ALI AHN. Broadway: The Heidi Chronicles. Off-Broadway: Sugar House (Ma-Yi), Twelfth Night (The Pearl), The Importance of Being Earnest (The Pearl), and House of Bernarda Alba (NAATCO). Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare on the Sound) and Strike-Slip (Actors Theater of Louisville: Humana Festival). International: Singapore Arts Festival, Naples Theater Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Television: “The Path,” “Orange is the New Black,” “The Breaks,” “Billions,” “Supernatural,” “Odd Mom Out,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Blue Bloods,” “Benders,” “Black Box,” “White Collar,” “Zero Hour,” “Louie,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “Ugly Betty.” Film: Landline, Girl in the Book, Liberal Arts, and The Dark Side. Training: Yale, CalArts.

NED EISENBERG. Broadway: Six Degrees of Separation, Rocky, Golden Boy, Awake and Sing, The Green Bird. National Tour: Lost in Yonkers. Off-Broadway: Othello (Iago, Lortel nominee), Oliver Twist (Fagin), King John (title role) at Theater for a New Audience, Rocket to the Moon (Ben Stark) at Theater at St. Clements, and Finks at Ensemble Studio Theater. Regional: Merchant Of Venice (Shylock) at Compagna di Colombari, Camp David (Menachem Begin) at Old Globe, and Guys and Dolls (Nathan Detroit) at Long Wharf. Film: Asher, Experimenter, Won’t Back Down, Limitless, Flags Of Our Fathers, World Trade Center, and Million Dollar Baby. Television: “The Night Of,” “Bull,” “Person of Interest,” “The Good Wife,” “The Mysteries Of Laura,” “Madam Secretary,” “White Collar,” “Blue Bloods,” and “Law & Order: SVU” and “Criminal Intent.” Fox Fellowship recipient, Ensemble Studio Theater and Naked Angels member, O’Neill playwright ’87 and ’90.

TONY AIDAN VO. Atlantic Debut. Off-Broadway: SeaWife (Naked Angels, Drama Desk Nomination), NoNo Boy (Pan Asian Rep). Other NY Credits: Frontieres sans Frontieres (The Bushwick Starr), Bareknuckle (Vertigo Theater), a cautionary tail and These Seven Sicknesses (The Flea Theater). Regional Theater: NY Stage & Film, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, White Heron Theater, and The Hangar Theater. Workshops/Readings: NYTW, The Lincoln Center, Ensemble Studio Theater, Ma-Yi, Soho Rep, The Lark, and New Dramatists. Television: “Queen Sugar” (Ava DuVernay, Oprah Winfrey, OWN), “Alternatino” (Comedy Central). Tony is a founding member of the folk band/theater collective The Lobbyists. In 2016, The Lobbyists were nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Musical: SeaWife. www.tonyaidanvo.com | www.wearethelobbyists.com

BD WONG. Broadway: M. Butterfly (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle, Clarence Derwent, Theatre World Awards); Face Value; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Pacific Overtures. Off-Broadway: The Tempest (Roundabout); A Language of Their Own (Public); As Thousands Cheer, Shanghai Moon (both Drama Dept.). Regional: The Orphan of Zhao (La Jolla Playhouse, A.C.T.), Herringbone (La Jolla, Williamstown, McCarter Theater). Television: “Mr. Robot,” “Gotham,” “Madam Secretary,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Nurse Jackie,”  “Awake,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and HBO’s “Oz,” “The Normal Heart,” and “And The Band Played On.” Host of HLN TV’s “Something’s Killing Me.” Film: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Bird Box, Jurassic World, The Space Between Us, Focus, White Frog, The Freshman, Father of the Bride (1 and 2), Jurassic Park, Seven Years in Tibet, Mulan (1 and 2), The Salton Sea, Stay. Directed Alice Chan (La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour, also co-authored); Speak Up Connie (All For One Festival); The Yellow Wood (NYMF). Author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Following Foo (The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man), published by Harper Collins. Community service recognitions from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian AIDS Project, GLAAD, New York Anti-Violence Project, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Association of Asian-Pacific American Artists, Museum Of Chinese In America. Board member: Rosie’s Theater Kids, Actors’ Fund of America.

LAUREN YEE premiered Cambodian Rock Band (music by Dengue Fever) at South Coast Rep and The Great Leap at Denver Center and Seattle Rep this season. Upcoming: Cambodian Rock Band at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Victory Gardens; The Great Leap at the Guthrie, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, InterAct Theatre; King of the Yees at Baltimore Center Stage, SF Playhouse; and The Song of Summer at Trinity Rep. Awards: Kesselring Prize, Francesca Primus Prize. Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, Playwrights Realm alumni playwright. Commissions: Geffen, La Jolla, Lincoln Center/LCT3, Portland Center Stage. BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD. www.laurenyee.com

TAIBI MAGAR is an Egyptian-American director based in New York, and a graduate of the Brown / Trinity MFA program. Most recently she directed the critically acclaimed Master at the Foundry Theatre (NYT Critics’ Pick). Other recent projects: Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is (Soho Rep.), Danai Gurira’s Familiar (The Guthrie and Seattle Repertory Theatre), Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova, NYT Critic’s Pick, Obie Award for Best New American Work), Dry Powder (The Alley), We Are Proud to Present (The Guthrie). In New York, Taibi has directed and developed work for The Foundry, New York Theater Workshop, Ars Nova, TFANA, the Women’s Project Theatre, Rising Phoenix Rep and INTAR Theatre. She is the recipient of a Stephen Sondheim Fellowship, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival Fellowship, a Public Theater Shakespeare Fellowship, the TFANA Actors and Director Project Fellowship, a Usual Suspect at New York Theater Workshop, and is an alumna of Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Most recently, she received the Kaplan Fellowship for young artists. Taibi has directed and taught at many academic institutions, including Juilliard, Fordham University, Brown University and New York University. She is currently developing Patrick and Daniel Lazour’s We Live in Cairo (2016 Richard Rodgers Award) with New York Theatre Workshop.

TAKESHI KATA has designed many shows at the Atlantic including, Derren Brown: Secret, Through a Glass Darkly, Port Authority, Keep Your Pantheon and Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow.  Other recent NY credits include Until the Flood (Rattlestick), The Profane (Playwrights), Man from Nebraska (Second Stage), Forever (NYTW), Gloria and Outside People (Vineyard). Regionally Kata has worked with the Alley, American Players Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Goodman, Hartford Stage, Kirk Douglas, La Jolla, Long Wharf, Mark Taper Forum, Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Williamstown, Yale Rep and many others.  Awards: Obie. Nomination for Drama Desk, Ovation, Connecticut Critics Circle and Barrymore Awards. Kata is an Associate Professor at University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts.

TILLY GRIMES. Recent: Underground Railroad Game (Lortel Nomination, NYC, Tour), Small Mouth Sounds (NYC, Tour), What We’re Up Against (WP Theatre), The Government Inspector (Lortel Nomination, Red Bull). New York: Atlantic, Ars Nova, Playwrights Horizons, WP Theatre, Red Bull, Roundabout, Clubbed Thumb, Here Arts Centre,  The Barrow Group, Colt Couer, New Georges & La Mama. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival, OSF, Wilma, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Goodspeed Opera, Two River, Trinity Repertory, Pittsburgh Public & Westport County Playhouse.  Upcoming: Seared by Theresa Rebeck, dir. Moritz von Stuelpnagel (WTF), Noura by Heather Raffo, dir. Joanna Settle (Playwrights Horizons).

ERIC SOUTHERN is an Obie award winning designer for theater, opera, and dance. Atlantic Theater: Tell Hector I Miss Him, Good Television, 10×25.  New York: After the Blast, Bull in a China Shop, The Harvest, Ghost Light (LCT3); Sell/Buy/Date (MTC); Pocatello, Indian Summer (Playwrights Horizons); Rimbaud in NY (BAM, The Civilians); Steve (The New Group); Buyer and Cellar (London, CTG, New York, National Tour); Chromatic (ADI, The Kitchen, Susan Marshall and Company). His work with 600 Highwaymen has been seen throughout the US and Europe including The Fever, This Great Country, The Record, and Employee of the Year.  Other Theater includes Primary Stages, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Guthrie, Kennedy Center, Baltimore Centerstage, Long Wharf, Huntington, Westport Country Playhouse, HVSF, Geffen Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, and Kansas City Rep. Education: B.F.A. and M.F.A., NYU.

BROKEN CHORD. Broadway: The Parisian Woman, Eclipsed. Off-Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company (Scarcity, The Lying Lesson); Incubator Arts Project (OZET); LCT3 (Bull in a China Shop); Manhattan Theatre Club (When We Were Young and Unafraid); Primary Stages (Informed Consent); Public Theater (The Good Negro, Party People); Signature Theatre (The Dance and the Railroad, Appropriate). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer); Berkeley Repertory (Ruined); Cleveland Play House (Fairfield); Dallas Theater Center (Hair, The Great Society); Guthrie Theater (An Enemy of the People); Hartford Stage (A Midsummer Night’s Dream); Huntington Theatre (Top Girls, A Raisin in the Sun); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (UniSon); Yale Repertory (These Paper Bullets!). Film: Fall to Rise. www.brokenchord.us

DAVID BENGALI is a projections and lighting designer based in New York.  Recent design credits: Frankenstein (Dallas Theater Center); Rockin’ Road To Dublin (National Tour); Assembled Identity (HERE);The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre); Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project); Van Gogh’s Ear (Ensemble for the Romantic Century); Conference of the Birds (Boston Center for the Arts); Anna Akhmatova, Jules Verne From The Earth To The Moon (BAM);  Ring of Fire (Endstation Theatre); The Tempest(Classic Stage Company/The Young Company);  Kill Me Like You Mean It (Stolen Chair), Two Point Oh (59E59);  I Forgive You Ronald Reagan, The Sensational Josephine Baker (Theatre Row); Cav/Pag (Tri Cities Opera); The New Victory; Soho Rep; Jamal Jackson Dance.  MFA: NYU.

JESSE PEREZ. Credits include: The Comedy Of Errors (Shakespeare & Company, directed by Taibi Magar), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare On The Sound, directed by Joanna Settle), Steel Magnolias (Trinity Repertory Company, directed by Brian Mertes). Company Choreographer For The Lake Lucille Chekhov Project since 2003 where he has choreographed all of Chekhov’s major plays under the direction of Brian Mertes and Melissa Kievman. International: The Salzburg Festival, Jedermann (directed by Brian Mertes). Jesse is also a professional actor and educator in the New York City area.

LAURA SMITH. Atlantic Theater: Tell Hector I Miss Him; The Public: The Low Road; Signature Theatre: The Antipodes; Juilliard: Appropriate; Baltimore Center Stage: Detroit ’67; As You Like It; 4000 Miles; After the Revolution; Amadeus; Wild with Happy; Twelfth Night; dance of the holy ghosts; Clybourne Park; Bus Stop; An Enemy of the People; The Whipping Man; Cyrano; Fabulation; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Shakespeare Theater Company: Salome; CATF: World Builders; Woolly Mammoth: Gruesome Playground Injuries, House of Gold, The Unmentionables.

KALEIGH BERNIER. Off-Broadway: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater), The Parlour (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Squeamish (All for One Theater). Other NY Credits include: Broadway Backwards (BC/EFA), Clubbed Thumb, Prototype Festival at HERE Arts Center, Primary Stages, The Flea, The Movement Theatre Company, Born Dancing, 52nd Street Project . Regional credits include: Soft Power (Center Theatre Group), The Chinese Room (Williamstown Theatre Festival), A Model American (Williamstown Theatre Festival), and [title of show] (Warren Miller Performing Arts Center). Touring credits: Cinderella (2nd National Tour), and My Name is Gideon… (All for One Theater). BA in Theater Design/Production from Fordham University.