ROMEO AND JULIET

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.

HANSOL JUNG (PLAYWRIGHT) Productions: Wolf Play (Artist Rep, Soho Rep / Ma-Yi ), Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi), and No More Sad Things (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). Residencies/Fellowships: Hodder, Royal Court, NYTW, Berkeley Repertory, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, Sundance Theatre Lab, and Page 73. Awards: Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, DGF Award, Helen Merrill Award. TV: Tales of the City (Netflix), Pachinko (Apple +)

DUSTIN WILLS Upcoming: A Boy’s Company Presents: Tell Me If I’m Hurting You by Jeremy O Harris (Hauser & Wirth) and Wet Brain by John J. Caswell (Playwrights Horizons). Notable: Wolf Play by Hansol Jung (MCC, Soho Rep, Ma-Yi), Montag by Kate Tarker (Soho Rep), Frontières Sans Frontiéres (Top Ten Theatrical Productions 2017 – New York Magazine) by Phillip Howze at the Bushwick Starr, Mikhail Bulgakov’s Black Snow adapted by Keith Reddin (Juilliard), and a Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency for AWFUL EVENT! Recent opera: Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Handel’s Alcina with Yale Opera. He has created large-scale community puppet projects with Creative Action, devised new work for Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, is a two-time recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Theatre, a Drama League and Boris Sagal directing fellow, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

BRIAN QUIJADA (COMPOSER) is an Emmy-nominated playwright, actor, and composer whose original work has been developed and produced all across the country. His hip-hop solo show Where Did We Sit on the Bus? has been produced at Victory Gardens, Geva Theatre, Teatro Vista (Jeff Award), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Drama Desk Nomination), Boise Contemporary, 1st Stage, City Theatre Pittsburgh, and a digital production at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Drama League Nomination). His play Kid Prince and Pablo premiered at The Kennedy Center in 2019. Most recently, his musical Somewhere Over The Border received a critically-acclaimed rolling world premiere at Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, and TeatroVista, winning three Jeff Awards including Best Musical. His musical plays have been developed at The Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh CLO’s Spark Festival, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, New Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Festival, and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Musical Theatre Conference.

NYGEL D. ROBINSON (MUSIC DIRECTOR/COMPOSER ASSISTANT) is an Artist based in Chicago, IL. Select music directing credits include: ‘Lady Day (Mercury Theatre), ‘The Amen Corner’ (Shakespeare Theatre Company), ‘Rose’s War’ (The Rave Theatre Festival). Nygel is also the co creator of the new live looped musical ‘Mexodus’ which started being developed through New York Stage and Film in early 2020. Nygel’s very excited to be working with this incredible team!

Junghyun Georgia Lee is a Korean-born New York–based scenic and costume designer. She has designed for New York Theatre Workshop(Drama Desk Nomination, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord), Public Theatre(the Chinese Lady), Ma-Yi, NAATCO, Soho Rep, the Play Company, Alley Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, PlayMakers Rep, and the Acting Company. She earned her M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama.

Mariko Ohigashi (She/Her) A NY based Costume Designer, born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Mariko is so thrilled to be back in Red Bank! Her U.S. theatre credits include A Little Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Two River Theater); Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance (Transport Group/Connelly Theater, NYC); Out of Time (NAATCO/The Public, NYC); Veil Widow Conspiracy (NAATCO/NYTW Next Door); Vis-à-Vis (New York City Ballet, Choreographic Institute); Hanjo (SITI Company/Japan Society, NYC); Williams College Dance Concerts. International theatre credits in Japan include Hansel and Gretel (Sony Music Foundation/Suntory Hall, Tokyo); Lulu (Shinjuku Bunka) and Carmen (Kanagawa Kenmin Hall) with Tokyo Nikikai. Professional training: MFA from NYU-Tisch, BA from UNC-Chapel Hill. www.marikoohigashi.com

Joey Moro (Lighting Designer) is a New York based designer, who designs lighting, projection, and scenery.  Joey has designed over 150 productions in NYC, regionally, and abroad. Recent Lighting:No Child, (Kitchen Theatre Co) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Choir Boy, (Le Petit Light/Set) Bright Half Life, (Syracuse Drama Light/Set,) The Rape of Lucretia, (Boston Lyric Opera,) Awful Event, (Baryshnikov Arts Center,) Die Fladermaus, Albert Herring (SUNY Stony Brook,)  Streetcar Named Desire (Le Petit Theatre.)  Recent projection work, The Wanderers, (Roundabout,) Good Vibrations, (Houston Ballet,) Sunken Cities Exhibit, (Virginia Museum of Fine Art,) 72 Miles to Go… (Roundabout Theatre,) A Bright Room Called Day, (Juilliard,) Skeleton Crew, (Dorset Theatre Fest,) Orange Julius, (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre.)  Joey creates and engineers video systems for on/off Broadway, ballet, museums, and installations.  MFA Yale School of Drama.  Joey is an Associate Professor in Live Experience Design at BerkleeNYC, and a guest lecturer at the Yale School of Drama and NYU Tisch.  www.joeymoro.com  www.moro.media

MEGUMI KATAYAMA (SOUND DESIGN & COMPOSITION) is a NY-based designer. Her recent credits include Two River: Living and Breathing. New York: Regretfully, So the Birds Are (Playwrights Horizons), The Nosebleed (Lincoln Center LCT3), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow Is Enuf (The Public), The Life (City Center Encores!), Our Brother’s Son (Signature), Generation Rise (Ping Chong and Company/New Victory), The Gett (Rattlestick). Regional: Arena Stage, Everyman Theatre, Alley Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Long Wharf, Yale Rep, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Kansas City Rep, CTG, Berkley Rep, Virginia Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, Chautauqua Theater Company, Skylight Music Theatre, and more. MFA Yale School of Drama. Member of IATSE USA 829.

Upcoming: God of Carnage (Off-Broadway); Sweeney Todd (5th Avenue Theatre); Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Virginia Theatre Festival); Choir Boy (Portland Center Stage). Off-Broadway/NYC: A Delicate Balance (NAATCO/Transport Group); Our Man In Santiago; Golden Shield (MTC); Where The Wild Things Are (New Victory); Neurosis; Syncing Ink; New York Stage and Film; Dramatists Guild Foundation; ACLU/NYCLU. National Tours: Yemandja; The Sound of Music; Bullets Over Broadway; Elf The Musical; Finding Neverland. Regional: Portland Center Stage, 5^th Avenue Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Arrow Rock Lyceum, Alley Theater, TUTS. Associate credits include numerous Broadway, film, television, and commercial projects. www.zee-casting.com

HANNAH WOODWARD (she/her) (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) Recent: Kiss My Aztec! (Hartford Stage), On Your Feet! (Paper Mill Playhouse). Broadway: Be More Chill. Off Broadway: Between the Lines, A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Jersey Boys, Harry Clarke, The Government Inspector, The Moors, The Woodsman, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (also National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (also National Tour).  Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, A.C.T., Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

Kathleen Rose Gallardo (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to join this wonderful company! She was recently the PSM for Stranger Sings! Off-Broadway. Other credits include The Wanderer (Paper Mill Playhouse) and Kiss My Aztec! (Hartford Stage). She was also the recipient of the 2020 NJACT Perry Award for Outstanding Stage Management of a Musical for Mamma Mia (Phoenix Productions). Proud Muhlenberg alumni. VCL.

Peter Kim is NAATCO’s Creative Producer. For the company, he has produced Out of Time at The Public Theater, Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only, Henry VI: Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts (two Drama Desk nominations), Awake and Sing! (OBIE Award and Drama League Award nomination), [Veil Widow Conspiracy], Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery and Sagittarius Ponderosa. Through the NAATCO National Partnership Project (NNPP), he has produced Public Obscenities with Soho Rep and QUEEN with Long Wharf Theatre. He has acted in NAATCO’s Charles Francis Chan…, The Seagull, and He Who Says Yes/No, and on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. Film/TV credits include Billy Eichner’s BROS, The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix/Sundance Film Festival Directing Award), The God Committee, Saturday Church (2017 Tribeca Film Festival Audience Award), Margin Call, Sex and the City, Hackers, After Forever, Chicago Med, Ugly Betty, Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He is a Steering Committee member OBIE and TONY Honor winning AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition); Lecturer in Theater at Princeton University; co-creator of the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway comedy, SIDES: The Fear is Real. He recently produced Radha Blank’s exhibition room for the The Costume Institute’s In America: An Anthology of Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a recipient of the 2020 Rising Leaders of Color grant from TCG (Theatre Communications Group) and the Lilah Kan Red Socks Award. He holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama and a BFA from New York University.