Matt is a long time resident artist here at Theatre Exile, having directed and/or acted in over 20 productions. Other credits include Arden Theatre, People’s Light&Theatre, Lantern Theatre, 1812 Productions, Interact, Delaware Theatre Co, Theatre Horizon, Walnut St Theatre, Bristol Riverside, and 24 seasons with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, among others. Matt is a 12 time Barrymore nominee and winner for best Director for The Whale and The Invisible Hand both with Theatre Exile. He’s also the recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award. This production is dedicated to Annie and John. I love being your dad and I try to earn it every day.

Melody Wong, is thrilled for her 2nd season at Theatre Exile. Credits include, Abandon, The Light, Wolfplay at Theater Exile, American Fast with InterAct, Dreamgirls with Theater in the X, In Search of the Kitchen Gods with 1812 Productions, Group!, Janet Wide Awake and Ok Trenton with Passage Theatre. Additional credits: SM for; Publik Private with Playpenn, TURN! Polly Mope, Lashed but not Leashed, Black Light, The Outer Space, The Kinetic Tree, PIFA 2016 at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Minorityland with PowerStreet Theater, The Wiz with Theater in the X, Tiger Style with Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, Master Harold and the Boys, with EgoPo Classic Theater, Barrymore Awards 2018/2019, ASM Whitman! Contradict this! with Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Assistant to the Director for the live capture of La Triviata, Turandot, The Marriage of Figaro with Opera Philadelphia. Assistant Director on Di Hati- Ku with Modero Dance Co. at Fleisher Art Memorial. Lion dance consultant/ guest speaker King of the Yees at Princeton University.

Miranda Watkins (they/them) is thrilled to be back with Theatre Exile! Their recent stage managing credits include Zooman and the Sign with Theatre in the X, The Rape of Lucertia with Temple University Opera Theater and Galilee with Azuka Theatre. Miranda is currently pursuing a BFA in Technical Production and Management at Temple University.

Emily Schuman is a Philadelphia-based props designer, actor and musician. Her prop and object design work has been seen at such companies as Nichole Canuso Dance Company, InterAct Theatre Company, 1812 Productions, Applied Mechanics, Orbiter 3, and Theatre Horizon. This is her first Theatre Exile production and she is thrilled to be working with such amazing artists.

MICHAEL KILEY (Sound Design and Original Music). Off Broadway: Playwrights Horizons (School Pictures). Regional: The Wilma Theatre (Mr. Burns - A Post Electric Play, Minor Character, Twelfth Night), Woolly Mammoth (My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion), The Play Company (Ludic Proxy), The Acting Company (As You Like It, Hamlet, R&G are Dead), Indiana Repertory Theatre (Flyin' West). Dance: Faye Driscoll (Thank You for Coming: Attendance), Nichole Canuso Dance Company (The Garden). Original Work: Close Music for Bodies (FringeArts), As the Eyes of the Seahorse (HERE Arts Center), GPS triggered soundwalks (The Empty Air, Animina, Gridstone Devotional, and Trail Off). www.michaelkiley.com www.themuralandthemint.com

Thom Weaver (Scenic and Lighting Designer). His work has been seen at NYSF/Public Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre (NY), Pilobolus, The Barbican, Arden, Wilma, PTC, Lantern, New Paradise Laboratories, CenterStage, Alliance, Huntington Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Folger Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Roundhouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hangar, Spoleto Festival, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep among others. 6 Barrymore Awards, 2 Jeff Awards, 2 AUDELCO Awards, and the Helen Hayes Award. Program director for Theater Design and Technology at UArts. Co-Founder of Die-Cast with Brenna Geffers and a member of Wingspace. Education: Carnegie-Mellon and Yale. he/him. Black Lives Matter.

Leigh Paradise (she/her/hers) is a costumer and custom clothier based in southeastern PA. Her design credits include This is the Week That Is (1812 Productions), Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Lantern Theater Company), Intimate Apparel (Desales University, Act 1), Sense and Sensibility (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), The Importance of Being Earnest (DeSales University, Act 1), Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Walnut Street Theater), Town (Theatre Horizon), and Bayard Rustin: Inside Ashland (People’s Light). She would like to thank Matt Pfeiffer and Theatre Exile for inviting her to join this production, and her family for their endless patience and support.

Natali Merrill is a sound and technology designer and engineer excited to return to Theatre Exile! Based in Philadelphia, she has been the sound designer for productions including Broads (1812 Productions), Spring Awakening (Bryn Mawr College), High Noon (Ninth Planet), Shakespeare’s R&J (New Light Theatre Company), Fucking A (Swarthmore College), Riot Antigone and Cabaret (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges). She has worked with Theatre Exile, 11th Hour Theatre Company, the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, New Century Theatre Company in Seattle, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. A graduate of Haverford College with a major in physics, she researched and wrote a thesis on acoustics in performance halls with RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. She is also a singer and composer. www.nmerrill.com