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Sarah Corey (Anne/Anna/Aminah) Olney Theatre Center debut. Off-Broadway: A Letter to Harvey Milk, Love and Real Estate, Illyria, Souvenir Stories, MapQuest, Museum Pieces.  International:  Death For Five Voices.  Selected Regional:  Kennedy Center: Shear Madness, Alabama Shakespeare Festival:  In the Book Of, Oldcastle Theatre Company: The Fourth Wall, Around The World in 80 Days, Broadway Bound,  Public Theatre, ME:  Love/Sick, Beau Jest, Forum Theatre:  I Call My Brothers,  Prospect Theatre Company: Midsummer Night's Dream, A Little Night Music, Mountain Playhouse: Twelfth Night, Worcester Foothills:  Evita, Sisters of Swing, Titanic, New Repertory Theatre: Lippa's Wild Party (IRNE award, Best Supporting Actress), Speakeasy Stage:  Caroline, or Change, Gloucester Stage: A Grand Night for Singing, Stoneham Theatre: Tommy (Stoneham Theatre), Depot Theatre:  Shout! The Mod Musical, Imagination Stage: The Princess and the Pauper: A Bollywood Tale, Adventure Theatre: Blueberries For Sal, Totem Pole Playhouse: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.  Sarah is a graduate of Princeton University and of the Shakespeare & Company Conservatory for Classical Acting.  www.sarah-corey.com

Catherine Eaton (May) is thrilled to be performing at the Olney Theatre Center for the first time. Select credits include: BROADWAY: Manhattan Theatre Club: Snow Geese; Carnegie Hall: The Bohemians, Corsetless. NEW YORK: Origin Theater Company: Building Pain, Clocks and Whistles; Luna Stage: Reparations. TOUR: Guthrie Theatre Company: A Midsummer Night's Dream. REGIONAL: Pittsburgh Public: Electra; Guthrie Theatre: Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Christmas Carol; Merrimack Rep: The Exceptionals; ICTC: Hedda Gabler, Moon for the Misbegotten, The Cobbler [Katharine Cornell Acting Award]. TV & FILM: The Sounding [Lisa M Blount Acting Award, MANIFF Best Actress Award], Person of Interest, Switch. EDUCATION: Cornell University, Mountview Conservatory (London) and the Univ of MN (MFA).

Maboud Ebramizadeh (William Whitcomb/Mr. Farouk) Olney Theatre Center: The Invisible Hand. REGIONAL: Hartford Stage: Murder on the Orient Express; McCarter Theatre: Disgraced, Murder on the Orient Express; Milwaukee Rep: Disgraced; Theatre Exile: The Invisible Hand [Barrymore Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play]; Gulfshore Playhouse: The Liar; Center Stage: The Container. DC: Arena Stage: The Price; Round House Theatre: The Book of Will, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, [Resident Artist 2018-2020]; Kennedy Center: Mockingbird; Folger Theatre: Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar; Studio Theatre: Water by the Spoonful, Edgar and Annabel; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman,The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Bobrauschenbergamerica, Scorched. FILM/TV: Jessica Jones, Imperium, Sally Pacholok. www.maboudebrahimzadeh.com

Chris Genebach (Joss) is excited to be returning to OTC where he has been seen in The Crucible, My Fair Lady, Carousel and Awake & Sing, The Crucible!. DC credits include: Mosaic Theatre Company: A Human Being Died that Night, Ulysses on Bottles; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, Measure for Measure, Two Gentleman of Verona, Julius Caesar (FFA), Cymbeline, King Lear, Titus Andronicus; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Mr. Burns, A Post Electric Play; Folger Theatre: Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, Henry V, Othello, Cyrano, Orestes: A Tragic Romp; The Studio Theatre: The Big Meal, Superior Donuts, Shining City. NEW YORK: Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club: Shining City; Off-Broadway: The Duke: Rose Rage: Henry VI Parts 1, 2 and 3, MTC: The Other Side. REGIONAL: Everyman Theatre: Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Inspector Calls; Goodman Theatre: King Lear; Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Short Shakespeare! Macbeth, Rose Rage: Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, King John, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Short Shakespeare! Romeo & Juliet.

Megan Graves (Amy) is making her Olney Theatre Center debut. REGIONAL: Arena Stage: The Little Foxes, The Great Society; Folger Theatre: King John, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Second Shepherd's Play; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Gloria; Studio Theatre: Translations; Constellation Theatre Company: Peter and the Starcatcher [Helen Hayes Award Recipient, Outstanding Ensemble in a Play; Helen Hayes Award Nomination, Oustanding Lead Actress in a Play]; The Hub Theatre: Redder Blood [Helen Hayes Nomination, Outstanding Supporting Actress]; Virginia Repertory Theatre: Peter and the Starcatcher [ARTSIE Nomination, Best Supporting Actress]; Forum Theatre: Clementine in the Lower 9, Passion Play, Love and Information; Virginia Shakespeare Festival: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice. EDUCATION: BFA in Acting from Shenandoah Conservatory. UPCOMING: Folger Theatre: Love's Labor's Lost. Megan is a proud company member of Only Make Believe.

Christopher McLinden (Samuel/Officer Samuel) is thrilled to be making his Olney Theater Center debut. OFF BROADWAY: LaMama; En Garde Arts: Red Hills; Peak Performances: Merchant of Venice; Compagnia de Colombari: Everything That Rises Must Converge;  New York Fringe. REGIONAL: Seattle Rep: Ibsen in Chicago; A.C.T. Seattle Rep, The Shakespeare Theater Co: King Charles III ; Steppenwolf Theater Co; Writer’s Theatre; City Theatre; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; American Theatre Company: Celebrity Row; Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival; First Folio Shakespeare.  Film and TV: Law and Order SVU, Boardwalk Empire, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, Alpha House, ’77.  Member: Actors Equity and The Actors Center.

Eric M. Messner (Tom/Mr. Thomas/Thomas) is happy to be back at Olney Theatre Center. Previous Olney Theatre credits include: Is He Dead? (Chicago), Democracy (Reinhardt Wilke) and Saint Joan (Bluebeard). REGIONAL: Second City: Twist your Dickens; Everyman Theatre:Wait Until Dark; Arena Stage:The Book Club Play; Rep Stage:American Hero. National Players:Much Ado About Nothing. TV: The Wire,The Men Who Built America and Veep. EDUCATION: BFA in theatre from University of Maryland Baltimore County. EricMMessner.com

Tuyet Thi Pham (Fan Wang/Fanny) is thrilled to make her Olney debut! REGIONAL: Everyman Theatre: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (Player 1/Fight Captain); Arena Stage: Our War (Ensemble), An American Daughter (Linh Meyers), South Pacific (Mary’s Assistant) America: Work in Progress (Ensemble); Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: The Journal of Ben Uchida (Naomi/Ms. Uchida), The Light of Excalibur (Morgause/Fight Captain); Roundhouse Theatre: Around the World in 80 Days (Princess Auoda), Treasure Island (Pirate Anne Bonney); Imagination Stage: Zomo the Rabbit (Sky God), Liang and the Magic Paintbrush (Ensemble); Spooky Action Theater: The Man Who (The Doctor/The Patient), Kwaidan (The Village Guardian), The Wedding Dress (The Veiled Woman/Lucia), Kafka on the Shore (Oshima); The Nebraska Shakespeare Festival: Pericles (Thaisa), Othello (Desdemona) Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia) Hamlet (The Player Queen); Bodywise Dance Company: Woman with Sword (The Woman With Sword); Arts on the Horizon: Blossom’s Rainbow (Blossom); Constellation Theatre Company: 36 Views (Claire Tsong); Rep Stage: In The Heart of America (Lue Ming/Fight Captain/Helen Hayes Nomination); Signature Theatre, Washington DC: Yemaya’s Belly (Mama/Lila); Perseverance Theatre: The Vagina Monologues (Various Roles); Former member of the Living Stage Theatre Company. EDUCATION: Guest Professor of Movement at the University of Nebraska-Omaha; Education: BS, University of Kansas, MA, University of Nebraska-Omaha.

Sam Saint Ours (Nate) is thrilled to be making his DC theatre debut! Off Broadway: Wonderland: Alice's Rock & Roll Adventure (Atlantic Theater Company); Regional: The Lion in Winter and Billy Bishop Goes to War (Cape May Stage), Once (John W. Engeman Theater); Other--The Wild Party (Illumination Act), and The Aliens (James Madison University). All thanks in the world to Mom, Dad, my bajillion siblings, and our Mother Earth. None of this would be possible without the amazing arts education I received through the public school system, so a huge amount of gratitude goes out to all of America’s public educators. Go Dukes! www.SamSaintOurs.com @samsaintours

Claire Schoonover (Ma Singer) is making her debut at Olney Theatre Center. REGIONAL: Ford’s Theatre:King John u/s Annapolis Shakespeare Theatre: The Glass Menagerie & Much Ado about Nothing. Edge Of the Universe Players 2: Entertaining Mr. Sloane. Shakespeare Theatre CompanyACA Reps. Coriolanus & A Midsummer Nights Dream. Unexpected Stage Company: Romeo And Juliet. FILM: The Thespian Series, Amazon Prime. EDUCATION: MFA in Classical Acting from George Washington University.

Ella Hickson (Playwright) is an award-winning writer whose work has been performed throughout the UK and abroad. She has written new plays for the Almeida, The National Theatre, and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first play, Eight, won a Fringe First and transferred to New York and the West End. Ella was the Pearson Writer in Residence at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith and she is the recipient of the 2013 Catherine Johnson Award.

Tracey Brigden (Director) is excited to make her Olney Theatre Center debut. Tracy served as Artistic Director at City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh for 16 years directing over 50 productions of new plays including world premieres by Christopher Durang, Keith Reddin, Adam Rapp, Jeffrey Hatcher and many others. Recent work includes REGIONAL: Arden Theater Company: A Doll’s House, Part 2, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: The Roommate, Bucks County Playhouse: An Act of God, Pittsburgh Public Theater: Heisenberg and Theaterworks Hartford: Hand to God and Midsummer: A Play With Songs (nominated for four Connecticut Critics Circle awards including Best Production and Best Director). Prior to City Theatre, Tracy served on the artistic staffs of Manhattan Theatre Club and Hartford Stage Company. 

Luciana Stecconi (Scenic Designer) Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include: The Invisible Hand, Proof, Grounded. REGIONAL: Barrington Stage Company: Lungs; Northern Stage: Grounded; Contemporary American Theater Festival: The Ashes Under Gait City, The Exceptionals, Barcelona; Everyman Theatre: Grounded. DC AREA: Folger Theater: The Winter’s Tale; Studio Theatre: Cloud 9, The Effect, Hedda Gabler, An Iliad, Contractions (among many others); Signature Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar, Tender Napalm; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Lights Rise on Grace; Theater J: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Copenhagen, Yellow Face; Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences: From the Mouths of Monsters, OLIVERio, A Brazilian Twist, The Gift of Nothing; Mosaic Theater Company: Unexplored Interior; Imagination Stage: When She Had Wings. EDUCATION: MFA in Theatre Design from Brandeis University.

Michael Krass (Costume Designer)  Debut at the Olney. His work on Broadway includes The Cherry Orchard; Heisenberg; Noises Off (2016 Tony Award nomination); Living on Love; Machinal (2014 Tony nomination); The Lyons; The Constant Wife (2006 Tony nomination); A View from the Bridge; Twelve Angry Men; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; and many more. His Off Broadway and regional work includes world premieres by Simon Stephens, Edward Albee, Will Eno, John Guare, Kenneth Lonergan, Nicky Silver, The Debate Society, Christopher Durang, and Theresa Rebeck. He is Resident Designer of Ballet Tech, and he has designed opera for the Mariinsky Theatre and film for Campbell Scott in his Hamlet. Mr. Krass teaches at Brown University in their graduate program. His upcoming work includes Hadestown on broadway, transferring from the National Theatre in London, and What The Constitution Means to Me, also on broadway.

Robert Croghan (Costume Designer) BROADWAY: Anastasia (assistant), Machinal (assistant), Godspell (assistant), Shrek the Musical (intern). NATIONAL TOUR: Anastasia (assistant). REGIONAL: GALA Hispanic Theatre: In the Heights [Helen Hayes Award winner for Outstanding Costume Design]; Signature Theatre: An Act of God; Theater J: Becoming Dr Ruth; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Second City’s Black Side of the Moon, Second City’s Nothing to Lose (But Our Chains); Imagination Stage: Charlotte’s Web; Adventure Theatre MTC: Jumanji; Forum Theatre: The Pillowman; Scena Theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Costume Design]; Performance Space New York: The Slow Room. EDUCATION: MFA in Costume Design from the University of Maryland - College Park.

Colin K. Bills (Lighting Designer) is an Olney Artistic Associate, where he has previously designed Sweeney Todd, Evita, Guys & Dolls, Marjorie Prime, Colossal, and Once among others.  He is a Company Member at Woolly Mammoth where he has designed over fifty productions, including An Octoroon, Gloria, Clybourne Park and The Convert.  As a Conspirator with the devising company dog & pony dc, he has collaborated in the writing, direction and design of A Killing Game and Beertown. His designs have been seen at Arena Stage, The Berkshire Theater Festival, CENTERSTAGE, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Court Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Everyman Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, 59E59, Forum Theatre, Imagination Stage, Intiman Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Marin Theatre Company, Metro Stage, Mosaic Theater, Opera Lafayette, Opéra Royal Versailles, Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Round House Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Smithsonian, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Synetic Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Theater J, The Washington Revels, The Wilma Theater, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival.  Colin has won three Helen Hayes Awards and is a recipient of a Princess Grace Fellowship in Theater.  He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Kenny Neal (Sound Designer) Constellation Theatre Company: The Master & Margarita; Signature Theatre: Heisenberg, John, The Gulf; Taffety Punk: Pramkicker, Mom Baby God; The Kennedy Center: She a Gem, Digging Up Dessa; Theater J: Becoming Dr. Ruth; Studio Theatre: Straight White Men, Jumpers for Goalposts, Choir Boy; 1st Stage: Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Well, Floyd Collins, Old Wicked Songs [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Sound Design], Bat Boy; NextStop Theatre: Eurydice; Adventure Theatre MTC: Frosty the Snowman, Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Sound Design].

Daniel Brodie (Projection Designer) BROADWAY: Disney’s Aladdin; Motown the Musical; Jekyll & Hyde. OFF-BROADWAY: Basil Twist’s The Rite of Spring & Arias with a Twist. NATIONAL TOUR: Disney’s Newsies, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz. DANCE: Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella & The Winter’s Tale. CONCERT: Kanye West, James Taylor, Mariah Carey, James Murphy, Other Lives. EDUCATION: BA in Theatre from Arizona State University.

Carlyn Aquiline (Dramaturg) is delighted to be working with Olney Theatre Center. NEW YORK: Tectonic Theater Project; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Lark Play Development Center; New York Theatre Workshop. REGIONAL: City Theatre; Mark Taper Forum; Arena Stage; La Jolla Playhouse; Kansas City Repertory; Hartford Stage; Yale Repertory; Arden Theatre; American Theatre Company; Syracuse Stage; Goodspeed Musicals; TheatreWorks; Actor’s Express; Local Theatre Company. GRANTS AND AWARDS: Frankel Award (for contributions to new play development); Ella Lyman Cabot Trust; Alcoa Foundation; Education Foundation of America; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.TEACHING: Carnegie Mellon University; Syracuse University. EDUCATION: Yale School of Drama.

Zachary Campion (Dialect Coach) is a freelance voice, speech and dialect coach from San Antonio, TX. Recent credits at Olney Theatre Center include coaching dialects for Labour of Love,The Invisible Hand, Aubergine, Annie, My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, Angels in America (Parts 1 & 2), Dial ‘M’ for Murder, and coaching voice for National Players Tour 68, 69, and 70. Other DC credits include coaching dialect for Kings, Vietgone, Hand to God* and Terminus* at Studio Theatre, the world premiere of Kleptocracy, Sovereignty, The Price and Smart People at Arena Stage, The Wiz at Ford’s Theatre and the world premiere of The Gulf* at Signature Theatre. Upcoming projects include On the Town at Olney Theatre Center. Zach is a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and is a member of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory faculty. EDUCATION: MFA in Theatre Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University, BFA in Performance and Production from Texas State University. Voicecoachdc.com *denotes Helen Hayes nominated productions.

Richard Lundy (Production Stage Manager) National tours: Miss Saigon (First National Company: Cameron Mackintosh). I Love Lucy Live! (David George). Regional: Trinity Repertory Company, The Cleveland Play House, Folger Shakespeare, Shakespeare & Company. Chicago credits include: Timeline Theatre: Paradise Blue, The Last Wife, Sunset Baby. Hypocrites Theatre: Dracula. Levin Productions: Assassination Theater. Next Theatre:16 productions including The Adding Machine: A Chamber Musical. Porchlight Theatre: Meet John Doe. Writers’ Theatre: Oh Coward!, The Maids. Famous Door: Northlight, Remains Theatre, Victory Gardens, Organic, Halstead Theatre, Wisdom Bridge. 33-year member of Actors Equity. Married to the wonderful Carmel Carroll for 26 years.