Jonathan Spector  is a playwright based in Oakland, California. His plays include: Eureka Day (NY Times Critic’s Pick, Glickman Award, Theater Bay Area Award, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, Rella Lossy Award), This Much I Know (Edgerton New Play Award), Best Available (Elizabeth George Commission), In From The Cold (Global Age Prize), Siesta Key, and Good. Better. Best. Bested. His work has been produced at theaters including Colt Coeur, Aurora Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Mosaic Theater, InterAct Theatre, The State Theatre of South Australia, Custom Made Theatre, and Just Theater. He has developed work with Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Underground, South Coast Rep, Portland Stage, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, SF Playhouse, and Crowded Fire among others. Jonathan is a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, a MacDowell Fellow, and a former Resident Playwright at Playwrights Foundation. He is currently under commission from La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Theatre Company, and Manhattan Theatre Club. He is an alumnus of New College of Florida

Adil Mansoor is a Pittsburgh-based theater director and educator centering queer folks and people of color. He has developed new work with The Public, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, The Playwrights' Center, Mercury Store, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and others. Directing projects include Daddies by Paul Kruse (Audible), Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Hatch Arts Collective), Kentucky by Leah Nanako Winkler (Pittsburgh Playhouse), and Plano by Will Arbery (Quantum). He often works as a dance dramaturg, having collaborated with choreographers Slowdanger, Staycee Pearl, Dahlia Nayar, and Maree ReMalia. Mansoor’s solo performance Amm(i)gone was produced Off-Broadway by PlayCo, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) as part of a national tour. Amm(i)gone is a National Performance Network Project co-commissioned by KST and The Theater Offensive. Mansoor is a founding member of Pittsburgh’s Hatch Arts Collective and the former Artistic Director of Dreams of Hope, an LGBTQA+ youth arts organization. He was part of the inaugural Artist Caucus gathered by Baltimore Center Stage, Long Wharf, St. Louis Rep, and Woolly Mammoth. He was a Sundance Art of Practice Fellow, a Gerri Kay New Voices Fellow with Quantum Theater,  and received the 2024 Emerging Artist Carol R. Brown Award. Mansoor holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.adilmansoor.com/

Daina Michelle Griffith is thrilled to be back at City Theatre! Past City Theatre credits: The Revolutionists (2018), The White Chip (2018), The Last Match (2016), Speak American (2009). Daina was most recently seen onstage at barebones in God of Carnage, and behind the table as Associate Director of A Christmas Story at Pittsburgh Public. Regional/NYC: The Gateway, Human Race Theatre, Kansas City Starlight, Merrimack Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, heXtc. Locally: PPT, Quantum, barebones, The REP, Off The Wall, Front Porch, PCLO, PMT, PICT. Select TV/Film: "Outsiders" (WGN), "Manhunt" (CBS, Spectrum), "Archive 81" (Netflix), The Dark Knight Rises, Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Hollidaysburg, Tender, Happiest Season, Unsinkable, and the upcoming Young Men staring David Duchovny. Daina was named the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Performer of the Year in 2014, is the founder of Griffith Coaching Acting Studio, will be directing Working for Front Porch in April, and feels super lucky to be spending time in a space with Adil and this amazing group of artists! dainagriffith.com @daina__griffith

Desirée Mee Jung (she/her) is thrilled to be making her City Theatre debut! Notable theatre credits include: Vietgone (Alley Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Denver Center); Sense & Sensibility (South Coast Rep); POTUS u/s (Geffen Playhouse), Richard III, Comedy of Errors, Pericles (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Measure STILL for Measure (world premiere Boston Court Pasadena); All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within); Letters of Suresh, Gloria, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide (Curious Theatre); As You Like It, Measure for Measure, Henry IV Part I, Cymbeline (Antaeus Theatre); Love’s Labour’s Lost (Colorado Shakespeare Festival); The Bonesetter’s Daughter (world premiere Book-It Rep). Film/TV: NCIS, Pluribus, The Winchesters, Monsters: Lyle & Eric Menendez, Death Name.

Jalina McClarin (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who can’t seem to dial in her capacity or her interests. She is incredibly grateful to Adil for trusting her with this role. You can catch Jalina: acting, devising, dancing, drawing, wrestling her pals, falling in love, writing, climbing, biking, backpacking, thrifting, doing improv, flexing in the mirror, and crying at the D&D table. None of us are free until all of us are free.

Max Pavel has performed with Barebones, Hatch Arts, Quantum, PICT, and now City Theatre. Notable roles: Billy Baird in The Sound Inside and The Devil in Witch. Producing credits: Orphans and Witch.  Film/TV credits: A Man Called Otto, American Rust, Outsiders. Proud member of IATSE and SAG. Best coffee in PGH - The Garden Cafe.

John Shepard has performed in a number of productions for City Theatre. Most recently as Jerry in Downstairs. For the past four years he has played Adult Ralph in the Public’s A Christmas Story. John has also been seen in many shows for Quantum, REP and PICT. He was named the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Performer of the Year for his performance of Willy Loman at the REP. He has also directed for the REP and Quantum. John has also performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway and at many of the country’s major regional theatres. He has worked in films and TV and the upcoming web series, “The Human, Will.” His book “Auditioning and Acting for the Camera” is used across the country. He taught at Point Park for 20 years and served as chair of its theatre department for 10 of those years.