Jonathan Caren (Playwright) Hit Machine, was a recent finalist for The O’Neill’s National Play Conference.  Other plays include Canyon (IAMA/Latino Theater Co, dir. Whitney White, Center Theater Group “Block Party” Recipient) The Recommendation (Windy City Playhouse, The Flea, Old Globe, IAMA, Craig Noel Award for Best Production, Jeff Award/Chicago, Ovation Award/LA, NAACP nom, MTC 7@7, Roundabout Underground reading series), Need to Know (Rogue Machine) and Four Woke Baes (2019 Edinburgh Fringe “Guardian Best of The Fringe”).  Dramatist Guild Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, SPACE Fellow, Primary Stages, and CTG’s Writer’s Groups. Awards: New York Stage & Film Founder’s Award, Lecomte De Nouy & Theater Publicus Prize for Dramatic Fiction.  Jonathan hosts a monthly cold reading series at Judson Church, which brings actors, writers, and musicians together to share work and a meal in a salon-style setting.  B.F.A, The Juilliard School, Vassar College.

Taylor Reynolds (Director) is an OBIE-award winning director based in New York, originally from Chicago. Her work centers around joyful collaboration and new play development. Selected directing credits: Primary Trust (Signature Theatre), The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (Woolly Mammoth), Fat Ham (Studio Theatre, Helen Hayes nomination for Best Director), This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre), Clyde’s (Berkeley Rep/Huntington Theatre), Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizons/CTG), Man Cave (Page 73), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), and Plano (Clubbed Thumb, Drama Desk nomination for Best Director). Taylor has also worked as a director and collaborator with companies including The Movement Theatre Company, Keen Company, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Baltimore Center Stage, MCC, EST, and The 24 Hour Plays. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2021 LPTW Lucille Lortel Award recipient, 2017-2018 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab alum.

Jeff Biehl (WES) Broadway: Patriots (Barrymore), Machinal (Roundabout).  Off- Broadway: Waiting for Godot (TFANA), The Unbelieving (The Civilians), Merchant of Venice (TFANA and Lyceum Edinburgh), Life Sucks (Wheelhouse – Drama Desk Nom.), Catch as Catch Can (Page 73), The Rape of the Sabine Women… (Playwrights Realm); Charles Francis Chan Jr’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery (NAATCO); 10 out of 12 (Soho Rep), Lives of Saints (Primary Stages), Poor Behavior (Primary Stages), Isaac’s Eye (EST); Fulfillment (The Flea), Burning (New Group), A lecture on the Blues (Whitney Museum). Select Regional World Premieres: Shipwreck: A history Play About 2017 (Woolly Mammoth); Zoey’s Perfect Wedding (Denver Center), Cry it Out (Humana), Scenes from Court Life (Yale Rep), Wellesley Girl (Humana), The Moors (Yale Rep).  Film: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory’s “A Master Builder”, “Ricki and the Flash”, “Worth”, “Relay”. Television: “The Path”, “Vinyl”, “Mysteries of Laura”, “Forever”, “Southland”, all the “Law & Orders.” Training: Juilliard.

Will Dagger (ALEX) has helped develop new work with Ars Nova, Audible, The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages, The Public Theater, and Second Stage. Recent stage credits include Good Night and Good Luck (Broadway), Give Me Carmelita Tropicana (Soho Rep), Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons), Uncle Vanya (O’Henry), Among The Dead (Ma-Yi), you don’t have to do anything (Here), and Macbeth (Double Feature). Film and television credits include The Bride! (2025), Law & Order: SVU, FBI: Most Wanted, and The Blacklist.

Christopher B. Portley (DEFY) is a Dallas, Texas native living in New York City and is honored to be apart of the 1^st annual production of Stage Left. Portley was last seen playing a father of three in The Watsons Go To Birmingham at The Alabama Shakespeare Festival directed by Keith Arthur Bolden. Off-Broadway Credits: FISH (Theater Row), LA RACE (Page 73). Other Theater Credits: SWEAT(Northern Stage),  demons.( Bushwick Starr), American Prophet: Frederick Douglass In His Own Words(Arena Stage), ANTIGONE (Cleveland Play House), Blood At The Root(Chautauqua Theater Company),  Commedia(Chautauqua Theater Company), Father Comes Home From The Wars Parts 1,2&3(African-American Repertory Theater). TV credits: BLUE BLOODS. Education: MFA Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House. Instagram-Christopherbportley

Nigel Berkeley (Stage Directions) is an actor, writer, and director. He makes plays with his company, Parabasis. Training: Minnesota/Guthrie BFA @bigelnerkeley

Mary Garrigan (Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: The Black Wolfe Tone (Irish Repertory Theatre) All The World’s A Stage (Keen Company), Another Shot (The Signature Center), Fish (Keen Company & Working Theater), Dig (Primary Stages), Belfast Girls (Irish Repertory Theatre), Cell (The Drama League), Powerhouse (Manhattan Repertory Theatre); Regional: Sense & Sensibility (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) The Brothers Size (Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre), The Orchard (Arlekin Players); Other Credits Include: Not Beckett (Irish Repertory Theatre), Follies: In Concert (Carnegie Hall), Othello (New Place Players), Christmas Time In The City (Transport Group), Messy White Gays (The Fabulous Invalid & Powerhouse Theater).

Anton Volovsek (Set Designer) (he/him) is a scenic designer, artist, and theater maker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Recent design credits: Off Broadway: Bowl EP (Vineyard) Regional: Our Town, Life is a Dream, Everything That Never Happened, Akeelah and the Bee (Baltimore Center Stage), Little Shop of Horrors (People’s Light) Curse of the Starving Class (PTP, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Mr. Burns (Brown/Trinity), Off-off Broadway: Hype Man (The Flea Theatre), Princess Phooey (TADA! Youth Theater). Collegiate: Real Housewives of the Restoration, King Charles III (NYU Grad Acting and Design), Spring Awakening, Jesus Christ Superstar (Montclair State University), Indecent (Central Michigan University), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (City College of New York). MFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. BFA from the University of Michigan. Go Blue! You can find more of his work at www.antonedward.com.

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