WHITE GIRL IN DANGER

MICHAEL R. JACKSON is one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2022. His Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle winning A Strange Loop (which had its 2019 world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in association with Page 73 Productions) received 11 Tony nominations in 2022, winning Best Musical, and was called "a full-on laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins" as well as a "gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies" by Ben Brantley for The New York Times. In The New Yorker, Vinson Cunningham wrote, "To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher: the hand that lifts from the page, becoming almost real, then draws another hand, which returns the favor." In addition to A Strange Loop, he also wrote book, music and lyrics for White Girl in Danger. Awards and associations include: a New Professional Theatre Festival Award, a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Whiting Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Drama Desk Award, an Obie Award, an Antonyo Award, a Fred Ebb Award, a Windham-Campbell Prize, a Dramatist Guild Fellowship and he is an alum of Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group.

LILEANA BLAIN-CRUZ is a director from New York City and Miami. Recent projects include: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center, Tony nomination); The Listeners (Opera Norway); Dreaming Zenzile (St. Louis Rep, McCarter Theatre, upcoming: NYTW / National Black Theatre); Marys Seacole (LCT3, Obie Award); Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s …(Iphigenia) (MASS MoCA, Arts Emerson, The Kennedy Center); Hansel and Gretel (a film for Houston Grand Opera); Afrofemononomy (PSNY); Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Girls (Yale Rep.); Faust (Opera Omaha); Fabulation, Or the Reeducation of Undine (Signature Theatre); Thunderbodies and Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep.); The House That Will Not Stand and Red Speedo (New York Theatre Workshop); Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum/CTG); Pipeline (Lincoln Center); The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (Signature Theatre, Obie Award); Henry IV, Part One and Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Bluest Eye (The Guthrie); War (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater and Yale Rep.); Salome (JACK); Hollow Roots (the Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater). She is the recipient of the Drama League’s 2022 Founders Award for Excellence in Directing, and is currently the resident director of Lincoln Center Theater. Lileana was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist, a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, and a 2018 United States Artists Fellow. She is a graduate of Princeton and received her MFA in directing from the Yale School of Drama.

RAJA FEATHER KELLY is a choreographer and director, and the Artistic Director of the feath3r theory–a dance-theatre-media company. Kelly has created 16 evening-length premieres with the feath3r theory, most recently WEDNESDAY at New York Live Arts. He choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop (Lyceum Theatre, premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizon), and is also a choreographer for Off-Broadway theatre with frequent collaborators like Lileana Blain-Cruz, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah Benson, and Michael R. Jackson. Recent works include We're Gonna Die (Second Stage Theater), Macbeth In Stride (A.R.T.), On Sugarland (New York Theater Workshop), SUFFS (The Public Theater), and Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse). He has received numerous accolades, including three Princess Grace Awards, an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle honor for choreography for the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning musical A Strange Loop, a Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, a Creative Capital award, a Breakout Award for choreography from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SCDF), the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography, Dance Magazine's Harkness Promise Award, and the SDCF Joe A. Callaway Award finalist for outstanding choreography of Fairview (Soho Rep, Berkeley Rep, TFANA, and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama).

ADAM RIGG (Scenic Design) is an award-winning set and costume designer based in New York. They have designed more than 50 world premiere productions and received a Special Drama Desk Award in 2022. Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Lincoln Center Theater; Tony Nomination; Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design). Upcoming projects include El Niño at Metropolitan Opera; and A Transparent Musical at Center Theatre Group. www.adamriggdesign.com.

MONTANA LEVI BLANCO (Costume Designer). Broadway credits include A Strange Loop & The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award). Select off-Broadway credits include Ain’t No Mo’, Fairview, Is God Is, The House That Will Not Stand, Fefu and Her Friends, ‘Daddy’, The Death of the Last Black Man, He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box, and Lempicka. Montana is the winner of a Tony, Special Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, two Obie Awards and two Henry Hewes Design. He attended Oberlin College & Conservatory of Music, Brown University and the Yale School of Drama. montanaleviblanco.com

JEN SCHRIEVER (Lighting Design). Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony Nom), Death of a Salesman, 1776, Birthday Candles, Lackawanna Blues, Grand Horizons, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lifespan of a Fact, Eclipsed, Ghetto Klown. Off-Broadway includes: Bright New Boise, My Broken Language, Thom Pain, Night is a Room (Signature); To My Girls, Superhero (2ST); Shhhh, (Atlantic). Tours: Blue Man Group. Opera: Die Fledermaus, Pearl Fishers (Met); Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviata, (Mariinsky, Russia). Obie Award. Adjunct: Purchase. Mom: Henry. jenschriever.com

JONATHAN DEANS (Sound Design) has a wealth of experience in sound design. He has worked on a wide range of productions including plays, musicals and spectaculars worldwide. His ability to create immersive soundscapes has earned him a reputation as one of the leading sound designers in the entertainment industry. He is known for his attention to detail and his ability to seamlessly integrate sound into the overall production, elevating the music and audience's experience. www.designingsound.com

JOSH HIGGASON (Projection Design) Recent Opera: Omar (LA Opera, Spoleto, BLO); Falstaff and Cosi Fan Tutte (Firenze); Die Ägyptische Helena (La Scala); King Arthur (Staatsoper Berlin); Acquanetta (Bard Summerscape); Blue (Detroit Opera). Additional designs: Zvidance, Radiolab: Apocalyptical, Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie and Lowell Tour, Ira Glass, Jay Scheib, Daniel Fish, Big Dance Theater, Christine Jones’ Theatre for One, and The Builders Association. Designs have appeared at BAM, LCT, Carnegie Hall, Public, Geffen Playhouse, TED, SXSW, Salzburg Festspiele, Beacon Theatre, and MassMoCA. He teaches at MIT.

MEG ZERVOULIS Broadway: Funny Girl, West Side Story (2020 revival), The Prom, Mean Girls, Great Comet of 1812. Off-Broadway: Only Gold (MCC), The Visitor (The Public), Merrily We Roll Along (Fiasco/Roundabout), Cagney, Rated P. At her home base, Paper Mill Playhouse, her credits include Mary Poppins, Bandstand, and Ever After, and their annual New Voices concerts. Meg is also active as a music educator and music therapist and is a proud member of Local 802 and Maestra. Education: Carnegie Mellon University. www.megzmusic.com