LAUREN M. GUNDERSON is one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She is the author of Broadway bound play BILLIE JEAN, about tennis icon Billie Jean King.  Her play The Catastrophist, about her husband virologist Nathan Wolfe, premiered digitally in January 2021. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and The Half-Life of Marie Curie premiered off-Broadway and at Audible.com. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon is available from Two Lions/Amazon. She is the book writer for musicals with Ari Afsar (We Won’t Sleep), Dave Stewart and Joss Stone (The Time Traveller’s Wife), Joriah Kwamé (Sinister), Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk (Justice and Earthrise), and K.ira Stone (Built for This). She is a board member of The Playwrights Foundation. LaurenGunderson.com

Jade King Carroll (Director) received the Paul Green Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Professional. Past Fellowships & Awards: New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier, Second Stage Theatre, Women’s Project, McCarter Theatre, SUNY 40 under 40, TCG New Generations Future Leader, and Gates Millennium Scholar. Past productions include: Skeleton Crew (Marin Theatre Company), Intimate Apparel, and The Piano Lesson (McCarter Theatre), The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage), Having Our Say (Long Wharf Theatre), Sunset Baby (City Theatre), Autumn’s Harvest (Lincoln Center Institute), Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money (Atlantic Theater), The Etymology of Bird (CitiParks Summer Stages), The Children’s Monologues (Carnegie Hall), Associate Director for A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Gin Game (Broadway).

SHAMIKA COTTON (Marianne Angelle) is best known for her controversial portrayal of Michael's drug addicted mother (Raylene Lee) on HBO's The Wire. Off-Broadway: Bullet for Adolf (directed by Woody Harrelson); Ain’t Supposed to Die… (Classical Theatre of Harlem – Drama Desk Nomination); Medea (CTH). Regional: The Revolutionists (The Public Theater); Black Odyssey (Denver Center Theatre - Originating Cast); Broke-ology (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Harriet Jacobs (Kansas City Repertory Theatre); Missives (N.Y. Premier at 59E59); P. Seth Bauer’s Iphigenia (Originating Cast). TV/Film: Forever (ABC); Gotham (FOX); Law & Order: Original, SVU & CI; Stream (Fearnet original series); the critically acclaimed film Pariah; and Frank the Bastard (directed by Brad Coley). Training: MTB Studio. shamikacotton.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

Moira Quigley (Esther) is thrilled to be back in the midst of the magic at City Theatre (The Revolutionists, four seasons of Momentum, Young Playwrights Festival). Other local credits include: Quantum Theatre (Plano, The Cherry Orchard, 10 for 21), Hatch Arts Collective (Gloria), off the WALL productions (The Carols), and more. As an educator she has worked with extraordinary students across the city, exploring storytelling and collaboration with Pittsburgh Public Theater’s Creative Dramatics and Bricolage’s Midnight Radio Education Program. It’s later. I love you.

Drew Leigh Williams (Marie Antoinette) is thrilled to be making her City Theatre debut! Most recently seen in Front Porch Theatricals’ production of A New Brain (Lisa) & CLO’s inaugural SPARK festival presentation of The Double-Threat Trio with Beth Leavel (Nina). Other local productions include Xanadu (Melpomene) & Pump Boys and Dinettes (Rhetta) at the CLO Cabaret. Proud member of Actor's Equity. MFA in Acting from the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Much gratitude to Jade & Reg. DrewLeighWilliams.com