Shaina Feinberg - Director

Shaina Feinberg is a writer/director from New York City. Her six-part series, Dinette, which follows a group of women and gender nonconforming friends, was produced by BRIC Arts Media and premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Her short film, Shiva, which is a hybrid of improvised comedy and actual grief, premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. She just finished a follow-up to that piece, a feature-length film called Senior Escort Service, which blends nonfiction and fiction, and is a comedic meditation on grief. Feinberg is a 2018 Film Lab resident at Ryder Farms. For two years in a row, Indiewire has listed Feinbergʼs webseries in their end-of-the-year best-of lists. Her debut as a writer/director was with the award-winning feature The Babymooners, blurring the lines between documentary and fiction and examining gender stereotypes. In 2016, Refinery29 commissioned Feinberg to create a six-part comedy series called Expecting that exceeded 1.5 million views in its first week. She has directed content for RIOT, Shatterbox and IFCʼs Comedy Crib. Feinbergʼs unique voice has been heard on This American Life, WFMUʼs The Goddamn Dave Hill Show, RISK, the CBCʼs Wiretap, and NPRʼs All Things Considered, where she played Santaʼs elfin secretary two years in a row. Bankrukt.com

Jamie Cummings - Associate Producer

Jamie Cummings is an actor, writer, and director. He did all three of these for the Emmy Award-winning Web sitcom Floaters, which screened at Sundance. He's performed The King & Me, his solo show about a bad Elvis impersonator, from coast to coast. He's appeared alongside Aparna Nancherla for MTV, as well as for The Onion on Comedy Central. He currently appears Off-Broadway in the immersive hit Accomplice. He's been seen with international musical improv powerhouse Baby Wants Candy, as well as in hundreds of shows at Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) and the Peoples Improv Theater (PIT).

Mandy Schmieder - Writer/Actress

Mandy Schmieder can be seen as "I'm So Bad" Mandy, the bi-curious fitness student, the apologetic scientist, and the pregnant cannibal as a recurring guest on Comedy Central's Inside Amy Schumer. She was just featured this past spring in the feature film, I Feel Pretty.

Her first introduction to comedy was watching Airplane in the second grade and thinking, "Oh, you can make fun of that?" Her work has been influenced by Catherine O'Hara, Phil Hartman, Fred Armisen, the talented ladies of Broad Comedy, and anyone who, as Philip Seymour Hoffman said, "takes off their cool-cat suit."

She earned an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of California, Irvine. She has performed in Boston, Atlanta, Charleston, Providence, and Los Angeles, and is signed with Danny Prather at Hudson Artists Agency.

When she incorporated herself as Shemandigans Inc., she caused quite the kerfuffle at Bank of America. In her time off, she can be found preventing her toddler from climbing into the litterbox. mandyschmieder.com

Maureen Monterubio - Producer

Maureen Monterubio is a New York based director and producer. She focuses on developing new work for theatre and film. She also directs audiobooks for Penguin Random House. Maureen made her Off Broadway premiere with Across The Park produced by The Araca Project. Her work has been produced by The Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, United Solo Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Tiny Rhino, 14th Street Y, Wide Eyed Productions, Peculiar Works Project, Field Trip Theatre, Source Festival, Rorschach Theatre, and The Kennedy Center. Maureen’s short film Emma On The Roof will premiere this Summer. She directed the solo show PolySHAMory which is touring across the country right now including showings at The Barrow Group Theatre in New York City and The Marsh in San Francisco. Maureen directed Parker Posey narrating her audiobook You’re On An Airplane. She is currently developing a new play Voyagers based on the NASA mission of the same name. Maureen interned at New York Theatre Workshop. She is a proud Tennessee Volunteer.