Two Trains Running

AUGUST WILSON

Playwright

plays include Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson (Pulitzer Prize winner), Seven Guitars, Fences (Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner), Two Trains Running, Jitney (Oliver Award winner), King Hedley II and Radio Golf. In 2003, he made his stage debut in his one-man show, How I Learned What I Learned. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his screenplay for The Piano Lesson. Other works include The Janitor, Recycle, The Coldest Day of the Year, Malcolm X, The Homecomingand the musical satire Black Bart and the Sacred Hills. Other awards include eight New York Drama Critics Circle Awards, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships in Playwriting, a Whiting Writers Award, 2003 Heinz Award, 1999 National Humanities Medal and induction into the Theater Hall of Fame.

JULIETTE CARRILLO

Director

is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and has directed critically-acclaimed premieres and revival productions in theaters across the country including Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory, Denver Center and Seattle Repertory. As a member of the Cornerstone Theater ensemble, she has developed work for and with various communities such as the Los Angeles River community, the addiction and recovery community, the Hindu community and seniors and their caregivers. She was an artistic associate and Director of the Hispanic Playwright’s Project at South Coast Repertory for seven years, developing work with writers such as Nilo Cruz, Octavio Solis, José Rivera and Karen Zacarías. She is on faculty at University of California, Irvine. www.juliettecarrillo.com

MISHA KACHMAN

Scenic Designer

has worked at Arena Stage, Asolo Repertory, Center Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Kennedy Center, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Opera Lafayette, Opera Royal Versailles, Portland Center Stage, Round House, Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, Signature Theatre, Skylight Music Theatre, Studio Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Theater J, Wilma Theater and Woolly Mammoth, among many other companies in the United States and abroad. He is a company member at Woolly Mammoth and an associate artist at Olney Theatre Center. Misha is a Helen Hayes Award recipient and a graduate of the St. Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy. He serves as the associate professor of scene and costume design and head of M.F.A. in design at University of Maryland. For more information, visit mishakachman.com.

IVANIA STACK

Costume Designer

regional and D.C.-area credits include Woolly Mammoth (company member), the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences, Center Stage, Everyman Theatre, The Second City, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Round House, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Olney Theatre Center (associate artist), Studio Theatre, Theater J, Constellation Theatre, Pointless Theatre, Synetic Theater, Forum Theatre, Theater Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, The Karski Project, Metro Stage and Gala Hispanic Theatre. She is a Ringleader for Audience Integration and the Artistic Director for Original, Interactive Work for dog & pony dc, and has an M.F.A. in design from the University of Maryland.

SHERRICE MOJGANI

Lighting Designer

recent designs include Skeleton Crew (The Old Globe); Black Pearl Sings, Roz and Ray, The Dybbuk for Hannah and Sam’s Wedding, Outside Mullingar, My Mañana Comes, Steal Heaven, HONKY, The Mountaintop, Clybourne Park (San Diego Repertory); and The Revolutionist, Blue Door, Ruthless: The Musical, Trouble in Mind, Jade Heart, Mud Blue Sky, Skinless, Freedom of Speech (MOXIE Theatre). Sherrice is an assistant professor in the School of Theatre at George Mason University. She holds a B.A. in theater arts from UC Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in lighting design from UC San Diego. sherrice.weebly.com

DAVID R. MOLINA

Composer and Sound Designer

theater credits include Oregon Shakespeare, Portland Center Stage, Yale Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Cornerstone Theater Company, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Campo Santo, Teatro Campesino and Magic Theatre. He is a resident artist with Brava Theater, Naka Dance Theater, University of San Francisco, Teatro Jornalero and Soapstone Theatre Company. Installations include SFMOMA, Oakland Museum of California, Sundance Film Festival and McLoughlin Gallery. Film/TV/video credits include PBS, Not in Our Town, Tolleson Design, Dead Ink Archive. He is a frequent collaborator with Violeta Luna, Roberto G. Varea, Rhodessa Jones and Cause Collective. Other credits include Secos y Mojados co-founder, Asterisk Magazine and Behind the Dream(audio book). Awards include L.A. Ovation, Creative Capital, Phyllis Wattis and Musical Grant Program. Bands include Impuritan; Idris Ackamoor and The Pyramids; Ghosts and Strings; and Transient. drmsound.com

CRISTINE ANNE REYNOLDS

Stage Manager

is based out of Seattle, Washington where she works at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theater and Seattle Opera. Select work at Seattle Repertory Theatre has included Dry Powder, Romeo and Juliet, Jitney, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Great Gatsby, Clybourne Park, Doubt and The Road to Mecca. National and international credits include Shakespeare Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Barter Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Edinburgh International Festival, Sadler’s Wells-London, Singapore Arts Festival and Macau Festival of the Arts. Cris and her husband Rob, live in a 110 year old cottage in the Ballard neighborhood.

MARNE ANDERSON

Assistant Stage Manager

Arena Stage credits include The Great Society, Nina Simone: Four Women, A Raisin in the Sun, Roe, Moby Dick, All the Way, Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, King Hedley II, Five Guys Named Moe, The Mountaintop, Metamorphoses and Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies. Additional D.C. credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Folger Theatre); Angels in America: Parts 1 and 2 (Round House); Wig Out! (Studio Theatre) and The Arsonists, You for Me for You and Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (Woolly Mammoth). She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.