Fifteen years after the height of their boy band popularity, the Backyard Boys are making a comeback! Or so they are told by producer Dianca Prescott Carter Jr, from the Prescott Carter Media Dynasty. She claims to be their biggest fan and wants to produce their new demo – but there are some stipulations to this welcome interest. The comeback album will be accompanied by a Behind the Scenes Documentary … which the Boys learn is actually a reality competition show, in which just one of the four will get to debut as a solo artist.
Let the games begin.
HANSOL JUNG is a playwright and director from South Korea. Productions include: MERRY ME (New York Theatre Workshop), WOLF PLAY (Soho Rep, NNPN Rolling Premiere: Artists Rep, Company One), WILD GOOSE DREAMS (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), CARDBOARD PIANO (Humana Festival at ATL), AMONG THE DEAD (Ma-Yi Theatre), and NO MORE SAD THINGS (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). Winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play 2023, Obie Award for Playwriting 2024, Herb Alpert Award, Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, and Helen Merrill Award. Commissions from The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, National Theatre in the UK, Playwrights Horizons, Artists Repertory Theater, Ma-Yi Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been developed at the Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Hedgebrook, Berkeley Repertory, Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill Theater Center, and the Lark. Hansol is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark’s Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, MacDowell Artist Residency, and the International Playwrights Residency at the Royal Court. Hansol has written for the Netflix series TALES OF THE CITY and Apple TV+ series PACHINKO, and has developed new projects for film and television with Bad Robot, Amazon Studios, Apple TV+, Fifth Season Production, and Kindred Spirit, among others. She is a proud member of NYTW's Usual Suspects, The Kilroys, and a founding member of the new play collective THE PACK. https://www.thepackcompany.org/. MFA: Yale.
CHRIS BANNOW is an actor and songwriter. Recent credits include: THE COUNTERFEIT OPERA (Little Island), THE PRIDE BEFORE (Playwrights Realm), MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Little Island), WOLF PLAY (MCC and Soho Rep), ROMEO AND JULIET (NAATCO/Play On), Daniel Fish’s OKLAHOMA! (Broadway), SLEEP NO MORE (Punchdrunk), THE HAIRY APE (Park Avenue Armory), and THE ELEPHANT MAN (Williamstown, Broadway, West End). He received a Lortel Award for his work in WOLF PLAY, and is a member of The Pack. Regionally he has worked at Hartford Stage, Huntington, Center Theater Group, Kennedy Center, McCarter, Berkshire Theater Group, Yale Rep, and developed new work at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and the O’Neill Theater Center. Film: FIDELITY, THREE CHRISTS, SCREAMERS, NOT FADE AWAY. TV: THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN. Chris also wrote music for The Pack’s new play COCK TALES, being produced later this year with En Garde Arts in NYC. Training: Boston University, Yale.
BRIAN QUIJADA is a playwright, actor, and composer. His original work includes WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS? (Jeff Award, Drama Desk Nomination, Drama League Nomination, Regional Emmy Nomination), KID PRINCE AND PABLO (Developed at New York Stage and Film, 2018), SOMEWHERE OVER THE BORDER (Jeff Award), and MEXODUS (Helen Hayes Nomination, Developed at New York Stage and Film, 2021). As an actor in New York City, Brian has been seen in BOBBY CLEARLY at Roundabout, OEDIPUS EL REY at The Public Theater/Sol Project, MY MAÑANA COMES at Playwrights Realm, and WOLF PLAY at MCC (Lucille Lortel Award, Drama Desk Nomination).
MITCHELL WINTER is an actor living in New York City. Theater credits include: HAMLET (dir. Kenny Leon, Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park), WOLF PLAY (dir. Dustin Wills, MCC & Soho Rep; Lortel Award for Best Ensemble), DRACULA and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (dir. David Auburn, Berkshire Theatre Group), FRONTIERES SANS FRONTIERES (Bushwick Starr), REDEMPTION STORY (ART/NY), A WINTER’S TALE, A DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, AMERICAN NIGHT (Yale Rep), SLEEP NO MORE (Punchdrunk), Cameron Mackintosh’s MISS SAIGON (Australian National Tour), THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (The Production Company), MISS JULIE, TARTUFFE, and DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE YOU (Yale Summer Cabaret), NORMATIVITY (NYMF), DIE FLEDERMAUS (Australian Opera Studio), and JOSEPH… DREAMCOAT (Really Useful). Film/TV credits include: MR. ROBOT (USA Network), OH JEROME NO (FX), and IF NOT LOVE (official Sundance selection). He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.