SHAYAN LOTFI (Playwright) is the current Tow Playwright-in-Residence at the Atlantic Theater and his play What Became of Us was awarded a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. He is a member playwright at New Dramatists, and is an alum of The Working Farm Writers’ Group at SPACE on Ryder Farm and Page 73’s I-73 Writers Group. He is the recipient of the Horton Foote Award from the Dramatists Guild, a MacDowell Fellowship, and is under commission from the Atlantic Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and South Coast Repertory. In addition to writing, he also works as an urban planning consultant. He holds degrees from New York University, the London School of Economics, and the University of British Columbia.

JENNIFER CHANG (Director) is a director, writer, and actor based in Los Angeles. Select directing credits: The Far Country by Lloyd Suh at Berkeley Rep, King of the Yees by Lauren Yee at Signature Theatre DC (Helen Hayes nom Best Production, Best Ensemble), The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh at Milwaukee Rep (World Premiere), On Gold Mountain LA Opera at The Huntington, Vietgone by Qui Nguyen (LADCC Award for Direction). New Play/ Musical Development: Center Theatre Group, The Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Ashland New Plays Festival, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, Sông Collective, Black and Latino Playwrights’ Conference, Theatre Mu, Chance Theater, Boston Court, PlayOn!, East West Players, Artists at Play. Writing: The Devil is a Lie premiered with Quantum Theatre (OnStage Best of 2023), Beatrice Terry Residency for Drama League, Geffen Writers’ Room 23-24, Dear Margaret Sanger with Inara George and Larry Goldings (semi-finalist O’Neill). Member: SDC, AGMA, SAG-AFTRA, AEA. SDCF Fichandler Award Finalist, APAFT Award for Direction. Director’s Lab West, Drama League New York Fellowship, Classical Directing Fellow at The Old Globe. Associate Professor UCLA School of TFT. More info: www.changinator.com

TANYA ORELLANA (Scenic Design) designs live performance spaces for theatre, opera, and immersive experiences. Her work has been seen in venues across the USA including The Kennedy Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Huntington Gardens, The Kirk Douglas, CalShakes, L.A. State Historic Park, The Getty Villa, and The Greek Theatre. Her recent design collaborations include The Industry’s Sweet Land (directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger), Fefu and her Friends (directed by Pam MacKinnon), Oedipus (directed by Jenny Koons), LA Opera’s On Gold Mountain (directed by Jennifer Chang), Poor Yella Rednecks (directed by Jaime Casteñeda), LEAR (by Marcus Gardley, directed by Eric Ting), and Rasgos Asiaticos (by Virginia Grise). Tanya received her MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award.  She is part of the design team representing the US at the Prague Quadrennial 2023, a member of Wingspace Theatrical Design, and an organizing member of La Gente: The Latine Production Network.

RODRIGO MUÑOZ (Costume Design) is a NY based Costume Designer, Originally from Mexico City, recent credits: Off-Broadway: Plays for the Plague Year (The Public Theatre); Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group); Sorry for Your Loss (Minetta Lane Theatre); RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse); Notes From Now (Prospect Theater Company); This Space Between Us (Theater Row); Preparedness (Bushwick Starr); Volpone, The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theater). Regional: The Bluest Eye (Huntington Theatre), Red Velvet (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Torera (Alley Theatre); Cabaret (Barrington Stage Company); Somewhere (Geva Theatre), How to Make an American Son (Arizona Theatre Company), Mushroom (People’s Light), Fall of the House of Usher (Boston Lyric Opera), Bad Dates (Portland Stage),Jazz Singer (Abrons Arts Center) UPCOMING: Sally & Tom (The Public Theatre); Dial M for Murder (Alley Theatre); Mother Road (Berkeley Rep); La Ronnie (Manhattan School of Music) www.rodrigomunozdesign.com

REZA BEHJAT (Lighting Design) is an Obie Award winner lighting designer for live performances based in New York. Off-Broadway: STARGAZERS (Page 73), BATHHOUSE.PPTX (The Flea), THE ALLY (Public Theater), BEES & HONEY (MCC Theater), HANG TIME (Flea), ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM (Redbull Theater), GOOD ENEMY (Audible), VAGRANT TRILOGY (Public Theater), WISH YOU WERE HERE (Playwrights Horizons), ENGLISH (Atlantic Theater), OUT OF TIME (NAATCO), P.S (Ars Nova), HENRY VI (NAATCO), HAMLET (Waterwell), etc. Regional: Seattle Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theater, Hudson Valey Shakespeare, Milwaukee Rep, Wilma Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Actor Theater of Louisville, Geva Theater, Long Warf, Alabama Shakespeare, etc. Awards: Obie Award in Design category for ENGLISH and WISH YOU WERE HERE (2022), Knight of Illumination Award for NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN (2019). 

FAN ZHANG (Sound and Original Compositions) is a NYC-based sound designer and composer for theatre, dance, film, commercial radio, and installation. Her designs are described as “smart” and “has an otherworldly quality” by New York Times and Vulture. Recent Off-Broadway credits include: Jordans (The Public); At the Wedding (Lincoln Center Theater); The Far Country, Paris (Atlantic Theater); This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre); Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage); the Golden Age, On That Day In Amsterdam, Round Table (59E59); A Kid Like Rishi (Origin Theatre); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage & Women’s Project); Pumpgirl (Irish Rep); Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi & A.R.T), Molly Sweeney (Keen Company & Theatre Row); Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Beautiful Day Without You (West End Theatre); Calling: Dance With a Faith (Ping Chong & La Mama); Interstate (Theatre Row); The Trail of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group); Scissoring (INTAR); Three Girls Never Learnt the Way Home (Cherry Lane Theatre); and Tania In the Getaway Van (The Flea).

AISHA HAMIDA (Prop Design) works as a props artisan and props supervisor in NYC. Some of their credits include: 2022 Williamstown Theater Festival (Associate Props Supervisor) Only Gold at MCC (Props Artisan), Merrily We Roll Along at NYTW (Props Artisan), Elyria at The Atlantic (Props Artisan), 2023 Summer Works at Clubbed Thumb (Assistant Props Designer), Manahatta at The Public (Assistant Props Manager), Russian Troll Farm at The Vineyard (Assistant Props Designer), and Grief Hotel at The Public (Props Designer).

ALYSSA K. HOWARD (Production Stage Manager) is a NYC-based stage manager, as well as a musician and writer. Recent credits include: The Far Country (Berkeley Rep), Angel Island (Prototype Festival), Poor Yella Rednecks (MTC), Paradise Ballroom (New York Stage And Film), The Refocus Project: Year Three (Roundabout Theatre), Lady M (Heartbeat Opera), Public Obscenities (Soho Rep), The Far Country (Atlantic Theater), Black Lodge (Beth Morrison Projects), Once Upon A (korean) Time (Ma-Yi Theater), Golden Shield (MTC), Wolf Play (Soho Rep), Nollywood Dreams (MCC), for colored girls… (Public Theater), Henry VI (NAATCO), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public), Word Sound Power 2016-2021 (BAM), Glass Guignol (Mabou Mines), Dog Days (Beth Morrison Projects). Other: Page73, National Sawdust, Playwrights Horizons, Vineyard Theatre, Northern Stage, Berkshire Theatre Group, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Yale Rep, McCarter Theatre, Orlando Shakes. MFA: Yale School of Drama. BA: Williams College. ig@shiningatthetop. Gratitude to those in both This Country and The Old Countries.

TYLER CROW (Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: The Notebook, The Cottage. Off-Broadway: Good Enemy (Audible Theater), Breathless, we were promised honey! (59E59), Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas (New Victory). National Tours: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Kite Runner, The Prom. Regional: George Street Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Theatre Aspen, and Boston Ballet. Love to my people. Gratitude to theatre educators everywhere.

SHOHREH AGHDASHLOO (Q) is an Emmy Award–winning, Oscar-nominated actress whose prolific work on-stage and screen has been lauded for decades in both her native Iran and all over the world. American audiences know her best from her Oscar-nominated performance in House of Sand and Fog and her Emmy-winning role in HBO’s acclaimed “House of Saddam”. In television, Shohreh recently joined the cast of the HBO Max original series “The Penguin” starring alongside Colin Farrell. Shohreh can also be seen guest starring as ‘Brenda’ in Season 2 of the Emmy nominated series “The Flight Attendant”. On the futuristic TV series “The Expanse,” Shohreh plays ‘Chrisjen Avasarala,’ a smart and passionate member of a political family legacy who has risen high through the ranks of Earth’s governing body. Shohreh stars as ‘Chrisjen Avasarala’ in all 6 seasons of “The Expanse” which are currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video. In film, Shohreh can currently be seen on the big screen playing ‘Bella-Francesca Lobo’ alongside Nicolas Cage (as Dracula) in Universal Pictures’ highly anticipated comedy/horror/action film Renfield. Shohreh also stepped into the role of ‘Bano Ayoub’ in the Canadian feature The Cuban and was recently seen in Amazon’s horror-thriller Run Sweetheart Run. Shohreh has voiced characters for high profile video games such as “Mass Effect,” “Destiny,” and animated TV series like “Arcane”. She also has narrated audiobooks like “The Bible of Clay” by Julia Navarro, “And the Mountains Echoed” by Khaled Hosseini, and “Until We Are Free: My Fight for Human Rights in Iran” by Shirin Ebadi. In 2012, Shohreh dazzled critics on-stage while portraying the title character in the legendary Federico Garcia Lorca’s final theatrical play, House of Bernarda Alba, in London at the famed Almeida Theater. Shohreh’s prestigious TV credits include: “24,” “The Punisher,” “Grimm,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “House MD,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Portlandia,” “Will & Grace,” among many others. Shohreh’s work in film includes blockbusters such as: Star Trek Beyond, X-Men – The Last Stand, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

ROSALIND CHAO (Q) most recently showcased her stage presence in the UK starring in London National Theatre’s premiere of The Great Wave directed by Indhu Rubisham. She is currently starring in the newly released Netflix series “3 Body Problem” from the creators of “Game of Thrones.” Rosalind is known for her roles in Joy Luck Club, Freaky Friday, Steven Soderbergh’s Laundromat, the live action Mulan, What Dreams May Come, amongst many other films. Amongst her many tv credits, Rosalind most recently appeared in the last two seasons of the FX series “Better Things” and can soon be seen as the new villain in Netflix’s Emmy Winning “Sweet Tooth.”

TONY SHALHOUB (Z) is perhaps best known for his work as the obsessive-compulsive detective ‘Adrian Monk’ in the hit television series “Monk,” for which he won a Golden Globe Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, as well as two Screen Actors Guild Awards for his work. He recently reprised the role in Mr. Monk’s Last Case; A Monk Movie, for which his performance was nominated for a Critics Choice Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Tony is often known for his role as ‘Abe Weissman’ in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” For his performance, he has won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series. Other notable TV credits include ‘Antonio Scarpacci’ in “Wings,” “Stark Raving Mad,” and “Nurse Jackie.” Tony can be seen as ‘Roger Enrico’ in Eva Longoria’s Flamin’ Hot. Some of Shalhoub’s other film credits include The Assignment, Pain & Gain, the Men in Back franchise, Galaxy Quest, The Siege, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Big Night, Barton Fink, as well as voicing the character of ‘Luigi’ in the Cars franchise, and ‘Master Splinter’ in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Tony spent most of his early acting career in the theater, after graduating from Yale Drama School in 1980. From 1980-1984 Tony was part of the company with the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, before moving to New York. He met his wife Brooke Adams in 1990 while working together in The Heidi Chronicles. In 2018, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for The Band’s Visit; in years prior to this, Tony has been nominated on five other occasions.

BD WONG (Z) won the Tony Award for his Broadway debut in M. Butterfly. Other Broadway credits include the revivals of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, and Pacific Overtures. Films include Heart of Stone, Bird Box, three Jurassic World films, Focus, Mulan 1 and 2, Seven Years in Tibet, Father of the Bride 1 and 2, and Jurassic Park. Television includes “The Girls on the Bus,” “Awkwafina is Nora from Queens,” “Mr. Robot” (Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award nominations), “American Horror Story: Apocalypse,” “Gotham,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Oz”, and “All-American Girl.” He sits on the Board of Trustees of The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors’ Fund), American Conservatory Theatre, and Rosie’s Theater Kids. @wongbd