Guadalupe in the Guestroom

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.

Daniella Topol’s recent world-premiere productions include: Martyna Majok’s Ironbound (Steppenwolf Theatre); Cori Thomas’ When January Feels Like Summer (EST/P73); Rachel Bonds’ Five Mile Lake (South Coast Rep); Jessica Dickey’s Row After Row (Women’s Project) and Charles Ives Take Me Home (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Catherine Trieschmann’s How the World Began (South Coast Rep; Women’s Project), Rajiv Joseph’s Monster at the Door (Alley Theatre), Sheila Callaghan’s Dead City (New Georges), Lloyd Suh’s Jesus in India (Magic Theatre; Ma-Yi Theatre), Willy Holtzman’s The Morini Strad (City Theatre, PA), Stefanie Zadravec’s The Electric Baby (Quantum Theatre), Janet Allard and Niko Tsakalakos’ Pool Boy (Barrington Stage), Carla Ching’s The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness (Ma-Yi), Caridad Svich’s Instructions for Breathing (Passage Theatre), and Sheila Callaghan’s Lascivious Something (Women’s Project/Cherry Lane). Formerly the Artistic Program Director of the Lark Play Development Center and New Works Program Director of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Daniella is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, an NYTW Usual Suspect, EST Member, and member of the Board of the Lark Play Development Center. Daniella lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Marion Williams is pleased to be returning to Two River, where she designed the scenery and costumes for Barefoot in the Park and ReEntry as well as the scenery for The Glass Menagerie and the costumes for 26 Miles. New York credits include MCC Theater, Mint Theater Company, The Juilliard School, José Limón Dance Company, Manhattan School of Music, Parsons Dance, Performance Space 122, Primary Stages, and The Women’s Project. Regional credits include McCarter Theatre Center, CenterStage, Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Rep, Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Round House Theatre, PlayMakers Rep, Barrington Stage, Triad Stage, The Folger Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Ballet, Louisville Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Sacramento Theatre Company, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and Williamstown Theatre Festival. International credits include Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Leipzig, Germany) and Introdans (Holland). MFA University of Washington. Princess Grace Award and a Princess Grace Special Projects Grant recipient.

Karen Perry: (Costume Design) Two River is one of my favorite theatres and I am so happy to return this season with the artist and staff I love collaborating with so much over 12 season in the past and on The Price. Karen’s 13 seasons of shows she has costume designed at TRT has included Musicals, Dramas, Comedies costume designs, last here with Wine In The Wilderness also directed by Brandon Dirden. Other Recent shows Karen designed include: Rosie Is Red, Everyone else is Blue dir Reggie Douglas @ Cap Rep, Kunene & the King dir Ruben S Hudson @ STC, Death on the Niles dir Hana Sharif @ Arena Stage, Karen Perry has long been considered a master in her profession. Within a three-decade career, Karen has built an incredible body of work on Stage and Screen and has garnered a winning reputation as both a tremendous talent and sheer joy to work with. A native New Yorker, Karen Perry began designing for the stage in the 1980’s. Ms. Perry’s earlier film and stage work include: Karen’s films include The Brother from Another Planet by dir John Sayles, Just Looking dir by Jason Alexander, The Gregory Hines Show on CBS, the celebrated Public Theatre hit musical Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da Funk. A Raisin in the Sun dir by Robert O’Hara.  TV costume designs includes NBC’s Saturday Night Live, UPN’s Abby with Sydney Poitier, CBS’s acclaimed original movie One Day In Montgomery: The Rosa Parks Story dir by Julie Dash, and HBO’s Strapped dir by Forrest Whittaker, both of which earned Ms Perry Cable Ace Award nominations. She has designed costumes for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill (Syracuse Stage), Destiny of Desire Telanovela Musical (Old Globe), Clyde’s (Berkley Rep & Huntington Theatre), Wine in the Wilderness (Two River Theatre), Personality: The Lloyd Price Musical (People’s Light), and Lackawanna Blues (Broadway & Mark Taper Theatre). In addition, Karen worked as personal stylist for many premier artists including the late, great Gregory Hines for 13 years collaborating with Mr. Hines on numerous projects including films Bleeding Heart directed by Mr Hines, The Tic Code dir by Gary Winick, CBS’s The Gregory Hines Show and Showtime’s original film Bojangles: The Bill “Bojangle” Robinson Story. Ms Perry’s theatre design highlights include National Federal Theatre’s Paul Robeson; The Taking of Miss Janie; It Hasn’t Always Been This Way; Three Travelers; Salaam Huey Newton, Salaam; Crumbs for the Table of Joy; A Raisin in the Sun; Dancing on Moonlight; and Breathe, Boom. Her Regional Theatre work includes 6 August Wilson productions:  Gem of the Ocean, The  Piano Lesson, King Hedley II, Radio Golf, Two Trains Running and Seven Guitars. The latter two garnered Ms Perry with both an Audelco Award and The Craig Noel Award of Theatre Excellence.  She is also the recipient of The National Black Theatre Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Costume Design Excellence in American and Black Stage, Film and Television, The “Woodie” Award and an Audelco Award for Signature Theatre’s production of The First Breeze of Summer. Perry has also received a Norton Award, Lucille Lortel Award, LA Ovations Awards, a CDG Award, an Ace Award, a Hewitt Award, and she is an Emmy nominee. Current productions of Ms. Perry’s include Daniel Beaty’s Resurrection dir by Oz Scott, McCarter Theatre’s production of Tarell McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Trilogy, New York Theatre Workshop’s Things of Dry Hours by Naomi Wallace dir Ruben Santiago Hudson, Ebony Repertoire Theatre’s STEW in Los Angeles dir Jade King Carroll, and Arizona Theatre Company’s Intimate Apparel dir by Oz Scott.  

Jiyoun Chang Credits: brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Lincoln Center Theater LCT3), The World Is Round (BAM Fisher Space, OBIE Award Special Citation in Lighting Design), The Unfortunates, Troilus and Cressida (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Dance and the Railroad (Signature Theatre, Wuzhen International Festival in China); T. 1912, Peter and the Wolf (Guggenheim Museum), Dirty Blonde, Anna Christie, Tennessee  Playboy, A Doll’s House (Triad Stage), Light Within (Carnegie Hall); Our Planet (Japan Society); I came to look for  you on Tuesday by  Chiori Miyagawa (La MaMa); Pinter Project, Cowboy Mouth, and The Poor of New York (collaborations with Tyne Rafaeli).  MFA in Design at Yale School of Drama. http://jiyounchang.com/

JANE SHAW (SOUND DESIGNER & COMPOSER) previously designed El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom, The Women of Padilla, Oo-Bla-Dee,  Guadalupe in the Guest Room and Pinkolandia at Two River Theater. New York credits include Music City (Bedlam), Henry IV (TFANA), The Wanderers (Roundabout), and The Fears, produced at the Signature. Regional credits include Leopoldstadt at Shakespeare Theater Company and The Huntington, Railway Children (Northern Stage),  Jekyll and Hyde (Hartford Stage), They Promised Her the Moon (Old Globe) and productions at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Mark Taper Forum, ACT, and with the Asolo. Recognition: Bessie Award, Henry Award, Drama Desk, Premios ACE 2012, Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, Meet the Composer grant, Theatre Communications Group’s Career Development Program, and nominations for three Lortels, Henry Hewes and Elliot Norton Awards. She was born in Kansas and lives in Brooklyn.

Erin Hicks grew up in Harlem, NY. She began styling hair as an assistant on The Winter’s Tale at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Alfre Woodard, Mandy Patinkin, and Diane Venora. Over the last 20 years she has worked on various Broadway, film and TV shows. This is Erin’s fifth show at Two River, following Guadalupe in the Guest Room and August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and King Hedley II.

J. Steven White is pleased to return to Two River (where he previously fight directed Lives of Reason, Guadalupe in the Guest Room, Camelot, As You Like It, and On Borrowed Time) and to be working again with his former colleagues from productions at The Public Theater, where his fight work has been seen in 22 shows including Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, King Lear, A Language of Their Own, and Cymbeline with Liev Schreiber and Michael C. Hall, whom Mr. White trained at NYU Graduate Acting. Broadway includes The Pillowman, Bombay Dreams, Uncle Vanya, A View from the Bridge, Golden Child, The Lion in Winter with Laurence Fishburne, All My Sons, as well as Shogun: The Musical (Assistant Director). His fights have been seen on the stages of every major New York theater including MTC, CSC, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, and the Irish Repertory Theatre. He has worked at McCarter on six productions including The Convert. He is the fencing master for the Tulsa Ballet where he staged the fencing sequences in Edwaard Liang’s production of Romeo and Juliet.​ Mr. White spent 11 seasons at American Conservatory Theater, where he began his teaching career 44 years ago. He is on the faculties of the Stella Adler Studio and the Graduate Acting Program at NYU-Tisch. He wants to go on record that he is in love with Red Bank and the Jersey Shore.

ROSIE BERRIDO (DIALECTS) is a native New Yorker of Hispanic parents. The recipient of 8 Hola Awards, a NYS Citation Award and A FUERZA Fest from the Hispanic Federation. She is a bilingual narrator for the U.S. Library of Congress. Rosie is the Dialect/Accent coach for Buena Vista Social Club the musical currently on Broadway. Her coaching credits include: The Public, Repertorio Español, The Atlantic Theater, INTAR, Ensemble Studio Theater, pilots for NBC and HBO Latino. Her clients appearances: Orange is the New black, The Pitt, Law & Order, Blue Bloods, Madame Secretary, POWER, The Bridge and The Americans, among many others. A board member of the Broadway League’s initiative VIVA Broadway. Rosie is thrilled to be back at Two River Theater. Felicidades VOS!

Zoe E. Rotter Broadway: Waiting for Godot/No Man’s Land and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. West End: Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Regional: Pinkolandia and Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River Theater!), Wild Swans (A.R.T./Young Vic). World Tour: Einstein on the Beach. Film: The ADK, Ce sentiment de l’été (NY Casting), The Girl in The Book, To Whom It May Concern, BearCity, Socks and Bonds (short), Just the Three of Us (short) and Mountain Low (short).  Zoe is also in her fifth season of casting Symphony Space’s reading series ‘Selected Shorts.’

KATE CROASDALE (PRODUCTION STATE MANAGER) is delighted to return to Two River after stage managing Two Sisters and a Piano, Guadalupe in the Guest Room, The Tricky Part and All The Rage. Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life, Sunday in the Park with George, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ghost The Musical, Dead Accounts and Relatively Speaking. Off-Broadway Credits include: Stargazers (Page 73), Mary Gets Hers (Playwrights Realm) and Mud/Drowning (Mabou Mines). Kate has also worked with: City Center Encores!, The Public Theater, NAATCO, EST, New York Stage and Film, Bay Street Theater and Kaimera Productions. She is proud to be a core teacher for the Peridance Certificate Program.