Christina Pumariega Christina Pumariega acts and writes. Often simultaneously. ¡VOS! was developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference, and is a recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Other plays include JOAN DARK (Colorado New Play Summit), HARBOR GIRLS and HER MATH PLAY (EST/Sloan Grant). An O’Neill NPC finalist for the last three years, Christina’s work has been developed at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, the New Harmony Project, the Lark, New Georges, Hartford Stage Company and Ammunition Theatre Company. She is currently under commission with the Denver Center and Two River Theater, and will attend Hedgebrook in fall 2025.

TV writing credits include “Turner & Hooch” (Disney+) and “Bluff City Law” (NBC).

Acting on and Off-Broadway and in television and film, Pumariega has cross examined Coach Taylor, made out with the Fly and set a Cuban pharmacy ablaze in a corset. MFA,  NYU Graduate Acting Program. www.christinapumariega.com

Nicole A. Watson is a freelance director and educator. Credits include the world premieres of Kevin R. Free’s Night of The Living N-Word, Johnna Adams’ World Builders (CATF), and the opera Approaching Ali (Washington National Opera). She has also directed productions of The Great Society (Asolo Rep)  Our Lady of Kibeho (Smith College), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (North Carolina School of the Arts), and The Mountaintop (Kitchen Theater). She is a frequent volunteer with the 52nd Street Project and has worked at the Lark Play Development Center, New Dramatists, Signature Theatre, the Public Theater, Working Theater, and The Fire this Time Festival. Nicole has taught at NYU, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the St. Louis Language Immersion School. She is an alum of the Drama League, the Lincoln Center Directors Lab and the Women’s Project Directors Lab. nicoleawatson.com

Lawrence E. Moten III (he/him/his) [Broadway] Chicken & Biscuits (Circle In The Square). [NYC] Guide for the Homesick (LDK Productions), Reconstructing (BAM), Ghost of John McCain (SoHo Playhouse), The White Chip (MCC), Covenant (Roundabout), Patience (2ST Uptown), STEW & Stargazers (Page 73), Behind The Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre); [Regional] Kunene and The King (STC), Two Trains Running(Hartford Stage), Black Cypress Bayou (Geffen), Bulrusher (McCarter & Berkeley Rep) Silent Night, Cosí Fan Tutte, Faust (Wolf Trap Opera), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Brothers Size, Proof & Once Upon A Bridge (American Players), Henry 6: One & Two, Twelfth Night, Trouble In Mind, King James (Old Globe), Blues For An Alabama Sky (McCarter & Guthrie), Gem of The Ocean (Two River), Metamorphoses (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily (Alley Theatre), Appropriate & The Little Foxes (South Coast Rep) Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed Musicals), This Little Light of Mine (Santa Fe Opera), Requiem& Ulysses (INSeries Opera), The Last Supper (SOPAC) Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare), How I Learned What I Learned & Native Son, Hamlet (Playmakers Rep), it’s not a trip, it’s a journey & We Declare You A Terrorist… (Round House),Gem of The Ocean (Portland Center Stage), The West End (Cincinnati Playhouse), Hype Man (ART & Company One), Gloria (ACT), Hi, Are You Single? (Woolly Mammoth), House of Joy (CalShakes), The Royale (Capital Rep). Member: USA 829 & Wingspace Theatrical Design. www.motendesigns.com; IG: @motendesigns

Raquel Barreto  (Costume Design) (she/her) is a theater artist from Brazil who designs costumes for new and classic plays with a focus on bringing to light stories of migration and cross-cultural experiences. She has worked extensively at the Alley Theatre in Houston (five seasons), the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (six seasons), and the Guthrie Theater (five seasons), among others. Recent credits include Cebollas (Denver Center), Art (Guthrie Theater), A Christmas Carol (Alley Theater), and Papakō, the Journey (Teatro Vivo/Indigenous Cultures Institute.) Raquel’s designs have been on stage at Theatre For A New Audience (TFANA); Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Mark Taper Forum; St. Louis Rep; Actors Theatre of Louisville; California Shakespeare Theater; Arena Stage; Portland Center Stage; Berkeley Repertory; Syracuse Stage; Pasadena Playhouse; the Geffen; The Los Angeles Philharmonic; Cornerstone Theater; Latino Theater Company, and many others. Raquel lives between Los Angeles and Austin, where she heads the MFA in Costume Design at the University of Texas. She is a proud member of Local USA 829. www.raquelbarreto.com.

Sinan Refik Zafar (Sound Designer). Broadway: English, What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-Broadway: We Had A World (MTC); What to Send Up…, Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons); English [Obie Award], Shhh (The Atlantic); Letters from Max (Signature, Drama Desk and Lortel nom.); Which Way to the Stage, All the Natalie Portmans (MCC); Lunar Eclipse, To My Girls (Second Stage); The Vagrant Trilogy, Cullud Wattah (The Public). Regional: Kennedy Center, Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Williamstown, among others. M.F.A. Yale School of Drama. sinanzafar.com

Kelly Colburn (Projection Designer) (she/they/k): is an multidisciplinary artist working as a producer, director, projections designer, and devised performance maker in the DC Area (Piscataway/Nacotchtank lands). She is the Executive Director at Flying V, a Media/Projections faculty member at The University of Maryland College, and a two-time Helen Hayes recipient. OFF-BROADWAY: american (tele)visions (Lucille Lortel Nomination, Henry Hewes Nomination). Recent DC: Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), The Colored Museum (Studio Theatre, Helen Hayes Nominee), Postcards from Ihatov (1st Stage, Helen Hayes Nomination), Passing Strange (Signature Theatre, Helen Hayes Nomination), My Mama and the Full Scale Invasion (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Nomination), and Look Both Ways (Kennedy Center TYA & Theater Alliance, Helen Hayes Nomination). Kelly was a 2019 Jim Henson Puppetry Grant Awardee and a 2017 NextLOOK Resident. She has been a DC CAH Fellowship Recipient since 2020. BFA NYU Tisch ’11 | MFA UMD ’18.

Jynelly Rosario (PSM). Tours: Moulin Rouge! (1st National); Hamilton (Angelica/And Peggy/Philip); Oklahoma!. Off Broadway: The Lonely Few (MCC Theater); Square Go; Posting Letters to the Moon; Killing Time(59E59 Theaters). Regional: Primary Trust (TheatreSquared); The Addams Family; In The Heights; Shrek; Tarzan; Recomposed (Puerto Rico) A Soldier’s Play; Once On This Island (Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe); A Funny Thing…Forum; Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Maltz Jupiter Theatre); Mala (The Old Globe); Kunstler (Regional Premiere). Other credits include: Celebrity Cruises, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, Broadway Illusions, Inc., Teatro CeDIn, and The Black Box Theatre Workshop. BFA, University of Puerto Rico. @jynellyrosario www.jynellyrosario.com

Gracie Carleton (Assistant Stage Manager) is overjoyed to be back at Two River working on this new play! Gracie has previously been here to work on Hair and Living & Breathing. She is a New York based Stage Manager, most recently making her Broadway Debut with English (Roundabout) this winter! NYC: Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre); The Beastiary (Ars Nova); English (Atlantic Theatre Company); Which Way to the Stage (MCC); Night of the Iguana (La Femme); The Cotillion (New Georges / The Movement Theatre Company); Big Shot (CBE). Regional: 2024 Summer Reading Series, The Tempest (Bread Loaf, VT); Whitelisted, The Fifth Domain (CATF, WV); I Am My Own Wife, Pride & Prejudice, On the Grounds of Belonging, Miller, Mississippi (Long Wharf Theatre, CT). Love to James.