Tony Meneses (Playwright) (he/him) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico and raised in Albuquerque and Dallas. His plays include Guadalupe in the Guest Room, twenty50, The Hombres, and El Borracho. He is an alum of the Soho Rep. Writer/Director Lab, Ars Nova Play Group, Sundance Institute Playwrights Retreat at Ucross Foundation, The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, and Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood; his work has been previously developed at the Lark Playwrights’ Week, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, The Denver Center’s Colorado New Play Summit, The Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival, and South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival and New SCRipt Series. He is a two-time recipient of The Kennedy Center Latinx Playwriting Award, is published by Dramatists Play Service and Theatrical Rights Worldwide, and has been previously commissioned by Denver Center, Two River Theater, South Coast Rep, and The Juilliard School. He is currently under commission from The Old Globe. Education: The University of Texas at Austin, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard.

Aneesha Kudtarkar (Director)  (she/her) is a New York-based theatre director. She likes plays that start out normal, and then get weird. Select projects include Water by the Spoonful, The Who and The What (Juilliard), Ms. Watson & Ms. Holmes – #2B (Dorset Theatre Festival), Queen (Long Wharf Theatre, National Asian American Theatre Company), The Cherry Orchard (The New School), Men on Boats (Southern Methodist University), [Veil Widow Conspiracy] (National Asian American Theatre Company), LOCUSTS, Trouble in Mind (Yale School of Drama), The Purple Flower (Yale Cabaret). She has also developed new works with Clubbed Thumb, NYTW, Cape Cod Theatre Project, and the Hunter College MFA Program. Aneesha is an alumna of Southern Methodist University and the Yale School of Drama MFA Program. AneeshaDirects.com

Alexander Dodge (Scenic Designer) Alexander was born in Switzerland, raised in Arizona, and lives in Manhattan with his husband and two sons. TWO RIVER: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. BROADWAY: I Need That, Anastasia (Outer Critics Nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Nominations), Present Laughter (Tony Nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. OFF-BROADWAY: Russian Troll Farm: Vineyard, The Whisper House: 59E59, Harry Clarke: Vineyard/Minetta Lane, The Understudy: Roundabout, Ripcord: MTC, The Water’s Edge, Trust: Second Stage, Paris Commune: Public, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme: LCT (Lortel Winner). LONDON WEST END: Harry Clarke, All New People. OTHER: Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame: La Jolla and Paper Mill Playhouses/Japan/Germany/Austria; American Buffalo: The Gate, Dublin. OPERA: Samson et Dalila: Metropolitan Opera; The Thirteenth Child: Santa Fe; Ghosts of Versailles: L.A. Opera; Ukiyo-E: Grand Théâtre de Genève; Dinner at Eight, Minnesota Opera/ Wexford Festival: Il trittico: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lohengrin: Budapest. TRAINING: MFA-Yale. alexanderdodgedesign.com @alexanderdodgedesign 

Kara Harmon (Costume Designer) Off-Broadway: Watch Night, Perelman PAC, Cullud Wattah, Public Theater; Lockdown, Rattlestick Playwrights, The Niceties, Manhattan Theatre Club; Dot, Vineyard Theatre. Select Regional credits include: The Penelopiad, Goodman Theatre; The Three Musketeers, OSF; 42nd Street, Goodspeed Musicals (CT Critics Circle Outstanding Costume Design); Choir Boy, Steppenwolf; Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Children’s Theatre Company; Cosi Fan Tutte, Arizona Opera; Hometown to the World, Santa Fe Opera; Shutter Sisters, Old Globe;  Darlin’ Cory, The Alliance Theater, Guys & Dolls, Guthrie Theater; Toni Stone, Milwaukee Rep; The Color Purple, Portland Center Stage; The Wiz!, Ford’s Theatre (Helen Hayes Award); Nina Simone: Four Women, Arena Stage;  The Purists, Huntington Theatre; Barbecue, Geffen Playhouse (NAACP Award).  Assistant Costume Design TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” Season 2, Amazon; “Daredevil,” Season 2, Netflix; “Boardwalk Empire,” Season 5, HBO. KaraHarmonDesign.com 

Cat Tate Starmer (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway: Georgia Mertching is Dead, White People (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Hold These Truths, MacBeth, Richard III (Epic Theatre Ensemble); American Jornalero (Working Theatre); Recent Regional designs include Living and Breathing (Two River Theatre), A Christmas Carol, 1984 (LDI Design Achievement Award), The Winter’s Tale, Murder on the Orient Express (Alley Theatre); Hurricane Diane, They Promised Her the Moon (Old Globe); Steel Magnolias, Frankenstein (LIT Design Award) (Guthrie Theatre); Hold These Truths (Theatreworks: Silicon Valley, Guthrie Theatre, Playmakers Rep); Buzz (Alabama Shakespeare Theatre) and The People Next Door (Yale Rep). Cat has been a guest lecturer and designer at Yale, Juilliard, Fordham, Barnard, Princeton, Brown, and Bard College. Cat designed the architectural lighting for Plaza 33, a pedestrian plaza near Penn Station in NYC and received two Lumen awards and a SOURCE Award for her work with Focus Lighting. She is a professor at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts. MFA: Yale School of Drama. 

Fabian Obispo (Sound/Composition Designer) debuts at Two River Theater. Recent off-Broadway credits include Public Theater’s Sea Wall/A Life, Oedipus El Rey (Hewes nomination), The Chinese Lady (Lucille Lortel nomination) and MaYi Theatre’s Once upon a Korean Time (Hewes nomination). His musical Felix Starro premiered off Broadway marking the first off-Broadway musical created by Filipino Americans. Regional credits include Arena Stage’s Angels in America (Helen Hayes nomination), Alliance Theater’s Bina’s Six Apples (Suzi Bass nomination), and American Conservatory Theater’s Imaginary Invalid (Bay Area Critics Circle nomination). His music for the movie Vancouver was awarded best original score by the LAFilm Festival’s Indie Short Fest Award. On TV he wrote the original music for 20 Years of Asian American Playwriting, a PBS Documentary. He is also a recipient of the Berkshires Theatre Critics Award and the Barrymore. 

Gabbie Vincent (Hair & Make Up Designer) A New York-based Hair and Makeup Artist, recent designs for theater and opera include: A Thousand Maids (Wig & Makeup Design, Two River Theater; World Premiere), The Welkin (Makeup Design, Atlantic Theater Company), Philip Glass’ Drowning (Makeup Design, Days & Nights Festival and Mabou Mines; World Premiere). With On Site Opera: Song of the Nightingale (World Premiere), Coffee Cantata, Il Tabarro, Gianni Schicci, Turn of the Screw, Murasaki’s Moon (World Premiere), Amahl and the Night Visitors, Das Barbecu, The Secret Gardener, and The Marriage of Figaro. Gabbie’s 20+ Broadway credits include Disney’s Frozen (Makeup Specialist), The Nap, and What the Constitution Means to Me (Wig & Makeup Supervisor). Her work can also be seen in multiple feature films and television shows. She holds a BFA from the University of Miami, and a Certificate of Cosmetology from the Aveda Institute, NY.

Genevieve Ortiz (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Daphne(LCT3/Lincoln Center Theatre); Toros (Second Stage); Catch As Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons); Patience (Second Stage); Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Rep); 7 Minutes (Waterwell); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T.); Hercules (The Public); Is God Is (Soho Rep); Regional: Living and Breathing (Two River Theater); The Christians (Baltimore Center Stage) 

Brillian Qi-Bell (ASM) Brillian is an SM passionate about making positive changes in her industry & community. She has been a part of advocacy programs such as the Cody Renard Richard Scholarship, Beyond the Stage Door (Baseline Theatricals), & The Harriet Tubman Effect. She is proud to represent her different cultures during this creation being Chinese, Black, Queer, & the most foreign – Iowan. Previous Work includes- PA: Hell’s Kitchen (The Public Theater), The Heart of Rock & Roll (RCI Theatricals, workshop), SUFFS (101 Productions, development), & Jagged Little Pill, 1st National Tour (RCI Theatricals). ASM Sub: Funny Girl, National Tour (NETworks Presentations), The Harder They Come (The Public Theater). ASM: Cymbeline (NAATCO, reading), Bees & Honey (MCC Theater), 38th Marathon of One Act Plays (Ensemble Studio Theater), Hit the Wall (UIowa), The Wolves (UIowa). PSM Sub: El Otro Oz (Atlantic Theater) SM: The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (MCC Theater, reading) BREATHE (New Professional Theater), BLKS (UIowa), Media Clown (UIowa), UIXR Theater (UIowa), The People Before the Park (UIowa). Special thanks to Genevieve, Kelsea, Colten, Mojo, & my family for supporting me along the way! Instagram: @brillian_the_qi