Jacob Matsumiya is an Associate with Apples and Oranges Productions who is closely involved in the day-to-day operations of all the organization’s theatrical holdings. He is also responsible for finding and developing new works for the organization to produce.

Rachel Vigier is an operational and creative consultant for Apples and Oranges Productions.

Apples and Oranges Productions is a bi-coastal company with offices in New York and Southern California. To learn more visit our Web site: www.nyc-oc.com

GEORGE DeMARCO (Producer) co-produced Bargains and Blood at the 2009 Fringe Festival, The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun at the 2006 New York Musical Theater Festival and has been involved in the New York theatre scene for almost 20 years. He produced the New York premiere of the Olivier Award winning Burning Blue starring Chad Lowe and co-produced the highly acclaimed New York productions of the comedy, The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun (upon which the musical is based) as well as the one man multi-media play, This Is a Test. He served as General Manager for Twilight of the Golds and When the Bough Breaks for New Voices Theater Ensemble; a not-for-profit theatre company that produced issue oriented work.  While a company member of the American Globe Theater, he helped establish their first Board of Directors, served as Treasurer for two years and was on the production team for Bus Stop, Picnic, Hot L Baltimore, On the Verge and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is a proud graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute.

JEREMY HANDELMAN (Off the Leash Productions) has produced and managed many New York productions including the award-winning F#@king Up Everything (NYMF), Assholes & Aureoles, The Bronx Balmers, CYCLE: A Vaudeville Comedy, The Aspern Papers, Scapin, Five by Tenn, Fritz & Froyim, and The ARTC Spring Reading Series. He is the author of The Bronx Balmers, Tic-Tac-Toe and numerous short plays. Jeremy is the founder of Off The Leash Productions, where he also produces and edits video commercials, promos, events and actor reels. He is a proud board member of TRU, in the TRU Producer Mentorship Program, and a member of the American Renaissance Theater Company, where he also serves as Outreach Coordinator. In a previous life as a television executive he was Vice President, Programming for CBS Sports. Current development: F#@king Up Everything and Seriously Trivial People. Upcoming: White's Lies at New World Stages this spring.

MICHAEL LELAND has worked as an actor, singer, writer, theater educator, producer, choreographer and director in New York City and in his hometown of Philadelphia for over fifteen years. Mr. LeLand has produced over forty theatrical productions and ran Theatre Double’s two-theatre complex on Walnut Street in Philadelphia for four years Mr. LeLand has helped developed a dozen new plays that have received professional productions, including Langston Hughes: An American Celebration, Theatre Double’s Just The Boys, Theatre Double’s Jason and Medea, Theatre Double's . . .And The Sky Can Still Fall on Our Heads, Slipping by Yvonne Delet, Gypsy Wagon by Ed Shockley. He also developed and wrote lyrics for the full length children’s musicals The Witch and the Magic Mountain, Nsume Namlou: The Stories of My People, Magic Bookshop: The Snow Queen and The Magic Bookshop Inside the World of Jack and the Beanstalk. Mr. LeLand helped create Just the Boys, a Theatre Double collaboration published by Simon and Schuster in Action: the Nuyorican Poet’s Café Theatre Festival. Portions of his production, The Witch and the Magic Mountain, produced by Freedom Theatre, were performed at the Barrymore Awards and for former Mayor of Philadelphia, Edward Rendell.

In April 1998, Lincoln Center Theatre named Mr. LeLand to the Directors Lab. He was also one of only twelve directors selected by the Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab to be showcased at Here Center for Contemporary Arts in the American Living Room Series. Mr. LeLand had the honor of directed Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award Winner, and Academy Award nominee Jason Miller in his one man play Barrymore’s Ghost.

"Small cast quirky plays. Similar to work on Showtime and HBO."

MICHAEL NASSAR currently serves as a line producer at Showtime, working on the television shows Nurse Jackie, Dexter, Californication, Weeds, The Tudors and The United States of Tara, as well as the upcoming series Episodes and Shameless. Prior to moving into television, he founded Angel Hair w/Lobster, LLC, an organization dedicated to merging the sensibilities of the
non-profit and commercial worlds towards bringing new theatrical works to a wide, diverse audience. Projects included: The Last Seder by Jen Maisel for the Humana Festival, Nalsey Tinberg’s Cakewalk for Manhattan Theatre Club, David Simpatico’s Waiter, Waiter (NY International Fringe Festival, Joe’s Pub@The Public Theater); Delaney Takes the Train (Edinburgh Festival); The Tutor (three time winner of the American Academy’s Richard Rodgers Award); and The Screams of Kitty Genovese (NAMT).

Previously Michael served as Associate Artistic Director of the National Music Theater Conference at the O’Neill Center for six and 1/2 years, aiding and abetting the development of more than thirty new music theater works. Included: 2004 Tony Award winning Best Musical Avenue Q; Maryrose Wood and Andrew Gerle’s Richard Rodgers Award winner, The Tutor; Maltby/Shire’s newest, with Marsha Norman, Take Flight; David Simpatico and Will Todd’s The Screams of Kitty Genovese; Kirsten Childs’ The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin; Stuart Ross, Ira Gasman, Debra Barsha and Joey McKneely’s Radiant Baby; Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party; Ed Dixon’s Richard Cory; Joe Masteroff and Howard Marren’s Paramour; Stuart Ross and Mark Hampton’s The Boswell Sisters among many others. He has served on distinguished panels for The American Academy of Arts and Letter, The Dramatist’s Guild, ASCAP/Disney, and Theatre Resources Unlimited.

EVA PRICE of Maximum Entertainment made her Off-Broadway debut producing Joy (Actor's Playhouse). She is one of the producers of Carrie Fisher's Wishful Drinking and the upcoming The Addams Family musical. Recent Off-Broadway credits include The J.A.P Show (Off-Broadway), Marga Gomez's solo critically acclaimed show, Los Big Names (Outer Critic's Circle and Drama Desk Nomination), and All is Love (NYMF), The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Off-Broadway), Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (Broadway), Private Jokes, Public Places (London); and The Great American Trailer Park Musical national tour (Winter 2007). For five years Eva worked as an assignment editor and coordinating producer for special projects at ABC News, spending her last year producing and reporting on stories relating to Broadway for ABCNEWS.COM.

STEPHAN MORROW is an actor/director and producer who has been laboring in the trenches of non-commercial theater in New York and Los Angeles for over twenty years. A staunch proponent of the Off Off Bway arena, it is in that cauldron of creativity that he finds the work to be most compelling and interesting. He came to this calling after surviving a two year global pilgrimage that took him overland from Istanbul to India and then on through Asia.

He has worked closely with playwrights Mario Fratti, Leonard Melfi, John Ford Noonan, Arthur Miller and Norman Mailer among others.  As the founder of The Great American Play Series, which features powerful performances by seasoned professionals in ‘performances on book’ of American classics he has directed : The Crucible (set in the White House during President Clinton’s impeachment trial), After the Fall (with Rebecca De Mornay, Sally Kirkland, Mark Rydell), The Price (Barry Primus, Lyle Kessler, Judith Light, Paul Mazursky.) Incident at Vichy (four presentations with casts that included F. Murray Abraham, Richard Dreyfuss, Fritz Weaver, Austin Pendleton), Camino Real by Tenn. Williams (with Betsy Von Furstenberg and set in Afghanistan), A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner (Judith Malina and Angelica Torn).

In addition to working with Norman Mailer on two plays (Strawhead - Marilyn, a memory play at The Actor’s Studio in N.Y., and The Deer Park at the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St. Y) he also acted in his feature film (Tough Guys Don’t Dance). His most notable efforts have also included working with Arthur Miller who gave him his personal blessing over a three year period to bring his play Incident at Vichy to a major venue after attending the first ‘performance on book’  of the play.

"I guess you could describe my sensibility as one that is drawn to poetic dramas laced with some humor and that have a political or philosophical bent."

KEN WAISSMAN is a Tony Award-winning theatre producer. Waissman's first Broadway credit was the 1971 Paul Zindel play And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little with Estelle Parsons and Julie Harris. The following year, while he and partner Maxine Fox were in Chicago, they attended Grease, a popular local play about high school life in the 1950s being performed at the Kingston Mines Theater in the Old Town section of the city. The two thought it would work better as a musical and encouraged its writers, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, to relocate to New York City and embellish it with a score. The result was Grease, which Waissman and Fox mounted off-Broadway before transferring it uptown. It garnered him his first Tony nomination. He was nominated again for Over Here!; the third time proved to be the charm when he won not only a Tony but a Drama Desk Award as well for Torch Song Trilogy. Other credits include Agnes of God, The Octette Bridge Club. Asinamali!, Carrie - The Musical and Street Corner Symphony.

ROY HAVRILACK has been training attorneys and executives in presentation, marketing and management skills for several years.  He has taught and coached attorneys and partners at top law firms including Sullivan & Cromwell, Milbank Tweed, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Brown Rudnick, Allen & Overy, Shearman & Sterling, and White & Case.  He has also worked extensively with senior executives at leading financial institutions such as Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.  Other clients include Avon Products, Inc. and Gemini Systems. 

Roy has worked as a Client Services Manager for BusinessTalk, Inc., a training consultancy whose clients include Microsoft Corporation and leading accounting firms.  Roy is co-president of SkyTown Entertainment, LLC, a video and film production company that produces corporate sales and industrial videos, as well as short and feature-length films.   In addition to his experience as a trainer, Roy is also an actor in NYC. He starred in the award-winning independent film, “Say That You Love Me”, and was a recurring character on “One Life To Live”.

Roy holds a BA in Theatre Arts from Oneonta State University.