Two pairs of parents struggle with life’s most precious and time sensitive gifts—a lesbian couple in their mid-30’s and a hereto couple with an age difference (woman 35, man 50) navigate the Peter Pan, “I won’t grow up” habitat of San Francisco yet conceive, birth, forgo sleep and join the ranks of the procreative.

Ian Belton (Mission Baby Director) is a dramaturge, director, writer, teacher and producer for stage and film. He is the recipient of a Bachelor's degree from Skidmore College, a Masters of Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; the Andrew W. Mellon Directing Fellowship from the Juilliard School; the Richard E. Sherwood Award from the Mark Taper Forum; the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship from the SDCF as well as the Career Development Program for Directors from the National Endowment for the Arts in association with Theatre Communications Group. His directing credits for stage include: Big Love (UHM), Guinea Pig Solo (The Public/LAByrinth), The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (off-Broadway premier, two Drama Desk Nom.), Barefoot in the Park (Singapore Rep), Ian has led master classes and taught multimedia theater, script analysis and theater history for International Academy of Film & Television Philippines, the University of Iowa, the University of Rochester, UCSB and NYU among others. For over 10 years he has been developing films with acclaimed acting coach Greta Kaufman on films including Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation, Dream Brother among others.

Debórah Eliezer (Mission Baby Creative Director/Actress) is the Co-Artistic Director of foolsFURY, producing new work, a national festival, internship opportunities and public educational programs. She holds a BA Cum Laude from SFSU and a certificate in Sound, Voice, Music Healing from CIIS. Her foolsFURY projects include: ”The Unheard of World,” by Fabrice Melquiot, “Faulted,” by Angela Santillo, “Port Out Starboard Home,” with Sheila Callaghan, Monster in the Dark, with Doug Dorst, “The Devil on All Sides,” by Fabrice Melquiot, “All You Can Eat,” by Steven Morgan Haskell, and “The Jensen Files” by Ben Yalom. Eliezer directed and choreographed “The Seeing Place”, by Elizabeth Spreen and Debórah Eliezer. Choreographic credits include: Boxcar’s “The Speakeasy”, foolsFURY’s “Port Out, Starboard Home,” “Monster in the Dark,” Charles Mee’s “Big Love,” Shakespeare’s ”Twelfth Night,” and foolsFURY’s adaptation of Don Delillo’s play, “Valparaiso.” Eliezer is also an associate member of Golden Thread (SF/Cairo), and has worked with Woman’s Will, The Puppet Players, Marin Shakespeare, Antenna Theater and TJT. She was the Co-Artistic Director of Eclipse Dance Theater from 1996-2002.

Chris (Mission Baby writer/actor) and Dan recently completed a year as “artists in residence” at the San Francisco Film Society’s FilmHouse along with a dozen other independent filmmakers and producers. The two formed Potluck Productions in 2004, producing web videos and providing live streaming and media services for San Francisco businesses and nonprofits, using comedy whenever possible. After graduating from MIT with a double Master’s degree in Technology and Policy, Chris spent several years working on environmental protection and poverty alleviation projects in Colombia, Mongolia, and Oakland, CA., before moving to story-telling at a mechanism for social change. Chris and Dan have been co-hosting “Script to Screen” for six years, a monthly event that brings together the SF film community to read scripts, watch films, and have nerdy conversations about theme, metaphor, and story.

Dan (Mission Baby co-writer) started his career in comedy as a weekend player at The Second City in Chicago. He came to San Francisco and the post facility, Rough House Editorial, where he worked on narrative films, documentaries, and commercials. In addition to his work at Potluck, Dan has worked as a freelance Director/Producer for Levi Strauss & Co since 1998 creating content for internal purposes, the web, and for their flagship stores (other clients include Mervyn’s, AT&T, Netforce, and Cisco Systems.)