ELIYA SMITH (Playwright) is a writer from Ohio. Plays: Ice Factory Festival, HERE Arts Center, the American Repertory Theater, the Tank, ISLE Theater Company. Support: Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Phyllis Anderson Foundation. MFA Candidate UT Austin.

LES WATERS (Director) is a Tony nominated and Obie Award-winning director. His New York credits include Broadway, NAATCO, Vineyard Theatre, Public Theater, Soho Rep, Second Stage, BAM Next Wave Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Connelly Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Signature. He has worked at many theaters across the country – Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, Huntington Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre. Tony Award nomination for Dana H., Obie Awards for Big Love and Sustained Excellence. He is both subject and co-author of The Theatre of Les Waters: More like the Weather, edited by Scott T Cummings, published by Routledge. 

LOUISA THOMPSON (Scenic Designer) 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 Lortel 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.

OANA BOTEZ (Costume Designer). New York credits include BAM Next Wave, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theater, PS122, Soho Rep, Joyce Theater, BRIC Arts Media, Classic Stage Company, Public Theater, and Bard SummerScape. Her regional credits are the Arena Stage, Actors Theater of Louisville, Wilma Theater, Montclair Peak Performance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Hartford Stage Company, Shakespeare Theater (DC), Berkeley Rep, ArtsEmerson, Broad Stage, MCA Chicago, ODC (San Francisco), and the Walker Art Center. Her international credits include the Old Vic, Bucharest National Theater, Arad National Theater, Bulandra Theater, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistances, Budapest National Theater, Cluj Hungarian National Theater, Bucharest Operetta Theater, International Festival of Contemporary Theater (Adana, Turkey), Le Quartz, La Filature (Mulhousse, France), and Exit Festival/Maison des Arts Creteil (Paris). Ms. Botez is currently an Associate Professor Adjunct in the Design Department at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

ISABELLA BYRD (Lighting Designer) is a New York-based designer working in live performance. Broadway: Cabaret, An Enemy of the People, and Romeo+Juliet. Off-Broadway: Infinite Life (Annie Baker); Primary Trust (Eboni Booth); Epiphany (Brian Watkins); Sanctuary City (Martyna Majok); The Good John Proctor (Talene Monahon); and many by Will Arbery: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Corsicana, and Plano. International: Cabaret (West End), Weather Girl (Edinburgh), Endgame (The Gate, Dublin), and “Daddy” (Almeida). Awards: Two-time 2024 Tony nominee, Drama Desk Special Award, three Lucille Lortels, two Obies, Henry Hewes, Olivier nomination, and featured in The New Yorker. Proud USA829 member and pay equity and sustainability advocate.  www.isabellabyrd.design

BRAY POOR (Sound Designer) Broadway: Appropriate (Tony Nom, Drama Desk Nom), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Take Me Out, True West, The Glass Menagerie, The Real Thing, in the next room, American Plan. Off-Broadway: Multiple shows at The Pubic, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, Soho Rep, MTC, Second Stage, Signature, Atlantic, and others. Most recently at Atlantic Infinite Life by Annie Baker. Regionally, all over the country, as well as productions in Europe and Latin America; Art Residency for 2 years in Mexico. Lortel, Drama Desk nominations, Obie for Sustained Excellence in Sound. Film: Music and sound for the feature documentary, The Unfixing. Upcoming: Dakar 2000 at MTC and Eurydice at Signature Theatre, also with Mr. Waters. 

JEREMY CHERNICK (Special Effects) has worked on over 50 Broadway productions. At Atlantic, Jeremy previously designed The Welkin and Guards at the Taj. Current & recent projects include Teeth: The Musical, The Outsiders (Broadway), Sweeney Todd (Broadway). Jeremy has worked with the Disney Theatrical Group creating effects for multiple productions for over a decade. In London’s West End, Jeremy designed Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Jeremy’s work has been featured in prominent performing and visual arts institutions across the globe. Since 2018, Jeremy has been the Head Designer for J&M Special Effects in Brooklyn. www.jmfx.net / www.jeremychernickdesigns.com

BECKY FLEMING (Production Stage Manager). Broadway: Newsies (OBC and 1^st National Tour), Waitress (OBC & 2021 revival), A Strange Loop, The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center Theater), The Wiz. Regional: 20+ productions at Paper Mill Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Westport Country Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Theater Under The Stars, Theater of The Stars, Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Off-Broadway: MCC, St. Ann’s Warehouse, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons. Her work on this production is dedicated to the living memory of her longtime PSM and collaborator Thom Gates.

ARJUN ATHALYE (Bard). Born and raised in New Jersey, Arjun started performing at his Mom’s cultural arts studio, Kulture Kool. His recent credits include The School Duel which premiered in competition at the Deauville American Film Festival in Deauville, France as well as Season 2 of Disney’s “Goosebumps”. He is perhaps best known for his role on Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark: Curse of the Shadows. This is his first professional theater role. When Arjun isn’t acting, he’s studying mechanical engineering at UC Irvine.

GRACE BRENNAN (Luna) is an actor, based in New York City, making her Atlantic debut in Grief Camp. She stars in Olmo Schnabel’s Pet Shop Days, which premiered at the 80th Venice Film Festival and will be in theaters this spring. She is upcoming in the HULU show, “Phony.” She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

Photo Credit: Joe Schepers

JACK DIFALCO (Cade). Broadway: The Ferryman, Torch Song, Marvin’s Room. Theatre: Inspired by True Events (Out of the Box Theatrics), Let The Right One In (Berkeley Rep), Sing Street (Huntington Theatre Co.), Yen (Manhattan Class Co.), Mercury Fur (The New Group), Lord of The Flies (Denver Center). Television: “Chicago PD,” “Monsterland,” “Prodigal Son,” “FBI,” “Daredevil,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The OA,” “Blue Bloods.” Film: The Goldfinch, Paterno, Telling, Last Straw, One Percent More Humid, Bully, Know Fear, I Can, I Will, I Did, Silo, Ex-Disposer, Rocket Man, Naranja, The Hard Sell. 2020 Best Actor Winner of Chilliwack International Film Festival, and Walla Walla Movie Crush, 2015 Clive Barnes Foundation Nominee for New Emerging Talent in Theatre. Instagram: @jackdifalco

DOMINIC GROSS (Gideon). Grief Camp will mark Gross’ Off-Broadway Debut!  He was most recently seen in Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and Sense and Sensibility at The Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Gross is currently wrapping up his fourth year at the UT Austin’s BFA in Acting program where he played roles such as Hamlet in Hamlet and the Stage Manager in Our Town. Gross is a proud Texan and is incredibly excited to begin his career in New York. Instagram: @dommogrosso

ALDEN HARRIS-MCCOY (Guitarist) is excited to be joining Grief Camp for his Off-Broadway debut. A graduate of NYU’s jazz guitar program, Alden has been performing and playing music since he was a wee lad growing up in Portland, Oregon. Over the past decade, he toured four continents as a singer and guitarist with the Brooklyn-based band The RT’s, opening for acts such as Modest Mouse, Tom Jones, and They Might Be Giants. His Broadway experience includes playing guitar for the musical Dear Evan Hansen and performing with the national tour. Currently, Alden plays guitar in Hank Azaria’s Bruce Springsteen tribute band “The EZ Street Band” and can be found playing solo and with friends in venues across New York City. Theater is his first love, and he’s thrilled to be back on the stage.

MAAIKE LAANSTRA-CORN (Blue) is an NYC based actor. Recent credits and new work development include Homofermenters (Ars Nova), When The Other Mary Celeste Sank (WP Theater), Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California (The Tank), Button Lake Band Camp (Clubbed Thumb), Ms Lily (Clubbed Thumb), and Me and Who (The Brick Rough Draft Festival). BA: Brown University. maaikelaanstracorn.com @_mcorn

RENÉE-NICOLE POWELL (Olivia). Off-Broadway debut! As a Texas native, Renée-Nicole has known she has wanted to be on stage for just about as long as she can remember. Powell is in her first year post-grad from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where she earned her BFA through the Stella Adler Conservatory and the Ernst Busch Academy in Berlin. Select credits: Daughters of the Ruling Class (Angelica; dir. Aidan La Poche), NY Times regarded Zoomers (Jada; Brooklyn Center for Theater Research), Measure for Measure (Lucio; Stella Adler Conservatory). She would like to thank all the teachers, family, and friends that have shaped her into the person and actor that she is today, as it wouldn’t have been possible without them. @reneenicolepow

LARK WHITE (Ester) is an actor, born and raised in Virginia. Her recent credits include York Walker’s Covenant at Roundabout Theater Company (World Premiere, New York Times Critic’s Pick) and Hamlet directed by Kenny Leon at The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park. She can also be seen in the upcoming film If I Had Legs, I’d Kick You (A24, starring Rose Byrne and A$AP Rocky) as well as PBS’s documentary Great Performances: Making Shakespeare. She received her BFA from Juilliard in May 2023 and was the co-recipient of the John Houseman prize for exceptional ability in classical theater.

DANNY WOLOHAN (Rocky). Broadway: Camelot, Macbeth, West Side Story, To Kill a Mockingbird. Off-Broadway: The Welkin, The Low Road, Assassins, An Octoroon, The Flick, Pocatello. Regional: What the Constitution Means to Me, Court Life, Gnit. LCT3: Verité. TV: “The Gilded Age,” “When They See Us,” “The Blacklist,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Elementary,” and “Veep.” FILM: White Noise.