Melissa Fendell Moschitto is the Founding Artistic Director of The Anthropologists. Directing credits with The Anthropologists: 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. 

Jean Goto is a Founding Artist of The Anthropologists. A native New Yorker, she is a graduate from NYU's drama department. Acting credits with The Anthropologists: 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 is the Resident Dramaturg for The Anthropologists, having worked on Give Us Bread, For the Love Of... and currently Another Place. 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 is the Resident Lighting Designer for The Anthropologists. Andrew 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).

Katy Rubin is a Core Artist of The Anthropologists. She is an actor, circus artist, and Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner. Acting credits with The Anthropologists: For the Love Of... (The Flamboyan/CSV), Give Us Bread (Milagro Theatre, CSV) and Falling (4th Street Theatre/Flux Theatre Ensemble). Other New York credits include: Lola Got Bite (Gene Frankel Underground), Schadenfreude (WOW Café Theatre), Divine Reality Comedy (Bread and Puppet Theatre), and Sukkos Mob (Great Small Works). Regional credits include: Much Ado About Nothing (Olney Theatre Center), Henry IV, Part 1 (Elm Shakespeare Company), First Blush (Boston Playwrights Theatre), and 365 Days/365 Plays (Long Wharf Theatre). International: Now.Here (NOFIT State Circus, Wales). Katy is a teaching artist with several NYC arts-education organizations, including Creative Arts Team/CUNY and Theatre Development Fund (TDF). Training: BFA, Boston University School of Theatre; London Academy for Music and Dramatic Arts. Katy has also trained with Augusto Boal, Center for Theatre of the Oppressed, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Sonja Sweeney is a Founding Artist of The Anthropologists. Acting credits with The Anthropologists: 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 New York credits include: Better Not Touch That (Lift Studios, Brooklyn), Walkabout or Reverse Continental Drift Syndrome (The Flea), Dancing Downstream (Highwire Theatre Company), and the title role in John Q’s Wife and The Brothers’ Menaechmus (ATA). Additional credits include: The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Pale Fire Project (Black Swan, OR), and The Trestle at Popelick Creek and the national premiere of The Dance of Angels Who Burn Their Own Wings (CU, Boulder). Sonja holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder and studied commedia dell’arte at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.