Palace of the End - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Leah Gelpe is a talented director and producer with a passion for creating innovative and thought-provoking theater. Born and raised in New York City, Gelpe attended Brown University, where she studied theater and directing. After graduating, she moved back to New York and began working in the theater industry. Gelpe has worked on a variety of productions both on and off Broadway. One of her earliest credits was serving as the assistant director for the Broadway production of "The Pillowman" in 2005. She went on to work on several other Broadway productions, including "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," and ... read more Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. Arriving at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. She is an artistic associate with Pig Iron Theatre Company, and co-founder of JACK, a performance/art space in Brooklyn. Recent work includes Signature Plays, John (Signature Theatre), War, Preludes (LCT3), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), Black Mountain Songs (BAM/Brooklyn Youth Chorus), Appropriate (Mark Taper Forum), and An Octoroon (Soho Rep/TFANA). Mimi's designs for dance have been presented in the Netherlands, Russia, and Taiwan, and her stage designs have ... read more Daniella Topol is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in the West Village. Her critically-acclaimed world premiere theater productions: Martyna Majok’s Ironbound (Rattlestick), Cori Thomas’ When January Feels Like Summer (EST/P73/Women’s Project), and (Not) Water, co-created with Sheila Callaghan(3 Legged Dog/New Georges). Rachel Bonds' Five Mile Lake (South Coast Rep), Jessica Dickey’s Charles Ives Take Me Home (Rattlestick Theatre) and Row after Row (Women’s Project), Rajiv Joseph’s Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India (Magic Theatre and MaYi Theatre), Carla Ching’s Sugarhouse at the Edge of the Wilderness (MaYi Theatre), Willy Holtzman’s The Morini Strad ... read more Justin Townsend received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. His Broadway credits include Jagged Little Pill, Saint Joan, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Tony nomination), American Psycho (Tony nomination), Fool for Love, Casa Valentina, A Night with Janis Joplin, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Other Place, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. He served as Creative Director for Drake’s “Boy Meets World” European Tour and OVO Fest 2017. He previously worked with Alex Timbers on Here Lies Love. He is an associate professor at ... read more