Jennifer Maisel’s (Playwright) plays include EIGHT NIGHTS, OUT OF ORBIT, THERE OR HERE, THE PERMUTATIONS, MATCH ,@thespeedofJake and THE LAST SEDER. Her work has been produced off-Broadway, nationally and internationally, and developed at the Asolo Theatre, the Perlberg Festival, the Sundance Theatre Lab and the Great Plains Theatre Conference and honored by the Kennedy Center, Ovation, Woodward/Newman, and PEN West Literary Awards. PROVENANCE won the 2025 Jewish Plays Project award and garnered Jennifer an invitation to the Ojai Playwrights Conference. One of seven playwrights commissioned by Center Theatre Group and Playwrights’ Arena to create The Hotel Play, Jennifer also writes for film and television; the screen film adaptation of her THE LAST SEDER is in preproduction. Jennifer was tapped for the Humanitas PlayLA workshop, where she wrote BETTER, and the Travis Bogard Residency at Eugene O’Neill’s Tao House, where she wrote YELLOW WALLPAPER 2.0-2020 with the support of a Lucille Lortel Alcove Commission.  She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, the WGA, Playwrights Union, Writer’s Odyssey and Rogue Machine’s Playwrights Roundtable.

Judy Braha (Director) is Artistic Director of Great Barrington Public Theater in the beautiful Berkshires, dedicated to the development and production of new works for the theater.   She has been a director, teacher and arts advocate for over four decades.   Long-time Head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University College of Fine Arts, her credits include theaters, prisons and universities throughout New England. With Andre de Quadros, Judy proudly taught for the BU Prison Arts Initiative and Race Prison Justice Arts.   Recent Directing: Madame Mozart, the Lacrimosa, Things I Know To Be True, Mr.Fullerton, Dog People (GBPT), Representation and How To Get It  (touring to a historic venue near you), The Exonerated, Our Class, Shakespeare In Love  (BU/SOT), Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets, To Kill A Mockingbird (Gloucester Stage), Golda’s Balcony (New Rep), Flight of the Monarch (Shakespeare+Co.).           https://judybraha.squarespace.com/

CLOTEAL L. HORNE (T.) Selected works include: TV: Grey’s Anatomy, recurring guest star, Season 19. Off-Broadway: The Convent of Pleasure(Red Bull Theatre); Cross that River The Musical(Marcus Garvey Amphitheater), The Steadfast (Slant Theatre Project); Dirty Blood (Billie Holiday Theatre). Regional: Furlough's Paradise (Geva Theatre), Crumbs from The Table of Joy (Crossroads Theatre), Fires in The Mirror, solo performer (LongWharf/Baltimore Center Stage); Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre Company, D.C.), She A Gem (NYTW), The Bluest Eye (The Huntington Theatre), Blues for an Alabama Sky (Trinity Rep), Hang (Shakespeare & Co.); Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (LyricStage, Elliot Norton Nominee). Film: Stay Here with Me (Tuli Media), The Promotion (C1 Media), The Light (B.K.Lui.Horne), Driving While Black Magic, Breaking Dawn: American Myth Project (The NET). Teaching: Yale School of Drama, Brown University, NYU-Playwrights Horizons/Meisner Studio, Vassar, and La Jolla Playhouse Student Conservatory. Facilitation: artEquity, co-program lead of the BIPOC Leadership Circle, BIPOC Surviving PWI Processing Space. MFA in acting from Brown University/Trinity Rep., BFA in Theater Arts from Boston University. I am a product of my grandmother’s prayers + my ancestors’ wildest dreams.  www.cloteallhorne.com

Matt Neely (John) is an actor, producer, and writer. He is thrilled to be making his debut at GBPT. New York City credits include: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Heart of a Dog, Sex and Other Collisions, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck), Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Kafka’s The Trial and Beau Willimon’s I am Ned Kelly (Ned Kelly), as well as several commercials and short films. In the Berkshires, Matt appeared in The Crucible at Barrington Stage Company before starting his longtime association with their 10x10 New Play Festival (Berkie Award Winner, “Best Ensemble”). In addition to acting in the festival annually, Matt has written the lyrics for the show’s opening number for 13 years. Matt worked extensively in television production, most notably as the Associate Producer of the Emmy Award Winning hit game show, Cash Cab (Discovery Network.) Listen to Matt’s podcast, Vibe Control where he interviews leading creatives from the performing arts and beyond at thevibecontrol.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. MFA: Carnegie Mellon/Moscow Art Theatre (Acting) BS: Skidmore College (Theater)Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA Matt’s favorite role is father to Allie and Tommy and husband to Margo.