THE TEAM

Writer / Director / Lead Producer

Jacqueline Christy

Jacqueline Christy is a writer, director, and founder of Access Theater. She received her MFA from the NYU Graduate Film Program at Tisch and received grants from the NYC Women's Fund, the NY State Council on the Arts, the Hollywood Foreign Press grant, and the Sloan Foundation.

Through Access Theater’s 33-year history, she has produced hundreds of plays, including The Killing Act starring Peter Dinklage, written and directed by Tom McCarthy; Aasif Mandvi’s Sakina’s Restaurant; Stephen Belber’s Tape; and Bedlam’s acclaimed production of Saint Joan.

She was Assistant Director of the feature films Radium Girls and Equity and the short film Jungle, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She was Assistant Director of the short film Fry Day, which premiered at SXSW.

Her directorial film work includes short films Rehearsal (Austin Film Festival), Other People (St Louis International Film Festival), and The Dependents (LA Shorts International Film Festival). Christy was recently selected by SHOOT magazine for their New Directors Showcase.

Magic Hour, starring Miriam Shor, Sendhil Ramamurthy, and Austin Pendleton, is her feature debut.

José Rivera

Executive Producer

José Rivera is the first Puerto Rican screenwriter to be nominated for an Oscar. Many of his plays have been produced across the nation and even translated into several languages, including: The House of Ramon Iglesias, Cloud Tectonics, The Street of the Sun, Sonnets for an Old Century, Sueño, and Giants Have Us in Their Books. In 2003, Cloud Tectonics was presented in the XLII Festival of Puerto Rican Theater, an event sponsored by the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, in San Juan. Rivera helped found the Los Angeles-based theater company, The Wilton Project. Rivera has won two Obie Awards for playwriting, a Kennedy Center Fund for New American plays Grant, a Fulbright Arts Fellowship in playwriting, the Whiting Writers' Award, a McKnight Fellowship, the 2005 Norman Lear Writing Award, a 2005 Impact Award and a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Award.

Producer

Eva Minemar

Eva Minemar is an L.A.-based producer and actress, best known primarily for establishing Angry Bubble Productions in New York City in 1999, after graduating from California Institute of the Arts. In 2001, Minemar’s creation, Angry Jellow Bubbles – a production of women who perform onstage in an ensemble piece that includes dance, spoken word, music, etc. – was chosen as the exclusive performance for the delegates of the world at the United Nations for International Women’s Day, which included Queen Rania and Kofi Annan in attendance. She currently serves as Artistic Director at La Lupa Italian Cultural Arts Festival in Santa Monica, California.

Cast