Melissa F. Moschitto is the Founding Artistic Director of The Anthropologists. Recent directing credits include: Daddy’s Black & Jewish by performance artist Lian Amaris at Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Directing credits with The Anthropologists: Another Place (HERE), For the Love Of... (The Flamboyan/CSV), Give Us Bread (Milagro Theatre/CSV), Falling (4th Street Theatre/Flux Theatre Ensemble), The Christopher Columbus Project (KNF/Directors Company), Potatoes! (One Million Forgotten Moments), and The Potato Play (Milk Can Theatre Company). Other directing credits include: The Developer (Brooklyn Playwrights Collective), Walkabout or Reverse Continental Drift Syndrome (The Flea), Lola Got Bite (Gene Frankel Underground), and a workshop production of Dancing Downstream (Highwire Theatre Company). As a playwright, her full-length play When Santo Domingo Isn’t Enough won Best Play at the 2006 Downtown Urban Theater Festival and was a Top Ten Finalist in Repertorio Espanol’s 2006 Nuestras Voces National Playwriting Competition. Other plays produced and workshopped include: Through the Aperture (KNF/The Directors Company, Highwire Theatre Company), Lucina or Natalus Procrastinatio (Manhattan Theatre Source, Looking Glass Theatre), Dick ‘n’ Spooner (Looking Glass Theatre), and a collection of seven short plays at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte (Directing Studio Project). She holds a B.A. in Theater from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and has studied with the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Tina Landau, Ping Chong, and SITI Company.  Melissa is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Jean Goto (Resident Artist - Actor) is a native New Yorker and a graduate of NYU's drama department. Acting credits with The Anthropologists: Another Place (HERE), For the Love Of... (The Flamboyan/CSV), Give Us Bread (Milagro Theatre, CSV), Falling (4th Street Theatre/Flux Theatre Ensemble), The Christopher Columbus Project (KNF/Directors Company), Potatoes! (One Million Forgotten Moments), and The Potato Play (Milk Can Theatre Company). Other theatre projects include: Strange Attractors (The Flea), Pelops Children (Adam Marple), Guidance (Small Pond), and 365 Days/365 Plays (Ma-Yi Theater). Her various film projects include: Race Riot (Comedy Central Pilot), The Greatest Cubist Ever (NYU), Antithesis (CCNY grad film), and Date (Jesse Ash Productions), She also starred in the short film Julya, which was runner-up for best experimental film at the Asian American International Film Festival. In addition, she is a teaching artist with the theater company Living Voices.

Louise Gough (Resident Artist - Dramaturg) has worked with The Anthropologists on Another Place, Give Us Bread and For the Love Of... She is an Australian dramaturg and script editor, and while currently based in New York, Louise works locally and internationally in theatre, film, and television in script development. Louise is also the Literary Fellow at the Vineyard Theatre in NYC. In Australia she is Development Executive for Robyn Kershaw Productions, and the most recent film she script edited, Bran Nue Dae, will soon open in Australia, after festival appearances at the Melbourne International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and upcoming screenings at Sundance. She is also working as a freelance script editor in Australia for many producers across television and film projects. In Europe she works for Sources2, working with writers, directors, and producers in intensive residential script development laboratories. In theatre Louise has worked on over 40 professionally produced plays. She is thrilled to be a part of The Anthropologists.

Andrew J. Merkel (Resident Artist - Lighting Designer) is a lighting and sound designer, dramaturg, and director. He has designed for Studio Six Theatre, Hedgerow Theatre Company, Cardboard Box Collaborative, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Chinese Opera of Philadelphia, and many small theatre and dance companies, industrial events, and for his own directing work. Andrew was a resident Lighting Designer at Swarthmore College's Lang Performing Arts Center for 3 years and was also the Associate Production Manager and Master Electrician at Stellla Adler Studio of Acting. Andrew holds an M.A. in Theatre from Villanova University. With The Anthropologists: For the Love Of... (The Flamboyan/CSV), Give Us Bread (Milagro Theatre, CSV). He most recently designed the lights for Lian Amaris’ Daddy’s Black & Jewish at Nuyorican Poets Cafe.