Jian Jung (she/her) is a New York based set designer from Korea. Recent theater credits include STAFF MEAL (Playwrights Horizons, directed by Morgan Green), THE NOSEBLEED (Lincoln Center Claire Tow & Woolly Mammoth. Upcoming tour at the New National Theater Tokyo in 2025), OCEAN FILIBUSTER (A.R.T. Boston), KISS (Wilma Theater), THE FOLLOWING EVENING (PAC/NYC), BODIES THEY RITUAL (Clubbed Thumb), THE DAY YOU BEGIN (Kennedy Center), SUICIDE FOREST (Bushwick Starr & ART/NY), and LUDIC PROXY (Soho Rep). Opera and musical credits include productions in Wolf Trap Opera (VA), Fisher Center in Bard, Huntington Theater (Boston), Juilliard, and Long Beach Opera (CA). She has been working with Latino theater community in NYC closely, and designed Spanish and bi-lingual productions in Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Venezuela. Jung received an MFA in Theater Design from New York University, and an MFA in Environmental Design from Ewha Women’s University in Korea. She teaches at NYU Tisch Design and Sarah Lawrence College. www.jianjung.com
Sound Designer
Jordan McCree
Jordan McCree (they/he) is an artist based in Philadelphia. Their most recent collaborations include: Good Person of Setzuan (Wilma Theater), Grief Hotel(Clubbed Thumb), Cost of Living (Philadelphia Theatre Company), The BFG (Arden Theater Company), Sandblasted (Theatre Horizon), The World Takes (short film, Eight Flow Studio), Eternal Life Part 1 (The Wilma Theater), The Karamazovs (film, Village Park Productions), Fat Ham (2021 World Premiere, The Wilma Theater). They were one of the 2022 grant recipients to the 1/52 Project. They are also a member of Philly–based, Barrymore Award winning, hip hop collective, ILL DOOTS. Their music is available everywhere!
Costume Designer
Kitt Crescenzo
Kitt (she/her) is a Baltimore-based designer and company member of Stillpointe Theatre. Recent projects include Rapid Lemon Variations Project; The Lights Went out Because of a Problem (The Acme Corporation); WITCH (Stillpointe); Orlando (Constellation Theatre); My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion (Associate, Woolly Mammoth and Wilma Theatre Co-Production); and Here There are Blueberries (Associate, Shakespeare Theatre Company). When not designing costumes,, Kitt is a co-founder and cocktail curator at The Club Car, a queer performance venue and lounge in Baltimore, MD.
Lighting Designer
Minjoo Kim
MINJOO KIM (Lighting Designer, she/her) is excited to make her debut at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. She is an internationally working lighting designer who approaches design from dynamic and diverse visual perspectives. Selective DC credits include Fat Ham at Studio Theatre, Ink at Round House, King of the Yees at Signature Theatre, and The Brothers Paranormal at Olney Theatre. Off-Broadway credit includes Demon at The Bushwick Starr. Regional credits include American Fast at City Theatre, The Chief at Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Royale at Kansas City Rep, Clue at Bristol Riverside Theatre, Violet at TheatreSquared, Life Sucks at Cygnet Theatre, One in Two at Diversionary Theatre. International credits include South Korea; The Two (Space Owul), Crimson Girl (Dongsoong Art Center), Die or Not (Seoul Art Space Mullae), China; Mask on/off (Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre). Her work The Royale was selected for the National Exhibit at Prague Quadrennial in 2023. Website: minjoo-design.com.
Assistant Director
Jaida Gillespie
Jaida Gillespie is an actor, director, and writer from Chadds Ford Pennsylvania via South Africa and England. Jaida is overjoyed to present their one-person show for the second time at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. They are grateful to be given ample space to write and play with their fellow Soloist during this process. They took inspiration from the structure of experimental music and musicals. This deeply aligned with their work regarding struggles of identity and acceptance. Jaida is a recent graduate from Howard University with a BFA in Acting and they look forward to further developing this piece. Previous credits include assistant directing, Shutter Sisters by Mansa Ra, directed by Eric Ruffin; and co-directing
EMERGENCY by Daniel Beaty alongside Savannah Blackwell
Assistant Stage Manager
Fe Miranda
Fe Miranda (they/them/theirs) was born and raised in Washington, DC and is of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorian descent. They are a stage manager, arts administrator, and musician with a passion for making art that is accessible to underrepresented groups. They believe the arts are community, and creating spaces that allow for the people within those communities to feel safe, brave, and successful is an important part of any theatre experience. As a DC native, Fe is excited to be part of creating works that reflect the diversity of the city they grew up in. Their stage management credits include Reefer Madness and In the Heights (NextStop Theatre Company), and Head Over Heels and Just Like Us (George Mason University). Fe is a graduate of George Mason University, where they received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, with a minor in Arts Management.
Production Stage Manager
Samantha Wilhelm
Samantha Wilhelm (she/her) has been a DC area Freelance Stage Manager for nearly 10 years. After graduating from The University of Mary Washington, she moved to DC and began working full time at theatres such as The Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co, Round House Theatre, and Signature Theatre. Some highlights of her career have been the pre-Broadway tryout of Come From Away, Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre, and King Lear starring Patrick Page at STC. Most recently she served as the PSM on Where The Mountain Meets the Sea at Signature Theatre and the ASM on Macbeth at STC, starring Ralph Finnes and Indira Varma. Sam has been a proud Actor’s Equity Association member since 2018. Love to MJEKA et al.
Director
Morgan Green
Morgan Green is a director of plays, films, and dinnertime. She is a Co-Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Wilma Theater in Philadelphia where she premiered the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fat Ham by James Ijames as a film in 2021. Credits include: Staff Meal by Abe Koogler (Playwrights Horizons), School Pictures by Milo Cramer (Playwrights Horizons, Wilma Theater), Eternal Life Part 1 by Nathan Alan Davis (Wilma Theater), Cute Activist by Milo Cramer (The Bushwick Starr), The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe (Marin Theater Company) and Associate Director for Amélie, a new musical (directed by Pam Mackinnon, Broadway). Morgan co-founded New Saloon Theater Company, best known for MINOR CHARACTER: Multiple Translations of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time presented at the 2019 Under the Radar Festival at The Public Theater. Her short film One More Time With Feeling premiered at the Raindance Film Festival in London in October 2023. Proud member of SDC.
Francisco
Jaime Maseda
Jaime Maseda (he/him) is a Barrymore-nominated performer based in Philadelphia. He has worked across disciplines with various artists and companies, including Pig Iron Theatre Company, Miguel Gutierrez, the Arden Theatre, the Wilma Theater, Azuka Theatre, People’s Light, Orbiter 3, Magda & Chelsea, Mel Krodman & Kelly Bond, George & Co.; as well as in collaborative partnership with NYC-based artist Iris McCloughan as No Face Performance Group.
Caitlin
Sarah Gliko
he/him | Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Ain’t No Mo’, An Octoroon, Botticelli in the Fire, Shipwreck; Steppenwolf Theatre Company: No Man’s Land, Describe the Night, The Seagull, Ms Black For President; Goodman Theatre: Toni Stone; Writers Theatre: Witch; Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Round House Theatre & Olney Theatre Center: Angels in America; Olney Theatre Center: Colossal; Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Magic Play TV: “Lovecraft Country “(HBO Max), “Somebody Somewhere” (HBO Max), “South Side” (HBO Max), “Chicago PD” (NBC) Film: “The Year Between”, “A Savage Nature”, “Reporting for Christmas.” Five time nominee and recipient of the Helen Hayes Awards & Jeff Award nominee. Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Represented by Paonessa Talent & Kaplan mills Entertainment
Kristina
Taysha Marie Canales
she/her | Regional credits: Cymbeline, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival); All My Mothers Dream In Spanish (Azuka Theatre); KISS, FAT HAM (2021 filmed World Premiere), Dance Nation, There, Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man, Romeo and Juliet, Passage, Passing Strange, Blood Wedding, When the Rain Stops Falling, An Octoroon, The Hard Problem (Wilma Theater); A Streetcar Named Desire, NO CHILD…(2021 Filmed Production), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Bête, The Jungle Book, Wayside Stories From Wayside School (Arden Theatre); Shakespeare In Love, All My Sons (People’s Light). Taysha is the 2018 F. Otto Haas Emerging Philadelphia Theater Artist Recipient and a three-time Barrymore Award nominee. She is a founding member of the Wilma Theater’s resident acting company, the Hot House. BFA in Acting from Arcadia University. Next production: Tonya in King Hedley II at the Arden Theatre. Much love to my family, especially to my two AMDs. www.tayshamariecanales.com
Ursula
Erika Rose
she/her | OFF BROADWAY: Here There Are Blueberries (New York Theatre Workshop) REGIONAL: Here There Are Blueberries (STC); Tiny Beautiful Things (Baltimore Center Stage); Confederates and The Cymbeline Project (OSF); An Octoroon and Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); Crying On Television and Queens Girl in Africa (Everyman Theater); Mosaic Theater Company *Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress); In Darfur (Theater J, *Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actress); Fences (Ford’s Theater); The Father (Studio Theater); Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! The Musical!, Knuffle Bunny, The Brand New Kid, OLIVERrio and Barrio Grrrl! (The Kennedy Center); Clybourne Park (Pioneer Theater Company); Cinderella, Looking for Roberto Clemente and Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Imagination Stage); Book Club Play and Pippin (Round House Theatre). FILM: The Cymbeline Project with Scarlett Kim; Anesthesia; The Black Sorority Project: The Exodus. Company Member: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. IG: @erikarose.art
Emilio
Jon Hudson Odom
he/him | Woolly Mammoth Theatre: Ain’t No Mo’, An Octoroon, Botticelli in the Fire, Shipwreck; Steppenwolf Theatre Company: No Man’s Land, Describe the Night, The Seagull, Ms Black For President; Goodman Theatre: Toni Stone; Writers Theatre: Witch; Denver Center for the Performing Arts: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Round House Theatre & Olney Theatre Center: Angels in America; Olney Theatre Center: Colossal; Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Magic Play TV: “Lovecraft Country “(HBO Max), “Somebody Somewhere” (HBO Max), “South Side” (HBO Max), “Chicago PD” (NBC) Film: “The Year Between”, “A Savage Nature”, “Reporting for Christmas.” Five time nominee and recipient of the Helen Hayes Awards & Jeff Award nominee. Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Represented by Paonessa Talent & Kaplan mills Entertainment
