Most Happy in Concert

I look forward to performing with this marvelous cast and team in Most Happy in Concert at Williamstown Theatre Festival. I’ve had the pleasure of portraying Mary Seacole in the production at the Mosaic Theater in Washington DC this spring! Broadway, NY credits include: Gospel at Colonus, Ragtime, Bring In Da Noise Bring In Da Funk, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, First Noel, and Dessa Rose. Regional Credits include: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Trouble in Mind, Comedy of Errors, The Old Settler, Women of Brewster Place. Television: Blue Bloods, God Friended Me, The Last OG, New Amsterdam, Mrs. Fletcher. Singer of the original theme song for Reading Rainbow. Film credits include: The Boys in the Band; Black Magic for White Boys. Awards: Kevin Kline Award, Carbonell Award, and Helen Hayes Nomination for Ella; Audelco Award for The First Noel; Audelco Outstanding Achievement Award 2020. 

Maya just wrapped the movie musical 1660 Vine directed by Patricia McGregor and choreographed by Paula Abdul. Prior to that Maya was in Indianapolis workshopping a new musical by Zack Zadek for Discovering Broadway. Favorite roles include Dorothy in The Wiz, Maria in The Sound of Music, Belle in Christmas Carol, Juno/Miranda in The Tempest. NY audiences have seen Maya in concerts at the Green Room 42, National Sawdust, and Feinstein’s/54 Below.She is a proud Interlochen Arts Academy/Camp alum and UMN/Guthrie BFA graduate @mayalagerstam

Erin Markey (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based actor and writer/composer who makes music-driven, comedic work across media. Recent acting credits include The Podcaster (Audible), Run/On (SXSW Festival), High Maintenance (HBO), At Home with Amy Sedaris (TruTV), Dr. Ride’s American Beach House (Ars Nova), Leonard Bernstein’s Peter Pan (Bard Summerscape), Ghost Rings (NYLA), and Assassins (Encores at NY City Center). Markey wrote, composed and starred in Singlet (Bushwick Starr), Boner Killer (Joe’s Pub), and A Ride On The Irish Cream (Abrons Arts Center)--all of which toured nationally and internationally. Markey frequently performs at Joe’s Pub and recently received a NY Voices Commission from The Public Theater to create the upcoming Little Surfer. They have also composed music for Tenderclaws’ VR games The Under Presents and Virtual Virtual Reality 2. They are a company member of Half Straddle.

April Matthis is a two-time OBIE Award winning actor. Credits include, Off-Broadway: Toni Stone (Roundabout—Lortel, Drama Desk noms.); Fairview, LEAR (Soho Rep); Signature Plays: Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre); IOWA, Antlia Pneumatica (Playwrights Horizons); and On the Levee (LCT3). With Elevator Repair Service: The Sound & the Fury; Fondly, Collette Richland (NYTW); Measure for Measure (The Public); Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Abrons Art Center); GATZ (Perth Festival), Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge (deSingel Antwerp). Regional: Little Bunny Foo Foo (Actors Theater of Louisville) and A Streetcar Named Desire (Yale Rep). TV: “New Amsterdam”, “The Blacklist” (NBC), “EVIL”, “The Good Fight” (Paramount +).  Film: Black Card (HBO, Showtime), Fugitive Dreams (Cinequest), and the forthcoming Ramona at Midlife.

Mallory Portnoy is thrilled to be returning to Most Happy after appearing in Bard Summerscape's concert version last summer.  Other New York credits include Oklahoma!: Circle in the Square (Tony award for best musical revival) / St. Ann's Warehouse / Bard Summerscape, California: Clubbed Thumb, Privacy: The Public Theater in Association with The Donmar Warehouse, A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Public Theater / Shakespeare in the Park.  Regionally she has appeared in productions at Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Chautauqua Theater Company.  TV: The Good Fight (Paramount+), Grace and Frankie (Netflix), The Helpsters (Apple TV).  Mallory is co-creator of the comedy series Human Interest (winner of Best Digital Short Series at Series Fest) and Roger, The Chicken (LA Comedy Film Festival, Friars Club Comedy Film Festival).  Training: University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign, Juilliard.

Mary Testa is the recipient of the Legend of Off-Broadway Award, Three Tony nominations, two Lucille Lortel nominations, six Drama Desk nominations, two Drama League nominations, two Outer Critic’s Circle nominations, an Obie Award, and a special Drama Desk award celebrating Queen of the Mist and ‘Three Decades of Outstanding Work.’ Broadway: Oklahoma! Wicked, Guys and Dolls, Xanadu, Chicago, 42nd St, Marie Christine, On the Town, Forum, etc. Opera: Anna Nicole/BAM.  Off-Broadway: Oklahoma!, The Portuguese Kid, The Government Inspector, First Daughter Suite, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Queen of the Mist, Love Loss.., A New Brain, See What I Wanna See, etc.Film: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, The Mother (short; 3 Best Actress Awards), Big Stone Gap, Eat Pray Love, The Bounty Hunter, etc. Television: The Good Fight, Divorce, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Bull, SMILF, Two Broke Girls, Difficult People, and Whoopi. Featured on fourteen original cast albums, Mary's album with Michael Starobin, Have Faith, is now available.

Nicole Weiss (she/they) is an actor, singer, songwriter, and collaborator. Recent: Dave Malloy’s Octet at Berkeley Repertory Theatre & Signature Theatre Company, directed by Annie Tippe, Folk Wandering (Pipeline Theatre Company), Shapeshifters: A Queer Comic Book Musical (Zhailon Livingston), Nuclear Love Affair (HERE), The Imbible (New World Stages). Nicole has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Delacorte Theatre, The Bell House (with John Early), Ars Nova, Rockwood Music Hall, Joe’s Pub, The McKittrick Hotel, and probably your wedding. She performs regularly with Shaina Taub & Matt Gehring’s Broadway sketch comedy group Shiz at UCB, and is currently working on her third album. BFA NYU/Tisch. nicoleweiss.com 

Kiena Williams (Soprano) and Brooklyn native, brings “thrilling” passion (OperaWire), authenticity and beauty to the stage with her rich vocal color and heartfelt interpretation. Some recent features include: National Music Festival (Vocal Apprentice), In the Green (Mannes Opera), New York District Round (Laffont Competition), Great to Be Here (Album-Liam Forde), L'amico Fritz (Teatro Grattacielo), 2021-22 Young Artist (Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy), Cosi Fan Tutte (Opera NexGen) & Celebration of Voices (Studio LIS Voice). She also serves as a Conductor and Outreach & Public Schools Manager at the Grammy Award winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Kiena is an alumna of LaGuardia HS and The Pennsylvania State University where she received her Bachelors of Arts. She is currently pursuing an MM from Mannes School of Music.

Gwynne Wood (she/they) is grateful to join the company of Most Happy in Concert. She is currently on the 2019 Oklahoma! National Tour understudying Ado Annie, Laurey Williams, and Gertie Cummings. Selected credits: Harry T. Burn (Suffs workshop at the Public Theater), Sister Mary Robert (Sister Act), and Ilse (Spring Awakening). They also had the opportunity to perform on tour as Will Parker for one night in Kansas City. Gwynne is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory BFA class of 2018 with an emphasis in Directing. When not onstage, you can find her doing pickle reviews across America. Follow them on Instagram and TikTok @gwynnelaurel. Endless love and thanks to my family (chosen and otherwise) and everyone at DGRW for your unwavering support and guidance. To my non-binary, trans, and genderqueer theatre folks - we belong here. 

Broadway: Oklahoma!, (new arrangements & orchestrations), The Sound Inside, Seawall / A Life, revival of Marvin’s Room, world premiere of Significant Other. Off Broadway: premieres of Judgment Day, I Was Most Alive With You, Animal, The Village Bike, Man From Nebraska, Tribes, and Women or Nothing. Film Scores: A Chrismas Carol (2021), The Courtroom (2021), Duolo (2017), Health to the King (2020), Hello Again (2017, Orchestrations). Scores for Audio: Vapor Trail (2022), The Miranda Obsession (2022), The Guitly (2021).  In 2021 Kluger launched the music label Archie & Fox Records. www.danielkluger.com

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Nathan Koci (Co-Music Supervisor, Co-Music and Vocal Arranger) is a musician, conductor and collaborative artist working across multiple disciplines including folk music, jazz, contemporary classical music, dance, and theater. His theater credits include: Oklahoma! (Broadway, US Tour, Young vic, St. Ann's Warehouse, Bard Summerscape),Hadestown (Broadway, US Tour, Citadel Theater), Most Happy in Concert (Williamstown Theater Festival, Bard Summerscape),Brimstone and Glory (Wordless Music), The Head and the Load (Tate Modern, Ruhr Triennale, MASS MoCA), The Source (BAM Next Wave, SF Opera, LA Opera), The Principles of Uncertainty (BAM Next Wave), and War Horse (US Tour). Nathan also records and performs with The Solomon Diaries and The Hands Free. nathankoci.com [nathankoci.com]

Sean Peter Forte is a Brooklyn-based musical director, conductor, pianist, arranger, and occasional actor-musician. This is his first show at Williamstown. Born and raised in the Bay Area, he studied classical piano performance at University of the Pacific and, shortly thereafter, moved to New York City. He’s been the rehearsal pianist on several Broadway shows, including the 2019 Oklahoma! revival, Hadestown, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, and A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder. He served as the associate musical director for the national tour of Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods and has also worked regionally at Bard SummerScape, Paper Mill Playhouse and Ogunquit Playhouse. He is currently supervising several new musicals and serving as musical director to Broadway actress Bianca Marroquin. Infinite love to Mom, Duke, and Matthew.

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Amy Rubin is a designer of environments for theater, opera and dance.  Recent credits include: Omar (Spoleto Festival), Octet (Signature Theater/ Berkeley Rep); Aging Magician (San Diego Opera), Snowy Day (Houston Grand Opera); Blue (Michigan Opera Theatre); Cyrano (The New Group); Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Signature Theater); Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theatre);  Miles for Mary (Playwrights Horizons); Acquanetta (Bard/Prototype Festival). Her designs have been featured at American Repertory Theater, McCarter Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Walker Arts Center, MassMoCA, Z Space, The Kimmel Center, and numerous TED Talks.

Terese Wadden is a New York based costume designer.  Recent credits include Cosi fan Tutte (Santa Fe Opera), the Tony Award Winning production of Oklahoma! (Broadway, Touring, and St. Ann’s Warehouse), Bard Summerscape’s production of Peter Pan, A Quiet Place (Curtis Institute of Music), Acquanetta (Bard Summerscape and Prototype Festival), and The Wake World (Opera Philadelphia).  She has designed costumes for Il Farnace (Spoleto Festival USA), Dr. Atomic (Curtis Institute of Music), David Lang’s The Little Match Girl Passion (Perez Museum, Miami and Jack Shainman Gallery at The School, Kinderhook, NY), Philip Glass’s In The Penal Colony (Boston Lyric Opera), Pyramus and Thisbe (Canadian Opera Company), and the Handel operas Orlando and Alcina (WhiteBox Art Center).  Her work has been seen at the Glimmerglass Festival, Tanglewood, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Opera Theater, New York City Opera, Opera Colorado, Central City Opera, Portland Opera, Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Mark Taper Forum, Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Sawdust, LA Opera at RedCat, and the San Francisco Opera.  She was also a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome 2020-2021.

The Baltimore native has worked in the industry for 20 years and seamlessly transitions between theater, film, and print. Hair & Wig Design: World Premiere -The Secret River (Opera Orlando), Julius Caesar (The Atlanta Opera), King Arthur (Bard Summerscape), Carmen (Opera Orlando), Amazing Grace (Museum of the Bible). Film & TV: Rustin; White House Plumbers; Stranger Things; Wonder Woman 1984; Charm City Kings; Kennedy Center Honors; 2020 Presidential Debates. Anika has also toured with numerous national and international productions including: Kinky Boots, The Color Purple, and Cats.

Thomas is thrilled to have his WTF Debut with this production. Previous works with Daniel Fish include: Eternal, House For Sale and A (radically condensed and expanded) Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again. Recent credits include: Content Creation and Visual Design for Epochal Songs, a performance installation collaboration with Muna Tseng and (posthumously) Keith Haring at SCHUNCK, NL; Lighting Design for Ocean Filibuster by Katie Pearl and Lisa D’Amour at A.R.T. and Lighting Design for Is This A Room by Tina Satter on Broadway. Other credits include works with: JoAnne Akalaitis, Jonathan Bepler, Wally Cardona, Steve Cosson, Annie Dorsen, DD Dorvillier, Beth Gill, Trajal Harrell, Ted Hearne, Jennifer Lacey, Noémie Lafrance, David Levine, Molly Lieber, Ong Keng Sen, Zeena Parkins, Jay Scheib and Eleanor Smith. Thomas is the recipient of a Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Lighting Design as well as a Bessie Design Award for Outstanding Visual Design. Thomas was educated locally at both Mount Anthony Union High School, where Teru Simon inspired Thomas to pursue a career in the arts, and Bennington College before attending Yale School of Drama. 

(he/him). Broadway: A Strange Loop, Oklahoma! (Tony nom., Drama Desk nom.), Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom.), Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter. Off-Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), Oklahoma! (St. Ann’s), Cleopatra, One Day the Musical, The Weir, Why Torture is Wrong..., Emergence-See!, Rainbow Kiss, Dutchman (AUDELCO Viv nom.). Regional: The Old Globe, Heartbreak Hotel (Chicago), ART, Williamstown, Huntington, Westport Country Playhouse, Two River Theater, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Long Wharf. Other: Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other Lives at BAM; Drama Desk Awards 2014 & 2015; Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary Gala; holiday installations for Saks 5th Avenue, Cartier, and others.

NEW YORK: Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy; Derren Brown: Secret; Lifespan of a Fact: JUNK; Passing Strange; Off-Broadway: Second Stage, The Public Theatre, The Vineyard, The Atlantic Theatre, The Culture Project; National Tours: London’s Globe Theatre: King Lear; Kneehigh Theatre Company: Tristan & Yseult. Regional: 18 plus seasons at Berkeley Repertory Theatre: plays include Notes From The Field, Doing Time in Education and Let Me Down Easy both by Anna Deavere Smith; The Wild Bride &  Tristan & Yseult (dir. Emma Rice), Arabian Nights (dir. Mary Zimmerman) among many others; Arena Stage, Yale Repertory Theatre, Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theatre, Hartford Stage, The Folger Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Broad Stage, Lookingglass Theatre Company. 

Peter Nictakis is excited to make his Williamstown Theatre Festival debut with Most Happy in Concert. Prior to the Williamstown, Peter previously worked with companies across the country, including Walnut Street Theatre, Cincinnati Opera, Utah Opera, New Orleans Opera, Ravinia Festival, Kentucky Opera, North Carolina Opera, Surflight Theatre, Winnipesaukee Playhouse and the Weathervane Repertory Theatre.  Peter is a proud member of AEA.

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Film: What the Constitution Means to Me (Amazon Prime ). Broadway:  POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Tring to Keep Him Alive, Slave Play (Broadway remount and original, CTG, NYTW), Is This a Room & Dana H, What the Constitution Means to Me (NYTW, Barrow Street, Broadway, National Tour). TV Movie/ Benefits: amfAR’s The Great Work Begins featuring scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Ratatouille: the TikTok Musical benefit for the Actors Fund. TV: Casting Assistant on Season 1 of Katori Hall’s P-Valley for Starz. Taylor is the resident casting director at Page 73 Productions. She has cast various productions in NYC and around the country. Theaters she has worked at include New York Theatre Workshop (formerly was the resident Casting Director), The Mercury Store, Soho Rep, Rattlestick, Bard SummerScape, Theatre for a New Audience, Two River Theater, Fisher Center at Bard, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Studio Theatre (DC), Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Notable productions include: On Sugarland (NYTW), Sanctuary City (NYTW), Othello with Daniel Craig (NYTW), Whitney White’s The Amen Corner (Shakespeare Theatre, DC), Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma! (Fisher Center at Bard and current  National Tour), Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is (Soho Rep ), Clare Barron’s You Got Older (Page 73), Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place (Humana Festival, ATL), Daniel Fish’s Most Happy (Fisher Center and WTF).  Upcoming: Sam Gold’s Three Sisters. 

Mikhaela Mahony is a Brooklyn-based director of theatre, opera, and film. She has developed work with New York City Opera, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Boston Lyric Opera, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Syndicate, F*it Club, City Lyric Opera, the Collaborative Arts Ensemble, Wolf359, The Lobbyists, The Juilliard School, the Chautauqua Institution, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, the Manhattan School of Music, and Columbia University. She is a frequent collaborator with the Obie-Award winning EST/Youngblood, directing Abby Rosebrock’s Dido of Idaho and the upcoming production of Brittany Allen’s Redwood. Directing credits include: Dear Erich by Ted Rosenthal (New York City Opera), The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti (City Lyric Opera), an adaptation of Sigmund Romberg’s operetta The Student Prince (Chautauqua Institution), and a multilingual version ofThe Beggar’s Opera by John Gay (Manhattan School of Music). Associate/Assistant credits include: Oklahoma! (dir. Daniel Fish, Off-Broadway & Broadway), Le Roi Arthus (dir. Louisa Proske, Bard Summerscape), A Handmaid’s Tale (dir. Anne Bogart, Boston Lyric Opera), Acquanetta (dir. Daniel Fish, Prototype Festival), Il Turco in Italia (dir. John Giampietro, The Juilliard School). She is the Artistic Director of Hofstra Opera Theatre at Hofstra University, serves on the faculty of Mannes School of Music at The New School, and volunteers with the 52nd Street Project. Member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre. BA from Barnard College, MFA from Columbia University.

Vincent E. Thomas, dancer, choreographer and teacher, received his MFA in Dance from Florida State University and a BME in Music from the University of South Carolina. He has danced with Dance Repertory Theatre (FSU), Randy James Dance Works (NY/NJ), EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC), and Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD). His choreography has been presented at various national and international venues including DUMBO Festival (NY), Velocity Festival (DC), Modern Moves Festival (DC), Philly Fringe (PA), Edinburgh Fringe Festival (UK-Scotland), Barcelona and Madrid, Spain, Avignon, France, Athens, Greece, Bari, Italy, Copenhagen, Denmark, Shanghai, Taipei, and Singapore. He received rave reviews for his performance of “Come Change” (2012) and “iWitness” (2014) in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Vincent was the Movement Coach/Choreographer for Everyman Theater’s Brother’s Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney in Baltimore, MD (2012), Mosaic Theatre’s Unexplored Interior by Jay Sander in Washington, DC (2015), and Everyman Theater’s Los Otros by Ellen Fitzhugh in Baltimore, MD (2017). He is the Artistic Director/Choreographer of the national touring What’s Going On project. Vincent was awarded the 2011-2012 Towson University Student Government Association Faculty Member of the Year, a 2014-2015 NextLook Artist for the University of Maryland College Park and Joe’s Movement Emporium, a 2012-13 American Dance Institute Incubator Artist (MD), a 2016 Baker Artist Award finalist, the 2017 Pola Nirenska Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance (DC), the 2019 University System of Maryland Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship & Creative Activity, the 2020 MDEA Living Legacy Award, and a 2021 William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund Awardee. He is an Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator, faculty member for the UBW Summer Institutes (NY), and Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD). 

His multi-dimensional company VTDance builds on the use of contemporary dance, improvisation, text/ movement, a variety of sound sources, and collaborations with other artists, including dancers, musicians, poets, visual artists, and others [to be discovered]. These ideas coupled with witty, poignant, athletic and gestural movement are the rich palette for VTDance. www.vtdance.org 

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Anne Kennedy is a costume designer based in Williamstown, MA.  She designed The Last Goodbye at Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2010.  Anne has worked extensively in regional theatre.  Design credits include The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Arena Stage), As You Like It (Center Stage), The Clean House (Denver Center Theatre Company), Tribes (Guthrie Theater), The Glass Menagerie (Old Globe), Light in the Piazza (Philadelphia Theatre Co.), Assassins (Playmakers Repertory Company).  She received Helen Hayes Nominations for her work on The Fix, Urinetown, and Side Show (Signature Theatre).  Off-Broadway credits include Boy and Opus (Primary Stages), Floyd and Cleo Under the Western Sky (Playwrights Horizons), The Geometry of Fire (Rattlestick Theatre).  Anne is a frequent collaborator in the drama department at The Juilliard School.  http://www.annekennedycostumes.com

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Maggie Burke is a Sound Designer, Associate Designer, and Audio Engineer now based in Seattle. Her Associate Sound Design work includes Angels in America, Company, and A Strange Loop on Broadway and numerous regional productions around the country. Maggie was the Sound Supervisor here at Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2017-19. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

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Jillian Zack is a New York City based pianist, vocal coach, and music director. Since moving to New York in 2005, Jillian has had numerous performance opportunities with instrumentalists and both classical and musical theater vocalists. She made her Broadway debut in January 2020 performing as the MD and onstage organ player (sub) for To Kill a Mockingbird at the Shubert Theater. She currently serves as a Key2 sub and rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl on Broadway at the August Wilson Theater. She has performed at various venues throughout New York City, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and at The Juilliard School. She has also performed recitals throughout the United States, the UK, and New Zealand. As a music director, she has worked off-broadway at Theatre Row, working on productions in both the Clurman and Lion Theaters. She was most recently seen as the Associate Music Director for the Paper Mill Playhouse’s Songs for a New World. Other regional credits: Cape Fear Regional Theater, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, and The Mac-Haydn Theater. As a coach, she maintains a full studio, both in partnership with the Magaziner Vocal Studio as well as privately. She specializes in both musical theater and classical repertoire, and has experience with all ages. Ms. Zack graduated with a BM in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and was awarded the Josephine C. Whitford Award for her significant contribution to the enrichment of the school. She completed her studies in the Collaborative Piano Program at The Juilliard School in 2012, where she studied under the tutelage of Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman, J.J. Penna and Diane Richardson. She was a recipient of the Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship, the William Petschek Piano Scholarship, and the Greene Fellowship. While at Juilliard, she began a collaboration with cellist Hannah Sloane, and together they formed the y3duo, which performs throughout the US and the UK. Through the course of her studies, she has also had the opportunity to work with Martin Katz, Malcom Martineau, John Churchwell, Amy Burton, and Paul Sperry. Assistant Faculty at The Juilliard School 2015-2021. 

Eliza Anastasio is delighted to be returning to Williamstown Theatre Festival for Most Happy in Concert. Her favorite credits include Oklahoma! (Circle in the Square), Hercules, Coriolanus, Much Ado About Nothing, Mother of the Maid (The Public Theater), Sweeney Todd (The Hangar Theater), Wolf Play (Soho Rep) The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), and The Wolves (Lincoln Center). She graduated with a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2017. She would like to thank her amazing parents for always supporting her!

Dack Justiz is excited to make his WTF debut! Previous credits: Girl From the North Country (Broadway), Broadway Backwards ‘22 (Broadway Cares), Fiddler on The Roof 1st National Tour (NETworks), Julius Caesar (The Public), Theatre Under The Stars. Education: The University of Texas. Thank you to my ceaselessly supportive Mom and Dad.  @dackjustiz 

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A native of Tokyo, Tomoko became the first woman of color to music coordinate a Broadway musical through A Strange Loop. Since moving to New York in 2011, she has made her impact felt as a violinist, music contractor, and advocate for diversity in the music industry. She has also coordinated and supervised music for  productions in eight countries, working along the way in a multitude of genres with such artists as Alan Silvestri, Andrea Bocelli, Alicia Keys, Kurt Elling, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and many more. Tomoko’s passion for breaking down cultural and musical barriers led her to found the Tokyo Strings Workshop, tutti, and The Resonance Collective, which have produced concerts and educational workshops and opportunities for musicians s of all ages participating from over 17 countries.

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Jean Carlo Yunén Aróstegui is a queer Dominican immigrant and multidisciplinary artist of Spanish-Lebanese roots. He holds a BA in Film, Television and Theater from the University of Notre Dame, and an MFA from UCLA in Directing. He’s worked with REMAP @ UCLA exploring new technologies in storytelling such as AR and VR, with whom he’s co-directed a total of 4 productions. He co-directed La Victima at the LATC, directed The Displaced for Amigos del Rep @ San Diego Rep, and has assisted directed in regional theaters such as OSF and Cincinnati Playhouse. He’s a Drama League Directing Assistantship recipient and Williamstown Boris Sagal Fellow, as well as a commissioned playwright for the New American Theater Festival by B Street and In the Margin. He’s the recipient of multiple photography awards in the Dominican Republic, most recently, he presented his first solo exhibit titled “Conversaciones Íntimas” in the Centro de la Imagen in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo.

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