Charles Linshaw (Eli) is delighted to return to the New York International Fringe Festival having performed previously in Fear Up: Stories From Baghdad and Guantanamo. He appeared recently in Twilight Theatre Company’s Prelude To The First Day, directed by Sturgis Warner and produced by Lou Moreno. Other New York credits include: the young company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Classic Stage Company; The Angel of History for the American Living Room Festival at the HERE Arts Center, produced by ManInBoat Theater Company; Monster, also at HERE Arts and produced by PTTP; an early workshop production of Eli and Cheryl Jump at the Gene Frankel Underground; and numerous other full length and short plays. Regional credits include: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Gloucester Stage Company, The Nora Theatre Company, and The Publick Theatre among others. Film and TV credits include: a DVD cameo as 'Tranny Tris' in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Mandate Films, Dir. Peter Sollett), several indies, and frequent voiceover work for Frontline and Frontline/World (WGBH/PBS). A proud member of AEA, AFTRA, and SAG, Charles holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Columbia University, and has also trained with SITI Company.

Cassandra Vincent (Cheryl) is a performing artist in stage, film, voice over and music using a variety of art forms. In NY: for the past three season’s she has performed in Anthony Minghella’s Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera both as a puppeteer of the Cio-cio san puppet in the ballet in Act 3 and member of the ballet; she is co-creator and performer in the ongoing macabre cabaret La Petite Guignole; she has performed in the new works Tully: In no particular Order at Theater for the New City and the first incarnation of Baghdad Burning with Six Figures.
Regional Theatre includes: In the Blood (Amiga); As You Like It (Rosalind); Skylight (Kyra); Lake of Panthers (Erige); Song of Singapore (Chah Li); Cabaret (Fr. Kost/Kit Kat Girl); Company (April), No, No Nanette (Nanette)…
Film includes: The Patient War; My Soul to Take; Everyman

Nicole A. Watson (Director) Is a director, playwright, and teacher. Credits include Derek Walcott’s Ti-Jean and His Brothers (NYU-Tisch), Foreclosure (NYTE), Just Exactly Like (The Flea), Rachel (Airmid Theatre), The Snow Queen (Urban Stages on Tour) and The Fantasticks (The Cathedral School). She assisted on The First Breeze of Summer directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Signature Theatre). A member of the 2008 Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Nicole is an active volunteer with the 52nd Street Project, and has worked at the Women’s Project, the Tribeca Film Institute, the Lincoln Center Institute for Arts and Education, Westport Playhouse, the Working Theatre, and the McCarter First Stage Company where she directed an adaptation of Hamlet. As a teaching artists she wrote and directed an adaptation of The Odyssey while teaching history at the Cathedral School and was a guest artist at Stratham Elementary School in New Hampshire where she designed a playwriting workshop based on the third grade English and History curriculum. She has a BA in History from Yale and an MA in interdisciplinary studies from NYU-Gallatin School of Individualized Study where she was a Newington-Cropsey Fellow.

Daniel McCoy (Playwright) Daniel is a playwright and performer living in New York City. Eli and Cheryl Jump at FringeNYC is the first stand-alone production of a play he has written. His play Sympathy was the winner of Highwire Theatre's 2008 Testing the Line new play competition and the play was subsequently workshopped by State of Play Theatre. Other full length plays, which have received various workshops and readings, include Group, Goddamn Gorgeous Mess and Jobs and Men. His short plays, including The Downtown Daylight Project, My Three Dicks, Peek and Hell: A Reunion, have been produced across the country at such theaters as The Elephant Theatre Company in Los Angeles, Source Theatre Festival in Washington D.C., Soul Invictus Gallery in Phoenix, AZ, StageQ Theatre in Madison, WI, and at such NYC theatres as The Flea Theater, Clubbed Thumb, 13th Street Rep, No Tea Productions, and with Crosstown Playwrights at The Red Room and Gene Frankel Underground. Daniel is an ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists and can be seen many a Friday and Saturday night performing in Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (30 Plays in 60 Minutes) at the Kraine Theatre. He is a founding member of Crosstown Playwrights and a member-at-large of the award-winning Elephant Theatre Company. He was born and raised in Portland, OR.