Hilari Scarl
Writer/Co-Director/Producer
Hilari is an award-winning writer/director/producer chosen by Steven Spielberg out of 12,000 filmmakers to appear his television show ON THE LOT. Her first feature film SEE WHAT I’M SAYING: THE DEAF ENTERTAINERS DOCUMENTARY received Critics’ Pick in the New York Times, dozens of awards and was screened in 800 cities in 19 countries. Hilari consulted for Amazon Studios on SOUND OF METAL, winning Variety’s Social Impact Marketing Award. Hilari became fluent in American Sign Language after total immersion on tour with the National Theater of the Deaf. She is the founder of The Young Players Ensemble working with teens in communities around the world to create original theater productions based on their lives. She has lead workshops and panels for Universal Studios, Walt Disney Imagineering, the Sundance Art House Convergence and Women in Film. She was a participant in the PGA’s Power of Diversity Workshop, a board member of the Alliance of Women Directors and has consulted for Google, Anheiser-Busch, Nike and Sprint. Hilari taught screenwriting for three months in Beijing for Relativity and was hired to write an original feature film for a Deaf actor in India.
Monique “MoMo” Holt
Co-Director
Monique Holt is an actress, director, translator, storyteller and acting instructor.
Her specialty is translating and performing
Shakespeare in American Sign Language
(ASL.) Directing credits for film include
Always a Bridesmaid? (Feeney/Holt Film
Productions); Grisha by Ben Stamper
(Russian Sign Language and French Sign
Language.) Directing credits for stage
include Titus (visual gestural
communication without using spoken
English nor signed ASL), Movement of the
Soul: Story of Laurent Clerc and Thomas
Gallaudet, (American Sign Language,
French Sign Language, Methodological Sign
Language), The Mystery of Irma Vep Cloud
9, Urinetown, the Musical, The Dea/hood
Monologues, UNcontentED Love and
desiREgret. Monique served as the Director
of Artistic Sign Language at the prestigious
Oregon Shakespeare Festival for Cymbeline, The Heart Of Robin Hood, Richard Ill, Into
The Woods, The Merry Wives Of Windsor
and the Odyssey. Acting credits include
Richard Ill at Shakespeare in the Park in
New York, I Was Most Alive With You by
Craig Lucas. Monique served as the script
consultant for Skin by Crystal Green and
Safe Place With You by Cesar Baquererizo.
She is one of co-facilitators for Theatre
Communications Group for 2016-2018. She
holds a BFA in Acting from TSOA/NYU and a
MFA in Theatre from Towson University.
Gail Winar
Creative Producer
Gail Winar is a theater director/producer/educator/
consultant based in NYC. With Paul Lucas Productions, she has produced, directed, managed, and/or marketed over 50 theatrical productions at the international Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. She also collaborated with Paul Lucas to develop, and produce, his critically acclaimed and award-winning verbatim play Trans Scripts, which explores the lives of transgender women. Gail has directed, produced and/or consulted for New Jersey Repertory Company, George Street Playhouse, Kean University, LIU/CW Post, Montclair-Kimberley Academy, Classics on Tour, American Globe Theatre, Rutgers University, and Shotgun Productions. Gail currently teaches with the Education Department at the Roundabout Theatre Company, Broadway’s largest non-profit theater company, and has taught at Kean University’s Theatre Conservatory in Union, NJ for 15 years. Other teaching credits include Circle-in-the-Square Theatre School, Marymount Manhattan College, NYU/Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, CUNY/Queensborough Community College, Columbia Teacher’s College, Vassar College, the American Globe Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Theatre for a New Audience, National Shakespeare Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. Gail has also served as a Literary Consultant with the Kennedy Center’s Playwriting Intensive program, National New Play Network’s Smith Awards, and the Holden Street Theatres’ Edinburgh Fringe Awards. Gail is passionate about social justice driven theater, and has collaborated on a variety of diverse projects, including, most recently, Silent Voices, devised by the students of the Starfish Academy in the Republic of The Gambia, West Africa, focused on raising awareness of violence against women.
Hilari Scarl
Writer/Co-Director/Producer
Hilari is an award-winning writer/director/producer chosen by Steven Spielberg out of 12,000 filmmakers to appear his television show ON THE LOT. Her first feature film SEE WHAT I’M SAYING: THE DEAF ENTERTAINERS DOCUMENTARY received Critics’ Pick in the New York Times, dozens of awards and was screened in 800 cities in 19 countries. Hilari consulted for Amazon Studios on SOUND OF METAL, winning Variety’s Social Impact Marketing Award. Hilari became fluent in American Sign Language after total immersion on tour with the National Theater of the Deaf. She is the founder of The Young Players Ensemble working with teens in communities around the world to create original theater productions based on their lives. She has lead workshops and panels for Universal Studios, Walt Disney Imagineering, the Sundance Art House Convergence and Women in Film. She was a participant in the PGA’s Power of Diversity Workshop, a board member of the Alliance of Women Directors and has consulted for Google, Anheiser-Busch, Nike and Sprint. Hilari taught screenwriting for three months in Beijing for Relativity and was hired to write an original feature film for a Deaf actor in India.
Monique “MoMo” Holt
Co-Director
Monique Holt is an actress, director, translator, storyteller and acting instructor.
Her specialty is translating and performing
Shakespeare in American Sign Language
(ASL.) Directing credits for film include
Always a Bridesmaid? (Feeney/Holt Film
Productions); Grisha by Ben Stamper
(Russian Sign Language and French Sign
Language.) Directing credits for stage
include Titus (visual gestural
communication without using spoken
English nor signed ASL), Movement of the
Soul: Story of Laurent Clerc and Thomas
Gallaudet, (American Sign Language,
French Sign Language, Methodological Sign
Language), The Mystery of Irma Vep Cloud
9, Urinetown, the Musical, The Dea/hood
Monologues, UNcontentED Love and
desiREgret. Monique served as the Director
of Artistic Sign Language at the prestigious
Oregon Shakespeare Festival for Cymbeline, The Heart Of Robin Hood, Richard Ill, Into
The Woods, The Merry Wives Of Windsor
and the Odyssey. Acting credits include
Richard Ill at Shakespeare in the Park in
New York, I Was Most Alive With You by
Craig Lucas. Monique served as the script
consultant for Skin by Crystal Green and
Safe Place With You by Cesar Baquererizo.
She is one of co-facilitators for Theatre
Communications Group for 2016-2018. She
holds a BFA in Acting from TSOA/NYU and a
MFA in Theatre from Towson University.
Gail Winar
Creative Producer
Gail Winar is a theater director/producer/educator/
consultant based in NYC. With Paul Lucas Productions, she has produced, directed, managed, and/or marketed over 50 theatrical productions at the international Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. She also collaborated with Paul Lucas to develop, and produce, his critically acclaimed and award-winning verbatim play Trans Scripts, which explores the lives of transgender women. Gail has directed, produced and/or consulted for New Jersey Repertory Company, George Street Playhouse, Kean University, LIU/CW Post, Montclair-Kimberley Academy, Classics on Tour, American Globe Theatre, Rutgers University, and Shotgun Productions. Gail currently teaches with the Education Department at the Roundabout Theatre Company, Broadway’s largest non-profit theater company, and has taught at Kean University’s Theatre Conservatory in Union, NJ for 15 years. Other teaching credits include Circle-in-the-Square Theatre School, Marymount Manhattan College, NYU/Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, CUNY/Queensborough Community College, Columbia Teacher’s College, Vassar College, the American Globe Theatre, George Street Playhouse, Theatre for a New Audience, National Shakespeare Company, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington DC. Gail has also served as a Literary Consultant with the Kennedy Center’s Playwriting Intensive program, National New Play Network’s Smith Awards, and the Holden Street Theatres’ Edinburgh Fringe Awards. Gail is passionate about social justice driven theater, and has collaborated on a variety of diverse projects, including, most recently, Silent Voices, devised by the students of the Starfish Academy in the Republic of The Gambia, West Africa, focused on raising awareness of violence against women.