Christopher Fitzgerald is a three-time Tony Award® nominee and five-time Drama Desk Award nominee, with two wins. 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.