Reggie D. White, recently appointed as Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s third Artistic Director, is an award-winning artist and educator whose international career spans over two decades. His acting credits include Matthew López’s Tony-winning epic The Inheritance, Goddess (The Public Theater), Bayard Rustin: Inside Ashland (People’s Light), I and You (59E59), Hundred Days (New York Theatre Workshop), The Luckiest (La Jolla Playhouse) and Macbeth In Stride (American Repertory Theater). His directing credits include Arena Stage, Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Indiana Repertory Theatre. White co-conceived Lessons in Survival: 1971, based on the iconic conversation between Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin, at Vineyard Theatre (New York Times Critic’s Pick). He also co-conceived and appeared in the digital anthology series of the same title (New York Times Best of 2020). His play In Case You Haven’t Heard premiered at Bay Street Theater. He is a Vineyard Theatre resident artist, a founding member of the multi-generational theatre collective The Commissary and a founding company member with The Feast, a living-wage theatre company. White is a recipient of the Colman Domingo Award, the TCG Fox Fellowship, the TBA Titan Award and the RHE Artistic Fellowship, and an NAACP Theatre Award nominee. reggiedwhite.com

Lili-Anne Brown (Director), a Chicago South Side native, works as a director, actor and educator, and has performed in, directed and produced many award-winning shows in Chicago and nationally. Recent directing credits include The Wild Party (New York City Center Encores!); Eureka Day (TimeLine Theatre); Play On! (Signature Theatre); The Color Purple, The Nacirema Society…, School Girls and the world premieres of Ike Holter’s I Hate It Here and Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre); Two Trains Running (The Acting Company, national tour); Dreamgirls (McCarter Theatre and Goodspeed Musicals); FELA! (Olney Theatre); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre); Ain’t No Mo’ (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Baltimore Center Stage); Waitress, Rent and The Color Purple (The Muny); Once on This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Acoustic Rooster...(Kennedy Center and national tour); and Put Your House in Order (La Jolla Playhouse). She is the former Artistic Director of Bailiwick Chicago, where she focused programming on new play development with resident playwrights and Chicago-premiere musicals.

Tim Mackabee (Scenic Design) returns to SCR where he previously designed Vietgone. Broadway: The Elephant Man (starring Bradley Cooper), Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (dir. Spike Lee). West End: The Elephant Man. Off-Broadway: MCC Theater: Seared (Outer Critics Circle Award); Atlantic Theater Company: Guards at the Taj (Lortel Award), Describe The Night, The Penitent, Our New Girl; Roundabout Theatre: Darling Grenadine, The Last Match; Manhattan Theatre Club: Poor Yella Rednecks, Vietgone, Important Hats of the Twentieth Century; Lincoln Center Theater: Luce; and Vineyard Theatre: Gigantic, Heathers: The Musical. Music Video: Carly Ray Jepsen’s, “Surrender My Heart.” TV: Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo (HBO), “Gotham,” “Smash,” “The Today Show” and “Football Night in America.” Education: North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale School of Drama. @timmackabeedesign, timothymackabeedesign.com

Jos N. Banks (Costume Design) (he/they) is a multi-award-winning Visual/Performing Arts Artist, Costume Designer, Teaching Artist and LGBTQ+ trailblazer. He’s thrilled to return to Orange County after starring as Lola in the National Tour of Kinky Boots in 2018 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts! In addition to Kinky Boots, he appeared in the tours of Hair and The Color Purple. Select regional credits include productions at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Arena Stage, The MUNY, McCarter Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Orlando Shakes, Paramount Theatre, The Second City, Porchlight Music Theatre, Writers Theatre, Congo Square, Definition Theatre, Black Ensemble Theater and many more. On film, he appeared in Showtime’s “The Chi” and “Work in Progress” and Rise Against’s music video “Make It Stop.” He is a 4-time nominee for the BTAA (Black Theatre Alliance Awards) Best Costume Designer award. Curator of his Master Class, “#BeFEARLESS w/ Jos N. Banks,” which he has instructed young theatre artisans from grade school to collegiate. Banks also serves as Artistic Associate with About Face Theatre in Chicago, IL and was afforded the company’s first-ever costume designer residency. FearlessJos.com // @JosNBanks 

Kathy A. Perkins (Lighting Design) is making SCR debut. She has designed for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theatres including American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, St. Louis Black Repertory, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, Two River Theater and PlayMakers Repertory Company. Internationally, she has designed in South Africa, Switzerland, Cuba and Canada. In 1995, Perkins co-curated the exhibition ONSTAGE: A Century of African American Stage at Lincoln Center in New York. She is the editor of seven anthologies focusing on women. She is the recipient of numerous research and design awards, including Ford Foundation, Fulbright, NEA, the Henry Hewes Design Award, NAACP Image Award and the USITT Distinguished Achievement Award for both Education and Lighting Design. Perkins is a graduate of Howard University and the University of Michigan. She is faculty Emerita of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. kathyaperkins.com

André Pluess (Original Music & Sound Design). Broadway credits include Good Night, Oscar (The Belasco), The Minutes (Studio 54), 33 Variations (Eugene O’Neil Theatre), I Am My Own Wife (Lyceum Theatre) and Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre) as well as the world premiere of The Clean House (Yale Repertory Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater). Based in Chicago, he’s worked frequently with Northlight Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, TimeLine Theatre and Lookingglass Theatre Company where he is an ensemble member.  Regional credits include multiple productions with Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, La Jolla Playhouse and the Huntington Theatre.

LaShawn Melton (Hair & Wig Design) is making her SCR design debut. Her D.C. area credits include Olney Theatre Center’s Little Miss Perfect (Wig Design), Senior Class (Wig Design), Comedy of Tenors; Folger Theatre’s Julius X (Wig Design), The Winter’s Tale (Wig Design); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s The Great Privation (Wig Design), The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (Wig Design); Signature Theatre’s Play On! (Wig Design); Studio Theatre’s Mother Play (Wig Design), Paradise Blue (Wig Design); Arena Stage’s Fremont Ave. (Wig Design), Death on the Nile (Hair and Wig Design), The Other Americans (Hair Design), Tempestuous Elements (Wig Design); GALA Hispanic Theatre’s On Your Feet! (Wig Design); The Kennedy Center’s The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 (Wig Design); and Round House Theatre’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Wig Design). Her regional credits include wig design for Utah Shakespeare Festival (Raisin in the Sun, Emma the Musical, The Play that Goes Wrong). Her film and TV hairstyling has been seen on “Lioness,” “White House Plumbers,” “Rustin” and “Fellow Travelers.” She earned her BA in Art from The University of the District of Columbia.

Greg Geffrard (Assistant Director & Intimacy Consultant) (he/him). Previous credits include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Revolution(s), The Color Purple, The Nacirema Society (Goodman Theatre); Sanctuary City, Choir Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Two Sisters and a Piano, Hot Wing King, The Band’s Visit (Writer’s Theatre); Eureka Day! (TimeLine Theatre); BOTH (Teatro Vista); Beneath The Willow Tree (Pulse Theatre); The Factotum (Lyric Opera); Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Confederates (Redtwist Theatre); The Mountaintop (Beverly Arts Center); and Fen (Court Theatre). Regional credits include Fremont Avenue (Arena Stage); Strange Loop, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington Theatre); Piano Lesson (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Fairview (Theatre Cedar Rapids); A Third Way (Actor’s Express) and Fat Juliet (Theatrical Outfit).

Jamie Berry (Stage Manager) (she/her) is thrilled and honored to be back with the team for this beautiful production! Recent credits include regional productions of Fremont Ave., We Are Gathered and Jaja’s African Hair Braiding (Arena Stage), Play On! (Signature Theatre), Dreamgirls (McCarter Theatre Center and Goodspeed Musicals) and FELA! (Olney Theatre Center/Round House Theatre). She also toured with Back to the Future. Spreading joy, sunshine and melanin @jamiedreamsbig

Kathryn Davies (Assistant Stage Manager) previously stage-managed Million Dollar Quartet, Little Shop of Horrors, The Old Man and The Old Moon, 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 and about thirty more shows all at SCR. Recent credits include The Play That Goes Wrong and Fiddler on the Roof for McCoy Rigby Entertainment, La Bohème and The Barber of Seville at LA Opera and Don Giovanni at San Diego Opera. She has also stage managed at Dallas Theater Center, The Old Globe, Tulsa Opera, Hawai’i Opera Theatre, Opera Santa Barbara, Laguna Playhouse and many theatres across Canada. Davies also worked as head theatre manager at the Toronto International, Dubai International, AFI, TCM and Los Angeles film festivals.

Murnane Casting (New York Casting) casts for Broadway, tours and regional theatre. Current and recent projects include tours of TINA, Dear Evan Hansen, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Sound of Music, Grinch and Kinky Boots. Developmental work includes Anne of Green Gables, The Boy Who Loved Batman and Fremont Ave. We regularly collaborate with major theatres nationwide, including Arena Stage, Asolo Rep, Bay Street, Denver Center, Goodspeed and The Hollywood Bowl. Learn more at murnanecasting.com

Raiyon Hunter, CSA (Washington D.C. Casting) is a casting director, producer and arts administrator from New Orleans, Louisiana. She currently works as the Casting Director/Line Producer of Arena Stage. Previously, she worked as the Casting Director of Children’s Theatre Company and the Spelman Leadership Fellow at the Alliance Theatre, where she has contributed to a multitude of shows in varying capacities, ranging from casting associate to director on productions such as Do You Love the Dark?, Darlin’ Cory, Bina’s Six Apples, Good Bad People, Confederates and more. Additionally, she has been in residency at Oregon Shakespeare Festival under Nataki Garrett and The Repertory of Theatre of St. Louis under Hana S. Sharif.

Joanne DeNaut, CSA (Casting) is Casting Director for The LAB@SCR and served as SCR’s full-time Casting Director for more than three decades, casting over 300 productions from classics to world premieres by the country’s leading playwrights. In addition, she has cast numerous workshops and readings, including the Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. She has also consulted and cast for other theatres, including Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle Repertory, Center Theatre Group, and La Jolla Playhouse, as well as in collaborations with The Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Baltimore Center Stage, and Berkeley Repertory. Film credits include work with Octavio Solis, the American Film Institute and as a casting associate on various film and television projects. She also served as the Casting Director for USC’s MFA New Works Festival as well as Ojai Playwrights Conference. DeNaut currently teaches the Audition class at Saddleback Community College and additional classes at UCI, Cal State Fullerton and USC. She is a member of CSA.

Arena Stage The first racially integrated theatre in our nation’s capital and a pioneer of the regional theatre movement, Arena Stage was founded in 1950 in Washington, D.C. Today, under the leadership of Artistic Director Hana S. Sharif and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie, Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is a national center dedicated to American voices and artists. We produce plays of all that is passionate, profound, deep, and dangerous in the American spirit, and present diverse and groundbreaking work from some of the best artists around the country. Consistently contributing to the American theatrical lexicon by commissioning and developing new plays, Arena Stage impacts the lives of over 10,000 students annually through its work in community engagement and serves a diverse annual audience of more than 300,000. arenastage.org