IAN DUFF. Neighborhood Playhouse Graduate Ian Duff made his first NYC stage appearance in Andre Holland’s directorial debut Dutch Masters at The Wild Project. On the small screen, Ian starred in Up North, for which he received SeriesFest’s award for Best Actor. Ian also just wrapped TNT’s pilot “Beast Mode” opposite Anika Noni Rose.

MOLLY GRIGGS was last seen on Broadway as “Minnie Fay” in Hello, Dolly! and recurring on the HBO series “Succession.” Off-Broadway credits include: Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73 Productions) and Penelope Skinners’ Linda for Manhattan Theater Club (dir. Lynne Meadow). Griggs had a supporting role in David Fincher’s series “Mindhunter” for Netflix and participated in the Williamstown Theater Festival. She was the recipient of the Helen Wayne Rauh Award for Outstanding Actor at Carnegie Mellon University CMU. While in college, Griggs toured her one-woman show, Steubenville, which explores rape culture in the United States through the lens of the Steubenville, OH rape case.

CHRISTOPHER LARKIN. Theater: Fast Company (Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness (Ma-Yi), Futura (NAATCO), When Last We Flew (Sundance Lab ’10), Always Family (Theatre Row), Back From the Front (The Working Theater). Regional: Wolf Play (Artists Rep), Nomad Motel and Oblivion (Pittsburgh City Theatre), Kafka on the Shore (Steppenwolf). Film: The Big Bad Swim, Strangers With Candy, The Flamingo Rising. TV: “Tales of the City,” “The 100,” “Awkward,” “90210,” “Cooper and Stone,” “One Life to Live.”

SAMANTHA MATHIS. Film: The Clovehitch Killer; Being Frank; American Psycho; Little Women; The American President; The Thing Called Love; Affluenza; Broken Arrow; How to Make an American Quilt; This is My Life; Jack & Sarah; The Punisher; Pump Up the Volume. TV: “Billions,” “The Strain,” “Under The Dome,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Collected Stories.” Theater: 33 Variations (dir. Moises Kaufman); The Man Who Had All The Luck (Roundabout; dir. Scott Ellis); Collected Stories (Geffen Playhouse, dir. Gil Cates); Love, Loss and What I Wore (Off-Broadway). Upcoming: All That We Destroy (Hulu/Jason Blum) and Being Frank.

ANDREW PANG. Some of Andy’s theatre credits include, after the quake and Kafka on the Shore at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, No Foreigners Beyond This Point at Baltimore Center Stage, Sisters Matsumoto at the Missouri Repertory Theatre, Long Day’s Journey Into Night with the National Asian American Theater Company, the first National Tour of Thoroughly Modern Millie and The King and I on Broadway. Selected Television credits: “Fosse/Verdon,” “Luke Cage,” “Mr. Robot,” “The Blacklist” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Film: A Bread Factory, The Big Sick, Wiener-Dog, A Picture of You and The Corruptor, among others.

CARLA CHING. An LA native, Carla stumbled upon pan-Asian performance collective Peeling at the Asian American Writers Workshop and wrote and performed with them for three years, which she still considers her first theater training. Her plays includeNomad Motel (commissioned by South Coast Repertory; developed by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference and Asian American MixFest at Atlantic Theater Company; National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere: currently City Theatre Company, upcoming Horizon Theatre Company and Unicorn Theatre), Fast Company (South Coast Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lyric Stage and Pork Filled Productions; winner of the Edgerton New American Play Award), The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Artists at Play and Mu Performing Arts), TBA (2g) and The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness (Ma-Yi Theater Company). She’s an alumna of The Women’s Project Lab, the Lark Play Development Center’s Writers Workshop and Meeting of the Minds, the CTG Writers’ Workshop and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Former Artistic Director of Asian American Theater Company, 2g. TBA is published in Out of Time and Place. Fast Company is published by Samuel French. Toulmin Commission from the Atlantic Theater Company. BA, Vassar College. MFA, New School for Drama. Proud member of New Dramatists and The Kilroys. On television, Carla has written on Fear the Walking Dead, I Love Dick, the forthcoming Hulu drama The First from Beau Willimon and AMC’s Preacher. www.carlaching.com @carlaching

ED SYLVANUS ISKANDAR is “an alien of extraordinary ability” who directs new plays, musicals, classics, immersive works and social events that foster community. Recent work includes his immersive Caught at Think Tank Gallery (LAT Critics’ Pick), and the NYTW repertory productions of Sojourners* and Her Portmanteau* (NYT Critics’ Picks, NYT Best Theater of 2017). Inaugural 2016 SDCF Breakout Award recognizing “the ‘rising star’ moment of a director” for Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery* (NAATCO) and The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Theatre Company); 2014 Drama Desk Special Award for “visionary direction” of The Mysteries* (The Flea) and The Golden Dragon^ (PlayCo); 2013 NTC Emerging Artist Award as Founding Artistic Director of Exit, Pursued By a Bear; 2011-12 Drama Desk nominations for Outstanding Direction of Restoration Comedy* and These Seven Sicknesses* (The Flea). NYTW Usual Suspect, alumnus of Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Drama League and previously Artistic Director of the Lincoln Center Global Exchange. Ed is thrilled to make his Atlantic debut alongside the extraordinary Carla Ching. *NYT / ^TONY Critics’ Picks. www.ediskandar.com

YU-HSUAN CHEN is a New York-based set and production designer, originally born and raised in Taiwan. She received her MFA in Design for Stage and Film at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Selected theater credits include: The Homecoming Queen (Atlantic Theater Company);  Paradise Blue (Long Wharf Theatre, CT); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (ART/NY); Dying in Boulder (La MaMa); Dancing at Lughnasa, M. Butterfly, Great Expectations (Everyman Theatre, MD); Inanimate, Locked Up Bitches (The Flea Theater); Agnus (The Lion Theatre); SKiNfolK (Ars Nova); The Hummm (Dixon Place). Her film credits include production design for I Was in Your Blood and many other short films.  Her production design for Jiejie won the HBO Asian Pacific  American Visionary Award and is distributed by HBO. She  received the emerging talent award for the production design for Stuck Inside. It is screened in Paris at the A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival. Other production design: Pregnant (Best Production Design Award, First Run Festival) and Music Everywhere (shortlisted at the AICP Awards, won a prize at the Porsche Ad Awards in Ludwigsburg, Germany). yuhsuanchendesign.com

LOREN SHAW is a two-time Drama Desk nominated Costume Designer, based in New York City. She was one of the founding members and resident costume designer for Exit, Pursued by a Bear, a socially immersive New York theater collective. Some of her recent projects include Last Days of Summer (Kansas City Rep, MO); A Period of Animate Existence (Pig Iron Theater Company, PA); Sojourners and Her Portmanteau (New York Theater Workshop, NY); and The Aristophanesathon (The Hypocrates, IL). Other current projects include Revival (The GEVA Theater, NY) and The Queen of Spades (Glimmerglass Festival, NY).  lorenshaw.myportfolio.com, IG: @lorenshawcostumes

JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW has designed for theater, dance, opera, musicals, music performances and  installation. The New York Times described them as “clever” and “inventive.” Recent: KPOP (Hewes Design Award, LIT Design Award; Lortel and Drama Desk Nominations); Kristine Haruna Lee’s Suicide Forest; Sam Chanse’s Fruiting Bodies; Lauren Yee’s Song of Summer; Aziza Barnes’ BLKS (Woolly Mammoth); Emily Mann’s Gloria: A Life; Eve Ensler’s Fruit Trilogy; Ludic Proxy (Bel Geddes Design Enhancement); Song of Summer (Trinity Rep); and Matthew Paul Olmos’ So Go the Ghosts of Mexico Part One (Best Lighting Design nomination). NEA/TCG Career Development Program recipient. jeanetteyew.com

EMILY GARDNER XU HALL is a composer, lyricist, playwright and actor. Music/lyrics/book: Untitled Cherry Orchard Musical (Musical Theatre Factory), Cymbeline, I Am This For You (Ars Nova ANT Fest), Nascent Phase (Bushwick Starr Reading Series). Collaborations include Black Is Beautiful… (with Kareem M. Lucas, Public Theater Under the Radar  Festival), The Cardinal (with Cusi Cram, Cornerstone  Theatre Company), Ruth Bader Ginsburg Project (with Dianne Nora, Goodman Theatre Playwrights’ Unit). Alum of New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio, member of BMI Workshop. Awards: “Go Write a Musical” Lilly Award, American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Award. BA Wellesley College; MFA, NYU Graduate Acting. emilygardnerhall.com

ENRICO DE TRIZIO is an Italian-born Grammy and Emmy award-winning composer, music producer and sound designer. His eclectic and style-crossing work has been featured all over the world: from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana to the 2017 Tony Award-winning  Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen. He has worked with:  multi Tony and Grammy award-winning orchestrator Alex  Lacamoire, Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actress Meryl Streep, nine-time Tony Award actress and singer Audra McDonald, among the others. “Enrico de Trizio is part of a  new wave of electronic music designers that have changed the way Broadway sounds.” – Apple.com

RYAN-JAMES HATANAKA is a critically acclaimed actor, fight director, and movement specialist. He has worked at a wide range of professional and educational venues including New York University’s Tisch  Graduate Acting Program, NYU’s Playwrights Horizons, the Stella Adler Studio, and Blue Hill Troupe. Selected acting credits include: Big Love and The Sandbox (Signature Theatre); Romeo & Juliet (Guthrie Theatre); King Lear (Shakespeare in the Park). He is currently filming Global TV’s “Nurses” and is the spokesperson for HBO Europe. He holds an MFA from NYU’s Tisch Graduate Acting program and has a black belt in karate. Follow RJ on Instagram and Twitter @rjhatanaka.

JOY LANCETA CORONEL is a voice, speech, and dialect coach based in NYC and is happy to be back at Atlantic for Nomad Motel. In addition to coaching privately, Joy has coached alongside Centre Theatre Group, Ma-Yi  Theatre, NAAP, New Dramatists, Attic Theatre Co, and Comedy Central. She has served as speech faculty at HB Studio,  AADA, and College of Staten Island. Joy holds an MFA in Voice Studies from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. joylancetacoronel.com

KARA KAUFMAN. Selected Off-Broadway: The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d; Hello, From the Children of Planet Earth; Sojourners (Playwrights Realm); Sojourners and Her  Portmanteau (NYTW); Kingdom Come (Roundabout); Today is My Birthday (P73); Travels With My Aunt; John & Jen (Keen Company); SeaWife (Naked Angels); I See You; The Mysteries; Restoration Comedy; These Seven Sicknesses; Kaspar Hauser (Flea); Dani Girl (EPBB); The Opponent (A Red Orchid); Neva (Public); Really Really (MCC); Lush Valley (HERE Arts Center); Paternity (Cherry Lane); Hold Music (Living Theatre). Proud AEA member and Harvard grad.

JONATHAN CASTANIEN is a  Brooklyn-based stage manager from the West Coast. Off- Broadway: Bright Colors and Bold Patterns (Soho Playhouse). NYC: HERE Arts Center, Manhattan Theater Club, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, among others. Los Angeles: Artists at  Play, the Latino Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, among others. Educational: The New School for Drama, Atlantic Acting School. Jonathan holds a BA in  Theatre Design and Production from CSU Fullerton. He was a Kennedy Center stage management fellow and is a 2018 artEquity alumnus. jonathancastanien.com