Vandit Bhatt. Atlantic Theater debut. New York: The Great Recession (Flea Theater); Skin, Asking for Trouble, The Unusual Love Life of Bed Bugs and Other Creatures (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Theatre 2020); The Merchant of Venice (Inwood Shakespeare Festival). Regional: Animals Out of Paper (Public Theater, Maine and The Chester Theatre Company, Massachusetts); Damascus (Northern Stage, Vermont); The Pillowman and Red Light Winter (Know Theatre of Cincinnati). Television: “One Life to Live” (ABC), “Mercy” (NBC). Training: University of Central Florida.

Christopher Innvar. Broadway: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The People in the Picture, 110 in the Shade, The Threepenny Opera, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria. Off-Broadway: The Witch of Edmonton (Red Bull); The Boys in the Band (Transport Group); Floyd Collins, Gun-Shy (Playwrights Horizons); A New Brain (Lincoln Center); Time and Again (MTC); Eight Days Backwards (Vineyard); The Chemistry of Change (Women’s Project). Regional: Steppenwolf, Guthrie, Barrington Stage Co. (Associate Artist), Yale Rep, Long Wharf, McCarter, Shakespeare Theatre Co. Director, BSC: Mark St. Germain’s The Collyer Brothers at Home/Period Piece, Matthew Lopez’ The Whipping Man. Television/film: “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order”(s), “Gravity,” “Spin City,” You Don’t Mess with the Zohan, Prime, Rock the Paint.

Mahira Kakkar is a Kolkata-born, New York-based actress. New York theatre includes All’s Well That Ends Well (Public Lab), Sophistry (Theatre Row), Opus (Primary Stages), Betrothed (Ohio Theater), Cave Dwellers (The Pearl Theatre), Miss Witherspoon (Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits include Jesus in India (Magic Theatre); Rafta, Rafta… (Old Globe); Twelfth Night (Westport Country Playhouse); Coriolanus, Our Town (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Inana (Denver Center); Three Sisters, Lady Windermere’s Fan (Baltimore CENTERSTAGE); and several others. Film and television include “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Big C,” A Night in the Hill and the upcoming In Real Life. Training: Juilliard, Harold Guskin, Public Theater Shakespeare Lab, SITI. Thanks to Piter Marek and Karyn Casl.

Jordan Lage. Founding member, Atlantic Theater Company. Productions include Storefront Church, Keep Your Pantheon, Almost an Evening, David Mamet’s Home, Sea of Tranquility, The Night Heron, Mojo, The Hothouse, Edmond, The Water Engine, Distant Fires, The Woods, Boys’ Life (Drama Desk nom.) and over 30 productions with the lovely Ms. McCann. Broadway: Race, Speed-the-Plow, Inherit the Wind, Glengarry Glen Ross (Drama Desk Award), Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, The Old Neighborhood, Our Town, A Few Good Men (national tour). Regional: American Buffalo, Race, Glengarry Glen Ross, Rabbit Hole, Love! Valor! Compassion! (Barrymore Award), Blithe Spirit. Film: You Don’t Know Jack, Salt, Michael Clayton, World Trade Center, Things Change. Television: “Damages,” “The Big C,” “Blue Bloods,” “Ugly Betty,” “Rescue Me,” “All My Children,” “Oz.”

Madeleine Martin. Broadway: August: Osage County (National Youth Theatre Award, Marian Seldes Most Promising Young Performer Award 2009); The Pillowman; A Day in the Death of Joe Egg; A Christmas Carol. National tours: Les Misérables, The Sound of Music. Television: Series regular: “Californication” (Showtime). Guest star: “Criminal Minds,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Hope and Faith,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Adventure Time” (Cartoon Network). Lincoln Center: Scènes de Ballet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Nutcracker.

Mary McCann is a founding member of Atlantic Theater Company where she has appeared in many productions including Simon Stephens’ play Bluebird opposite Simon Russell Beale, Almost an Evening, Offices, Body Awareness, Spring Awakening, The Cherry Orchard, The Night Heron, The Hiding Place, This Thing of Darkness, The Beginning of August, Wolf Lullaby, The Water Engine, Edmond, Dangerous Corner, Shaker Heights and 10×25. Broadway: The Old Neighborhood, Our Town with Spalding Gray and Search and Destroy. Other Off-Broadway: Oleanna (Orpheum Theatre); Uncommon Women and Others (Second Stage); Boys’ Life (Lincoln Center) and Hot Keys (Naked Angels). American Repertory Theatre: Oleanna and Boston Marriage. Film: Phil Spector biopic “Flood,” TIMBER (upcoming), The Green, The Broadroom, Little Children, Sordid Things, The House of the Devil, The Spanish Prisoner, Things Change and The Night We Never Met. Television: CBS pilot “A Gifted Man” directed by Jonathan Demme, “The Unit,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Cashmere Mafia,” “The Naked Brothers Band,” “Sex and the City,” “Sports Night,” “ER,” “Spin City,” “Promised Land,” “It Must Be Love,” “Door to Door” and “The Con.” Producing credits include the films Edmond starring William H. Macy and Colin Fitz directed by Robert Bella.

Mary Beth Peil appeared on Broadway in last season’s critically acclaimed revival of Follies. Some local highlights include Broadway: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunday in the Park with George, Nine (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The King and I (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: The Room, Frame 312, Missing Persons (Obie Award), Hedda Gabler, First Lady Suite, As Thousands Cheer, Later Life, A Cheever Evening (Obie Award), Sylvia, Finding the Sun, Naked Truth (Obie Award). Regional theatres: L.A. Music Center, Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, The Globe, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Baltimore Centerstage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Adirondack Theatre. Film: Mirrors, Flags of Our Fathers, The Stepford Wives, The Odd Couple 2. Television: “The Good Wife,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Fringe,” “Law & Order,” “The Reagans.” Young Concert Artists alumni, Atlantic Theater Company ensemble member.

Gareth Saxe. Broadway: The Lion King, The Homecoming, Heartbreak House. Off-Broadway: Richard III, The Winter’s Tale (The Public); J.M. Barrie’s Echoes of the War with Frances Sternhagen and the Drama Desk Award-nominated The Daughter-in-Law (Mint Theater). Regional: A Moon to Dance By with Bob Cuccioli and Jane Alexander (dir. Ed Sherin, George Street Playhouse); Hamlet, Dangerous Liasons (dir. Bonnie Monte, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ); Bernie in Sexual Perversity in Chicago (dir. Peter Riegert, American Conservatory Theater); Faulkland in The Rivals (dir. Nicholas Martin, Huntington); Franz in iWitness (dir. Barry Edelstein, Mark Taper Forum). Film and TV: Michael Mann’s Public Enemies, “Law & Order,” “SVU.” NYU M.F.A. To M and “g” with much love: “I wanted to tell you. I like our family. I think it’s a good one.”—Harper Regan.

Peter Scanavino. Broadway: Shining City (MTC). Off-Broadway: Boys’ Life (Second Stage), Rainbow Kiss (The Play Company), subUrbia (Second Stage), The Moonlight Room (Beckett Theatre). Regional theatre: Yellow Face (Mark Taper Forum), A Moon for the Misbegotten (McCarter). Film: Mutual Friends, The Cold Lands, Happythankyoumoreplease, Zenith, Watching TV With the Red Chinese, The Informers, Deception. Television: “Do No Harm,” “The Good Wife,” “A Gifted Man,” “Law & Order,” “Royal Pains,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: Trial by Jury,” “Third Watch,” “The Bedford Diaries,” “Jonny Zero.” For Sid and Lisha, thank you for making life so wonderful.

John Sharian. Theatre: Escape (La MaMa); Bluebird (Atlantic); Streamers (Roundabout); Faith, The One You Love, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Fresh Kills (Royal Court); Laundry Room at the Hotel Madrid (The Gate); All My Sons, The Hairy Ape, Life and Death of a Buffalo Soldier, A Streetcar Named Desire, Lone Star & Pvt. Wars (Bristol Old Vic); Life During Wartime (Lyric Hammersmith); Macbeth, A View From the Bridge (Theatre Royal York); A Brief History of Helen of Troy (ATC); Hamlet (Shaw Theatre); Action (The Young Vic); Small Craft Warnings (Manchester); A Lie of the Mind (BAC). Television: “Unforgettable,” “Mercy,” “CSI: Miami,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “MI-5,” “Sex Traffic.” “Jason and the Argonauts,” “New Amsterdam.” Film: Disconnect, Little New York, Boy Wonder, Romasanta, Love Actually, Calendar Girls, Lost in Space, The Fifth Element, Death Machine, Saving Private Ryan, The Machinist.

Stephen Tyrone Williams holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance and Communication Studies from the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa). Select theatre: Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! (Signature Theatre Company); Thomas Bradshaw’s Burning (The New Group); Adam Rapp’s Hallway Trilogy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre); August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Hartford Stage) and Fences (Seattle Repertory Theatre/Syracuse Stage, SALT nom.); Lynn Nottage’s Ruined (Intiman Theatre/Geffen Playhouse); Moisés Kaufman’s The Laramie Project (Gallery Players); Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog (Actors Theatre of Louisville); and Measure for Measure (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Select film & television: “Children of God” (Showtime), “Passage,” “Stag & Doe” (HBO), “Unforgettable” (CBS), Restless City (Sundance 2011), Greetings from Tim Buckley and David Mamet’s Phil Spector biopic with Al Pacino (HBO). www.stephentyrone.com

Simon Stephens is an award-winning playwright whose work includes Bluebird (Atlantic Theater Company, 2011; Royal Court, 1998); Herons (Royal Court, 2001); Port (Manchester Royal Exchange, 2002; Pearson Award for Best New Play); Country Music (Royal Court, 2004); On the Shore of the Wide World (Manchester Royal Exchange/National Theatre, 2005; Olivier Award for Best New Play); Motortown (Royal Court, 2006); Harper Regan (National Theatre, 2008); Sea Wall (Bush Theatre/Traverse Theatre, 2008–2009); Pornography (Deutsches Schauspielhaus, Hanover, 2007; Edinburgh Festival/ Birmingham Rep, 2008; and Tricycle Theatre, 2009); Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/Manchester Royal Exchange, 2009); The Trial of Ubu (Schauspielhaus, Essen/Toneelgroep Amsterdam, 2010; Hampstead Theatre, 2012); A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky written in collaboration with David Eldridge and Robert Holman (Lyric Hammersmith, 2010); Marine Parade, a play with songs written by Mark Eitzel (Brighton Festival, 2010); T5 (Traverse Theatre, 2010); Wastwater (Royal Court Theatre, 2011); an adaptation of Jon Fosse’s I Am the Wind (Young Vic Theatre, 2011); A Doll’s House (Young Vic, 2012); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (adapted for stage from Mark Haddon’s novel, National Theatre 2012); Morning (Traverse Theatre and Lyric Hammersmith, 2012). His play Three Kingdoms, which had a run at the NO99 Theatre in Estonia and the Munich Playhouse, Germany, made its UK premiere at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith last May. Simon is currently under commission to the National Theatre, Manchester Royal Exchange and the Young Vic. Television includes an adaptation of “Pornography” for Coming Up (Channel 4, 2009) and “Dive” (Granada/BBC, 2009).

Gaye Taylor Upchurch is happy to be back at Atlantic after directing last season’s production of Simon Stephens’ play Bluebird with Simon Russell Beale and Mary McCann. NYC: La MaMa, Culture Project, Lincoln Center Institute, Summer Play Festival, others. She has developed new work at New Dramatists, NY Stage & Film, The Kennedy Center, The Playwrights’ Center, LCT Director’s Lab, Dixon Place, Overturn Ensemble, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, and was the Associate Director to Sam Mendes for The Bridge Project (BAM/Old Vic/international tour). She is an alumna of the Women’s Project Lab, The Drama League and UNC School of the Arts. Upcoming: Laura Marks’ Bethany (Women’s Project).

Rachel Hauck. Previously for the Atlantic: Bluebird. Recent NY: Slowgirl (LCT3); An Iliad (NYTW, McCarter, La Jolla); Regrets (MTC); Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons); This Wide Night (Naked Angels, Lortel nom.); Picked, A Boy and His Soul (Vineyard); Orange, Hat and Grace (Soho Rep, Drama Desk nom.); Ethel: TruckStop (BAM Next Wave); Creature (P73/New Georges); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass, 37 Arts); The Fever Chart, The Poor Itch (Public Lab). Recent regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Guthrie); Phaedra Backwards (McCarter); Medea/Macbeth/ Cinderella, Henry IV, The Music Man, Othello (OSF); Mother Courage (Berkeley Rep/La Jolla); Taper, Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep and others. Resident designer for the O’Neill since 2005.

Sarah J. Holden is pleased to be back at the Atlantic Theater Company. This is her third collaboration with director Gaye Taylor Upchurch following Bluebird (Atlantic Theater Company) and Escape (La MaMa). Notable credits include reasons to be pretty off and on Broadway, Fifth of July (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Still Life (MCC Theater), Robert Altman’s mini-series “Tanner on Tanner,” feature films Diminished Capacity (Sundance 2008), The Ten (Sundance 2007), Face (Sundance 2002), Jump Tomorrow (Sundance 2001) and the Comedy Central series “Stella.” She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband Griffin and their son August.

Jeff Croiter. Broadway: Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award), The Pee-wee Herman Show, Next Fall, Kiki and Herb. Other NYC includes Old Jews Telling Jokes; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Side Effects; Knickerbocker; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Days; Streamers; Family Guy Sings; Jerry Springer The Opera; Rufus Wainwright’s Judy concert at Carnegie Hall; Love Child; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Drumstruck; Jacques Brel…; Almost, Maine; Trumbo; Matt & Ben; Cam Jansen; Miss Witherspoon; Privilege; The Dazzle; and Jennifer Muller/The Works. Jeff is a producer of Submissions Only.

Fitz Patton has designed and scored over 240 productions in 20 cities across the US. In 2010 he was awarded both the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk awards for his design for When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, and was nominated again in 2011 for his work at on The Other Place directed by Joe Mantello. His most recent article for Live Design magazine, “Stochastic Natural Sound Fields,” details his process for the creation of dense natural soundscapes. Last summer he collaborated with composer Annea Lockwood on the installation of a large-scale sensor-activated environmental sound sculpture at I-Park, an artists’ retreat in East Haddam, CT. His symphony The Holy Land, a 45-minute work for baritone, tenor and mezzo-soprano and orchestra, was completed in January of this year. He is the founder of Chance, a new theatre design magazine to be published this fall. He is a graduate of Vassar College, Bard College and Yale University.

Ben Furey. Ben is delighted to return to the Atlantic Theater Company, having previously worked on their productions of Gabriel and The New York Idea. Broadway: Billy Elliot, Spamalot, Catch Me If You Can, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Off-Broadway: If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, The Language Archive (Roundabout); That Face (MTC). Other NY: The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Sonnet Repertory Theatre). National tours include Billy Elliot (North America), West Side Story, Spamalot. Regional/international includes Guthrie Theatre, Gate Theatre (Ireland), Cincinnati Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, Palm Beach DramaWorks, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, NC Shakespeare Festival, Triad Stage. Films include Eyeborgs, Treasure Buddies, Pete’s Meteor. TV: “Vine Talk” (PBS). Teaching: UNC School of the Arts, Gaiety School of Acting (Dublin), Laura Henry Studio (L.A.).

J. David Brimmer. Fight Master, SAFD. David has choreographed some stuff (Broadway: An Enemy of the People; Grace; Wit; Born Yesterday; A Life in the Theatre; Speed-the-Plow; Come Back, Little Sheba; Spring Awakening; The Lieutenant of Inishmore; NY premieres: Blasted, The Whipping Man, Ages of the Moon, The American Pilot, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe), worked at some wonderful venues (The Public Theater, Metropolitan Opera, MTC, Atlantic, Lincoln Center, Signature Theatre, TFANA, Roundabout, Dallas Theater Center, Hartford Center Stage, NSMT, A.R.T., Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Guthrie), and with some great folks (David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Ethan Coen, Martin McDonagh, Tracy Letts, Kenneth Lonergan, Ken Russell, Franco Zeffirelli). “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.”—G. Fox.

Jillian M. Oliver. Broadway: Wit, Chinglish, A Life in the Theatre, Race, Speed-the-Plow. Off-Broadway: Oohrah!, Body Awareness, Trumpery, Human Error, The Voysey Inheritance, Birth and After Birth (Atlantic Theater Company); Medieval Play (Signature Theatre); Cradle and All (MTC); Why Torture is Wrong…, Conversations in Tusculum (The Public Theater). Regional: productions at Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Boston Ballet. Graduate of Boston University.

Samantha Watson. New York & international: The Bridge Project’s Richard III (BAM, Old Vic, international tour), Arnie the Doughnut (NYMF), ShuffleCulture (BAM), Lear Dreaming (Singapore Arts Festival), The Continuum: Beyond the killing fields (The Arts Centre, Melbourne). Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Notes from Underground, Restoration (La Jolla Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, The Mock-Tempest (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Hedda Gabler, The Misanthrope, Seven Against Thebes, Sexual Selection, The Laramie Project (La Jolla Playhouse/ UCSD). Ms. Watson received her M.F.A. from UC San Diego.