Lauren Yee’s (she/her) Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep, subsequent productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens, City Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, and Jungle Theatre/Theater Mu, and is currently touring. Her play The Great Leap has been produced at the Denver Center, Steppenwolf, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, Pasadena Playhouse/East West Players, InterAct Theatre, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She's a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists members, Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, and Playwrights Realm playwright. TV credits:  Pachinko (Apple), Soundtrack (Netflix). Upcoming TV credits: Interior Chinatown (Hulu), Billions (Showtime), The Sterling Affairs (FX). She has developed pilots for Apple and Netflix. Current commissions include Arena Stage, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. B.A: Yale. M.F.A: UCSD. laurenyee.com 

Heather Christian (she/her) is a Lortel, Drama Desk and two time Obie Award winning composer/performer making music centered shows and rituals. She is a  2021 Richard Rodgers Award winner, 2022 Stephen Schwartz Outstanding New Composer awardee and  Sundance Institute Time Warner Fellow. Recent composing/performing credits include her own work Oratorio for Living Things  (Ars Nova), Animal Wisdom (The Bushwick Starr, now a motion picture made in collaboration with Wooly Mammoth in DC and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco) I am Sending You the Sacred Face (Theater In Quarantine/ YouTube— Named Vultures #5 Theater Experience of 2020), Prime: A Practical Breviary (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage—named IndieWire’s #1 Podcast Episode of 2020) in addition to being a lead artist on devised works Mission Drift Nat’l Theater London, The World Is Round (BAM).  Film composition credits include The Craft: Legacy (Sony Pictures/ Blumhouse 2020) Lemon, (2017 Sundance Film Festival and SXSW) Gregory Go Boom, (Sundance Grand Jury Prize) Adult Swim series Teenage Euthanasia and The Shivering Truth (2021 BMI TV Music Award for Outstanding Score), and all four films in the Criterion Collection’s Restrospective of Janicza Bravo.  She was named one of TimeOut NY's Downtown Innovators To Watch and is a 2019 Harold an Mimi Steinberg Trust commissionee.  She has released 13 records, teaches vocal-based music composition at NYU, owns and operates her own recording studio in Beacon, NY, and can be seen regularly in concert halls and dive bars as Heather Christian & the Arbornauts. www.heatherchristian.bandcamp.com

Lee Sunday Evans (she/her) is a New York-based, two-time Obie award-winning director and choreographer. Lee most recently directed the acclaimed production of Heather Christian’s Oratorio for Living Things (Lucille Lortel Award for Best Director) and was just announced as the director of a Broadway-bound musical adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. She is developing a TV project for A24, and directed The Coutroom a feature-length film written by Arian Moayed. Notable credits include Dance Nation  by Clare Barron (Playwrights Horizons, OBIE and Lortel Awards), The Courtroom (Waterwell; NYTimes Best Theater of 2019 List), Detroit Red by Will Power (ArtsEmerson), Sunday by Jack Thorne (Atlantic Theater Company), In the Green by Grace McLean (LCT3), Miller, Mississippi by Boo Killebrew (Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theater), The Winter's Tale (The Public), Home (BAM), Farmhouse/Whorehouse by Suzanne Bocanegra (BAM), Bull in a China Shop by Bryna Turner (Lincoln Center/LCT3), Caught by Christopher Chen (The Play Company), [Porto] by Kate Benson (WP Theater/The Bushwick Starr), A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of The Great Lakes by Kate Benson (OBIE Award; WP Theater, New Georges). Lee’s work has been also presented and developed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Sundance Theater Lab, BAX, CATCH, LMCC, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, and Juilliard among others. She is the Artistic Director of Waterwell.

Leanne Antonio is a New York based Actress, Broadway Credit: THE LION KING; Off-Broadway credit: Black No More (Choreo: Bill T. Jones, music: Black Thought); TV: "The Equalizer" (Nia, Ep.7 dir: Christine Moore); Some Other Credits Include: Murder on the Orient Express (Mary Debenham, Paper Mill Playhouse), Muriel’s Wedding (Rhonda, dir: Simon Phillips, writer: PJ Hogan), Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse, dir: Rachel Chavkin, Choreo: Raja Feather Kelly), Disaster (Levora, starring/writer: Seth Rudetsky, dir./writer: Jack Plotnick). She would like to thank her awesome team at HCKR and Stagecoach management, God, and her beautiful support system of friends and family. And last but not least, GO BLUE!

Kim Blanck's New York and regional credits include 6 world premieres: Octet (Signature Theatre, winner of the Drama Desk Ensemble Award), The Best We Could (MTC), Alice by Heart (MCC), The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Moby-Dick (A.R.T.), and Folk Wandering (Pipeline). TV: “East New York” (CBS), “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “WeCrashed” (Apple TV+), “Dr. Death” (Peacock). Film: Call Jane, Friday Afternoon, Women Who Kill. BFA, NYU Tisch; MFA, UC San Diego. www.kimblanck.com

Jeffrey Cornelius is ecstatic to join this company! Most recently, Evan Alternate: Dear Evan Hansen. Other favorite projects include LINK: Class 4, Sonnets and Soul, and Homeschool Musical: Class of 2020 on HBOMax. CCM MT24! Thank you to everybody at DGRW, and every single family member and teacher that has helped me get here! (Especially Mom, Dad, The Grands and Daniel) It takes a village!

Major Curda is a Korean-American multi-disciplinary storytelling artist who was last seen as Romeo in NAATCO's off-broadway production of Romeo & Juliet; prior to which Major could be seen opposite South Korea’s recording superstar Luna in the Broadway musical KPOP! As an artist with a love for reifying classic stories, Major is thrilled and truly humbled to be working with such a phenomenal cast & creative team on A Wrinkle in Time. Major can be found recurring on the CW smash hit series RIVERDALE as “Dilton Doiley” and on Netflix’s ATYPICAL as “Arlo”. In addition to other Broadway, touring, and regional theatre credits, Major has recurred on multiple Nickelodeon shows and web-series, as well as hosted an AwesomenessTV game show; while on the voiceover side, they are the host voice of multiple Xbox One Disney video games. Major is a recent graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and a member of One Year Lease Theatre Company. @Majorly.MC Website: MajorCurda.art

Broadway: Freestyle Love Supreme; Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway: The Beautiful Lady (La Mama); Morning//Mourning (HERE); Oratorio For Living Things (Ars Nova, Lortel Award); Freestyle Love Supreme (Ars Nova); In The Green (LCT3, Lortel Award nomination); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); Hadestown (NYTW); In Love With Jobim (York Theatre). Regional: Cowboy Bob (Alley Theatre); The Tattooed Lady (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Life After (Goodman Theatre), A Crossing (Barrington Stage Company), Moby-Dick (A.R.T.), The Great Comet of 1812 (A.R.T.), Prometheus Bound (A.R.T.), Evita, West Side Story, The Sound of Music. Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, 54 Below. Film: The Kitchen.

Robi Hager is a Mexican-American performer and musical theatre composer. He has appeared on Broadway with Spring Awakening, How To Succeed…, Bye Bye Birdie, and Doctor Zhivago. Regional: Ragtime, Parade, Next to Normal, Bonnie & Clyde, among others. As a composer, his work has been showcased and developed at The Eugene O’Neill Center, NAMT and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. For more info visit robihager.com. @robihager

Katrina Lenk is currently filming a major recurring role in the upcoming limited series Apples Never Fall on Peacock. She previously appeared as a recurring guest star in the final season of Netflix’s Ozark. She starred as Bobbie in the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, the first woman to play the role on Broadway. She previously starred as Dina in The Band’s Visit, for which she earned Tony, Grammy, and Lucille Lortel Awards. She also received nominations from OCC, Chita Rivera Awards, Drama League, Theatre World Award’s Dorothy Loudon Award, and a Clarence Derwent Award (Breakout Female of the Year). Other Broadway credits: Pulitzer Prize winning Indecent (OCC nomination), Once, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, The Miracle Worker. Additional theater credits: Indecent (Vineyard, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Rep), iWitness (Mark Taper Forum), Lost Land (Steppenwolf), Lovelace: A Rock Opera (L.A./Edinburgh). Other TV credits: “Little Voice,” “Tommy” “The Village,” “The Good Fight,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Elementary,” “The Blacklist.”

Diego Lucano and his beautiful hair have performed in various professional stage productions, such as School of Rock (Broadway), Trevor (Off Broadway and Disney+), Sing Street (Huntington Theatre Co.), and recently Let The Right One In (Berkeley Rep) as well as on film in Marry Me (2022). He also created an animated short film, Marks, which went on to win numerous awards in multiple film festivals. IG: @diego_lucano

Kenita R. Miller’s credits include: B'way: For Colored Girls (Lady In Red/Drama Desk, Drama League, & Tony Nom.), Come From Away (Hannah), Once On This Island (Mama Euralie/ Grammy Nom.), The Color Purple (Celie), Xanadu (Erato/Kira understudy) Off Broadway: Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Granny, Encores!), Bella: an American Tall Tale (Miss Cabbagestalk/Mama), Merrily We Roll Along (Encores!), Wild Party (Encores!), Langston In Harlem (Zora Neale Hurston-Drama Desk Nom./Audelco Award), Working (Drama Desk Award), Avenue Q Regional: Parade (Minnie McKnight, Angela/2014 Barrymore Award Outstanding Featured Actress), Once On This Island (Timoune/Mama Euralie), Ragtime (Sarah) Film/TV: Tick Tick Boom, Sesame Street, Bull, Hostages, Blacklist. 

Mia Pak (she/her) is an actor, singer, and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. Recent credits include Suffs (The Public Theater), In The Green (Lincoln Center Theater), and Your Own Personal Exegesis (Lincoln Center Theater). Her first time at NYSAF, she is overjoyed to be sharing this timeless piece with such an inspiring group of artists.

Martín Solá just completed a run as Juan Perón in Evita at The REV Theater; and prior to that he was seen in the premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Plays for the Plague Year at The Public Theater in NYC. Broadway: On Your Feet, The King and I, Coram Boy, and Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème. Additional NY Credits: New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, New York City Opera, City Center Encores, The Roundabout Theater Company, and more. TV: Father Russo in Archive 81 (Netflix), FBI (CBS), and Law and Order SVU (NBC). Martín wrote, directed and starred in his first short film, May I Take it Your Plate which garnered “Best Film” and “Best Actor” awards at both the International Puerto Rican Heritage and the New York City Downtown Film Festivals. He also teaches singing at Yale University in New Haven and has had a private voice and acting studio in NYC for many years. For more info visit www.martinsola.com.

Phillip Taratula’s credits include: Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (LCT). National tour: What the Constitution Means to Me. Off-B'way: Becomes a Woman (Mint Theater Co); Riddle of the Trilobites (New Victory); Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge (HERE); Empire Travel Agency (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Two River, Huntington, La Mirada, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Gulfshore Playhouse, Tuacahn, Humana Festival, Ordway, O'Neill Conference, more. Opera: Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera); The Solder's Tale (Castleton Festival). Film/TV: Almost Love; "And Just Like That" (HBO Max); "Dr. Death" (NBC/Peacock); "For Life" (NBC); "High Maintenance" (HBO); "FBI" (CBS). BFA, Boston University School of Theatre.

Katie Thompson was last seen on Broadway as Aunt Eller in Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma”, the world premiere of “Renascence” by Carmel Dean and Dick Scanlan, and “R.R.R.E.D. a Secret Musical”, which she composed. Other roles include: Vashti in “Giant” by Michael John LaChiusa, The Witch in the world premiere of “Big Fish" by Andrew Lippa, and Nora Hildebrandt in Philadelphia Theater Company’s “The Tattooed Lady” by Max Vernon. She has guest starred on CBS’s “Blacklist”, HBO’s “High Maintenance”, and NBC’s “30 Rock”. Her musical theater cast albums include: “Giant”, “Renascence”, “R.R.R.E.D. a Secret Musical”, “The Mad Ones”, “Polkadots: The Cool Kid Musical”, and “Dreamland, Area 51”.  In addition to her musical theater discography Katie’s solo albums have been featured on “So You Think You Can Dance” and can be found on iTunes. Instagram/Twitter handle: katiethompsonkt

Adrienne Walker, proud graduate of Spelman College, is a stage a tv/film actor based in New York. She made her Broadway debut as Nala in Disney’s The Lion King and also starred as Hattie in the Broadway revival of Kiss Me Kate. TV credits; "Power Book IV: Force," "Law & Order: Organized Crime," and "FBI." Regional theatre credits; Porgy and Bess, Rent, Hair, Dreamgirls, Agamemnon, Iphigenia in Aulis and The Color Purple. Adrienne is the founder of 32 Bar Cut – an advice platform for actors and also sells handmade organic skincare on Etsy @tembospa. www.adriennemwalker.com

Jayke Workman is a non-binary performer based in New York City. A graduate of The Hartt School, Jayke holds a BFA in Musical Theater, and is originally from the midwest. Jayke has had the pleasure of appearing in regional productions across the country, and has also played the role of Mary Sunshine in Chicago The Musical on the National Tour, and most recently on Broadway. When not onstage, Jayke has worked in many facets of the arts, including in the wig department for Saturday Night Live. Listen to Jayke's podcast, 'Oh My Pod U Guys' on the Broadway Podcast Network anywhere you listen to podcasts. Much love to my wonderful family, friends, and The Roster Agency. @jaykeworkman 

Emily Xu Hall 黃福霖 is an actor, composer, lyricist, and playwright. Off-Broadway: Shaina Taub’s As You Like It (Jaques Standby), Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park. Regional: Nell Gwynn (Lady Castlemaine/Louise), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Snow Queen (Snow Queen), Triad Stage. MFA, NYU Graduate Acting. As composer, lyricist and playwright, she was awarded the American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Award for her solo writing, the Dramatists Guild Stephen Schwartz Composer Award, and was the inaugural winner of the “Go Write A Musical” Lilly Award for Women in Theatre. Off-Broadway as composer-lyricist: Nomad Motel at the Atlantic Theatre Company. Development: Cherry Orchard Musical, Mei-do Film: LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE (2022), co-wrote with Pasek & Paul for live action movie musical starring Shawn Mendes, Javier Bardem and Constance Wu. emilyxuhall.com

Jason Kaiser: Monsoon Wedding the Musical (St. Ann's); Only An Octave Apart (St. Ann's, NY Phil.); Kiki and Herb SLEIGH (BAM); Social! and Party in the Bardo (both at Park Avenue Armory); the Tony Award-winning revival of Oklahoma! (Broadway, St. Ann’s); A 24-Decade History of Popular Music with Taylor Mac (St. Ann’s, tour); Available Light with Lucinda Childs Dance Company; the opera premieres of Book of Mountains and Seas, Acquanetta, The Source, anatomy theater, and love fail; the Olivier Award-winning revival of Einstein on the Beach (BAM, tour); three world-premiere plays by Athol Fugard; two European tours of Jesus Christ Superstar directed and choreographed by Baayork Lee.

Jo Fernandez (he/they) Previously at NYS&F: Annie Salem. They are the Festival Stage Manager at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, working on Henry V and Penelope. Broadway: The Ferryman, Head Over Heels. Select New York: Oratorio for Living Things (Ars Nova); The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special); Wolf Play, soft, Charm (MCC); Only An Octave Apart (St. Ann's Warehouse); The Underlying Chris (Second Stage), Public Works' Hercules, Julius Caesar, The Gabriels Trilogy (The Public); If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be…, Men On Boats, The Christians, Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons); Continuity, India Pale Ale (MTC). Opera and Concerts: The Mother of Us All (Juilliard, The Met Museum, & the NY Philharmonic), Of Thee I Sing (Carnegie Hall), and the White Light Festival for Lincoln Center. Regional productions, workshops, and readings for Berkeley Rep, The Old Globe, and Shakespeare Theatre Company. Many thanks to the NYS&F staff & crew, the cast, and especially Jason.

Ben Moss (he/him) is an award-winning music director, performer, songwriter, and orchestrator. He performed in, co-orchestrated, and music directed Heather Christian’s acclaimed Oratorio for Living Things at Ars Nova (Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award). Broadway conducting credits include Head Over Heels and Amélie. Other credits: Azul (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Gavin Creel’s Walk On Through (O’Neill), Heather Christian’s PRIME (Playwright’s Horizons “Soundstage”), The Hello Girls (Prospect Theater), Arlington (Vineyard Theatre), After Anatevka (Audible), Chasing The Song (La Jolla Playhouse), America is Hard to See (Life Jacket, Edinburgh), Spring Awakening (1st National Tour), Ben Moss & Friends (The Duplex), The Bongo Hour with Peter Smith & Sandy Honig (The Slipper Room), and appearances at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center. He is the composer of the new musical Don’t Call Me John! and the music director of the Broadway Sings concert series. On all platforms @benkmoss and benkmoss.com

Emily Whitaker is a music director, conductor, and pianist from upstate New York. She recently served as the music supervisor for the New York premiere of Monsoon Wedding at St. Ann’s Warehouse. She also currently subs as a conductor and keyboard player at &Juliet. Other recent credits include the world premiere of Monsoon Wedding at the 2022 World Cup in Doha, Qatar (music director), Suffs (associate music director), the Mean Girls National Tour (music director), Trading Places at the Alliance Theatre (associate music director), The Visitor at the Public Theater (associate music director), Merrily We Roll Along with Fiasco Theater at Roundabout (conductor/pianist/associate music director), The Band's Visit on Broadway and with Atlantic Theater Company, Into the Woods at Princeton University, and The Hello Girls with Prospect Theater Company. Emily has also been a proud teaching artist at Princeton and McCarter Theater Center. B.A. Princeton University; M.A. in Musicology: Columbia University.

Nick Kassoy (they/he) is a queer theatre creator, actor, music director, copyist, composer, and designer based in New York. A recent graduate of University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts, they have served as music assistant for the world premiere production of A Transparent Musical (Mark Taper Forum), as well as developmental readings of Dr. Silver (South Coast Repertory) and Harold & Lillian (South Coast Repertory). Notable music work at USC included Ghost Quartet (Music Director/Assistant Director), Next to Normal (Music Director), and Eurydice (Composer). Nick is thrilled to be back at NYSAF in a new capacity, having been a part of the 2019 summer season as a lighting intern. @nkassoy