Josef Horáček assisted with the translation of the play Comedy about a Trap, written in the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto. 

Zdeněk Jelínek wrote the play Comedy about a Trap (Komedie o pasti) in the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto. 

Professor Michael Berkowitz was on the advisory board of Performing the Jewish Archive and participated in several project events. 

Dorothy Elias translated the play The Smoke of Home.  She is the daughter of co-author Zdeněk Eliáš. 

Joe Lichtenstein has directed The Smoke of Home for the Bloomsbury Theatre in London and Clifford's Tower in York. 

Jiří Stein was one of two co-authors who wrote the play The Smoke of Home in the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto. 

Zdeněk Eliáš was one of two co-authors who wrote the play The Smoke of Home in the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto.

Assistant Professor Alan Sikes (LSU) co-created (with Lisa Peschel) and directed versions of Harlequin in the Ghetto. 

Mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley is a singer with the New Budapest Orpheum Society. 

Ilya Levinson is Music Director and Co-Founder of the New Budapest Orpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residence at The University of Chicago.

Christine Wilkie Bohlman is a lecturer in piano and chamber music in the College at the University of Chicago.

Professor Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago) is artistic director of the New Budapest Orpheum Society.