Meet Katie Cappiello & Meg McInerney
Directors/Producer of Facebook Me

$5 tickets to Facebook Me at FringeNYC

What’s next on your Netflix queue?
Winter’s Bone with Jennifer Lawrence (soon-to-be Katniss in Hunger Games)

What’s playing on your iPod right now?
Adele!  We love Adele!  Rolling in the Deep!

Last good book you read was…?
Perks of Being a Wallflower by  Stephen Chbosky and Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

Your favorite restaurant in the city is…?
Shake Shack.  Seriously, is there anything better than Shake Shack?!

All-time, hands-down favorite piece of theater:
Too HARD for to choose!  But we’ve narrowed it down to three...I Am My Own Wife, Our Town, and The Mother___er with the Hat (because Stephen Adly Guirgis is brilliant and Bobby Cannivale is our pretend boyfriend).

What’s the best thing about Fringe?
THE RUSH!!  Everything happens insanely fast.  You only have 15 minutes to set-up your stage, warm up, and open the house.  So, you better to be on your game and ready to go.

What’s the #1 reason people should come see your show?
It’s rare to see professional theater created by 13-15 year-olds that is not “CHILDREN’S THEATER.”  Our company has developed a really smart, edgy, uncensored piece about teen life in the age of Facebook.  The play is based on the real-life experiences of our cast members and the acting is amazing!

Do you have any opening-night rituals?
Honestly, we’re usually SO NERVOUS that we just want to cry and/or throw-up  But…besides that…YES!  We warm-up, play a game of Zip-Zap-Zop with the cast and crew, we have a mini dance party, and scream the words “RISK” and “INVEST” – then we do our thing.

What are the craziest performance conditions you’ve had to work under?
We produced a Stephen Adly Guirgis play about 6 years ago here in NYC called Den of Thieves.  Katie played Maggie, and spent a good amount of the play “held hostage” with her hands and feet tied together and a bag over her head.  Awful.  Well, it got so hot under the lights with that bag on her head that she began to feel dizzy.  In a moment of desperation, she attempted to walk off the stage in the middle of the show, but instead fell down and passed out in front of the entire audience!  We had to stop the show, refund all the tickets, and rush Katie to the hospital in an ambulance.

How did you get involved with the arts?
Coincidentally, we have similar stories.  We were both really shy kids…we wouldn’t talk in school and we would actually cry when teachers called on us.  Our parents put us in theater classes hoping we’d come out of our shells and gain more confidence.  Well, it worked.  And we’ve been in theater ever since!