Rachel

Caroline Aaron just closed the Off-Broadway play, Conversations with Mother, opposite Matt Doyle at Theater 555, where she received an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Lead in a Play. Prior to, she wrapped her fifth and final season as Shirley Maisel in the hit Amazon series, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, and was recurring as Pete's Wife on the CBS show, “Ghosts”. Also on television, she starred in “Transparent”, and recurred on “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Showtime's “Episodes”, opposite Matt LeBlanc. Other television credits include guest starring roles on “The Odd Couple”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Modern Family”, “Code Black” as well as all the Law and Orders. Onstage Ms. Aaron recently starred in Madwomen of the West in London, LA and NY, and Bye Bye Birdie at the Kennedy Center, for which she is nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. Broadway: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, The Iceman Cometh, Social Security, I Hate Hamlet, The Ritz and Relatively Speaking. Additional stage credits include, Call Waiting (later made into a feature film), Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune (Westside Arts), A Kid Like Jake (Lincoln Center), and headlined Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, among many others. Caroline has over one hundred feature film credits including the recent indie hit “Theatre Camp”, “Between The Temples”, “31 Candles” and upcoming, “Bookends”, opposite F. Murray Abraham. Other film credits include “21 and 22 Jump Street”, “Primary Colors”, “Crimes and Misdemeanors”, “Beyond the Sea”, “Edward Scissorhands”, “Joe Dirt” and so many more

Playwright

The Best Medicine is Robin Gerber's second play. Robin’s first play is The Shot which was selected for the 2017 Ojai Playwrights Conference and went on to win top awards at the NYC Solo Festival . After a well-spent youth involving drugs, sex and feminist activism, Robin took the next logical step and became a Washington, D.C. lawyer. She worked on Capitol Hill for a legendary leader of the House of Representatives before leaving to be a union lobbyist during the Clinton years. Robin’s post-politics writing life includes: The bestselling advice book, Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way (Penguin), Katharine Graham (Penguin), Barbie and Ruth, about the founder of Mattel (HarperCollins), and the novel Eleanor vs. Ike, which imagines Eleanor Roosevelt running for President in 1952 (HarperAvon). Robin has toured the professional speaking circuit, motivating audiences at many Fortune 500 companies with stories from the lives of great women leaders. She has also appeared as a guest historian for the Biography and History channels and as a featured historian on the CNN documentary series First Ladies speaking about Eleanor Roosevelt. robingerber.com

Director

Last summer Matthew Penn directed Survival of the Unfit at the Great Barrington Public Theater. The production was selected as the ‘most accomplished production’ of the 2024 Berkshire summer season with acknowledgements for Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Director. Penn is an Emmy-nominated director. He has directed and/or produced over 200 hour-long dramatic television dramas, including iconic series such as Law and Order, The Sopranos, and NYPD Blue. Penn directed the film The Sweet Taste of Freedom which was shot entirely in the Berkshires. On stage, Penn directed Jane Anderson’s Mother of the Maid at New York’s Public Theater starring Glenn Close. Berkshire theater audiences know Penn from his work at many of the county’s theaters: In addition to Survival of the Unfit Penn has directed: The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Shakespeare & Co.); The Actor's Nightmare and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You (BTG) as well as numerous 10x10's at Barrington Stage. Penn was a Co-Artistic Director of Berkshire Playwrights Lab for 13 seasons.