Plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Circle Critics Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater Company). TV Writing: Hulu’s “We Were the Lucky Ones” and HBO Max’s “Julia.” As an actor, Eboni has appeared at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, WP Theater, Page 73, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, and more. Current Judith Champion Playwriting Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club and resident playwright at New Dramatists. Awards: Dramatists Guild Horton Foote, Steinberg, and Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. Education: Juilliard and the University of Vermont.

Kaytlin McIntyre (she/her) recently joined the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as the Director of Repertory Producing after serving in the artistic department at Seattle Rep for over ten years. Kaytlin’s directing work has been seen at Seattle Rep, Intiman, Strawberry Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights Realm, Sound Theatre Company, and Annex Theatre. She is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab and has a B.A. in Directing from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. kaytlinmcintyre.com

An-lin Dauber (she/her) is thrilled to be back at Seattle Rep where she previously designed Little Women, The Tempest, and Metamorphoses. Seattle credits include The Lehman Trilogy (ACT); The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Champagne + Sodomy, Amen Corner, Marisol, Blood Wedding (The Feast). Company member of The Feast. Upcoming: Stupidest Scariest Time (Swim Pony at 12th Ave Arts), El Mentiroso and His Cyclops (Arts on Site). Assistant Professor of Costume Design at the University of Washington. M.F.A. Yale School of Drama. anlindauber.com

Tina McCartney is a Trinidadian American costume designer working in theater, TV, and film based in New York City. Tina's theatrical designs include Bruce (Seattle Rep), The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (The 5th Avenue Theatre), That Parenting Musical (Theatre Row), Empire (New World Stages), Las Borinqueñas (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Summer Stock (Goodspeed Musicals), Pru Payne (Arizona Theatre Company), and Joy (George Street Playhouse). tinamccartney.com

serena wong (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance. She is thrilled to be making a return to Seattle Rep where she was an Apprentice. Her designs have been seen at Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, among others in the U.S. and abroad—including, oddly enough, a Celebrity cruise ship. Most recently she has designed for choreographers LaTasha Barnes, Gemma Bond, Caleb Teicher, Leonardo Sandoval, and Bill T. Jones. She enjoys biking, baking, and pottery.

Recent Off-Broadway: Good Bones, Jordans (The Public Theater); The Far Country, Paris (Atlantic Theater Company); At the Wedding (Lincoln Center); This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre); Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage); On That Day in Amsterdam (59E59); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage Theater); Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi Theater Company); Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Select regional: Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, American Repertory Theater, Portland Center Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe. Professor at Purdue University. M.F.A. Yale School of Drama. fanzhangsound.com

Dedra D. Woods is a multi-disciplinary artist and creative force of nature. She is a proud Detroit native and thrilled to be a part of the Primary Trust creative team. She was last seen at Seattle Rep in Fat Ham. Dedra is passionate about bringing Black stories to life on stage. She has performed with several companies including The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Feast, ACT, Seattle Public Theater, Taproot Theatre Company, Intiman, and Pittsburgh Public Theater. When not on stage, Dedra has worked as a producer, arts administrator, and casting director. Love to A&M for their continued support.

Paul Adolphsen (he/him) is a Seattle-based dramaturg, writer, and literary manager. He has been on the artistic staff at Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Asolo Repertory Theatre. Paul has also worked as a dramaturg with Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Ashland New Plays Festival, and with other companies around the U.S. He was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of the Western Cape (South Africa) and his writing about theater and performance has been published in Theatre Journal, on howlround.com, and by Penumbra Theatre Company. M.F.A.: University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jess K Smith is a freelance director, intimacy director (Pacific Northwest Theatrical Intimacy), Co-Creative Producer of ART PARTY residencies, and Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts (University of Puget Sound). She loves creating imaginative interplay between heightened physicality and naturalistic scene work whether through adaptations, interdisciplinary collaborations, new plays, or classic texts. Her work has been featured on stages in New York, Seattle, Portland, Anchorage, Prague, and Cape Town. M.F.A. in Directing at Columbia University under Anne Bogart. jessksmith.com

One of Melissa’s earliest theater-going memories is seeing the 1995 Seattle Rep production of Scapin. In the intervening 30 years, she has stage managed throughout the country and is delighted to join the company of Primary Trust. Favorite productions include The Ramayana, The Women (ACT); The Tales of Hoffman, Carmen (Seattle Opera); Memphis (The 5th Avenue Theatre). She is a proud union member of AEA. Training: Allen Lee Hughes Stage Management Fellow (Arena Stage); Technical Apprentice (Santa Fe Opera). Many thanks to Kim Vacchiery and family for all the early theater exposure!

Katja Zarolinski, CSA is a New York-based casting director handling productions for theater, film, and television. Previous casting work includes Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional productions including Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Guthrie Theater, Irish Repertory Theatre, KCRep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, People's Light, Pittsburgh CLO, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Theaterworks Hartford, and many more.