Kail is a co-founder, of Back House Productions. He is the director of In the Heights, a new musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Hudes, which is produced by Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman and opens off-Broadway at 37 Arts in February 2007. Kail also directs Freestyle Love Supreme, which he co-created with Anthony Veneziale. Following a run at Ars Nova in New York City, FLS participated in the 2005 Aspen Comedy Festival, the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the 2006 Melbourne Comedy Festival. Kail directed the 5th Anniversary production of Anne Nelson's The Guys at the Flea Theater. After directing Jules Feiffer's Hold Me and Feiffer's People for BHP, the playwright asked Kail to stage an evening of his work during a retrospective of his career at the New York Historical Society.

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Born in Philadelphia and raised in New Hope, PA, Anthony is the youngest of four boys.  He attended Wesleyan University and majored in Film Studies.  Upon graduation he began work on independent films and new theatre, two years later he, Thomas Kail, John Buffalo Mailer, and Neil Stewart founded Back House Produtions.  A member of AEA and AFTRA, Anthony has appeared off-Broadway, on national and cable television, and has lent his voice to numerous radio and TV commercials.  He is the Associate Artistic Director for Back House Productions and is the co-creator of Freestyle Love Supreme.

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SAM FORMAN is the lyricist and co-book author for the musical I Sing! which has been produced off-Broadway and in theaters throughout the world. A CD recording from The York Theater Concert Cast of I Sing! is available in stores worldwide from Jay Records. He is also currently developing an original television series for AMC. Sam’s other plays and musicals include: The Grille Room (Cherry Lane Mentor Project 2005) Quarterlife (Workshop at The Ford Center, dir. Mark Brokaw). Fringical! (Ars Nova, NYC; American Theatre of Actors, New York Musical Festival 2004) The Quiet Game (Hangar Theater, Ithaca NY) Krankenhaus Blues (Blue Heron Theater, NYC) Please Stop Talking (The Cherry Lane, NYC), Hunter For Hunter Green (Singularity Company, NYC), Utica Forever (Chashama, NYC), Schmoozy Togetherness: a kid's play (Manhattan Theater Source, NYC) Narcissus and Goldstein (Pantheon Theater, NYC) Rob (Naked Angels, NYC) Do You Like Me Europe? (Dostotheaterfest, Berlin) Living Arts / I’m In Relationship Hell (Magnetic North) Sam's play Newton's Second Law is available from Dramatic Publishing and is regularly performed in High Schools and Colleges throughout the USA and Canada. Sam is the producer of the “late night cabaret phenomenon” Creation Nation (currently running at Ars Nova, NYC). Sam has a Bachelors Degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and an MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. Sam is represented by the Paradigm Agency.

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Elisabeth Jamison is an actor, singer, producer and casting director.  With Back House Productions, she has produced Anne Nelson's, Savages, (Lion Theater, Theater Row) and 'The Middle East, In Pieces (The  Cherry Lane) for which she also did the casting.  Additional producing credits include the independent film Flowers (SXSW) starring Piper Perabo.  Elisabeth cast the MTV hit, ''Gamekillers,'' as well as pilots for Sundance and Emmy Award nominee, Paul Simms.  She has also cast music videos for VMA winner, Dave Meyers.  Additionally, Elisabeth has cast commercials for such clients as Volkswagen, Apple, Budweiser, & Target for award winning directors including Academy Award winner, Errol Morris.  As a performer, she can be seen in the Independent Spirit Award nominee, The Puffy Chair, and the upcoming The Flying Scissors, for which she also served as casting director.  In NYC, she has performed in the critically acclaimed, Fools in Love (MET).  Her vocals can be heard on Politics of Photosynthesis, a Stereolab tribute album and on the cast recording of  BALL gracing Bootsy Collins' music.

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Salka directed the off-Broadway production of I Sing! and serves as an associate executive producer on the I Sing! cast album (produced by Jay Records), available worldwide.  He has assistant directed and produced on and off-Broadway at theaters such as The Roundabout, Manhattan Theater Club and The Atlantic Theater. Highlights include The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award- assistant director to David Warren) and The Goat (Tony Award- assistant to producer Scott Rudin). In film, he assisted Rudin on the Oscar nominated The Hours and Jonathan Glickman at Spyglass Entertainment on Bruce Almighty and the Oscar nominated Seabiscuit. He directed David Warren's production of Matt and Ben in Chicago and Toronto. Upcoming: He is assistant directing Elton John's Lestat on Broadway.  Ongoing: he is the director of Creation Nation, a live talk show featuring different celebrity guest-stars. He produces The Striking Viking Story Pirates, an arts education charity.

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Beau Willimon writes for theatre, television and film.  Full length plays include: Baby Blue, Nobody’s Child, Farragut North and Breathing Time, as well as numerous one-acts.  His plays have been developed or performed at MCC Theater, the Cherry Lane Theatre, HERE Arts Center, New Dramatists, Daryl Roth 2 Theatre, Arthur Seelen Theatre (all in New York), the Dayton Playhouse in Ohio and the Battersea Arts Center in London.  Willimon is a recipient of the Seymour Brick Memorial Playwriting Prize, the Yale/Norfolk Arts Fellowship, the Mortimer Hays-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship, the Eesti Fellowship and winner of the 2005 Dayton Playhouse FutureFest.  He has been a finalist for the Julliard Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellowship, the Humana Festival National Ten-Minute Play Contest and the Hangar Theatre Lab New Play Festival.  Besides his work in theatre, Willimon has also worked extensively in the world of politics, having served on the staff of campaigns for Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bill Bradley and most recently, Governor Howard Dean.  He was recently hired by cable network AMC as the co-creator of an original dramatic series.   Beau graduated with a B.A. from Columbia University in 1999 and an M.F.A. in playwriting from Columbia’s Graduate School of the Arts in 2003.   He lives in Brooklyn.

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