Wilderness Generation

PTC: Ruined. Broadway: Purlie Victorious; Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; A Raisin in the Sun. Off-Broadway: Fairview, Soho Rep/Theatre for a New Audience; Fabulation; By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Obie Award), Signature Theatre; Barbecue, The Public Theater; born bad, Soho Rep; Richard III, New York Shakespeare Festival; Breath, Boom, Playwrights Horizons; The Exonerated, The Culture Project/UK. TV: Sheriff Country; Miss Governor; The Equalizer; The Kings of Napa; Swarm; Single Drunk Female; Marvel’s Luke Cage; Bull; High Maintenance; The Last O.G.; Broad City; Seven Seconds; Law & Order. Film: Vampires vs. the Bronx; Red Hook Summer; The Nanny Diaries; Broken Flowers. Career Awards/Affiliations: Fox Foundation Fellowship; Audie Award; The Actors Center. Education/Training: B.A., Tufts University; M.F.A., Columbia University.

PTC: How to Catch Creation; Hillary and Clinton. Regional: Oedipus in Seattle, Theatre Horizon; Eternal Life Part 1; Fat Ham; Is God Is; Kill Move Paradise, Wilma Theater; Pride and Prejudice, Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Other Live Performance: Delaware Shakespeare; New Light Theatre; Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Lantern Theater Company; Arden Theatre Company; Syracuse Stage; People’s Light; Pittsburgh Public Theater; Two River Theater; Victory Gardens Theater; American Conservatory Theater; Dorset Theatre Festival; Human Race Theatre Company; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Walnut Street Theatre; Illinois Shakespeare Festival; Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre; Mixed Blood Theatre; Bristol Riverside Theatre. Academia/Affiliations: Adjunct Professor, Temple University; Member, Wilma Theater’s HotHouse Company; Founding Member, Black Theatre Alliance of Philadelphia.

PTC: Debut. Regional: Falsettos (Dr. Charlotte); POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive (Chris); Intimate Apparel (Mayme; Barrymore nomination); Once On This Island (Papa Ge), Arden Theatre Company; The Half-God of Rainfall (Modupe); Fat Ham (Opal), Wilma Theater; The Color Purple (Celie); STEPMOM, STEPMOM, STEPMOM (Kylia), InterAct Theatre; a hit dog will holler (Gina), Azuka Theatre. Career Awards: Barrymore Awards for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Musical (The Color Purple) and Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Musical (Once On This Island); additional Barrymore nominations. Fellowships/Residencies: Independence Foundation Fellowship; Jilline Ringle Residency; HATCH Residency.

PTC: Debut. Regional: Wishing to Grow Up Brightly (Co-Creator/Co-Book Writer/Ensemble; World Premiere), Theatre Horizon; Fat Ham; There, There, Wilma Theater; Abandon (World Premiere; Barrymore Award for Outstanding Original Production), Theatre Exile; The Appointment (2019 FringeArts/Next Door at NYTW; “Best of 2019 Theatre” — The New York Times, Time Out New York, New York Magazine), Lightning Rod Special; This Is the Week That Is, 1812 Productions; Noises Off, Delaware Theatre Company; Into the Woods; Backing Track (World Premiere), Arden Theatre Company. Education/Training: M.F.A. Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College. More: brensonthomas.com

PTC: Debut. Regional: Moreno; STEP MOM, STEP MOM, STEP MOM; American Fast, InterAct Theatre; The Light, Theatre Exile; Alice: Not Your Child’s Wonderland, EgoPo Classic Theater; The West Philly Meeting; Running Numbers; The First Deep Breath, Theatre in the X; Leaves from the Garden; Dov & Ali, Theatre Ariel; ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective; The Comedy of Errors, Delaware Shakespeare Festival. Education/Training: Temple University. More: @asesayjr

PTC: Ruined. Broadway: Fat Ham (Tony Award nomination; Pulitzer Prize in Drama). Off-Broadway: Productions at The Public Theater; National Black Theatre; Orbiter 3; Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Regional: Productions nationwide. Career Awards: F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Artist (2011); Pew Fellowship for Playwriting (2015); Terrence McNally New Play Award (2015); Whiting Award (2017); Kesselring Prize (2019); Steinberg Prize (2020); Pulitzer Prize in Drama (2022). Academia: Associate Professor of Theatre, Head of Playwriting Concentration, Columbia University.

PTC: Night Side Songs; Small Ball; Macbeth in Stride (co-directed with Tyler Dobrowsky). Off-Broadway: We Live in Cairo; The Half-God of Rainfall, New York Theatre Workshop/A.R.T.; Help, The Shed; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Lortel Award, Best Revival), Signature Theatre/A.R.T.; Capsule, The Public Theater/Under the Radar; Is God Is (Obie Award), Soho Rep; Underground Railroad Game (Obie Award), Ars Nova. Regional: Wonder, A.R.T.; Shakespeare Theatre Company; Yale Rep; BAM; CTG; Woolly Mammoth; Guthrie Theater;

PTC: Night Side Songs. Recent Off-Broadway: Walden (Second Stage), Jordans (Public), FLEX (Lincoln Center) Audelco Award, Catch As Catch Can (Playwright’s Horizons), Daddy (New Group & Vineyard) Drama Desk Award, Pipeline (Lincoln Center), Venus (Signature), Good Person of Szechwan (Foundry & Public). Over 100 regional credits including: Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Wilma Theater and Kennedy Center. Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Saunders is a Pew Fellow and a Hodder Fellow, Princeton University. Associate Professor of Design at Swarthmore College. mattsaundersdesign.net

Off-Broadway: The Other Americans; Cullud Wattah, The Public Theater; The Great Privation, Soho Rep; Watch Night, Perelman Performing Arts Center; The Niceties, Manhattan Theatre Club; Dot, Vineyard Theatre. Regional: Of Mice and Men, Houston Grand Opera; I & You: The Musical, McCarter Theatre Center; We Are Gathered, Arena Stage; The Penelopiad, Goodman Theatre; The Three Musketeers, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; 42nd Street, Goodspeed Musicals (Connecticut Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Costume Design); Choir Boy, Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Children’s Theatre Company; Hometown to the World, Santa Fe Opera; Shutter Sisters, The Old Globe; Guys and Dolls, Guthrie Theater; The Purists, Huntington Theatre Company; The Wiz!, Ford’s Theatre (Helen Hayes Award); Barbecue, Geffen Playhouse (NAACP Award). More: KaraHarmonDesign.com.

PTC: The Duat; Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill; 4,000 Miles; Exit Strategy; Venus in Fur; Disgraced; Hand to God. Off-Broadway: Sandra, Vineyard Theatre; The Total Bent, The Public Theater; Kingdom Come, Roundabout Theatre Company; Exit Strategy, Primary Stages; King Hedley II; How I Learned What I Learned; The Liquid Plain, Signature Theatre Company. Regional: Alley Theatre; Huntington Theatre Company; Arden Theatre Company; Wilma Theater (Associate Artist); Alliance Theatre; Milwaukee Repertory Theater; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Getty Villa; Children’s Theatre Company; Cleveland Play House; Portland Center Stage; Folger Theatre; Asolo Repertory Theatre; Round House Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Williamstown Theatre Festival; Spoleto Festival USA; Yale Repertory Theatre; designs with Pilobolus. Career Awards: Helen Hayes Award; two Jeff Awards; six Barrymore Awards; two AUDELCO Awards. Education/Training: Carnegie Mellon University; Yale School of Drama. Affiliations: Wingspace Theatrical Design; Co-Founder, Die-Cast. He/him.

Off-Broadway (select): The Antiquities; Amusements, Playwrights Horizons; The Counter, Roundabout Theatre Company; Caroline; Table 17, MCC Theater; Six Characters, LCT3; Grangeville; A Bright New Boise; A Case for the Existence of God, Signature Theatre; The Apiary; Camp Siegfried; Patience, Second Stage Theater; I’m Almost There, Audible Theater @ Minetta Lane/Francesca Moody Productions @ Edinburgh Fringe; This Beautiful Future, Cherry Lane Theatre; uncle vanya in a loft; Heaux Church; PS, Ars Nova; Black Exhibition; Demons, The Bushwick Starr. Regional/Other: Goodman Theatre; Alliance Theatre; PlayMakers Repertory Company; Petzel Gallery; Brooklyn Museum; Studio Museum.

PTC: Debut. Broadway (Show Crew): Death Becomes Her; Back to the Future; Company; Some Like It Hot; Funny Girl; Girl from the North Country. Regional: McCarter Theatre Center; Geva Theatre Center; Pioneer Theatre Company; American Conservatory Theater; Utah Opera; Olney Theatre Center; Amarillo Opera; Academy of Vocal Arts (Philadelphia); Florida Repertory Theatre. TV/Film: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel; White House Plumbers; Law & Order: Organized Crime. Education/Training: B.F.A., University of Utah

PTC: Caesar, Everything Is Wonderful. Off-Broadway: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Assistant Fight Director), Playwrights Horizons. Regional: The Comeuppance, Wilma Theater/Woolly Mammoth Theatre; Great Expectations, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Acting Company; Peter Panto, A Raisin in the Sun, People’s Light; Citrus Andronicus (Barrymore Award, Outstanding Choreography), Philadelphia Artists’ Collective; POTUS, Arden Theatre Company; Cymbeline, Henry IV Part 2, Sense and Sensibility, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; The Play That Goes Wrong, 1812 Productions; Untitled Farce Workshop, Pig Iron. Film: Tooth Fairy, Aspire Studios. Affiliations: Artistic Associate, Philadelphia Artists’ Collective.More: eli-lynn.com | @EverInMotley.

PTC: The Duat; Cost of Living; Empathitrax. Regional: InterAct Theatre Company; Lantern Theater Company; Two River Theater; Quintessence Theatre Group; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Theatre Horizon; Wilma Theater; Pig Iron Theatre Company; Azuka Theatre; Simpatico Theatre; Shakespeare in Clark Park; Act II Playhouse; Arden Theatre Company; Millbrook Playhouse; Hedgerow Theatre. Education/Training: B.A. in Theatre and Drama, Indiana University Bloomington. Pronouns: she/her.