A Room in the Castle

Lauren M. Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a playwright, screenwriter, musical book writer and children’s author who lives in San  Francisco. She graduated from NYU Tisch as a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. LaurenGunderson.com 

Kaja Dunn (Resident Intimacy Director) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses, The Winter’s Tale, Our Verse In Time To Come (The Reading Room Festival); Arena Stage: American Prophet; Denver Center for the Arts: Choir Boy, 5thAve; ACT Theatre (Seattle): Choir Boy; St. Louis Rep.: Private Lives, Confederates; Two River Theatre: Wine In The Wilderness; Penumbra Theatre: Sugar In Our Wounds; Broadway: A Strange Loop (Assoc. Intimacy Director); Television: The Best Man, Final Chapters, Harlem, The Equalizer; Awards: Kennedy Center American Theatre Award, Playwrights Project Excellence in Arts Education; Publications: Arden Contemporary Shakespeare, Intimacy Direction For Theatre, Theatre Symposium, HowlRound. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (UK). Carnegie Mellon University: Associate Professor.

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company was founded in 1993 by a group of passionate and visionary young artists, and over the past three decades has evolved into a permanent fixture in Cincinnati’s arts community. The first season consisted of five productions in multiple venues; today, CSC presents more than 250 performances of nine productions annually in its downtown theatre and through touring productions across the region. In 2017, CSC opened the brand new $17.5MM Otto M. Budig Theater in Cincinnati’s historic Over-The-Rhine, helping to distinguish the company as the only professional classical theater between Chicago and New Jersey.

Max Doolittle (Lighting Designer) Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, King John, Amadeus, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Design work at other Washington DC theaters includes: Ford’s Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Theatre J, Rep Stage, Kennedy Center/Second City, Imagination Stage, Forum Theatre, Adventure Theatre, Constellation Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Academy for Classical Acting, Pointless Theatre Company, NextStop Theatre. Design work at New York theaters includes: Ars Nova, Juilliard School, New Ohio Theatre, New World Stages. Design work at regional theaters includes: Geffen Playhouse, Kitchen Theatre Company, Great Lakes Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Fulton Theatre. Television: Anderson Cooper 360, Piers Morgan Live (Light Direction). Cruise Ships: Wine Lovers, The Musical.

Sarah O’Halloran (Sound Designer) Folger Theatre: Nathan the Wise, in association with Theater J. Ford’s Theatre: Mr. Lincoln; Everyman Theatre: Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains, Sense and Sensibility, Be Here Now, Proof, Dinner with Friends; Theater J: Prayer for the French Republic, The Hatmaker’s Wife, This Much I Know, The Chameleon, Gloria: A Life, Two Jews Walk into a War, Compulsion, Talley’s Folly; Olney Theater Center: The Brothers Paranormal, The Humans, Our Town, Labour of Love; 1st Stage: The Phlebotomist, The Brothers Size, Swimming with Whales, Trevor, When the Rain Stops Falling; Studio Theatre: Cry it Out; Rep Stage: The Glass Menagerie; E2: The 39 Steps, The Heidi Chronicles, Things That Are Round; Mosaic Theater: In His Hands, The Return; Theater Alliance: A Chorus Within Her. 

Daryl Eisenberg (Casting Director) Folger Theatre: Numerous productions since 2013; Theater J: Hester Street; The Kennedy Center: Voices Festival Productions, Spells of the Sea. Broadway: Gettin’ the Band Back Together. Off-Broadway: Bedlam, That Parenting Musical, White Rose. Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Rutka; Tennessee Performing Arts Center: Florida Georgia Line’s May We All; Broadway in Chicago: Heartbreak Hotel; Cape Cod Theatre Project. Film/television: The Cathedral (MUBI), Menorah in the Middle (Hulu), The MisEducation of Bindu (Peacock), Shadows (HBO), Angry Neighbors (Lionsgate), Hey, Viktor. Audio: Limetown, The Callisto Protocol: Helix Station, Shipworm, City of Ghosts, Falling in Love with Mr. Dellamort, Verdict, High-Risers, Chutzpah. Artios-nominated Member of Casting Society of America. www.ebcastingco.com. IG: @EBCastingCo. 

Shana Laski (Assistant Director and Dramaturg) Folger Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest with Round House Theatre. Round House Theatre: Artistic Apprentice, Jennifer Who Is Leaving (Assistant Director), Radio Golf (Dramaturg); Spooky Action: Sonnets for an Old Century; Cogent Theatre Company: Closer; Rorschach Theatre; Expats Theatre, Theatre Prometheus, and others.    @shana.laski  shanalaski.com.  

Hope Villanueva (Production Stage Manager) Folger Theatre: Hamlet, The Reading Room Festival. Berkeley Repertory Theater and Baltimore Center Stage: Mexodus; Soho Rep: The Fires; Signature Theatre: King of the Yees; Olney Theatre Center: A Nice Indian Boy, Our Town; Woolly Mammoth: BLKS; Kennedy Center: The Dragon King’s Daughter, The Day You Begin; The Second City/Kennedy Center: Twist Your Dickens; Mosaic Theatre: Private, Marie and Rosetta, The Vagrant Trilogy, Paper Dolls, Queens Girl in Africa; Studio Theatre: Hand to God, Choir Boy.  New York: Romy & Michele: The Musical; American Repertory Theatre: WILD A Musical Becoming; The Bourbon Room: Rock of Ages Hollywood; Barrington Stage: Blues for an Alabama Sky; Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Resident PSM. Off-Broadway: Who’s Your Baghdaddy? National Tour: Rock of Ages, Young Frankenstein, My Fair Lady, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Bellobration. 

Jenna Lynn Keefer (Assistant Stage Manager) Folger Theatre:  Metamorphoses, The Reading Room: The Cuban Vote; Compagnia de’ Colombari: REVELATION; Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics: Little Amal at the Capitol; Constellation Theatre Company: Desperate Measures, Incognito; Taffety Punk Theatre Company: La Salpêtrière; Spooky Action Theatre: The Realistic Joneses. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: The Medicine Show, Our Town; The Peabody Institute: Cendrillon, Other Side of the Story; Olney Theatre Center: A Christmas Carrol; Hope Repertory Theatre: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, It’s a Wonderful Life, Every Brilliant Thing, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Year with Frog and Toad. Television: CNN Biden Town Hall.