MAY ADRALES (Director) is a director, artistic leader, teacher, and mother; she has directed over 40 world premieres including productions at Manhattan Theatre Club (Rajiv Joseph’s Dakar 2000; Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone and Poor Yella Rednecks; Felicia Anchuli King’s Golden Shield;) Second Stage (Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh and Chisa Hutchinson’s Somebody’s Daughter); LCT 3 (JC Lee’s Luce); Yale Rep (Hilary Bettis’s falcon girls);  Guthrie and Huntington Theatre (Lloyd Suh’s The Heart Sellers); Two River Theatre Company (Zadrevec’s The Electric Baby and Schlessinger and Reid’s In This House); Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Idris Goodwin’s The Way the Mountain Moved); and multiple works at South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, The Old Globe, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, CPIP, and Milwaukee Rep.  Awards: Ammerman Award at Arena Stage; Theater Communications Group’s Alan Schneider Award; Van Lier Fellowship, NYTW fellow and Next Generation grantee; a finalist for the Zelda Fichandler SDCF award. She is a Drama League Directing Fellow.  M.F.A., David Geffen School of Drama. She is currently an Assistant Professor and the Director of the Theatre Program at Fordham University.

LLOYD SUH (Author) is the author of The Heart Sellers, The Chinese Lady, The Far Country (Pulitzer Prize finalist), Bina’s Six Apples, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, Franklinland, American Hwangap, and others, which have been produced at Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater, Huntington Theater, Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Denver Center, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Children’s Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and the National Asian American Theatre Company, among others. His work has been produced internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines and with PCPA at the Guerilla Theatre in Seoul, Korea. Awards include the Steinberg Playwright Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Herb Alpert Award, Horton Foote Prize, and Helen Merrill Award. He served as Director of Artistic Programs at The Lark from 2011-20, and was elected in 2016 to the Dramatists Guild Council. Once In The Countryside, an anthology of his history plays, was published by Methuen Drama in 2025. He currently serves as a Professor of the Practice at Princeton University.

His other plays include Charles Francis Chan Jr’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery produced by NAATCO; The Wong Kids in The Secret of the Space Chupacabra GO! produced by the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis and Ma-Yi Theatre; Bina’s Six Apples produced by CTC and Alliance Theatre. Lloyd is currently under commission at The Huntington, Barrington Stage and The Perelman Arts Center.