Keiko Green (she/her) is a playwright, TV writer, and performer based in Los Angeles. Plays include: Empty Ride (Old Globe), Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (Old Globe; SF Playhouse; Porkfilled Productions - Upcoming), Hells Canyon (Theater Mu; WET - upcoming), The Bed Trick (Seattle Shakespeare Co), Sharon (Cygnet Theatre), Hometown Boy (Actors Express; Seattle Public Theater), and Nadeshiko (Sound Theatre Company). Her plays have been developed at the Old Globe, the Kennedy Center, the National New Play Network, Playwrights Realm, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, and twice by the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Awards/Honors: Susan Blackburn Prize Finalist, Kilroys Web, San Diego Critics Cicle Award (Outstanding New Play), Gregory Award (Outstanding New Play). She holds commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation, and the Kennedy Center/Seattle Children's Theatre. Affiliations: 2024-2025 Geffen Writers Group, 2023 Chance Resident Playwright, Theater Mu's Mu Tang Clan, Seattle Rep Resident Writers Group, former ACT Core Company Member. As a screenwriter, she wrote on Hulu’s “Interior Chinatown” and AppleTV's upcoming "Margo's Got Money Troubles." As an actor, she has performed at theaters nationwide and originated the role of Connie in Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap at the Denver Center and Seattle Rep. BFA: NYU Drama - Experimental Theatre Wing, MFA: UCSD Playwriting.

Joel de la Fuente* (Greg) (he/him) is thrilled to be making his SCR debut. Since 2012, he has been performing Jeanne Sakata’s one-person play, Hold These Truths all over the country (2012 Drama Desk nomination, 2018 Outstanding Performance in a Principal Role, Theatre Bay Area Award). While doing so, he appeared in two award-winning streaming shows: as Dr. Johann Pryce in Netflix’s “Hemlock Grove” and as Chief Inspector Kido on Amazon Prime’s “The Man in the High Castle.” He has also appeared as a series regular on “Space: Above & Beyond,” “Devils” with Patrick Dempsey, and most recently, “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.” On film, he can recently be found in The Same Storm and Ramona at Midlife both available on pay-per-view. He is the proud father of two daughters and the lucky husband of jewelry designer Melissa de la Fuente. He received his MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. Instagram: @joeldelafuente.

River Gallo* (M) is a Salvadoran-American actor, writer, filmmaker, and intersex activist. They are the writer, producer, and star of Ponyboi, the first narrative feature created by and starring an out intersex artist in cinema history. The film premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Ponyboi will be theatrically released by Fox Entertainment Studios this summer on June 27. Theatre credits include, Cordelia/Fool in King Lear at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts and in The 24 Hours Plays on Broadway and Los Angeles. Television credits include “Love, Victor.” They were also featured in the critically acclaimed documentary Every Body, directed by Academy Award nominee Julie Cohen. A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts (BFA) and USC School of Cinematic Arts (MFA), Gallo is thrilled to return to SCR, having played the role of M in the world premiere staged reading at the Pacific Playwrights Festival in 2024. rivergallo.com @rivergallo

Rafael Goldstein* (Will/Others) has been working on and around the stages of Los Angeles since he was 12, spending most of those years at A Noise Within in Pasadena, where he is a Resident Artist. Recent roles include Laertes and The Player in Ensemble Theatre Company’s production of Hamlet and, late last year, he shot a feature film written and directed by Academy Award nominee Alex Mechanik. In 2023, he played Jake in the world-premiere of Keiko Green’s Sharon at the Cygnet Theatre in San Diego, earning a Craig Noel Award nomination. He is thrilled to be making his official South Coast Repertory debut in the world premiere of Green’s You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! rafaelgoldstein.com

Anna LaMadrid* (Lila/Others) is most likely recognized for her role as Fake Angela, opposite Nathan Fielder in HBO’s groundbreaking first season of “The Rehearsal.” Recent television credits include recurring roles as Rocio in Hulu’s “This Fool” and as Lacey Gamble in season two of “Shining Vale” opposite Courteney Cox. In L.A., her theatre work has been seen at Pasadena Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company, Echo Theater, Antaeus Theatre Company, and Boston Court Pasadena. She earned her MFA at University of Washington.

Sharon Omi* (Janet/Others) is happy for the opportunity to do another exciting new play at SCR after appearing in Galilee, 34 last season. She has appeared in plays at Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, East West Players and Playwrights’ Arena, among many others. Recent theatre credits include My Home on the Moon at the San Francisco Playhouse, The Great Wave at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Tales of Clamor at USC, and No No Boy and Innocent When You Dream at L.A. Theatre Works. She starred in the film Eat with Me (streaming on Amazon/Peacock/Tubi) for which she won an award for best actress at the Out on Film Festival in Atlanta. She also appeared in the films Yellow, Terminal USA and Only The Brave. Her recent television credits include “The After Party,” “Maggie,” “I Think You Should Leave,” “General Hospital,” “Forever,” “The First,” “Young Sheldon,” “The Resident,” “How to Get Away With Murder” and “Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders,” among many others.

Alysia Reiner* (Viv) is best known as Fig in 7 seasons of “Orange Is the New Black” (SAG Award), and originating Agent Sadie Deever in 2023 Emmy and Critics Choice Award winning “Ms. Marvel.” Other recent television includes 5 seasons as Sunny in “Better Things” (FX/Hulu), 2 seasons as Kiki in “The Deuce” (HBO), 2 seasons as Kathryn in “Shining Vale” (HBO Max/Starz), and currently in Netflix’s “The Diplomat,” seasons 2 and 3. Other filmed highlights include Oscar-winning Sideways, “Broad City” (Emmy-winning episode), going head to head with Viola Davis in “How To Get Away with Murder,” etc. Reiner has performed on stages from Royal Court Theatre in London to The Apollo Theater in Harlem to the Edinburgh Festival (Critics Choice Award). Select New York theatre includes My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre (The Public Theater), Jesus in Manhattan (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Jayson with a Y (The New Group) and Pentecost (The Barrow Group). LOVE&THX DODO&D @alysiareiner alysiareiner.com

Zi Alikhan (Director) (he/him) is a queer, first-generation South Asian-American, culturally Muslim theater director. His directing credits include On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages, Drama Desk nomination-Outstanding Director, Lucille Lortel nomination-Outstanding Director), Sanctuary City (Pasadena Playhouse, LA Times Best of the Year), The Band’s Visit (Writers Theatre/TheatreSquared, Chicago Tribune Best of the Year), RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company), Frou Frou (Boston Court Pasadena), The Wizard of Oz and Somewhere (Geva Theatre), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), A Nice Indian Boy (Olney Theatre Center) and Ragtime (PlayMakers Repertory Company). Upcoming: The world premiere of Deepak Kumar’s House of India at The Old Globe.

Adam Rigg (Scenic Design). On Broadway, Rigg designed The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award) and Illinoise (also Park Avenue Armory). Off-Broadway credits include Teeth (New World Stages/Playwrights Horizons); Blood Quilt (Lincoln Center Theater); On Sugarland (Lucille Lortel Award), The House That Will Not Stand (New York Theatre Workshop); White Girl In Danger (Second Stage/Vineyard Theatre); Cullud Wattah (The Public Theater); Fefu and Her Friends (Special Citation, Henry Hewes Design Award; Theatre for a New Audience); Soft, Which Way to the Stage? (MCC Theater); Is God Is, Revolt.She Said.Revolt Again. (Soho Rep); Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Signature Theater); Continuity, Actually (Manhattan Theatre Club); and Blue Ridge (Atlantic Theater). Designs for opera include El Niño (Metropolitan Opera); The Lord of Cries (Santa Fe Opera); The Listeners (Norwegian National Opera/Opera Philadelphia); Breaking the Waves (Opera Philadelphia), Giustino (Theater an der Wien) and Prism (LA Opera). Upcoming projects include Nacht ohne Morgen (Berlin Staatsoper/Paris Opera), Lincoln in the Bardo (Metropolitan Opera), BOWL EP (Vineyard Theatre/National Black Theatre/New Group), All The Men Who’ve Frightened Me (La Jolla Playhouse) and Sylvia, Sylvia, Sylvia (Geffen Playhouse).

Lux Haac (Costume Design) (she/her) is a New York-based costume designer working in theatre, film, opera, and dance. Broadway: The Thanksgiving Play (Second Stage Hayes Theater). Off-Broadway/New York: Dirty Laundry (WP Theater); Manahatta, Mobile Unit: The Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater); Between Two Knees, Number Our Days: A Photographic Oratorio (PAC NYC); On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages/59E59 Theaters); 53% Of (Second Stage Uptown); Songs About Trains (Radical Evolution/Working Theater/New Ohio Theatre); Eureka Day (Colt Coeur/Walkerspace); Ajijaak on Turtle Island (IBEX Puppetry/New Victory Theater); R + J (Hypokrit NYC/Access Theater); ¡Figaro! (90210) (The Duke on 42nd Street). Regional: In Her Bones (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); Skeleton Canoe (Chicago International Puppet Festival); Dial M for Murder, I and You, Annapurna, Native Gardens (Syracuse Stage); For the People (Guthrie Theater); The Wizard of Oz (Geva Theatre); Between Two Knees (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory, McCarter Theatre Center, Seattle Repertory); Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage, Syracuse Stage); LEAR (Cal Shakes); Kim’s Convenience (Westport Country Playhouse, TheatreSquared); Yoga Play, Ragtime (PlayMakers Repertory Company); Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company). Haac is a Core Collaborator with All My Relations Collective and a member of USA 829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design. MFA: NYU/Tisch. luxhaac.com @luxhaac

Barbara Samuels (Lighting Design) (she/her) is an Obie and Henry Hewes Award-winning queer designer, organizer and producer creating design-forward live events that prioritize generosity, equity, and representation. Samuels’ designs have been seen regionally at Pig Iron Theatre Company, Bard SummerScape, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, KCRep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Trinity Repertory. New York credits include designs at Soho Rep, Signature Theatre, Little Island, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, National Asian American Theatre Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Class Company (MCC), Ars Nova, Theatre for a New Audience (TFANA), Playwrights Horizons, WP Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Monica Bill Barnes & Company, Target Margin Theater, Beth Morrison Projects, New Georges and Clubbed Thumb. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a 2016 Target Margin Institute Fellow, a member of Wingspace and WP Producer Lab 2022-24. She earned her BA at Fordham and MFA at NYU. Proud Member USA829. barbarasamuels.com

Noel Nichols, Uptown Works (Sound Design) sound is a dynamic team of designers that creates collaboratively for theatre, film, podcasts, music production and other media. Select sound design highlights include avaaz (South Coast Repertory); Tiny Father (Geffen Playhouse); The Sandwich Ministry (Skylight Theatre Company); Antikoni (Native Voices); I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); Becoming Eve (New York Theatre Workshop); Which Way To The Stage (Signature Theatre DC); the ripple, the wave... (Berkeley Repertory/Goodman Theatre); The Scenarios and Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theatre DC); Blues Clues & You! (Round Room Live); Queen (Long Wharf Theater, A.R.T./New York); Choir Boy and Today is my Birthday (Yale Repertory); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage); and First Down (59E59 Theaters). This design was led by Noel Nichols (noelnicholsdesign.com) with co-design by Bailey Trierweiler (btsounddesign.com) and Daniela Hart (uptownworksnyc.com). Nicholas, Trierweiler and Hart received their MFAs in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama.

Nicholas Hussong (Projection Design) Broadway: Skeleton Crew (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: Skeleton Crew, These Paper Bullets (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk nomination), Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons, Obie & Lucille Lortel award), On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages, Drama Desk nomination). Other credits include The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island NYC), An American Soldier (PAC NYC), Next to Normal (Round House Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Helen Hayes nomination), The Wizard of Oz (Geva Theatre), RENT! (Paper Mill Playhouse), Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cabaret (Atlanta Opera), Vietgone (Guthrie Theater), To the Yellow House (La Jolla Playhouse), Kleptocracy (Arena Stage), Until the Flood (15 regional and international locations); Solo Meditations, Haint Blu, Hair & Other Stories (Urban Bush Women); and Grounded (Alley Theatre) Other work includes Apollo Exhibit, Virginia Museum of Art, David Zwirner Gallery, Marc Jacobs, Mass MoCA, Complex Magazine, AMC+, San Diego Rady Shell, San Diego Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Tony Awards (CBS) and Ask Ronna Podcast. He also designed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, China, Canada and Vienna, Austria. Hussong is also the co-creator of FEAST, an immersive dining experience with Listen&Breathe (Nantucket, Ireland). Creative Producer at Dwight Street Book Club. nickhussong.com

James Alsop (Movement Consultant) Miss James has contributed choreography to Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour and you can see her movement direction on Kim Kardashian and Emma Roberts on the most current season of “American Horror Story: Delicate.” The Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody marks her feature film choreographic debut. She choreographed the acclaimed Netflix musical TV series “Girls5eva,” as well as the No. 1 streaming Netflix series “Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.” Her choreography is featured on such TV shows as “Pose,” “Soundtrack,” “Gossip Girl” “Emily in Paris” and Kerry Washington’s “Unprisoned.” She began her career as co-choreographer of Beyoncé’s videos, tour and promotional materials for “Run the World (Girls),” “Dance For You” and “Love on Top.” She has choreographed for JLo and worked with Oscar nominated director Paul Thomas Anderson for the Haim music video “Just A Little of Your Love.” After choreographing the entire season of “Maya & Marty,” she worked with Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond to choreograph season three of “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” and has since worked for shows on NBC, Showtime, Netflix and Hulu. Her choreographic stage debut began with the world premiere of The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical, and also includes A Transparent Musical, 44: The unofficial unSanctioned Obama Musical and The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life.

David Nevell (Voice and Dialect Coach) is an actor, director, voice, dialects and movement coach. In addition to acting and coaching at SCR (most recently as Voice and Dialect Coach for Joan, Accent Coach for A Christmas Carol and playing Karl in A Raisin in the Sun), he has provided extensive voice, dialogue and dialect coaching for Fox Television, Pasadena Playhouse, Cornerstone Theater Company, Laguna Playhouse, REDCAT, Toi Whakaari and PCPA, among others. He is Senior Editor at the International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA), an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, and a Certified Yoga Instructor. Nevell also worked extensively as Voice and Dialects Consultant to Walt Disney Entertainment Productions from 2006 to 2020. As a director and educator, he has served on the faculty of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, Collaborative Arts Project (Tisch/CAP21), Marymount Manhattan College and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Since 2004, he has served as Head of Voice/Movement and Professor of Theatre and Dance at Cal State Fullerton. He is regularly invited to teach master classes and workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Next up: playing the role of Carney in A Man of No Importance at A Noise Within. davidnevell.com

Kathryn Davies* (Stage Manager) previously stage-managed Little Shop of Horrors, The Old Man and The Old Moon, Million Dollar Quartet, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Velveteen Rabbit, Poor Yella Rednecks, Sugar Plum Fairy, Orange, The Roommate, All the Way, Red, Vietgone, The Whipping Man, Tartuffe, Reunion, Trudy and Max in Love, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Sight Unseen, Topdog/Underdog, In the Next Room or the vibrator play, Doctor Cerberus, Ordinary Days and Our Mother’s Brief Affair—all at SCR. Recent credits include Fiddler on the Roof for McCoy Rigby Entertainment at La Mirada Theatre, Don Giovanni at San Diego Opera and The Barber of Seville at LA Opera. Her favorite credits include The Wars at the Grand Theatre; Dividing the Estate at Dallas Theater Center; La Bohème at Tulsa Opera; The Mystery of Irma Vep at The Old Globe; Les Contes D’Hoffmann at Hawai’i Opera Theatre; Of Mice and Men at Neptune Theatre; Skylight at Tarragon Theatre; and To Kill a Mockingbird at Citadel Theatre. Davies also worked as head theatre manager at the Toronto International, Dubai International, AFI, TCM and Los Angeles film festivals.

Lauren Buangan* (Assistant Stage Manager) is a stage manager based out of the Orange County and Los Angeles area. Her previous SCR stage management credits include Wish You Were Here, Joan, Coleman ’72, A Christmas Carol, Nina Simone: Four Women, and Million Dollar Quartet, among others. She has also served as assistant stage manager at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles on Tiny Father, Fat Ham and The Lonely Few. Buangan holds a BA in Theater from UCLA, a Certificate of Achievement in Film from Orange Coast College, and studied drama at Queen Mary University of London.