Margaret Curry: The Space In-Between at Crazy Coqs

Margaret Curry, 2024 Bistro Award-winning vocalist, has shared the stage with luminaries including Leslie Uggams, Carol Channing, Billy Stritch, Amanda Green, and Ann Hampton Callaway. She has appeared as a soloist or featured performer at Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Auditorium, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Allen Room, the Hudson Guild Theatre, and many of NYC’s leading cabaret venues, as well as Davenport’s in Chicago and The Jazz Cave in Nashville. Her solo show The Space In-Between, nominated for a 2025 MAC Award, is currently touring regionally and internationally. Also an award-winning actress, director, producer, and writer, Curry has performed in over 300 Off-Broadway shows as Titania in Fools in Love, The Musical and toured nationally with Church Basement Ladies. Other recent notable stage work includes starring in Three by Tennessee with White Horse Theater Company and in Lanford Wilson’s The Moonshot Tape, directed by Mark Cirnigliaro, which had a successful Off-Broadway run in 2024. She will reprise The Moonshot Tape as part of Deep Flight Productions’ Who We Become: One-Acts by Lanford Wilson at 59E59’s East to Edinburgh Festival in July 2025 and for a full run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. On screen, Curry stars as Susan Baker in the holiday feature Merry Good Enough, which had its North American premiere at the New Hampshire Film Festival—winning Best NH Narrative Feature—and is now streaming worldwide. Additional screen work includes the feature films Starfish and Diamond Ruff, as well as national and regional commercial campaigns for Carnival Cruises, Spike TV, Jello Mousse, and Cuisinart. Curry is currently co-writing, co-starring in, and co-producing a new original dark comedy series. For more information, visit margaretcurry.com.

Gregory Toroian is a musical director, arranger, jazz pianist, vocalist, songwriter, and educator. He has been featured in Cabaret Scenes magazine and was the 2020 Bistro Award winner for Outstanding Collaboration with Sue Matsuki, with whom he had also won a MAC award for Best Duo Production. In addition to working with such artists as Tony Bennett, Jon Hendricks, Cab Calloway, Donna Summer, Melissa Errico, Marilyn Maye, Karen Mason, and Jane Olivor, he has appeared in almost every jazz club and cabaret (major and minor) in New York. He has toured with principal dancers from the New York City Ballet and has made numerous radio and television appearances including the Today Show and Maury Povich. His recording work includes the recent debut CD of Suzanna Ross, the debut CD of award-winning cabaret artist Sue Matsuki, for which he was arranger, producer, and pianist, and seven CDs with cabaret singer Nancy Stearns. Toroian’s vocal arrangements have been featured on a series of albums in the US and Japan, by the vocal group String of Pearls. He currently offers an array of performance workshops.

Skip Ward…is a Grammy Award Winning Bassist, Guitarist, Ukulele-ist (is that a word), Lap Steel, Tuba and Penny Whistle. Ward is a classically-trained jazz musician with a penchant for rock n' roll, and fusion, blues and bluegrass. Artists he has played/recorded with include: Tony Trischka, with Steve Martin, Phoebe Snow, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Cyndi Lauper, Cassandra Wilson, David Sancious (Sting, Eric Clapton), Melissa Manchester, Glenn Miller Orchestra and more! You may have also seen him on David Letterman, SNL or the Ellen DeGeneres Show. You'll hear Skip on many soundtracks, and he has been on national tours with a number of major theatrical productions. In New York City: Shakespeare in the Park (As You Like It), Hands On A Hardbody, Million Dollar Quartet, High School Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Song & Dance, A Chorus Line and West Side Story.

David Silliman…Drummer and percussionist. David's middle name should be “versatility”. Whether accompanying song stylists such as Mariah Carey, Cassandra Wilson, and Blossom Dearie or playing with Colombian Harpist Edmar Castaneda, David's exciting rhythmic energies add color and mood to any musical performance. He's also comfortable playing in the pit of a Broadway show or with the New Jersey Symphony. David has over 20 years of experience. His performances have taken him to concerts and festivals in Italy, Vienna, Berlin, the North Sea, Monterey, Uruguay and Lithuania. David was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he was exposed to a wide variety of music. David's first studies were in the Classical field, studying snare drum, xylophone and timpani. Later studies exposed him to Jazz, Latin Jazz, Brazilian and Funk music.“ I love living in NY because it gives me the opportunity to play and perform with so many diverse artists, across all styles of music!”

Lina Koutrakos is an award-winning singer/songwriter/teacher/director based in New York City. As a singer, she has repeatedly received rave reviews from The New York Times to Billboard Magazine in both rock and roll and cabaret and has been awarded Cabaret’s most prestigious awards for “Best Female Vocalist” and “Entertainer of the Year,” multiple times. For three decades Koutrakos has been a New York City musical fixture - as both soloist and as a director and performance coach. Her directorial nods include being a 4-time winner for “Best Director” from the MAC Association as well as a lifetime Backstage Bistro Award-Winner for “Best Director.”. Koutrakos was on staff as a Master Teacher for years at both the Eugene O'Neill Cabaret Symposium and The Yale Cabaret Conference. She was the first Master Teacher with The St. Louis Cabaret Conference and co-founded NYC’s Summer in the City yearly workshop on weekends. She has since gone on to start her own performance workshop “Performance Connection,” which umbrellas many ongoing and specialty workshops and seminars both online and in person. The Advance Performance Workshop in NYC has produced many award-winning performers and shows over the last 2 decades. Her singing and being the founder of the Midwest Cabaret Conference in Chicago for 10 years won her the “Gold Coast” Award with the Chicago Cabaret Professionals in 2019. She spearheads an annual Advanced Performance Workshop on the island of Mykonos. Due to her performance workshops with full bands to one-on-one clients across the U.S. to her own award-winning original material and one woman shows, Koutrakos has been called a “Walking Master Class” by Billboard Magazine. linasings.com

Deep Flight Productions is a multidisciplinary company dedicated to telling bold, human stories across stage and screen. Founded by award-winning artist Margaret Curry, the company brings new life to established works, supports and develops emerging writers, and creates original projects in theatre, cabaret, digital media, and film. With a commitment to deep, brave collaboration, Deep Flight creates work that entertains, provokes, and reveals. Whether live or onscreen, the company centers voices too often overlooked—illuminating the humor, beauty, and complexity found in the margins, the mess, and the everyday. From intimate performance to narrative storytelling, our mission is to go beneath the surface—where the real story lives.