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Nayhale is incredibly proud to be making her McCarter Theatre Center main-stage debut. Previous theater credits: Madonna Col Bambino (New Ohio Theatre), Nollywood Dreams (Cherry Lane Theatre), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Portland Stage), Seven Guitars (People’s Light Theatre), Unspeakable (The Apollo Theater), Follow Me to Nellie’s by Dominique Morisseau (Premiere Stages), Sex on Sunday (Urban Stages), The Trial of One Short- Sighted Black Woman vs. Mammy Louise and Safreeta Mae (NJPAC), Family Affair (BET/Nokia Theatre). Developmental works: Sojourners (Playwrights Realm), Pussy Valley (Lark Theater Lab), Saturday Night Sunday Morning (McCarter LAB), Hurt Village by Katori Hall (Public Theater Lab). Television/commercial credits: The Blacklist, A Crime to Remember, Law & Order, The Onion News, and Rizzoli and Isles. A proud native of Detroit, MI., and Alumna of Howard University/ BFA.

Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Off-Broadway : Autumn’s Harvest (Public Theater). Regional: The Closet, Member of the Wedding (Williamstown Theatre Festival); A Raisin in the Sun (Arena Stage); Fly (St. Louis Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse); Safe House (St. Louis Rep); When I Come to Die (KC Rep); In The Red and Brown Water (Alliance Theater); Some Men (Actors Express); Yellowman (Theater in the Square). TV: Madam Secretary, Braindead, Deadbeat, Elementary, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Unforgettable, The Good Wife, The Night Of, Army Wives. Education: M.F.A., Yale School of Drama; B.A., Morehouse College.

Thrilled to be making her McCarter debut! Off-Broadway: Picnic (The Transport Group) Regional: The New World (The Bucks County Playhouse), If All The Sky Were Paper (The Kennedy Center) TV: Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, Truth Slash Fiction. Film: The Sunlit Night (upcoming), Ace The Case, The Vampire Leland. Deepest thanks to Jade, Laura and Kevin.

Since graduating from The Juilliard School, Johnny Ramey has had the fortune to be a part of several great productions as an actor, producer, writer and director working with his companies Cinestories.com, Fusion Cinema, and King Margot Productions. His latest projects—Fatality, Work Party, and Negus—directed, produced, written, and cameo’d in, have been, and will show at, major North American and international festivals. Johnny won the Irene Diamond Excellence in Acting Award, the Helen Hayes Award for Superior Donuts, and was nominated by Broadway World for his role in Whipping Man. His latest theater productions: The Liquid Plain (Signature Theatre), The City of Conversation (Wallis Annenberg Theater), The Royale (CPH). His latest TV/film credits include: Forever, PozRoz, Twelfth Night, Rage Room, Royal Pains, Most Likely to Die, and New Year’s Eve.

Myxolydia has been seen off-Broadway as Agnès in The House That Will Not Stand (Spring 2017 Reading at Manhattan Theatre Workshop) and the Narrator in the Signature Theatre’s workshop production of A Season to Unravel. Regional highlights are Beneatha in A Raisin in the Sun (Arkansas Rep), Fannie Lou Hamer/ Coretta Scott King in All The Way (St. Louis Rep), and as Camae in The Mountaintop (Vermont Stage and Baltimore Center Stage). Television: Season 6 Homeland (Showtime). Voice over and commercially she has been involved with campaigns for Reckitt Benckiser, Golden Corral, Mercedes Benz, and Pandora. She was last seen as Cass in the 2018 world premiere of Well Intentioned White People at Barrington Stage.

Dominique is the author of The Detroit Project (a 3-Play Cycle) which includes the following plays: Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company), Paradise Blue (Signature Theatre), and Detroit ’67 (Public Theater, Classical Theatre of Harlem and NBT). Additional plays include: Pipeline (Lincoln Center Theater), Sunset Baby (LAByrinth Theatre), Blood at the Root (National Black Theatre), and Follow Me To Nellie’s (Premiere Stages). She is also the book writer on the new musical Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Dominique is an alumna of The Public Theater Emerging Writer’s Group, Women’s Project Lab, and Lark Playwrights Workshop and has developed work at Sundance Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Eugene O’Neil Playwrights Conference. Her work has been commissioned by Steppenwolf Theater, Women’s Project, South Coast Rep, People’s Light and Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Penumbra Theatre. She most recently served as Co-Producer on the Showtime series Shameless. Awards include: Spirit of Detroit Award, PoNY Fellowship, Sky-Cooper Prize, TEER Trailblazer Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Audelco Awards, NBFT August Wilson Playwriting Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, OBIE Award, Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellowship, and being named one of Variety’s Women of Impact for 2017-18.

Intimate Apparel and The Piano Lesson (McCarter); The Piano Lesson (Hartford Stage); Having Our Say (Long Wharf Theatre/Hartford Stage); Sunset Baby and The Revolutionists (City Theatre); Skeleton Crew (Marin Theatre Company/Theaterworks and Dorset Theatre); Autumn’s Harvest (Lincoln Center Institute); Trouble in Mind (Two River Theater and Playmakers Rep); Hello, From The Children of Planet Earth (Playwrights Realm); Mr. Chickee’s Funny Money (Atlantic Theater); The Whipping Man and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Portland Stage); The Etymology of Bird (CitiParks Summer Stages); A Raisin in the Sun (Juilliard and Perseverance). Associate Director for A Streetcar Named Desire and The Gin Game (Broadway); The Children’s Monologues (Carnegie Hall). Jade received the Paul Green Award from the estate of August Wilson. Past Fellowships & Awards: New York Theatre Workshop, Van Lier, Second Stage Theatre, Women’s Project, McCarter Theatre Center, SUNY 40 under 40, TCG New Generations Future Leader, and Gates Millennium Scholar.

Riccardo has designed for Broadway in Indecent; The Gin Game; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; The People in the Picture; Caroline, or Change; Elaine Stritch at Liberty; Topdog/Underdog; Bells Are Ringing; Parade; Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk; and The Tempest. Over 200 designed productions in the US and internationally at The Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Repertory Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Theatre du Chatelet Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, English National Opera/ Young Vic, and many others. Numerous awards and nominations including: 2017 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design, 2015 Henry Hewes Design Award, Princess Grace Statue Award, Tony®, Drama Desks, Connecticut Critics Circle, Helen Hayes, Jeff Award, Dora Award/Opera Division, Audelco, American Theater Wing, and Boston Elliot Norton Award.

Previously at McCarter: Intimate Apparel. Upcoming: American Son (Broadway), FireFlies (Atlantic). Broadway: Children of a Lesser God. Select off-Broadway: Collective Rage…, School Girls… (MCC); Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC); Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons); JHAT (Signature); The Royale (Lincoln Center); Tell Hector I Miss Him, Marie and Rosetta (Atlantic Theater Company); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); brownsville song [b-side for tray] (LCT3). Regionally: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Steppenwolf, Denver Center, California Shakespeare, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory, Baltimore Center Stage, Arena Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Signature Theatre. Television: Comedy Central, FOX Shortcoms, COPPER Project. Awards: Recipient of Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Theatre Bay Area, and Jeff Awards; two Drama Desk nominations. Education: MFA Yale School of Drama.

Previously with Jade King Carroll: The Playwrights Realm, Long Wharf, The Juilliard School, Hartford Stage, and City Theater. Selected credits include work with directors: Edward Albee, Maria Mileaf, Amir Nizar Zuabi, and Ed Sylvanus Iskandar with companies including The Cherry Lane, The Play Company, The Mint Theater Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Selected work in dance with Mark Morris, Jessica Lang, Aszure Barton, Sonya Tayeh, Robert Battle, John Heginbotham, Alexander Ekman, Kyle Abraham, and Annabelle Lopez-Ochoa, and companies including Joffrey Ballet, Houston Ballet, Hubbard Street, Mark Morris Dance Group, Jessica Lang Dance, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Nederlands Dance Theater, Malpaso, and American Ballet Theatre. Selected work in opera with Arizona Opera, LA Opera, The Juilliard School, Opera de Montreal, and Minnesota Opera.
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Karin has designed the sound for a number of productions at McCarter, including Intimate Apparel, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Polk County, Tartuffe, and A Seagull in the Hamptons. Other design credits include: Hartford Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Repertory, Arena Stage, Portland Stage, Long Wharf, and the Alliance, among others. She is a recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Award for her sound design of Polk County at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Karin was the live sound consultant for the multi-media production Freedom Rising at the National Constitution Center. Many of her soundscapes can be heard at The Franklin Institute’s exhibit entitled Your Brain. Karin also holds the position of Sound Supervisor for the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

Leah has designed for Sweat; Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812; The Heidi Chronicles; On the Town; A Night with Janis Jop­lin; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; American Idiot; and Irena’s Vow on Broadway. Off-Broadway, she has designed for Barbecue and Fortress of Solitude (The Public), Love’s Labour’s Lost and Into the Woods (The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park), and Heathers: The Musical, Bare: The Musical, Carrie: The Musical, Tribes, and Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theatre). Loukas has a BFA in theater design and production with a focus in makeup and wig design from the University of Cincinnati.

Many seasons of McCarter casting: Stones in His Pockets; Bathing in Moonlight; Intimate Apparel; The Piano Lesson; The Figaro Plays; Are You There McPhee; Travesties; Me, Myself & I; Sleeping Beauty Wakes; Mrs. Packard; Take Flight; Having Our Say; Antony & Cleopatra; Gem of the Ocean. Broadway, off-Broadway, National Tours: Side Show, Women Rock,The Woman In Black, After Midnight, A Night With Janis Joplin, Follies, Don’t Dress for Dinner, Lombardi, Ragtime, Impressionism, The Seafarer, Coram Boy, Translations, Radio Golf, Master Class, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Dirty Dancing, Broadway Three Generations, Tryst, Damn Yankees, Gate/Beckett, The Glorious Ones, Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Works with multiple off- Broadway, Regional, and International theater companies, was nominated for six Artios Awards and won for the Kennedy Center’s production of Follies. www.lscasting.org

Alison is in her 22nd season at McCarter Theatre. Highlights include Crowns; Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville; The Understudy, directed by Adam Immerwahr; The White Snake, directed by Mary Zimmerman; Danai Gurira’s The Convert, directed by Emily Mann; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Tina Landau; Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon; Sorrows and Rejoicings, directed by Athol Fugard; and Stephen Wadsworth’s adaptations of The Figaro Plays. Other credits include Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I at Playwrights Horizons; Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays at the Public Theater, Second Stage, Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Paper Mill, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Center Theatre Group, Berkeley Rep, Bard Summerscape, Pittsburgh Public, Williamstown, and 19 productions with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

McCarter Credits include: A Christmas Carol (2005- 2011), A Delicate Balance, Gem of the Ocean, Miss Witherspoon. Recent NY credits include: Jersey Boys (New World Stages), Be More Chill (Irene Diamond Theater), Harry Clarke (Minetta Lane), Bright Colors and Bold Patterns (Soho Playhouse), We’re Only Alive for A Short Amount of Time (UTR Festival at The Public), The Government Inspector (Red Bull Theater), The Moors (Playwright’s Realm), The Woodsman (New World Stages), Homos, or Everyone in America and Nice Girl (Labyrinth), The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (West­side Downstairs, National Tour), Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick, Barrow Street, National Tour, Westport). Regional: Two River Theater, PA Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Ogunquit Playhouse.

David has worked at McCarter since 1982. As head of the Production Department he directs the Scenic, Prop, Costume, and Stage Operations personnel in their creation of physical elements and provision of backstage support for the Theater Series and McCarter’s annual production of A Christmas Carol. In addition, the 30-person production staff sees to the needs of all guest artists and companies presented at the theater each season. During David’s tenure, the department has more than 150 theater productions and thousands of presented performances to its credit. Prior to beginning his McCarter career as Technical Director, David held posts at Center Stage in Baltimore and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. He received his BA from Washington University and MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Debbie joined McCarter in 2016. Her experience spans Broadway, off-Broadway, West End, regional, and non-profit theater. Broadway: Mothers & Sons, Grace, Annie, War Horse, Hair, Merchant of Venice, Speed the Plow. Off-Broadway and London: Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly starring Carey Mulligan, Passion Play, Merrily We Roll Along. Chicago: Founder of Roadworks Productions, with residen­cies at Steppenwolf & Victory Gardens. Highlights: John Barth’s The End of the Road, Lanford Wilson’s Serenading Louie, Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth, Chuck Mee’s Orestes, Eric Bogosian’s subUrbia. She is an Advisory Member of Playwrights Realm in NYC and on the board of FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics). Debbie lives with her husband David Goldman and dedicates this season to the memory of their sweet, loving Stella.

Emily is in her 29th season as Artistic Director and Resident Play-wright. Her nearly 50 McCarter directing credits include pro­ductions by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, and Williams and the recent world premieres of Turning Off the Morning News; Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express; Baby Doll; Five Mile Lake; The Convert; The How and the Why; Miss Witherspoon; and Me, Myself & I. Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, Anna in the Tropics, Execution of Justice, Having Our Say. Her plays: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard, and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Her new play Gloria: A Life about the legacy of Gloria Steinem is currently in production in New York. Adaptations: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, Antigone; and The Pianist. Awards: Peabody, Hull Warriner, NAACP, Obies, Guggenheim; Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations, a Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts, a Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award, and the Margo Jones Award given to a “citizen-of-the-theatre who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the encouragement of the living theatre everywhere.”

Michael is in his first season at McCarter. For the last nine years, he was the Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego where he helped develop and produce new work by Ayad Akhtar, Trey Anastasio, Amanda Green, Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegría Hudes, John Leguizamo, Basil Twist, Doug Wright, and The Flaming Lips. During his tenure, the Playhouse was awarded multi-million dollar grants from the NEA and the Wallace and Irvine Foundations to accelerate experiments meant to develop multi-ethnic projects, expand opportunities for family engagement and build the capacity to sustain community arts programs in off-site locations. Previously, Mike was Co-Founder and Executive Director of Drama Dept., a New York non-profit theater collective, where for fourteen years he produced new works by the likes of Douglas Carter Beane, Warren Leight, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Rudnick, and David & Amy Sedaris. He is also the Assistant Coach for the U13 Ironmen FC. Follow him on Twitter @MrMike Rosenberg.