LUCAS HNATH (Co-Playwright & Director). Plays include Dana H.; Hillary and Clinton; The Thin Place; A Doll’s House, Part 2; Red Speedo; The Christians; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; Isaac’s Eye; and Death Tax. He has been produced on Broadway at the John Golden and Lyceum Theatres; Off-Broadway at The Vineyard, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. His plays have also been premiered at The Goodman, Humana Festival of New Plays, Victory Gardens, and South Coast Repertory. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Awards: Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kesselring Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Obie Award for Playwriting, Steinberg Playwright Award, Windham-Campbell Literary Prize, Lucille Lortel Award, and a Tony nomination for Best Play.

STEVE CUIFFO (Co-Playwright, Steve) is a theater artist and illusion designer whose work includes: Elephant Room (CTG); Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place (Playwrights Horizons) and A Public Reading…About The Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep.); Geoff Sobelle’s Home and The Object Lesson (BAM); Thaddeus Phillips’ Zoo Motel and Zoo Mundo; Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In the Universe (CTG); Antipodes, Old Hats (Signature Theatre); Lypsinka’s The Passion of the Crawford; Lenny Bruce at Carnegie Hall (St. Ann’s); Magic Consultant for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Season 4); Magic Director for David Blaine Live. Wooster Group associate. Co-Founder of Secret Arts.

LOUISA THOMPSON (Scenic Design)  She is a professional set designer and a creator of theatrical work for young audiences.  Louisa received the 2019 Obie award for Sustained Excellence as a Set Designer and a 2018 Lucille Lortell award for her Set Design of In The Blood at Signature Theatre.  Her commitment to creating new work for young audiences led to a 2018 New Victory Theatre LabWorks residency. Other recent projects  include: “Max Makes a Million” at The Alliance Theatre,  the exhibit design of “Maira Kalman- In Pursuit of Everything” at the High Museum, and ”Becky Nurse of Salem” at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.  Louisa Thompson has been  a professor in the Hunter College Department of Theatre since 2002.

TYLER MICOLEAU (Lighting Design). Atlantic: Mojo, Dublin Carol, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Night Heron, Anon, Oohrah!, The Band’s Visit. Broadway: Into The Woods, American Buffalo, Be More Chill, The Band’s Visit (Tony Award). Recent Off-Broadway: Camp Siegfried (2ST), A Case For The Existence of God (Signature). Other notable Off-Broadway: Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons, Drama Desk nomination); When The Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater, Lucille Lortel Award); Blasted (Soho Rep, Hewes Award); Bug (Barrow Street Theater, Lortel and OBIE Awards). OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

VANESSA COAKLEY (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Waitress; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; The Merchant of Venice. National Tour: Hadestown; Aladdin; La Cage aux Folles. Other credits include Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC Theater, NY Stage and Film, and Classic Stage Company. For JWC.

MORGAN AULD (Magic Consultant) is a NYC-based theatre maker who blends his background in variety arts, sleight of hand, and classical theatre training to create original work and inventive re-imaginings of classics. Most recently he worked with Steve Cuiffo as Associate Illusion Designer for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe starring Cecily Strong (Center Theatre Group). Morgan toured China as performer and Resident Director for One Starry Night, a multimedia physical theatre piece co-produced by ArKtype and Hangzhou-based theatre company, Grand Boat. On screen he played the lead character in Service to Man, an independent film that won five Best Narrative Feature awards on the festival circuit. He’s also done a bunch of Shakespeare. Training: SUNY Purchase BFA, Acting. www.morganauld.com