STARGAZERS

LIZZY BROOKS

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Lizzy is an actor, singer and screenwriter. BA: Columbia University,  MFA: Brown/Trinity Repertory. Select credits include Broadway: Macbeth (u/s Lady Macbeth, Banquo); Regional Theater: Macbeth in Stride (Shakespeare Theater Company, Philadelphia Theater Company) As You Like It (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Julius Caesar (The Hanover Theater) and Shoebox: A Roadside Picnic (ASF). Film and TV: The Storied Life of AJ Fikry (Hulu/Amazon Prime), “New Amsterdam” (NBC) and “Hostages” (NBC). As always, thanks to her incredible family, friends and team for their unending support. Instagram: @lizzy__brooks

BAIZE BUZAN

Baize is a New York-based actress. Select theater includes the role of Scout Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway opposite Greg Kinnear, and productions and workshops with Arena Stage, New York Stage and Film, Victory Gardens Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf, and Jackalope Theater Company. Film and television credits include Being The Ricardos, the 2021 SXSW Narrative Competition selection Our Father, NBC's "Chicago Fire," and the indie feature Nobody's Home. She is a graduate of Vassar College and the Yale School of Drama.

ANDREW GARMAN

Andrew is a New York-based actor. His extensive theater credits include the world premieres of Greater Clements and Admissions (LCT); The Christians (Drama Desk & Lortel nominations); The Glory of the World (BAM); Ashville (Cherry Lane/Rattlestick); The Ugly One (Soho Rep); Burning (The New Group); A Bright New Boise, The Bereaved, After (The Wild Project/Partial Comfort). Other credits include Salome (Broadway/The Actor’s Studio); Tumacho (Connelly Theater/Clubbed Thumb); The Moors (The Duke/Playwrights Realm); Macbeth (Actors Theater of Louisville); A Doll’s House Part 2 (George Street Theater); Cymbeline, Hamlet (The Public/NYSF). Most recent TV/Film appearances in “Dead Ringers” and The Holdovers (2024 Oscar nomination for Best Picture) as the headmaster Dr. Hardy Woodrup.

FERNANDO GONZALEZ

Fernando is an actor, writer, deviser, science enthusiast, ne'er-do-well, rascal, scamp, and synonym fan. Credits include: Prepared (EST), SPEECH (Lightning Rod Special), Skinnamarink (Little Lord/Next Door @ New York Theatre Workshop), Minor Character (New Saloon/Under the Radar), Play On! (Classic Stage Company), Red Emma and the Mad Monk (The Tank), Breeders (New Light Theater Project), sundry projects at Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, MCC, Primary Stages, The Flea, The Drama League, The Bushwick Starr, and New Dramatists, along with a smattering of film, audio, and web projects. He also translated and adapted Ramón del Valle-Inclán's Bohemian Lights for Live Source's production at HERE Arts Center. Graduate of NYU Tisch/Playwrights Horizons. @uniqueid, Fernando-Gonzalez.com.

MILES G. JACKSON

Miles, originally from the outskirts of Atlantic City, is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He was most recently seen in the Sundance Festival premiere of A24’s A Different Man opposite Sebastian Stan, directed by Aaron Schimberg, and is featured in the newly released A24 film Problemista opposite writer/director/producer Julio Torres. Miles guest starred in the final season of “The Other Two” (HBO Max), and previously recurred on the Nazi-hunting series “Hunters” (Amazon Studios) and opposite Tracy Morgan in “The Last O.G.” (TBS), both produced by Jordan Peele. On stage, he made his Broadway debut in the company of Chicken & Biscuits. Other stage credits include Endlings at New York Theatre Workshop and American Repertory Theater, as well as productions at Signature Theatre, The Sheen Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage Company, and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. 

KEREN LUGO

Off-Broadway: Privacy, Romeo y Julieta, The Mobile Unit: Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater); At the Wedding (LCT3); Actually, We're F*cked (Cherry Lane); Two Mile Hollow (Women's Project). Regional: Girls, Scenes From Court Life (Yale Rep); Water by The Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum); Men on Boats (Baltimore Center Stage); Women of Padilla (Two River Theater); Henry V, Our Town (Chautauqua Theater Festival). TV: "New Amsterdam" (NBC), "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix), "The Americans" (FX). Education: MFA, NYU Grad Acting.

KELLY MCANDREW

Broadway: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Off-Broadway credits include: The Thin Place, Novenas for a Lost Hospital, Men on Boats, Perfect Arrangement, Abundance (Off-Broadway Alliance Award), Almost, Maine, Good Television, Still Life, The Cataract. Regional Theatre includes: The Humana Festival (’16, ’17 and ’19), Westport Country Playhouse, Yale Rep, ART, The Guthrie Theater, Denver Center, The Old Globe and Arena Stage. TV: “New Amsterdam,” “The Sinner,” “The Good Fight,” “Daredevil” (recurring), “Orange is the New Black” (recurring), “House of Cards,” “Elementary,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Smash,” “Law & Order,” and “Gossip Girl.” Film: Peas and Carrots, Commercial Street, A Kid Like Jake (Sundance 2018), Island Zero, Appropriate Behavior (Sundance 2014), In the Family (SPIRIT nomination) and Everybody’s Fine (with Robert DeNiro). Training: UMKC. kellymcandrew.com

PLAYWRIGHT

Majkin Holmquist is the 2024 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Page 73, where she was also the 2023 Page 73 Playwriting Fellow and a member of the 2023 Page 73 Writers Group. She is originally from the Smoky Valley region in central Kansas where she was co-founder of The Next Stage Theatre Company. Her play Tent Revival received a digital production through Paula Vogel’s Bard at the Gate series in partnership with the McCarter Theatre Center in 2023. Other plays include two headed calf, Every Anne Frank, Quickmatch, Dog Pack Play, and Skinflint. 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 is currently a member of Midnight Oil Collective, and is 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 Yale School of Drama.

DIRECTOR

Colette is a director and playwright from Los Angeles, based in New York. She directed the world premieres of STEW by Zora Howard at Page 73 (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Behind the Sheet by Charly Evon Simpson at Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a member. She recently directed the first New York revival of Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage with Keen Company. Regional credits include City Theatre Company, Penumbra Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Colette is an alumnus of The Drama League's Beatrice Terry Residency, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, and The Public Theater’s Van Lier Directing Fellowship. Her play The Harriet Holland Social Club Presents the 84th Annual Star-burst Cotillion in the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel, which she also directed, premiered last spring, produced by The Movement Theatre Company and New Georges. She is an adjunct lecturer at NYU and the 2023 SDCF Denham Fellow.

SET

Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits (Circle in the Square). New York: The White Chip (MCC), Covenant (Roundabout), Patience (2ST Uptown), STEW (Page 73). Regional: Twelfth Night, Trouble in Mind (The Old Globe), Black Cypress Bayou (Geffen), Bulrusher (McCarter, Berkeley Rep), Faust (Wolf Trap), Proof, Once Upon a Bridge, The Brothers Size (American Players), Blues for an Alabama Sky (McCarter, Guthrie), Appropriate, The Little Foxes (South Coast Rep), Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed), This Little Light of Mine (Santa Fe Opera), Fairview (Wilma), it’s not a trip, it’s a journey, We Declare You a Terrorist… (Round House). Member: Local USA 829. motendesigns.com; @motendesigns

COSTUMES

Alicia is a Brooklyn-based costume designer for theater, TV, and film. She is a graduate of Yale School of Drama and the recipient of the Princess Grace Theater Award, Pierre Cardin Honor. 

LIGHTS

Reza is an Obie Award-winning, New York-based lighting designer for live performances. Off-Broadway: The Ally (Public Theater), Pool Project (59E59), Bees & Honey (MCC Theater), Hang Time (Flea), Arden of Faversham (Red Bull Theater), Good Enemy (Audible), Vagrant Trilogy (Public Theater), Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons), English (Atlantic Theater), Out of Time (NAATCO), P.S. (Ars Nova), Henry VI (NAATCO), Hamlet (Waterwell), etc. Regional: Steppenwolf Theatre, Seattle Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theater, Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Milwaukee Rep, Wilma Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Actors Theater of Louisville, Geva Theater, Long Wharf, Alabama Shakespeare, etc. Awards: Obie Award for Design for English and Wish You Were Here (2022), Knight of Illumination Award for Nina Simone: Four Women (2019). 

SOUND

NYC: Bite Me (WP Theater). DC/MD/VA: Gloria (2018 Helen Hayes Nomination for Outstanding Sound Design for a Hayes Production); There’s Always the Hudson and Hi, Are You Single?; Incendiary; The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes (Woolly Mammoth); Ain’t No Mo’ (Woolly Mammoth/Baltimore Center Stage); Life Is a Dream (Baltimore Center Stage); Crying on Television, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Sound Inside, The Chinese Lady, Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Everyman Theater); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play; it's not a trip it's a journey (Round House Theatre); Moses, Fires in the Mirror (Theater J); The Thanksgiving Play (Olney Theatre Center); A Wind in the Door (Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences). 

PROPS

Caitlyn is a New York-based props and scenic designer for theater and film. Recent props credits include STEW (Page 73), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company) SuperHero (Houses on the Moon), Out of Time (NAATCO/ The Public), Where You Are Now, Georgia Mertching is Dead, Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio), White Chip (59E59), Porto (WP Theater), This Girl Laughs… (ATC). Set design: Fiddler on the Roof (St. Jean Theater), Diva: Live from Hell (Theater for the New City), Crackskull Row (Irish Rep Theatre).

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life, Sunday in the Park with George, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ghost The Musical, Dead Accounts and Relatively Speaking. Other Credits include: Mary Gets Hers with The Playwrights Realm and Drift at New World Stages. Kate has also worked with: City Center Encores!, The Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Two River Theater and Kaimera Productions. 

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER

Broadway: The Minutes; Off-Broadway: Gloria: A Life, The Play That Goes Wrong, Original Sound, Esai’s Table, The Old Settler; National Tour: Frozen, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Bodyguard, The Bridges of Madison County; Regional: Bay Street Theater, American Repertory Theater, Hartford Stage, Trinity Repertory Company, McCarter Theatre Center, and six summers at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Graduate of the University of Michigan.

INTIMACY DIRECTOR

Judi has collaborated with Classic Stage Company(Snow in Midsummer.A Midsummer Night's Dream,A Man of No Importance), Signature Theater (Hot Wing King, One in Two, Jasper), WP theater/Second Stage/ Colt Coeur (Hatef**k, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Bite Me), Cherry Lane Theater (This Beautiful Future), New World Stages (Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors!, Ms Trial), Theater Row (Inheritance of a Long Term Fault, w/Clutch Productions), The Mint Theater (The Rat Trap, US premiere) Bedlam Theater Company (Persuasion), The Flea Theater, w/ TOSOS (Bar Dykes, Rock the Line) and Williamstown Theater Festival (A Raisin in the Sun, directed by Robert O'Hara and A Human Being, of a Sort, directed by Whitney White). Intimacy Coordinator tv/film credits include Out of the Blue, directed by Neil LaBute; Plan B, with Jamie Lee and John Heder, Up Here (Hulu). She teaches and directs intimacy and violence in performance at NYU Tisch, National Theater Institute, Atlantic Theater School, AMDA, The New School, and Sarah Lawrence College. judilewisockler.com