Winston Batchelor is a a writer working as poet, playwright, editor, and short story author. He has worked in theater production as coordinator, graphic designer, assistant director, and as production assistant for Brooklyn College Theater Department, Black Goat Entertainment, New Federal Theater, 2060 Inc., and La Mama E.T.C. Some of his writing projects have included his short story and screenplay Early October, his play Death of the Family, and his recent work as editor and playwright assistant on It Happened in Little Rock. He is the author of the poems "A Touch of Destiny" and "Essence of Existence" published fall 2005 from his poetry collection, Twilight Poetry, and he co-authored Union Square at the Kennedy Center's Artist-in-Residence program in Washington, DC (July 2005). Winston is a founding member and Executive Director of Rebel Theater Company Inc. 

As an actor, Winston has performed in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Julie Johnson, and White Nights which opened at La Mama E.T.C. Winston is a signed model for The Morgan Agency (Los Angeles, CA). 

Academically, he is a June 2005 CUNY Brooklyn College English Honors graduate receiving his 

B. F. A. in Creative Writing with a concentration in Fiction and a minor in Theater. Winston is a proud member of the Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society and the Golden Key Honor Society.

Nick Petrie is a co-founder and the Associate Artistic Director of Rebel Theater Company Inc. Producing credits include: History of The Word, which premiered at the Tony Award Winning Crossroads Theater, NJ, Rasa Theater Company’s Abortion and The End Apurnas. Currently he is the lead producer of the highly anticipated docudrama It Happened In Little Rock which is scheduled for the 2009 off-Broadway season.  

He has worked extensively as an Assistant Director at: The Fox Theater (Atlanta, GA) Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holiday, Rebel Theater Companies Ghosts, The Maverick Theatre Exposures, Ensemble Theater Studio Blackfootnotes, Rasa Theater Company Abortion and Movie Man, Paul Robinson Theatre Jamaica, and at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Classyass and Nightswim. He is currently slated to Direct Rebel Theater Companies production of The Black Doctor for their 08' Season. 

As an actor, Nick has worked in Theatre, Film & Television. Recent credits include Arkansas Repertory Theater Actor number 6 in It Happened in Little Rock, Lark Playwright Development Center as Casey in Breathe and Agim in Man Measures Man. 

Film credits include: Target Practice and PotLuck.  Television credits include: Strangers With Candy. As a recording artist, Nick was a featured performer/guitarist in the film PotLuck, and was also a member of the Nervous Cabaret. 

Nick is a certified producer with Brooklyn Public Access Television and is the director of "On Da Money," a finance talk show. In addition to this theatrical work he works with culpepper/williams, a film production company and is currently developing new Film and Television projects. 

In addition to his work in entertainment Nick was an Analyst at Credit Suisse a Project Manager at UBS and has worked at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank in numerous capacities. He also worked at Miramax Films in the Marketing and Advertising department for the "Bridget Jones Diary" and "Iris" campaigns.  

Academically, Nick holds a BA in Theatre and English from The University of Vermont (UVM). While attending UVM he studied Dramaturgy with theatre scholar George B. Bryan and attended the Eugene O'Neil Theatre Center in Waterford CT (NTI).

John Pollard is the Resident Scenic Designer of Rebel Theater Company Inc. Selected Theatre - Off Broadway: Broadway Remix (St. George Theatre); Diss Diss & Diss Dat (Henry Street Playhouse); The White Whore & The Bit Player (Theatre Row Theatre); Off-Off-Broadway Premiers: Exposures (Baruch College), Love Soup (Sanford Meisner Theatre), Autoeroticism in Detroit (Blue Heron Arts Center), Beeping Henry (30th Street Theatre), Captains & Courgae, Barking Sharks, Life Happens (T. Schreiber Studio); Regional / Opera: Underneath The Lintel, Jesus Hopped The A Train, The Illusion, I Am My Own Wife, Dog Stories (Stageworks/Hudson); Merrily We Roll Along (Yale Dramatic Association); Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicci, Die Fledermaus, Gondoliers, Brigadoon (Brevard Music Festival, NC); Pirates of Penzance, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to The Forum, Die Fledermaus (Light Opera Oklahoma); and over nine productions at Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. TV Production Design: Whitney Houston, Jessye Norman, MTV, House & Garden; TV Art Direction: 2001-2002 Tony Awards (CBS), Law & Order Original Series (NBC), The Bedford Diaries (Warner Bros.). John is a graduate of Purchase College and his website can be viewed at http://www.jpollard.com/

Leslie Bernstein is the Resident Costume Designer of Rebel Theater Company Inc., 
Off-Broadway credits include; Brothers Booth at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, The White Whore and The Bit Player at Theatre Row Theatres, Women’s Work at the Phil Bosokowski Theatre and Hard Feelings at the Women’s Project Theatre. Regionally, Leslie has designed The Opposite of Sex at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, History of the Word 
at Crossroads Theatre in New Jersey, and recently for Arkansas Reparatory Theatre, Intimate Apparel. Off-Off-Broadway credits include: Bad Girls by Joyce Carol Oats, and Love In The Age Of Narcissism, at the Directors Company, The Marathon at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Beach Plays and First Course at H.B. Playwrights, The King of Clocks and Life’s a Dream at Here Theatre. She has designed several plays for the Terry Schreiber Studio including Hedda Gabler, The Big Knife, The Happy End, Hopscotch, Shooting Gallery, Hot L Baltimore, Loot, Life Happens, An Ideal Husband and A Month in the Country. 

While resident designer at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, Leslie's credits included the operas: Abduction From The Seraglio, Cenerentola, Romeo et Juliette, and 
A Midsummer Nights Dream. Leslie is the currently the assistant costume designer at 
Law and Order. Other Television credits: All My Children, Guiding Light, and Dellaventura. Film credits include: The Opponent, Stepmom, Private Parts, Rounders and Godzilla. Leslie is a graduate of Purchase College.

Blaise C. Hancock is the Marketing & Development Director of Rebel Theater Company Inc. Mr. Hancock has over 15 years of marketing development experience, including: creation of the first online prescriptions ordering system in the US; development of marketing initiatives for 11 online communities; and creation of on-and-offline marketing campaigns for the first chemical & odor-free odor product used in the Pet, Janitorial and Funeral industries. Mr. Hancock is a writer, model, actor and videographer. He has appeared in numerous print advertisings, and his television appearances include: NY Graham Norton, Experience New York and Criminal Minds. Mr. Hancock was a contributing writer and managing editor for a book on matchmaking. In addition to producing and hosting his own television show Urban Adventures, Mr. Hancock is currently writing his own book on dating. 

Mr. Hancock studied History and Cinema at Hunter College, New York. In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, Mr. Hancock was a founding volunteer for St. Clare's Hospital’s first AIDS ward and was a fundraiser for their first Christmas program for children with AIDS. Mr. Hancock has been a regular fundraiser and volunteer for St. Luke in the Fields, Holy Trinity Church, and St. Clement's Church. Since 2002, Mr. Hancock has been on the board and raised thousands of dollars for: Teens Prepared for Life, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to counteract violence directed against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender teens.