She/Her. Shelby Acosta made her Broadway Debut in 1776 and is very excited to be on tour with the show. Broadway: 1776 (Standby). Off-Broadway: Emojiland (The Duke on 42nd). Regional: Into The Woods (Zach Scott Theatre), Radiant Baby (NYC Workshop). TV/Film: National University. BFA, TX State University. A huge thank you to BEA, Camden Scifres, Kaitlin Hopkins, and my Mom for their unwavering love and support. “Soy Una Mezcla” @_shelbyacosta_

She/Her. Broadway: Beautiful (Lucille). 1776 (Robert Livingston/John Adams cover.) 1st National Tour: Sister Act. (Deloris Standby, Michelle). Regional: Lights Out: Nat ‘King’ Cole. (Eartha Kitt), Geffen Playhouse - L.A. Stage Alliance nomination, Best Featured Actress. Man of La Mancha (Aldonza), Westport Country Playhouse - CT Critics Circle nomination, Best Actress. Shoebox Picnic (Odette), Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Once on This Island (Erzulie), Actors Theatre of Louisville. Miss You Like Hell (Officer), Baltimore Center Stage. Film/Television: Sundance winner Nanny. Shield, Luther, Chasing Taste. FBI, Raising Kanan, Kaleidoscope. Netflix’s Ridley Jones and Dreamworks’ Dew Drop Diaries. B.A in Arts, Fordham (Drama, African-American Studies). iamgisela.com IG: @imgisela

She/Her. Broadway & West End: 1776, Sunset Boulevard (u/s Glenn Close); Wonderful Town (Helen/Eileen); A Class Act (Mona); Kiss Me, Kate (Lois/ Bianca; Olivier nomination, Helen Hayes nomination). Drama Desk nominations for The Pen, Fanny Hill and Jolson & Co. Helen Hayes nominations for Billy Elliot (Mrs. Wilkinson); The Pajama Game (Gladys); Side by Side by Sondheim; and Kiss Me, Kate. TV: The Gilded Age, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Other Two, Madam Secretary. Film: The Pen. Album: Ten Cents a Dance. nancyanderson.actor

She/Her. is thrilled to be making history with this production of 1776. As a Baltimore native, she got her start at the Arena Players Inc. and continued her training at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Theatre credits include Mamma Mia! (North American tour), How to Catch Creation (Baltimore Center Stage/ Philadelphia Theatre Company) and Hit the Wall (Barrow Street Theatre). TV/film: Veep, The Leftovers, Rabbit, Law & Order and The Education of Max Bickford. Thanks and love to my Mom, 25 year fam and Nicolosi & Co. Tiffanibarbour.com

She/Her. Select credits: Broadway: 1776 (Standby); Sting’s The Last Ship (Young Meg); Wicked (Nessarose). Off- Broadway/National Tour/Regional: Sistas: The Musical, Actors Temple; Music in the Air, NY City Center Encores!; Dogfight, Second Stage; Love’s Labour’s Lost, 37 Arts; F#%king Up Everything, Elektra; Les Misérables, Theatre of the Stars, Tour; The Master Class, Long Beach Playhouse. Film: The Train, opposite Eli Wallach; Save the Date. TV: Every Other Sunday, Amazon. Dawn is also a multi-instrumentalist and is writing a musical alongside Addi McDaniel. BFA: NYU Tisch. Many thanks to my team at Avalon Artists and Vanguard, and to my loved ones. dawncantwell.com IG: @ dawasong

She/Her. National tours: Les Misérables (Wigmaker, u/s Madame Thénardier), The Music Man: In Concert, led by Shirley Jones; Madison Square Garden production of Annie (with Kathy Lee Gifford). Awards and nominations for Guys and Dolls (Adelaide) and The Secret Garden (Martha), Stages St. Louis, Kevin Kline Award nom.; Anything Goes (Reno) and No No Nanette (Lucille), The REV Theatre, S.A.L.T. Award nom. Other credits: Frozen, The Hyperion Theatre/Disneyland; Wizard of Oz National tour, regional, Sacramento Music Circus, TUTS, TOTS, Ogunquit, Boston Court. Proud Cal State University, Fullerton, MFA Grad. juliecardia.com

She/Her. Amanda Dayhoff is honored to be joining the tour of 1776 with such an amazing group of people. She is a recent B.F.A. graduate of Azusa Pacific University. Some of her favorite credits include Little Women (Jo), Shrek the Musical (Fiona) and Tarzan (Kala). She would like to thank her amazing family and friends, her grandmash Imelda, manager Ally Taylor, and Lindsay, Todd, and Robert at ATB. All thanks to God for paving the way. Proverbs 31:25 amandadayhoff.com IG: @amandadayhoff

She/Her. Karole Foreman has been touring as Billie Holiday (2019, L.A. Ovation Award) in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill at the National Black Theatre Festival, freeFall Theatre, Ebony Rep, International City Theatre, and PCPA. She appeared as Tanya in Mamma Mia! In its Las Vegas premiere. Karole has extensive regional theatre, television, and film credits. Moroccan born, raised in SoCal, and married to artist Peter Zokosky.

She/Her. National tour debut! Broadway: 1776. Regional: Muny, Tuacahn, TUTS, Ogunquit, Walnut Street Theatre, North Shore, Fulton Theatre, Theatre By The Sea, & Gateway. TV/Film: Sophia in A Holiday Spectacular (Hallmark Channel). Proud alumni of The Boston Conservatory. Many thanks to BLOC, my family, and Joe for their unwavering love and support. @sarajgallo

She/Her. joannaglushak. com for full bio. Highlight roles: Broadway: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, Hairspray, Sunday in the Park With George, Les Misérables, Urinetown, War Paint, etc. Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, The Logan Family Picnic, etc. Tours: Finding Neverland, Young Frankenstein, Xanadu, etc. Many roles on film and TV: recently, Mrs. O’Tool, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Blacklist and many more. Yale Drama School graduate.

She/Her. National tour debut! Recent regional credits: Spring Awakening (Northern Stage), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (REV Theatre Co.), Grease (The Cape Playhouse). Thank you to her amazing team at DGRW, Brian and Amanda DeMaris, her friends, and her familia supporting her all the way across the country - love you to the moon and back! Sí se puede! @anissagriego

She/Her. Select regional: Pippin, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Footloose, The Phoenix Theatre Company; On Your Feet (Gloria Estefan), Arts Center of Coastal Carolina; In The Heights (Nina), Royal Caribbean International; Grease (Rizzo), The 5th Avenue Theatre; Oklahoma! Education/training: Brigham Young University. Thanks and love to my family and friends for their endless support! TikTok: @singwithkass IG: @kassandra_ haddock

She/Her. Broadway: 1776, The Last Ship (Mrs. Dees). Broadway national tours: Les Misérables (Madame Thénardier), Kinky Boots (Trish). Off-Broadway: Miss You Like Hell, The Public Theater. Regional: My Paris, Goodspeed. TV/film: Orange Is the New Black, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Halston, Russian Doll, New Amsterdam, That Damn Michael Che, Bull, Bruised (dir. Halle Berry). Thanks to my reps at Clear Talent Group. As always, this is for my family & friends. Love you! IG: @ShawnaHamic ShawnaHamic.com

She/Her. Broadway: 1776, The Addams Family, Ragtime. Tours: Pippin, Cats. Selected Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Papermill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The 5th Avenue Theatre, The Muny, Sacramento Music Circus, The Arvada Center. Lisa is honored to be among this extraordinary group of artists sharing this story across our nation. www.lisakarlin.com IG: @lizawithak

She/Her. Connor Lyon is honored to share the stage with this iconic cast of 1776. She was last seen as Lorraine and others in the national tour of Jersey Boys. Other credits include: Rocky Horror (Theatre Under the Stars), Rock of Ages (Norwegian Cruise Line), Little Women (A.D. Players). A million thanks to the team at Pantera/Murphy and endless love to Mom, Jude, Marissa and Cara! IG: @connorslyon

She/Her. Broadway: 1776 (John Hancock), Lysistrata Jones. Off-Broadway: Lysistrata Jones, Transport Group; Fruit Trilogy, Abingdon Theatre. Regional: V to the Tenth, Louisiana Superdome; Spring Awakening, TUTS; Seussical, Hairspray, All Shook Up!, Muny; Little Women, Old Globe Theatre. International: Blind Lemon Blues, Forum Meyrin (Switzerland), Maison des Cultures du Monde (Paris). Resident company member, Dallas Theater Center. TV/film: Friday Night Lights, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Get On Up!, Miss Juneteenth. Ten Chimneys Lunt Fontanne Fellow. AEA and SAG. @miz_lyzz

Nykila Norman is from Greenville, SC where she began performing at a very young age. Some of Nykila’s favorite productions include: Kunstler (Kerry); The Color Purple (Squeak); Da Classroom Ain’t Enuf, Centre Stage (Preschool); Fences, Magnetic Theater (Rose); Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed, William Carey University (Vicki), Essence of Acting Ensemble, and Ragtime. On Screen: Accenture: AVEnues, Rachael Ray, and commercial work. In her free time, Nykila enjoys spending time with family, and writing/producing short films and scenes with friends. She has done voice training with Phillip Boykin and currently trains with Bear Fruit Conservatory.

She/Her. Broadway: 1776, Tony Award-winning Fela! (+ national/ international tours), SpongeBob SquarePants, Violet (asst to choreographer); Amazing Grace (ensemble/asst. choreographer). Off-Broadway: Black No More (TNG/ Signature Theatre). International: 50th anniversary tour West Side Story (Anita). NY: Christopher Gattelli’s In Your Arms; Jermaine Rowe’s Children From the Blue Mountains; Leonora, a Caribbean interpretation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House; Abdel Salaam’s Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. Oneika is a proud ambassador of Caribbean representation in American arts. IG: @DragonPassionFruit.

She/Her. Broadway: 1776. Tours: R+H’s Cinderella, Madagascar Live! (China). Off- Broadway: Disenchanted! (Lortel nomination). Selected: Man of La Mancha, Mamma Mia!, Finding Nemo: the Musical, How to Succeed…, Wit. Creative: Norwegian Creative Studios, The Choir of Man. Music direction: Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, freeFall Theatre. TV/film: Going in Style, Frozen (Blu-ray), Welcome to Flatch. Faculty: Pace University. Co-host of comedy podcasts 10K Dollar Day, The Daily Happy. Comedy Warehouse alumna. Grateful for my family! Just keep swimming. @lulupicart

She/Her. National tour debut! Thank you so my amazing team at DGRW, and of course my family, mom and to my uncle Bob for supporting me every step of the way! @kaylamsaunders

They/She. Broadway: 1776. Regional: 1776, A.R.T.; Rent, The RedHouse; Grand Concourse, Theatre Horizon. Ariella is also a writer and composer dedicated to championing queer stories. They are currently developing We Start in Manhattan: A New Queer Musical with partner, Sav Souza. To those in my corner, Avalon, JWS, my family, Albie, Farah, Sav: Thank you. For Grandpa Sy. TikTok: @SavAndAriella, IG: @ariellaserur

Broadway: 1776. Brooke is a powerhouse vocalist who is passionate about music, people and her culture. Brooke is full- blooded Native American and is a member of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe. Brooke has had the opportunity to work with artists such as Miley Cyrus, Sia and even more recently was featured in a global Nike N7 campaign. She was a finalist on NBC’s The Voice and a finalist on America’s Got Talent! and has released multiple singles including her latest release, “Haliwa.”

They/Them. Broadway: 1776. Select regional credits: 1776, A.R.T.; Other World, Delaware Theatre Company; Lempicka, WTF. Sav is also a musical theatre writer & lyricist, passionate about bringing joyful queer and trans stories to the stage. They are currently developing We Start in Manhattan: A New Queer Musical with their partner Ariella Serur. Love and infinite gratitude to family, community and Ariella. IG: @saaaavv, TikTok: @SavAndAriella, savsouza.com

She/Her/Hers. Lillie Eliza Thomas is incredibly excited to hit the road with this phenomenal cast! Regional: Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Orlando Sentinel’s Orlando Theatre Best: Leading Actress, Musical). The Bodyguard (Rachel Marron), Springer Opera House. Once on this Island (Erzulie), Matilda (Miss Honey, Carbonell Awards Nom. Outstanding Performance by an Actor, Supporting Female Role, Musical), Slow Burn Theatre. MAMMA MIA! (Donna Sheridan), Loessin Playhouse/ ECU. WORKING (Housewife/Prostitute/ Cleaning Woman, Actors Theatre of Indiana, Mitty Award-Most Impressive Ensemble in a Musical Professional Theatre Division). Hello Dolly (Irene Molloy), The Garden Theatre. B.S., M.S., UCF (Environmental Engineering). Thank you to my loving husband Larry, family, and friends. Thank you FSE! lillieelizathomas.com IG: @sillylillie1127

She/Her. Black. Fem. Artist and Storyteller hailing from NYC. National Tour: Elf the Musical (Jovie). Off-Broadway: Hercules (Melpomene), B-Boy Blues the Play (Michi), Chronicle X (Knowledge), Lost in the Disco (Angelina), Midnight Mugshot (Principal Gordon). Virtual: WILMAR (Ugbad/Hamdi), Getting There (Tanaysha). Television: Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), Let the Right One In (Showtime), Skully and the Mole Crack the Case (NBC Peacock Kids), Teaching While Black. Film: B-Boy Blues (BET+); Unlocked, ‘Istikhaara, New York’; Help Yourself. “A woman’s gifts will make room for her”- Hattie McDaniel. GOD Thank you, for without you I am nothing. @officialtieishathomas

She/Her. Broadway: 1776, American Airlines Theatre; Tony Award Winning FELA! (Dance Captain: Drama Desk Nomination, Astaire Award, ACCA Actors Equity Award), Eugene O’Neil Theatre. Off-Broadway: Fela! A New Musical, 37 Arts Theatre; CULLUD WATTAH (Associate Movement Director), The Public Theatre; LORDES (Choreographer), New Ohio Theatre. Regional: And My Name Ain’t Peaches, Theatre Outlet. Tours: FELA! (National + International). TV: She Gotta Have It (Jubilee Jones). Film: Lifted (directed by Randall Dottin) AEA and SAG. Much Love and Gratitude to the ones who came before me, my mentor Sylvia Turner and my family! I.G. @jillm.vallery

She/Her. Broadway: 1776. National Tour: Oklahoma! (U/S Ado Annie, Laurey Williams, Gertie Cummings). Regional: Most Happy in Concert (Williamstown Theatre Festival), SUFFS (The Public Theater development), Sister Act (Sister Mary Robert). Boston Conservatory ‘18 BFA in Musical Theatre; Emphasis in Directing. Thanks to DGRW, family, and my sweet friends. @gwynnelaurel

They/Them. This Texas native has most recently been seen in Broadway’s Ain’t Too Proud and Dallas Theatre Center’s regional production of Trouble In Mind. Broadway: Book of Mormon, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Catch Me If You Can, and Hairspray. National Tours: Legally Blonde and Dirty Dancing. They send all the love to family and friends for their continued love and support.

Sherman Edwards worked his way through NYU playing jazz piano for late night radio. After serving in WWII, he played piano for Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman. He wrote pop standards including “Wonderful Wonderful” (J. Mathis) and “Flaming Star” (E. Presley) at the famous Brill Building with Hal David, Burt Bacharach and others. Edwards left pop songwriting to develop his idea for a Broadway musical, The Aggravation of John Adams. This later became 1776, which opened on Broadway in 1969. During the development of 1776 Edwards also scored the star-studded 1967 TV musical Who’s Afraid of Mother Goose?

One of the most accomplished Broadway bookwriters, Stone graduated from Bard College and earned an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He began writing for CBS Radio and soon moved to writing for television including the shows Studio One, The Defenders (for which he won an Emmy Award), Asphalt Jungle and Espionage. He has written the plays Friend of the Family and Full Circle. In addition to 1776, his Broadway bookwriting credits include the musicals Kean, Skyscraper, Two by Two, Sugar, Woman of the Year (for which he won a 1981 Tony Award), My One and Only, Grand Hotel and The Will Rogers Follies (1991 Tony Award for Best Musical). Stone also wrote the screenplay for the film version of 1776. His other screenplays include Charade, Father Goose (for which he won a 1964 Academy Award), Mirage, Arabesque, Sweet Charity, The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 and Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Jeffrey L. Page is an Emmy-nominated and MTV VMA-winning choreographer and director. Choreographer on Beyonce’s Run the World and FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance. Original Broadway cast: Fela! Broadway choreography: Violet. Commercial direction and choreography: Choir Boy (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Jamie, Memphis (HoriPro, Inc. Japan, four Yomiuri Award nominations, Best Musical). Regional: Ain’t Misbehavin’ (NYTimes Critic’s Pick), Who Could Ask for Anything More?, Company, Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Award); Mlima’s Tale (Westport Country Playhouse). Philadelphia Theatre Company resident artist. American Repertory Theater artist fellow. Lecturer in theatre, dance and media at Harvard University.

She/Her. Diane Paulus is the Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater at Harvard University. Broadway: 1776, Jagged Little Pill, Waitress, Finding Neverland; Tony Award- winning revivals of Pippin (Tony Award, Best Direction), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (NAACP Award, Best Direction) and Hair. Most recently at the A.R.T.: 1776, WILD, Gloria: A Life (also Off-Broadway); Cirque Du Soleil’s Amaluna. Paulus is a professor of the practice of theatre at Harvard University. She was selected for the 2014 Time 100, Time Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Forty Broadway shows including five at Roundabout. Many arrangements and orchestrations for the Boston Pops, Kennedy Center Honors, Radio City and TV’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Music director and arranger for The Sound of Music Live! and Peter Pan Live! (Emmy nominations for both) and Schmigadoon! Choral works recorded by EssentialVoicesUSA and published by Hal Leonard. Grammy nomination for Nice Work if You Can Get It and Olivier nomination for Anything Goes. David lives in New York City with his wife, actress and Drama Desk nominee Paula Leggett Chase, and their two sons.

Scott Pask has designed over 50 Broadway productions, receiving three Tony Awards for The Book of Mormon, The Coast of Utopia and The Pillowman. Recently: 1776, American Buffalo (Tony nom.), Mr. Saturday Night, The Prom, The Band’s Visit (Tony nom.), Mean Girls (Tony nom.). His work with Diane Paulus includes The Donkey Show, Pippin (Tony nom.), Hair (The Public Theater, Broadway, West End), Finding Neverland (A.R.T., Broadway), Waitress (A.R.T., Broadway, U.S. tour, West End) and Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna.

Emilio Sosa is the current chair of the American Theatre Wing. His Broadway hits: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award nom.), Trouble in Mind (Tony Award nom.), Motown the Musical, On Your Feet!, Topdog/Underdog. He served as the costume designer for NBC’s Annie Live! and has worked with such celebrities as Usher, Diana Ross, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion. Emilio also designed costumes for Radio City Musical Hall’s Rockettes and participated in Project Runway. @Esosafashion

Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony Award nomination), Death of a Salesman, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, Grand Horizons, What the Constitution Means to Me, The Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Recent Off-Broadway: Which Way to the Stage (MCC); To My Girls, Superhero (Second Stage); Shhhh (Atlantic); Selling Kabul (Playwrights Horizons). Current tours: Blue Man Group. Opera: Die Fledermaus, The Pearl Fishers, Metropolitan Opera; Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviata, Mariinsky Theater, Russia. Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design. Adjunct: Purchase. Mom: Henry. jenschriever.com

Bhangin’ It (La Jolla Playhouse), Anything Goes (Barbican and tour), Jagged Little Pill (Tony nomination), PY1-Lune Rouge ExtraOrdinary, The Tempest, Waitress (NY & U.K. 2021), Red Velvet, Invisible Thread, Finding Neverland (NY), Pippin (Tony nomination), La Cage aux Folles (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Young Frankenstein, The Pirate Queen, Carrie (Drama Desk nomination), Parade (Drama Desk nomination), Fosse (NY, U.K.), Ragtime. Jonathan has designed fifteen Cirque du Soleil productions including Drawn to Life, MJ ONE, LOVE, KA, O, Mystere, Ovo and Corteo, plus others. Operas include a residency at the Royal Opera House and the L.A. Opera. www.designingsound.com

Roundabout debut. Off-Broadway and regional include The Public, Signature, Atlantic, 59E59, BAM, A.R.T., La Jolla Playhouse, Geffen, Dallas Theater Center, Alliance, Kennedy Center and Yale Rep. Lortel and Drama Desk nominations.

Mia Neal is a highly praised hairstylist and wig designer for film, television and theatre, who made history alongside collaborator Jamika Wilson as the first Black nominees and winners in the best hair and makeup category at the Academy Awards, for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Mia also served as the hair designer for A Raisin in the Sun, The Iceman Cometh, the opera Malcolm X, Trading Places and soon, KPOP.

Broadway: Diana, Mean Girls (Tony nom.), Fun Home (Tony/Drama Desk noms.), The Prom, Tuck Everlasting, Shrek (Tony/ Drama Desk noms.), Cats 2016 (dance arr.) Off Broadway/ regional: The Karate Kid, The Notebook, The Secret Life of Bees, Kimberly Akimbo, Gun & Powder, Becoming Nancy, Soft Power (dance arr.), The Fortress of Solitude, Jasper in Deadland, Just So. Rhianna: NBA All- Star Game (string arr.), 2018 Tony Awards opening by Sara Bareilles.

Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, If/ Then, Finding Neverland, A Beautiful Noise, the revival of Carrie, Bright Lights Big City, Superhero, Dangerous Beauty, Prometheus Bound, Some Lovers, Dave, A Walk on the Moon, Almost Famous, revival 1776. Broadway orchestrator (with Michael Starobin) Once on This Island. Nominations: Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk and Outer Critics awards.

Recent credits include: 1776 (Bway), Waitress (Japanese premiere), Pippin (Australian premiere), Bat Out of Hell (City Center), Pippin (Japanese premiere). First national tours: Bat Out Of Hell, Waitress, Finding Neverland, Pippin, La Cage aux Folles. Off-Broadway: The Golden Toad, Mark, The Nomad (Liz Swados), La MaMa. TV/film: CBS’ Jim Henson Special, Race (Gloria Allred). MD/composer: A Helluva Life (George Hamilton). Ryan is thrilled to be on tour with his Sister, Dawn (Col. Thomas McKean)! To his wife, daughter, family and friends: I love you.

Grammy-winning record producer/engineer. Broadway: 1776, Girl From the North Country, Tootsie, The Cher Show, The Band’s Visit, Amélie, The Last Ship, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Off- Broadway: The Bedwetter, As You Like It, The Total Bent, The Fortress of Solitude. Album producer/engineer: The Band’s Visit, Girl From the North Country, Oklahoma! (2019), Tootsie, In the Green, The Great Comet, The Fortress of Solitude, Women on the Verge…, Shaina Taub, David Yazbek, Joan Baez, Mamie Minch, David Sanborn.

Broadway: Mary Stuart. A.R.T.: Life of Pi; 1776; Twilight, Los Angeles; Jagged Little Pill; The Night of the Iguana; Fingersmith. Guthrie Theatre: Arms and the Man. Kansas City Rep: Cabaret, To Kill a Mockingbird. Erika also teaches theater and public speaking at Harvard University. Education: MA, Voice Studies, the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Broadway: over 100 shows. The Kite Runner, Company, A Soldier’s Play (Drama Desk Award, outstanding fight choreography), To Kill a Mockingbird, True West, Network, The Front Page, War Horse, Romeo and Juliet. The Public Theater: Othello, Hamlet, King Lear, Titus Andronicus. NYTW: Othello (Drama Desk nomination, outstanding fight choreography), Red Speedo. The Armory: Hamlet/Oresteia, The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk nomination, outstanding fight choreography).

Robert Duffley is Editor & Associate Dramaturg at the American Repertory Theater. Recent/Upcoming: We Hear You—A Climate Archive, Dramaten; Ferry Tales, Kennedy Center; A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction, Europe & UK tours; Help, The Shed. Teaching: Harvard University, Georgetown University, Emerson College.

She/Her. Brisa Areli Muñoz is the artistic director of Musical Theatre Factory, an organization committed to developing changemaking new musicals. Broadway and Off-Broadway credits include Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theater, American Repertory Theater, The Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, REDCAT, Carnegie Hall, Jacob’s Pillow & Oye Group. Much love to her family, friends, and Jonathan.

Proud New Orleanian, is a performer with Camille A. Brown and Dancers and Jon Batiste. Other credits include 2022 Grammys, Porgy & Bess (Metropolitan Opera), For Colored Girls Workshop, 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC), POWERPLAY (The Shed), 2016 VMA’s: Beyoncé (MTV), EVIDENCE Dance Company, and Ailey II. Courtney gives thanks to God, her family, and chosen tribe for the unwavering support!

She/Her. Prior credits include Broadway: Finding Neverland and Roundabout Theatre’s revivals of 1776 and Noises Off. First national tours: Finding Neverland, Blithe Spirit, Sister Act, Cinderella and Anything Goes. Other noteworthy credits: Hartford Stage’s The Flamingo Kid (world premiere), Second Stage Theater’s Superhero (world premiere), The Public Theater’s Eve’s Song (world premiere) and Runaways, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Proud graduate of Ithaca College & member of Actors’ Equity.

She/Her. Broadway: Hello, Dolly; Noises Off; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; The Anarchist; One Man, Two Guvnors; Hair; In the Heights; 9 to 5; Wicked; Lestat; All Shook Up. Lots of regional, Off- Broadway & tours. Proud Former Marine, Head of the SM program Pace University. Much love to Niall and Monty.

She/Her. Broadway: 1776. National tours: Anastasia, Hairspray. BA from Pace University in Stage Management. Much love to all her supporters along the way: mom, dad, and all her friends and family!

He/Him. Jeff Mensch has spent over 20 years on the road seeing 50 states, 7 Provinces, and 10 countries! My Fair Lady, A Bronx Tale, The King & I, The Sound of Music, Once, Million Dollar Quartet, Madagascar,and Come From Away (Associate), as well as various tours with Sesame Street and Nickelodeon.

He/Him. National Tours: Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof, Elf. Regional: Powerhouse Theater (36th Annual Season).

Duncan Stewart CSA and Benton Whitley CSA. Broadway/NY: Life of Pi, Hadestown (Artios Award), Chicago the Musical, Paradise Square, Rock of Ages, Lightning Thief, Great Comet of 1812, Elf, On the Town, Pippin, La Cage aux Folles, Radio City Christmas Spectacular. TV/Film: Netflix, 20th Century Fox, NBC, Lionsgate, Disney Channel. West End/U.K.: Hadestown, Thriller Live, Menier Chocolate Factory. Tours: Hadestown, Hairspray, Waitress, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Finding Neverland, Into the Woods, We Will Rock You. Regional: A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, Alley, Bay Street, For The Record, TUTS, Hollywood Bowl, McCarter, Signature, RCCL. Follow: @ stewartwhitley and stewartwhitley.com.

Gentry & Associates has managed nearly 250 national and international touring theatrical productions over the past 25 years.

Bond Theatrical is an independently- owned theatrical booking, marketing and publicity company representing award-winning Broadway shows and live entertainment properties. BOND connects artists and audiences by forming strategic, authentic and profitable partnerships between producers and presenters across North America. For a complete list of current projects, please visit BondTheatrical.com

The Booking Group has represented 27 Tony Award® winning Best Musicals and Plays. Current tours include: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Come From Away, The Book of Mormon, Hadestown, Mean Girls, MJ The Musical, Pretty Woman, 1776, Six, Tina, To Kill A Mockingbird, Anastasia, Chicago, Hairspray, and My Fair Lady. Future tours include: A Wonderful World; Funny Girl; Mamma Mia!; Mrs. Doubtfire; New York, New York; Peter Pan Goes Wrong; Some Like It Hot; Sweeney Todd; and The Wiz.

Member of the Broadway League’s Board member of the Broadway League’s Board of Governors since 2006. Chairman of The League’s International Committee. In 2009, Alecia was honored with the League’s Touring Award for Distinguished Lifetime Service. Throughout her tenure, National Artists Management Company’s productions have garnered 98 Tony Nominations and 8 Laurence Olivier nominations taking home 24 Tony and 2 Oliver wins. In addition to overseeing all domestic and international companies of NAMCO’s productions including Chicago, Waitress and Pippin, Alecia is also managing the domestic and global roll out of Once, The Band’s Visit, The Book of Mormon and To Kill a Mockingbird. She is the proud mother of Michael Parker of Atlantic Records.

He/Him. Thanks to Diane and Jeffrey for making this dream come true. @trinityonbroadway

American Repertory Theater at Harvard University is a leading force in the American theatre, producing groundbreaking work that is driven by risk-taking and passionate inquiry. Led by Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus and Executive Director Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., the A.R.T. is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of theatre, always centering community, research and performance. Tony Award-winning and nominated productions include Jagged Little Pill; Waitress; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812; All the Way; The Glass Menagerie; Pippin; Once; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Current and upcoming national tours: Jagged Little Pill, 1776

Roundabout Theatre Company celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics from the past, cultivating new works of the present and educating minds for the future. A not-for- profit company, Roundabout fulfills that mission by producing familiar and lesser- known plays and musicals; discovering and supporting talented playwrights; reducing the barriers that can inhibit theatregoing; collaborating with a diverse team of artists; building educational experiences; and archiving over five decades of production history. Founded in 1965, Roundabout presents this work on its five stages and across the country through national tours. Since moving to Broadway more than 25 years ago, Roundabout productions have received 232 Tony nominations, 222 Drama Desk nominations and 257 Outer Critics Circle nominations. More information on Roundabout’s mission, history and variety of programs can be found throughout this playbill or by visiting roundabouttheatre.org.

Barry & Fran Weissler have over 40 years of experience producing first class theatrical ventures on Broadway and the West End as well as touring in North America and internationally through their production company National Artists Management Company (NAMCO). They are the winners of 7 Tony Awards: Othello, Fiddler on the Roof, Gypsy, Annie Get Your Gun, La Cage aux Folles, Pippin and the worldwide hit, Chicago, the longest running American musical in the world whose global success has reached over 25 countries, translated into a dozen languages. Their most recent hit: Waitress, featuring an original score by Sara Bareilles. In Development: Real Women Have Curves, The Musical.

Networks Presentations is an industry-leading producer of touring theatrical productions, committed to delivering quality entertainment to audiences worldwide for more than 25 years. networkstours.com