Cast and Creative Team

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

JASMINE BATCHELOR (Solvay). Theatre: Measure for Measure (The Public), Mothers (Playwrights Realm), Continuity (MTC). Film: The Surrogate (nominee: Gotham Award for Breakthrough Actor; nominee: DFCS Award Breakthrough Actor), Journal for Jordan. TV: “New Amsterdam,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Good Fight," “The Affair.” Training: The Juilliard School.

JORDAN BELLOW (Stranger 1) is proud to be making his TFANA debut. New York: Ransom (Arts on Site); Interior (59E59); The Russian and the Jew (The Tank); The Feels...KMS (New Ohio Theatre); Macbeth and Alkestis (The Connelly Theatre). Regional: Westport Country Playhouse; Denver Center; Syracuse Stage; Indiana Repertory Theatre; South Coast Repertory; Florida Studio Theatre. Television: "Dickinson"; "Gotham"; "Orange is the New Black".

JOE CURNUTTE (Peter). As a writer and performer with The Mad Ones: Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova), Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons, Bushwick Starr), Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War (New Ohio), all of which received Drama Desk and Lortel nominations. The Mad Ones are now in residence at Signature Theater. TV/Media credits include: “The Other Two,” “The Blacklist,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Get Down,” “American Odyssey,” “Person of Interest,” Red Dead Redemption II.

CHRISTY ESCOBAR (Stranger 2). Theatre: Beginning Days of True Jubilation (SOCIETY), Queen of Basel (Studio Theatre), Scissoring (INTAR), Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Atlantic), The Great Gatsby (Virginia Stage Company), The Hollow (The Brick), Lady Macbeth and Her Lover (Director’s Company), Bad Jews (Long Wharf), Murder on the Nile (Dorset Theatre Festival). TV: “Blindspot,” “Dietland.” Film: The Man in the Woods, Who We Are Now, Loser Leaves Town, Anomalous, Under the Lantern Lit Sky.

Jordan Bellow (Robber). Photo by Gerry Goodstein.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

DEBORAH HEDWALL (Mother). Selected NY Theatre: Sight Unseen (OBIE); Savage in Limbo; Why We Have a Body; Extremities; Curse of the Starving Class (dir. James Houghton); Fall to Earth; and All My Fathers. Regional: extensive work at Actors Theater of Louisville, Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage and Baltimore Center Stage. Selected film/ television: “Shadrack,” “Higher Ground,” “Worth,” “After Yang,” “The West Wing,” “Public Morals,” “Homeland,” “Ray James,” "Mare of Easttown.”

DAVID SHIH (Town). Theatre: Henry VI (NAATCO), The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep), KPOP (Ars Nova), Somebody’s Daughter (Second Stage), Awake and Sing! (NAATCO/The Public), Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse), Bike America (Ma-Yi). TV: “Hunters,” “Billions,” “City on a Hill,” “Iron Fist,” “The Path.” Film: Eighth Grade, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Saving Face. Voice of Eddie Toh in Grand Theft Auto V. Performs with Only Make Believe in children’s hospitals.

WILL ENO (Playwright) Recent plays include The Plot (Yale Rep), The Underlying Chris (Second Stage), and The Realistic Joneses (Broadway) which won a 2014 Drama Desk Award and was named USA Today’s Best Play on Broadway. The Paris premiere, Juste Les Jones, will be directed for the stage by documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. The Open House (Signature Theater) won the 2014 Obie Award, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, and a Drama Desk Award, and was one of Time Magazine’s Top 10 Plays of the Year. Will wrote the book for the award-winning 2019 Skittles Commercial: the Broadway Musical. He's the proud and lucky father of Albertine, now 7.

Jasmine Batchelor (Bartender) and Joe Curnutte (Peter). Photo by Gerry Goodstein.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

OLIVER BUTLER (Director) (he/him). Broadway: What The Constitution Means To Me (2019 Tony Award nomination for Best Play); Off-Broadway: collaborations with Will Eno including the first NYC revival of Thom Pain (Signature Theater, starring Michael C. Hall), The Open House (Signature Theater, Lortel Best Play, Obie Award) and The Plot (Yale Rep); world premiere of Jordan Harrison’s The Amateurs (Vineyard Theater). Regional: The Whistleblower (Denver Center), Thom Pain (Geffen Playhouse, starring Rainn Wilson), Legacy (Williamstown), Bad Jews (Long Wharf), An Opening In Time (Hartford). International: Timeshare (Australia). He is a Sundance Institute Fellow and a Bill Foeller Fellow. Oliver is Co-Artistic Director of The Debate Society, productions include The Light Years (Playwrights Horizons), Jacuzzi (Ars Nova), Blood Play (Bushwick Starr), Buddy Cop 2 (Ontological), Cape Disappointment (PS122), and 4 other TDS plays. He is a member of the faculty at The National Theater Institute.

KIMIE NISHIKAWA (Scenic Designer) is a Japanese scenic designer based in NYC. Notable credits: Ain’t No Mo’ (The PublicTheater), The Headlands (LCT3), Gnit (TFANA), Dr Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova), The Light (MCC), Morning Sun (Manhattan Theatre Club). NYC upcoming: While You Were Partying (Soho Rep), Tambo and Bones (Playwrights Horizons). Along with Cha See and Rodrigo Muñoz, Kimie is one of the co-founders of See Lighting Foundation, a grassroots fundraiser committed to supporting immigrant theater artists during the global pandemic. Since October of 2020, Kimie now works in a design collective called dots with Andrew Moerdyk and Santiago Orjuela-Laverde. We approach every project with diversity of thought and burning curiosity and, above all, we believe in the value of the whole being greater than the sum of its individual parts. designbydots.com

Joe Curnutte (Peter) and David Shih (International Man). Photo by Gerry Goodstein.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

ÁSTA BENNIE HOSTETTER (Costume Designer). Currently: Goodnight Nobody (McCarter). NYC: Mrs. Murray's Menagerie (The Mad Ones), Usual Girls (Roundabout Underground), Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Underground), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons), Porto (WP Theater), The Wolves (Lincoln Center), John (Signature), Men on Boats (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Cal Shakes), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (KC Rep), El Coquí Espectacular (Two River), member of Minor Theater, Target Margin Theater, The Mad Ones.

AVERY REED (Costume Designer) is a New York-based costume designer working in theatre, film and dance. She focuses on making work that promotes empathy and curiosity. Recent credits include Water Cooler Siren Song (Little Island); Only Human (St. Clements); Dishwater Blonde (Torn Page); Indeed, Friend! (Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights); Sweeney Todd (Piper Theater); Linthead (SMP); Everybody (RU); The Tempest (Lenfest); All’s Well That Ends Well (FDU); As Is (Baruch); ADMIX (NYCI NYCB); Appalachian Spring (Dance Theater of Harlem); Brut Force (Brut Force LLC); Martin Eden (Kingdom County Productions). MFA, NYU Tisch. averyreed.com

AMITH CHANDRASHAKER (Lighting Designer). Wives (Playwrights Horizons); A Human Being, Of A Sort (Williamstown); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); Boesman and Lena (The Signature); Blue Ridge (Atlantic); Cardinal (Second Stage); Twelfth Night (The Public); Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep,

Left: Christy Escobar (Anitra). Photo by Gerry Goodstein. Right: Christy Escobar (Woman in Green). Photo by Henry Grossman.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

TFANA); Fire in Dreamland (Public); Her Requiem (LCT3). Opera: The Flying Dutchman (Houston Grand Opera), Falstaff (Opera Omaha), The Scarlet Letter (Opera Colorado), Abduction from the Seraglio (Atlanta Opera). Dance: Alexander Ekman, Liz Gerring, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris, Aalto Ballettt Theatre Essen, Staatstheater Nürnberg, The National Dance Company of Wales, and The Royal New Zealand Ballet. Drama Desk and Henry Hewes awards.

LEE KINNEY (Sound Designer) is a sound and music artist working in theatre, film and events. Broadway: Is This A Room. TFANA: A Doll’s House/The Father. Off-Broadway: Morning Sun (MTC); Is This A Room, Can You Forgive Her? (Vineyard); “Daddy” (The New Group/Vineyard); For All the Women (Soho Rep); Sunday (Atlantic); Thom Pain (Signature); The Light Years (Playwrights Horizons); Homos (Labyrinth). Other projects include work with Google, Virgin Voyages, Swing Left, The Dance Cartel and The Ghostlight Project. Awarded Outer Critics Circle Honors for Outstanding Sound Design, nominated for Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk Award and Henry Hewes Design Award. Thanks to Kris. @thisisleekinney.

DANIEL KLUGER (Music). Broadway: Oklahoma! (new arrangements and orchestrations), The Sound Inside; Seawall / A Life, revival of Marvin’s Room; world premiere of Significant Other. Off-Broadway: premieres of Sunday, I Was Most Alive with You, Animal, The Village Bike, Man from Nebraska, Tribes, and Women or Nothing. Film scores: A Christmas Carol (2021); The Courtroom (2021); Duolo (2017); Health to the King (2020); Hello, Again (2017, Orchestrations). In 2021, Kluger launched the music label Archie & Fox Records. www.danielkluger.com

J. DAVID BRIMMER Fight Master, SAFD (Fight Director) has choreographed some stuff. Selected Broadway: Pass Over, Be More Chill, Spring Awakening, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Grace, Speed the Plow, Thérèse Raquin, Long Day’s Journey into Night, NY premieres: Socrates, Hangmen, Yen, Gloria, An Octoroon, The Whipping Man, We are Proud to Present, Blasted, Bethany, Blackbird, Bug, Killer Joe). “Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.” – George Fox

JON KNUST (Properties Supervisor). Selected credits include A Doll’s House, The Father, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Winter’s Tale and About Alice (TFANA); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadway), Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, Big Love, and Appropriate (Signature) and Peter and the Starcatcher (tour). Jon got his start in props at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University.

JONATHAN KALB (Production Dramaturg) is Professor of Theater at Hunter College, CUNY, and is TFANA’s Resident Dramaturg. The author of five books on theater, he has worked for more than three decades as a theater scholar, critic, journalist, and dramaturg. He has twice won The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. and has also won the George Freedley Award for an outstanding theater book from the Theatre Library Association. He often writes about theater on his TheaterMatters blog (at www.jonathankalb.com).

RENEE LUTZ (Production Stage Manager). TFANA: The Winter’s Tale, Skin of Our Teeth, King Lear, Othello, All’s Well, Merchant of Venice (NY, RSC, National Tour), Measure for Measure, Antony & Cleopatra, etc. Off-Broadway: MTC, Playwrights, Signature, The Public, Primary Stages, etc., and commercial productions. Regional: Barrington Stage (65+ productions), Hartford Stage, Goodspeed, La Jolla, A.R.T., NJ Shakespeare, Berkshire Theatre, etc. She is a trustee of historic FDNY fireboat John J. Harvey. Best credit and longest run: her husband, actor Gordon Stanley.

THE PRODUCTION CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

DAWN-ELIN FRASER (Dialect Coach). Broadway: The Great Society; Tina—the Tina Turner Musical; Slave Play; What the Constitution Means to Me; Once on this Island; Waitress; Finding Neverland. OffBroadway: Merry Wives (Public Theater/ Delacorte); Slave Play; Nat Turner in Jerusalem; Sojourners; Her Portmanteau; An Ordinary Muslim; The House that Will Not Stand (NYTW); Fires in the Mirror; By the Way Meet Vera Stark; Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theater); Barbeque; Passing Strange (The Public Theater). Regional: Guys and Dolls (Guthrie Theater); Crossing: An American Opera; Waitress (A.R.T); Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Education: MFA, American Conservatory Theater.

SARA KADISH (Assistant Stage Manager). Off-Broadway: Timon of Athens, Why?, Soho Rep’s Fairview, Julius Caesar, About Alice, The Prisoner, The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure (Theatre for a New Audience). Regional: Don Juan (Westport Country Playhouse), The Heart of Robin Hood, Rip Van Winkle: Or Cut the Old Moon into Stars (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival).

STEPHANIE YANKWITT, CSA (Casting) (she/her). Upcoming/current theater: Wolf Play (Soho Rep), To The Yellow House (La Jolla Playhouse), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Gingold Theatrical Group), an upcoming world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse, as well as ongoing work with Tectonic Theater Project. Film/TV work includes a feature film by Alessandra Lacorazza produced by Alex Dinelaris, and ongoing work with Culture House and the Gotham Film and Media Institute/Independent Film Project.

BLAKE ZIDELL & ASSOCIATES (Publicity) is a Brooklyn-based public relations firm representing cultural institutions, nonprofit organizations, festivals and individuals across a variety of disciplines. Clients include Theatre for a New Audience, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Signature Theatre, Classic Stage Company, The Kitchen, PEN America, Performance Space New York, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, On the Boards, Taylor Mac, Peak Performances, Irish Arts Center, StoryCorps, Stitcher, PlayCo, the Playwrights Realm, Page 73, Photoville and others.

Jasmine Batchelor (Solvay) and Deborah Hedwall (Mother). Photo by Gerry Goodstein.