Original Creative Team

John P. McEneny (Director) He is the author of Mayla the Monkey Girl (published by Playscripts Inc.), Very Bad Girl Scouts, Grippe of October, Two Houses (YouthPLAYS), Cold April (Best Play Anthology 2008 Strawberry Fest), Seven monologues from The Lincoln Dress published in Applause’s 2020 Best Men’s Monologues, Smith and Krause’s 2020 Best Men’s Monologues / 2020 Best Women’s Monologues. Pollywog is published in NYU Steinhardt’s New Plays for Young Audiences anthology in 2024.  Aposiopesis (Smith & Krause’s 2013 Best Ten Minute Plays, 2013 Best Men’s Monologues,  2014 Best Women’s Monologues; Best Audition Monologues for Young Men 2016, edited by Gerald Lee Ratliff and Patrick Rainville Dorn.)   John’s 2013 adaption of Island of Doctor Moreau performed at 59E59 and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (won Bobby’s Sixth Star Award for best play.)  Adaptation of Maupaussant’s Mother Sauvage toured to the University of Malta in Feb 2023. Also: The Puppet Children, Two Houses of Oliver Ruckenmeyr, Midnight Circus, Hydra (with Rachel Rear), Frankenstein, Maddie Splinter and the Aluminum Chair Rocket Ship, Hamelin, Wendy Darling, Peter Pan, Boy in the Iron Mask, Splitfoot (w/ Vasile Flutur) performed in Edinburgh, The Lincoln Dress performed at Siena College, My Robot, the books for Gulch, Billy Ragamatag and the Shadow Circus, Yarn Barn, We Got Beth!  Gorbal Wood (all music and lyrics by Rob Parker). MA Theater in Education, Steinhardt School at New York University. Soon:  MA Creative Writing Edinburgh Napier University. 

Rob Parker (Composer/Lighting Designer) is a musical composer, drama, and music educator who resides in Bedfordshire, England.  He has worked at the Roxburgh Hall at Stowe and the Gordonstoun School in Moray, Scotland.  For Piper, he has scored The Nocturnes, Clockwork Unwound, Paint it Black, Tragedy of Lear, Billy Ragamatag, Yarn Barn, We Got Beth, Gorbal Wood, and the upcoming Bloody Ballad of Bette Davis (Edinburgh Fringe ‘24).  (BA) Hertfordshire, (MA) Middlesex.

Sarah Edkins (Set Designer) 

Michelle Danahy (Production Supervisor) Michelle has worked most recently at Gallery Players as Producer for Once. She has also recently worked at Beth Morrison Projects and St. Ann's Warehouse. Select credits include Amal Walks NYC (Handspring Puppet Company), Grief is the Thing with Feathers (Wayward Productions), Wuthering Heights (Emma Rice's Wise Children), Medicine (Landmark Productions & Galway International Arts Festival) Who Killed My Father (Schaubühne, Berlin) and Basil Twist's Book of Mountains and Seas (Prototype & Trinity Church). When not working in theatre Michelle works as a Feline Behavior Specialist helping cats in homes and shelters across the US. 

Emily LaRosa (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with Piper Theatre this summer! Emily is a proud graduate of Brooklyn College, having received her BFA in Technical Theatre in 2022. Select Stage Management credits include ...Weasel Festival (The Public Theatre), Alcina, Sunday in the Park with George, In The Next Room (Brooklyn College), As You Like It (Theatre 315), Once, Little Women (The Gallery Players), Love Interest (Personal Pizza Party) and Pippin (NYU Steinhardt). She sends love and thanks to her friends and family for their endless support. Find more of her and her work at emilylarosatheatre.wixsite.com/home