Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery

Eric Sharp (he/him) is an actor, writer, and director based in Minneapolis. He has performed nationally and internationally at the Guthrie Theater, Ten Thousand Things, The Jungle Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Live Action Set, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre, and the Minnesota, Toronto, and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. He played Mowgli in The Jungle Book at Children's Theatre Co., and the young Dalai Lama on multiple tours of TigerLion Arts' The Buddha Prince. His one act play Strange Lands premiered at Theater 45°. A member of the Artistic Advisory Committee at Theater Mu, Eric wrote and starred in the world premiere of Middle Brother, appeared in Today is My Birthday, Hot Asian Doctor Husband, Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, Two Mile Hollow, Yellow Fever, Twelfth Night, FOB: The MN Chinese Restaurant Tour, Into the Woods, Ching Chong Chinaman, and The Immigrant Journey Project, among many others. Eric recently directed the educational video series The Remix with Theater Mu and co-produced the audio series You Shall Hear Me: Stories from Beyond. Look for him onstage this winter in the Guthrie’s A Christmas Carol and next summer in the Theater Mu/Jungle Theater co-production of Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band. www.WorkSharp.org

Karoline (she / they) is an actor, writer, and filmmaker who goes by a mononym. TV: major recurring on Career Opportunities in Murder & Mayhem (Hulu, with Mandy Patinkin); Dead Ringers (Amazon), WeCrashed (Apple TV+), Lincoln (NBC), Evil (CBS), music video for Softee’s "Oh No." Off-Broadway: The Hard Problem by Tom Stoppard at Lincoln Center, and the world premiere of [Veil Widow Conspiracy], for which The New York Times singled her out as “terrific.” Karoline wrote, produced, and starred in PIPPI, a short film about a mother and daughter grappling with their racial self-hatred through their love of Pippi Longstocking. It is traveling the festival circuit. She is currently in post-production for her directorial debut, How do we leave, and developing a feature and a play. BA Harvard College. karolinexu.com 

Jeena was recently seen on season 2 of Modern Love (Amazon) and Only Murders in the Building (Hulu). She was fortunate enough to return to live theater this past summer at Theaterworks Hartford in the US premiere of Amy Berryman’s play, Walden. MFA Columbia University. To learn more visit www.JeenaYi.com 

Jeff Biehl (he/him) - Broadway: MACHINAL at Roundabout Theatre Company.  Off- Broadway: LIFE SUCKS with Wheelhouse Theater (Drama Desk Nomination); CATCH AS CATCH CAN for Page 73; THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN…. at Playwrights Realm; Lloyd Suh’s CHARLES FRANCIS CHAN JR’S EXOTIC ORIENTAL MURDER MYSTERY with the National Asian American Theater Company; Anne Washburn’s 10 OUT OF 12 at Soho Rep.; David Ives’ LIVES OF THE SAINTS and Theresa Rebeck’s POOR BEHAVIOR both at Primary Stages; Lucas Hnath’s ISAAC’S EYE at Ensemble Studio Theatre; Thomas Bradshaw’s FULFILLMENT at The Flea, BURNING with The New Group, and A LECTURE ON THE BLUES at the Whitney Museum. Regional: Anne Washburn’s SHIPWRECK: A HISTORY PLAY ABOUT 2017; Matthew Lopez’s ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING at Denver Center Theater; Molly Smith Metzler’s CRY IT OUT at the Humana Festival; Sarah Ruhl’s SCENES FROM COURT LIFE at Yale Rep, Brendan Pelsue’s WELLESLEY GIRL at the Humana Festival; Jen Silverman’s THE MOORS at Yale Repertory Theatre; THREE SISTERS at American Repertory Theater and the Edinburgh International Festival; also, shows with South Coast Repertory, Shakespeare Theater, Long Wharf Theatre and Westport Country Playhouse. Film: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory’s “A Master Builder”; "Worth"; “Ricki and the Flash”. Television: “The Path”, “Vinyl”, “Mysteries of Laura”, “Forever”, “Southland”, several episodes of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Law & Order: SVU”, and “Law & Order”. Training: Juilliard. 

Mia Katigbak is the co-founder and actor-manager of the award-winning, New York City based NAATCO, with whom she has acted extensively, most recently in the US premiere of Caryl Churchill’s What If If Only, a remote live production, and Henry VI, Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts. Selected productions include Russian Troll Farm, an on-line, live-edited play co-produced byTheaterWorks (CT), TheatreSquared (AR), and The Civilians (NY); Headlands (LCT3); The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Transport Group); Recent Alien Abductions (PlayCo); Dear Elizabeth (WP); Ivo van Hove’s Scenes From a Marriage (NYTW); Good Person of Szechwan (Foundry/Public Theater). Other NYC: Soho Rep, New Group, Ma-Yi, Target Margin, Clubbed Thumb, Bushwick Starr, Intar. Regional work: Yale Rep and Long Wharf (CT), the Humana Festival, Actors Theater in Louisville (KY), Two River Theater (NJ), Berkeley Rep (CA), and the Guthrie (MN). International: Manila, Philippines and Abu Dhabi, UAE. Television credits include “How to Get Away With Murder” (ABC), “The Sinner” (USA), “Chicago PD” (NBC), “Mysteries of Laura” (NBC), and “Conviction” (NBC). Her film credits include I Smile Back, Clutter, and Slow Jam King.  She is a USA Fellow (2021) and TCG’s 2017 Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellow for Distinguished Achievement. 

Peter Kim is an accomplished actor and award-winning producer in New York City. He is currently filming Billy Eichner’s comedy, BROS, produced by Judd Apatow and can currently be seen in Netflix’s The Forty-Year-Old Version. Other notable film credits include: The God Committee opposite Kelsey Grammer; Saturday Church which won the Audience Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival; Margin Call; Sex and the City; and Hackers opposite Angelina Jolie. Other notable television credits include Chicago Med, Ugly Betty, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. On Stage, he most recently starred in Wild Goose Dreams at The Public Theater and has appeared on Broadway in Thoroughly Modern Millie. He has originated roles in numerous world and New York premieres of plays Off-Broadway and regionally, in addition to co-creating the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway comedy, SIDES: The Fear is Real. Peter is the recipient of TCG’s 2020 Rising Leaders of Color grant, a Founding Member of the OBIE-winning grassroots organization, AAPAC and serves as Creative Producer of the NAATCO, which has received OBIE Awards as well as Drama League and Drama Desk Award nominations. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA from New York University. www.peterkimpeterkim.com 

Paula Vogel is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose plays include Indecent (Tony Award nomination for Best Play), How I Learned to Drive (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Lortel Prize, OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle and New York Drama Critics Awards for Best Play), The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Mineola Twins, The Baltimore Waltz, Hot’n’Throbbing, Desdemona, And Baby Makes Seven, The Oldest Profession and A Civil War Christmas. Lifetime achievement awards include: American Theatre Hall of Fame Award, the Obie Award, and NY Drama Critics Circle Award. She is honored to have three awards dedicated to emerging playwrights in her name: The American College Theatre Festival's Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, the Paula Vogel Award given annually by the Vineyard Theatre, and the Paula Vogel Mentor’s Award by Young Playwrights of Philadelphia. She was the 2019 inaugural UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Hearst Theater Lab Initiative Distinguished Playwright-in-Residence. She is currently serving as judge for the Yale Drama Series 2021 and 2022 competitions. Her plays are published in six volumes by TCG Press and she teaches playwriting workshops throughout the United States and abroad. www.paulavogelplaywright.com 

Lloyd Suh is the author of plays including The Chinese Lady, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American Hwangap, Jesus in India, The Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!, Franklinland, Great Wall Story, and others, including Bina's Six Apples which will premiere with Children's Theatre Company and the Alliance Theater in 2022. His work has been produced with Ma-Yi, Magic, NAATCO, EST, La Mama, CTC, The Guthrie with Mu, Milwaukee Rep, Denver Center, ArtsEmerson and others, including internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA in Seoul, Korea. He is a current Guggenheim Fellow and has received the Horton Foote Prize, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Helen Merrill Award, and the Lilah Kan Red Socks Award in recognition of an artist's commitment to community service. He served from 2005-10 as Artistic Director of Second Generation and Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and from 2011-2020 as Director of Artistic Programs at The Lark. He was elected in 2016 to the Dramatists Guild Council.

Ralph B. Peña (director) Recent Off Broadway directing credits include The Chinese Lady, Felix Starro, The Wong Kids, Microcrisis, Among The Dead, and the short film Vancouver. His work has been seen at The Public Theater, Long Wharf Theater, Laguna Playhouse, Victory Gardens, LaMama ETC, The Children’s Theater Company, Vineyard Theater, among others. Ralph is Ma-Yi Theater Company’s Artistic Director, and has been instrumental in establishing Ma-Yi Theater as the country’s leading incubator of new works by Asian American playwrights, reaping numerous Obie and Drama Desk Awards, a Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical (KPOP), and the 2018 Ross Wetzsteon Obie Award. 

(Scenic & Costume Designer) is a Thai-Chinese Set, Costume & Production Designer, Animator, and Chef from Bangkok, Thailand based in NYC. Selected Credits: Yale Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, 59E59, Edinburgh Fringe, Primary Stages, The Public Theater. He also works with designers Wilson Chin, Riccardo Hernandez, Jason Ardizzone-West, Donyale Werle, Santo Loquasto, Clint Ramos and Walt Spangler. BFA: Ithaca College, MFA: Yale School of Drama, and a Donald & Zorca Oenslager Fellowship Award in Design Recipient, Board member of WithAll. @riwrdesign, riwrdesign.com 

Rosey Strub is Program Director of the Thornton Wilder Estate, and Manager for playwrights Paula Vogel and Ken Ludwig. She has worked in stage production, marketing, development and project management for a range of organizations including the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Ars Nova, National Theatre Workshop for the Handicapped, Summer Play Festival (SPF), Soho Rep, and Yale University. She has produced the Kurdish Film Festival at NYU's Kevorkian Center and an international human rights and arts festival with Peru’s Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani and Yale Repertory Theatre. Rosey holds a BFA in Single Honours Drama and Theatre Studies from University of Kent at Canterbury, UK and an MFA in Theatre Management from Yale School of Drama. 

Grant A. Rice joined DR Theatrical Management in 2013 after ten years as a General and Company Manager at Richard Frankel Productions and as a consultant for Broadway Asia.  While working with Richard Frankel he supervised the design, construction and opening of the nightclub and restaurant, 54 Below in Times Square, which has become a beloved Broadway institution. Broadway credits include Paula Vogel’s Indecent, Rock of Ages, A Little Night Music with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury, The Crucible with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Gary Sinise, Chicago with Bebe Neuwirth, Little Shop of Horrors with Hunter Foster, Kerry Butler, and Joey Fatone, The Lion King, Urban Cowboy, among others.  Mr. Rice graduated from McDaniel College with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and holds an M.F.A. in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He is a board certified member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers, and a former board member of The League of Off Broadway Theatres and Producers.

Milan Eldridge is a stage manager, theater designer. and filmmaker who is fascinated by the ways these different disciplines can interact, inform, and influence each other. She is passionate about exploring peculiar interpretations of the world and reexamining underlying assumptions through paradigm shifts. Her recent virtual stage management work includes Cerise Jacobs’s A Survivor’s Odyssey: The Journey of Penelope and Circe (White Snake Projects), Catherine Filloux’s Under the Skin (Intar), The Manic Monologues (McCarter Theatre Center), SUGAR SKULL! A Virtual Día de Muertos Adventure (Mexico Beyond Mariachi), and Virginia Grise’s a farm for meme. Her recent theatrical editing work includes Black Picture Show (Artists Space), Seeing Rape (John Jay College), A Past Becomes a Heritage: The Negro Units of the Federal Theatre Project (Princeton University; CLASSIX), The Chinese Lady (Princeton University), and All Her Power (Princeton University). She has served as a Teaching Fellow for Trenton Youth Theater where she worked with Trenton Central High School students on developing specific skills related to theater. Milan is currently an Associate Digital Producer for MELA Arts Connect and Assistant Stage Manager for the Program in Theater at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts. She is overjoyed to be a part of this season of Bard at the Gate.

ViDCo is a collection of designers innovating new ways to tell stories and create communities online. Using virtual platforms, ViDCo generates entirely live performances with heightened design elements that bridges Theatre, TV, and cinema tricks into a new online hybrid form. We strategize to use the strongest elements of every discipline to inspire the artistic community to use their tools while we provide them the platforms to tell their stories. ViDCo is formed by Jared Mezzocchi, Tori Schuchmann, Deja Collins and Shoshanah Tarkow.