PlaywrightLucas
Hnath

Lucas Hnath received a 2017 Tony Award nomination for Best Play with A Doll’s House, Part 2. Hnath’s other plays include Hillary and Clinton, The Thin Place, Red Speedo, The Christians, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac’s Eye and Death Tax. He has been produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre and Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep and Ensemble Studio Theatre. His plays have also been premiered at the Humana Festival of New Plays, Victory Gardens and South Coast Repertory. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Awards: Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kesselring Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Obie Award for Playwriting, Steinberg Playwright Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize.

 Dana
Higginbotham

Dana Higgenbotham is a writer, educator and chaplain. For the past 20 years, her work as a chaplain in both hospitals and hospices throughout Florida has involved providing counsel for those who live with the effects of trauma, loss and life-threatening or life-limiting issues. She holds a Masters of Divinity and a PhD in Counseling.

 Steve
Cosson

Steve Cosson is a director, writer and Artistic Director of The Civilians. He’s led many projects with the company, with productions at major Off-Broadway and regional theaters, several BAM Next Wave Festivals, international touring, and as artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Director of many world premieres by writers including José Rivera, Anne Washburn, Bess Wohl and composer Michael Friedman. stevecosson.com

DirectorLes
Waters

Les Waters is an Obie Award winning director, whose productions have been seen on Broadway (IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY, 2009) off-Broadway, and regionally. Recent collaborations with Lucas Hnath include THE THIN PLACE (Playwrights Horizons, Actors Theatre of Louisville) and DANA H (Vineyard Theatre/CTG/Goodman Theatre), for which he won an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Direction. Les’ work includes productions at Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Connelly Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, National Asian American Theatre Company, and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and regionally at theatres such as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, and American Repertory Theater. Les was Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville from 2012–2018, where he directed EVOCATION OF VISIBLE APPEARANCE, LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO, RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS, MACBETH, FOR PETER PAN ON HER 7OTH BIRTHDAY, THE GLORY OF THE WORLD, LUNA GALE, AT VANISHING POINT, THE CHRISTIANS, OUR TOWN, GNIT, GIRLFRIEND, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, and BIG LOVE (Obie Award Special Citation, 2002). From 2003–2011, he served as Associate Artistic Director at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He led the MFA directing program at University of California, San Diego from 1995–2003. His book, The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather, edited by Scott T. Cummings, will be published by Routledge in 2022.

Costume DesignJanice
Pytel

Broadway: 33 Variations and Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife. Previously with Les Waters: Our Town (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Middletown and The Designated Mourner (Steppenwolf). Chicago credits: Steppenwolf, Victory Gardens, Court Theatre, Chicago Opera Theater, About Face Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance, Goodman, Rivendell Theatre (ensemble member), and others. Regional credits: Alley Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Kansas City Rep, Center Stage, Alliance, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, CTG. 

Scenic DesignAndrew
Boyce

Broadway debut. Off-Broadway credits include Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Atlantic Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Vineyard Theater, Primary Stages, Playwrights Realm, Lucille Lortel, Barrow Street, Rattlestick. Regional credits with most major regional and LORT theaters across the U.S. Opera credits include Lyric Opera of Chicago, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Boston Lyric Opera, Kentucky Opera, Curtis Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra. MFA: Yale School of Drama. Assistant Professor of Design at Northwestern. andrewboycedesign.com

Lighting DesignPaul
Toben

Broadway: The Story of My Life. Chicago: Electra, for colored girls… (Court Theatre); Cry it Out (Northlight); The Mystery of Love and Sex, Witch (Writers Theatre). Off-Broadway: Electra in a One Piece, The Realm (Wild Project). Regional: Designs for The Guthrie, Studio Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville (including four seasons of the Humana Festival), Denver Center, Dallas Theater Center, Portland Center Stage, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Williamstown Theatre Festival and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.

Audio Editing & Sound DesignMikhail
Fiksel

Mikhail Fiksel is a Siberia-born designer, audio producer, composer and dj. Previous work includes collaborations with The Public, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, The Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Victory Gardens, Albany Park Theatre Project, and multiple audio plays and podcasts with Audible, WBEZ, Studio Theatre and Make Believe Association. He is a recipient of 3 Lucille Lortel Awards and Drama Desk nominations, multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards, and a 2020 Obie Award for Sound Design.

Illusion & Lip Sync ConsultantSteve
Cuiffo

Elephant Room (CTG); Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place (Playwrights Horizons) and A Public Reading...About The Death of Walt Disney (Soho Rep.); Geoff Sobelle’s Home and The Object Lesson (BAM); AntipodesOld Hats (Signature Theatre); Lypsinka’s The Passion of the CrawfordLenny Bruce at Carnegie Hall (St. Ann’s). Magic Consultant for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Season 4). Magic Director for David Blaine Live. Wooster Group associate. Co-Founder of Secret Arts.

Broadway CastingTaylor
Williams

Film and Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me. Broadway: Slave Play (Artios Award). Virtual: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, amfAR The Great Work Begins. TV: Casting Assistant on Season 1 of “P-Valley.” Resident Casting Director at New York Theatre Workshop and Page 73 Productions.

 Center
Theatre Group

(Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director; Meghan Pressman, Managing Director/CEO; Douglas C. Baker, Producing Director), one of the nation’s pre-eminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’s leading nonprofit theatre company, programming seasons at the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum in Downtown Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. In addition to presenting and producing the broadest range of theatrical entertainment in the country, Center Theatre Group is one of the nation’s leading producers of ambitious new works through commissions and World premiere productions and a leader in community engagement and education programs that reach across generations, demographics, and circumstance to serve Los Angeles.

 Goodman
Theatre

Chicagos theater since 1925, Goodman Theatre is a not-for-profit arts and community organization in the heart of the Loop, distinguished by the excellence and scope of its artistic programming and community engagement. Led by Artistic Director Robert Falls and Executive Director Roche Schulfer, the theaters artistic priorities include new play development (more than 150 world or American premieres), large scale musical theater works and reimagined classics. Artists and productions have earned two Pulitzer Prizes, 22 Tony Awards and more than 160 Jeff Awards, among other accolades. The Goodman is the first theater in the world to produce all 10 plays in August Wilson’s “American Century Cycle.” Its longtime annual holiday tradition A Christmas Carol, now in its fourth decade, has created a new generation of theatergoers in Chicago. The Goodman also frequently serves as a production and program partner with national and international companies and Chicagos Off-Loop theaters. Goodman Theatre was founded by William O. Goodman and his family in honor of their son Kenneth, an important figure in Chicagos cultural renaissance in the early 1900s. The Goodman familys legacy lives on through the continued work and dedication of Kenneths family, including Albert Ivar Goodman, who with his late mother, Edith-Marie Appleton, contributed the necessary funds for the creation of the new Goodman center in 2000. Today, Goodman Theatre leadership also includes the distinguished members of the Artistic Collective: Rebecca Gilman, Dael Orlandersmith, Henry Godinez, Steve Scott, Kimberly Senior, Chuck Smith, Regina Taylor, Henry Wishcamper and Mary Zimmerman. Jeff Hesse is Chairman of Goodman Theatre’s Board of Trustees, Fran Del Boca is Women’s Board President and Megan McCarthy Hayes is President of the Scenemakers Board for young professionals.

 Vineyard
Theatre

Vineyard Theatre is an Off-Broadway theatre company dedicated to nurturing the voices of daring artists and developing and producing work that pushes the boundaries of what theatre can be and do. One of the country’s preeminent centers for the creation of new plays and musicals, our work seeks to challenge and inspire all of us to see ourselves and our world from different perspectives. 

 The Vineyard’s productions of Tina Satter’s Is This A Room, named “Best Theater of 2019” by The New York Times and New York Magazine and winner of the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience; and Lucas Hnath’s Dana H., chosen as The New York Times “Best Theatre of 2020” and as a Critic’s Pick, and winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show*, are both transferring to Broadway this fall. Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, which premiered at The Vineyard 25 years ago, will open on Broadway this spring reuniting original cast members Mary-Louise Parker, David Morse and Johanna Day with director Mark Brokaw.

 Notable Vineyard Theatre premieres include Ngozi Anyanwu’s Good Grief; Jeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy”; Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s Do You Feel Anger?; David Cale’s Harry Clarke (2018 Drama Desk, Obie, Lucille Lortel Awards); Paula Vogel and Rebecca Taichman’s Indecent (two 2017 Tony Awards); two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, Paula Vogel’s How I Learned To Drive and Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Gloria; Nicky Silver’s The Lyons; Marx, Lopez and Whitty’s Avenue Q (Tony Award, Best Musical); Kander, Ebb, and Thompson’s The Scottsboro Boys; Bell and Bowen’s [title of show]; Polly Pen’s Goblin Market; Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Wig Out!; Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear; Will Eno’s Middletown; Becky Mode’s Fully Committed; Colman Domingo’s Dot, and many more. 

 During the pandemic shutdown, The Vineyard produced Bill Irwin's The Busking Project outdoors and seven digital programs, including the eight-episode series, Lessons In Survival, which was named “Best Theater of 2020” by The New York Times.

 The Vineyard’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Susan Stroman Directing Award, and Colman Domingo Award provide residencies to early-career artists and our education programs serve over 700 NYC public high school students annually in collaboration with Developing Artists. Works developed and premiered at our home in Union Square have gone on to be seen around the world and The Vineyard is proud to be the recipient of special Drama Desk, Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards for artistic excellence.

 The Vineyard's 2021-2022 Artists-in-Residence include John J. Caswell, Jr.Michael R. Jackson and Tyler Thomas, with more to be announced.

 Vineyard Theatre’s leadership includes Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern and Managing Director Suzanne Appel.