JODI BALFOUR (Tally) is an actress and filmmaker based in LA and New York. After growing up on stage in South Africa, performing in professional ballets and musicals, she graduated from the country’s premier drama school at The University of Cape Town. Landing a highly-coveted role in a BBC mini-series, her on-screen career quickly evolved abroad. She won a Canadian Screen Award for her leading role in the TV series “Bomb Girls”, starred in HBO/Cinemax’s critically acclaimed Quarry, and went on to lead the BBC1 mini-series Rellik. Balfour has since wowed critics with her portrayal of Jackie Kennedy in Netflix’s “The Crown” and with her performance on Apple TV+’s “For All Mankind,” playing ‘Ellen Wilson’, astronaut turned first-female-president of the United States, going on to star opposite Juno Temple as investor ‘Jack Danvers’ in season 3 of the global phenomenon, “Ted Lasso”. She can most recently be seen in the Sony Pictures Classics film Freud’s Last Session, starring alongside Sir Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode as well as in the debut feature from up-and-coming filmmaker, Will Seefried, Lilies Not For Me. In 2024, Balfour wrote and directed her first short film, now in post-production, and she is preparing to make her first feature later this year. She is thrilled to be returning to the stage at Atlantic Theater Company, a dream come true.

KEITH KUPFERER (Paul) is a Chicago-based actor who starred in the critically acclaimed film Ghostlight, earning rave reviews at Sundance and a 2025 Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Lead Performance. He also received a Gotham Award nomination and won a Satellite Award for his role. Kupferer’s film credits include Widows, The Dark Knight, The Dilemma, Stranger Than Fiction, Road to Perdition, and Fred Claus. On television, he recurs on NBC’s “Chicago P.D.” and MGM+’s “The Emperor of Ocean Park.” Other appearances include “Better Call Saul,” “The Chi,” “Shameless,” and “South Side”. A veteran of the Chicago theater scene, he originated the role of Erik Blake in the world premiere of The Humans and has performed at Steppenwolf, The Goodman, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Notable credits include God of Carnage, Sweat, and Appropriate.

BABAK TAFTI (David) can be seen in the final season of “Billions”. Previous notable TV/Film work include Showtime’s “Super Pumped” and an arc on HBO’s critically acclaimed “Succession”. He stars in Joanna Arnow’s The Feeling That The Time For Something Has Passed which debuted at 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures. Babak can next be seen in the upcoming Amazon Studios feature film Crime 101. Select theater works include Othello at the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, Small Mouth Sounds for Ars Nova and Signature, The Profane at Playwright’s Horizon, Against the Hillside at EST, and The North Pool at the Vineyard Theatre. He Graduated from the Yale School of Drama.

ABBY ROSEBROCK (Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, screenwriter, and performer from the Carolinas. Her plays have been commissioned, developed and produced throughout New York City and across the country. Select works include Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theater Company), Dido of Idaho (Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Echo), Singles in Agriculture, Wilma, and more. Interests include spirituality, female abjection, and Chekhov. She is currently working on several audio, film, and TV projects in development. 

JO BONNEY (Director) has directed the premieres of plays by: Alan Ball, Hilary Bettis, Eric Bogosian, Eleanor Burgess, Hammaad Chaudry, Culture Clash, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Isaac Gomez, Danny Hoch, Ione Patricia Lloyd, Neil LaBute, Warren Leight, Martyna Majok, Lynn Nottage, Dan O’Brien, Dael Orlandersmith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Darci Picoult, John Pollono, Will Power, David Rabe, Jose Rivera, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Alexis Scheer, Christopher Shinn, Diana Son, John Turturro & Ariel Levy, Universes, Naomi Wallace, Michael Weller. Plus plays by: Caryl Churchill, Nilo Cruz, Anna Deavere Smith, Charles Fuller, Lisa Loomer, Paul Lucas, Carey Perloff, Lanford Wilson. Tony Award nomination for Cost of Living, two Obie Awards for Sustained Excellence of Direction, Lucille Lortel Best Musical and Lucille Lortel Best Revival, Drama Desk nomination for Direction of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. Audelco Award for Father Comes Home from the Wars. Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Alliance and Lilly Award. Editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG). 

ARNULFO MALDONADO (Set Design) Broadway: Buena Vista Social Club (Tony nominee), Real Women Have Curves, Dead Outlaw, Yellow Face, Home, A Strange Loop (Tony nominee), Topdog/Underdog, Trouble in Mind. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Alley Theatre, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Faberge Theater Award, Lucille Lortel Award recipient and multiple nominee, Drama Desk nominee, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: @arnulfo.maldonado.design arnulfomaldonado.com

JOHN GROMADA (Sound Design). NY: 40+ Broadway productions as composer/sound designer, including Birthday Candles, All My Sons, Torch Song, The Elephant Man,  Trip to Bountiful (Tony nomination), The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Rabbit Hole, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof,  Twelve Angry Men, A Few Good Men. Off-Bway credits include Conversations With Mother, Brooklyn Laundry, A Sherlock Carol, Drinking in America, The Cake, Old Hats,  Orphans’ Home Cycle (Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Award), Shipwrecked! (Lortel Award), The Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (OBIE). Delacorte: Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Henry V, and Tartfuffe. Regional: hundreds of productions at major regional theatres and abroad. Touring: Fellowship for the Performing Arts’s Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis Onstage, The Great Divorce and more. Film and television credits include scores for Chazz Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale, and the Trip to Bountiful with Cicely Tyson. Proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829 and ASCAP. johngromada.net

J. JARED JANAS (Hair Design). Select Broadway: Dead Outlaw, John Proctor Is the Villain, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buena Vista Social Club™, Our Town, Once Upon a Mattress, Mary Jane, Days of Wine and Roses, Prayer for the French Republic, Appropriate, Purlie Victorious, Good Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd…, Ohio State Murders, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, How I Learned to Drive, American Buffalo, Jagged Little Pill, 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. Select Off Broadway: Sally & Tom (Drama Desk Nomination), Yours Unfaithfully (Drama Desk Nomination).

SAMANTHA SHOFFNER (Prop Supervisor). Atlantic: SHHHH. Broadway: Yellowface, Trouble in Mind, Slave Play (2019 & 2021), August Wilson Lobby redesign 2021. Prop Supervisor of over 80 Off-Broadway shows including: Lights Out (NYTW), Refuge Plays, Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Between Two Knees (PAC), Trophy Boys, The End of Longing, BLKS, Ride the Cyclone, Only Gold (MCC), Dracula, Comedy of Terrors (Props & Puppet Design). Regional: Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas (Chicago w/ Jim Henson Co.), May We All (TPAC), HVSF, WCP. Corporate: Friedman’s, Google, X, Samsung, Grammys, Emmys, H&M. Film Production Design: The Dancing Monkey, Souvenir, various short films, Greg Holden “Kissing Boys in the Street” Music Video, LinkedIn, Sony, Novartis, NBCUniversal, BMW, Disney, Marvel. As They Made Us (Dir. Mayim Bialik, Asst Props). Villa Encanto (Tribeca Film Fest 2025, Art Director), The Heart (Dir. Malia Ann Obama, Sundance 2024, Set Decorator & Specialty Props). Professor at Citytech, Props & Paint. Open Stage Project Board of Directors, Hope Gala NYC Volunteer Director. Freelance Interior Designer, Muralist, Lettering Artist, and Fine Artist. www.smartsetsbysam.com.

ANN JAMES (Intimacy Coordinator). Sensitivity Specialist debuted as the first Black Intimacy Coordinator on Broadway for Pass Over. Recently, her company Intimacy Coordinators of Color was awarded a Special Citation from the OBIE Awards. Broadway: SUNSET BOULEVARD, A WONDERFUL WORLD, EUREKA DAY, LEMPICKA, THE OUTSIDERS, HAMILTON, PARADE, SWEENEY TODD, HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL, ILLINOISE. Off-Broadway: 3 SUMMERS OF LINCOLN, SHIT. MEET. FAN., VELOUR! A DRAG SPECTACULAR!, THE HIPPEST TRIP, SUNSET BABY, JONAH, WHITE GIRL IN DANGER, HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF, THE COMEUPPANCE, EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING, MY BROKEN LANGUAGE, THE HALF-GOD OF RAINFALL, HERE THERE ARE BLUEBERRIES, LIFE AND TRUST, THE LONELY FEW. Tour: HAMILTON USA, UK and AUS.

KOHLI CALHOUN (Dialect Coach) Kohli is a dialect and vocal coach for film, TV & theater with over 20 years of experience. She has coached actors including Aubrey Plaza, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, Margo Martindale, Chukwudi Iwuji, Elizabeth Moss, Dan Stevens, and Robin Wright. Theater credits include All In: Comedy About Love (Hudson Theater), Clyde’s (Donmar Warehouse), The Engagement Party (Geffen Playhouse), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Lucille Lortel). Film/tv credits include Severance (Apple), Fallout (Amazon), For All Mankind (Apple), The Boys (Amazon), Yellowjackets (Showtime), Beef (Netflix), Emily the Criminal and the upcoming Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (DC Studios). Kohli has a BFA in theatre from NYU/Tisch.

KATIE AILINGER (Production Stage Manager). This is Katie’s Atlantic Theater Company debut. Broadway: Othello, Mary Jane, Summer 1976. Select Off-Broadway: The Refuge Plays (Roundabout); Grangeville (Signature); The New Englanders, Golden Shield, In The Body Of The World (MTC); On Sugarland, Kristina Wong Sweatshop Overlord (NYTW); The Pain of My Belligerence, The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons); Nice Fish (St. Ann’s Warehouse); Regional credits include seven seasons at the American Repertory Theater, Center Theatre Group, Huntington Theatre, Trinity Repertory. Katie is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. Every ounce of love to Ben and Efram for their tireless support.

TIA HAREWOOD-MILLINGTON (Assistant Stage Manager) is a Colorado-raised, NYC based stage manager and event producer who aims to engage in BIPOC and femme-focused works whenever possible. Events: Super Bowl LVIII & LIX Halftime Show, The Met Gala, Global Citizen Festival, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, GovBall, Jingle Ball Tour. Broadway: How I Learned to Drive. Off-Broadway: one in two, The New Englanders, Nollywood Dreams. Regional: Gun & Powder, Lempicka, soft, Selling Kabul. Tours: SIX the Musical. Hofstra University ’19. Thanks always to Mom, Lindsey, Noah, and Lowe 217. Go Nuggets. @tia.h.millington