Lauren Yee’s Cambodian Rock Band premiered at South Coast Repertory, subsequent productions include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and Signature Theatre. Her play The Great Leap has been produced at Seattle Rep, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Steppenwolf Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, and others. Honors include the Doris Duke Artist Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association Award, Horton Foote Prize, and Kesselring Prize. TV: ”Pachinko” (Apple), “Soundtrack” (Netflix), “Interior Chinatown” (Hulu), “Billions” (Showtime), “Clipped” (FX). She has developed pilots for Apple and Netflix. Current commissions: Arena Stage/Second Stage Theater, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory. B.A: Yale, M.F.A: UCSD. laurenyee.com

Nicholas C. Avila is thrilled to be making his directorial debut at Seattle Rep for the world premiere of Mother Russia. Nicholas has directed at theaters including Center REP, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, and Chance Theater, among others. Nicholas would like to give special thanks to the cast, crew, leadership, and staff for all of their support and care in making the telling of this story possible. Nicholas is a proud graduate of the Yale School of Drama’s M.F.A. Directing program.

Misha Kachman is grateful to be back at Seattle Rep after designing Two Trains Running (2018). Misha has worked at Arena Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Court Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Opéra royal de Versailles, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Opera, Syracuse Stage, Theatre for a New Audience, and Wilma Theater, among many others. He serves as Professor and Head of M.F.A. Design at University of Maryland. mishakachman.com

Previous work at Seattle Rep includes Anna in the Tropics, Romeo and Juliet, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane, among many others. Broadway credits include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Kentucky Cycle. Off-Broadway credits include Threesome, Hurrah at Last, and Ballad of Yachiyo. Peter has lit over 350 regional theater productions for Guthrie Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, and Portland Center Stage, among many others. He has also guided over 200 architectural lighting projects to completion. 

Vincent Olivieri is excited to make his Seattle Rep debut! Broadway: High and contributions to Radio Golf. NYC and Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Geffen Playhouse, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, South Coast Repertory, Syracuse Stage, Virginia Stage Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre. He’s created designs for world premieres by Kirsten Greenidge, Lauren Gunderson, Charles Mee, Tira Palmquist, Christopher Oscar Peña, Christine Quintana, Adam Rapp, Theresa Rebeck, and August Wilson. M.F.A. Yale School of Drama.

Alyssa Kay (she/her) is a fight/intimacy director, actor, and movement coach from the Pacific Northwest. Her work was last seen at Seattle Rep in Little Women and Selling Kabul, and her choreography has been seen at theaters across the Puget Sound including Seattle Shakespeare Company, Village Theatre, Taproot Theatre Company, Tacoma Opera, Harlequin Productions, and more. Alyssa is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Drama, an Advanced Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, and a founding member of Pacific Northwest Theatrical Intimacy. alyssakay.net

Billy Finn is thrilled to make his Seattle Rep debut in Mother Russia! Previous Seattle credits include Sherwood (Village Theatre) and A Christmas Carol (ACT). New York credits include appearances at Irish Repertory Theatre, Ars Nova, Playwrights Horizons, and others. Regional credits include The Wanderer (Paper Mill Playhouse); Macbeth in Stride (American Repertory Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, Million Dollar Quartet (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); King Lear, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Theatre Company); and many others. @billythefinn

Jessica (she/her) is delighted to be back at Seattle Rep. Regional theater highlights include The Skin of Our Teeth, Little Women, Lydia and the Troll, Bruce, Teenage Dick, Indecent, Tiny Beautiful Things (Seattle Rep); Once on This Island, Becoming Dr. Ruth (Village Theatre); The Secret Garden, Disney’s Aladdin, and A Christmas Story: The Musical (The 5th Avenue Theatre); The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Seattle Children’s Theatre); A Christmas Carol (ACT); Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (Intiman Theatre); King Lear (Santa Cruz Shakespeare).