CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN (Stories and Book) is the creator of the Pumpkin Pie Show, a rigorous storytelling session backed by its own live soundtrack. He is the author of rest area, a collection of short stories, and miss corpus, a novel.

KYLE JARROW (Music and Lyrics) is a Brooklyn-based writer and composer. His plays include A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant (Obie Award), Armless (Best of the Fringe), Gorilla Man (published by Sam French), Love Kills, Hypochondria, Trigger, and the upcoming Whisper House (with Duncan Sheik and director Keith Powell). He's a member of the bands Sputnik Sweetheart and The Fabulous Entourage. Other honors include: Dramatists Guild Fellowship, LA Drama Critics Circle Nomination, John Golden Prize, Princess Grace Award runner-up. He has guest-lectured at Juilliard and Pratt. You can find more about Kyle at www.landoftrust.com

AMY EHRENBERG (Stage Management) is resident Stage Manager for The Debate Society, whose past productions include The Snow Hen, The Eaten Heart, and A Thought About Raya. Broadway: Assistant Stage Manager/Understudy, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (Ambassador). Other SM and technical credits, NYC and regional: The Harlequin Studies (Signature), Vienna Lusthaus Revisited (New York Theatre Workshop), The Dying Gaul (Vineyard), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (Minetta Lane), A Child's Christmas in Wales (Shakespeare Theatre of NJ), and several seasons with The River Rep Theatre Company in CT. Film: Production Manager, Christine. 1403.

MIKE RIGGS (Lighting Design) is proud to work with some of the best, and scrappiest, companies ranging from off-off-Broadway to some of the world's great houses. Other projects this season include A Thought About Raya at the Brick, Il Trittico for El Paso Opera, Music of the Silver Screen featuring John Williams and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, and 613 Radical Acts of Prayer with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Laois, Ireland. New York career highlights include The Snow Hen, Iphigenia Crash-Land Falls..., and Machinal. Mike's lighting design for 6969, seen last season at 59E59, was nominated for the 2007 New York Innovative Theater Award. He is a founding member of One Year Lease, a company that creates internationally accessible productions of classic texts; and resident lighting designer for The Debate Society, a company that writes and performs new plays. Please visit www.mikeriggsdesigns.com.

AMANDA REHBEIN (Set Design) Amanda hails from the Canadian prairies. Most recently she has designed A Marriage of Figaros at the Manhattan School of Music, The Vietnamization of New Jersey at The Beckett Theatre, and The Eaten Heart at St. Mark's Church. She is the resident designer for The Peddie School and is a teaching artist for The Roundabout Theatre Company. Currently she is designing Julius Caesar and As You Like it at the Juilliard School. Amanda has a BFA in Design for the Theatre from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA in Design for Stage and Film from NYU's Tisch School for the Arts.

SEAN TRIBBLE (Costume Design) Recent New York Credits: The Lesson set and costume design (Riverside Theatre), Ballad of Baby Doe set design (Chelsea Opera), Because of Beth set design (Small Pond Productions), Illuminating Veronica set and costume design (Atlas Theatre), Boston Marriage costume design (20% Theatre Company), Like Loveset design (NYMF), A Time to be Born costume design (Fringe), The Overwhelming asst. costume design (RoundAbout). Other credits include: CID costume (Divadlo Sedum A Pul, Czech Republic), The Skin of Our Teeth, The Secret Garden costume design
(Peddie Theater), Red Rope costume design (Short Film).

RIC CHAVARRIA (Sound Engineer) is a graduate of the Conservatory of Recording Arts and Science in Tempe, AZ. His studio experience has been credited with Paul McCartney (Back in the US), Bob Dylan (Rolling Thunder Review), and AC/DC (Live at Donington). Live sound: downtown performance artists: Murray Hill, Sherry Vine, Jonathan Ames, Freestyle Love Supreme. Sound/Lighting Design for an Off-Off Broadway production of Hipster Cinderella.

EMILY OWENS (Publicity)

JEFFREY WEISS (Cover Photography)

SAMANTHA MARBLE (Production Photography)

PAUL THUREEN (Graphic Design)

THE THURSDAY PROBLEM (Associate Producer) Lead by Playwright/Producer Eric Sanders, The Thursday Problem has created and produced F**KPLAYS, the sold-out smash collection of eight sexually-charged plays at the Ohio Theatre and Galapagos Art Space; DREAD AWAKENING, the hit collection of horror plays at the 45th Street Theatre; DEWEY'S NIGHTMARE: THE LIBRARY PLAY CHALLENGE, the standing room-only childhood literacy benefit at the Gene Frankel Theatre; and Eric Sanders's FAINT at the New York International Fringe Festival, which was selected as a Fringe Pick by Newsday and The New York Daily News. The Thursday Problem is honored to be a part of the HOSTAGE SONG team.

HORSE TRADE THEATER GROUP (Producer) New York City’s premier commercial Off-Off-Broadway Theater Group operates a trio of spaces – The Kraine Theater and The Red Room at 85 East 4th Street and UNDER St. Marks at 94 St. Marks Place – Horse Trade acts as producers, co-producers or a rental house, depending on the needs of the production. Horse Trade was founded in 1998 by a duo of Central Park Handsome Cab (a.k.a horse-drawn carriage) drivers, and is currently run by Managing Director & Co-founder Erez Ziv, Producing Director Morgan Lindsey Tachco, and countless artists and volunteers.Since its inception, Horse Trade has presented works by artists including Daniel MacIvor, Big Art Group, Mike Albo, Tobacco Bar Theatre Company, John Montgomery Theater Company, Clay MacLeod Chapman, Trav SD, and Stolen Chair Theatre Company, to name a few. Horse Trade proudly hosts the annual FRIGID New York Festival, now in its 3rd year. They have seen the success of hundreds of Off-Off Broadway artists, and proudly continue to play a part in fueling and supporting the ever-evolving indie theater scene. Horse Trade continues its commitment to an independent theater community, helping to sustain the numerous voices that make up the varied landscape of live performance in New York City.