Martyna Majok was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in New Jersey and Chicago. Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living. Other plays: Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound. She was also awarded The Arthur Miller Legacy Award, a Steinberg, an Obie, Lucille Lortel, Hull-Warriner Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Champions of Change Award from New York City’s Mayoral Office, Lanford Wilson Prize, Lilly Award, and The Hodder Fellowship from Princeton, among others. Upcoming: Gatsby: An American Myth, a musical with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett; TV and film for HBO, MGM Orion/Plan B/Pastel, and Participant/Killer. Education: Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, Jersey public schools.

Desdemona Chiang is a Taiwan-born American director/writer based in Seattle, WA and Ashland, OR. Recent directing credits include The 5th Avenue Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Opera, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, South Coast Repertory, California Shakespeare Theater, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Village Theatre, Studio Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and ACT (Seattle), among others. Sundance Institute AAPI Fellow. American Film Institute DWW+ 2023-24. M.F.A. Directing: University of Washington.

Seattle Rep debut! Regional: The Magician’s Daughter (Geva Theatre), JORDAN (Northern Stage), Song of a Convalescent Ayn Rand... (American Repertory Theater). Off-Broadway: Gentleman Caller (Abingdon Theatre Company); Hasan Minhaj’s Homecoming King; The Tempest (Classic Stage Company); A Beautiful Day In November on the Banks of the Greatest of Great Lakes (WP Theatre and New Georges). Sara also creates immersive performances with her theater company Wolf 359, including Memory Room 302 and temping (seen at Lincoln Center, The Wild Project, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival). saracwalsh.com

Christine Tschirgi (she/they) is thrilled to be back with the wonderful artists at Seattle Rep where she last designed Constellations. Her work has also been seen locally at The 5th Avenue Theatre, ACT, Village Theatre, Intiman, and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Other Seattle collaborations include Degenerate Art Ensemble, Circus Contraption, and MALANCARNE. Christine is a member of USA 829 and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Washington. ctschirgi.com

Broadway credits include Good Night, Oscar (Belasco Theatre); The Minutes (Cort/Studio 54); 33 Variations (Eugene O’Neill Theatre); I Am My Own Wife (Lyceum Theatre); Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square); and The Clean House (Lincoln Center). Regional credits include multiple productions with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and South Coast Repertory.

Chih-Hung is excited to be back at Seattle Rep, where he was the Lighting Design Apprentice during the 2021/22 Season. His most recent lighting design was Born with Teeth at ArtsWest, and his next design project is How To Write A New Book For The Bible at Taproot Theatre Company. He has worked with McCaw Hall, Seattle Rep, Village Theatre, ACT, and ArtsWest, to name a few. Other select lighting design credits include The Comedy of Errors (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Measure for Measure (Freehold Engaged Theatre), and Hotdish (Pony World Theatre).

Recent intimacy direction credits: Hello, Dolly! and Mamma Mia! (Village Theatre); Romeo & Juliet, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wooden O). At Cornish College of the Arts: Head Over Heels, Pericles, Cabaret, Our Town, Corner’s Grove, Chicago, Orlando, and Once. Elsewhere: Refugees in the Garden City (ReAct/Pratidhwani); Monsters of the American Cinema (ArtsWest); Eurydice (Seattle University); Measure for Measure (Freehold Engaged Theatre); and the film In the Water. Sarah is also an actor and teaching artist.

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.

Sanhawich Meateanuwat (สัณหวิชญ์ เมธีอนุวัตร) is a Thai theater director/writer based in NYC. They taught acting/directing at Bangkok University for three years, where they directed, adapted, and translated numerous productions. Recent directing credits include The Revolutionists (Heartland Theatre Company) and A Sisyphean Dream (Pan Asian Rep’s NuWorks 2023). Assistant Directing: Big Hunk o’ Burnin’ Love (Roundabout Theatre Company). 2022 National SDC Directing Fellowship at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group cohort 5. M.F.A. Directing: Illinois State University.

(she/her) Past Seattle Rep credits include Mr. Dickens and His Carol, Public Works’ The Winter’s Tale filmed production, and Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Other recent credits around town include Ken Ludwig’s Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood (Village Theatre); Sweeney Todd (The 5th Avenue Theatre); A Christmas Carol, A History of Theatre: About, By, For, and Near, and Sweat (ACT). Ruth received the 2018 Melissa Hines Backstage Award and leads the local group SM Collective. @SMCollectiveSeattle

Quy Ton (they/she) is excited to return to Seattle Rep. Stage management highlights include Cambodian Rock Band (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT); Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep); Here Lies Love, Disgraced, Luna Gale, Sherlock Holmes and The American Problem (Seattle Rep); The Three Musketeers, Where We Belong, Destiny of Desire, It’s Christmas, Carol! (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Man of La Mancha, The Little Mermaid (The 5th Avenue Theatre); Go, Dog. Go!, And in this Corner: Cassius Clay (Seattle Children’s Theatre).

Quinn is a stage manager and technical theater artist from the East Coast who has a passion for original work and devising creative solutions to unique problems. Quinn is a proud member of the unions AEA and AGMA. Previously at Seattle Rep: Sanctuary City, Selling Kabul, Teenage Dick. Other local credits include Seattle Opera: Jubilee, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, A Thousand Splendid Suns, The Barber of Seville, Pagliacci, Das Rheingold, Orfeo and Euridice, il Trovatore; ACT: A Christmas Carol; Seattle Children’s Theatre: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.