ANTOINETTE CHINONYE NWANDU is a New York based writer for stage, TV and film. Pass Over made its NY debut at LCT3 in 2018. A filmed version of the 2017 Steppenwolf production, directed by Spike Lee, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW, and is now streaming on Amazon Prime. Antoinette is a MacDowell Fellow, an Ars Nova Play Group alum, a Dramatists Guild Fellow and a Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference Literary Fellow. She’s won a Lilly Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Whiting Award, Samuel French Next Step Award, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award and Negro Ensemble Company’s Douglas Turner Ward Prize. Furthermore, her work has been supported by Sundance Theater Lab, Space on Ryder Farm, Ignition Fest, Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Fire This Time, The Movement Theater Company and several others. Antoinette holds an AB in English from Harvard, MSc from The University of Edinburgh and MFA from NYU Tisch.

DANYA TAYMOR is grateful to be making her Broadway debut with Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over, alongside this exceptional team. Recent: Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons, Pulitzer Prize Finalist), Jeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy” (The New Group/Vineyard Theatre), Korde Arrington Tuttle’s Graveyard Shift (Goodman Theatre), Danai Gurira’s Familiar (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Martyna Majok’s queens (Lincoln Center Theater), Brian Watkins’s Wyoming (Lesser America) and My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer (The Flea). Her 2017 world premiere production of Pass Over (Steppenwolf Theatre Company) was filmed in collaboration with Spike Lee, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is streaming on Amazon. She also helmed the NY premiere of Pass Over at Lincoln Center in 2018. Upcoming: Endgame (Gate Theater/ Dublin), “Daddy” (UK premiere/Almeida). Danya is the recipient of an Obie Award, Lortel nomination, the Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity from Lincoln Center and SDCF’s Joe A. Callaway Award for Direction. BA: Duke University.

Theatre: Cost of Living (Manhattan Theatre Club, Pulitzer Prize for Drama), Next Fall (Broadway), Pass Over (Steppenwolf Theatre Company/LCT3, Lortel Award nominee), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater/La Jolla Playhouse), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi Theater/ The Public Theater). Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragodie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera, Dora Award). Film/TV: Pass Over (directed by Spike Lee), “Blindspot” (NBC). Wilson is a member of USA Local 829 where he serves as an elected Eastern Region Board member. A monograph of Wilson’s work was recently published by The Scenographer. @wilsonchindesign 

Off-Broadway: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Obie Award: Playwrights Horizons); Broadway Bounty Hunter (Greenwich House); Plot Points, Pass Over (LCT3). Regional: Slow Food (Geva Theatre Center); Cry It Out and The Royale (Kitchen Theatre Company); Not Medea and Grace, or The Art of Climbing (Art House Productions); The White Dress (Araca Project); One Flea Spare (Playhouse Creatures); This Time (Rising Circle); Good Men Wanted (Arena Stage); Couriers and Contrabands (Barrow Group); Why You Beasting? (New York Rep). Associate and assistant costume design credits on and off Broadway. Education: BA, Adelphi University. Big thanks to mama llama and all who helped me here.

MARCUS DOSHI designs lighting and sets for theatre, opera and dance. His work has been seen extensively in New York (Broadway and Off-Broadway, including a longstanding collaboration with Theatre for a New Audience); in Chicago (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Lyric Opera, others); at most major regional theatres and opera companies in the USA; and internationally in 18 countries across five continents, notably at Canadian Opera Company, La Comédie Française, Festival d’Aixen-Provence, Dutch National Opera, La Monnaie, Sydney Festival and National Arts Centre Mumbai. He is the Associate Chair of Department of Theatre at Northwestern University, where he teaches design. Marcusdoshi.com

Broadway credits include Other Desert Cities. Off-Broadway credits include Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons); The Rolling Stone, Pass Over, Pipeline (Lincoln Center); Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop). Additional theatres include Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theater, The Stratford Festival (Canada), The Royal Shakespeare Company (UK), and The Old Vic (UK). Ellington’s work has earned Grammy, Obie, Cinema in Industry (CINDY) and an American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) awards. Most recently Ellington was awarded the distinguished Henry Hewes Design Award.