STEVEN BOYER received a Tony nomination for the Broadway run of Hand to God and earned an Obie Award and a Lucille Lortel Award for Hand to God at Ensemble Studio Theatre and MCC. Broadway: Time & the Conways, I’m Not Rappaport. Recent Off-Broadway: Moscow x6 (MCC), Assassins (Encores!), King Lear (The Public), The Explorers Club (MTC), Trevor (Lesser America), Modern Terrorism (Second Stage), The Ugly One (Soho Rep), School for Lies (Classic Stage), The Coward (LCT3). TV: upcoming “WeCrashed,” “Love Life S2,” “Trial & Error,” “Chicago Fire,” “Prodigal Son,” “FBI,” “The Blacklist,” “The Good Wife,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Mom,” “The Crazy Ones,” “Louie,” “High Maintenance,” “The Share,” “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order,” “Ed.” Film: upcoming Borderlands, Hustlers, Bridge of Spies, The Wolf of Wall Street, Listen Up Philip. Boyer also plays lead guitar in the rock band, The US Open. Member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre.

VICTORIA CLARK is delighted to be making her Atlantic Theater Company debut in this remarkable production. Though only 16 years old, she has starred in 12 Broadway shows including The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards), Sister Act (Tony, Drama Desk noms), Cinderella(Tony nom), Gigi (Tony nom), Titanic, How to Succeed…, Cabaret, and A Grand Night for Singing. Off-Broadway: When The Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk nom), The Marriage of Bette and Boo.  Always being somewhat of a bossy person, Victoria has also directed on and off over the past 38 years, which is also odd for a teenager. Directing highlights include Strindberg’s The Dance of Death (Classic Stage Company); The Trouble With Doug (Fredericia Theatre, Denmark); Newton’s Cradle (NMTF); and Scaffolding by Jeff Blumenkrantz, starring Rebecca Luker (Barrow Group). TV and Film: “Pose,” “The Blacklist,” “Almost Family,” One Royal Holiday, “Homeland.” Proud AEA National Councilor. Favorite role: TL’s mama.

JUSTIN COOLEY is a musical theatre student at Texas Christian University from Kansas City who is delighted to make his Off-Broadway debut in Kimberly Akimbo. He was a part of the 2021 Jimmy Awards and was featured as a finalist. He has starred in several shows around the Kansas City Metro area and his high school Olathe East, recent credits including Dmitry in Anastasia, Dennis in All Shook Up, and Terk in Tarzan.

OLIVIA ELEASE HARDY is absolutely thrilled to be joining the production of Kimberly Akimbo in the role of Delia. Having finished the Summer: The Donna Summer Musical First National Tour as “Duckling Donna,” this will be Olivia’s second professional show and first time originating a role. Originally from Southern New Jersey, Olivia attended the University of Michigan to earn her BFA in Musical Theatre. Olivia would like to thank her incredible parents for their endless love and support, her mentor Richard Jay-Alexander for all of his brilliant guidance, and her wonderful agent, Nancy Carson, for loving and believing in her since she was a tiny girl. Thank you for believing in my dream.

FERNELL HOGAN II is a Houston native. He is thrilled to be making his Atlantic Theater Company debut. Previous credits include: The Prom (Broadway), Mean Girls (First National Tour). He is a graduate of Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Fernell sends thanks to his family and friends, The Telsey Office, and Carson Kolker for their continued love and support. @fernellhogan.

MICHAEL ISKANDER. Off-Broadway debut! Michael was born in Egypt and came to the United States when he was nine. He started learning English after coming to the U.S. Michael enjoys playing piano, guitar, and writes/produces songs in his free time. Michael was honored to win the regional awards program Spirit of the M.A.C.Y. Awards in Orange County for his portrayal of Usnavi in In The Heights, as well as the Special Recognition Award at the Jimmy Awards. Michael would like to thank his family, teachers, mentors, Barry Kolker, The Telsey Office, Atlantic Theater Company, and everyone who believed in him.

ALLI MAUZEY. Atlantic Theater Company debut. Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (Ernestina), Wicked (Glinda), Cry Baby (Lenora, Drama League Award Nomination, Theatre World Award), Hairspray. Other NY: The Golden Apple (Minerva/City Center Encores!), Show Boat (Ellie May Shipley / NY Philharmonic), It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman (Sydney/City Center Encores!). Regional: Cinderella (Cinderella/Nashville Symphony Orchestra), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey/The Muny, Kevin Kline Award Nomination), 110 in the Shade (Snookie/Pasadena Playhouse), City of Angels (Mallory/Reprise!).

BONNIE MILLIGAN was nominated by both the Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle for her Broadway debut in Head Over Heels, for which she also won the Theatre World Award. First National Tour: original Pat in Kinky Boots. Off-Broadway: Promenade and God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Encores!); Gigantic (Vineyard Theatre); Jasper in Deadland (Prospect Theater). Television: recurring as Katherine Witherbottom on “Search Party” (HBO Max) and Bitsy on “Escape at Dannemora” (Showtime), “Chicago Fire” (NBC), “Happy” (SyFy). Instagram- @beltingbons Twitter- @beltingbonnie.

NINA WHITE is thrilled to be making her New York debut in Kimberly Akimbo. She is so grateful to her family, her friends, and her mentors for their love and support. Prior credits include Sister Mary Robert in Sister Act (Music Theatre Wichita), Kristina in 2AZ (The Purple Rose Theatre Company), and Mother Teresa in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Univ. Of Michigan). Nina is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.

JENNIFER ALLEN. Following a long break from theater due to the pandemic, Jennifer is thrilled to be working at Atlantic Theater Company with this illustrious group of people. She was last seen in New York in High Button Shoes at City Center Encores! and Off-Broadway in Jerry Springer: The Opera. Previously, she spent a year on the road as Ursula in Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Broadway credits include leading roles in Bridges of Madison County, Sister Act, Memphis, A Catered Affair, Cats, Little Me, Guys and Dolls, and City of Angels. Jennifer has been in National Tours of Ragtime, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and Cabaret; and regionally, she has worked at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Goodspeed Opera House, Sacramento Music Circus, Ogunquit Playhouse, and Paper Mill Playhouse. She recently made her television series debut in an episode of “The Other Two” on HBO. Jennifer makes her home in New York with her loving family; husband Rob, daughter Frances, and son Cedric.

JOHN CAMPIONE. Atlantic Theater Company debut. National Tour: School of Rock, The Bridges of Madison County. Regional: My Very Own British Invasion (Paper Mill Playhouse), Les Miserables, Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical (Dallas Theater Center), The Toxic Avenger, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Songs for a New World, Hello Again (Uptown Players), Bonnie and Clyde, Putting it Together (WaterTower Theatre). BM, Southern Methodist University. Podcast producer and editor: @campiaudio, campiaudio.com | Commercial jingle writer and podcaster with Justin Keyes: @podhelptheoutcasts, barricadebrothersmedia.com | And for nothing of any real value: @john_campione.

NATALIE CHARLE ELLIS. Broadway: Original cast member of Beetlejuice the Musical, School of Rock, and Les Miserables (2014 revival). Off-Broadway: Neurosis the Musical, Rated P for Parenthood, and Forbidden Broadway Alive and Kicking (Original Cast Album). Other favorite experiences include 9-5 the Musical (First National Tour); Georgie in Full Monty and Meg in Brigadoon (PCLO); Mrs. White in Clue and Irene Molloy in Hello, Dolly! starring Beth Leavel (Cape Playhouse); Lizzie the Musical (TUTS); Rosie in Mamma Mia! (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina); and Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Phoenix Theatre). Natalie was also seen on “Master of None” (Netflix). Instagram: @NatsyCharle. “Thank you to my loving boyfriend Scott, my agents Dustin and Marc for believing me, and The Telsey Office and the creative team for giving me this opportunity. After a long and hard year, being in a room with these brilliant humans my heart is now full. Theater is back ya’ll!” NatalieCharleEllis.com

SKYE ALYSSA FRIEDMAN is honored to make her debut with Atlantic Theater Company! Broadway credits include Annie with James Lapine and Andy Blankenbuehler. She has been seen in productions of The Audience, Billy Elliot, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Music Man, and The Sound of Musicat the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. She appears on-camera in Nickelodeon’s “I Am Frankie,” as well as in the short films Mute, We’re Gonna Come Back, and Pocha. Skye is a current student in the BFA Acting program at Pace University’s School of Performing Arts. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and is SAG-e. Many thanks to Nancy, Bonnie, Craig and The Telsey Office, Janine, my PPA professors, the incredible people involved in Kimberly Akimbo, and my friends and family! IG: @skyealyssafriedman

ALEX VINH. Off-Broadway debut. Alex is a Houston native and a graduate of Texas Christian University. Selected theater credits: Spring Awakening (Theatre Under the Stars), Office Hour(Circle Theatre), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Mill Mountain Theatre). Alex also recently made his screen debut in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.” He is beyond grateful for the team at Bloc NYC, The Telsey Office, and Atlantic Theater Company. IG @alexhvinh

DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE is a playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and librettist. His play Rabbit Hole premiered on Broadway at MTC and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, five Tony nominations, and the Spirit of America Award. His Good People was awarded the NY Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, The Horton Foote Prize, The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award, and two Tony nominations. David also wrote the book and lyrics for Shrek the Musical (Jeanine Tesori, composer), which was nominated for eight Tonys, four Oliviers, a Grammy, and earned him the Kleban Prize as America’s most promising musical theatre lyricist. David’s other plays include Ripcord, Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World, and A Devil Inside, among others. David’s screen credits include his film adaptation of Rabbit Hole, The Family Fang, and Rise of the Guardians, among others. He is also, along with Tanya Barfield, Co-Director of the Playwriting Program at the Juilliard School.

JEANINE TESORI is a composer of musical theater, opera, television, and film. She won the Tony Award for Best Score (with bookwriter & lyricist, Lisa Kron) for the musical Fun Home. Her other musicals include Caroline, or Change (with Tony Kushner), Shrek the Musical (with David Lindsay-Abaire), Thoroughly Modern Millie (with Dick Scanlan), Violet (with Brian Crawley), and Soft Power (with David Henry Hwang) which was her second work after Fun Home to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Along with Missy Mazzoli, she is one of the first women to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Her latest opera Blue (libretto by Tazewell Thompson) received the MCANA Award for Best New Opera. In addition to her work as a composer, Tesori is the Founding Artistic Director of New York City Center’s Encores! Off-Center series, Supervising Vocal Producer of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and lecturer in music at Yale University.

JESSICA STONE worked as an actress on and off-Broadway, in television, and in film for many (many) years before transitioning to directing. That pivot started in 2010 with her all male production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She has since been directing at theaters all over the country. Favorites include Dancing at Lughnasa, Absurd Person Singular, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Vanity Fair, Ripcord, Arms in the Man, and As You Like It. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. She’s delighted to be here at Atlantic Theater Company with this group of storytellers.

DANNY MEFFORD’s work includes Fun Home (Tony Award, Best Musical), Dear Evan Hansen (Tony and Olivier Award, Best Musical), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and The Bridges of Madison County. Off-Broadway and other: Much Ado About Nothing and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park), Miss You Like Hell and February House (The Public), Good Person of Szechwan, an international tour of The Sound of Music, Pump Boys and Dinettes (Encores! Off-Center), Melancholy Play, and Dance Dance Revolution. Danny’s choreography can be seen on TV in “Dickinson” (Apple+) and “Rise” (NBC). He is a Drama Desk, Astaire, and Lucille Lortel Award nominee. Directing: The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul, Becoming Liv Ullman (NY Fringe), and Wasted (Ars Nova). MFA in Acting: Brown/Trinity Rep.

CHRIS FENWICK most recently music directed the Public Theater’s production of Soft Power (Pulitzer finalist). He music supervised the Broadway revival of Once On This Island (Tony Award, Best Revival) and music directed the Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park With George, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. He music directed the Public Theater and Broadway productions of Fun Home (Tony Award, Best Musical; Pulitzer finalist); music supervisor of the national tour and London production. He was the founding music director of City Center Encores! Off-Center. Chris music directed the original productions of Michael John LaChiusa’s Giant, Los Otros, Queen of the Mist, and See What I Wanna See. Music director for Patti LuPone at Carnegie Hall and more. Film: Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.

DAVID ZINN. Broadway: scenery and costumes for the Spongebob Musical, Fun Home, Choir Boy, Amelie, and The Last Ship; scenery for Diana, Torch Song, The Humans, Violet, and The Minutes; and costumes for A Doll’s House Part 2, Airline Highway, Bengal Tiger…, Other Desert Cities, The Vibrator Play, and Xanadu. Off-Broadway: scenery for Paris (Atlantic Stage 2); The Flick, Circle Mirror Transformation,Placebo (Playwrights Horizons); We’re Gonna Die and Dogfight (2nd Stage); The Visitor, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida (Public Theater); The Sound and The Fury and The Select (ERS); and costumes for Othello (NYTW). Also: A.C.T./San Francisco, ACT Seattle, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, CTG, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Staatsoper Berlin, and The National Theater and Young Vic in London.

SARAH LAUX. Broadway: The Band’s Visit, Fully Committed, The Humans. Selected Off-Broadway: Blue Ridge, This Ain’t No Disco, On the Shore of the Wide World, The Band’s Visit (Atlantic Theater Company); The Humans (Roundabout Theatre Company); Superhero, Man From Nebraska (Second Stage Theater); Downstairs (Primary Stages); Jerry Springer: The Opera (New Group, Obie Award); Ultimate Beauty Bible (Pg 73); The Effect (Barrow Street Theatre); The Half Life of Marie Curie (Audible). Regional: A Play Is A Poem (Taper Theater); Before The Meeting (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Bad Dates; Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington Theatre Company); Bad Jews (George Street Playhouse); Thresh/ Hold (Pilobolus Dance Theater); BUG (Steppenwolf Theater Company). Film: Freakshow, The Sixth Reel, Not Okay. Television: “High Fidelity,” “Godfather of Harlem: S2.” Sarahlauxdesign.com IG: @lauxy123

LAP CHI CHU. Lighting designs seen at Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Signature Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Theater. Awards include the Lucille Lortel for Outstanding Lighting Design and the 2018 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design. Head of Lighting Design at UCLA. lapchichu.com

KAI HARADA. Broadway: Head Over Heels; The Band’s Visit (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award); Amélie; Sunday in the Park With George; Allegiance; Gigi; Fun Home; On the Town; First Date; Follies (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations); and Million Dollar Quartet. Other: Merry Wives (co-designer, Delacorte); Hercules (Delacorte); Soft Power (Public); Marie: Dancing Still (5th Avenue); The Light in the Piazza, Candide (L.A. Opera); We Live in Cairo, The Black Clown (ART); Tommy, The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors, Little Dancer (Kennedy Center); Silent Night (Washington National Opera); Zorro (Moscow; Atlanta); Hinterm Horizont (Berlin); Sweeney Todd (Portland Opera). Recorded Media: Spandex: The Musical, Row (Audible/WTF). Audio Consultant for the revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Education: Yale University.

LUCY MACKINNON. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, The Rose Tattoo, Lifespan of a Fact, Six Degrees of Separation, Regina Spektor: Live on Broadway, Deaf West Theatre’s Spring Awakening. Recent Off-Broadway: Unknown Soldier (Playwrights Horizons), A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theater), The Mother (Atlantic Theater Company), White Noise (The Public Theater), After the Blast (LCT3), The Treasurer (Playwrights Horizons), Yen (MCC).

JARED JANAS. Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, All About Me, Next to Normal. Recent Off-Broadway and Regional: Ah, Wilderness! (Hartford Stage), Songs for a New World (Paper Mill Playhouse), Seven Deadly Sins (Tectonic Theater Project), Sing Street(NYTW), Scotland, PA (Roundabout), Wives (Playwrights Horizons), Toni Stone (Roundabout), BLKS (MCC), Nantucket Sleigh Ride (Lincoln Center), Alice by Heart (MCC), Miss You Like Hell, The Low Road, and Father Comes Home from the Wars… (Public Theater), Jerry Springer: the Opera (New Group), Yours Unfaithfully (Mint Theatre, Drama Desk nomination). Recent Film/TV: “And Just Like That,” “The Gilded Age,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Fight,” “Six by Sondheim,” “Gotham,” “Mozart in the Jungle.”

ANTOINE SILVERMAN is happy to be Music Coordinating his third show for Atlantic. Other shows such as Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark; Fun Home; Tuck Everlasting; Secret Life of Bees; and currently Caroline, or Change and Assassins. He has also served as concertmaster and/or contractor for such artists as David Bowie, Audra McDonald, Michel Legrand, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Miley Cyrus, and many others.

JOHN CLANCY. Broadway: Diana, Mean Girls (Tony nom.), Fun Home (Tony/Drama Desk noms.), The Prom, Tuck Everlasting, Shrek the Musical (Tony/Drama Desk noms.), Cats 2016 (Dance Arr.). Off-B’way/Regional: The Secret Life of Bees, Gun & Powder, Becoming Nancy, Soft Power (Dance Arr.), Fortress of Solitude, Jasper in Deadland, Just So. Rihanna: NBA All-Star Game (string arr.), 2018 Tony Awards Opening by Sara Bareilles.

MACY SCHMIDT is an Egyptian-American Orchestrator and Music Director based in NYC. Named a 2021 “Woman to Watch on Broadway” by the Broadway Women’s Fund, Macy’s recent projects include: TINA (Broadway), the upcoming Disney revival of Aida, Disney’s re-imagined UK tour of Beauty and the Beast (on which she worked alongside the original creative team), the musical adaptation of Chelsea Clinton’s She Persisted (Music Supervisor), and the acclaimed Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical(Orchestrator), for which her work was praised by The New York Times for its likeness to a “classic Disney Act I finale in the brassy manner of Alan Menken.” Macy is also the Founder of The Broadway Sinfonietta, an all-female-identifying, majority women-of-color orchestra showcasing BIPOC women musicians on Broadway, which quickly caught the attention of national press. She is represented by ICM Partners. Macyschmidtmusic.com

RYAN EMMONS is a founding Co-Artistic Director of No.11 Productions. Broadway directing credits include Groundhog Day (Assistant Director), Matilda the Musical (Resident Director), and Ghost the Musical (SDC Observer). He was also the Resident Director for the First National tours of Matilda the Musical and the Broadway revival of Miss Saigon. Selected directing credits with No.11 Productions include: Quest for the West, Coosje, A Christmas Carol, Medea, MythUnderstood, and Jet of Blood. Ryan has also directed projects for Home Made Theatre (NY), The University of Utah (UT), Kentucky Repertory Theatre (KY), The Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NY), and Columbia University (NY). Ryan is on faculty at the Institute of American Musical Theatre. He holds a BS in Theatre from Skidmore College and is a proud member of SDC.

DARIUS BARNES is a director, choreographer and performing artist. Amid the 2020 pandemic and in honor of Juneteenth, Darius produced the inaugural Antonyo Awards in collaboration with Broadway Black and the Black Theatre Society. He began choreographing by invitation, participating in the New York Choreographic Institute. His works include Mandala (New York City Ballet) and his most recent ballet, to be in contact (Carolina Ballet). His theater work includes Broadway Bounty Hunter (Associate Choreographer, Barrington Stage) and MJ the Musical (Assistant Choreographer). On TV, Darius can be seen on “Halston” (Netflix) and featured in Grammy award winning singer/songwriter Estelle’s music video, “Conqueror.” Darius appeared in the historic Metropolitan Opera debut of Fire Shut Up In My Bones and in six Broadway shows including Mean Girls and the 2019 revival of Kiss Me Kate. Darius studied at the School of American Ballet (SAB) and began as an apprentice and corps de ballet member of the New York City Ballet. He has danced with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet & The Dance Theatre of Harlem. Darius is on the teaching staff and adjudication panel for MOVE(NYC) and is a member of SAB’s Alumni Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. @dblexicon

ANDREW DIAZ. Previously with Atlantic: Eddie & Dave,  Homecoming Queen, The Great Leap, Skeleton Crew. Recent credits: Letters Of Suresh (2NDStage), Semblance (NYTW), Fefu And Her Friends (TFANA, Henry Hewes Design Award), Seared (MCC), Scotland, PA (Roundabout). Previously worked with: Walt Disney Entertainment, SNL, The Vineyard Theater, Signature Theater, and many others.

ARABELLA POWELL. Broadway: The Lion King; What the Constitution Means To Me; The Rose Tattoo; John Leguizamo’s Latin History, Ghetto Klown and Sexaholix; Eve Ensler’s The Good Body; Kat and the Kings. Off-Broadway Select: Richard II (The Public/ WNYC); Théâtre de Complicité’s Mnemonic; Trumbo; Tap Dogs (Australia, UK, US tour, Edinburgh Fringe, and West End). Program Director, Open Stage Project, closing the gender gap in backstage and offstage careers. Never-ending thanks to Mars, Kate, and Nia.

MARIO (MARS) WOLFE. New York: The Black Clown, Lincoln Center; The New Englanders, Manhattan Theatre Club; The Peculiar Patriot, Audible Theater, National Black Theatre; In the Red and Brown Water, Richard II, Juilliard. Regional: Ms. Blakk for President, Grand Concourse, The Qualms, Steppenwolf Theatre; The Black Clown, A.R.T.; Ah, Wilderness!, Gloria, Wonderful Town, Goodman Theatre. Film/TV: MTV’s VMAs, The View, VH1 Trailblazers Honors. The digital salon Mars created (De.cypher) is available to stream at de-cypher2020.com. Mars is 2021-22 Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow. Education: DePaul University; Juilliard