Christopher Fitzgerald  is a three-time Tony Award® nominee and a two-time Drama Desk Award winner, with five nominations. He last appeared at Two River Theater in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2015), directed by his wife, Jessica Stone. He most recently starred in the Encores! production of Urinetown and the Broadway revival of Spamalot. He earned a Tony Award® nomination and won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his performance as Ogie in Waitress. He was previously Tony Award® nominated for Young Frankenstein and Finian’s Rainbow, also earning a Drama Desk Award. On Broadway, Fitzgerald originated the role of Boq in Wicked and appeared in An Act of God, The Merchant of Venice opposite Al Pacino, Amour (Drama Desk nomination), and the revivals of Company and Chicago. Off-Broadway and regional credits include Saturday Night (Second Stage Theater), The Cripple of Inishmaan (The Public Theater), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Minsky’s (Ahmanson Theatre), and Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre). He spent fifteen seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival, appearing in June Moon, Where’s Charley, and Dead End, among others. Film and TV: Girl Most Likely, Let Them All Talk, “Happy!,” “Godless,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and “Elsbeth.”

Conor McPherson was born in Dublin in 1971. He attended the University College in Dublin, where he began to write and direct. His plays include Rum & Vodka, The Good Thief, This Lime Tree Bower, St. Nicholas, The Weir (Olivier Award, Best Play), Dublin Carol, Port Authority, Shining City (Tony Award nomination, Best Play), and The Seafarer. Film work includes I Went Down, Saltwater, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, and The Actors. Other awards include the George Devine Award; Critics’ Circle Award; Evening Standard Award; Meyer Whitworth Award; Stewart Parker Award; two Irish Film & Television Academy Best Screenplay Awards; CICAE Best Film Award, Berlin Film Festival (Saltwater); Best Film and Best Screenplay Awards, San Sebastian Film Festival (I Went Down).

Justin Waldman is the Artistic Director of Two River Theater. He is a theatrical producer and director who has brought over 275 productions to life during his over 25-year career. Prior staff positions include: Associate Artistic Director (The Old Globe Theatre), Artistic Associate (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Artistic Associate (Huntington Theatre Company) and Producing Artistic Director at Next Stages, which he founded. New York directing: The Atheist (with Campbell Scott, Circle in the Square/Culture Project), Sonia Flew (Summer Play Festival), Jester’s Dead (Studio Tisch and The Peoples Improv Theater), 52nd St. Project Playmaking, News Junkie (Lincoln Center Directors Lab). Regional: As You Like It (The Old Globe/USD MFA Program), Samuel J. and K. (with Justin Long), What is the Cause of Thunder? (with Wendie Malick and Betty Gilpin), The Atheist (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Brendan, The Atheist (Huntington Theatre Company), Over It (Next Stages), This Is Our Youth (Theatre Workshop of Nantucket), 12 Angry Men (Stanley B. Theater Company). Assistant Directing:  Saturn Returns (Lincoln Center Theatre, Nicholas Martin, dir), Houdini (musical workshop w/Hugh Jackman, Scott Sanders productions, Jack O’Brien, dir), Present Laughter, The Cherry Orchard, The Rose Tattoo, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Persephone, among others (Huntington Theatre Company), three seasons at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. He has also directed readings and workshops by Theresa Rebeck, Noah Haidle, Jonathan Marc Sherman, Mat Smart, Sam Forman, Melinda Lopez, and Ronan Noone, among others. Justin is a graduate of Tufts University.

Bailey Dumlao (Associate Director/Fight Consultant) (he/they) is a Filipino-American multi-hyphenate artist and educator from Memphis, Tennessee whose work seeks to empower, enlighten, and embolden the next generation of theatremakers. They are ecstatic to return to Two River after spending two seasons as the Artistic Assistant from 2022 to 2024 and as Associate Director on A Little Shakespeare: The Tempest in the 2024/25 season! Proud graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Notable Directing credits include: The Little Mermaid (Upcoming, Middletown Arts Center), Our Town (Upcoming, Asbury Park Theatre Company), Sensation (Act Out, Diva! Fest), Lewiston/Clarkston, Significant Other, Sanctuary City, and the world premiere of Lindsay Partain’s The Way You Made Me (UAB). Assistant Directing: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Asolo Rep), World Premieres of Tony Meneses’ A Thousand Maids, Hansol Jung’s Romeo and Juliet, Kate Hamill’s The Scarlet Letter, Mando Alvarado’s Living & Breathing, and acclaimed productions of Two Sisters and a Piano, Hair, and August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean (Two River Theater). Bailey also serves as Artistic Co-Director of Act Out, Diva! New Play Festival in Asbury Park, NJ. www.baileydumlao.com | @bkdumlao

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

Drew Levy (he/him) (Sound Design) Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony nom.), Oklahoma! (Tony nom., Drama Desk nom.), Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom.), Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter. West End: A Strange Loop, Oklahoma! (Olivier nom.). Off-Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), Oklahoma! (St. Ann’s), Cleopatra, One Day the Musical, The Weir, Why Torture is Wrong…, Emergence-See!, Rainbow Kiss, Dutchman (AUDELCO Viv nom.). Regional: The Old Globe, Heartbreak Hotel (Chicago), ART, Williamstown, Huntington, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theater, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Long Wharf. Other: Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other Lives at BAM; Drama Desk Awards 2014 & 2015; Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary Gala; annual holiday installations for Saks 5th Avenue, Cartier, and others.

Megan Smith (Stage Manager) (she/her/hers) is thrilled to return to Two River Theater for another Little Shakespeare production!  Previous TRT credits include: The Price, A Little Shakespeare: The Tempest, Radio Golf, Dancing at Lughnasa and The Bridge of San Luis Rey.  Select NY credits include:  Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, The Vineyard Theatre, Signature Theatre.  Regional credits include:  Westport Country Playhouse, Miami New Drama, Long Wharf Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, New York Stage and Film, Bard SummerScape and The Guthrie Theater.