AGATHA CHRISTIE (AUTHOR) was an extraordinary woman with a remarkable mind. She wrote her first mystery novel when she was 26, and it was published four years later as The Mysterious Affair at Styles. There followed a prolific writing career spanning five decades, with over 80 novels and short story collections, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and the genre-defining And Then There Were None. She wrote over 19 plays, of which the most famous, The Mousetrap, is the longest running play in the world. With more than two billion books published, Agatha Christie is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her works have been widely adapted and produced across most media platforms around the world, including TV, film, radio, publishing, stage, games and digital. Easily translatable, her books have been published in over 100 languages, making her the most translated writer of all time. 

DARKO TRESNJAK (ADAPTOR / DIRECTOR) won the Tony Award, the Drama Desk, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for his direction of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. He won an Obie Award for his direction of Ionesco’s The Killer at Theater for a New Audience. From 2004 to 2009, Darko was the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival. From 2011 to 2019, he was the Artistic Director of Hartford Stage Company. As a director of plays, musicals, and operas, Darko has worked at Joseph Papp Public Theater, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Alley Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Geva Theatre Center, Westport Country Playhouse, Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Santa Fe Opera. His production of Anastasia, the musical, has been presented in the US, Canada, Germany, Spain, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, and the Netherlands. This season, Darko is also directing Archduke at Roundabout Theatre Company, the Australian tour of Anastasia and Amadeus at Pasadena Playhouse.  

ALEXANDER DODGE (SCENIC DESIGNER) Two River Theater: A Thousand Maids and 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: Prosperous Fools (Theater for a New Audience), Russian Troll Farm and Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre) The Whisper House (59E59), Ripcord (MTC), Lips Together Teeth Apart, Modern Terrorism, The Water’s Edge (Second Stage Theater), Measure for Pleasure (The Public Theater), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme (Lortel Award Winner, Lincoln Center). Regional: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse and tours in Japan, Germany, Austria). Also American Conservatory Theater, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Center Theatre Group, Geffen Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center, The Old Globe, Paper Mill Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival. London West End: Harry Clarke, All New People. Opera: Samson et Dalila: Metropolitan Opera, The Thirteenth Child (Santa Fe Opera), Ghosts of Versailles (Los Angeles Opera), Dinner at Eight (Minnesota Opera/Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland), Ukiyo-E (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Il trittico (Deutsche Oper Berlin) Lohengrin (Budapest). MFA: Yale. Upcoming New York City: Messy White Gays (The Duke on 42) and Archduke (Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre). @alexanderdodgedesign

JESS GOLDSTEIN (COSTUME DESIGNER) previously designed Dial M for Murder, The Ballad of Little Jo and The Important of Being Earnest at Two River Theater. New York credits include Jersey Boys, Disney’s Newsies, On the Town, The Rivals (2005 Tony Award), The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino (Tony nomination), Plenty with Rachel Weisz, Henry IV with Kevin Kline (Tony nomination), Proof, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Take Me Out, Tintypes, The Most Happy Fella, Buried Child, How I Learned to Drive, Stuff Happens, Dinner with Friends and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). Jess has also designed for film and television, most notably A Walk on the Moon directed by Tony Goldwyn, The Substance of Fire with Sarah Jessica Parker and Talking With and Far East for PBS’ Great Performances. He is the 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he also taught from 1990 to 2019. jess-goldstein.com

PABLO SANTIAGO (LIGHTING DESIGNER) is an acclaimed lighting designer whose work bridges the worlds of live performance and digital film. His artistry—recognized with numerous honors including the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theatrical Design, the Orange Curtain Best Lighting Award, the Henry Award, the Richard Sherwood Award, the Stage Raw Award, and multiple Ovation Award nominations—transforms stages into immersive, emotionally resonant environments. Originally from Chiapas, Mexico, Pablo moved to the United States in high school and earned a degree in film from the University of San Diego. Following a 15-year career in major motion pictures, he discovered his true passion for theatrical lighting design and returned to academia, completing his MFA in Lighting Design at UCLA. Pablo’s designs are driven by the creation of evocative visual moments that connect deeply with a production’s emotional core, inviting audiences to journey beyond the stage through imagery that sparks the imagination. His extensive portfolio includes work for renowned venues and organizations such as The Kennedy Center, Teatro Municipal São Paulo, Santa Fe Opera, LA Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, BAM-Harvey Theater, Geffen Playhouse, and the Hollywood Bowl. He has also collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, showcasing his versatility across genres and scales. Dedicated to storytelling through light, Pablo continues to push the boundaries of the craft, illuminating narratives that captivate and inspire audiences around the world.

Jennifer Gonzalez (she/her/hers)
Jennifer is a Latina female storyteller from Southern California. Recent LD credits include:
Phaeton at Inner City Arts, In The Heights at Long Beach City College, GASKET at GER Collective, XMAS Cuentro Remix & Bernarda! at Teatro Audaz, and Prima’s Guide to Funerals & Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at Creede Rep. Recent Associate/Assistant LD credits include: Into the Woods, Quixote Nuevo, & Shane at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Elixir of Love at Minnesota Opera, Measure STILL For Measure at Boston Court Pasadena, and The Great Comet of 1812 at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Jennifer recently graduated from Texas State University with her MFA in Lighting Design and has her B.A. in Theatre Arts with a minor in Ethnic Studies from the University of La Verne. Her website: jgonzalezdesigns.me. IG: @_jgodesigns_

MEGUMI KATAYAMA (SOUND DESIGNER) is a NY-based designer. Two River: Romeo and Juliet, Living and Breathing. Off-Broadway/NYC: Wonderful Town, Titanic, Jelly’s Last Jam, The Light in the Piazza, The Life (New York City Center Encores!), The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (The New Group), All the World’s A Stage (Keen Company), For Colored Girls… (Public Theater), Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons), Lincoln Center LCT3, National Asian American Theatre Company, Target Margin/NYU Skirball, Primary Stages, Minetta Lane, Ping Chong+Company, Rattlestick Theater, Little Island, New York Theatre Workshop Gala, Lincoln Center Gala. INTERNATIONAL: Into the Woods (Theater Group Asia, Manila). TOUR: Cambodian Rock Band, The Nosebleed. US REGIONAL: Jersey Boys (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Chinese Lady (Alliance Theatre), POTUS (Trinity Repertory Company), English (The Old Globe), Rubicon (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Huntington Theatre Company, Geva Theatre Center, Alley Theatre, Studio Theater, Everyman Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, ZACH Theater, East West Players, Dorset Theater Festival, Chautauqua Theater Company, Skylight Music Theatre, Theater Aspen, and more. Originally from Japan, she holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. megumikatayama.com 

GERRY RODRIGUEZ (he/him/his) most recent moments of violence include: Broadway: Appropriate, The Great Society. Off-Broadway: Grief Camp (Atlantic Theater), The Welkin (Atlantic Theater), Black No More (New Group), Boesman and Lena (Signature Theatre), Lockdown (Rattlestick Theater), Happy Talk (New Group), Oedipus El Rey (Drama Desk Nomination, The Public Theater), Kill Floor (LCT3), The Spoils (New Group), The Liquid Plain (Signature), Good Grief (Vinyard Theatre), Crackskull Row (Irish Rep), Manhood (National Black Theatre), but i cd only whisper (The Flea), Mme Le Monde (Playhouse Creatures). Regional: Dial M For Murder (Two River), Seven Guitars (Two River), Ropes (Two River), Bad Jews (George Street Playhouse), Be More Chill (Two River), Absurd Person Singular (Two River), among others. A member of Unkle Dave’s Fight House and is also an actor.

J. JARED JANAS (WIG, HAIR, & MAKEUP DESIGNER) At Two River Theater: Dial M for Murder, Hair, Love in Hate Nation and Oo-Bla-Dee. Select Broadway: Dead Outlaw, John Proctor is the Villain, Glengarry Glen Ross, Buena Vista Social Club, Our Town, Once Upon a Mattress, Mary Jane, Prayer for the French Republic, Purlie Victorious, Good Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd…, Ohio State Murders, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, Porgy and Bess. Recent Off Broadway: Sally & Tom (Drama Desk Nomination), Yours Unfaithfully (Drama Desk Nomination).

CLAUDIA HILL-SPARKS (DIALECT COACH) has had a 40+ year career as an actor, educator, actor trainer, and professional voice, speech, dialect, and text coach on Broadway, off Broadway and in regional theaters throughout the country. Former faculty member of the BFA acting program at Boston University, as well as the MFA acting program at The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Resident vocal coach at The Old Globe Theater for eight years, coaching over 70 productions. She returned to The Old Globe to coach three consecutive seasons of the Shakespeare Summer Repertory. She was the Dialect coach for the film, “Spoiler Alert,” also appearing in the same film as a nurse. She holds an MFA in Acting from Temple University. She is married to actor Don Sparks. 

ALISON COTE (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) is a freelance stage manager based in Princeton, New Jersey. She has stage managed at McCarter Theatre for 26 seasons, including over 20 world premieres collaborating with playwrights Athol Fugard, Christopher Durang, Edward Albee, among others. Recent productions include Empire Records: The Musical, Choice (by Winnie Holzman), Ride the Cyclone and Dreaming Zenzile. New York credits include Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage and The Public Theatre. Other regional credits: The Old Globe, Spoleto USA, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Berkeley Repertory, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre Company DC, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf, Paper Mill, Center Theatre Group, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Pittsburgh Public, George Street Playhouse and over 25 productions with the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Abroad, Alison was stage manager for An Iliad by Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival in Romania.  

MIKAYLA BETTNER (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) is an Actors’ Equity Association Stage Manager based out in Los Angeles, California. Recent credits include: burn for You (Ojai Playwrights Conference), Pacific Overtures, On This Side of the World (East West Players), Ask for the Moon (Goodspeed Musicals), This Bright Wilderness (Mark Taper Forum), Ghost Waltz (Latino Theatre Company), Love Actually Live (The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts), The Engagement Party (Geffen Playhouse), Stew, Sunday in the Park with George (Pasadena Playhouse, Tony Award-Winning Theater), Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Carol, Animal Farm, Metamorphoses (A Noise Within).