Stephen Karam (Playwright) is the author of Speech & Debate which was produced Off Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company as the inaugural production of Roundabout Underground.  Following an extended run in New York, Speech & Debate has received over 100 productions across the U.S. and Canada.  Other plays include his new play Sons of the Prophet (which will premiere Off Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre Company this fall, following the Huntington's world premiere production), columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop), Girl on Girl(Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep), and Emma (a re-imagining of Jane Austen’s novel), which will be performed this spring by the Professional Performing Arts High School in NYC.  His work is published by Dramatists Play Service and Dramatic Publishing Company and his freelance writing has appeared in The Advocate and McSweeneys.net.  Current projects include the film version of Speech & Debate and Dark Sisters, an original chamber opera with composer Nico Muhly (a co-production of Gotham Chamber Opera, Music-Theatre Group and Opera Company of Philadelphia). A MacDowell Colony Fellow, Mr. Karam grew up in Scranton, PA and received his B.A. from Brown University.

Peter DuBois (Director) is the Artistic Director of the Huntington Theatre Company, where he most recently directed Craig Lucas's Prelude to a Kiss and Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw, as well as the world premiere of David Grimm's The Miracle at Naples. He also recently directed the Off Broadway run of Becky Shaw at Second Stage Theatre and its world premiere at The Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Prior to arriving at the Huntington, he served for five years as a director, associate producer, and resident director at The Public Theater, preceded by five years the artistic director of the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. His Public Theater directing credits include Bob Glaudini’s Jack Goes Boating with Philip Seymour Hoffman (The New York Times Critics’ Pick) and Glaudini’s A View from 151st Street (NYT Critics’ Pick), both with LAByrinth Theatre Company; Measure for Pleasure (SSDF Callaway Award for Excellence in Direction; Drama League Award nomination for Distinguished Production of a New Play); Richard III with Peter Dinklage (a Newsday top-ten New York production of 2004); Adrienne Kennedy’s Mom, How Did You Meet the Beatles (NYT Critics’ Pick); and Biro (NYT Critics’ Pick). His directing credits at Perseverance include The Seagull, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, and The Glass Menagerie, as well as the West Coast premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks’ In the Blood and the world premiere of Chay Yew’s The Long Season. Regional credits include a revival of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and productions at Trinity Repertory Company and California Shakespeare Theater. Prior to leading Perseverance, Mr. DuBois lived and worked in the Czech Republic, where he co-founded Asylum, a multinational squat theatre in Prague.

Yusef Bulos* (Bill) has Broadway credits that include the Rabbi in the 2004 revival of Fiddler on the Roof, Arthur Kopit's Indians, and George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion. His recent credits include The Torch Bearers (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and The Tempest (Classic Stage Company). He has appeared Off Broadway in The American Pilot (Manhattan Theatre Club), Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul, José Rivera's Sueno and The Promise, Mac Wellman's Crowbar, as well as Golden Boy, A Tale of Two Cities, and A Dybbuk. He has worked regionally at the Guthrie Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, and Hartford Stage. Mr. Bulos has appeared on film and television in Awakenings, Where the Rivers Flow North, Tattingers, Law & Order, The Cosby Show, and Sex and the City. He trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Jonathan Louis Dent* (Vin) has theatre credits that include Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Actors' Shakespeare Project); The Good Negro (Company One); Anne & Emmett (Roxbury Repertory Company); Chicken Grease is Nasty Business (Playwright's Repertory Company); A Time of Fire, The Etymology of Bird, and Done (Providence Black Repertory Company); and the tour of his original solo piece, Mr. Glass. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and Shakespeare & Company and received a B.A. from Brown University in Africana studies and theatre arts where he was also a recipient of a Weston Fine Arts Award and a Robinson Dunn Premium Award. jonathanldent.com

Joanna Gleason* (Gloria) won the Best Actress Tony Award for Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods, along with Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Other Broadway credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Social Security (Drama Desk Award), Joe Egg (Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations), The Real Thing, I Love My Wife (Theatre World Award), and Nick and Nora. She appeared Off Broadway in The Normal Heart, Something You Did, Happiness, It's Only a Play, Eelymosynary, and A Hell of a Town. Her film credits include Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters and Crimes and Misdimeanors, Heartburn for Mike Nichols, Mr. Holland's Opus, Boogie Nights, The Wedding Planner, and The Rebound. Television credits include recurring roles on "The West Wing" and "Friends," "The Good Wife," "Tracy Ullman," and "Made in America." Ms. Gleason has taught for twenty-five years in high schools and colleges across the U.S., has directed Off Broadway and for television, and is the author of the forthcoming novel Rancho Mirage.

Kelsey Kurz* (Joseph) recently appeared in the Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice. Off Broadway he has been seen in The Merchant of Venice at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and Davy and Stu at The Ensemble Studio Theatre. Mr. Kurz's film credits include the shorts A Time to Speak (Boy), Empire Corner (stunt coordinator), and Wu is Dead (fight choreographer). He was trained at The Juilliard School.

Lizbeth Mackay* (Mrs. McAndrew, ensemble) has performed on Broadway in All My Sons, The Price, AbeLincoln in Illinois, The Heiress, Doubt, Death and the Maiden, and Crimes of the Heart for which she won Theatre World, Outer Circle Critics, and Hollywood Dramalogue Awards. Her numerous Off Broadway credits include The Forest, Durang Durang, Kate's Diary, and Square One. Her regional theatre credits include Faith Healer (The Old Globe), Betty's Summer Vacation (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Clean House (The Wilma Theater), Third (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Coriolanus (McCarter Theater Center), The Torchbearers and The Price (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Promise (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), and 'Night, Mother (Foxborough Center; Elliot Norton Award). She has appeared in numerous movies and television shows. Ms. Mackay is from Buffalo and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Dan McCabe* (Charles) has New York credits that include Saving Throw Versus Love (FringeNYC); Len, Asleep in Vinyl, and The Dear Boy (Second Stage Theatre); Tea and Sympathy (Keen Company); Pen (Playwrights Horizons); The Fear Project (The Barrow Group); Novel and Millicent Scowlworthy (Summer Play Festival); and Trust (The Play Company). Regional credits include Donnie Darko (American Repertory Theater); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Donna Morelli (New York Stage and Film); Kimberly Akimbo (Hartford TheaterWorks); and The Dead Eye Boy (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). He has appeared on film in War Eagle Arkansas, The Namesake, The Cake Eaters, Stephanie Daly, A Jersey Christmas, and Safe, and on television in "Nurse Jackie," "Law & Order," and "Hope & Faith."

Dee Nelson* (Doctor Manor, ensemble) has appeared previously at the Huntington in All My Sons, The Maiden's Prayer, and A Christmas Carol. She has been a company member at the Peterborough Players, with favorite roles including Hesione in Heartbreak House (New Hampshire Theatre Award), Maggie in Hobson's Choice (New Hampshire Theatre Award), Mrs. Gibbs in Our Town, and Maggie in The Man Who Came to Dinner. Ms. Nelson has worked at most of the Boston-area professional theatres, and has received an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress. She has acted in films including David Mamet's State and Main, and on television shows including "Friday Night Lights," "Grey's Anatomy," "Judging Amy," and "The Sopranos."

Charles Socarides* (Timothy) has appeared on Broadway in Awake and Sing! (Lincoln Center Theater; dir. Bartlett Sher). His Off Broadway credits include Trust (Second Stage Theatre; dir. Peter DuBois), The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Stage 13; dir. Sam Gold), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Roundabout Theatre Company; dir. Walter Bobbie), A.R. Gurney's Indian Blood (Primary Stages; dir. Mark Lamos), and Old Money (Lincoln Center Theater). Regionally, he has appeared in Lulu (Yale Repertory Theatre). Films include The Missing Person, Breaking Upwards, Penance, Virgin (dir. Deborah Kampmeier), and Spike Lee's Jesus Children of America. Television credits include "Law & Order," "Guiding Light," and "Starved."

Anna Louizos (Scenic Designer) received Tony Award nominations for her designs of In the Heights (2008) and High Fidelity (2007). Other Broadway credits include Avenue Q, Curtains (Drama Desk Award nomination), Irving Berlin's White Christmas (Drama Desk Award nomination), Baby It's You, All About Me, To Be or Not to Be, Steel Magnolias, and Golda's Balcony. Off Broadway and regional credits include Crimes of the Heart, The Foreigner, and Speech & Debate (Roundabout Theatre Company); Based on a Totally True Story (Manhattan Theatre Club); Birdie Blue and Vanities, the Musical (Second Stage Theatre); Altar Boyz, Jonathan Larson's tick, tick... BOOM!, Sarah Plain and Tall, and Arsenic and Old Lace (Dallas Theater Center); Minsky's (Center Theatre Group), as well as multiple productions for Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, and Paper Mill Playhouse. Other credits include the national tour of Disney Live! Winnie the Pooh and art direction for "Sex and the City" (HBO).

Bobby Frederick Tilley III (Costume Designer) previously designed costumes for Circle Mirror Transformation for the Huntington Theatre Company, as well as Body Awareness (SpeakEasy Stage Company) and The Aliens (Company One) for The Shirley, VT Plays Festival. His costume designs for theatre include Thinner Than Water (LAByrinth Theater Company); The Pinter Plays: The Collection and A Kind of Alaska, Body Awareness, Birth and After Birth, 10X20, and The Butter and Eggman (Atlantic Theater Company), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Lizzie Borden (The Living Theatre); Top Girls, Act 1, and Further Than The Furthest Thing (Manhattan Theatre Club); Mel and El: Show and Tell (Ars Nova); The Betrayal and Rhinoceros (The Mighty Theater); Gaugleprixtown and The Most Lamentable and Tragical Historie of the Barber-Surgeons (Studio 42); No Boundaries (New York Musical Theatre Festival); The Ontological Detective (Blue Heron Arts Center); Red Angel (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Len Jenkin's The Country Doctor (Marymount College); and Tallahassee, The Lesser Magoo, and Mac Wellman's Dracula (78th Street Theatre Lab). His costume designs for film include The Green, Four Lane Highway, Little Kings, Rubout, and Jack Goes Boating (Assistant Designer). He was a 2010 Drama Desk Award nominee and a Henry Hewes Design Award nominee.

Japhy Weideman (Lighting Designer) designed Vengeance is the Lord's, Prelude to a Kiss, and How Shakespeare Won the West for the Huntington. Recent projects include Thinner Than Water (LAByrinth Theatre Company) and Don Giovanni (Opera Lyon). For Peter DuBois, he also designed A View from 151st Street and Jack Goes Boating (The Public Theater) and The Curse of the Starving Class (American Conservatory Theater). Other New York credits include Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, City Center, Juilliard Opera Center, Soho Rep, and LAByrinth Theater Company. Regional work includes Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, La Jolla Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Santa Fe Opera, Westport Country Playhouse, and others. International credits include West End, Royal Shakespeare Company, Nederlandse Opera, Edinburgh International Festival, Epidaurus-Greece, La Scala, and Opera de Lyon. Mr. Weideman has received Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, Hewes Design, Craig Noel, and Bay Area Critics Awards and nominations.

M.L. Dogg (Sound Designer) designed on Broadway for The Pee-wee Herman Show. His Off Broadway designs include The Misanthrope; Trust; Year Zero; Playboy of the Western World; Tartuffe; Monstrosity; The Oedipus Cycle; The Language of Trees; King of Shadows; Len, Asleep in Vinyl; The Importance of Being Earnest; Boom; Ghosts; A Hard Heart; St. Joan of the Stockyards; transFigures; and The False Servant. His regional credits include Animals Out of Paper (Boise Contemporary Theater); Private Lives (Two River Theater Company); The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, associate to Obadiah Eaves); and Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville). He won the Outstanding Sound Design award at the 2005 FringeNYC Festival for Go-Go Kitty, GO! and was a Drama Desk Award nominee in 2002 for Cressida Among the Greeks.