Conceived and directed byTina
Satter

Tina Satter (she/her) is a playwright, director, filmmaker and Artistic Director of the theater company Half Straddle. Recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pew Fellowship, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, and Doris Duke Impact Artist Award. She received a 2020 Special Citation Obie for conceiving and directing Is This A Room, which had its Off Broadway premiere at the Vineyard Theatre in fall 2019. She’s been a teacher and visiting artist at a range of institutions. Tina attended the playwriting program at Brooklyn College, received an M.A. from Reed College, and a B.A. from Bowdoin College. Learn more at halfstraddle.com and @halfstraddle.

Scenic DesignParker
Lutz

Parker Lutz is a dancer and scenic designer working in New York. She has worked extensively in Europe and New York. Bessie Awards for Sustained Achievement in Dance, John Jasperse Company and Visual Design for Dogs, Sarah Michelson Group, BAM Next Wave. She has been designing sets for Half Straddle since 2016.

Costume DesignEnver
Chakartash

Enver Chakartash is thrilled to be making their Broadway debut. Enver’s work has been presented internationally as well as reimagined for numerous spaces including BAM, The Public Theater, Steppenwolf, Centre Pompidou, the Barbican and the Sydney Opera House. Recent works include Tina Satter/Half Straddle’s Ghost Rings; The Wooster Group’s A Pink ChairThe B-side, The Town Hall Affair, Early Shaker Spirituals; Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men; Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s POWER.

Lighting DesignThomas
Dunn

Thomas Dunn designs lighting throughout the US and abroad. Thomas’ approach to lighting stems from years of investigative work with light, treating it as a sculptural medium and a facet of stage design. Thomas is the recipient of a Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, The Little Dog Laughed, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and a Bessie Design Award, Nottthing Is Importanttt, DD Dorvillier/human future dance corps.

Co-Sound DesignLee
Kinney

Lee Kinney is a sound and music artist working in theatre, film and events. Off-Broadway: Is This A Room (Vineyard); “Daddy” (New Group/Vineyard); Thom Pain (Signature); Sunday (Atlantic); Gnit (Theatre for a New Audience). Other projects include work with Google, Virgin Voyages, Swing Left, The Dance Cartel and The Ghostlight Project. Awarded Outer Critics Circle Honors for Outstanding Sound Design, nominated for Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award, and Henry Hewes Design Award. thanks to kris. @thisisleekinney

Original Music & Co-Sound DesignSanae
Yamada

Sanae Yamada is a musician and composer based in Portland, Oregon. She has released nine albums and toured extensively as a member of the band Moon Duo and as a solo artist under the name Vive la Void. The score and sound for Is This A Room is her first work for theater and her Broadway debut.

Puppet DesignAmanda
Villalobos

Broadway: Amélie (Walter Kerr). Off-Broadway: In the Green (LCT3); Fondly, Collette Richland (NYTW); Ghost Rings (NYLA); Measure for Measure (Public Theater); Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Abrons); Hand to God (Berkeley Rep). TV: “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” HBO’s “The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway.” Installation: 12 Shouts to the 10 Forgotten Heavens Series (Whitney Museum). Performance credits include Basil Twist’s Rite of Spring and Sibyl Kempson’s Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag. avpuppets.com

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.

 Half
Straddle

Half Straddle is an Obie-winning, New York City-based ensemble of performers and designers that make plays, performances, videos, and music led by writer and director Tina Satter that have been seen through the United States and internationally. Half Straddle has premiered 10 full-length shows, and a number of shorter works and video projects that have been seen at festivals and theaters throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company began in 2008 and received their Obie Award grant in 2013. In New York City, the company’s work has been presented at the Vineyard Theatre, The Kitchen, New York Live Arts, New Museum, Danspace, Performance Space New York (formerly PS122), Bushwick Starr, HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, American Realness at Abrons Arts Center, COIL Festival, Ice Factory Festival, and PRELUDE Festival.

 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.