Yilong Liu(Playwright)

Yilong Liu is a Lambda Literary Award-winning playwright, a fellow in the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at Juilliard, and a Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center. Alum: Ojai Playwrights Conference, Youngblood, Space on Ryder Farm. Plays: The Book of Mountains and Seas (Lambda/Paul Stephen Lim Awards), June is The First Fall (Yangtze Rep, Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Playwriting Award), Joker (Po’okela Award), PrEP Play (NCTC). Yilong grew up in China and received his MFA from University of Hawai‘i. 

Chay Yew(Director)

New York credits include Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Rattlestick, Playwrights Realm, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ma-Yi, and NAATCO. Regional credits include Humana Festival, Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theatre, Goodman, South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Huntington Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, Denver Theater Center, Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth, Seattle Rep, Victory Gardens, Empty Space, Singapore Rep, amongst others. He is a recipient of the OBIE for Direction.

Junghyun Georgia Lee(Scenic Designer)

Junghyun Georgia Lee, she/her, is a Korean-born, NYC-based designer. She designed for NYTW (Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Drama Desk Nomination); Los Otros at ART/NY; Ma-Yi, Public (The Chinese Lady), NAATCO, Soho Rep, The Play Co., McCarter Theater, Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre (The Chinese Lady, Connecticut Critics Circle nomination), Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Alliance and Children's Theatre Company. MFA, Yale School of Drama. junghyungeorgialeedesign.com

Mel Ng(Costume Designer)

Mel Ng, she/her, is a queer artist, costume designer and poet who splits her time between New York and Honolulu. Outside of the theater, you can find her swimming, giving tarot readings, writing poetry and practicing reiki. She believes in the transformative and healing power of ritual, and that sensitivity nourishes her work in creative spaces. melissaavang.com

Reza Behjat(Lighting Designer)

Off-Broadway: Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons), Out of Time, The Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater), English (Atlantic Theater), P.S (Ars Nova), Henry VI (NAATCO), Hamlet (Waterwell). Others: Arizona Theater Company, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theater, PlayMakers Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Geva Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare, Long Wharf Theater. Awards: Knight of Illumination Award for Nina Simone: Four Women.

Mikhail Fiksel(Sound Designer)

Mikhail Fiksel, he/him, is a Tony Award-winning designer, composer, audio producer, and DJ working in theatre, dance, film, and audio-forward media. Previous Audible projects include Massive and The Podcaster with Audible Originals. Other recent work includes Dana H (Broadway), Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons), and Lake Song (Make Believe Association) as well as projects with The Public, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Signature Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival among others. www.mikhailfiksel.com

UnkleDave's Fight-House(Fight & Intimacy Director)

Broadway: Girl from The North Country, Escape to Margaritaville, The Great Society, Tuck Everlasting, An American in Paris, Disgraced. Off-Broadway: soft (MCC); On Sugarland (NYTW); Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Drama Desk Nomination, Labyrinth/Atlantic Theater); Oedipus El Rey (Drama Desk Award Nomination, The Public Theater). Film: Emoticon, Retribution’s Child. TV: “Annie Live!”

Merrick A.B. Williams(Production Stage Manager)

he/him. Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Frankie and Johnny.... NY City Center: Call Me Madam (Encores). Off-Broadway: Sanctuary City, Othello, Dreaming Zenzile (NYTW); The Layover, Invisible Thread (Second Stage); Gently Down the Stream, Sweat Mobile National (The Public); Daphne’s Dive (Signature). Regional: Seder (Hartford Stage); On the Town (Boston Pops). 

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Victor Vazquez(Casting)

Victor Vazquez, he/him, is the founder and lead Casting Director of X Casting (www.xcastingnyc.com). He cast projects for Broadway, Off-Broadway, London’s West End, Television, and Film. He is the proud son of Mexican immigrants. Victor gives thanks to the land this theatre and performance is on, the ancestral land of the Lenape Peoples past and present.

Noah Mease(Props Supervisor)

he/him. Prop credits include Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, etc.); Oklahoma! (St. Ann’s, Broadway); Hadestown (NYTW); John(Signature - OBIE Award); An Octoroon (Soho Rep, TFANA); *keysmash* (Ars Nova - story, props, costumes); 3 plays by the Debate Society. Alum of Ars Nova’s Play Group. Aspiring cartoonist. www.noahmease.com

AUDIBLE THEATER (Producer)

Audible Theater makes outstanding performances and powerful storytelling available to millions of people all over the world. As part of this initiative, Audible has produced Girls & Boys with Carey Mulligan, The Half-Life of Marie Curie with Kate Mulgrew, Harry Clarke starring Billy Crudup, Billy Crystal’s Have A Nice Day with Annette Bening and Kevin Kline, the revival of Aasif Mandvi’s Sakina’s Restaurant, and many others at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York City. In May 2018, Audible announced that the Minetta Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village will serve as its creative home for live performances in New York. Audible hosts and produces a wide variety of live performances at the Minetta Lane including dramatic plays, comedic shows, engaging panel discussions, and more, with Audible members receiving exclusive access to discounted tickets and related audio content. 

Audible was co-producer for the Broadway transfer of the Tony Award-nominated Latin History for Morons written by and starring John Leguizamo and for the Tony Award-nominated Sea Wall/A Life starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge. The initiative also saw the release of John Lithgow’s Stories By Heart, Judith Light’s All The Ways To Say I Love You, Sharon Washington’s Feeding The Dragon, and more. Since June 2017, Audible has commissioned 40 theater playwrights to receive support from its $5 million Emerging Playwrights Fund dedicated to developing innovative English-language works from around the globe. The $5 million fund enables the creation of original plays driven by language and voice, keeping with Audible’s core commitment to elevating listening experiences through powerful performances and extraordinary vocal storytelling.

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