Bios of the Cast, Creative & Production Teams

CAST

TYLER MICLEAN* (he/him— Christopher) is making his MTC debut after the Georgiana & Kitty workshop last year, and was born and raised in Belmont, CA. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. NY Regional: Legally Blonde (The Argyle Theatre). LA Regional: Parade, The Full Monty, Ragtime (3D Theatricals), Man of La Mancha, King Lear (A Noise Within), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Cabrillo Music Theatre). Touring: Holiday Wishes (Cirque Musica). Readings: Vera Laughed with Jo Beth Williams and Alfred Molina. BA: the University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts, and a screenwriting minor from the School of Cinematic Arts. Add’l Training: Music Theatre Conservatory at Notre Dame de Namur. Directing: R&H’s Cinderella, The Addams Family (Notre Dame High School). Playwriting: Quicksand, Honey Lemon, Bad Sister. Thank you for your presence. And tender thanks to the village, especially Carolyn and Dave Miclean. Pax et Bonum. DENMO IBRAHIM* (she/her—Bella) is an American actor, playwright and author of Egyptian descent which the San Francisco Chronicle called “a tower of strength in the Bay Area theatre scene.” Previous MTC productions include Brilliant Mind, Noura and The Who & The What. Regional acting credits include Berkeley Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, The Old Globe, Seattle Rep, and Cal Shakes. As a playwright, her work has toured international festivals in Egypt, France, and Germany. In the U.S., her plays have been supported by Playwrights’ Foundation, The Civilians, and New York Theatre Workshop. She is a resident artist with Golden Thread Productions. Denmo is a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle (SFBATCC) award recipient for her work on The Good Book (Berkeley Rep) and a Theatre Bay Area award recipient for I Call My Brothers (Crowded Fire) and BABA (Alter Theater). She was recently nominated for an SFBATCC award for Principal Performance in a Drama for Noura and was one of 25 theatre artists nominated for the Rainin Fellowship in 2020. Denmo holds an MFA in Lecoq-based Actor Created Physical Theater from Naropa University and a BFA in Acting from Boston University. denmoibrahim.com

ADAM RAPP (he/ him—Playwright) is an award-winning playwright and novelist. He is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, The Bush, London), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf, Off-Broadway at the Barrow Street Theatre), for which he won Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best New Work, an OBIE, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. His most recent play, The Sound Inside, received its world premiere at the 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival and was named one of The New York Times best plays of 2018. It premiered on Broadway at Studio 54 in the fall of 2019 and went on to be nominated for 6 Tony Awards, including Best Play. His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, The Benjamin H. Danks Award, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award, and a 2021 Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the author of eleven novels, including Under the Wolf, Under the Dog, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize, Punkzilla, which was named a 2006 Printz Honor Book, and 33 Snowfish, which Booklist named as one of the 50 Best Young Adult Novels of All Time. He is also the author of the adult novels The Year of Endless Sorrows (FSG), Know Your Beholder (Little Brown), and Wolf at the Table, which will be published by Little Brown in January ’23. For television, he has written and produced for The L Word (Showtime), In Treatment (HBO), Flesh & Bone (Starz), Vinyl (HBO), The Looming Tower (Hulu) and served as the Executive Producer and Co-Showrunner for Showtime’s American Rust, which stars Jeff Daniels and Maura Tierney. Born in Chicago and raised in nearby Joliet, Illinois, Rapp now splits his time between New York City and upstate New York.

JASSON MINADAKISº (he/him—Director/ Artistic Director) is in his 16th season as artistic director of Marin Theatre Company, where he has directed The Catastrophist, Mother of the Maid, Sovereignty, Oslo, Shakespeare In Love, Thomas and Sally, Guards at the Taj, August: Osage County, The Invisible Hand, Anne Boleyn, The Convert, The Whale, Failure: A Love Story, the world premiere of Lasso of Truth, The Whipping Man (San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Awards for Best Production and Best Acting Ensemble), Waiting for Godot, Othello: the Moor of Venice, The Glass Menagerie, Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice, the world premiere of Libby Appel’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Seagull, Happy Now?, Equivocation (SFBATCC Award, Best Director), the world premiere of Sunlight, Lydia, The Seafarer, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Streetcar Named Desire, said Saïd, Love Song, and The Subject Tonight is Love. As artistic director

ºThe Director is a member of the STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.

of Actor’s Express Theatre Company, he directed The Pillowman; Bug; The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer; Echoes of Another Man; Killer Joe; Burn This; The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?; Blue/Orange; and Bel Canto. As producing artistic director of Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, he directed Jesus Hopped the ’A’ Train, Chagrin Falls (2002 Cincinnati Entertainment Award for Best Production), and numerous others, including 19 productions of Shakespeare. Regional credits include The Whipping Man at Virginia Stage Company, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Hamlet at Georgia Shakespeare, Copenhagen at Playhouse on the Square (2003 Ostrander Theatre Award for Best Dramatic Production), and Bedroom Farce at Wayside Theatre.

EDWARD E. HAYNES JR. (he/him—Scenic Designer) excited to be retuning to Marin Theatre Company where he previously Designed Pass Over, Skeleton Crew, and How I Learned What I Learned. Regional Credits include: The Geffen Playhouse, The Mark Taper Forum, Ebony Repertory Theatre Co., South Coast Rep., The Kirk Douglas Theatre, East West Players, Pasadena Playhouse, The Hollywood Bowl, Antaeus Theatre, Berkeley Rep., The Intiman Theatre, City Theatre Pittsburgh, Gulfshores Playhouse, The Muny Theatre, The Alliance Theatre, Trinity Rep., The Two River Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and many he can no longer remember. Television Credits include MTVs Spring Break 2012 & 2011, Hip Hop Harry for the Discovery Kids/TLC Channel, and Culture Clash for Fox TV. Ed is the proud father of twins, Denis and Wesly, and husband to Director Elizabeth Bell-Haynes. edhaynes.carbonmade.com FUMIKO BIELEFELDT+ (she/her—Costume Designer) is happy to be back with MTC and resume her role as the costume designer for The Sound Inside. Her work has appeared in MTC productions for over 10 years, including Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, Oslo, Straight White Men, Guard at the Taj, The Oldest Boy, The Convert, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice, Equivocation, What the Butler Saw, Lovers & Executioners, Frozen, Displaced, Fugitive Kind, Indiscretions, and Candida. Her career as a costume designer for 40 years in the Bay Area and beyond has garnered her many awards, including the Barbara Bladen Porter, San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Dean Goodman Choice, Back Stage West Garland, and Drama-Logue Awards.

MIKE POST (he/him— Lighting and Projection Designer) is thrilled to return to Marin as a designer for this show! While he was serving as MTC’s Director of Production he also worked as a lighting and projection designer for Guards at the Taj, for Oslo and Sovereignty. He also has worked with lighting, sound and projection at New Conservatory Theatre Center with The View Upstairs, Cardboard Piano, and Avenue Q. At Sonoma State University, Mike was brought in to light Sweeney Todd. Prior to his time in the Bay Area, he lived and worked in Atlanta where he was the resident designer at Georgia Shakespeare as well as having designed many shows

at other theatres in the area. He served as Production Manager at the Center for Puppetry Arts and designed several shows there as well. Currently, Mike holds the position of Associate Professor of Lighting, Sound and Projection at The University of Montana in Missoula.

DARIA PERKOVA (she/her—Asst. Costume Designer / Wardrobe Crew) is a Bay Area native costume designer. She has designed, stitched and ran wardrobe for many theaters around the bay. Her most recent works include costume design for Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya at Chabot College, and How Black Mother’s Say I Love You at Theatre Rhinoceros. She is running the costume shop and wardrobe crew at Marin Theatre Company for the current season.

IMPLIED MUSIC / CHRIS HOUSTON (he/ him—Composer) is a pianist, composer, producer, and sound designer. He performs and records as Implied Music. He is the veteran of decades of solo and ensemble performances in jazz, rock, traditional, and classical styles. He teaches piano and composition and has lectured on music at Boston Ballet and San Francisco State University. Chris has written and recorded music for picture and stage for almost fifty years. He has numerous credits for theater composition and sound design in the Bay Area, New York, and nationally. Chris has scored feature and documentary films. He has developed library music for PBS television and NPR radio. He is the recipient of seven ASCAP Plus awards, five Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Awards for composition and sound design, as well as the Arty award for sound design.

BRIGID RIDGE* (she/her—Rehearsal Stage Manager) is a freelance stage manager who works up and down the West Coast. She has previously been involved with Marin Theatre Company’s productions of Hotter Than Egypt, Brilliant Mind, Noura, The Who and the What, and Skeleton Crew, among others. She has also done work at Berkeley Playhouse and Central Works in the Bay Area and Taproot Theatre Company in Seattle.

KEVIN JOHNSON* (he/him—Production Stage Manager) returns for his fifth production at MTC, having previously stage-managed Noura, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Marjorie Prime, and the special performance of Lady of Largest Heart with Olympia Dukakis. Elsewhere in the Bay Area, he has stagemanaged for Aurora Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, Magic Theatre, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, and many others. He also has stage-managed music and dance productions, including Oakland Symphony, Pacific Mozart Ensemble, San Francisco Jazz Festival (with Bobby McFerrin), International Russian Music Festival, and Dave Brubeck’s final album of his choral music, Brubeck and American Poets.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

JASSON MINADAKIS (he/him—Artistic Director) See Director/ Artistic Director bio

MEREDITH SUTTLES (she/her—Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer) joined Marin Theatre Company as its new Managing Director this April. Meredith is an arts leader with an extensive background in creative and performing arts in the areas of development, management, strategic planning, fundraising, and performance. She has held senior leadership roles at TheaterWorksUSA, Soho Repertory Theatre, Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and the New York City Opera. Meredith is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and former EmcArts: Arts Leaders as Cultural Innovators (ALACI) Fellow. She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., a Steering Committee Member of the Black Theatre Commons and currently serves on the Board of Directors of viBe Theater Experience (Brooklyn, NY). As a visionary leader known for her ability to win community support, develop key coalitions and build strong relationships with a shared sense of purpose, she is passionate about devising meaningful ways to address and further the goals of MTC. NAKISSA ETEMAD (she/ her—Associate Artistic Director) Associate Artistic Director of Marin Theatre Company (MTC) and an Iranian American dramaturg and producer, Nakissa is also a French translator specializing in new BIPOC plays and musicals for over 25 years. She is a Resident Artist of Golden Thread Productions, Regional VP Metro Bay Area for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and a member of MENA Theater Makers Alliance and the Anti-Racism Task Force of LMDA. Recent dramaturgy: The world premiere co-production at Marin Theatre Company and A Contemporary Theatre Seattle of Yussef El Guindi’s Hotter Than Egypt, plus its development at 2020 Colorado New Play Summit, Heather Raffo’s Noura (MTC/ Golden Thread), Marcus Gardley’s Play On! commission of King Lear (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), recent world premiere productions with Marcus Gardley, Lauren Yee, Marisela Treviño Orta, Margo Hall, and Torange Yeghiazarian, and several ReOrient Festivals of Short Plays and Bay Area Playwrights Festivals. Former positions: Festival Director for the 5th Annual New America Playwrights Fest, featuring Lynn Nottage, Naomi Iizuka and Polly Pen (San Jose Rep); Dramaturg and Literary Manager of The Wilma Theater, San Jose Rep, and San Diego Rep, and Exec. VP Freelance of LMDA. Recipient of the 2015 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy for The Lark’s four-city premieres of Gardley’s the road weeps, the well runs dry.

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Special Thanks for The Sound Inside

Kimberly Hughes & Steve Moazed Cheryl Brandon & Rick Brandon Piper Dellums

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