SYDNEY A. BATTEN hails from Birmingham, Alabama, but currently resides in Brooklyn. After graduating from Emory University in 2008, she worked on farms in Europe before moving to New York in 2010. She has been on stage since she was 6, performing for regional theater groups across the southeast. By day she is a mild-mannered marketing associate working in Midtown. Through UBM:TM! Sydney hopes to explore what it means to find your family (whether biological or otherwise) and to make your own home in the world.

RENE BARKETT is a ceramicist, video artist, and designer. She works as both a fashion designer and design manager in accessories, where she dedicates herself to a product line from beginning to end, across three continents, to ensure its success. As a ceramicist, she draws from a wide range of cultural influences to create work that is fractured, patterned, textured, complex, rhythmic, bold, and fluid. Her work searches for artistry in the functional, and has appeared in numerous books and shows. Her video art walks on a fine line of satirical comedy, such as in her award-winning video, President Sarah Palin Goes To Paris.

BRIAN DUNLOP hails from Connecticut. He attended Coastal Carolina University where he received a B.A. in Dramatic Arts and a B.A. in Communication. He went on to study at the Eugene O'Neill National Theatre Institute in Waterford, CT and the St. Petersburg State Theatre Academy in St. Petersburg Russia. An avid improviser, writer and mover he is constantly searching for new faces to make and new voices to use, much to the chagrin of his roommate. He is very excited to share this process with the world and can't wait to discover more about his inner orphan.

DOUG LEVY is a writer and editor for Flavorpill, a website dedicated to local and national arts and culture. As a child, he dreamed of being a professional actor and went so far as to prepare a song to audition for a Broadway production of an orphan musical. He never did make it to that audition though, after simultaneously developing a serious case of stage fright. Later on, Doug did find his place on stage as the lead singer for NYC band the GoStation. UBM:TM! marks Doug's first theatrical appearance since he held minor roles in 4th and 5th grade afterschool productions of Guys and Dolls and Preppies.

KATHERINE LIM recently returned to NY after ten years in London. She practiced law in England and hopped back across the pond to qualify as an attorney in NY. She recently finished a Master's in Law at Georgetown, where she played Peep-Bo inThe Mikado and a Tragedian and Horatio in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. She was also Assistant Director for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Katherine was drawn to UBM:TM! as she has loved musicals ever since she was a girl singing "Tomorrow" in her first recital. And the copyright issues grabbed her attention.

MICHAEL POOL While Michael hasn't been on stage since he last performed in a sixth grade church play, he leapt at the chance to join the collaborative vision of UBM:TM! Michael works in the financial district managing travel loyalty programs and is seriously considering awarding frequent flyer points to patrons who visit our performance on a regular basis. Michael was born in Texas and thanks his family for the countless hours they endured during camping trips while he played his favorite orphan musical soundtrack over and over (and over).

MEGAN TEFFT is originally from a rural town in PA, which is the source of her nasal and lazy accent and the home of her first relationship with live performance. She now lives and waits tables in Brooklyn. She co-founded an arts education and art space exchange program in Bushwick that catered to many artists and disadvantaged kids. They have since lost their space and she has decided to focus more on the cultivation of her own creative seeds. UBM:TM! happens to coincide perfectly with this self-reinvention and also happens to be a project that is interesting to her as a venue for collaborative work.

ANGELA WILLIAMS is an orphan and adoptee who seeks enlightenment and kitty cat yawns. Having unlimited access to kitty cat yawns at home, she turned to UBM:TM! for enlightenment. She thinks she's going to find it. When she's not at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts she knits and sends people to chase ghosts in flight suits as a part of her Ghostbusters shadow cast show, called the Minions of Gozer, where she works as creator, producer, assistant director, and cast member.