Larissa FastHorse (Sicangu Lakota Nation) is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, professor of practice (literature) at Arizona State University, and co-founder of Indigenous Direction. She was the first known female, Native American playwright on Broadway with The Thanksgiving Play. Additional plays include Peter Pan (revised book, National Tour), Fake It Until You Make It, Native Nation Project Trilogy, and For The People. She is currently under commission with The Public Theater, Second Stage Theater, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Larissa dedicates this production to her parents, who always believed in her.

New York credits include The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature, City Center Encores!, The Flea, Audible Theatre, Rattlestick, etc. Regional credits include Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, South Coast Repertory, The Old Globe, Center Theatre Group, Hartford Stage, The Kennedy Center, Humana Festival, Victory Gardens, Empty Space, Singapore Repertory Theatre, etc. He is the recipient of the 2024 Doris Duke Artist Award and the OBIE. chayyew.com

Jayna Shoda Meyer (she/her) is an interdisciplinary theater artist with a strong background in community facilitation and new works. As an actor, director, and facilitator, she aims to bring underrepresented stories to the stage and views theater as a medium for radical healing. Jayna is an alumna of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s FAIR Program, assisting on Desdemona Chiang’s production of The Importance of Being Earnest, and of the Stage Director & Choreographer Foundation’s Professional Development Program as the SDCF Directing Observer on Lempicka directed by Rachel Chavkin (Broadway). As a member of Breaking Wave Theatre Company in Guåhan, she co-directed, devised, and performed in WE WILL NOT GO SILENT, an original work about the climate crisis from the perspective of the Pacific that was recently awarded a National Theatre Project Grant from the New England Foundation of the Arts. Jayna is a graduate of Boston University with a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts. jaynashodameyer.com

New York: New York Theatre Workshop, Audible Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater, Soho Rep, Ma-Yi, Mint Theater Company, National Asian American Theatre Co. and PlayCo. Regional: Huntington Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Rep, PlayMakers Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, and ACT. Nominations: Henry Hewes, Connecticut Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Awards for Set Design, and Elliot Norton Awards for Set and Costume Design. M.F.A. Yale School of Drama. Faculty at Amherst College, MA. @jgldesigncompany, junghyungeorgialeedesign.com

MEKA is a Seattle-based slow fashion designer with over 20 years of experience creating intentional, inclusive, and sustainable garments. She specializes in custom, small-lot collections and one-of-a-kind women’s wear, and also produces fashion shows. An advocate for her Indigenous community, MEKA co-leads “For Our Sisters”—a project honoring Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit Relatives—in collaboration with The One Woman Symphony. Recent partnerships include Seattle Rep, Tacoma Art Museum, and Arctic Encounter Symposium. mekaclothing.com

Geoff Korf (they/them) has lived in Seattle since 2002. Geoff has designed lighting for more than one hundred world premieres including August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, and Larissa FastHorse’s Urban Rez for Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles, where Geoff is also an ensemble member. Geoff is a professor of lighting at the University of Washington School of Drama, and is a graduate of California State University, Chico, and the Yale School of Drama.

Robertson is a Seattle-based sound designer and composer. Previously at Seattle Rep: I Am My Own Wife, Boeing Boeing, Of Mice and Men. Other recent productions include Kevin Kling: Unraveled (Contemporary American Theater Festival); The Color Purple, Once on This Island (Village Theatre); Fuselage (Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Twelfth Night (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Peril in the Alps (Laguna Playhouse). His work has also been heard at Seattle Opera, ACT, and Spectrum Dance Theater. Rob is a member of United Scenic Artists and the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association.

Previously at Seattle Rep: Fat Ham (scenic design). Broadway: Trisha Paytas’ Big Broadway Dream; Derren Brown: Secret; In Transit; Harry Connick Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter. Select New York: Rolling Thunder (current), Between the Lines (Drama Desk Award nomination), Sweatshop Overlord (Lortel Award nomination), Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC Theater, Primary Stages, Roundabout Theatre Company. Hundreds of productions in New York, regionally, and internationally. @caitehevner, caitedesign.com

Ann Slote is a San Francisco and Berlin-based video designer. She has worked as an associate on Duke and Roya (Lucille Lortel, design by Caite Hevner), A Knock on the Roof (New York Theatre Workshop), and Mahabharata (Barbican). Recent design credits include Mummy, Daddy & Other Issues (Neue Bühne Friedrichshain), Songs of Absence (Festival Art Fest Munich), and Best Funeral Ever (Ballhaus Ost).

Price Suddarth is an award-winning American choreographer and former Soloist with Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB). As a dancer, he was nominated for a Princess Grace Award and performed leading roles across a wide range of repertoire. He has since created works for major U.S. companies and earned acclaim in Seattle for his choreography at PNB. Recognized as an arts innovator for his pioneering work in film, he and his wife Emma co-founded JUMPKUT Contemporary Ballet—a launchpad for bold stage and screen projects. jumpkut.org

Maxine Alex is an enrolled citizen of the Navajo Nation (Diné) and a champion powwow dancer. She started choreographing for the Stanford American Indian Organization student dance troupe at Stanford University and has since competed across the U.S. and Canada. Maxine currently dances in the Ojibwe women’s jingle dress style. She also serves as the Tribal Consultation Program Supervisor for the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington State and is a certified History and Social Science Teacher.

Gin is an award-winning Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre graduate, most recently seen in POTUS at ACT and Blithe Spirit at Seattle Rep. Gin has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts grants for multiple plays, and her book, Returning the Bones, is a National Indie Excellence Award finalist and a Gold-winning INDIES Book of the Year winner. Gin’s recent solo show, Living IncogNegro, will be released as a feature-length film in 2025. gin-hammond.com

Select work at Seattle Rep (over the last 25 seasons) includes Two Trains Running, Dry Powder, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Clybourne Park, The Great Gatsby, and Jitney. Locally, she stage manages at Seattle Children’s Theatre (23 seasons) and Seattle Opera (33 seasons – including assistant stage managing Seattle Opera’s Ring Cycle from 1995–2013). Thank you to the parents, grandparents, caregivers, guardians, and teachers for giving the gift of live theater to the young theater attendee sitting next to you.