Bios

Majkin Holmquist is a playwright originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. Her plays include Every Anne Frank, Tent Revival, two-headed calf, Quickmatch, The Dog Pack Play, Stargazers, and Skinflint. Other credits include The Quonsets (co-written with Alex Lubischer, Yale Cabaret), Broken Melodies (WVIT Women in Theatre Festival), and Styx Songs (contributing writer, Yale Cabaret). Her work has been developed at New York Stage and Film, Woodshed Collective, Bay Street Theatre, Page 73, Ucross, and Roundabout Theatre Company. She has been a finalist for the P73 Playwright’s Fellowship, Colt Coeur, the Pacific Playwright’s Festival, and PlayPenn. She is currently a member of Midnight Oil Collective and a Lecturer in Playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She holds a BA in Secondary English Education from Bethany College and an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Teddy Bergman is a Drama Desk nominated director and actor. As Artistic Director of Woodshed Collective, he’s co-conceived and directed productions including the critically acclaimed Empire Travel Agency (NYTimes Critics Pick, TimeOutNY Critic’s Pick, Guardian’s Ten Best of the Year) and the award winning, Broadway musical KPOP (Lucille Lortel Winner for Outstanding Musical, Richard Rodgers Award Winner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters). His directing work has also been seen at The Public Theater, Roundabout, Williamstown, NYSAF, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theater Club, Ars Nova, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Portland Center Stage, Bay Street Theater, Primary Stages, Space on Ryder Farm, Clubbed Thumb, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He has also completed an immersive commission from the Public Theater and directed Canadian pop stars Tegan and Sara’s autobiographical tour Hey, I’m Just Like You - inspired by their memoir. He is currently creating and directing a new immersive event for Emursive, producers of Sleep No More.  As an actor he has appeared on stage in shows including the Tony award winning PETER AND THE STARCATHER and on screen in roles including Amazon studios Good Girls Revolt. Vassar College alum where he graduated with honors in philosophy and received the Vernon Vable prize.

Michael Crane New York Theater: GLORIA, THIS DAY FORWARD (Vineyard), DRACULA (CSC), LITTLE WOMEN, THE BODY OF AN AMERICAN (Primary Stages), BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, KING LEAR and RICHARD III (Public Theater), TAKING CARE OF BABY (MTC), DORIS TO DARLENE (Playwrights Horizons), THE TENANT (Woodshed Collective). Regional: NOISES OFF (Two River Theater), FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (A.R.T.), HAMLET (Pioneer Theatre), HELL MEETS HENRY HALFWAY (Pig Iron Theatre Co.), Goodman, Long Wharf, Williamstown, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Weston Playhouse. TV/Film: “Our Flag Means Death,” “Succession,” “People of Earth,” “The Good Fight,” “Barry,” “Damages,” “White Collar,” “Winter’s Tale,” “Law & Order,” “Kings,” “Winter’s Tale.” MFA: NYU.

Allegra Heart is an actor from Highland Park, New Jersey. Theatre: The Crucible (Broadway). TV credits include: three seasons of Apple TV’s “Dickinson”, and “The Crowded Room” Film: Spoiler Alert and Space Cadet. Allegra is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Proud dog mommy!

Lisa Joyce Best known as Frieda in HBO's Insecure, Lisa has worked as an actor for almost two decades. Selected Theater: La Bete (Broadway/West End), Our New Girl (The Atlantic), Hamlet (CSC), Blackbird (Helen Hayes Award), The Ugly One (Soho Rep. Drama Desk nom.). Selected TV and Film: Ricki and the Flash (dir. Jonathan Demme), Billy+Billie (DirectTV), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), The Good Wife(CBS), The Messenger (dir. Oren Moverman), Law & Order: SVU (NBC) and A Master Builder (Andre Gregory’s adaptation of the Ibsen classic, dir. Jonathan Demme). She currently lives in Northern California with her husband and their wonderful cat.

Susannah Perkins Broadway: Network. Off-Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), The Low Road (The Public), The Wolves (Lincoln Center/The Playwrights Realm), The Rape of the Sabine Women... (The Playwrights Realm). Film: LAPSIS. TV: "The Politician," "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel." BFA: NYU Tisch. Obie and Drama Desk awards.

Amy Staats is an actor, writer, producer, and a 2018 Tow Playwright in Residence through the Atlantic Theater Company. The world premiere of her play EDDIE AND DAVE had an extended run off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater, and co-starred Amy in the role of “Eddie Van Halen.” Other acting credits include MILES FOR MARY (created by the Mad Ones, directed by Lila Neugebauer; performed at Bushwick Starr, Playwrights Horizons), SWEAT (directed by Tamilla Woodard, performed at The Guthrie Theatre), and THE LAST CLASS, A JAZZERCIZE PLAY, directed by Margot Bordelon; performed at Theaterlab, ACT, The Exponential Festival and The Klunch. She’s a resident artist at Berkeley Rep’s Groundfloor and SPACE on Ryder Farm and a semi-finalist at Sundance Theater Lab. TV/FILM work includes FBI Most Wanted (multiple roles), Bull (recurring), and Late Night with Stephen Colbert. Her gymnastics sports dramedy/thriller DEFECTED is in development with Olivia Wingate (MO Studios) and Wren Arthur (Olive Productions).