ELAINE BROMKA (The First Ladies, Co-author) has been a professional actress for over thirty years. Film: Cindy, the mom in Uncle Buck; Without a Trace. T.V.: E.R., The Sopranos, Providence, Dharma & Greg, Sisters, L.A. Law, Law and Order, Law and Order: Special Victims’ Unit, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Stella Lombard on Days of Our Lives, the Emmy Award–winning Playing for Time with Vanessa Redgrave and Catch a Rainbow, for which Ms. Bromka herself won an Emmy. She has appeared on Broadway (The Rose Tattoo, I’m Not Rappaport, Macbeth) and off-Broadway (Cloud 9 at the Lucille Lortel, Roundabout’s Inadmissible Evidence with Nicol Williamson, the world premiere of Michael Weller’s Split at E.S.T. and Candide with the National Theatre of the Deaf.) She has played leads at regional theaters across the country, including Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ACT/Seattle, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Shakespeare and Company, McCarter Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theater, George Street Playhouse, and the Folger Theatre Group, in roles ranging from Much Ado About Nothing's Beatrice to Shirley Valentine, cited as the outstanding solo performance in New Jersey in 1997 by the Star Ledger. Starring opposite Rich Little in The Presidents for P.B.S., she impersonated the last eight First Ladies. A member of the Actors Studio and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith College, she returned to Smith in 2003 as a faculty member to teach “Acting for the Media”. As a guest artist, Ms. Bromka has taught her one-day workshop, “Acting for the Camera”, at more than thirty colleges and prep schools across the country. She loved collaborating with Eric. Click here for full resume and here for theatrical demo reel.


ERIC H. WEINBERGER (Playwright) Eric’s one-woman play Class Mothers ‘68 was produced Off Broadway, garnering a Drama Desk nomination for its star, Priscilla Lopez. The play was named best new comedy in New Jersey by the Star Ledger in 1999. His first musical, Wanda’s World, ran Off Broadway and was nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards, including best musical. The show, for which he wrote the book, was produced by Amas Musical Theatre and is slated to return. Eric’s book was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award. His one–act plays The Nightwatchman and Six Hands were produced by the Luna Stage Company. Six Hands was also produced at Yale. A staged reading of his play Strangers In the Night , starring Ed Asner and Kelly Bishop, was done in Los Angeles. He has had three children’s plays produced at Andy’s Summer Playhouse in New Hampshire. He is most grateful to Lenny Bart and Byam Stevens for their support and input on Tea for Three. He thanks Elaine for this deeply rewarding collaboration. Thanks and love to Steve always. Eric dedicates his work in this play to Audrey and Dave Sagman with much affection.

BYAM STEVENS (Director) is the Artistic Director of both the Chester Theatre Company, a summer theatre in the Berkshires , and Synapsis Co., a New York based company that promotes the development of new scripts. His directing credits include: the World Premieres of Carbondale Dreams, The Plains Of Ilion, The Darlings, Ohn and Teddy, Home Fires Burning, Rosaline, The Pearl Of The Orient, and Holdouts (co-authored with Gregory Mortensen). American Premieres: Sixteen Words For Water, Beef. Other credits include: An Almost Holy Picture, Valley Song, The Interrogation Of Nathan Hale, Eleemosynary, The Underlings, Shirley Valentine and numerous collaborations with the kids of The 52^nd Street Project and The Greylock Project at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He has taught at HB Studio, American Ballet Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Adelphi University and Bucknell University, and is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. With Susan Jaffe, he is co-founder of DanceText, an acting curriculum created specifically for dancers.