Playwright

Ken Urban is a playwright, screenwriter and musician. His audio play VAPOR TRAIL was selected for the 2022 Tribeca Festival’s Audio Storytelling series and released as part of Playwrights Horizons’ Sound Stage. His stage plays include A GUIDE FOR THE HOMESICK (Huntington Theatre Company, Trafalgar Studios in the West End), THE REMAINS (Studio Theatre), SENSE OF AN ENDING (59E59 Theatres, London’s Theatre503), NIBBLER (The Amoralists and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), THE CORRESPONDENT (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), THE AWAKE (59E59 Theatres, First Floor Theater), and THE HAPPY SAD (The Public Theatre/Summer Play Festival). He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and affiliated writer at The Playwrights’ Center. Ken wrote the screenplay for the feature-film adaptation of THE HAPPY SAD, directed by Rodney Evans. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service. (Photo by Marc J. Franklin)

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Nicole Rodenburg is an actor, writer, and filmmaker based in New York City. Her feature film directorial debut Glob Lessons had its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. As an actor interested in new work she has starred in Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Flick (Barrow Street), as well as the world premieres of Baker’s Antipodes (Signature), Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale (Denver Center), Allison Moore’s Slasher (Humana Festival), Sheri Wilner’s The End (Guthrie) and Ming Peiffer’s Usual Girls (Roundabout). She also has an extensive classical theatre background and has appeared in A Winter’s Tale (TFANA), Romeo and Juliet (Westport), The Tempest (Theatre on the Bluff), As You Like It (The Alley), The Merchant of Venice, Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Great River Shakespeare).and she played the lead roles in Bus Stop (Huntington), You Can’t Take it With You (GeVA) and Venus in Fur (Alley) TV: Inside Amy Schumer, The Girls Guide to Depravity, Amish Witches, The Shivering Truth, Fleishman is in Trouble FILM: Glob Lessons, What Children Do, The Long Run, Twin Snakes, Tenderly, TIC, Dream Team

Oliver

(They/them) Theater credits include The Trees (Playwrights Horizons),The Visitor (The Public), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse), House of Dance (Half Straddle, Zürich Theater Spektakel, Kyoto Experiment), Look Upon Our Lowliness (The Movement Theatre Company), Dom Juan (Fisher Center/ Bard Summerscape), Tiny Beautiful Things (Long Wharf), The Wizard of Oz (Geva), and I and You (Chester Theatre Company). TV/Film: “Instinct” (CBS), Fry Day. MFA: NYU Graduate Acting Program. @pauli.amorous

Stage Directions

Alex Moon (Pronouns: they/them) is a nonbinary theatre artist and translator. Their short play ”Bugs” was a winner of of the 47th Annual Off-Off Broadway Festival and their full-length play “G-Town” was a finalist for the 2021 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. They are a member of New York University’s class of 2022 double majoring in Dramatic Writing and Classics. Website: www.alexmoondrama.com, Instagram: @alex_moon312

Stage Manager

Broadway: A Strange Loop, Slave Play. Off-Broadway: This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre), Toros (Second Stage Theater), Man Cave (Page 73), What To Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement Theatre Company, BAM, Playwrights Horizon). Regional: Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes) (En Garde Arts / La Jolla Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), La Egoista (Actors Theatre of Louisville.) Virtual: American Dreams (The Working Theater) International: Festival de Teatro Alternativo, Festival de Mujeres En Escena Por la Paz

Director

is an Obie-winning director based in NYC. He directed the world-premiere of English (Atlantic/Roundabout), for which Sanaz Toossi won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Other recent premieres include: Primary Trust (Roundabout), Bodies They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb), Private (Mosaic), The Headlands (LCT3), Paris (Atlantic), and The Workshop (Soft Focus). His work has been featured on Best of the Year lists by The New York Times, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker.

Moderator

is a director, dramaturg, and professor. He’s currently the head of the MFA Dramaturgy concentration in the Columbia University School of the Arts Theatre Program. He began his career at Manhattan Theatre Club and spent many years with the Atlantic Theater Company. He’s worked on plays and musicals wearing various hats, mostly one at a time, all over the country.