Paul O'Dette (Music Director), Associate Professor and Director of Early Music at the Eastman School of Music, is an internationally known lutenist who performs recitals and in early music festivals around the globe. Both as a soloist and as a member of ensembles he has made more than 100 recordings, many of which have earned awards such as the Diapason d'Or. In addition to his activities as a performer, Paul O'Dette is an avid researcher. As co-artistic director of the Boston Early Music Festival he has directed performances of several Baroque operas, including Luigi Rossi's Orfeo (1997), Cavalli's Ercole amante (1999), Lully's Thésée (2001), and Conradi's Ariadne (2003).

Beth Milles (Stage Director), Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance at Cornell University, has directed and developed plays from coast to coast. The company she founded, Banter, has won awards for its adaptations of plays for modern audiences, including Molière's Imaginary Invalid and Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters. She teaches workshops in improvisation in which she draws upon her expertise in commedia dell'arte. At Cornell she most recently directed Molière's Miser and will be directing Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors this fall. She is currently developing a play based on the life of the Emperor Nero.

Ken Pierce, director of the early dance program at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts, directs his own group, the Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company, for which he has choreographed or reconstructed dances for numerous concerts and guest performances. He has performed with the Court Dance Company of New York, the New York Baroque Dance Company, Ris et Danceries (Paris), Danse Baroque Toronto, and the baroque dance trio Hémiole (Paris). He also pursues research into early dance technique and notation and has published articles in journals such as Dance Chronicle and Dance Research, in addition to presenting his research at conferences in Europe and North America.

Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Producer), Professor of Music at Cornell University, specializes in the music and dance of the French Baroque. In addition to her scholarly writings, she has prepared critical editions of two ballets by Jean-Baptiste Lully and of Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Favorite. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and is currently studying the ways in which dance functioned dramatically inside of French opera.

E.D. Intemann (Lighting Designer) is the Resident Lighting Designer at the Schwatrz Center for the Performing Arts at Cornell University where he serves on the faculty and designs both lighting and scenery. His recent work includes designs for Dancespace at St. Marks and for the Confrontations Theatre Festival in Poland. Other credits include the Charlotte Repertory Theatre, the Sanctuary Theatre in Washington, DC, and the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin.

Debra Tennenbaum (Costume Designer) is the Assistant Costume Shop Manager for the Department of Theatre, Film, & Dance at Cornell University. She has worked extensively in the film industry, assistant designing on movies such as A Beautiful Mind, Analyze This, Deconstructing Harry, and Marvin's Room, as well as designing the indie feature R'XMAS. On Broadway and abroad she has worked on productions such as The Lion King, Phantom of the Opera, and Cats, and at New York City Opera, the Joffrey Ballet, the Joyce Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Lincoln Center. She has designed a number of Off-Broadway productions, working most notably with Blue Man Group, La Mama, and Charles Busch.