The Comeuppance

Jordan Bellow is a performer of stage and screen. NY credits include California at Clubbed Thumb, Gnit and Richard II + Henry IV at Theatre for a New Audience, Interior at 59E59, The Feels..KMS at New Ohio Theatre, and Alkestis and Macbeth at The Connelly. Regionally, he has performed across the country including Chester Theatre Company, Fisher Center at Bard, Westport Country Playhouse, Denver Center, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre and South Coast Repertory. Film/TV – “Dickinson”, “Gotham”, and “Orange Is The New Black”.

Alana Raquel Bowers (Baltimore,MD) is an actor, dancer, singer and producer. Most recently seen in Molière in the Park’s production of The Miser. Broadway: Chicken and Biscuits (Circle in the Square Theater). Off-Broadway: Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group and the National Black Theater at the Signature Theater), What To Send Up When It Goes Down (A.R.T./New York Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, the Public Theater, and BAM, respectively) Off-Off Broadway: SCRAPS (The Flea Theater), Film/TV credits: “FBI: Most Wanted” (CBS), “Dr. Death” (Peacock). Producer credits: The Transatlantic Residency with Irish Repertory Theater and the Apollo, Anansi Creative Studio’s Storytellers Spotlight Series. Proud alum of the Baltimore School for the Arts and NYU Tisch Drama. Thankful to be part of the legacy of this beautiful play. Proverbs 23:18. Always. In all ways.

she/her | Regional credits: Cymbeline, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); All My Mothers Dream In Spanish (Azuka Theatre); KISS, FAT HAM (2021 filmed World Premiere), Dance Nation, There, Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man, Romeo and Juliet, Passage, Passing Strange, Blood Wedding, When the Rain Stops Falling, An Octoroon, The Hard Problem (Wilma Theater); A Streetcar Named Desire, NO CHILD…(2021 Filmed Production), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Bête, The Jungle Book, Wayside Stories From Wayside School (Arden Theatre); Shakespeare In Love, All My Sons (People’s Light). Taysha is the 2018 F. Otto Haas Emerging Philadelphia Theater Artist Recipient and a three-time Barrymore Award nominee. She is a founding member of the Wilma Theater’s resident acting company, the Hot House. BFA in Acting from Arcadia University. Next production: Tonya in King Hedley II at the Arden Theatre. Much love to my family, especially to my two AMDs. www.tayshamariecanales.com 

Sarah Gliko (she/her) is an actor/musician and founding member of the Wilma HotHouse Acting Company, where select productions include: The Good Person of Setzuan, Eternal Life Part 1, (Barrymore Award-Supporting Performance), KISS, The Cherry Orchard, Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Drama League Award Nomination), Constellations, When The Rain Stops Falling (Barrymore Award-Ensemble), and the U.S. premiere of Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem. Other recent credits include: Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s Run Bambi Run, a new rock musical w/ music by Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes); The Tempest, Sense & Sensibility (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); Mountain Home Christmas (Greenbrier Valley Theatre); TOWN (Theatre Horizon); A Small Fire w/ Bebe Neuwirth and The Bridges of Madison County (Barrymore Award-Lead Performance), both at Philadelphia Theater Company. She has worked locally with Arden Theatre Co, Act II Playhouse, Azuka Theatre, Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Delaware Theatre Co, Inis Nua Theatre, Lantern Theater Co, Montgomery Theatre and The Walnut St Theatre. She is also a grateful recipient of the 2019 Independence Foundation Fellowship Award. Abundant love and thanks to our beautiful community! 

Jaime Maseda (he/him) is a Barrymore-nominated performer based in Philadelphia. He has worked across disciplines with various artists and companies, including Pig Iron Theatre Company, Miguel Gutierrez, the Arden Theatre, the Wilma Theater, Azuka Theatre, People’s Light, Orbiter 3, Magda & Chelsea, Mel Krodman & Kelly Bond, George & Co.; as well as in collaborative partnership with NYC-based artist Iris McCloughan as No Face Performance Group. 

she/her | DC’s The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experience (Netflix/Shondaland/Fever); Fiddler on the Roof (Olney Theatre Center); Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night [Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble], The Phantom of the Opera, and many others (Synetic Theater); Jardín salvaje/Native Gardens [World Premiere in Spanish] (GALA Hispanic Theatre); Monstress (Flying V Theatre), Sometimes the Rain, Sometimes the Sea (Rorschach Theatre), Squeakers & Mr. Gumdrop (Arts on the Horizon), Hello, My Name Is… (The Welders), A New Nation (Convergence Theater), The Rite of Spring (Pointless Theatre Co.) CHOREOGRAPHY: Cinderella (Synetic Theater); 46 Plays for America’s First Ladies and Little Women (NextStop Theatre Company). EDUCATION: B.F.A. in Dance from George Mason University, Company Member at Synetic Theater. Next production: Astro Boy and the God of Comics (Flying V Theatre). Janine loves physical theater and storytelling through movement, and is so grateful to her family and the DC theater community. IG: @janinebaumgardner

Diego Maramba (u/s Emelio/Paco) is a proud Filipino-American actor and playwright residing in Silver Spring, MD. He is the co-author of Connection, an immigration story told through the lens of a child’s two stuffed buddies: Malakas, a Filipino eagle, and Daniel, a carabao. His work premiered in 2021 at Adventure Theatre as part of their Winterfest program. Born in the Philippines, he lived in Taiwan, Korea, and Malaysia before moving to the US at the tender age of eight. He has appeared on stage at various DC theaters including: Woolly Mammoth (Hudson), Synetic Theater (Phantom), Silver Spring Stage (Yellow Face), and NextStop Theatre (Shawshank, Freaky Friday). Film credits include The Girl Who Left Home, a feature length Filipino–American movie musical by Mallorie Ortega. He holds BA and MBA degrees from the University of Maryland and is a graduate of the Honors Acting Conservatory at The Theatre Lab School for the Dramatic Arts.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer, and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. His plays include Girls, Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). Most recently he was the showrunner, executive producer, and writer for Hulu/FX’s drama series, “Kindred,” based on Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking novel. A Premiere Resident playwright at Signature Theatre, his honors include USA Artists, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award and he currently serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council. He teaches at Yale University.  

Morgan Green is a director of plays, films, and dinnertime. She is a Co-Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Wilma Theater in Philadelphia where she premiered the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham by James Ijames as a film in 2021. Credits include: Staff Meal by Abe Koogler (Playwrights Horizons), School Pictures by Milo Cramer (Playwrights Horizons, Wilma Theater), Eternal Life Part 1 by Nathan Alan Davis (Wilma Theater), Cute Activist by Milo Cramer (The Bushwick Starr), The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (Marin Theater Company) and Associate Director for Amélie, a new musical (directed by Pam Mackinnon, Broadway). Morgan co-founded New Saloon Theater Company, best known for MINOR CHARACTER: Multiple Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time presented at the 2019 Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater. Her short film One More Time With Feeling premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in London in October 2023. Proud member of SDC.

Samantha Wilhelm (she/her) has been a DC area Freelance Stage Manager for nearly 10 years. After graduating from The University of Mary Washington, she moved to DC and began working full time at theatres such as The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co, Round House Theatre, and Signature Theatre. Some highlights of her career have been the pre-Broadway tryout of Come From Away, Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre, and King Lear starring Patrick Page at STC. Most recently she served as the PSM on Where The Mountain Meets the Sea at Signature Theatre and the ASM on Macbeth at STC, starring Ralph Finnes and Indira Varma. Sam has been a proud Actor’s Equity Association member since 2018. Love to MJEKA et al. 

Fe Miranda (they/them/theirs) was born and raised in Washington, DC and is of PuertoRican and Ecuadorian descent. They are a stage manager, arts administrator, and musician with a passion for making art that is accessible to underrepresented groups. They believe the arts are community, and creating spaces that allow for the people within those communities to feel safe, brave, and successful is an important part of any theatre experience. As a DC native, Fe is excited to be part of creating works that reflect the diversity of the city they grew up in. Their stage management credits include Reefer Madness and In the Heights (NextStop Theatre Company), and Head Over Heels and Just Like Us (George Mason University). Fe is a graduate of George Mason University, where they received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a minor in Arts Management.

MINJOO KIM (Lighting Designer, she/her) is excited to make her debut at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. She is an internationally working lighting designer who approaches design from dynamic and diverse visual perspectives. Selective DC credits include Fat Ham at Studio Theatre, Ink at Round House, King of the Yees at Signature Theatre, and The Brothers Paranormal at Olney Theatre. Off-Broadway credit includes Demon at The Bushwick Starr. Regional credits include American Fast at City Theatre, The Chief at Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Royale at Kansas City Rep, Clue at Bristol Riverside Theatre, Violet at TheatreSquared, Life Sucks at Cygnet Theatre, One in Two at Diversionary Theatre. International credits include South Korea; The Two (Space Owul), Crimson Girl (Dongsoong Art Center), Die or Not (Seoul Art Space Mullae), China; Mask on/off (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre). Her work The Royale was selected for the National Exhibit at Prague Quadrennial in 2023. Website: minjoo-design.com.

Kitt (she/her) is a Baltimore-based designer and company member of Stillpointe Theatre. Recent projects include Rapid Lemon Variations Project; The Lights Went out Because of a Problem (The Acme Corporation); WITCH (Stillpointe); Orlando (Constellation Theatre); My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion (Associate, Woolly Mammoth and Wilma Theatre Co-Production); and Here There are Blueberries (Associate, Shakespeare Theatre Company). When not designing costumes,, Kitt is a co-founder and cocktail curator at The Club Car, a queer performance venue and lounge in Baltimore, MD. 

Jordan McCree (they/he) is an artist based in Philadelphia. Their most recent collaborations include: Good Person of Setzuan (Wilma Theater), Grief Hotel(Clubbed Thumb), Cost of Living (Philadelphia Theatre Company), The BFG (Arden Theater Company), Sandblasted (Theatre Horizon), The World Takes (short film, Eight Flow Studio), Eternal Life Part 1 (The Wilma Theater), The Karamazovs (film, Village Park Productions), Fat Ham (2021 World Premiere, The Wilma Theater). They were one of the 2022 grant recipients to the 1/52 Project. They are also a member of Philly–based, Barrymore Award winning, hip hop collective, ILL DOOTS. Their music is available everywhere! 

Jessica Rizzo has worked at venues including the Hungarian Theatre of Cluj, the Yale Repertory Theatre, the American Theatre of Actors in New York City, and FringeArts in Philadelphia. Her writing for the stage has also been presented at the Hong Kong Arts Series and the Louisville Ballet. Favorite collaborators include Robert Woodruff, Doris Mirescu of Dangerous Ground Productions, and Whit MacLaughlin of New Paradise Laboratories. In 2017, she directed the North American premiere of Elfriede Jelinek’s Shadow. Eurydice Says. Her book Waste was published by punctum books in 2020, and her other writing has appeared in publications including Wired; the Los Angeles Review of Books; Vice; Emancipations: A Journal of Critical Social Analysis; Theater; Theater Journal; TDR; PAJ; Austrian Studies. She earned her doctorate in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the Yale School of Drama.

Jian Jung (she/her) is a New York based set designer from Korea. Recent theater credits include STAFF MEAL (Playwrights Horizons, directed by Morgan Green), THE NOSEBLEED (Lincoln Center Claire Tow & Woolly Mammoth. Upcoming tour at the New National Theater Tokyo in 2025), OCEAN FILIBUSTER (A.R.T. Boston), KISS (Wilma Theater), THE FOLLOWING EVENING (PAC/NYC), BODIES THEY RITUAL (Clubbed Thumb), THE DAY YOU BEGIN (Kennedy Center), SUICIDE FOREST (Bushwick Starr & ART/NY), and LUDIC PROXY (Soho Rep). Opera and musical credits include productions in Wolf Trap Opera (VA), Fisher Center in Bard, Huntington Theater (Boston), Juilliard, and Long Beach Opera (CA). She has been working with Latino theater community in NYC closely, and designed Spanish and bi-lingual productions in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela. Jung received an MFA in Theater Design from New York University, and an MFA in Environmental Design from Ewha Women’s University in Korea. She teaches at NYU Tisch Design and Sarah Lawrence College. www.jianjung.com