FRANK CWIKLIK, Artistic Director.  If you go to off-off-Broadway theater and haven’t yet seen any of Frank Cwiklik’s work, you’re simply not trying. Since 1999, Cwiklik has directed, written, acted in, produced, or otherwise down considerable damage to over two dozen shows, and shows no signs of stopping, despite constant pleas and entreaties. His work as director has ranged from the melancholy nostalgia of Who in the Hell is the Real, Live Lorelei Lee?; to the bawdy political satire of Sugarbaby!; from the white trash burlesque of Trav S.D.’s House of Trash; to the delicate romanticism of Twenty; from the B-movie hysteria of Ed Wood’s The Fugitive Girls!; to the challenging S&M dreamscape of Bitch Macbeth. Praised by critics from NYTheatre.com, Backstage, Village Voice, Time Out New York, Show Business Weekly, and recipient of two consecutive OOBR awards for Outstanding Production (The Stranger, Antony and Cleopatra), Cwiklik’s Sugarbaby! was recently published by the New York Theater Experience in the new Plays and Playwrights 2004 collection, and his new work America! The Musical will appear in Winter of 2004.

MICHELE SCHLOSSBERG-CWIKLIK has been the Managing Director of DMTheatrics since January of 2000.  After being accepted and then thrown out of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, she went on to a much more enjoyable stint at Oxford University in the Midsummer at Oxford program studying with Jeremy Irons, Rosemary Harris and several other well known English folks. Continuing on her collision course with fame she went on to Williamstown Theatre Festival to work with Austin Pendleton in Henry IV and as Estragon in Waiting for Godot. This led to lukewarm reviews and a case of bronchial pneumonia.  Coming to New York in 1990, she took classes with William Hickey for 6 months and then disappeared from the stage for 12 years. In 1999, she was dragged back in by her now-husband Frank Cwiklik to run lights for the classic Girls' School Vampire. Since then, Michele has directed and/or performed in over two dozen productions with DMT, notably as Cat in The Fugitive Girls! and Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra. Most recently, she played Ronnie in DMTheatrics' Fall 2003 production of Who in the Hell is the Real Live Lorelei Lee? and Belle in the Western epic Nevada Territory.  Known by her casts as the Eva Braun of the backstage, she continues to be the den mother, whip cracker and fight coordinator for all of the shows. Feeling that this bio has shown her to be a well balanced and completely sane individual, she is done. Enjoy the buffet and tip your waiter.