Twelfth Night

Mei Ann Teo (Director) is a queer immigrant from Singapore making theater and film at the intersection of artistic/civic/contemplative practice. As a director/devisor/dramaturg, they create across genres, including music theater, intermedial participatory work, reimagining classics, and documentary theater. Teo’s work has been in international festivals including Belgium’s Festival de Liege, Edinburgh International Fringe, Beijing International Festival, Singapore Theatre Festival.

Tony Thomas (Choreographer) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses; Arena Stage: Tempestuous Elements. Tony is a New York based director, choreographer, and interior architect working in a wide range of arts and entertainment mediums. Tony was trained by Debbie Allen, Shawn Cosby, and Mike Malone, while working with Broadway’s David Saint and Joey McKneely, Steven Nachamie, Christopher Huggins, Tony Powell, Dancing with The Stars’ Jeffon Avin, and many others. Tony delivers innovation in dance from his core strengths in Ballet, Modern, Latin, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Contemporary, and Musical Theatre. His directing technique involves movement, gesture-work, creative staging, and detailed character development – ultimately driving the story through visual interest. Always aiming to redefine the wisdom and artistry of the legends, Tony’s expressive style and pedagogy enforces focus, fluidity, innovation, and precision in the arts and entertainment industry.

David I. Reynoso (Scenic Design) Folger Theatre: debut; Signature Theatre: Into the Woods (Helen Hayes nomination, costume design); Arena Stage: Sanctuary City, Healing Wars (Helen Hayes nomination, scenic and costume design). Broadway: Costume Design: Water for Elephants (Tony and Drama Desk nominations); Punchdrunk: Sleep No More (OBIE Award; NYC, Shanghai, Seoul). Regional: Costume Design: Pasadena Playhouse: La Cage Aux Folles; Creator/Director: Optika Moderna/La Jolla Playhouse: La Lucha, Portaleza, Las Quinceañeras,Waking La Llorona. Work at other theaters includes productions at ACT, Alliance Theater, ART, Ballet West, Finnish National Ballet, Portland Center Stage, The Old Globe, Women’s Project, Seattle Rep, Roundabout Theatre, among others. davidreynoso.com, @designreynoso.

Olivera Gajic (Costume Designer) Folger Theatre: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Conference of the Birds (Helen Hayes nomination).
Olivera has designed more than 250theater, opera, dance and film productions. Notably: Salzburg Festival, Austria: Jedermann; American Symphony Orchestra: The Long Christmas Dinner; Vineyard Theatre: God’s Ear; The Juilliard School Drama Division: The Americans and The Greeks; The Juilliard School Opera Division: Don Giovanni, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Le Comte Ory; Pig Iron Theater: Superterrenian, Chekhov Lizardbrain, Twelfth Night; Lake Lucille: Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, Platonov, The Seagull. Film: I am a Seagull. 

Ashlynne (Ash) Ludwig (Assistant Costume Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. Imagination Stage: P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical; Rorschach Theatre: Angel Number Nine, Sleeping Giant, Human Museum; Nu Sass Productions: A Bright Room Called Day. Regional: Cumberland County Playhouse: Anastasia, Little Shop of Horrors, The Drowsy Chaperone; The Legacy Theatre: Jersey Boys, Pelagius. Associate Design: Signature Theatre: Soft Power, Pacific Overtures; Studio Theatre: People, Places, and Things, Problems Between Sisters; Round House Theatre: Quixote Nuevo.

Yee Eun Nam (Projections Design) Folger Theatre: debut. Metropolitan Opera: X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. Roundabout Theatre Company: Yellow Face;  Ma-Yi Theater Company: Once Upon a (korean) Time; Audible Theater: Long Day’s Journey into Night. Work at other theaters includes productions at The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Goodman Theatre,
Mark Taper Forum, A.C.T, South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, The Movement Theatre Company, Kansas City Rep, Deaf West Theatre, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Getty Villa, Latino Theater Company. LADCC Theatrical Excellence for CGI/Video in 2020 and 2023. www.yeeeunnam.com.

Amy Kellett (Props Designer) Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Studio Theatre: Love, Love, Love, The Colored Museum, Fun Home, The Hot Wing King; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Incendiary; Rep Stage: Falsettos, Things That Are Round; Theater Alliance: The Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company, This Girl Laughs.., Do You Feel Anger?, The Blackest Battle, Day of Absence; Theater Alliance and the Kennedy Center TYA co-production: Look Both Ways; American Stage: The Figs; 1st Stage: Postcards from Ihatov, The Mamalogues; Constellation Theatre Company: Desperate Measures, Moon Man Walk, Orlando, Once On This Island; Faction of Fools: The Moors; NextStop Theatre Company: An Act of God; ArtsCentric: Dreamgirls, Rent; Pointless Theatre Company; Visions of Love, Rite of Spring, Don Cristobal, King Ubu; Gala Hispanic Theatre: Príncipe y Príncipe, Que Las Hay, Las Hay; The Hub Theatre: American Spies…,The Burn, The Late Wedding, Peekaboo!; Howard Community College: Percy Jackson, Heathers, She Kills Monsters; Synetic Theater: The Three Musketeers, A Tale of Two Cities; Baltimore Center Stage: Young Playwrights Festival 2022 (set and props).

Minjoo Kim (Lighting Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. Studio Theatre: English, Fat Ham; Signature Theatre: King of the Yees; Olney Theatre Center: Waitress, The Brothers Paranormal; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Comeuppance, The Sensational Sea-Minkettes; RoundHouse Theatre: The Great Leap. Regional: Wilma Theatre: The Comeuppance; City Theatre: American Fast; Pittsburgh Public Theater: The Chief; Kansas City Rep: The Royale, A Christmas Carol; Bristol Riverside Theatre: Clue; TheatreSquared: Cambodian Rock Band, Violet; Cygnet Theatre: Life Sucks; Divisionary Theatre: One in Two. Off-Broadway: The Bushwick Starr: Demon. International: South Korea: Space Owul: The Two; Dongsoong Art Center: Crimson Girl; Seoul Art Space Mullae: Die or Not; China: Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre: Mask on/off. Her work The Royale was selected for the National Exhibit at Prague Quadrennial in 2023. minjoo-design.com

Justin Schmitz (Sound Designer) Folger Theatre: debut. Designed productions include work at The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth, Studio Theatre, Constellation Theatre Company, Gala Hispanic Theatre, Imagination Stage, Round House Theatre, Prologue Theatre Company, VOCA, NextStop Theatre Company, amongst many others. Work at Off-Broadway theaters includes 59E59 Theaters and Dixon Place Theatre. Regional theaters include Chautauqua Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The St. Louis Black Rep, amongst others. Justin is the Eastern Region Trustee for USA829’s LUEB, Co-Chair for the USA829 Sound Design Committee, Co-Vice Chair for the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composer’s Association (TSDCA). Helen Hayes nominations include Constellation Theatre Company: The Wild Party; Forum Theatre Company: I Call My Brothers. www.justinschmitztheatre.com

Danica Rodriguez (Casting Director) Folger Theatre: Our Verse in Time to Come. NEW YORK: Off-Broadway: The Public Theater: cullud wattah*, Romeo y Julieta, Soft Power, for colored girls…, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Park), Mojada, Ain’t No Mo’*. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Uncle Vanya, Kunene & The King, Leopoldstadt, Babbitt, Comedy of Errors, The Matchbox Magic Flute, Macbeth, The Lehman Trilogy, As You Like It, Macbeth In Stride, Evita, Here There Are Blueberries, King Lear, Jane Anger, Much Ado About Nothing, Red Velvet, Our Town, The Merchant of Venice; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes*, Incendiary; The Kennedy Center: The Day You Begin; JAG Productions: Next to Normal; The Civilians: El Condor Magico, and others. AWARDS: Theatre Communications Group 2021 Rising Leader of Color. PERSONAL: Founding Trainer with Broadway for Racial Justice Casting Directive. BA in Film & Media Studies, Dartmouth College. Instagram: @danicarodriguezcasting DanicaRodriguez.com | *World Premiere

Sierra Young (Fight and Intimacy Director) Folger Theatre: debut.  Arena Stage: The Age of Innocence, Ja Ja’s African Hair Braiding, POTUS!; Ford’s Theatre: Sister Act, Little Shop of Horrors; Mosaic Theater: Cullud Wattah, others; Studio Theatre: Paradise Blue, The Scenarios, Downstate, The Colored Museum: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Frankenstein, Kunene and the King, As You Like It, King Lear (Helen Hayes Nomination). Sierra is the resident fight and intimacy director for Mosaic Theater Company in Washington, DC, and an active member of the SAFD and IDC.  sierrayoung.org.

Jen Rabbit Ring (Voice and Text Coach) Folger Theatre: debut. Arena Stage: Change Agent; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Public Obscenities, The Sensational Sea-Minkettes, Incendiary, Amm(i)gone; Mosaic Theater Company: Mary’s Seacole, Monumental Travesties; Rorschach Theatre Company: Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Chemical Exile, A Bid to Save the World; Taffety Punk: She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange; Theatre 4615: Separate Rooms (world premiere); Regional: Mile Square Theatre: Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, Flare; Colab Arts: Romeo y Julieta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Storytellers: Hamlet. Shakespeare & Company: Affiliated Actor Training Faculty. Designated Linklater Voice Teacher.

Mekala Sridhar (Associate Director) Folger Theatre: Associate Director: Metamorphoses, Artistic Consultant: The Reading Room 2025, Producer: Where We Belong, in association with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Associate Director: Public Obscenities, in association with Theatre for a New Audience; Studio Theatre: Assistant Director: Fun Home, Pass Over, Good Bones (reading), Aspen Ideas (workshop). Regional: The Old Globe: Assistant Director: What You Are; La Jolla Playhouse: Assistant Director: Light Years Away; Prologue Theatre: Director: A Wake At Singh’s (workshop); Sarah Lawrence College: Director: Salome, 10708; Accademia Dell’Arte: (re)Move West. Sarah Lawrence College BA; Moscow Art Theatre School; Accademia dell’Arte.