ANNE KAUFFMAN (Director)’s credits include the New York Philharmonic, BAM, Ars Nova, NYTW, Roundabout Theatre Company, Encores! Off-Center, Women’s Project, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, The Public, P73 Productions, New Georges, Vineyard Theatre, LCT3, Yale Rep, Steppenwolf, Goodman Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Z Space, American Conservatory Theater, and Berkeley Rep. She is a Resident Director at Roundabout Theatre, Artistic Associate and Founding Member of The Civilians, a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist and co-creator of the CT Directing Fellowship, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, an SDC Executive Board Member, Vice President and Trustee of SDCF 2020-2023, and Artistic Director of City Center’s Encores! Off-Center 2017-2020. Her awards include a 2024 Tony nomination for Best Director for Mary Jane, a 2023 Tony nomination for Best Revival for The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, three Obies, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Exceptional Creativity from Lincoln Center, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a Lucille Lortel Award, a Drama League Award, and the Joe A. Callaway. She is co-creator of the Cast Album Project with Jeanine Tesori.

ANNE WASHBURN (Author) is a New York-based playwright. Washburn’s plays include MR. BURNS, A POST ELECTRIC PLAY (New York Times Critic’s Pick; listed as #4 on the New York Times “The 25 Best American Plays Since ‘Angels in America’), 10 OUT OF 12, ANTLIA PNEUMATICA, THE BURNING CAULDRON OF FIERY FIRE, A DEVIL AT NOON, APPARITION, THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT, I HAVE LOVED STRANGERS, THE LADIES, LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO, THE INTERNATIONALIST, SHIPWRECK, THE SMALL, and transadaptations of Euripides’ IPHIGENIA IN AULIS and ORESTES. Her work has been produced nationally and internationally and has premiered with 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, the Almeida, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Classic Stage Company, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Honors include an Alpert Award, a Guggenheim, a Hermitage Major Theater award, a PEN/Laura Pels award for artist in mid-career, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn, a Whiting, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo.

JEFF BIEHL (Adam) MCC Debut. Broadway: PATRIOTS (Barrymore), MACHINAL (Roundabout).  Off- Broadway: THE BURNING CAULDRON OF FIERY FIRE (Vineyard/Civilians), WAITING FOR GODOT (TFANA), THE UNBELIEVING (Civilians), MERCHANT OF VENICE (TFANA and Lyceum Edinburgh), LIFE SUCKS (Wheelhouse – Drama Desk Nom. Outstanding Actor), CATCH AS CATCH CAN (Page 73), THE RAPE OF THE SABINE WOMEN…. (Playwrights Realm); CHARLES FRANCIS CHAN JR’S EXOTIC ORIENTAL MURDER MYSTERY (NAATCO); 10 OUT OF 12 (Soho Rep), LIVES OF THE SAINTS (Primary Stages), POOR BEHAVIOR (Primary Stages), ISAAC’S EYE (EST); FULFILLMENT (The Flea), BURNING (New Group), A LECTURE ON THE BLUES (Whitney Museum). Select Regional World Premieres: SHIPWRECK: A HISTORY PLAY ABOUT 2017 (Woolly Mammoth); ZOEY’S PERFECT WEDDING (Denver Center), CRY IT OUT (Humana), SCENES FROM COURT LIFE (Yale Rep), WELLESLEY GIRL (Humana), THE MOORS (Yale Rep).  Film: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory’s “A Master Builder”, “Ricki and the Flash”, “Worth”, “Relay”. Television: “The Path”, “Vinyl”, “Mysteries of Laura”, “Forever”, “Southland”, all the “Law & Orders.” Training: Juilliard.

CRYSTAL FINN (Jeanie)is thrilled to be back at MCC after last season’s Cold War Choir Practice co-produced with Clubbed Thumb and P73. Other Off-Broadway: The Atlantic, MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, WP, PlayCo. 59E59. Broadway: Birthday Candles (Roundabout.) She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb Theater where she has developed dozens of new plays including Derangements by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, Deep Blue Sound by Abe Koogler, Plano, by Will Arbery, as well as her own play Find Me Here. Film/TV: Babes, Kinda Pregnant, Sixteen Words or Less, “The Tick,” “Succession.” Crystal is a recipient of the NYSCA Arts Grant, a Theater World Award, and a Lucille Lortel nomination for Cold War Choir Practice. Her play TheStand In will have its world premiere this winter in a co-production with WP Theater and Fiasco Theater.

ANDREW GARMAN (Michael) originated roles in many new plays over the years, including: The Family Dog(Clubbed Thumb), The Antiquities, The Christians – Drama Desk & Lortel nom (Playwrights Horizons), Greater Clements, Admissions (Lincoln Center), Stargazers (Page 73), Glory of The World (BAM), Burning (New Group), Asheville (Rattlestick/Cherry Lane), A Bright New Boise, The Bereaved, After, Trueblinka.   Other NY credits include Salomé (Broadway), The Ugly One (Soho Rep), Cymbeline, Hamlet (The Public/NYSF), Uncle Vanya (Classic Stage).  As a member of La MaMa’s Great Jones Rep, he toured internationally with The Trojan Women.  Recently Mr. Delancey in The Gilded Age, and Headmaster Woodrup in The Holdovers.

IZABEL MAR (Delia) (she/they) loves her life and job and you! Film/TV: ‘Babygirl’, ‘Showing Up’ (A24), ‘A House of Dynamite’ (Netflix), ‘Year Of The Fox’ (Prime), ‘FBI: Most Wanted’. Theatre: Family by Celine Song (Hoi Polloi, La MaMa), Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California (The Tank, New Georges), MAC BETH (Red Bull, Seattle REP), Stacy by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Seattle REP), Arcadia (Seattle Public Theatre), Clubbed Thumb, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Public Theater, Improvised Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Thank you Anne, Annie, Will, Bernie, Ashley, Vikram, Jess, A&R, MCC at large – I am so lucky and grateful to share this with you. @izzyetc, izabelmar.com

JEREMY SHAMOS (Will) is thrilled to be making his MCC debut! He has been in eight Broadway plays including CLYBOURNE PARK (Tony, Lortel and Drama League Nom), Steve Martin’s METEOR SHOWER, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (with Al Pacino), NOISES OFF and Richard Greenberg’s THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES. Off-Broadway highlights include ENGAGED (Obie Award), DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Lucille Lortel Award), IF I FORGET (Drama Desk Nom), ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER (Drama Desk Nom), THE QUALMS, and Stephen Sondheim’s final musical HERE WE ARE. His work in film includes many features including MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, BAD EDUCATION, THE BIG SICK, BIRDMAN, and most recently DISCLOSURE DAY and many prestigious series including BETTER CALL SAUL, THE HANDMAID’S TALE, SUCCESSION, DEAD RINGERS, NURSE JACKIE, and FOSSE/VERDON. For his roles in both THE GILDED AGE and ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, he earned ensemble SAG Award nominations. He will next be seen in the upcoming Broadway revival of Clifford Odets’ AWAKE AND SING!

JOEL VAN LIEW (Host) MCC debut. New York credits include From Up Here (MTC), Well (Public), The Democracy Project at Federal Hall, The Rock Garden (Drama League DirectorFest),A Beautiful Child by Truman Capote (NY Fringe), Overtones (Emerging Artists). Regional credits include Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Two River), Slow Food (Merrimack Rep), It’s a Wonderful Life (Mile Square Theatre), Women in Jeopardy (Arizona Theatre Co), Pride and Prejudice and The Verizon Play (Actors Theatre of Louisville). Film: Thumb, The Girl in the Book, Monster. TV: The Sinner, 7 Seconds, The White House Plumbers, Escape at Dannemora, Blue Bloods, FBI. Member of the Actors Center.