Camino Real

PAMELA ANDERSON (MARGUERITE) recently starred in the Gia Coppola-directed The Last Showgirl, for which she was nominated in the Lead Actress category for Golden Globe, SAG and Gotham Awards. She will next appear opposite Liam Neeson in Paramount’s upcoming The Naked Gun reboot, in theaters August 1st. Later in the year, Anderson will be seen in Karim Aïnouz’s Rosebush Pruning with Riley Keough, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning Jamie Bell, Lucas Gage and Tracy Letts. She recently completed production on Kornel Mondruczo’s Place to Be, in which she appears opposite Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi, playing the daughter of Burstyn’s character. This September, Anderson will star in Sally Potter’s latest film, Alma, alongside Dakota Fanning and Lindsay Duncan. She will then star in Michael Cera’s feature directorial debut, Love is not the Answer, co-starring Steeve Coogan and Jamie Dornan. Anderson was born and raised in Ladysmith, Canada, where she currently resides.

FRANKIE J. ALVAREZ (A RATT, DON QUIXOTE) is an actor and writer from Miami, best known as Agustín on HBO’s “Looking” and Looking: The Movie. Film credits include Spielberg’s Untitled UFO Film (2026), Rockaway, Vandal, and The Drummer. TV includes “The Blacklist”, “Let the Right One In”, “Fantasy Island”, “New Amsterdam”, “SVU”, “The Good Wife”, and more. NYC credits: Wet Brain (PH/MCC), Othello (NYTW), and Those Lost Boys (Ars Nova, co-creator). Regional: La Jolla, McCarter, DCPA, OSF, and Asolo Rep (Hamlet). He holds a BFA from FSU, MFA from Juilliard, and is a Raul Julia Scholar. IG: @sexytosomeppl.

ATO BLANKSON-WOOD (LORD BYRON) is a Tony-nominated actor best known for originating the role of Gary in Slave Play (Broadway, NYTW), earning Tony, Lortel, and Drama League nominations. He recently starred in The Swamp Dwellers (TFANA) and as Clifford Bradshaw in Cabaret on Broadway. Ato played Hamlet in Shakespeare in the Park and appeared in Long Day’s Journey Into Night for Audible. Other credits include The Total Bent, Hair, and Lysistrata Jones. Film: Detroit, BlacKKKlansman, Worth, The Same Storm. TV: “The Good Fight”, “When They See Us”, “She’s Gotta Have It”. He trained at NYU Tisch and Yale School of Drama.

JUANITA CARDENAS (BUM IN THE WINDOW) Colombian-born artist Juanita Cardenas (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Her solo work as a performer combines aerial acrobatics and large scale puppetry. She is the artistic director of the absurdist circus theater collective Visceral Abstractions. In addition to directing and creating full length theater pieces, she designs costumes and puppets, and teaches trapeze. In 2024, she and her partner Ryan Shinji Murray were awarded the MAP Fund grant towards the creation of a new show entitled The Void. You can find her work at www.juanitacardenas.com

NICHOLAS ALEXANDER CHAVEZ (KILROY) stars as Kilroy in Camino Real. He recently earned global attention for his performance as Lyle Menendez in Ryan Murphy’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story”, which debuted as the number-one show worldwide on Netflix. He reunited with Murphy soon after for “Grotesquerie”, portraying dual roles across parallel realities. Chavez will next appear in the ensemble feature The Technique, alongside Laura Harrier, Kelsey Asbille, Emma Roberts, Ben Platt, and Noomi Rapace. He was named one of the Associated Press’ Breakthrough Entertainers of 2024, and has been featured in Elle’s Hollywood Rising, GQ HYPE, and Cosmopolitan. Camino Real marks his stage debut.

CINDY DE LA CRUZ (OLYMPE) is excited to be back at Williamstown where she was last seen in Border of Lights by Guadalis Del Carmen as part of Robert O’ Hara’s Celebrating the Black Radical Imagination: 9 Solo Plays. She is a founding artistic producer of the Obie Award winning Dominican Artists Collective. Selected credits: Ro & The Stardust (Netflix); What Doesn’t Float (Apple TV); What In The Actual Fuck (NYTW); The Salvagers (Yale Rep); Kilroy Was Here (Dir. Kevin Smith); The Siblings Play (Rattlestick Theatre); The Niceties (Geva Theatre); Our Town (Olney Theatre Center); Stupid Fucking Bird (Arden Theatre and Urbanite Theater). She is a recent graduate of the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

ARYA GASTON (Dreamer) (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, producer, musical director, composer, and performer. A Berklee alum, Arya’s credits include a track featuring Jack Harlow, a national Kayak commercial, music videos for Dua Lipa and Quinn XCII, and composing for the award-winning film Black As U R. They’ve performed with artists like Wyclef Jean and Kat Cunning, and held 2024 residencies at UMBRA Brooklyn, Apotheke, and more. Arya is a Songwrite Club member, contributing to songs for Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill. In 2025, they starred in The Trojans musical at The Cell Theatre, directed by Steven Gridley.

GABRIEL GASTON (GUARD, TRAVEL AGENT) is thrilled to be making his Williamstown debut after graduating from The Juilliard School in the Spring of this year. His credits include: Morning in America (Cherry Lane Theater), Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Socrates and Mosquitoes. Film and TV includes: “Unforgettable” (CBS) and “Gone Hollywood” (FX Pilot).

BRAELYNN JOHNSON (ABDULLAH) Age 9, dancer (ballet, jazz, tap). Training: Meredith Gravely School of Dance. Resides in Danville, Virginia, Taekwondo. In his spare time he loves playing basketball, football, and doing gymnastics. First time acting debut.

KENNEDY OCEAN JOHNSON (ABDULLAH) Age 10, dancer (ballet, jazz, tap). Training: Meredith Bradley School of Dance, Taekwondo. First time acting. Resides Danville, Virginia. In her spare time, she loves singing, dancing and using her imagination with her Barbies.

ROB KELLOGG (OFFICER/PILOT) is thrilled to make his Williamstown debut. He has played off-Broadway in NAATCO’s Romeo and Juliet, adapted by Hansol Jung for the Play On Shakespeare series. Regionally, he has performed at the Huntington (Triumph of Love), Berkeley Rep + McCarter Theatre (Bulrusher), Northern Stage (Spring Awakening), Two River Theater, and Powerhouse Theater. Feature film projects include The Bride (2025) and indie No Later Light (2025); television credits include “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin”, “Uncoupled”, “FBI” and “Power Book III: Raising Kanan”. Rob received his BFA from Boston University.

VIN KNIGHT (Gutman) is happy to be at Williamstown, having studied with Nikos at Yale many years ago. He is a member of Elevator Repair Service (Obie for Sustained Excellence) and has appeared in the U.S. and internationally in its productions of Gatz; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); The Sound and the Fury; Measure for Measure; Seagull; and Ulysses among others. Other stage credits include The Counterfeit Opera (Little Island), The Music Man (Sharon Playhouse), Our Man in Havana (Portland Stage), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2013 Broadway revival), Marie Antoinette (A.R.T. and Yale Rep.) and The Temperamentals (Barrow Group). Film and TV credits include “And Just Like That,” “Inventing Anna,” “Search Party,” “Succession,” “Orange Is The New Black,” “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” “The Blacklist,” “Bull,” “Homeland” and Master.

SMARANDA LUNA (LADY MULLIGAN) is a Romanian-born actress, writer, and stand-up comedian. A Fulbright scholar, she holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Texas at Austin and trained at the National Drama Conservatory in Bucharest. Her work spans Europe and the U.S., with credits including Trafic (Palme d’Or, Cannes), Closer to the Moon (opposite Mark Strong), and The Clean House (Zach Theatre). Her digital series “Patti and Marina” was spotlighted by Tribeca Film Festival. She performs stand-up internationally, with appearances at The Comedy Store LA, Just for Laughs Vancouver, SXSW, and more.

APRIL MATTHIS (GYPSY) is an Obie Award-winning actor. Williamstown: Most Happy in Concert. Broadway: Mary Jane, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. Off-Broadway: Primary Trust, Toni Stone (Roundabout), Help (The Shed); Fairview, LEAR (Soho Rep); Signature Plays—Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre); IOWA, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons). With Elevator Repair Service: Baldwin/Buckley at Cambridge (FIND Festival Schaubühne; Festival d’Avignon), The Sound & the Fury; Fondly, Collette Richland (NYTW); Measure for Measure (The Public); Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Abrons Art Center); GATZ (McCarter, Perth Festival). TV Credits include: “Elsbeth”, “FBI”, “Life & Beth”, “The Blacklist”, “Evil”, “The Good Fight”, “New Amsterdam”. Film: Black Card, Fugitive Dreams, Ramona at Midlife, The Plea.

BRUCE MCKENZIE (JAQUES CASANOVA) Broadway: The Farnsworth Invention. Selected Off-Broadway: Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb/Public), Paris (Atlantic), 10 Out of 12 (Soho Rep), Shipwreck (Public), Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire (NYTW, dir. Ivo van Hove), Big Love and Glory of the World (BAM), White Noise (Skirball NYU/Theatre Freiburg). Selected Regional: Three Sisters (Yale Rep), Wintertime (La Jolla Playhouse), Krapp’s Last Tape (Dallas Theatre Center), Polaroid Stories, Evocation To Visible Appearance, the title role in Hamlet (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Film/TV: Night Nurse; Your Name Here; Blood, Sand and Gold; Miss This At Your Peril; “Breaking Bad”. Co-founder of Sledgehammer Theatre (7 Blowjobs, True West, Endgame).

WHITNEY PEAK (ESMERELDA) has recently been set to lead Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping alongside Joseph Zada and Jesse Plemons, which is expected to release fall of 2026. She will next be seen as the lead in Sony Pictures’ upcoming shark thriller Shiver opposite Phoebe Dynevor, as well as alongside Liam Neeson in 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank and the upcoming action pic Trap House opposite Dave Bautista and Sophia Lillis. She is most known for her starring role on Max’s highly-anticipated reboot of “Gossip Girl” playing ‘Zoya Lott,’ as well as starring in Hocus Pocus 2 opposite Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimi. Peak is currently a global Chanel ambassador: in 2023, Peak was named the newest face of the Coco Mademoiselle fragrance; the move makes her the first Black face of a Chanel scent, and overall, one of the rare Black faces seen in fragrance ads. She also starred in the latest Chanel 22 handbag campaign.

EMMA RAMOS (ROSITA) Well versed in comedy and drama, Emma Ramos is a bi-lingual Mexican actress and writer. Emma is best known for playing a supporting role in Alessandra Lacorazza’s In The Summers, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and screened at Tribeca in the Spotlight Narrative category. She recently wrapped a spanish-language film for Netflix and Gaumont called Odio a Lana Cruz and just wrapped production on SOULM8TE for Blumhouse. On the theater side, she is best known for her role in Ivo Van Hove’s Scenes From a Marriage. She previously starred in New York Theatre Workshop Next Door’s off-broadway show, House Plant, to rave reviews and in a re-imagined adaptation The Marriage of Figaro at Little Island. She is set to be in two additional productions at Little Island to be directed by Dustin Wills.

MARQUIS RODRIGUEZ (HEAD WAITER) is an actor & writer from Brooklyn, NY. He’s thrilled to be performing at Williamstown Theatre Festival for the first time! He’s been in things like “When They See Us” (Netflix) and “Modern Love” (Amazon), but when he was eleven he played Young Simba in The Lion King & he’s been chasing that high ever since.

JULIAN SANCHEZ (NURSIE, WAITER) Previous theatre includes Maia Novi’s Invasive Species (Vineyard Theatre & The Tank), Sarah Ruhl’s Becky Nurse of Salem (Lincoln Center Theater; directed by Rebecca Taichman), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ Girls (Yale Repertory Theatre), Jeremy O. Harris’ YELL: a “documentary” of my time here (Carlotta Festival), and Jacob Wasson’s Other People’s Dead Dads (Dixon Place). MFA, Yale School of Drama.

SOCORRO SANTIAGO (LA MADRECITA) The Old Globe: Two Sisters And A Piano, Age of Innocence. Broadway: The Bacchae (Circle In The Square). Off Broadway: She has performed at The Public Theatre, Delacorte Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, Ma-Yi Theatre, Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, and INTAR among others. Regional: Williamstown Theatre Festival: Lucy and the Conquest, Victory Gardens, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie, LongWharf, ACT, Broad Theatre, and The Huntington Theatre (IRNE nomination). Touring Company: Small Mouth Sounds (Director: Rachel Chavkin). TV: “What We Do In The Shadows”, “Chicago PD”, “Blue Bloods”, “Characters”, all the “Law & Orders”, “All My Children” (ALMA award). Films: Netflix- Christmas With You, IGilbert, Vampires vs The Bronx, Devil’s Advocate, All Good Things, Widows (Director- Steve McQueen)

VICKI SHAGHOIAN (PRUDENCE) began teaching in Juilliard’s Dance and Drama Divisions in 2021 and 2022. Formerly on the acting faculty at Yale School of Drama, she received the George Pierce Baker Award for Excellence and piloted the Ted Shen Curriculum. She’s served as Music and Vocal Director at Yale Rep, Vocal Coach on Broadway’s Metamorphoses, and Breath Coach for The Whale at Marin Theatre Company. A performer from SF Opera to Montreux Jazz Festival, she’s directed or collaborated with The Public, WP, O’Neill, and The Foundry. A Rotary Fellow, she trained at the Royal College of Music and the Alexander Institute in London.

RYAN SHINJI MURRAY (HUNCHBACK) (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary circus artist, appearing for the first time at Williamstown Theater Festival in Camino Real. He has performed around the world with Cirque Éloize’s iD and as an original cast member of Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios - touring with the show for seven years. He appeared in The Marriage of Figaro at Little Island as Antonio, applying circus skills to opera under the direction of Dustin Wills. Most recently, along with his partner Juanita Cardenas, received the MAP Fund Grant and developed a new work of dance, puppetry, and circus entitled The Void. Based in Brooklyn, he collaborates regularly with several different companies and stages including ABCirque, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, 3AM Theatre, Parallel Exit, and Westchester Circus Arts. He also coaches circus arts at Circus Academy New York. @ryanshinji

HENRY STRAM (LORD MULLIGAN) WTF: The Elephant Man, The Importance of Being Earnest, R Shoman. Broadway: Network, Junk, The Elephant Man, Inherit the Wind, The Crucible, And Titanic. Recent NYC credits include Dave Malloy’s Three Houses (Signature Theater); Liz Swados’ The Beautiful Lady (La Mama); The Headlands (LCT3); Judgment Day, and The Hairy Ape (both at Park Avenue Armory). In two seasons with Barrington Stage Company Henry played Andy in Andy Warhol In Iran and directed Harriet Harris in Mark St. Germain’s Eleanor. Henry is a graduate of Juilliard and a recipient of a 1996 OBIE award for Sustained Excellence of Performance.

MARLON ALEXANDER VARGAS (LOAN SHARK, DOMINO) is a Dominican actor from the Bronx, New York. He is thrilled to be making his Williamstown debut alongside many familiar faces. Previous credits include: Titus Andronicus, The Odyssey, Littleboy/Littleman, The Alley, Cleansed, Grand Concourse, Kilelè, and Macbeth. He is a recent graduate from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

JACOB WASSON (LOBO, BUM IN THE WINDOW 2) is a playwright and theatre artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Work: Other People’s Dead Dads, SMUTA, In Praise of Folly. Upcoming commissions for Little Island, Common Era, and The Barn at Lee. jacobwasson.com

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers. Equity endeavors to advance the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits (health and pension included). Member: AFLCIO, FIA. ActorsEquity.org #AskIfItsEquity

DUSTIN WILLS (Director) was recently described by the Obie Award Committee as having an “ability to navigate chaos with precision,” and that about sums it up. Recent productions include The Counterfeit Opera and Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Little Island (Best Theater of 2024, New York Magazine), Hansol Jung’s Wolf Play (2023 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Direction and Production), and John J. Caswell Jr.’s Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons/MCC). Dustin has devised new work with Teatro L’Arciliuto in Rome, Italy, trained with Augusto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed legislative performance, and for a couple of years gave rogue tours of the Vatican. He is a 2023 Obie Award winner, Princess Grace Award recipient, and Baryshnikov Center Artist Resident 2018. He teaches in the Directing and Playwriting programs at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

DAN SCHLOSBERG (Orchestrator / Co-Music Director) Composer, pianist, and conductor Dan Schlosberg’s work spans opera, theater, film, and concert music and has been praised as “flat-out brilliant” (New York Times). Current and recent projects: The Counterfeit Opera (Little Island); Complications in Sue (Opera Philadelphia); Anthony Roth Costanzo and Justin Vivian Bond’s Only an Octave Apart; The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse (The New Group); Patrick Wang’s film A. Rimbaud. In addition to performing with Angel Blue, Ariana DeBose, Tony Kushner, and Ben Stiller, Dan was the pianist for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, and a featured soloist in Only an Octave Apart with the New York Philharmonic and on NPR’s Tiny Desk. Awards: Charles Ives Scholarship (American Academy of Arts and Letters), 2 ASCAP Morton Gould Awards, Drama Desk nomination. www.danschlosberg.com

KATE NOLL (Scenic Designer) is a California-based scenic designer. She has designed for Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Aurora Theater, Juilliard Conservatory, Boston Early Music Festival, Yale Opera, Red Bull Theater, Barrington Stage Company, Heartbeat Opera, Bard Conservatory, Marin Theater Company, Rattlestick Theater, Shanghai Dramatic Arts, and Theater Squared. Select theater credits include Wet Brain (winning both Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards), Lifespan of a Fact, Orlando, Gaslight, Peerless, Orange Julius, Stones in His Pockets, I & You, Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Opera credits include Don Giovanni, Carmen, Extinctionist, La Bohème, Agrippina, Dido & Aeneas, Die Zauberflöt, Così Fan Tutte, Arabella, L’Egisto, and Agrippina. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she has studied in Rome, Amsterdam, and Paris. She has an MFA in Scenic Design from Yale School of Drama.

OANA BOTEZ (Costume Designer) is a Romanian American costume designer working in theater, opera, film, and dance. She is a recipient of the Lucille Lortel, Obie, Henry Hewes, Princess Grace, and Barrymore Awards, and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program. US: BAM, Public Theater, LCT3, Signature Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Wilma Theater. Opera: Detroit Opera, The Industry LA; Alice Tully Hall/ Lincoln Center; Minnesota Opera; Glimmerglass Festival; Portland Opera; Pittsburgh Opera; Prototype NY; National Sawdust; REDCAT; BAM; Wolf Trap Opera; NY Philharmonic; Château de Versailles. Internationally: Bucharest National Theater, Old Vic, Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistances , Budapest National Theater, The International Festival of Contemporary Theater (Turkey), Le Quartz (France), La Filature (France), Exit Festival /Maison des Arts Creteil (France). Ms. Botez is teaching at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale in the Design Department.

BARBARA SAMUELS (Lighting Designer) (she/her) is an Obie and Henry Hewes Award winning queer designer, organizer and producer creating design-forward live events prioritizing generosity, equity, and representation. New York credits include designs at Soho Rep, Little Island, Signature, Lincoln Center, The Public, NAATCO, Ma-Yi, NYTW, MCC , Ars Nova, Theater for a New Audience (TFANA), Playwrights Horizons, WP Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Target Margin, Beth Morrison Projects, New Georges and Clubbed Thumb. Regional credits include South Coast Rep, Bard Summerscape, Woolly Mammoth, Pig Iron, The Alley, Long Wharf, ACT, Playmakers, Kansas City Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Shakespeare Theater Company, and Trinity Rep. Proud member of IATSE, USA 829. New Georges Affiliated Artist. 2016 Target Margin Institute. Wingspace Member. WP Producer Lab 2022-24.BA, Fordham; MFA, NYU. www.barbarasamuels.com

JOHNNY GASPER (Sound Designer) is a sound & video designer, musician, and performer. Notable and recent designs include Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica In The Woods (Rattlestick/New Georges, at HERE - by Bailey Williams & Emma Horwitz, directed by Tara Elliott; Drama Desk Nominee); Salome (Heartbeat Opera at Irondale Theater); Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons - by John J. Caswell Jr., directed by Dustin Wills, sound co-design with Tei Blow; Obie Award, Lortel Nominee); The Barbarians (La Mama - by Jerry Lieblich, directed by Paul Lazar); Racecar Racecar Racecar (The Hearth, at ART/NY - by Kallan Dana, directed by Sarah Blush); Coach Coach, Events, and I thought I would die but I didn’t (Clubbed Thumb, The Brick, The Tank - by Bailey Williams, directed by Sarah Blush). He has performed with Advanced Beginner Group’s “I Understand Everything Better”; Elevator Repair Service’s “Seagull”; and Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble’s “The Art of Luv”, among others. MFA: PIMA, Brooklyn College.

BOBBIE ZLOTNIK (Wig Design) is an NYC-based wig designer who is ecstatic to join the Williamstown family this season. Off-Broadway; Emojiland (Drama Desk Nom.), Ibsen’s Ghost, Fairycakes, Gene & Gilda, Forbidden Broadway, and many more. National Tours; On Your Feet, Here You Come Again, Emojiland, Cocomelon LIVE. Film/TV; “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “The Gilded Age”, “Getting Curious With Jonathan Van Ness”. Regional: Bucks County Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, George Street, Gulfshore Playhouse, Lexington Theatre Company, Ordway, Penguin Rep, Pittsburgh CLO, Sharon Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, Theatre Aspen, Tuacahn, and many more. www.BobbieZlotnik.com

​KASSON MARROQUIN (Production Stage Manager) (They/He) Williamstown: Camino Real. Off-Broadway: Becoming Eve (NYTW); Orlando (Signature Theatre); Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons & MCC), The Thin Place (Playwrights Horizons); Wolf Play, The Light, Charm (MCC); Montag (Soho Rep.); Hamlet, Oresteia (The Park Avenue Armory); Cymbeline (NAATCO); Out of Time (NAATCO & The Public Theater). Regional: Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Again, Kill Local (La Jolla Playhouse); Quixote Nuevo (Hartford Stage). Dance/Touring: Pilobolus at The Joyce Theater (Pilobolus); DESCENT (Kinetic Light). Music/Opera: The Counterfeit Opera, The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island); Path of Miracles, Tree of Codes (Spoleto Festival USA). Events: MCC Theater’s Miscast, Yo-Yo Ma’s Day of Action, Queer Liberation March Rally. Education: BA, University of North Texas & MFA, UC San Diego.

CHARLIE LOVEJOY (Assistant Stage Manager) is delighted to be back at Williamstown after PSMing the 2024 Cabaret series. Off-Broadway: I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan, Kimberly Akimbo (Atlantic Theater Company); The Swamp Dwellers, Henry IV parts i and ii (TFANA); Hold On To Me Darling (WJP/Seaview); Seagull (Elevator Repair Service). Regional: Escaped Alone, The Brightest Thing in the World, Between Two Knees (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Santaland Diaries, Incendiary, graveyard shift (Goodman Theatre); Kiss Me Kate, Otello (Central City Opera). MFA, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

RICK SORDELET (Fight Director) with Christian and Collin Kelly-Sordelet created Sordelet Inc., a Native-owned action movement company with 35+ years experience. Rick has done many productions at WTF. They have done 88 Broadway shows. Rick and Christian won the 2025 Drama Desk Award for best Fight Direction for Pirates! They did the fights for Moby Dick at the MET and the sword fights for “Good Luck Babe”, Chappell Roan’s VMA debut. Numerous films, operas, national tours, and loads of TV. They teach at William Esper Studio, HB Studio, CUNY Harlem, and 22 years at Yale School of Drama. Rick is a board member for Red Bull Theater. They run Sordelet INK with author David Blixt, an e-publishing company for the emerging writer, visit www.SordeletInk.com for more. Also www.sordeletinc.com Follow on IG @Sordeletinc

SILIN CHEN (Associate Scenic Designer) is a theatre and exhibition designer based in New York, working internationally. She creates environments that carry the rhythm of a story and open pathways into its emotional landscape. Recent set design credits include The Inspector (Yale Repertory Theatre), Uncle Vanya (DGSD), The Seagull (Quinnipiac University), Veremonda (Yale Baroque Opera), and Cactus Queen (Carlotta Festival). She holds an M.F.A. in Set Design from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.

CALEB KRIEG (Associate Costume Designer) is a New York-based designer specializing in theatrical and custom designs. They were previously the costume supervisor for the Martha Graham Dance Company where their design credits with the company include CAVE (chor. Hofesh Shechter), Get Up, My Daughter (chor. Annie Rigney), and Cortege (chor. Baye & Asa). A selection of their associate design credits include: Orlando (Signature Theater, design by Oana Botez), Ulysses (Bard College, design by Enver Chakartash), The Comet/Poppea (Lincoln Center, design by Oana Botez). Their custom work for Brooklyn-based drag queens have been featured in Logo, V Magazine, Gayletter, Entertainment Weekly, and many more publications. Caleb is currently attending the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale to pursue their MFA in Costume Design. More information can be found at kriegdesign.com.

MACK SCALES (Associate Lighting Designer) (she/her) is an NYC based lighting designer and assistant lighting designer. This is her first time at Williamstown Theater Festival! Some of her recent projects include: Water for Elephants on Broadway (Lighting Design Membership Candidate); Millions (Assistant Lighting Designer), A Christmas Carol (Associate Lighting Designer), Water For Elephants (Assistant Lighting Designer) at the Alliance Theatre; Sweet Charity (Assistant Lighting Designer), Anything Goes (Assistant Lighting Designer) at Gulfshore Playhouse; Fiddler on the Roof (Assistant Lighting Designer), The Music Man (Associate Lighting Designer), Frozen (Assistant Lighting Designer) at City Springs Theater Company. Mack hopes you enjoy the show!

EMMA LEA HASSELBACH (Associate Sound Designer) (they/she) is a multidisciplinary theatre artist based in NYC working as a sound designer, director, and composer. Recent sound design credits include MEOW! (Exponential Festival), Oedipus (University of Rochester), Babies on the Street (the Brick), Pretty Perfect Lives (the Flea), 2 Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods (Assoc.). Upcoming sound design: Slaughter City (Fall 2025), Das Rauschgift (Winter 2025). They are a cofounder of Clumbsy Theatre and will be directing To Whom Should I Complain at Edinburgh Fringe (Just the Tonic) this August. FCLC '19. @theemlea