Annie Baker(Playwright) grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, OBIE Award for Best New American Play), The End of the Middle Ages (commission for Soho Rep) and Nocturama. Her work has also been developed and produced at the Bush Theatre in London, New York Theatre Workshop, MCC Theater, Soho Rep, the Orchard Project, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Ars Nova, the Huntington, South Coast Rep, Victory Gardens Theater, Theatre Artaud, the Magic Theater, the Cape Cod Theatre Project, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah and Ucross, Wyoming. Ms. Baker is a member of New Dramatists, MCC Theater's Playwrights Coalition and Ensemble Studio Theatre, and she is an alumna of Youngblood Playwrights Group, Ars Nova's Play Group and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Recent honors include a New York Drama Critics Circle Award, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nomination, a Lilly Award, a Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, a MacDowell Fellowship, and commissions from Center Theatre Group and Playwrights Horizons. She has an M.F.A. from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College.

Melia Bensussen (Director) is the recipient of an OBIE Award for Outstanding Direction, and has directed extensively around the country, including work at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Centerstage, Hartford Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New York Shakespeare Festival, MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Long Wharf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, People's Light and Theatre Company (where she received a Barrymore Award nomination for Best Direction), and many others, where she has worked on classics and collaborated with many of America's leading playwrights. She was twice given Directing Awards by the Princess Grace Foundation, USA, including their top honor, the Statuette Award for Sustained Excellence in Directing. Her edition of the Langston Hughes translation of Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding is in its eighth printing by Theatre Communications Group. She is featured in Women Stage Directors Speak, by Rebecca Daniels (published by McFarland and Company), and also in Nancy Taylor's Women Direct Shakespeare (published in 2005 by Farirleigh Dickinson University Press). Ms. Bensussen is chair of the Performing Arts Department at Emerson College in Boston.

Cristina Todesco (Scenic Designer) previously designed The Long and Winding Road and The Atheist for the Huntington. Design credits include The Atheist (Culture Project at the Barrow Street Theater and Williamstown Theatre Festival), Sonia Flew (Summer Play Festival), Triumph of Love, A Passion for Justice: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow (Olney Theater Center), Opus (New Repertory Theatre), Grimm and The Aliens (Company One), Reckless and Body Awareness (SpeakEasy Stage Company), and Island of Slaves (Orfeo Group). Ms. Todesco is the recipient of an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for New Repertory Theatre's production of The Clean House. She received her M.F.A. in scenic design from Boston University's School for Theatre Arts, where she currently teaches.

Bobby Frederick Tilley II (Costume Designer) design credits for theatre include The Aliens (Rattlestick), Lizzie Borden (The Living Theater), Mel and El: Show and Tell (Ars Nova), The Betrayal, Rhinoceros (The Mighty Theatre), Gaugleprixtown, The Most Lamentable and Tragical Historie of the Barber-Surgeons (Studio 42). Top Girls, Act 1 (The Biltmore-MTC), The Pinter Plays, Body Awareness, Birth and After Birth, 10X20, and The Butter and Eggman (Atlantic Theatre Company), No Boundaries (The New York Musical Festival), The Ontological Detective (Blue Heron Arts Center), Red Angel (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Len Jenkin's The Country Doctor (Marymount College), Further Than The Furthest Thing (MTC), Tallahassee, The Lesser Magoo, and Mac Wellman's Dracula (The 78th Street Theatre Lab). Costume designs for film include The Green (upcoming), Four Lane Highway, Little Kings, Rubout, Jack Goes Boating (Assistant Designer). He was a Drama Desk Award Nominee for 2010 and a Henry Hewes Design Award Nominee for 2010.

Dan Kotlowitz (Lighting Designer) designed Nixon's Nixon and The Winter's Tale at the Huntington. New York credits include Turn of the Screw, Scotland Road, Sabina, and Secret Order (Primary Stages); The Mysteries and What's So Funny (American Repertory Theatre, Spoleto Festival, Serious Fun, national tour); The Wash (Manhattan Theatre Club); Something In The Air (Bay Street Theatre); and Yankee Dawg You Die and The Perfect Party (Playwrights Horizons, Astor Place). Regional work includes productions at Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Centerstage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, Hartford Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, George Street Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Portland Stage, The Cleveland Play House, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Virginia Stage. Mr. Kotlowitz teaches lighting design at Dartmouth College.

David Remedios (Composer/Sound Designer) created original music and sound for the Huntington Theatre Company's Prelude to a Kiss. Recent work includes An Ideal Husband (Gloucester Stage); Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Inana and The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show (Contemporary American Theater Festival); The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Mary's Wedding (Portland Stage); Not Enough Air (Nora Theatre Company); Indulgences (New Repertory Theatre); and Orpheus X (Theatre for a New Audience). His work has been heard internationally at France's Festival d'Automne, Hong Kong Arts Festival, and Edinburgh International Festival. Mr. Remedios is the recipient of a Connecticut Critics' Circle Award and an Elliot Norton Award. remediossound.com.

Betsy Aidem* (Marty) has New York credits that include The Metal Children and Mary Rose (Vineyard Theatre), Crooked (Women's Project), Celebration (Atlantic Theater Company), Stone Cold Dead Serious (Edge Theater), Good Thing (The New Group), The Butterfly Collection (Playwrights Horizons), The Triple Happiness (Second Stage), Luminescence Dating (Ensemble Studio Theatre), as well as runs in Balm in Gilead, Steel Magnolias, and A Lie of the Mind. Regional highlights include The Sugar Syndrome and Sweet Bird of Youth (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Jolson Sings Again (George Street); 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (American Repertory Theater and Europe); the international tour of Seven, and Ivanov, Platanov, The Seagull, and The Cherry Orchard at Lake Lucille. Television and film credits include "Rescue Me," "Law and Order," The Oranges, and Margaret. She received the 2007 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.

Nadia Bowers* (Theresa) has appeared on Broadway in The Farnsworth Invention by Aaron Sorkin, Doubt, and Metamorphoses. Other New York theatre credits include Wildflower (Second Stage Theatre), Dog and Wolf, Julius Caesar (The Public Theater, NY Shakespeare Festival), Romania, Kiss Me!, Tempest Tossed, Not Waving, and In Your Shoes (original solo show). Regional theatre credits include, most recently, A Winter's Tale (Elm Shakespeare Company), Boston Marriage and Blood Wedding (Guthrie Theater), The Farnsworth Invention, Tartuffe (La Jolla Playhouse), and many others. She has appeared on television in "Law and Order," "Law and Order: SVU," "Law and Order: Criminal Intent," "As the World Turns," and in the webseries, "Year of the Sublets." She holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. from NYU's Graduate Acting Program.

Michael Hammond* (James) appeared last spring in the Huntington's Prelude to a Kiss. Broadway credits include Exit the King, Big Bill, Long Day's Journey Into Night, M. Butterfly, and Search and Destroy. He spent fifteen seasons at Shakespeare & Company where his roles included Iago in Othello, Martin Bahmueller in White People, Sir Simon in The Canterville Ghost, Sherlock Holmes in The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Mister Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Peter Woodburn in Ice Glen, Ludwig Wittgenstein in The Fly-Bottle, The Porter in Macbeth, Prospero in The Tempest, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, and Leontes in The Winter's Tale. Mr. Hammond has taught acting and Shakespeare at M.I.T., Emerson College, and Boston University.

Jeremiah Kissel* (Schultz)'s Huntington appearances include Two Men of Florence, The Cherry Orchard, A Month in the Country, Betty's Summer Vacation, and the world premieres of Persephone and Sonia Flew. Other recent stage work includes Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Little Black Dress at Boston Playwrights' Theatre. He also has appeared as soloist narrator with the Boston Pops, most recently voicing the words of Ted Kennedy for a live audience of 800,000 on July 4th. This fall he can be seen onscreen in The Town with Jon Hamm, The Fighter with Christian Bale, and on ABC's "Body of Proof" opposite Dana Delaney. A thirty-year veteran of Boston's stages, Mr. Kissel is the winner of several Norton and Irne awards, and in 2003 received Boston's top honor, the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence.

Marie Polizzano* (Lauren) has previously worked with the Huntington on She Loves Me (swing and assistant to the choreographer), How Shakespeare Won the West (understudy), and Pirates! (assistant to the choreographer). Regionally she has appeared in As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, and Shakespeare On Love (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Crucible, Othello, and Of Mice and Men (New Rep on Tour); A Christmas Carol (Stoneham Theatre); Hamlet (GAN-e-meed Theatre Project); and Limonade Tous Les Jours (Exquisite Corps). She can be seen in various commercials and the upcoming independent films Slip and Fall and Gem of the West. Ms. Polizzano earned her B.F.A. in acting from the Boston University School of Theatre and has also studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.