Lisa Faith Phillips took her funny self-help parody musical with humorous advice for mistresses on tour in 2007 to 2008. Sold out shows in Dublin, Ireland and at Washington DC's Capital Fringe Festival were some of the highlights of a great tour. After being sued by FranklinCovey Corporation, who own trademarks on 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, she reworked the show with a new title Dr. Faith's Bad Girls' Guide to Great Mistressing and is working on new shows, Drink, Blaspheme, F* and All-Nude College-Girl Revue or why I can't pass the vetting.
Lisa has been a Participating Artist at The Cherry Lane Theater, Alice’s Fourth Floor and Manhattan Punch Line’s Comedy Corps in New York as well as a member of theater companies in London, Barcelona and Findlay, Ohio. Her favorite parts range from Wendy in Peter Pan to Lucky in Waiting for Godot.
She has performed stand-up and one-woman shows at such venues as Joe's Pub, The Comic Strip, The Improv, The Duplex and Don’t Tell Mama. She sang with the Time Warner Choir for four years. She wrote and performed for Ohio television and appeared on Lifetime, The Leeza Show on ABC and in the Beast of Burden music video, featuring Bette Midler and Mick Jagger.
Her last play, The All-Nude College-Girl Revue, had a sold-out run at Soho's Synchronicity Space before moving to The Samuel Beckett Theater for an extended run in 1997. Her first play At All Times, initially produced at Alice's Fourth Floor, went on to open the Director's Project Festival at Synchronicity Space in 1994.
Lisa has a degree in Economics and French from Wellesley College and a Master in Economics from the London School of Economics. She has been studying music theory at Julliard. She has worked in publishing, direct marketing and internet development for such media companies as Time Warner and Random House. Currently she is VP of Products and Services at NOLOH LLC ("Not one line of HTML"), an exciting new web development platform.Ellen Mandel has composed music for many plays for the Mint, Jean Cocteau Rep, and Riverside Shakespeare in New York, the Asolo, Peterborough Players, Arkansas Rep, Tennessee Rep, and other regionals. She has written five film scores, and recorded three CDs: Every Play's an Opera, a collection of her theatre music, a wind has blown the rain away, her E.E. Cummings song cycle that The New York Times called "ardent, spiky, and freshly organic," , and The First of All My Dreams, new songs with lyrics by Cummings, Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, and others.
Ellen has a degree in philosophy from Harvard. Visit Ellen at www.ellenmandel.com.