Perry Dell, like the man he depicts in Sandburg Out Loud, worked a myriad of jobs around America before finding his voice as a television and screen actor, and later as an independent firm director, playwright and novelist. 

During the last 30 years he has produced and directed independent films, documentaries and commercials.  In association with George Pan Cosmotos in Rome, wrote “Day of the Mad Dogs” for the Italian film production and acted in Terrance Young’s production of “The Valachi Papers.  While in Rome, Mr. Dell founded Harlindell Films in partnership with Lincoln Tate and Ranada Harris, during which time he wrote and directed “Fill My Grave with Gold”, “On the Third Day Arrived the Crow” and “The American Thief”.  Through the banners of Marridell Productions, Academy Films, and Berdell International, he has been the creative force behind hundreds of industrial, educational and independent films in both America and Europe.

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Under the tutelage of Tony & Academy award winner Phil Yordan, Mr. Dell became a sought after film and screenplay analyst for major studios and independent producers.  In 1990, Mr. Dell turned his attention to writing theatrical plays and novels, including “Don’t Cry for Peter Flynn” an epic drama of a young African-American’s passage through life in 1920 Oklahoma, and ”Sandburg--Out Loud”, a one man show he performed on Broadway.  While in New York, he wrote the book for “Steel Dancer, a musical based on the building of the Empire State Building by the Mohawk Indians, and completed his novel, “Strutter’s Hill”.  Currently, Mr. Dell is writing his second novel, “Ways of the Wolf”.

Mr. Dell was President of First Stage Hollywood in Los Angeles and later co-founded “Crucible for American Theatre” a workshop for new playwrights in New York City and is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

Mr. Dell was born & raised in Pontiac, Michigan, where he began his acting career.  He currently resides in Apple Valley, California.

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Murray Wolfe, Producer/Director, was born in Czechoslovakia in 1934.  Fled the Holocaust with his family in December 1939 to New York City.  He is married to the awe-inspiring Charlene Catherine Carlotta Margarita Sciarrino, has 2 daughters and 2 grandchildren. 

An award winning artist, playwright, poet, producer, director & publisher, Murray’s poetry and translations of Yiddish poetry  have appeared in numerous magazines & periodicals, including Partisan’s Review, California Quarterly, Poetry LA, Shirim, Poetry Miscellany, Webster Review and Blue Unicorn.  He was the occasional co-host of the Poetry Connexion on KPFK-FM, Los Angeles.  He has done performance readings of his works throughout Southern California, Europe & now in Iowa.  He has lectured on Translating Poetry at the University of Judaism, UCLA, Hebrew Union College and LA City College.  His first book of poetry “Blessed be the Beast”, published in 1981, is, in his words, blessedly out of print.  His newest play, KADDISH, The Journey (a prose poem in 4 acts) originally performed by him at First Stage Hollywood Theatre, directed by Jack Kandel, is scheduled to be released as a Numbered Limited Edition Book in the spring/summer of 2008.

He has written 8 full length plays, including 2 musicals which he wrote the book, words & music.  All have had full Staged Readings at First Stage Hollywood (various casts & directors) and has over two dozen 1-act plays to his credits.  His play BOOMIE KATZ, which was originally directed by Austin “Rocky” Kalish, had a successful 7 week  run at The Bitter Truth Playhouse in North Hollywood & in the Jewish Museum in Vienna, Austria.  It is presently being translated into Portuguese with a scheduled opening in April 2008 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.  Murray has produced and directed several dozen plays in Los Angeles.

A fine press limited edition publisher of poetry books, his imprint AMBROSIA PRESS, received ROUNCE & COFFIN awards for: The Old Days by N.Y. Poet Laureate, Robert Creeley, Bright Root Dark Root by Lannan Foundation Recipient, Peter Levitt, Dicksboro Hotel And Other Poems by Guggenheim Recipient & Emmy Winner, Wanda Coleman and Jona’s Disappearance by David Herrstrom illustrated by award winning artist, Jacob Landau.

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