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Martin Moran was awarded a 2013 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Solo Show for his play All the Rage and a 2004 Obie Award and two Drama Desk nominations for his play The Tricky Part, based upon his memoir of the same title. His writing has appeared in Ploughshares, the Pushcart Prize anthology and The New York Times. As an actor, his Broadway credits include Spamalot, Cabaret, Titanic, Wicked, Bells Are Ringing, How to Succeed in Business…, and Big River. His Off-Broadway credits include O, Earth (The Foundry Theatre), Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons), A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center Theater), Cider House Rules and 3 Kinds of Exile (Atlantic Theater), The Cradle Will Rock (City Center Encores!) and Brecht’s A Man’s a Man (Classic Stage Company). He has worked regionally at Long Wharf Theatre, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, and the Intiman. Film/TV credits include: The Newsroom, The Big C, Z-Nation, Possible Side Affects, Private Parts, Law &Order; Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Dellaventura, Mary and Rhoda. He was a fellow at The MacDowell Colony and he wrote the Book and Lyrics for the 2012 solo musical, Borrowed Dust, with composer Joseph Thalken. His memoir, All the Rage, A Quest was released in 2016 by Beacon Press. He lives in New York City with his husband, Henry Stram. Visit: Alltherageplay.com

Carolyn Cantor is a New York-based director of primarily new work for the stage. Her New York credits include Sell/Buy/Date, Regrets, and Pumpgirl (Manhattan Theatre Club); Indian Summer, Fly By Night, The Great God Pan, After the Revolution (Callaway Award), and Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons); In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theater); Arlington (Vineyard); Something You Did (Primary Stages); The Talls (Second Stage); Core Values (Ars Nova); Orange Flower Water, Now That’s What I Call a Storm, Living Room in Africa, Stone Cold Dead Serious, and Life Is a Dream (Edge Theater); EVE-olution (Cherry Lane). Selected regional credits include The Violet Hour (Old Globe); Sell/Buy/Date and Rabbit Hole (Garland Award) (Geffen); Diary of Anne Frank (Paper Mill); Not Waving and King Stag (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Vera Laughed and Get What You Need (NYS&F). Carolyn has received the Kanin-Seldes Award from the Theater Hall of Fame, both the Boris Sagal and Bill Foeller Fellowships from the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and a Drama League Directing Fellowship. She was the founding artistic director of the Obie Award-winning Edge Theater and is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Antje Ellermann designs sets for theater, opera and TV. She previously designed The Bridge of San Luis Rey for Two River Theater. Her NY credits include: Building the Wall, Stuffed, Dear Elizabeth (WP Theater and Off Broadway), I’m Looking for Helen Twelvetrees, The Belle of Amherst, The Open House (Signature Theatre), Hamlet and The Broken Heart (Theatre for a New Audience). Regionally her work has been seen at: Hartford Stage, Kansas City Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, NY Stage & Film, Trinity Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, Cleveland Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Geffen Playhouse, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Bard SummerScape and Pittsburgh Opera Center. Award nominations: Connecticut Critics Circle Award (The House that will not Stand), Helen Hayes Award, Ovation Award and Lucille Lortel Award (Nine Parts of Desire), Emmy Award nomination: Becoming American).

Kristin Isola Design credits include:  A Walk in the Woods, The Thing with Feathers, Muswell Hill, Abigail’s Party, Enemy of the People, Expecting Isabel (Barrow Group), What the Butler Saw, Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Touched (59E59), The Language Archive (Bristol Riverside Theatre), The Understudy (McCarter Theatre), Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Next in Line Productions), Solo Rites: 7 Breaths (Roulette), Two Point Oh (59E59), A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkley Repertory Theatre). Assistant Design credits include: Fosse/Verdon (FX); Girl from the North Country, Mlima’s Tale (Public Theater), The Sound of Music (National Tour), Thérèse Raquin (Roundabout), La Bohème (Washington National Opera), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park). M.F.A., Yale University. B.F.A., Syracuse University.

Yuki Nakase previously at Two River Theater: Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey adapted for the stage by David Greenspan and directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Michael Cumpsty, and Tony Meneses’ The Women of Padilla directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. Recent design credits include Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf Theatre), Hope (Wild Project), Queen of Basel (Colony Theatre), The Hartt School Dance Division Fall Concert (University of Hartford). Next: Triptych: Eyes of One on Another (LA Phil, University Musical Society, Kennedy Center and BAM). She was born in Tokyo, grew up in Kyoto, Japan and currently lives north of NYC in the woods.  B.A. in Dance: JWCPE, M.F.A. in Lighting Design: NYU. For more information, visit http://yukinakase.com

Leon Rothenberg For Two River: Present Laughter, Jitney. Select Broadway: The New One, The Waverly Gallery, Boys in the Band, A Doll’s House Part 2, Violet, The Realistic Joneses, The Nance (Tony Award), The Heiress, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination). Regional: Arena, ACT, Geffen, Pasadena Playhouse, Huntington, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, Old Globe, Long Wharf, McCarter, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Stage and Film, others. Select New York/Off-Broadway: Second Stage, NYCC, MTC, Public Theater, Culture Project, Tectonic. International: Cirque du Soleil. Faculty: CalArts. http://klaxson.net

Tommy Kurzman recently designed makeup for: True West, St. Joan (MTC), My Fair Lady, The Parisian Woman, The Little Foxes (MTC) and Long Day’s Journey into Night, in addition to Bright Star, Fiddler on the Roof and Thérèse Raquin on Broadway. Hair Design credits include: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Signature Theatre, VA), Candide, Pushkin, La Cenerentola (MSM), Desperate Measures (NWS/York), Chess (DC), White Snake and Jazz (Baltimore Center Stage). Tommy has been the Associate Hair Designer on over 15 Broadway productions since graduating college in 2012.

UNKLEDAVE’S FIGHT HOUSE (FIGHT DIRECTION) is a team of fight/
intimacy coordinators comprised of LGBTQ theater makers. Two River credits: Hombres; El
Coqui Espectacular & The Bottle of Doom; Theo; Raisin In The Sun, Be More Chill; Seven
Guitars, King Hedley ll. Broadway: Ain’t No Mo; Kimberly Akimbo; Girl From The North Country;
Tuck Everlasting; Escape To Margaritaville; The Great Society ; An American In Paris; Disgraced.
Off-Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along (NYTW) ; On Sugarland (NYTW) ; soft (MCC) ; Halfway
Bitches Go Straight To Heaven (Labyrinth/Atlantic, Drama Desk Nom.); Oedipus El Rey (The
Public)(Drama Desk Nom.) Film: Poor Behavior; Emoticon. TV: AnnieLive!

Heidi Griffiths has worked for more than 25 years at the Joseph Papp Public Theater in NYC, where she has cast over 200 productions Off-Broadway and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, including Shakespeare, new plays, and musicals. On Broadway: The Girl From The North Country; The Inheritance; The Iceman Cometh; Sweat; Shuffle Along; The Crucible, Eclipsed; A Delicate Balance; A Raisin in the Sun; Lucky Guy; Chinglish; The Motherf**ker with the Hat; The Merchant of Venice; Hair; Passing Strange; Caroline, or Change; Take Me Out (Tony Award, Best Play 2003); Topdog/Underdog (Pulitzer Prize, 2002); The Wild Party; Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk; On the Town; and The Tempest. She also cast the films The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, MURDER and murder, Saving Face and Ladybird. Radio Golf is her 12th collaboration with Two River Theater.

Two River Theater: Theo, King Hedley II, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Women of Padilla, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Seven Guitars, Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, and The School for Wives. Broadway (as Casting Associate): The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, A Delicate Balance, A Raisin in the Sun, Lucky Guy (Casting Assistant). Additional casting credits include work with Arena Stage, Center Theater Group, The Cherry Lane, Bedlam, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, LAByrinth, New Georges, TheaterWorks Hartford, and The Studio Theatre. Kate is a Casting Director at The Public Theater.

Nathan K. Claus Broadway: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; God of Carnage; The Norman Conquests; David Mamet’s November. Regional: My Brilliant Divorce; Noah Racey’s Pulse (Asolo Rep). Off-Broadway: First Breeze of Summer; Shout!; Grey Gardens; Blackbird; Perfect Harmony; Psycho Therapy; F%#ing Up Everything; To Kill a Mockingbird; 2008 Lincoln��Center Directors Lab. Proud Member of AEA.