MELINDA LOPEZ (PLAYWRIGHT) is a playwright and performer. Upcoming: Standing Still (Company One Theatre), Sonia Flew (The Gamm Theatre), Twelfth Night con Salsa (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival). Recent: Standing Still (University of California, Santa Barbara), Stir (The Old Globe), Mr. Parent—co-created with Maurice Parent (Geva Theatre Center, Lyric Stage Boston, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). Other work includes an adaptation of Yerma (The Huntington), Mala (The Old Globe, ArtsEmerson, Guthrie Theater, The Huntington, Elliot Norton Award for Best New Play, ArtsImpulse Award for Best Solo Performance), also available on Audible in English and Spanish, Becoming Cuba (The Huntington, North Coast Repertory Theatre), and Sonia Flew (The Huntington, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Contemporary American Theater Festival, and many others, Elliot Norton Awards for Best Production and Best New Play). Melinda is also an actress and has appeared at The Huntington, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Portland Stage, Guthrie Theater, and others. She is also featured (and has become a meme) in the film Fever Pitch. She provides humanitarian aid for the people of Cuba (Friends of Caritas Cubana) and occasionally sleeps on the ground in the American Southwest. She has run two marathons and plays a little ukulele.  |  melindalopez.com

JOEL PEREZ (PLAYWRIGHT) (he/him) is a New York–based writer, director, and actor. He wrote and directed the film The Upper Room (NewFest, 2025) and directed and co-wrote the film Villa Encanto (Tribeca Festival, 2025, executive producer Lin-Manuel Miranda). He wrote and starred in Beautiful, FL (Disney+). His play Stir received its World Premiere at The Old Globe, was developed at The Huntington, and won an Elliot Norton Award for Best New Script. Other writing includes Lost City Radio (New York Stage and Film, Berkeley Repertory Theatre) and the podcast Love in Gravity. He won the 2021 Voces Latinx National Playwriting Competition for From the Fountain and a 2021 Warner Bros. Discovery 150 Artist Grant for the pilot “You’re Tired, You’re Poor,” optioned by 20th Television. He is a 2019 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Playwriting. Acting credits include Fun Home (Broadway), Kiss My Aztec! (Hartford Stage), As You Like It (The Public Theater), and Sweet Charity (The New Group, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Musical). Film: tick, tick… BOOM! (Netflix). TV: “Hazbin Hotel” (Prime Video), “Jesus Christ Superstar Live!” (NBC), “Person of Interest” (CBS), and “Odd Mom Out” (Bravo).

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EDWARD TORRES (DIRECTOR) is a theater artist, television actor and professor. His theatrical work has appeared at The Public Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, National Theatre, The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, and Geffen Playhouse. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Theater at University of Illinois Chicago. He recently appeared in Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s World Premiere of A Home What Howls. He also performed in the World Premiere of Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Norris’ play Downstate, a co-production between Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago and the National Theatre of Great Britain. On television, he has appeared in “Chicago P.D.,” “Luke Cage,” “The Deuce,” “The Romanoffs,” “Gotham,” “The Get Down,” and “The Following.” Most recently he appeared in the film Sender, produced by Jamie Lee Curtis and directed by Russell Goodman. Currently he is the interim Artistic Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. A Chicago native, he co-founded Teatro Vista in 1990, where he directed the World Premiere of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. He directed subsequent productions to critical acclaim at Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theater (Obie Award for Best New American Play) and at Geffen Playhouse. His recent directing credits include the World Premiere musical La Canción (Repertorio Español), Macbeth (The Public Theater’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit), Mosque Alert (Silk Road Rising), White Tie Ball by Martín Zimmerman (Teatro Vista), and The Happiest Song Plays Last by Quiara Alegría Hudes (Goodman Theatre).

ALEXANDER DODGE (SCENIC DESIGNER) Two River Theater: Murder on the Links, A Thousand Maids, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Broadway: I Need That, Anastasia (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award®, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Present Laughter (Tony Award® nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley, Hedda Gabler. Off-Broadway: Messy White Gays (The Duke on 42nd Street), Archduke (Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre), Prosperous Fools (Theatre for a New Audience), Russian Troll Farm and Harry Clarke (Vineyard Theatre), The Whisper House (59E59 Theaters), Ripcord (Manhattan Theatre Club), 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 Towards the Somme (Lincoln Center Theater, Lucille Lortel Award). Regional: Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse, 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, The Huntington, McCarter Theatre Center, The Old Globe, 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), The Ghosts of Versailles (LA Opera), Dinner at Eight (Minnesota Opera/Wexford Festival Opera, Ireland), Ukiyo-E (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Il trittico (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Lohengrin (Hungarian State Opera). MFA, Yale School of Drama.

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HAYDEE ZELIDETH (COSTUME DESIGNER) is a New York–based costume designer working across theater, opera, and film. Her recent credits include Small Town: A John Mellencamp Musical (Ogunquit Playhouse), Cyrano and Huzzah! (The Old Globe), Eugene Onegin: A Bluegrass Musical (TheatreSquared), Misery and Cowboy Bob (Alley Theatre), and Mother of Exiles, POTUS, and The Aves (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Her Off-Broadway credits include Public Charge and Mojada (The Public Theater), Calf Scramble (Primary Stages), Three Houses and Bad Kreyòl (Signature Theatre), and Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons/MCC Theater, Obie Award Special Citation). Additional regional credits include The Hombres (Two River Theater), Dream Hou$e (Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage), among other pieces in regional theaters across the country. Her opera credits include Das Lied von der Erde and Carousel (Boston Lyric Opera). She is also a recipient of the Artistas de Teatro Independiente Award and holds an MFA in Design from Yale School of Drama.

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CAROLINA ORTIZ HERRERA (LIGHTING DESIGNER) (she/her) is a Mexican-born and New York–based lighting designer for theater, opera, and dance. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar. Off-Broadway: Amerikin (Primary Stages), La Paloma Prisoner (Chelsea Factory), Hedda Gabler and The Winter’s Tale (Bedlam), Yellowman (The Billie Holiday Theatre, AUDELCO Award nomination for Best Lighting Design). Regional: VOS! (Two River Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Somewhere (Guthrie Theater), All the Men Who’ve Frightened Me (La Jolla Playhouse), Private Lives, December, American Mariachi (Alley Theatre), La Tempestad (Trinity Repertory Company), Death of a Salesman (PlayMakers Repertory Company), Born with Teeth (Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre), Native Gardens (Dallas Theater Center), Everything Rises (Brooklyn Academy of Music, Royce Hall), Doubt: A Parable (Westport Country Playhouse), I and You (Bristol Riverside Theatre), The Railroad Children (Northern Stage), Seven Guitars (Yale Repertory Theatre), Titus Andronicus, The Skin of Our Teeth (Yale University Theatre). Dance & Opera: Tosca (Florentine Opera), Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Minnesota Opera), Super Nothing (New York Live Arts and US Tour), I as Another (Baryshnikov Arts Center), Florencia en el Amazonas (Shubert Theatre), and The Cunning Little Vixen (Opera Theatre of Yale). Carolina is the Lighting Director for Calpulli Mexican Dance Company. Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Affiliations: Local USA 829, IATSE.

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DJ POTTS (SOUND DESIGNER) Off-Broadway: The Waterfall (WP Theater), Triple Threat (Traverse32), Icons of Culture (Perelman Performing Arts Center), Refuge: A Concert Series (Perelman Performing Arts Center), Open Call (The Shed), The Bull Jean Stories (The Drama League), Hello Again (The Drama League). Regional: The Getaway Driver (Trinity Repertory Company), The Aves (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Primary Trust (Cleveland Play House), Red Pitch (Olney Theatre Center), Kunene and the King (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine (Chautauqua Theater Company), King James (Northern Stage), The Children (Northern Stage). Broadway (Associate Sound Design): Death of a Salesman (2026), Art (2025), An Enemy of the People (2024), Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (2023), Fat Ham (2022), Topdog/Underdog (2022), Slave Play (2021), Clyde’s (2021).

EARON CHEW NEALEY (WIG & HAIR CONSULTANT) Fat Ham (Broadway), Shifters, You Got Older (Cherry Lane Theatre), The Daughter of the Regiment, Carousel (Boston Lyric Opera), Public Charge, Hamlet, The Harder They Come, Fat Ham, Cullud Wattah, Mojada (The Public Theater), The Waterfall (WP Theater), Almost Famous, Jersey Boys (ACT of Connecticut), Huzzah (The Old Globe), Camelot, Blues for an Alabama Sky (Barrington Stage Company), Two Strangers, Diary of a Tap Dancer (American Repertory Theater), The Grove, Sojourners, Toni Stone, Fat Ham, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Huntington), Bad Kreyòl, Three Houses (Signature Theatre), Table 17 (Makeup Design, MCC Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Malvolio, Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre of Harlem), Dames at Sea, Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse), The Last Supper (South Orange Performing Arts Center), On Killing (Soho Rep.), Little Girl Blue (Goodspeed Musicals, New World Stages), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Matilda (University of Colorado), On Sugarland (New York Theatre Workshop), Nina Simone: Four Women (Berkshire Theatre Group), Little Women (Dallas Theater Center).

CHRISTINA M. WOOLARD (PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER) (she/her) is a Brooklyn–based stage manager and thrilled to be making her Two River Theater debut! Previous credits include Cold War Choir Practice and Space Dogs (MCC Theater), The Ford/Hill Project and A Good Day to Me Not to You (Waterwell), Laughs in Spanish (Hartford Stage), The Shark Is Broken, Clyde’s, American Hero, and A Doll’s House, Part 2 (George Street Playhouse), Summer Stock and Passing Through (Goodspeed Musicals), Kinky Boots (Bucks County Playhouse), Will You Come With Me? and Notes on My Mother’s Decline (The Play Company), Preparedness (The Bushwick Starr), and Sunset Circus (Parallel Exit). Other Off-Broadway credits include Stalker and Art of Leaving. Proud AEA member and alumna of Rutgers University. For Mom — your song is in my heart.

ALEXIS L. NALBANDIAN (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) is excited to work on this incredible production of Stir. Selected shows include Broadway: MJ: The Musical (Sub), Purpose (Sub), A Beautiful Noise (Sub), The Cher Show (PA), Ain’t Too Proud (PA). Off-Broadway: Torera (PSM), Weightless (ASM), Into the Woods (PA), Coal Country (Sub). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (PSM). She holds an MFA in Stage Management from Columbia University (2019) and a BA in Theatre Studies, with a double minor in business administration and economics, from Seton Hall University (2015). She thanks her parents, family, and friends for all their love and support.

David Caparelliotis, CSA and Kelly Gillespie, CSA. Two River Theater: A Doll’s House, ¡VOS!, American Mariachi, Gem of the Ocean, A Thousand Maids, The Scarlet Letter. Select Broadway: Mary Jane, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Cost of Living, Macbeth, The Minutes, Skeleton Crew, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, King Lear, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Jitney, The Glass Menagerie. Additional theater includes: Manhattan Theatre Club, The Old Globe, Atlantic Theater Company. TV/Film: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), The Boys in the Band for Netflix (Original Casting).