The Creative Team

Daniella Topol (Director) is dedicated to directing new work. She has directed readings, workshops, and productions of new plays and musicals for City Theatre, Connecticut Repertory, Ensemble Studio Theatre (Youngblood Series), Epiphany Theater Company, The Lark, HB Playwrights, Mill Mountain Theatre, New Georges, FringeNYC, New York Theatre Workshop Reading Series, NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, and the Women’s Project, among others. Formerly the Associate Producing Director at City Theatre in Pittsburgh, she is the New Works Program Director at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. She is an NYTW Usual Suspect, Lark Associate Artist, First Look Directing Member, and Carnegie Mellon Directing Alum.

Daniel Feyer (Music Director) is very happy to be here for RIMT’s first Retrospective Revue! Previously with Raw Impressions, he was music director for RIMT Events #12 (“Perspectives”) and #13 (“Ceremony”). Dan has recently worked on several acclaimed new musicals with Prospect Theater Company (Illyria, The Alchemists, Dido [& Aeneas], all with music/lyrics by Peter Mills), serving variously as music director, arranger, and/or orchestrator. He has spent the last five summers at the Weston Playhouse in beautiful southern Vermont, music-directing Saturday Night (New England premiere), Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and Hello, Dolly!. Other NYC credits include: The Most Happy Fella, Sweeney Todd (both Blue Hill Troupe); Seven Brides... (CAP21); O Pioneers! (world premiere); Grand & Ogden, Hamlet Sings! (readings). Dan is a native of San Francisco and graduate of Princeton University.

Wendy Seyb (Choreographer) Trey Parker’s Cannibal! The Musical (The Kraine Theatre); 2001 Élan Awards; St. Marks The Remember Project; Madison Square Garden Knicks City Dancers; The Cardboard Moon and Betsy Blue (The Looking Glass Theatre); the Women’s Directors Forum; and Juilliard Graduate Directing Program. Associate Choreographer for Footloose tour (Las Vegas); fashion industrials. Thank you RIMT for this wonderful opportunity. Thanks sweetie.

Orit Jacoby Carroll (Set Design) has designed The Hunger Waltz (Relentless Theatre Company); The Triumph Of Love (University of Rochester); the workshop of Denis Johnson’s Hellhound On My Trail (Atlantic Theater Company); Antigone, A.D. (Pilot House Theater Company); and The Drilling Company’s Connections. Associate Designer credits include the Broadway productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Nine, Take Me Out, Amour, and Urinetown. Orit previously worked as Associate Production Manager with the Atlantic Theater Company after many years in architectural design.

Heather Dunbar (Costume Design) Young Playwrights Festival (Cherry Lane Theatre); Five O’clock (42nd Street Workshop Theater); Slut (FringeNYC); He Died with a Falafal in His Hand (Parkside Lounge); Misogamy (Interart Theater); Mambo Pulp, Jacob’s Pillow, Lee, MA; The Party (Costumes and Sets) Bank Street Theater; The Adding Machine (Costumes and Sets) Stella Adler Theater; Death of Frank (Costumes and Sets) FringeNYC. Set Design: Little Pitfalls (Immigrant Theater); Our Town, Faust (Garmany Theater, Hartford); Duck’s Crossing (Vital Theater). Art Direction: Kill the Poor, Chelsea Walls (Asst. Art Dir.) InDigEnt. Heather has also assisted designers Anna Louizos, Tony Walton, and Antje Ellerman.
Andrew Hill (Lighting Design) Other recent work includes: Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique and Petrushka, both at Lincoln Center; Len Jenkin’s Like I Say at the Flea Theater; Christopher William’s Virgo Genitrix at HERE; Mabou Mines’ Red Beads at MassMOCA; The Perfect Game exhibit at The American Folk Art Museum.