CRISTINA ALICEA (Executive Director, Resident Director, Founding Member) is a founding member and the Executive Director of MTWorks. She has worked with theatres throughout New York City, some of which include The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Michael Chekhov Theatre Company, The American Globe Theatre, Thirteenth Street Repertory Company, Creative Stages Theatre, and the FringeNYC Festival.  Some directing highlights include Blackbird by Adam Rapp, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking by John Ford Noonan,  Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs, Arpeggio, and Anaïs Nin Goes to Hell by David Stallings, Conversation with a Kleagle by Rudy Gray, The Oath by Jacqueline Goldfinger, and The State of the Art, a short-play that premiered as a part of Women Center Stage - a national festival highlighting 4 Emerging Female Directors - for the Culture Project (Off Broadway).  Regionally, Cristina directed the West Coast premiere of A Beautiful View by acclaimed Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco.  Cristina has a Bachelor of Arts from George Mason Universty, is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab,  and is an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

DAVID STALLINGS (Artistic Director, Resident Playwright, Founding Member) has been involved in New York Theater for the past seven years.  He has worked with several theater companies including The Culture Project, Intravenous Theatre, Prospect Theater Company, Early Stages and Square Peg Theater Company. He is a founding member of Maieutic Theatre Works, and serves as their Artistic Director. David has written seven full-length plays and numerous short pieces.  Maieutic Theatre Works produced Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs in the fall of 2006 in New York City.  Brandon Voss of HX Magazine called the play, "Riveting" and named Stallings as the "playwright to watch".  Other plays include Deceiving Chance, Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell (1st Prize Winner Boston Theatre Works--Unbound Festival 2007--Semi Finalist for the Princess Grace Award 2008), Arpeggio (produced Fall '07 at the 45th Street Theater), A Daughter of Israel, and The Family Shakespeare.  On MTWorks' 2008 NYC Fringe production of Anais Nin Goes to Hell, the Village Voice said, "Thank the gods for David Stallings' 'Anais Nin Goes to Hell'... a uniquely polished presence at the Fringe", and The New York Press said, "For a play about women but written by a man, it captured the greater female psyche."  David is currently working on A Song for St. Michael's, the second play in a new trilogy called The Galveston Cycle, which will be  featured in MTWorks' National NewBorn Festival in January 2010.  David has a BFA in Theater from the College of Santa Fe, NM.  He is also a member of the Dramatists Guild



MARTHA GOODE (Producing Director) is the owner of Night Owl Studios, a NYC based recording studio specializing in recording services for the theatre, as well as working with musicians to record demos and full-length albums in all genres.  In 2003, Ms. Goode designed the sound for Translations of Xhosa and Training Wisteria, both of which were performed at the Kennedy Center for "The American College Theatre Festival". She won a Regional “Barbizon Award” for Sound Design for her work on Training Wisteria.  A year later, Ms. Goode produced and sound designed the New York City premiere of Training Wisteria at the International FringeNYC Festival. Other Sound Design credits include: Anaϊs Nin Goes to Hell and The Oath (MTWorks), SPITE (Strings Attached Theatre Company), The Witlings (Magis Theatre Company), Edward II ((re:) Directions Theatre Company), Every Man (Ignited States: winner Samuel French Short Play Festival), Don't Shoot Your Eye Out! (The Brick Theatre), Love Is Good (Love Creek Productions), Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Blood Wedding, and No Place To Be Somebody (Boston University).  Ms. Goode holds a BFA from the College of Fine Arts at Boston University with an Emphasis in technical production and sound design.  She has also completed additional coursework at Columbia University.


JULIE GRIFFITH (Producing Director) Recent NYC producing credits include: The Oath by Jacqueline Goldfinger (Arclight), MTWorks’ Into the Underworld (Triad), To Barcelona! by Michael Neiderman (Ignited States), Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell by David Stallings (FringeNYC), MTWorks' Underworld: A Night With Broadway's Understudies (D-Lounge), Cody Daigle's Providence,  Arpeggio by David Stallings (45th Street Theatre); Intravenous Theatre's Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner? by Jennifer Lane, and IVT's '06-'07 Oh, Hello! Reading Series.  Ms. Griffith is a graduate of the George Washington University with honors in Theater, the recipient of the Presidential Arts Scholarship for four years and The Kevin Peter Hall Memorial Award for strength, creativity and determination in the art of theater.  She is the Producing Director for Maieutic Theatre Works and is the co-founder and Producing Director of Intravenous Theatre Company.  She has worked in booking at Richard Frankel Productions, which included several touring shows, such as Hairspray, The Producers, The Rat Pack and Movin' Out.  Most recently, she worked for 321 Theatrical Management, which manages over eight companies of Wicked worldwide.


ANTONIO MINIÑO (Marketing Director, Press Agent, Founding Member) is a founding member of MTWorks, served as Managing Director of the Company from 2006-2008, and is currently the Director of Marketing & Communications.  He is a native of the Dominican Republic, where he studied Theater at the School of Dramatic Arts. He has been involved in NY Theater since he moved in 2005 to attend the Michael Howard Studios Summer Conservatory and the One-Year Conservatory in 2006.  NYC acting credits include: Arpeggio, Trojan Women, Elevation, The Queen Mary, Intermission, Ilka's Dream and The Seagull. In the Dominican Republic he appeared in productions of A Doll's House, Amadeus, Lysistrata hates Politics, The Bald Soprano, The Importance of Being Earnest and The Zoo Story.  Producing credits include: Underworld: A Night with Broadway's Understudies, Providence, Does Anyone Know Sarah Paisner?, MTWorks' NewBorn Festival '07 and '08, Folie a Deux: Insanity in Pairs, Anaïs Nin Goes To Hell, The Oath, Immigrants, Sex on the Beach (HOLA Award Winner) and various productions in the Dominican Republic. Antonio is an Associate Press Representative for Kampfire PR, working with clients such as BOO-Arts,The Lopsided Company,  Nicu's Spoon,  Planet Conections,  Astoria Performing Arts Center, The New York Innovative Theatre Awards, and various productions at NYMF, MITF, FRIGID NYC, FringeNYC T.  He is a staff writer for www.TheHappiestMedium.com.


SARAH CHANEY (Fundraising Director) has been working in the performing arts for ten years. Some NYC highlights include the Wings Theatre, Broken Watch Theatre, and the Abingdon Theatre. You can hear Sarah's voice as either the character of 'Isoku' on The Cartoon Network's "One Piece", or singing with her band, i like orange, in music halls throughout the city. Regionally, she has worked with Enchanted Hills in Indiana, The Ohio Theatre, Theatre West Virginia, and the Gates-Abbelgan Theatre in Miami. She has toured nationally with Theatreworks USA and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and has appeared on "Late Night" with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live.  Sarah Chaney is currently in rehearsals for MTWorks' production of "The Oath", opening April 2009.