POTUS

SELINA FILLINGER

Playwright

Selina Fillinger (Playwright) is an LA-based writer and performer. Her plays include The Collapse, Something Clean, Faceless, and The Armor Plays: Cinched/Strapped. In 2022, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive debuted on Broadway, earning three Tony Award nominations. Her plays have been developed at Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, McCarter Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Northlight Theatre. She’s currently commissioned at South Coast Repertory and Roundabout. She was a Hawthornden Fellow and a resident of McCarter’s Sallie B. Goodman Artists’ Retreat; Something Clean is the recipient of the 2019 Laurents/Hatcher Award and Cinched/Strapped received the 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival’s L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award. Selina wrote for the third season of Apple TV+’s The Morning Show; she’s developing a feature with Chernin Entertainment/Netflix and a pilot with Hunting Lane/Hulu.

MARGOT BORDELON

Director

Margot Bordelon (Director)’s New York credits include …what the end will be, Something Clean,and Too Heavy for Your Pocket (Roundabout); Let’s Call Her Patty and Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (LCT3); peerless (Primary Stages) and (Cherry Lane); Wives (Playwrights Horizons); Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard); Eddie and Dave (Atlantic); The Pen (Premieres NYC); A Delicate Ship (Playwrights Realm); Still (Juilliard); Wilder Gone (Clubbed Thumb); and The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play (DODO). Regional credits include ACT Seattle, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance, American Theater Company, Denver Center, Geffen Playhouse, Marin Theater Company, Miami New Drama, Round House, Steppenwolf, the Wilma, and Yale Rep. Upcoming: John Proctor is the Villain (Huntington), The Lehman Trilogy (Denver Center). www.margotbordelon.com

REID THOMPSON

Set Designer

Reid Thompson (Set Designer) is a Brooklyn-based scenic designer for plays, musicals, and opera. Selected scenic design credits include Wives at Playwrights Horizons; Too Heavy for Your Pocket at Roundabout and Alliance; Something Clean at Roundabout; You Lost Me at Denver Center; A Doll’s House, Part 2 at Actors Theatre of Louisville; Eddie and Dave at Atlantic; Miss You Like Hell at Baltimore Center Stage; Fun Home at Virginia Stage; Gloria and Disgraced at Asolo Rep; Up and Away at Pittsburgh CLO; Wilder Gone at Clubbed Thumb; and Fruiting Bodies, Among the Dead, and House Rules with Ma-Yi. Reid is an Associate Artist with Heartbeat Opera, where favorite credits include Madama Butterfly, Fidelio, and La Susanna. He trained in theatrical design at the Yale School of Drama, earning an MFA in 2014.

IVANIA STACK

Costume Designer

Ivania Stack (Costume Designer) is delighted to return to Arena Stage, where she previously designed for Holiday, Right to Be Forgotten, The Heiress, The Price, Two Trains Running, and Intelligence. Her work has been seen at many other DC theaters including Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Company Member), Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre (Resident Artist), The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Theater J, Pointless Theatre, Synetic Theater, Forum Theatre, Theater Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, MetroStage, and GALA Hispanic Theatre. Her regional credits include designs for Seattle Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, McCarter Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Everyman Theatre, The Karski Project, Andy’s Summer Playhouse, The Second City, and The Contemporary American Theater Festival. She has an MFA in design from the University of Maryland, College Park.

MARIKA KENT

Lighting Designer

Marika Kent (Lighting Designer) is a Brooklyn-based lighting designer. Recent/upcoming credits include Ulysses, Seagull (Elevator Repair Service); Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group / NBT); Amani (National Black Theatre); Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons); Choir Boy, Gem of the Ocean, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Portland Center Stage); Measure for Measure (Shakespeare & Company); Generation Rise, Generation NYZ (Ping Chong and Company); Jazz Singer (Abrons Arts Center); Chimpanzee, and Fly Away (Nick Lehane). Marika teaches design at NYU's Playwrights Horizons Theater School and is a member of USA Local 829. she/her www.marikakent.com

SINAN REFIK ZAFAR

Original Music and Sound Design

Sinan Refik Zafar (Original Music and Sound Design) is a New York-based sound designer and composer. His recent work includes What the Constitution Means to Me (Broadway, National Tour, Amazon Prime, NYTW, The Kennedy Center, Berkeley Rep, Clubbed Thumb); What to Send Up When It Goes Down, And She Would Stand Like This (The Movement Theatre Company); Jump (PlayMakers Rep); peerless (Yale Repertory Theatre); Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Hamlet (Waterwell); The Wolves, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Detroit, Intimate Apparel (TheatreSquared); We Are Proud to Present (Yale Dramat); Richard in 9 Poses (Clubbed Thumb); Midsummer (Tiltyard); Macbeth (d. Will Frears) and Lindsey Ferrentino’s Amy and the Orphans (Carlotta Festival of New Plays). Other regional credits include O, Fallen One (Curly Cue & Co); Blood Knot (Lounge Theatre); Woyzeck (Illyrian Players); and Julius Caesar (Griot Theatre of the West Valley). He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and a BA in Drama with honors in sound design from the University of California, Irvine. 

TOMMY KURZMAN

Wig and Hair Designer

Tommy Kurzman (Wig and Hair Designer)’s Broadway credits include The Cottage, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Pictures From Home, The Collaboration, Macbeth, Mrs. Doubtfire, All My Sons, True West, Saint Joan, My Fair Lady, Little Foxes, Long Day’s Journey, Bright Star, and Fiddler on the Roof. Off-Broadway credits include Little Shop of Horrors-Westside Theatre, MCC, Atlantic, The New Group, The Public, MTC, and NWS. Regional credits include The Huntington, The Muny, Geva Theatre, Resident Ensemble Players, Cape Playhouse, Signature VA, and MSM. Associate Hair Designer on over 15 Broadway productions. Instagram: @tommykurzmanwigs

LISA NATHANS

Dialect and Vocal Coach

Lisa Nathans (Dialect and Vocal Coach) is an Associate Professor of Voice and Acting at University of Maryland's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. She’s coached voices and accents for Arena Stage, Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney, Signature, Ford's, Folger, Guthrie (Minneapolis), 5th Avenue (Seattle), and Theatricum Botanicum (LA). Lisa received her MFA from Central School of Speech and Drama and BFA from Boston University. She’s a designated Linklater Voice teacher and a certified Colaianni Speech practitioner.

OTIS RAMSEY-ZÖE

Dramaturg

Otis Ramsey-Zöe (Dramaturg) is a care worker, dramaturg, director, theater arts educator, Literary Manager at Arena Stage, and Lecturer in Dramaturgy at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. He has developed new works at such institutions as Sundance Institute, Kennedy Center, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Center, and National New Play Network. He has held posts in Theatre at Northeastern University, Dramaturgy at Carnegie Mellon University, Women’s Studies and Honors Humanities at University of Maryland, Performing Arts at American University, and Theatre Arts at Howard University. He was Associate Artistic Director at banished? productions, Future Classics Program Coordinator at The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Literary Manager at Center Stage, and an Allen Lee Hughes Senior Fellow at Arena Stage.

JOSEPH PINZON

Casting Director

Joseph Pinzon (Casting Director) is the founder and creative producer of the contemporary circus company Short Round Productions and its award-winning show Filament. With over 25 years of performing experience, he has worked internationally with renowned companies such as Cirque Éloize, Compagnia Finzi Pasca, Cirque du Soleil, and The 7 Fingers. He holds an MS in Arts Leadership from USC, a BA in Psychology from UCLA, and graduated from the National Circus School in Montreal with a specialization in aerial techniques. He was the casting and resident director for Chamäleon Productions (Berlin) and Constellation Immersive (CAA’s experiential affiliate). He is also a member of the Creative & Independent Producer Alliance and a founding board member of the American Circus Alliance. You can see him causing chaos on season 6 of Nailed It! on Netflix, where (spoiler alert) he is a part of the series’ first three-way tie.

KELLY GILLESPIE, CSA

New York Casting

Kelly Gillespie, CSA (New York Casting) is the Casting Director at Manhattan Theatre Club, where she has been on staff for the past fifteen years. Favorite recent MTC projects include Prayer for the French Republic, The Best We Could, Skeleton Crew, Ink, Choir Boy,and The Explorers Club. She has also cast plays for the WP Theater, The Old Globe, Two River Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, McCarter Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Marin Theatre Company, Miami New Drama, City Theatre, Merrimack Rep, The Foundry Theatre, EST, 13P, T.A.C.T., and Keen Company, as well as a few radio projects for WNYC. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

CHRISTI B. SPANN

Stage Manager

Christi B. Spann (Stage Manager) has been working as a stage manager in DC since 2011. Recent Arena Stage productions include Holiday, The High Ground, and Exclusion. She previously spent 12 seasons on the stage management staff at the Denver Center Theatre Company and has also worked with The Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN and Virginia Repertory Theatre in Richmond, VA.

DAYNE SUNDMAN

Assistant Stage Manager

Dayne Sundman (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to be back at Arena Stage. Some favorite past shows at Arena include Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches; American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Own Words; Catch Me If You Can; Mother Road; Newsies; Junk; The Heiress; and Anything Goes. Select other credits include Jane Anger, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (STC); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Sense and Sensibility (Idaho Shakespeare Festival). Baldwin Wallace University 2015.