(Playwright) is a prolific writer with success spanning theater, television, film, and literature. She has been named one of the 150 Fearless Women in the World by Newsweek and The New York Times has referred to her as “one of her generation’s major talents.”
She is best known for her plays Seminar and Mauritius, which both premiered on Broadway, and her earlier works Spike Heels, Bad Dates and Omnium Gatherum (Pulitzer Finalist, co-written with Alex Gersten) and her TV show “Smash.”
Additional theater credits include: Downstairs (Dorset Theatre Festival); Dead Accounts (Music Box Theatre); The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, and The Family of Mann (Second Stage); Seared (San Francisco Playhouse); The Nest (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); The Way of the World (Dorset Theatre Festival); Poor Behavior (Mark Taper Forum, Primary Stages); The Butterfly Collection and Our House (Playwrights Horizons); The Understudy (Roundabout Theatre Company); and View of the Dome (New York Theatre Workshop). Upcoming projects: Way of the World at the Folger Theatre. Theresa and composer Josh Schmidt are adapting the RKO film Dance, Girl, Dance as a stage musical, and she has created a stage adaptation of the fable Stone Soup with John Weidman. She is currently under commission by Roundabout Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse and South Coast Rep.
Theresa adapted and directed the film version of Poor Behavior and directed her original screenplay for Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston and Bill Pullman, which premiered at the 2017 Seattle Film Festival. Other films include Harriet the Spy, Gossip, and the independent features Sunday on the Rocks and Seducing Charlie Barker, an adaptation of her play, The Scene. In addition to “Smash”, Ms. Rebeck has writing and producing credits for television projects including “Dream On”, “Brooklyn Bridge”, “L.A. Law”, “American Dreamer”, “Maximum Bob”, “First Wave”, “Third Watch”, “Canterbury’s Law”, “Smith”, “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” and “NYPD Blue”.
All of Ms. Rebeck’s past produced plays are published by Smith and Kraus as Theresa Rebeck: Complete Plays, Volumes I, II III, and IV and are available from Samuel French or Playscripts. Ms. Rebeck’s other publications are Free Fire Zone, a book of comedic essays about writing and show business. She has written for American Theatre Magazine and has had excerpts of her plays published in the Harvard Review. Ms. Rebeck’s first two novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms With A View, are published by Random House/Shaye Areheart Books in April 2008. Her most recent book, I’m Glad About You, was released to rave reviews at the top of 2016 and is published by Putnam.
Theresa has been honored to receive the National Theatre Conference Award, the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, the Athena Film Festival Award, an Alex Award, a Lilly Award, an IRNE Award for Best New Play, an Eliot Norton Award, the Mystery Writer’s of America’s Edgar Award, the Writer’s Guild of America award for Episodic Drama, the Hispanic Images Imagen Award, and the Peabody. Ms. Rebeck is originally from Cincinnati and holds an MFA in Playwriting and a PhD. in Victorian Melodrama, both from Brandeis University. She is a proud board member of PEN America and the Dramatists Guild, a Contributing Editor to the Harvard Review, an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company, a Playwright Adviser and Board Member of the LARK, and has taught at Brandeis University and Columbia University. She is currently holds the Lyndall Finley Wortham Chair in the Performing Arts at University of Houston. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
(Director) Adrienne is the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur and the recipient of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award. Upcoming: world premieres of Hatef**k by Rehana Lew Mirza (WP/Colt Coeur), andWe are Among Usby Stephen Belber (City Theater). Recent world premieres/productions: Downstairs,by Theresa Rebeck (Primary Stages),Thirst, by C. A. Johnson (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Zürich, by Amelia Roper (Colt Coeur/NYTW), What We’re Up Against by Theresa Rebeck (WP Theater), Empathitraxby Ana Nogueira (Colt Coeur), Cal in Camo (co-pro Rattlestick & Colt Coeur), Theresa Rebeck’s The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), One Child Born (Oberon at American Repertory Theater), How to Live on Earthby MJ Kaufman (Colt Coeur), Chiara Atik’s 52nd to Bowery (EST Marathon), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur), Reunion by Greg Moss (South Coast Rep), Everything Is Oursby Nikole Beckwith (Colt Coeur), Recallby Eliza Clark (Colt Coeur),Fish Eye (Colt Coeur), and Seven Minutes in Heaven by Steven Levenson (Colt Coeur). Adrienne is currently developing the new musical Other World with Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Ann McNamee & WETA Workshop, as well as Afterwords, with Zoe Sarnak and Emily Kaczmarek. BA Barnard College, Columbia University. She is also the director of #makeitfair
(Imran) can currently be seen recurring on the new NBC hit series “New Amsterdam” and is best known for his lead roles in Tim Kring’s NBC sci-fi dramas, “Heroes” and “Heroes Reborn”. Sendhil’s extensive film and television credits include Amblin TV and NBC’s drama series “Reverie”, opposite Sarah Shahi and Dennis Haysbert; Hannah Marks and Joey Power’s romantic comedy After Everything (2018) with Marisa Tomei and Joe Keery; Stan Lee’s Sky television series “Lucky Man” opposite James Nesbitt; the USA series “Covert Affairs”; a memorable arc as Mindy Kaling’s love interest on the final season of NBC’s “The Office”; Bravo’s “Odd Mom Out”; Liz Garcia’s The Lifeguard opposite Kristen Bell; and Gurinder Chada’s comedy It’s A Wonderful Afterlife, which premiered at Sundance in 2013 and 2010, respectively. He is currently shooting Magic Hour opposite Miriam Shor and directed by Jacqueline Christy. In theater, Sendhil starred in the RSC production of Carlo Goldoni’s A Servant to Two Masters in London’s West End, Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink at the Soho Repertory Theatre, and Ayub Khan-Din’s East is East at the Manhattan Theatre Club.
(Layla) a New Yorker living in LA is thrilled to be back in NYC to work with Adrienne Campbell-Holt & Sendhil. ANON(YMOUS) (The Public); Tulpa (Target Margin); Crosscurrents (UBU Rep) Regional: Pentecost (Yale Repertory); Rehana Lew Mirza/Mike Lew’s Child of Colonialism (Lark Theatre) & The DNA Festival (La Jolla Playhouse SD). LA: A Midsummer Night’s Dream & Henry V (Kingsmen Shakespeare Company,) The Vagina Monologues. Other NY theatre: SEVEN.11 Convenience Store Theatre (Desipina & Co.). Television credits include recurring roles on Amazon’s “Just Add Magic”, NBC’s “Heroes”, ABC’s “General Hospital”. Other TV included: “Future Man”, “Good Game”, “Criminal Minds”, “CSI NY”, “CSI Miami”, “Law & Order”, “Las Vegas” & “Cosby”. Kavi co-produced and starred in the feature film Boris and The Bomb which is premiering this Spring. Other film credits: Cold Pressed, Low Budget Ethnic Movie (2019) Karma Calling; the Indian National Award-winning feature film Janani, various short films and the web series “And Boris”. She has also lent her voice to narrate several international health, water and education campaigns.
(Co-Producer) Colt Coeur is a Brooklyn-based theater company founded in 2010. Artistic director Adrienne Campbell-Holt leads a 16-member ensemble of actors, playwrights and designers to nurture the next generation of theater artists through the development and production of new plays and by providing arts education to students from underserved NYC public schools. Over 8 years, Colt Coeur has produced 9 world premieres; developed 40 plays; and provided free arts education for over 120 students. All 9 world premiere productions have launched some of the most exciting voices in American Theater today. With Steven Levenson’s Seven Minutes in Heaven; Lucas Kavner’s Fish Eye; Eliza Clark’s Recall; Nikole Beckwith’s Everything is Ours; Ruby Rae Spiegel’s Dry Land; MJ Kaufman’s How to Live on Earth; William Francis Hoffman’s Cal in Camo; Ana Nogueira’s Empathitrax; and Amelia Roper’s Zürich, Colt Coeur has established itself as a home for a new generation of theater artists. In addition to our productions, Colt Coeur serves the community by hosting a free week-long Playmaking workshop for local middle and high school students during their Spring Break. And we have expanded our dedication to underserved creators by establishing the Parity Plays Fest in 2014, presenting four readings of plays from female or trans playwrights and directors. In 2017 we welcomed our first class of Resident writers and directors: Kate Cortesi, Jeremy O. Harris, Rehana Lew Mirza, Danya Taymor, Pirronne Yousefzadeh & Catherine Yu. After presenting our first commissioned play, Zürich, Colt Coeur has also embarked on our second commission with playwright Antoinette Nwandu.
(Playwright) Lauren is the most produced playwright in America of 2017/18, two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award. She is also a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including South Coast Rep, The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The O’Neill, The Denver Center, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire and more and will soon be seen in London with Hampstead Theatre’s production of I and You in Fall 2018. She co-authored Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley with Margot Melcon, which was one of the most produced plays in America in 2017. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon was released from Two Lions/Amazon in 2017.
(Director) May Adrales has directed over 25 world premieres across the US, including four productions of award-winning Vietgone. Her work has been seen at Lincoln Center Theater, Signature Theatre, Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage Theatre, The Goodman Theater, South Coast Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Rep, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre, and Two River Theater. She is proud to serve as Associate Artistic Director at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. She is a former Director of On-Site Programs at the Lark Play Development Center and Artistic Associate at The Public Theatre. MFA, Yale School of Drama; Drama League Fellow; WP, NYTW and Second Stage Directing Fellow. She has directed and taught at Yale, Brown, NYU, Bard College, Juilliard and Fordham University. She is the recipient of the 2018 Alan Schneider Directing Award. www.mayadrales.net
(Angela) Ms. Armand is proud to be an award-winning actor. Within her body of work, she has had the pleasure of appearing on Broadway in the history-making production of Eclipsed by Danai Gurira (2016 Tony-nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play) and The Trip to Bountiful with Ms. Cicely Tyson, embodying Shakespearean characters (‘Rosaline’ in Love’s Labor’s Lost, ‘Marina’ in Pericles, ‘Ophelia’ in Hamlet, ‘Celia’ in As You Like it), performing in solid works of African-Amercian playwrights (‘Beneatha’ in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, ‘Grace’ in The Piano Lesson, ‘Rena’ in Jitney, ‘Black Mary’ in Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson and ‘Salima’ in Lynn Nottage’s Ruined) and originating characters in premieres of contemporary pieces (‘Jupiter’ in Kia Corthron’s Breath, Boom in the first American production, ‘Jekesai/Ester’ in Danai Gurira’s The Convert {2012 Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play} and ‘Amina’ in Belleville by Amy Herzog). Other works include Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon and JC Lee’s Relevance. Her film and television credits include “The Blacklist”, “America Odyssey”, “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”, and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”. She is a core member of Quick Silver Theater and an alumna of NYU’s Graduate Acting Program.
(Playwright) plays include Hurricane Diane, The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Precious Little and The Zero Hour (Jane Chambers Award, Lambda Literary Award finalist). Honors include a Whiting Foundation Award, the Princess Grace Award for Playwriting and three MacDowell Fellowships. Madeleine is an alumna of New Dramatists, a founding member of the Obie Award-winning playwrights’ collective 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.), the Fellow for Curriculum and Program Development at the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College and the Mellon Playwright in Residence at Two River Theater in New Jersey.
(Director) Broadway: Violet by Jeanine Tseori/Brian Crawley (Roundabout; Tony nomination), Chinglish (David Henry Hwang), Well (Lisa Kron). Upcoming: Soft Power by Jeanine Tseori/David Henry Hwang (Ahmanson Theater/Curan Theater); Wild Goose Dreams (La Jolla Playhouse/Public Theater). Recent Off-Broadway: Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre/Audible at the Minetta Lane), Sweet Charity (New Group), On the Exhale (Roundabout), The Outer Space (Public Theater), All the Ways to Say I Love You (MCC), The Way We Get By (Second Stage), Tumacho (Clubbed Thumb), American Hero (Williamstown Theater Festival, Second Stage), No Place to Go (Public Theater), Kung Fu(Signature Theatre), The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Playwrights Horizons), The Madrid (MTC), Golden Child (Signature Theatre), In the Wake(CTG/Berkeley/Public Theater, Obie Award, Lortel nomination), The Call (Playwrights Horizons), Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award), From Up Here(MTC, Drama Desk nomination), Yellow Face (CTG/Public Theater), Oedipus at Palm Springs (NYTW). Encores: Really Rosie, The Wild Party, Violet.
(Carol Fleischer) recently completed a run at BAM’s Next Wave Festival of the New York premiere of Joan Didion’s The White Album, which will tour to Los Angeles in the spring. Other New York theatre includes: The Wolves (Obie, Drama Desk Awards for Best Ensemble); The Pain and the Itch, She Stoops to Comedy, The World Over (Playwrights Horizons); The Coast of Utopia, Domesticated, What Once We Felt, QED (Lincoln Center); Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club); Dying for It (Atlantic); Knickerbocker (The Public). Regional work includes Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage & Film, Mark Taper, Geffen, Old Globe, Long Wharf, Westport Playhouse, Huntington, Guthrie, among others. She is thrilled to be reunited with director Leigh Silverman and actor Danielle Skraastad after co-creating and acting in the Off-Broadway production of Big Times. Television includes: “Modern Family,” “NCIS,” “Law & Order,” “Elementary,” “Newsroom,” “Glee,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Blue Bloods,” “Bones,” “Medium,” the Adult Swim comedy shows “Children’s Hospital,” “Newsreaders,” and “The Venture Bros,” in which she voices the character of Molotov. She is currently playing Emily on the series “Get Shorty.” MFA from NYU
(Renee Shapiro-Epps). New York theater credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Broadway); Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Public Theater); world premiere of A Kid Like Jake (LCT3); As You Like It, The Tempest (BAM/Old Vic – The Bridge Project); Much Ado About Nothing (Theater for a New Audience); Measure for Measure (Epic Theatre Ensemble); The Changeling (Red Bull); Uncle Vanya (Pearl); The Sentinels (59e59). Regionally, she has performed in the world premiere of Anna Ziegler’s The Wanderers (The Old Globe), King Charles III (ACT, Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theater); Tartuffe (McCarter/ Yale Rep); Hamlet (Shakespeare Theater); Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Festival); Proof (TheatreWorks Palo Alto – BATCC nomination); The Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She has worked on “Luke Cage” (recurring); “Claws;” “Homeland;” “Madam Secretary.” Films include Ovum; Ambition’s Debt; Death of a Prince; Spinning into Butter. She co-wrote/directed the film Sam & Julia with Randy Harrison. She is a member of the Artists Advisory Council with Epic Theater Ensemble and Dorset Theater Festival’s Women Artist Writing Group, where her play The Others is in development.
(Diane) is an NYC based trans actor, performer and writer. Existing between genders, and preferring the pronoun “they,” Blackwell works collaboratively with playwrights and directors to expand our sense of personhood and the body through performance. Some of their collaborations have been with Young Jean Lee, Half Straddle, Jennifer Miller’s Circus Amok, Richard Maxwell, Erin Markey, Sharon Hayes, Theater of the Two Headed Calf and Lisa D’Amour. Film/TV includes: Untitled Noah Baumbach Project, “Shameless,” Deadman’s Barstool, and “Jack in the Box.” Becca is a recipient of the Doris Duke Impact Artist Award. Becca is the writer and performer of the solo show They, Themself and Schmerm.
(Pam Annunziata) was last seen in Annie Dorsen’s play The Slow Room at Performance Space NY. Recent credits include Homebody by Tony Kushner at The Ancram Opera House and the World Premieres of The Remains by Ken Urban and Linger by Craig Garcia. Danielle was last seen on Broadway in All My Sons. Off-Broadway credits include Lisa Kron’s In The Wake at The Public and Tony Kushner’s iHo which was a co-production between The Public and The Signature. Danielle has been seen at The Signature in The Moundbuilders and at Playwrights Horizons in The Pain and the Itch. Other NY works include Big Times co-written by Danielle, Maggie Lacey and Mia Barron. Big Times was directed by Leigh Silverman and produced by WET. Danielle has also been seen at PS 122 (Carrie), The Cherry Lane (Lascivious Something and Fugue), The Ohio (Cressida Among the Greeks). Regionally, Danielle has worked at The Studio, Premiere Stages, Two River, The McCarter, StageWorks/Hudson, Cleveland Playhouse, The Old Globe. MFA: NYU Grad Acting.
(Beth Wann) is thrilled to reprise her role as Beth in Hurricane Diane after its premiere at Two River Theater in 2017. Kate is the co-creator, writer, director and star of the comedy Submissions Only (currently streaming on The Stage Network), as well as co-author of the Jack & Louisa book series for Penguin Workshop. Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Legally Blonde. Off-Broadway: The Other Josh Cohen (Drama Desk nomination), Clever Little Lies, Ordinary Days, Tatjana in Color, and Sarah, Plain and Tall. Kate has worked regionally at theaters such as The Guthrie, Dallas Theater Center, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Bucks County Playhouse and Goodspeed Opera House.
(Co-Producer) New York Theatre Workshop, now in its fourth decade of incubating important new works of theatre, continues to honor its mission to explore perspectives on our collective history and respond to the events and institutions that shape all our lives. Each season, from its home in New York’s East Village, NYTW presents five new productions, over 80 readings and numerous workshop productions for over 45,000 audience members. NYTW supports artists in all stages of their careers by maintaining a series of workshop programs, including work-in-progress readings, summer residencies and artist fellowships. Since its founding, NYTW has produced over 150 new, fully staged works, including Jonathan Larson’s Rent; Tony Kushner’s Slavs! and Homebody/Kabul; Doug Wright’s Quills; Claudia Shear’s Blown Sideways Through Life and Dirty Blonde; Paul Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told and Valhalla; Martha Clarke’s Vienna: Lusthaus; Will Power’s The Seven and Fetch Clay, Make Man; Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, Far Away, A Number and Love and Information; Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s Aftermath; Rick Elice’s Peter and the Starcatcher; Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová and Enda Walsh’s Once; David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s Lazarus; Dael Orlandersmith’s The Gimmick and Forever; Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown; and eight acclaimed productions directed by Ivo van Hove. NYTW’s productions have received a Pulitzer Prize, seventeen Tony Awards and assorted Obie, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards.
Zoe Sarnak is an award-winning composer and lyricist. Works include: Secret Soldiers (with Marsha Norman, Williamstown Theatre Festival Commission),Afterwords (with Emily Kaczmarek, Village Theatre Beta Series Production),Afloat (with Emily Kaczmarek, WP Pipeline Festival),The Years Between, Galileo (with Danny Strong, Michael Weiner and dir. Michael Mayer), Teddy & Max (with Brian Crawley), Empire Records (with Carol Heikkinen), Landed, Alma Mater, and Hold Your Peace (with Emily Kaczmarek, NYFA commissions) and Transport Group’s 20th Century Commission (with Michele Lowe). Awards include: 2018 Larson Award Winner, Fred Ebb Award finalist, two time Billie Burke Ziegfeld Award finalist, NY Stage & Film’s Founders Award finalist, Davenport Contest Winner, WP Lab Artist. Residencies/Commissions include: The Public Theater at Vineyards Arts, Goodspeed, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, McCarter Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Eugene O’Neill Artist Residency, and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Music featured: NY Times Live, Lilly Awards, and more. Education: Harvard University.
(Music Direction and Piano) is a New York City based Music Director, Conductor, and Orchestrator. New York: Darling, Afloat, The Loophole, Otherbody, Tiananmen, Lady Monday, Hair, Xanadu, Great Wall,American Idiot.Regional: We Foxes (Goodspeed), Young Frankenstein (Theatre by The Sea), Silver Spoon(Nora Theater Company). Boston Conservatory:Kiss of the Spider Woman, Urinetown, I Love You, Because, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Zombie Prom. Berklee: Ragtime, Americana Tribute, Songs for a New World. He works closely with several music theater composers in New York on new works, labs, workshops, and concerts. He music directs and arranges for Jay Armstrong Johnson, Nick Adams, Claybourne Elder, Eva Noblezada, and Carmen Cusack. B.M. Contemporary Writing and Production, Berklee College of Music.
(Percussion) is a freelance drummer/percussionist in Oakland. Most recently the drum sub for Hamilton in SF/LA, he is an active member of the Bay Area theatre scene. He is a member of the Magik*Magik Orchestra, with whom he’s joined ODC Dance & Zoe Keating, Gregory Porter, and Pop Up Magazine’s live shows. He is also a house session musician at John Vanderslice’s renowned Tiny Telephone Recording, collaborating on dozens of albums every year. He has played with people as diverse as Van Dyke Parks, the Kings of Convenience, and the Oregon Symphony and tours regularly with Mirah, Vetiver, Meernaa, and more. He studied at the University of Miami Frost School of Music (BM) and the Henry Mancini Institute in LA. Please visit www.andrewmaguire.net
(Vocals) Broadway credits include Shuffle Along and Soul Doctor. Most recently, she played Peggy Schuyler & Maria Reynolds in the first national tour of Hamilton. She’s performed off-Broadway in A Civil War Christmas and RENT. She received a Helen Hayes Award Nomination for Outstanding Actress in a Musical & the Emery Battis Award for Acting Excellence for her role as Aldonza in Man Of La Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre, DC). Amber is a graduate of Howard University (2016 James Butcher Alumni Award), and a proud founding member of the Broadway Advocacy Coalition. More at amberiman.com
(Vocals) moved to New York after 2 yrs of university to join the Original Broadway Production of Spring Awakening as Otto. After the show closed, he joined a 6-tenor vocal group called The Broadway Boys which has taken him all across the country to share the art of musical theatre. In years since he’s been afforded many incredible opportunities to perform for and alongside some of the greatest performers and writers in NYC including Zoe Sarnak, one of his favorite people ever. In 2016 Gabriel made it past ‘blind auditions’ and became a featured member of Team Alicia on NBC’s The Voice where he got to live his lifelong dream of becoming part of the zeitgeist of American Reality TV. He sends infinite love to his family, his boyfriend, his cat, his friends, and Beyonce.”
(Galatea Playwright) MJ Kaufman is a playwright and devised theater artist working in New York and Philadelphia. Their work has been seen at the Huntington Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, the New Museum, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Page73, Colt Coeur, Yale School of Drama, Lark Play Development Center and performed in
Russian in Moscow. MJ is currently a member of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers’ Group, WP Theater Lab, and a resident playwright at New Dramatists. Originally from Portland, Oregon, MJ attended Wesleyan University and Yale School of Drama. MJ co-curated the 2016 and 2017 Trans Theater Festivals at The Brick.
(Galatea Director) Originally from China, Mo Zhou is a stage director based in New York City. She directs plays, musicals, and opera. Ms. Zhou is a 2016/17 NYTW 2050 Fellow and a member of the Directors’ Lab with WP Theater. She has developed and presented works at New York Theatre Workshop, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theater Festival, Manhattan School of Music, among others. She was the James Marcus Opera Directing Fellow at the Juilliard School, where she apprenticed alongside Stephen Wadsworth. She has worked and trained with Houston Grand Opera, Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival, to name a few. MFA in Directing, Columbia University; BA, Bowdoin College.
(Galatea Producer) Yuvika Tolani is a producer and dramaturg interested in developing new work. She is currently a Line Producer at The Public Theater, where she collaborates with artists throughout the year on projects ranging from one-day events to mainstage productions in the season. Prior to working at The Public she was part of the fundraising team at the American Repertory Theater at Harvard. Yuvika began her exploration of the role of a producer in developing new work while pursuing Theater Studies at Yale University. Yuvika comes to New York with an already-split allegiance to her original hometowns: Mumbai and Singapore. A product of disparate cultures, she is a big believer in the universal impact of a powerful story.
(The Review Playwright) Donnetta Lavinia Grays Plays include LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE (Kilroys List, Denver Center’s Colorado New Play Summit, NNPN Showcase, Todd McNerney National Playwriting Contest Winner, O’Neill Center Semifinalist), LAID TO REST (Kilroys List – Honorable Mention. Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep Residency, Space on Ryder Farm Creative Residency), THE REVIEW (O’Neill Center Finalist). Developed work with The Public, Labyrinth Theater, New York Theater Workshop, KC Rep, Portland Stage, Pure Theatre, and Naked Angels. 2016-2018 Time Warner Foundation WP Playwrights Lab Resident. Civilians R&D Group and terraNova Collective Groundbreakers Playwright group alumna. Inaugural recipient of the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. www.donnettagrays.com
