Sylvia Khoury is a New York-born writer of French and Lebanese descent. Her plays include Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival), Power Strip (LCT3), and Against the Hillside (Ensemble Studio Theater). She is currently under commission from Lincoln Center, Williamstown Theater Festival, and Seattle Rep. Awards include the L. Arnold Weissberger Award and Jay Harris Commission and a Citation of Excellence from the Laurents/Hatcher Awards. She is a member of EST/Youngblood and a previous member of the 2018-2019 Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop at The Lark and the 2016-2018 WP Lab. Her plays have been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theater Festival, Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, Roundabout Theater Underground, Lark Playwrights’ Week, EST/Youngblood, and WP Theater. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University, an M.F.A. from the New School for Drama, and an M.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 

The Head of Directing and Playwriting at the University of Washington’s School of Drama, Valerie also serves as the Artistic Director for The Hansberry Project. Her recent work includes The Guthrie Theater, Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, West of Lenin, ArtsWest, Taper Forum, New York Theatre Workshop, among others. Valerie holds a B.A. from Holy Cross College and an M.F.A. from the University of Washington. She has been awarded the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group Career Development Grant for Directors, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s Gielgud Directing Fellowship, Theatre Puget Sound’s Gregory Falls Award for Sustained Achievement, The Seattle Times’ 13 Most Influential Citizens of the last decade, the Seattle Stranger Genius Award in Performance, and the Crosscut Courage Award for Culture. 

Lex was born and raised in Manila. He studied Painting and Art History at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. His first significant experience in theater was learning Kabuki and Noh from a Japanese Sensei. His exposure to visual arts, music, and performance has inspired him to pursue a practice in Scenic Design. Lex designed sets in Manila for several years and joined the M.F.A. program in Scenic Design through an invitation from the University of Washington School of Drama, Design. After finishing the degree in 2017, he started designing productions in Seattle and other parts of the U.S. 

Regional Theater: Unseen (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); When Monica Met Hillary (Miami New Drama); This is Who I Am (Oregon Shakespeare Festival/Woolly Mammoth/The Guthrie/ART/PlayCo); 9 Parts of Desire (Portland Center Stage); King Lear (Northern Stage); Noura (The Guthrie); Noura (The Old Globe); Selling Kabul (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Off-Broadway: The Vagrant Trilogy (The Public Theater); Heartland (Geva Theater/59E59); First Down (Noor Theater/59E59); Hindsight (Fault Line Theater); Eh Dah? Questions for My Father (Hypokrit Theatre/NYTW Next Door); The Russian and The Jew (Anna and Kitty Inc./The Tank); Dead Are My People (Noor Theater/NYTW Next Door). Other Theater: P*ssyC*ck Know Nothing, Marjana and the Forty Thieves, Pay No Attention to the Girl (Target Margin Theater). Design for Stage and Film M.F.A., NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.dinae.me

Geoff Korf (all pronouns) has lived in Seattle since 2002. At Seattle Rep, Geoff most recently designed the lights for the Public Works musical adaptation of As You Like It. Other productions at Seattle Rep include A View from the Bridge, Roz and Ray, The Piano Lesson, The Brothers Size, The Seafarer, The Cook, and many more. Geoff has designed lighting for more than one hundred world premieres, including August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House at Yale Repertory Theatre; Larissa FastHorse’s Urban Rez for Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles; and Disney’s High School Musical at the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Geoff’s work has been seen on Broadway, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Intiman, ACT, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Berkeley Rep, Cornerstone Theater, The Mark Taper Forum, The Guthrie Theatre, The Goodman, and many other theaters across the U.S.A. Geoff has been a member of the ensemble of Cornerstone Theater in Los Angeles since 1996. Geoff currently serves as the Executive Director of the School of Drama at the University of Washington, and is a graduate of California State University, Chico, and the Yale School of Drama.

After assisting Joanna Lynne Staub on Shout Sister Shout! on the Bagley Wright stage in 2019, Dana (she/her) is happy to be back at Seattle Rep designing her first in-person production since March of 2020! Select credits include Sunset Baby (also directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton), Office Hour, and Saint Joan at ArtsWest; Admissions, The Call, and Thanksgiving Play at Seattle Public Theater; Dance Nation with WET; Everybody with Strawberry Theatre Workshop; Language Rooms with Pony World Theatre; Big Bad and Into the Deeps with DangerSwitch!; ...and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi and Nadeshiko with Sound Theatre Company; Black Bois with On the Boards and STG; and Silhouette and Scary Mary and the Nightmares Nine at Annex Theater. Dana is a member of TSDCA. danarobyn.com

Jeffrey K. Hanson (he/him) has been a proud member of the Seattle theater community and Actors’ Equity for over 32 years. He has worked extensively as a production stage manager at ACT and The 5th Avenue Theatre. He is thrilled to return to Seattle Rep, where he previously stage managed: Metamorphoses, True West (’97 production), The Cider House Rules – Parts I & II, Private Eyes, and All in the Timing. Other Seattle credits include shows at Seattle Children’s Theatre and Intiman. Regional credits include shows during two seasons each at Arizona Theatre Company and New Mexico Repertory Theatre. 

Humaira Ghilzai has been working with notable professional theaters and artists for the past ten years. Credits include the world premieres, U.S. and U.K. tours of the adaptations of The New York Times best-selling author Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner; Tony Award-winner J.T. Roger’s Blood and Gifts (La Jolla Playhouse); Kevin Artigue’s The Most Dangerous Highway in the World (Golden Thread); Gabriel Jason Dean’s Heartland (five theaters rolling world premiere and Off-Broadway), Slow Falling Birds (University of San Francisco); and Zealot (South Coast Repertory). Film credits: Merry Friggin Christmas, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, and the short film, Away and Together. Humaira is a speaker, writer, and producer.