Leah Nanako Winkler (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her plays include Kentucky, God Said This, Two Mile Hollow, Hot Asian Doctor Husband, Thirty-Six, The Brightest Thing in the World, and You Seem Sad. She has received the Yale Drama Series Prize, Mark O’Donnell Award, Jerome New York Fellowship, Francesca Primus Prize, Steinberg Playwright Award, Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, Will Glickman Award, Peabody Award. TV credits include Ramy, Love Life, The Summer I Turned Pretty, Schmigadoon! and Elsbeth. Her short film, Get Her Back, which she also directed, was produced by Indian Paintbrush/LuckyChap Entertainment and recently premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. With lyricist and composer Duncan Sheik, she wrote the musical adaptation of Anno Moyoco’s graphic novel, Memoirs of Amorous Gentleman, which will premiere off-broadway Fall 2027 at The Night Egg, a brand-new venue built inside the Culture Club (the former home of Sleep No More). She is an alumni of Youngblood , Ma Yi Theater Lab, Dorothy Streslin New American Playwrights Group and Ucross/Sundance fellow, WP Lab 2018. She is currently writing the book for Crazy Rich Asians: The Musical! MFA Brooklyn College.
May Adrales (Director) is a director, artistic leader, teacher, and mother who has directed over 40 world premieres. Her work has been seen at notable theaters such as Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, MCC, Yale Rep, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theater, Signature Theater, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, WP Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, and South Coast Rep. She has received the Ammerman Award at Arena Stage and Theater Communications Group’s Alan Schneider award. She is also a finalist for the SDCF Zelda Finchandler Award and has held fellowships and artistic positions at numerous prestigious institutions. May currently serves as the Director of the Theatre Program and Assistant Professor at Fordham University. She has also taught at Juilliard, Harvard/ART, ACT, Fordham, NYU, Bard College, Yale School of Drama, and Brown/Trinity MFA program. May holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. (www.mayadrales.com)
Ma-Yi Theater Company (Co-Producer) is one of the nation’s leading incubators of new plays by Asian American writers. Founded in 1989, Ma-Yi develops and produces bold, adventurous work that expands the American theater canon and places Asian American stories, artists, and imagination at the center of the stage. For more than three decades, the company has championed formally daring, politically engaged, and deeply human plays that reflect the complexity of contemporary American life. Ma-Yi’s work has earned major recognition, including multiple Obie Awards, Lucille Lortel Awards, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, a Richard Rodgers Award, and a special Drama Desk Award honoring its excellence and impact. Home to the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the country’s largest resident company of Asian American playwrights, Ma-Yi continues to nurture vital new voices, support groundbreaking artists, and shape the future of American theater with urgency, rigor, and imagination.
Crystal Finn (Playwright) is an actor and writer. Her plays include Ms. Lilly, produced for Clubbed Thumb’s directing fellowship and directed by Josiah Davis, Find Me Here, also with Clubbed Thumb, directed by Caitlin Sullivan, The Faire produced by Fault Line Theater, and Becoming Liv Ullman, which was a hit at the NY Fringe Festival and went on to the New Ground Theater Festival at Cleveland Playhouse. Much of Crystal’s writing is inspired by the many new plays she has been fortunate enough to perform in, including over twenty world premieres. For WP theater, Crystal was seen in Munich Medea: Happy Family by Corinne Jaber, directed by Lee Sunday Evans. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb where she has been developing and performing new work consistently for over a decade, including most recently Derangements by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Cold War Choir Practice by Ro Reddick, Deep Blue Sound by Abe Koogler, and Plano by Will Arbery. Crystal won a Theater World Award for her Broadway debut in Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for her performance in Cold War Choir Practice. She is a recipient of the NYSCA arts grant with Fiasco Theater and is currently writing a commission for the company. She is originally from Grass Valley, California.
Emily Young (Director) is an original company member of Fiasco Theater, with whom she has appeared in numerous productions, and now directs and co-directs. Directing credits with Fiasco include: Bartleby (The Old Globe), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (co-director, co-pro Fiasco/Red Bull); The Stand In (workshop at BAX), The Lucky Chance (Fiasco reading series), Sight Unseen (Fiasco reading). Regionally: Palimpsest (In the Works, In the Woods/Forestburgh Playhouse), Spring Awakening (Ohio Northern University). As an actor, Broadway: How I Learned to Drive (u/s), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Off-Broadway with Fiasco and others: The Verge, The Comedy of Errors, Orlando, Pericles, Merrily We Roll Along, The Servant of Two Masters, Twelfth Night, Into the Woods, Measure for Measure, Cymbeline; Regionally: The Old Globe, Folger Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf, Menier Chocolate Factory. Film/television: Living with Yourself, The Knick, God of Love. Education: MFA, Brown/Trinity Consortium.
Fiasco Theater (Co-Producer) is an ensemble theater company based in NYC that offers dynamic, joyful, actor-driven productions, and the highest quality, accessible, and affordable training for emerging artists. Fiasco produces annual programming by developing shows through GroundWork, our internal development series, as well as year-round readings and workshops that are open to the public; including the workshop production initiative Without A Net (WAN), which bravely stages a production for audiences with brief rehearsal and minimal resources. Partner theaters in NYC have included Classic Stage Co, TFANA, New Victory, and at Roundabout Theatre where Fiasco serves as the first-ever Company in Residence. Fiasco training programs offer emerging artists the chance to train in Fiasco’s joy-based, actor-centered approach to theater-making.
Fiasco’s first production, Cymbeline, staged in a downtown NYC loft in 2009, was a run-away success: it was presented Off-Broadway twice, for nearly 200 performances and honored with the 2012 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for best revival. Fiasco’s Into the Woods garnered another Off-Broadway Alliance Award, as well as the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival. The national tour of Into the Woods received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Visiting Production and LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Direction and Best Ensemble. Cymbeline, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure and Into the Woods have all been New York Times Critics’ Picks. Merrily We Roll Along (2019), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (2023) and Pericles (2024) were collectively nominated for four Drama Desk awards, two Off-Broadway Alliance awards, and a Lortel Award. Fiasco’s work has been experienced by over 200,000 audience members in New York City and around the country. The New York Times has called Fiasco “a force to reckon with in the American theater.”
Fiasco has been commissioned by the Old Globe and created a podcast of Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Measure for Measure in collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts. They have been in residence with NYU-Gallatin, TFANA, New Victory Labworks, Duke University, Marquette University and LSU and developed work with the Colorado New Play Festival, Sundance Theatre Lab, the Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Shakespeare Society.
Melis Aker (Playwright) is a London-and New York–based playwright/screenwriter, actor, and musician from Turkey. Her plays have been developed and presented Off-Broadway and regionally in the U.S. and U.K. at Signature Theatre Company in New York ( Fish, LaunchPad resident playwright), Theatre503 (Murmurs, 503Five resident playwright), The Old Vic (Hundred Feet Tall co-written with Benjamin Scheuer), Ars Nova and PlayCo (Hound Dog), and Williamstown Theatre Festival (Indigo Dreams). She has received commissions from Signature, Atlantic Theatre Company (Middle Eastern Mixfest), and La Jolla Playhouse, and has been awarded the American Theatre Wing’s Jonathan Larson Grant (Azul), named on the Kilroy’s List (Field, Awakening), and recognized as a “Woman to Watch” by the Broadway Women’s Fund. Her short play Scraps and Things was recorded for Playing On Air starring Carol Kane, where she was also co-star and composer.
Aker’s short film Baba in Graceland was developed with support from the Sundance Institute’s Interdisciplinary Grant and was an official selection for the 2025 Izmir Short Film Festival. Her feature screenplay ARI [Bee] was accepted to Maison des Scénaristes at Cannes, Berlinale Script Market, and the Proof of Concept Film Festival at the American Cinematheque. She is currently adapting The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince, Mayte Garcia’s New York Times bestselling memoir for Crazy Legs Features, and developing an immersive game project with Sinan Eczacıbaşı of Curious Gremlin.
Aker was a NYTW 2050 Fellow, an Ars Nova Play Group member, a DGF Playwriting Fellow, and a screenwriter for Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Entertainment. She has taught playwriting/screenwriting at The New School, and prose fiction at King’s College London. She holds an MFA in Playwriting/Screenwriting from Columbia University and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing at King’s College London. She is represented by CAA, Berlin Associates, and CURATE Management.
Tatiana Pandiani (Director) is a New York City–based Latin American director, choreographer, and writer whose work spans theatre, film, and immersive performance.
Recent Off-Broadway projects include Torera (WP Theater/Long Wharf Theatre/Sol Project/Latinx Playwrights Circle) and Someone Spectacular (Signature, NYC). Her work has been seen at major regional theatres including Goodspeed Musicals, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Miami New Drama, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Long Wharf Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Perseverance Theatre. Upcoming projects include WOMB 2.0 by Marisela Treviño Orta at the Alley Theatre.
Tatiana’s original bilingual musical AZUL received the Jonathan Larson Award, and she is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Alcove Commission for her new play HINGE BABY. Her short film How to Fix Grief won the Film in Focus Award and the New York Film Academy Award in 2024.
Beyond traditional theatre, she has developed large-scale and immersive work for Warner Bros. Europe, RWS Global, and experiential projects including The Bluey Experience. She also conceived FOSSE VERDON: The Duet that Changed Broadway, a live dance documentary now running fleet-wide on Holland America Cruise Lines.
Tatiana holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University and has taught at Yale, NYU Hofstra, and the Atlantic Acting School.
Signature Theatre (Co-Producer) is an artistic home for storytellers. Founded in 1991 in New York City by Jim Houghton as a theater devoted to artists across their bodies of work, Signature deepens the relationship between artists and audiences alike through their groundbreaking, and ever-evolving, residency and producing model that amplifies the resonances between an artist’s works.
Now under the leadership of Artistic Director Emily Shooltz and Executive Director Timothy J. McClimon, the organization continues to extend residencies to both playwrights and other visionary generative theater artists. Signature makes a singular—and extremely rare, in the theater world—commitment to its diverse cohort of Resident Artists by saying “yes” upfront to at least three productions. At Signature, it’s the storyteller who drives the conversation. That trust, in turn, yields incredible results from artists who are free to take chances and uncover new terrain in their work, while Signature provides holistic creative and professional support.
Signature audiences have gotten deep dives into the distinct visions of recent Resident Artists including Stephen Adly Guirgis, David Henry Hwang, Samuel D. Hunter, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Tony Kushner, Lynn Nottage, Anna Deavere Smith, Dave Malloy, Dominique Morisseau, Sarah Ruhl, Lauren Yee, and others; in 2025, the theater welcomed its newest resident, Heather Christian. Signature and its artists have been recognized with Tony Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, MacArthur “Genius” grants, and Lucille Lortel, Obie, Drama Desk, AUDELCO, and Artios Awards as well as the 50/50 Award for Gender Parity in Theatre, among many other distinctions. In 2014, Signature became the first New York City theater to receive the Regional Theatre Tony Award for its body of work and accomplishments as an institution.
By both supporting the development of new works and allowing artists to revisit previous work with fresh eyes, Signature residencies are tailored to artists needs and career trajectories, helping them to make lasting contributions to the American theatrical canon. Additionally, by building out its Launchpad Residency (supporting early career artists) and Legacy Lab (a development lab for alumni residents), the organization seeks to foster a multigenerational artistic community. In the words of Brendan Jacobs-Jenkins, “there is nowhere like [Signature] for a playwright to grow, experiment, and create.”
Signature’s devotion to its audiences is as strong as to its artists: the organization believes every New Yorker should have access to theater, and counteracts the trend of increasingly prohibitive ticket costs throughout the city with Signature Access, its robust ticket subsidy and community outreach program, made possible in part by Lead Partner Pershing Square Philanthropies. The program democratizes access to the arts and provides tickets at affordable rates for all audiences, with tickets starting at $20 for students, $30 for audiences under 30, and $40 for a range of other demographics for every Signature production.
In 2012, Signature Theatre moved into a permanent home: The Pershing Square Signature Center, the capacious and dynamic three-theater facility on West 42nd designed by Frank Gehry Architects. The Center supports and encourages collaboration and cross-pollination among artists, cultural organizations, and local communities, and serves as a meeting place and watering hole for the larger theater community.
In 2025, in anticipation of its 35th Anniversary Season, the organization made a bold move to accelerate further evolution, introducing a vision for its present and future with its $10 million Next Act Campaign. This plan ensures the organization stability and sustainability; embraces and evolves its residency model (including a return to presenting artists’ works in closer succession—nodding to the founding model of seasons devoted to single playwrights); introduces the Legacy Lab and expands its Launchpad program to multiple writers; and rethinks the identity of the Signature Center as a multi-company Off-Broadway complex, exploring ways to collaborate and thrive alongside other organizations.
New Light Theater Project (NLTP) nurtures a Collective of artist-practitioners by presenting compelling stories across theatrical genres.
NLTP believes in the strength of ensemble work and is committed to fostering our Collective, composed of writers, actors, directors, stage managers, designers, and other artist-practitioners from diverse backgrounds. At least 50% of an NLTP production engages our Collective, while the rest of the production team consists of innovative artists with whom we hope to cultivate deeper relationships.
NLTP strives to provide sustained opportunities for our Collective. What started as a weekly Sunday gathering of friends over pancakes, coffee, and plays has evolved into a community of artists who care about the work we contribute to the theatrical makeup of New York City, and ultimately, seek to ensure a work environment that embodies a brave, communal spirit.
Since 2013, NLTP has been a twice Drama Desk-nominated company that has mounted over 50 full productions which have received critical praise including numerous Critics’ Picks, Best of Theater 2019 (The Stage + Slant Magazine), Best of Theater 2014 (The L Magazine), induction into Indie Theater Now’s People of the Year/Indie Theater Hall of Fame, and received residencies from 59E59 Co Op Resident Company, Theatre Row on 42nd Street, The Flea Theater’s Anchor Program, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Residency Fellowship, Chicago Dramatists Grafting Project, IRT 3B Residency, 13th Street Rep, Access Theater Residency Program, and the New Theater at 45th Street (now Davenport).
NLTP is proud to call NYC home, but our work has also been seen in London, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Louisville (KY), East Hampton (NY), Saranac Lake (NY), Woodstock (NY), Ridgefield (CT), Sylva (NC), and Redlands (CA).
NLTP is a 501(c)3 organization.
Noor Theatre Company (Consulting Producer) is an Obie-winning company dedicated to supporting, developing and producing the work of theatre artists of Middle Eastern, Southwest Asian and North African descent. Noor was founded in 2010 in order to serve these artists; we develop and amplify their voices for diverse audiences. As New York City’s only company with this mission, we provide an important space for MENA/SWANA voices to be heard. In doing so, we counter negative stereotypes, share nuanced work that reflects the unique perspectives of our artists, and ensure that our communities are represented and celebrated in the larger theatre ecosystem.
Rebecca Martinez (Director) (she/her) is a director who focuses on new plays and musicals and uses adaptation to envision classic plays through a contemporary lens. Recent Off-Broadway credits: Public Theater’s Mobile Unit: Much Ado About Nothing; The Comedy of Errors (also co-adapter; Drama Desk Nomination, Outstanding Adaptation, LATA Awards for Outstanding Adaptation and Theatrical Concept). At WP: Dirty Laundry (WP Theater / Spark Theatricals), Bite Me (WP Theater / Colt Coeur), Sancocho (Latinx Playwrights Circle / Sol Project / WP Theater). Regional projects include: In Her Bones (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), Living and Breathing (Two River), Somewhere Over the Border (Syracuse Stage & Geva Theatre). Martínez has directed and developed new work with Signature Theatre, the O’Neill, Latinx Playwrights Circle, the Sol Project, NAMT, INTAR, Working Theater, The Playwrights Realm, among others. Affiliations: member of the Obie Award-winning Sol Project Collective, WP Directors Lab Alum, 2021 TCG Rising Leaders of Color, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, INTAR’s Unit52, New Georges Affiliated Artist, Drama League Directing Fellow, member of SDC. Commissions: Artist-in-Residence (Radical Evolution), SEED Directing Commission (Public Theater) Awards: Colorado Henry Award for Directing; four Portland, Oregon Drammy Awards; Lilla Jewel Award for Women Artists. rebeccamartinez.org
Jessica Kahkoska (Playwright) is a writer, producer, and dramaturg/researcher for theatre and TV. Theatre projects include WILDFIRE (Commissioned by/World Premiere by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts), STRAWBERRY SEASON (with Tommy Craword, commissioned by/World Premiere by Northern Stage Theatre), IN HER BONES (Commissioned by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, World Premiere: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center), LETTERS TO THE PRESIDENT (Goodspeed Musicals, The Cooper Union), AGENT 355 (with Preston Max Allen, New York Stage and Film, Chautauqua Theater Company, Signature Theatre), THE DEATH OF DESERT ROSE (with Elliah Heifetz, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat), and WILD HOME (Notch Theatre Company, NEA ArtWorks Grant). She was the Archival Researcher on GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK on Broadway (written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov), and is under new work commissions by Broadway Licensing, the Alley Theatre, and Hausman & Patino. In TV, Jessica has worked on series on CNN, Netflix, The Discovery Channel, Oxygen, and Max Originals. She has TV projects in development with Lighthouse Pictures, AGC Studios, Fifth Season, XTR, and HappyBad Bungalow. Selected Awards: National Archives Foundation’s Cokie Roberts Women’s History Fellowship, Marion International Fellowship in the Performing Arts, Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship. BA: Northwestern. MBA: SUNY New Paltz. www.jessicakahkoska.com
Emma Horwitz (Playwright) is a writer from New York City. Recent productions include: Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (written & performed w/ Bailey Williams, dir. Tara Elliott, w/ Rattlestick Theater and New Georges) and Mary Gets Hers (dir. Josiah Davis, w/ The Playwrights Realm, NYT Critic’s Pick). Page One Resident and Writing Fellow with The Playwrights Realm. Alum of Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group. Audrey Resident and Affiliated Artist with New Georges. Recent residencies with: The Barn at Lee, North American Cultural Laboratory, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and the William Inge Center for the Arts, among others. Alongside Lucas Baisch, she co-edited 53rd State Press’ The Occasional No. 3. With Bailey Williams, Emma co-hosts & curates The Ecstatic Peephole Play Club at Pete’s Candy’s Store (@ecstaticpeephole). Upcoming: Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks 2025 w/ Hanna Yurfest. For more, visit: emmahorwitz.com.
Leigh Silverman (Director) has directed over 60 world premiere new plays and musicals including Jump/Cut and Bright Half Life for WP. She received Tony nominations for her direction of the musicals Suffs and Violet and received a 2011 Obie Award and 2019 Obie for Sustained Excellence. Broadway credits: Yellow Face (Roundabout), Suffs (Tony nomination), Grand Horizons, The Lifespan of a Fact, Violet (Tony nomination), Chinglish, Well. Select Off-Broadway: The Seat of Our Pants (Public Theater), Harry Clarke (Audible with the Vineyard (Lortel nom), Minetta Lane, Berkeley Repertory Theater and West End (Ambassadors); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Shed, Taper), Soft Power (Public Theater; Ahmanson Theater/Curran Theater; Drama Desk nomination), Sweet Charity (New Group). Encores: Violet, The Wild Party and Really Rosie. Audible projects include Harry Clarke and Dykes to Watch Out For, which was named Best of Year for Audible and Slate.
Patrice Johnson Chevannes (Emi) is an award-winning, Jamaican-American actress, writer, filmmaker, director, and executive producer of God-and-all-o-wee Productions and Ubigwitus Records. Broadway: The Crucible, dir. Sir Richard Eyre (Liam Nelson, Laura Linney). She played Desdemona opposite Sir Patrick Stewart in a photo negative production of Othello (Shakespeare Theater). Off Broadway: Tamburlaine I & II (Sir Michael Boyd/dir.); Pericles
(Sir Trevor Nunn/dir.); Coriolanus (Karin Coonrod/dir.)
Awards/ Nominations: 2025 Elliot Norton nomination The Grove (The Huntington); 2023 Lucille Lortel Award nomination Endgame (Irish Repertory Theater); 2020 Drama Desk and Drama League nominations runboyrun/In Old Age (NYTW); 2020 Audelco nomination for Halfway Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Atlantic Theater); Audelco Award For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide…..(New Federal Theater).
TV/Film: POSE, SHRILL, EVIL, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Good Fight. Patrice has written and directed three award-winning films: Kings County, NY’s Dirty Laundry, and Hill and Gully. Patrice teaches MfA Acting at The New School; Public speaking at Columbia University to Obama Foundation Scholars; She collaborates with Columbia World Projects and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation teaching public speaking to medical professionals in Africa from WomenLift Health. Patrice is a member of The Actors Center.
Natalie Paul (Bean) is an actress, writer, and director based in New York City. Her television credits include series regular roles in THE SINNER (Netflix) opposite Bill Pullman and Carrie Coon, and HBO’s THE DEUCE. She has recurred in YOU, THE BLACKLIST, MR. MERCEDES, and RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS. Film credits include the NBC Universal film SHOOTING STARS (Peacock) as Gloria James, and the Sundance Dramatic Audience Award-winning CROWN HEIGHTS, for which she received an NAACP Image Award nomination.As a writer-director, Natalie has created two short films, Everything Absolutely and Sweet Tea, and is developing her first feature, A Grand Design.
She holds a BA from Yale University and an MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Phanésia Pharel (Playwright) is a Haitian-American playwright from a dragon fruit farm in Miami. The daughter of an immigrant teacher and farmer, she writes to honor people. Her full-length plays include DEAD GIRL’S QUINCEÑERA, THE WATERFALL, R&B , LUCKY, and BLACK GIRL JOY.
She is the incoming playwriting fellow at Emory University where she will teach and have a new play produced through their repertory company. She has received commissions from the Atlantic Theater, Lucille Lortel (Alcove), La Jolla Playhouse, Miranda Family Fund, Hero Theatre, City Theatre Miami, and the Latinx Playwrights Circle.
Her honors include Kilroys List, five awards from the Kennedy Center, two-time Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist/Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Finalist, A is For Playwriting award recipient and the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Finalist Prize.
Phanésia is a member of the Obie-winning EST/Youngblood group and The Wish Collective. Her work has been developed by the Playwrights’ Center, New York Stage and Film, SolFest, Thrown Stone, Shattered Globe, and Echo Theater Company.
B.A, Urban Studies, Barnard College of Columbia University.
MFA, Playwriting, UCSD 25′.
Taylor Reynolds (Director) is an OBIE-award winning director based in New York, originally from Chicago. Her work centers around joyful collaboration and new play development. Selected directing credits: Primary Trust (Signature Theatre), The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (Woolly Mammoth), Fat Ham (Studio Theatre, Helen Hayes nomination for Best Director), This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre), Clyde’s (Berkeley Rep/Huntington Theatre), Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons/CTG), Man Cave (Page 73), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, New York Times Critic’s Pick), and Plano (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk nomination for Best Director). Taylor has also worked as a director and collaborator with companies including The Movement Theatre Company, Keen Company, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Baltimore Center Stage, MCC, EST, and The 24 Hour Plays. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2021 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award recipient, 2017-2018 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab alum. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. Member of SDC.
Teresa L. Williams (Set Design) is a set designer originally from New Orleans, LA. Recent design credits include John Proctor is The Villain (Broadway), The Preacher’s Wife (Alliance Theater), Triple Threat (T32 Theatrical), The Cotillion (New Georges/The Movement), Ragtime (American Stage). MFA: NYU Tisch. www.tlwilliamsdesign.com
Venus Gulbranson (Lighting Design) is a proud Filipino lighting designer based in Brooklyn NY, and is thrilled to be making her WP Theatre debut. BROADWAY asst: New York, New York (St James Theatre). INTERNATIONAL DESIGN: Rituel (Philharmonie de Paris). REGIONAL DESIGN select: Lincoln Center, Signature Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Wilma Theatre, Arena Stage, Nashville Opera, Oklahoma City Rep, New Studio on Broadway. INTERNATIONAL Lighting Director: Sydney Opera House, Dubai Opera House, Philharmonie de Paris, Müpa Budapest, Brisbane QPAC. She is a member of United Scenic Artists 829 and is an advocate for underrepresented artists in the industry. Venus enjoys a park day and is a below average volleyball player. Love to Kiera, family, and friends always. www.venusgulbranson.com
Kaileykielle Hoga (Co-Sound Designer) is a sound designer and audio engineer based in New York City. She approaches sound design with equal care for its creative and technical demands, centering storytelling and sound system design. She values collaborating with sound designers and exploring the countless ways to bring a story’s sonic world to life, most recently assisting on Second Stage’s Marjorie Prime at the Hayes Theater. Kaileykielle is grateful to Co-Sound Design this project with DJ Potts, whose support has been pivotal in the growth of her artistic voice.
DJ Potts (Co-Sound Designer) Off-Broadway: Traverse32: Triple Threat | PAC NYC: Icons of Culture, Refuge: A concert Series | The Shed: Open Call | The Drama League of NYC: The Bull Jean Stories, Hello Again | REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Kunene and The King | Chautauqua Theater Company: Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine | Vermont Northern Stage: King James. Education: The New School: Romeo & Juliet, Glass n’ Mirrors. | Rutgers: Angela Davis School for Girls With Big Eyes, Holy Week.
Emmarose Campbell (Properties Design) is a NYC-based Prop Designer, Producer, and artist. Recent credits include Beau the Musical Off-Bway (Asst. Prop Designer), Immediate Family @ Blumenthal PAC (Prop Designer), and the On Your Feet Nat’l Tour (Prop Designer). She is currently Head Props at The Play That Goes Wrong Off-Bway and she is a co-creator of Chorus Girl Productions, a small theatre company that strives to feature female stories and art. Insta: @emmarosegcampbell or @propsbyegc. www.emmarosegcampbell.com
Earon Chew Nealey (Hair Design) Wig, Hair and Makeup Designer. Broadway: Fat Ham; Mother of Exile, Potus (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Almost Famous, Jersey Boys (ACT of Connecticut); Huzzah, Fat Ham (The Old Globe), Camelot, Blues for an Alabama Sky (Barrington Stage); Two Strangers, Diary of a Tap Dancer (A.C.T.); The Grove, Sojourners, Toni Stone, Fat Ham, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Huntington); Bad Kreyól, Three Houses (The Signature); Table 17 (Makeup Design – MCC); Midsummer Nights Dream, Malvolio, Twelfth Night (Classical Theater of Harlem); Hamlet, The Harder They Come, Fat Ham, Cullad Wattah, Mojada (Public Theater); Dames at Sea, Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse); Last Super (SOPAC); On Killing (Soho Rep); Little Girl Blue (Goodspeed, New World Stages); Meet Vera Stark, Matilda (Colorado University); On Sugarland (NYTW); Nina Simone: Four Women (Berkshire Theatre Group); Little Women (Dallas Theater Center); Oklahoma!, Patsy Cline (Weston Playhouse); Memphis, Dream Girls (Cape Fear Regional Theater); Cadillac Crew, Twelfth Night (Yale Rep).
