Meet the Creative Team

Alex Lin (Playwright) is just a girl from Jersey. Plays developed at Roundabout, Second Stage, NYTW, MTC, the O’Neill, Rattlestick, Working Theater, Ojai, South Coast Rep, New Harmony, Two River, Playwrights Realm, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Central Square Theatre, Amphibian Stage, and Theater Mu. Guest lectures at CMU, Rutgers, and Union College. As an actor, she has performed at NYTW, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New Victory, Fault Line, HVSF, Ma-Yi, Jewish Plays Project, Amphibian Stage, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Ojai, and Commonwealth Shakespeare. Stavis Award winner, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, and Weissberger Award nominee. Colt Coeur Resident Artist, Rattlestick Van Lier Fellow. Juilliard. instagram:@hemeiling

cara hinh (Director) (they/she) cara is a queer, fat, Việt theatre maker and hoosier. cara is the Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre. Select credits include A Christmas Carol at IRT, Transfer direction of Sanctuary City at Arena Stage and Berkeley Rep, Little Women at Perseverance Theatre, Moon Bear with Breaking the Binary, Buried Ruins with the Sống Collective, The Bacchae at Hangar Theatre and love you long time (already) at Atlantic MixFest. cara has been a Drama League Fellow, member of the ‘20-22 Roundabout Directors Group, a Directing Apprentice at Actors Theatre of Louisville, SDC Observer on Hadestown with Rachel Chavkin and a Fellow at Baltimore Center Stage. carahinh.com

Heidi Armbruster (Lucy/Brenda Jean/Band) has extensive New York and regional theater credits.Notable new play credits and world premieres include:Time Stands Still(Broadway), Disgraced (Lincoln Center), Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick), Man from Nebraska (Second Stage), Poor Behavior (Primary Stages), Boy (Keen Company), Dov and Ali (Playwrights Realm), The Fifth Column (The Mint), and Sea of Tranquility (The Atlantic), Scarecrow (Dorset Theatre Festival and Next Act),Wife of a Salesman (Milwaukee Rep), Queens for a Year (Hartford Stage), At the Old Place (The Old Globe),and The Great Gatsby ( The Guthrie). Drama League Nomination for Tea and Sympathy (Keen Company). Numerous Film and TV credits including Michelle on Younger and Noelle on Manifest,as well as Evil, Pose, Dead Ringers, Ray Donovan, The Deuce, Divorce, Daredevil. Playwriting credits: Murder Girl, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Scarecrow, Mrs. Christie, and Dairyland. MFA from ACTMember of the Actors Center.

Ian Bedford (Rory/Tom) Broadway credits include To Kill a Mockingbird (with Jeff Daniels) and Ink, and the National Tour of To Kill a Mockingbird. On stages around the country: Eddie in Ivo van Hove’s A View from the Bridge (Goodman Theatre), Murder on the Orient Express (Hartford Stage), Oslo (Pioneer Theatre), Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Beaux Stratagem and Richard III (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), School of Night (Mark Taper Forum), Our Town (La Jolla Playhouse), Lennie in Of Mice and Men (People’s Light), and title roles in Macbeth, Richard III, Henry V and Henry VIII. Ian served as associate producer on the feature film The Promise, with Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac. As an actor on screen he recurred as Commander Fogel on Chicago PD, and in Shameless, Blue Bloods, Master, The Good Fight, God Friended Me, The Path, How to Get Away with Murder, Nurse Jackie, Unforgettable, and Law & Order: SVU (recurring).

Brian Myers Cooper (Daniel/Band) toured all fifty states (Oklahoma!–Will Parker, Miss Saigon– Chris US) and originated roles Off-Broadway (Jayson, a new musical–title role, and The End of the World Party). Other favorites include The Christians and An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf (Riverside Theatre), Galileo (Moisés Kaufman, dir.), James Baldwin’s Blues for Mr. Charlie (Parnel), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! (x3!), and Billy Roche’s The Cavalcaders (American premiere, Florida Stage). Brian created Sonnet Play, a one-man play told entirely with Shakespeare’s sonnets, which he developed at Bedlam Theatre Company’s MadLAB! Select TV: “The Blacklist,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Godfather of Harlem,” “American Sports Story” and the upcoming “Your Friends & Neighbors” (AppleTV+). He served on Actors’ Equity’s national council for sixteen years and was a founding member of #FairWageOnstage. Currently, he co-chairs the board of trustees of the Equity-League pension & health funds. Instagram/Threads @BriMyCooper

Joe Grifasi (Tadhg/ Liam Jr.) has appeared in over fifty feature films including The Deer Hunter, Presumed Innocent, Matewan, The Naked Gun, Batman Forever, and Natural Born Killers. Among his many Broadway and off-Broadway credits are The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Dinner at Eight, Filumena and The Boys Next Door (Drama Desk Award). His television credits include New Amsterdam, Evil, Law and Order, Lodge 49, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and The Bronx is Burning (as Yogi Berra).

Camilla Shae (Darragh/Alana) is a classically trained actor, singer, and martial artist. A proud graduate of The Old Globe’s MFA Program. Her acting credits include: Comedy of Errors, Merry Wives of Windsor, Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Mother Courage, Henry IV: Part I, The Skin of Our Teeth, Measure for Measure (The Old Globe), The Threepenny Opera (West Edge Opera), Princess Ida (Lamplighters Music Theatre), Wendla in Spring Awakening (The Left-Hand Theatre Co.). “Le vent se lève! . . . il faut tenter de vivre!” camillashae.com, Instagram: @miss.camilla

Stephen Michael Spencer (Liam/ Wyatt) Broadway: Clyde’s (u/s performed) Off-Broadway: Music City, The Assassination of Julius Caesar (with Bedlam), Julius Caesar at TFANA. Regional: 4 seasons as a company member at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 3 seasons with Hudson Valley Shakespeare, McCarter Theatre, the A.R.T., Arena Stage, The Rep at St, Louis, Great lakes Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare, Cleveland Play House, Triad Stage, Ensemble Theatre Co, Chautauqua Theatre Co. International: The Heart of Robin Hood with Mirvish Productions in Canada. TV/Film: “FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS), This Wild Abyss ( winner of best student short at Savannah Film Fest ’22) Education: BFA UNC-Greensboro, MFA Case Western Reserve/ Cleveland Play House. Stream “stephenspencer” original musica on all platforms. @stephenmspencer. www.stephenmicahelspencer.com 

Coryn Carson (Stage Directions) Theater: Centennial Casting (Penguin Rep) Like No One’s Watching (Miles Square Theater). Coryn has performed and trained in improv and comedy at UCB and The PIT, and can be seen performing throughout the city and most recently at Brooklyn Comedy Collective. When she’s not on stage, Coryn is the Marketing and Communication Manager for Working Theater. www.coryncarson.com @coryn_rose

Wisdom (Stage Manager) is a New York City-based freelance Stage Manager with a passion for creating impactful art. Recently, he completed a Production Assistant contract with Wagner Johnson Productions, contributing to numerous Broadway productions such as Stereophonic, Once Upon a Mattress, The Roommate, Lempicka, and more. Wisdom has also been an integral part of several management teams, including working on Lizard Boy by Justin Huertas and the 2023 National Tour with The Acting Company, where he served as Assistant Stage Manager for Romeo and Juliet and The Three Musketeers.

A proud alum of both The Juilliard School’s Stage Management Professional Apprenticeship Program and The University of Miami (BFA in Stage Management), some of Wisdom’s credits include Juilliard’s productions of Indecent by Paula Vogel and The Oresteia, adapted by Ellen McLaughlin, as well as Undiscovered Work’s production of Hooded: Or Being Black for Dummies by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm.