Creative Team

LEE SANKOWICH After serving for 16 years as Artistic Director of the Marin Theatre Co., Lee resigned to return to producing and directing independently. Among the 45 plays he directed there were two world premieres of previously unproduced Tennessee Williams’ plays. His career got off to a jump start with his successful productions of ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST which ran for two and a half years in New York, five and a half years in San Francisco, a year and a half in Boston, and in Israel. In all, he did eleven productions of the play. Since then he has worked in Regional Theatres across the country including Baltimore Center Stage, The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Florida Stage, Geva, Jewish Repertory Theatre, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre where he was a Resident Director, and was an Associate Professor of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University. Lee directed the seven month run of THE LAST SCHWARTZ in 2007-8 and most recently SOMEONE’S SOMEBODY at the Zephyr. Among his several awards, he has been the recipient of four San Francisco Bay Area Drama Critics Awards for Direction. Lee owns and operates the Zephyr Theatre.

DEBORAH TAYLOR Firemused Productions produced the seven-month critically acclaimed hit “The Last Schwartz” and Bridezilla Strikes Back at The Zephyr Theatre. NY On/Off Broadway productions include Eve Ensler’s “The Goodbody”, Cultural Industry’s “Shockheaded Peter”, and “Stomp/Las Vegas”. Tracy Lett’s “Killer Joe”, at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco. Associate Producer “Jocasta Rising”, Cape Town, South Africa. Producing Director, Marin Theatre Company’s new works Program. Associate Producer, new works program THE GAP at The Aurora Theatre, Berkeley,CA. Film/TV credits include Associate Producer for “Highway Courtesans”, winner of The Best Feature Documentary, 2005 Galway Film Festival and President’s Jury Award, 2005 Chicago International Documentary Festival. Producer/ series special, “Theatre Arts in New York” and “Behind the Scene, Behind the Mask” for PTV Oakland, CA. Deborah Taylor is a member of NYWIFT, BAWIFT, SF Film Arts Association and auxiliary board member of the San Francisco Ballet. She is a graduate of DSL in London and a recent alum of the Commercial Theatre Institutes 2009 Producer Conference in New York, as well as CTI’s producer conference at The O’Neill this summer. She is the producing director of THE ZEPHYR on MELROSE, creating the ZEPHYR on MELROSE Reading Series. She is currently working on a new musical in New York, STREET LIGHTS opening at NYMF OCT 13-Oct 18. www.streetlights.com

TIM CUMMINGS Tim’s passion for this project stems from his love of – and obsession with – horror films. He still remembers seeing ‘The Exorcist’ when he was three years old. (Thanks mom and dad.) Said passion led him to have many meetings with Producer Deborah Taylor wherein he would suggest hoards of actors, designers, ideas, and strategies about how to make this thing fly. Having done so much stage work (and indie horror films) in LA, he has formed great working relationships with some of the best theater (and indie-horror people) in this town – for which he is ultra-grateful. As such, he was able to send Deborah and Lee a mighty plethora with whom they could natter and negotiate. And so it came to be, on a dark and stormy night, that Tim got mired in the sinister fate of becoming…Associate Producer! (cue: BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAM) It has been an honor, a privilege, and one hell of a joyride. Thanks Deborah and Lee. Thanks Allison Moore. Thanks to the entire cast and crew of SLASHER.