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 Fogler, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Two River Theater Company, Vineyard Theater and Woolly Mammoth. Honors include an Alpert Award, a Guggenheim, a PEN/Laura Pels award for artist in mid-career, twice a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn, a Whiting, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo.

JEFF BEIHL (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 production of Cold War Choir Practice, written by Ro Reddick, directed by Knud Adams and co-produced with Clubbed Thumb and P73. She is also so happy to be collaborating with Anne Washburn again after originating the role of Bama in the Playwrights Horizons production of Antlia Pneumatica, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll. Recent credits include The Saviors, by Bubba Weiler, directed by Jack Serio (Atlantic)  Derangements by Nadja Leonhard-Hooper, directed by Annie Tippe and Deep Blue Sound by Abe Koogler, directed by Arin Arbus (Clubbed Thumb). Other off-Broadway includes: MTC, Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, WP, PlayCo. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb Theater where she has performed and developed dozens of new works including Will Arbery’s Plano, directed by Taylor Reynolds, as well as her own play Find Me Here, directed by Caitlin Sullivan.  Film/TV: Babes, Kinda Pregnant, Sixteen Words or Less, “The Tick,” “Succession.” She is a recipient of the NYSCA Arts Grant, a Theater World Award, for her Broadway debut in Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle, and a nominee for the Lucille Lortel award for best featured performer for Cold War Choir Practice. Her play The Stand In will have its world premiere this winter in a co-production with WP Theater and Fiasco Theater and will be directed by Emily Young.

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 be sharing this art with you. @izzyetc, izabelmar.com

JEREMY SHAMOS (Willl) was nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the Pulitzer Prize winning play CLYBOURNE PARK, for which he also received Lucille Lortel Award and Drama League Award nominations. He will next be seen on Broadway in the upcoming revival of AWAKE AND SING! in spring 2027. His other stage appearances include the Broadway productions of Steve Martin’s METEOR SHOWER, Michael Frayn’s NOISES OFF, Richard Greenberg’s THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES, and David Mamet’s GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, as well as the off-Broadway productions of the original GUTENBERG! THE MUSICAL, IF I FORGET (Drama Desk Award nomination), ANIMALS OUT OF PAPER (Drama Desk Award nomination), THE QUALMS, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED), DINNER WITH FRIENDS (Lucille Lortel Award), ENGAGED, for which he received the Obie Award, and Stephen Sondheim’s final musical HERE WE ARE.

His work on film and television has provided the opportunity to collaborate on many acclaimed features, including MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, BAD EDUCATION, THE BIG SICK, and BIRDMAN, and many prestigious series including THE HANDMAID’S TALE, BETTER CALL SAUL, SUCCESSION, DEAD RINGERS, NURSE JACKIE, and FOSSE/VERDON. For his roles in the ensemble casts of both THE GILDED AGE and ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, he earned SAG Award nominations for his work on both award winning series.

An MFA graduate of New York University, he resides with his family in Brooklyn.