Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright and producer, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (Purpose) and the 2024 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play (Appropriate). Other theater credits include The Comeuppance, Girls, Everybody (Pulitzer Finalist), War, Gloria (Pulitzer Finalist), An Octoroon (Obie Award), and Neighbors. Honors: USA Artists, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships; Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama; the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Branden teaches at Yale University and is currently writing the book for the upcoming stage adaptation of Purple Rain.

Seattle based actor, director and educator, Timothy was seen at Seattle Rep as film producer, David Brown in Bruce. Previous directing credits at the Rep include Fat Ham, A Raisin in the Sun, and As You Like It. The Color Purple, Hello, Dolly!, Hairspray, and Dreamgirls at Village Theatre, A Raisin in the Sun at Pittsburgh Public Theater among others. He is a recipient of the 2015 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, the Gregory Falls Sustained Achievement Award, and 3 Gregory Awards, 3 The Sound on Stage Awards among other honors. He is currently a professor of theater at Cornish College of the Arts.   

Theatre credits: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Center Stage Baltimore, Syracuse Stage, Alliance Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT Theatre, Village Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Prince Music Theater, Hey City Theater, Spain’s Nearco Producciones. Resident Designer for Portland Opera, Opera Memphis, Wildwood Park. Opera credits: Seattle Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, New York’s Valhalla Wagnerfest, Pittsburgh Opera, Beijing and Macao Music Festivals. careywong.com 

Seattle credits: Ragtime (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Black Beauty, The Miraculous Edward Tulane, The Watson’s Go To Birmingham 1964 (Seattle Children’s Theatre); Choir Boy (ACT); Shane (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); A Doll’s House, Nacirema Society, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Hamlet (Guthrie Theater); Ride the Cyclone (Arena Stage); BLKS, True West (Steppenwolf Theatre). Opera Credits: My Name is Florence, La Boheme, Fellow Travelers (MN Opera). Education: M.F.A. Costume Design West Virginia University. 2021 McKnight Theater Artist Fellow. www.trevorbowendesign.com 

Designs for Seattle Rep include: Come From Away (2025), Laughs in Spanish, The Skin of Our Teeth, Fat Ham, Lydia and The Troll, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Indecent, In the Heights, MAC BETH, I Am My Own Wife, Lizard Boy, and others. Regional: Theatre Under the Stars, Portland Center Stage, ACT, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Old Globe, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Intiman Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, and Village Theatre. Film: The Jinkx and Dela Holiday Special, Potato Dreams of America. Robert is the Lighting Director at Seattle Rep and a member of USA 829. robertjaguilar.com 

(He/Him) Phil is a theatrical producer and artist based in the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves as the Program Director for Coho Theatre in Portland, OR. Some of his favorite recent productions include Fat Ham (Seattle Rep) Clyde’s (Syracuse Stage); Primary Trust, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs. Harrison (Portland Center Stage); Hands Up (Red Door Project). Phil has a B.F.A. and M.A. from Ohio University. philjohnsondesignstheworld.com, @philjohnsonlive

Recent intimacy direction credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Union Arts Center), The Bed Trick, Macbeth Education Tour (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Sanctuary City (Seattle Rep), Hello Dolly and Mamma Mia (Village Theatre); As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline and Midsummer Nights Dream (Wooden O), Refugees in the Garden City (ReAct/Pratidhwani); Monsters of the American Cinema (ArtsWest); Eurydice (Seattle University); Measure for Measure (Engaged Theater), and the film, In The Water. Sarah is also an actor and teaching artist.

Geoffrey (he/him) is thrilled to return to Seattle Rep, where his work was last seen in Fancy Dancer, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Fat Ham. Recent: A Thousand Splendid Suns, Pagliacci (Fight & Intimacy Director, Seattle Opera); Sweat (ACT); The Lady Demands Satisfaction (Phoenix Theater); Camelot (Fight & Intimacy Director, Village Theatre). National credits: Lincoln Center, McCarter Theatre, KCRep, Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Mr. Alm teaches stage combat at Cornish College of the Arts, UW, and Freehold Theatre. Certified teacher, fight director, and Fight Master with the Society of American Fight Directors. Proud member of SDC. geoffreyalm.com

Deborah L Armstrong (she/her) received a B.A. in Music from Lincoln Christian University. This is Deborah’s 1st production at Seattle Rep. Deborah has been an Accompanist, Music Director, Artistic Director, and Drama/Musical Theater Teacher in the Puget Sound Region for 30 years, including the Director of Education at Lakewood Institute of Theatre for 9 years. She will be eternally grateful for her husband Ed’s embrace of the chaos of a theatrical career, and when Deborah retires from herding theatre folk, she plans to settle on a small farm and herd cats, because that would be easier.

Select stage management credits include The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Odyssey (Seattle Rep’s Public Works); The Servant of Two Masters (Seattle Rep, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, ArtsEmerson); Fat Ham, MAC BETH, Here Lies Love, A Raisin in the Sun, All the Way, The Great Society, The Piano Lesson, Boeing Boeing, Fences, Gem of the Ocean (Seattle Rep); Sweeney Todd, Beauty and the Beast (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Angels in America, A Doctor In Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre); and A Raisin in the Sun (Pittsburgh Public Theater).

Shaina Pierce is thrilled to be back at Seattle Rep! She was last at Seattle Rep as the assistant stage manager for Laughs In Spanish, Blues for an Alabama Sky, and Fat Ham. Select stage management credits: The Wiz (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Loving and Loving and Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Hot Wing King, Trading Places: the Musical, and A Christmas Carol (Alliance Theatre); Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). Shaina received her M.F.A from The University of Alabama (Roll Tide). She thanks her friends and family for their support.