BREAKING THE STORY

Tala Ashe received a Best Actress Drama Desk nomination for her performance in English, Sanaz Toosi’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama at the Atlantic Theatre Company, and will reprise her role for the Broadway transfer in 2024. Soon to be seen in the upcoming “Girls on the Bus” for HBO Max, she was notably a series regular on “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.” Ashe has worked at numerous Off-Broadway theaters, including Atlantic Theater, the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and LCT3. 

Geneva Carr is best known for her portrayal of Marissa Morgan on six seasons of the CBS television series “Bull.” She's recurred on “Law and Order SVU,” “Rescue Me,” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.” Additional TV and film credits include “Deadbeat,” “Younger,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” “Royal Pains,” “Elementary,” “Blue Bloods,” “Person of Interest,” “The Good Wife,” “Hope & Faith,” “Sex and the City,” Wonder Wheel, It’s Complicated, and College Road Trip.  

Geneva earned a 2015 Tony Nomination for Lead Actress in a Play for her performance as Margery in Broadway’s Hand To God.  

Additional NY theatre credits include Trevor, Incognito, Just Sex, I Wanna Destroy You, Finding Claire, Twelve Angry Men, Rose’s Dilemma, Clash by Night, Betty’s Summer Vacation and Boise. She can be seen in the upcoming independent film Asian Persuasion.  

Miss Halston is one of New York's busiest actresses and was the recipient of the 2021 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her advocacy on behalf of The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation. 

Her Broadway credits are numerous and include Tootsie, Hairspray, Gypsy, Anything Goes, and The Twentieth Century. 

She received the Richard Seff Award for her acclaimed performance in You Can't Take it with You and has garnered four Drama Desk nominations for her Broadway and Off-Broadway work. Miss Halston was a founding member of Charles Busch's legendary theatre company and co-starred with Mr. Busch in many productions, including The Divine Sister, Red Scare on Sunset, and The Lady in Question. They starred together in the independent feature film The Sixth Reel. 

In addition, Miss Halston recently completed the independent feature films Intermedium, Simchas and Sorrows, and Chosen Family with Heather Graham.

Television credits include a recurring role on the latest “Gossip Girl,” guest roles on “The Good Fight,” “Almost Family,” and “Divorce.”

In addition, she has reprised her role of the popular character Bitsy Von Muffling on the “Sex and the City” reboot, “And Just Like That” on MAX. Miss Halston's web series “Virtual Halston” was a pandemic hit with over 40 YouTube episodes.   

Louis Ozawa is excited to be making his return to the New York stage after ten years. Second Stage: The Tutors, Warrior Class, Year Zero; NY theater: Caught (PlayCo, Obie Award), Crane Story (Playwrights Realm), and The Dumb Waiter (NAATCO). Regional: Caught (Firefly, Ovation Nomination), Eurydice (Williamstown) and Hamlet (Trinity Rep). Ozawa earned his MFA in acting from Brown University. Television: “Jack Ryan” (Amazon), Hunters (Amazon), “Pachinko” (AppleTV+), “Kidding” (Showtime). Features: Predators (20th C. Fox); The Bourne Legacy (Universal).

Gabrielle Policano (she/they) is a New York-based actor. A recent graduate of Boston University's BFA Acting program, her theatre credits include Let the Right One In (Berkeley Rep) and Richard II (Luna Stage), as well as workshops with NYSAF and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. She will next appear opposite Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas in the A24 film Baby Girl. She is also an award-winning spoken word poet, having performed regularly with the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

Matthew Saldívar has originated and appeared in principle roles on Broadway in Bernhardt/Hamlet, Junk, Peter and the Starcatcher, Act One, A Streetcar Named Desire, Saint Joan, The Wedding Singer, Honeymoon in Vegas and Grease. He has performed in dozens of Off-Broadway and regional productions including Alexis Scheer’s Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, Sam Gold’s Hamlet, Sarna Lapine’s Annie Get Your Gun, Kate Hamill’s Dracula as well as various performances in film and television. BA/MA - Middlebury College. MFA - NYU Grad, Acting.

Maggie Siff recently completed a seven season run as Wendy on Showtime’s “Billions,” for which she has received three Satellite Award nominations. She is also known for the FX series “Sons of Anarchy” (two Critics’ Choice Award nominations,) and for playing Rachel Menken on the first season of AMC’s “Mad Men” (Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.)  Recent films include The Short History of the Long Road, A Woman/A Part, The Sweet Life, The Fifth Wave, One Percent More Humid, and Concussion.  

Siff is also an established theater actress, starring most recently in TFANA’s production of Orpheus Descending, directed by Erica Schmidt. She also starred in Signature Theatre’s production of Curse of the Starving Class, as well as in A Lie of the Mind at the New Group (directed by Ethan Hawke) and in Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew at TFANA. 

Alexis Scheer’s breakout play was the Off Broadway hit Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (NYT Critics Pick, John Gassner Award), and she recently made her Broadway debut adapting the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella. Her other plays include Laughs in Spanish (Kennedy Center’s Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award) and Christina (Roe Green Award; O’Neill Finalist). Her plays have been produced by Second Stage, WP Theater, Center Theatre Group, Denver Center, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. Alexis is currently under commission by Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Miami New Drama, and Seaview. Television/Film: “Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin” (HBO Max), and projects developed for HBO Max/Salma Hayek’s Ventanarosa and Sony/Netflix. Alexis is a proud alum of New World School of the Arts and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. www.alexisscheer.com

Premieres of plays by: Alan Ball, Hilary Bettis, Eric Bogosian, Eleanor Burgess, Hammaad Chaudry, Culture Clash, Anna Deavere Smith, Eve Ensler, Jessica Goldberg, Isaac Gomez, Danny Hoch, Neil LaBute, Ione Patricia Lloyd, Warren Leight, Lisa Loomer, Martyna Majok, Lynn Nottage, Dan O'Brien, Dael Orlandersmith, Suzan-Lori Parks, Darci Picoult, John Pollono, Will Power, David Rabe, Jose Rivera, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, Diana Son, John Turturro & Ariel Levy, Universes, Naomi Wallace, Michael Weller. Tony Award nomination (Cost of Living), Obie Awards for Sustained Excellence of Direction, Lucille Lortel Best Musical and Lucille Lortel Best Revival, Drama Desk nomination (By the Way, Meet Vera Stark). Audelco Award (Father Comes Home from the Wars). Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Alliance and Lilly Award. Editor of Extreme Exposure: An Anthology of Solo Performance Texts from the Twentieth Century (TCG).