Some of her theatrical credits include Play by Play (Stageworks, Hudson), Circumcaedere (LABrynth Ensemble), Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues (V-Day 2010), Seven by Paula Cizmar, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Carol K. Mack, Ruth Margraff, Anna Deavere Smith and Susan Yankowitz (Hostos Cultural Arts Center), the interactive musical Bollywood Wedding, and Ripe For The Picking, an original ensemble piece about human rights violations issues. She can be seen on the hit Pakistani TV series "Mata-e-jaan" on HUM TV, which was directed by the acclaimed Mehreen Jabbar. Other TV credits include: "The Good Wife" (CBS), "Food Detectives with Ted Allen" (Food Network), and "Cinematherapy" with comedian Chuck Nice (WEtv). She has performed at Upright Citizen’s Brigade, and appeared in sketches for collegehumor.com. She co-produces and co-stars in the webseries "Landing in Mumbai" (www.mumbaichopra.com). AizzahFatima.com

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ERICA GOULD (Director) Most recently, Erica directed and created the script for More Between Heaven and Earth with Matthew Modine, Melissa Errico, & Kathleen Chalfant. Other directing credits include the world premieres of Neil LaBute’s plays autobahn and Stand Up (w/ Mos Def), SpeakEasy (Joe’s Pub/Public Theater), Troilus and Cressida (NY Stage & Film), Naked in a Fishbowl (Cherry Lane), John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera, and numerous musicals, productions of Shakespeare, and workshops of new plays by writers including Jose Rivera, Rajiv Joseph, Anna Ziegler, Sam Hunter, and Adam Szymkowicz. Erica was the inaugural recipient of the SDCF’s Live-on-Screen Fellowship for on-camera directing and has received a Gracie Allen Award for her work in radio-theatre for NPR. She is one of the Founding Artistic Directors of The Fire Dept Theatre Co (www.thefiredept.org) and has taught at Yale, Fordham, Bard, Pace, NYU, and the O’Neill National Theatre Institute. She is also a dance and fight choreographer, and teaches Sword Fighting in NYC (www.swepthilt.com).