Donnetta Lavinia Grays – raised in Columbia, South Carolina – is a Brooklyn based playwright and actor whose writing credits include WHERE WE STAND (Lucille Lortel Nominee, Drama League Nominee, 3X AUDELCO Nominee, World Premiere Co-production – WP Theater and Baltimore Centerstage. O’Neill Center National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist.), WARRIORS DON’T CRY (Theaterworks USA/Bushnell commission), LAST NIGHT AND THE NIGHT BEFORE (World Premiere – Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Kilroys List. Colorado New Play Summit. National New Play Network Showcase. She is a 2021 Whiting Award recipient for Drama. Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award Winner. O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Semifinalist.), LAID TO REST (O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist.) THE REVIEW OR HOW TO EAT YOUR OPPOSITION (WP Pipeline Festival. O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference Finalist.) THE NEW NORMAL and THE COWBOY IS DYING. Donnetta is a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwright Award, Lilly Award, National Theater Conference Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwright Award, and is the inaugural recipient of the Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award. She is a former Space on Ryder Farm Working Farm Resident, is a Time Warner Foundation WP Playwrights Lab alumna, a Civilians R&D Group alumna, an Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit alumna, and a terraNova Collective Groundbreakers Playwright group alumna. Her work has been previously developed with, Hedgebrook (*Covid Class), New Harmony Project, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, The Labyrinth Theater Company, New York Theater Workshop, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Portland Stage Company, Pure Theatre Company, [the claque], Naked Angels, Classical Theater of Harlem, Slant Theater Project, terraNova Collective, and TOSOS. Donnetta is currently under commission from Steppenwolf, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and WP Theater. For television she has been staffed on Spectrum Original/Lionsgate’s “Manhunt”, “Y: The Last Man” for FX Network/Color Force and is currently the Executive Story Editor on “Joe Exotic” starring Kate McKinnon for NBC Universal.

Man Tracey Conyer Lee*

Vote Conductor Renee Goddess

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**denotes member of USA]

Director Kevin R. Free

Scenic & Costume Designer Anita Stewart**

Lighting Designer Jamie Grant

Sound Designer Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Theresa Rebeck is a playwright, film writer, television writer, and novelist. Her works have been produced on Broadway and Off-Broadway to great acclaim. She has won and been nominated for numerous awards, and her play Omnium Gatherum was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2004.

Her Broadway debut was a production of her play Mauritius, which was originally performed at The Manhattan Theater Club before moving to The Biltmore Theater in 2007. Additional Broadway credits include Seminar which opened on Broadway in 2011, Dead Accounts which premiered

in 2012, and, most recently, Bernhardt/Hamlet, which was on Broadway in 2018 and was nominated for multiple Tony Awards.

In addition to her prolific career in theater, she has also been a writer on multiple television and films shows such as Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and NYPD Blue. She was a creator and producer of the NBC series Smash that followed a team of creatives in New York attempting to produce a new musical. Her first screenplay was Harriet the Spy and she has worked as a writer since on films such as Catwoman, Gossip, and Sunday on the Rocks.

Haley Annie Henk*

[*member Actors' Equity Association]

[**member United Scenic Artists]

[***member Stage Directors and Choreographers Society]

Director Jade King Carroll***

Set Design Anita Stewart**

Costume Design Rodrigo Muñoz

Light Design Scout Hough

Sound Design Charles Coes**

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Charles Dickens

Dickens’ poignant and action-packed novels lifted him from a lower-middle-class childhood to become an international celebrity of the Victorian era, and remain popular today. Still, in book after book, from Oliver Twist to Great Expectations, he remained true to his roots: calling attention to hypocrisy, injustice, and the plight of the poorest among us.

Actor Joel Leffert*

Foley Artist Nancy Nichols

*denotes member of AEA

**denotes member of USA

Director Anita Stewart**

Set Design Anita Stewart**

Costume Design Anita Stewart**

Light Design Tayva Young

Sound Design Seth Asa Sengel

Stage Manager Myles C. Hatch*

Liz Duffy Adams - OR, premiered off-Broadway at WP Theater and has been produced over 60 times since. She’s a New Dramatists alumna and has received a Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award, MacDowell residencies, and the Will Glickman Award. Other plays include BORN WITH TEETH; THE SALONNIERES; WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD; DOG ACT; BUCCANEERS; WET OR, ISABELLA THE PIRATE QUEEN ENTERS THE HORSE LATITUDES; ONE BIG LIE; and THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT OR, THE TRAIN PLAY. Her work has been produced or developed at the Magic Theatre, Round House Theatre, Seattle Rep, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana Festival, PlayPenn Conference, Portland Center Stage, Flux Theatre Ensemble, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, Shotgun Players, and Crowded Fire, among other places. Publications include DOG ACT in “Geek Theater: Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Plays” (Underwords Press 2014); OR, in “Best Plays of 2010” (Smith & Kraus); POODLE WITH GUITAR AND DARK GLASSES in “Best American Short Plays 200–2001” (Applause Books); and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. BFA: New York University; MFA: Yale School of Drama. She was the 2012–2013 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard. She has dual Irish and American citizenship. More at lizduffyadams.com.

Aphra Behn Rebecca Tucker

Nell Gwynne & others Haley Jones

King Charles II & others Nicholas Wilder

Director Aileen Wen McGroddy

Set Design Anita Stewart

Costume Design DW

Light Design Tayva Young

Stage Manager Kimberly D'Agnese