Is the author of over fifty plays. They include The Floating Island Plays, Once Removed, Stevie Wants To Play The Blues, A Burning Beach, Havana Is Waiting, and The Cook, Mariquitas, Worship, Celia and Fidel and Not About Me.

They have been produced at many major regional theaters, as well as in Europe, South America and Off-Broadway, including among others The Actors Theater of Louisville, The Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Theatre For The New City, The Long Wharf Theater, The Williamstown Theater Festival, The Arena Stage in Washington D.C. The Cherry Lane Theater, INTAR, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, America Place Theater and Hampstead Theatre in London. Mr. Machado taught playwriting at Columbia University (where from 1997—2007 he was the Head of Playwriting), Also at Tisch (where he was the Head of Playwriting from 2007 to 2018) He has served as an Artistic Associate at The Public, the Flea Theatre/Bat Theatre Company and The Cherry Lane Alternative, and he was playwright in residence at The Mark Taper Forum. From 2004—2010 he was the Artistic Director of the off-Broadway INTAR Theatre in NYC.

Michael Domitrovich is primarily a theater director, but has worked extensively as a playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He is the former Executive Chef and Director of Food and Beverage at the Montauk Yacht Club where he supervised a staff of 80 and ran 2 restaurants and 3 bars as well as a room service and catering operation serving 110 hotel rooms, 220 yacht slips, and 32 Hamptons style weddings of up to 1400 people. He left the restaurant business in 2010 to pursue his writing and directing career, but has continued to cater privately through his unconventional spiritual healing and events co. EdibleSpirit Inc.

Mateo d’Amato

Co-founder, Managing Director

Mateo d'Amato is an actor who’s starred in and produced dozens of off and off-off Broadway plays in NYC.  Television appearances include Blue Bloods (CBS); Jessica Jones (NETFLIX); and Betty (HBO). He's played lead and supporting roles in many successful independent films (We Were Young, Green Brothers, Furies Inside Me, Triumph); music videos (Metronomy, NZCA Lines); and in national/international commercials for major brands. Regularly performing voice over work in numerous film and television series, Mateo is an Audie Award nominated narrator for the book STUCK on Audible and can be heard in podcasts, video games (for which he’s also performed Motion Capture), cartoon series, and the mediation app Calm. He's been hailed by reviewers for several stage performances and is the recipient of two acting awards for best ensemble; including The Fresh Fruit award for his role in Village Orpheus at the Wild Project and for his supporting role in the independent film Green Brothers, which premiered at the London Eye International Film Festival. Mateo studied acting at The New School in New York City, the Frei University in Berlin, Germany and with several coaches like Anthony Abeson, Bob Krakower, Deborah Hedwall, Fay Simpson and Zisan Ugurlu. In addition to his acting work he has written two solo performances, a play, and is currently developing a T.V. series. 

Michael Sharp

Co-founder, Executive Director

Michael Sharp has committed his efforts to building a just world, both as an attorney and as the founder of a focused lending platform, SharpAnderson Capital. Throughout his life he made an effort to write and perform in theatrical works that directly address the growing threat to democracy that we now find ourselves. He studied theatrical technique at HB Studio with Austin Pendleton and Edward Machado. He developed a TV pilot based on drug addiction in the legal and corporate world, with Robert Nathan and Anthony Edwards (“Knifework”). He workshopped “SpottedDog”, reflecting the lessons of 9/11, with both Craig Lucas, featuring Ben Shenkman and Anthony Edwards, with further reading with Eduardo Machado. He has authored numerous plays and worked in film and television. These include “No Fences” the life of a black cow hand in 1880’s US and Canada, “I’m Not Henry”, a story of abuse and repressed memory among working class New Yorkers, and he is working on a television pilot “Aegyptus”, dealing with sex and gender in Roman era Egypt. He is a former board member of the New York StateTrial Lawyers Association; completed numerous Iron Man triathlons as a sponsored athlete, and is supported by his wife Denise and by his three daughters, Emily, Olivia and Sofia . He has been involved in homeless shelter work, passionate animal rescue efforts, and has served as a counselor and mentor to many young men in drug and alcohol induced crisis.