Steve Epp was an actor, writer, director and co-Artistic Director at Theatre de la Jeune Lune from 1983-2008, where he collaborated on the creation and performance of over 50 productions. At Actors: The Miser. Acting credits include title roles in Tartuffe, Hamlet and Figaro. He co-authored Children of Paradise, winner of the 1993 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play. He also wrote or adapted scripts for Crusoe, Don Juan Giovanni, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Three Musketeers, The Magic Flute, Figaro, Medea, The Little Prince and The Deception. Mr. Epp is the author and performer of The House Can’t Stand, a new one-person show. He was a 1999 Fox Fellow and is a 2009 Playwrights’ Center McKnight Theater Artist Fellow.

Cory Hinkle’s plays have been produced or developed at the Guthrie Theater, American Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Summer Play Festival, Illusion Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Workhaus Collective, Page 73 Productions, Hangar Theatre and Red Eye Theater, among others. He has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater and Actors Theatre of Louisville and is a former MacDowell Colony Fellow, Sewanee Writers’ Conference Fellow and recipient of a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. Mr. Hinkle received two Jerome Fellowships through The Playwrights’ Center, where he is a Core Writer, and is a member of Workhaus Collective. He earned his M.F.A. in playwriting from Brown University, and his work is published by Playscripts, Inc. and Heinemann.

Dominic Orlando is working with Actors Theatre for the first time. A former McKnight Fellow, Mr. Orlando was awarded his second Jerome Fellowship through The Playwrights' Center last year, and was commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Nautilus Music-Theater and Red Eye Theater, as well as Actors Theatre. In New York, he has worked with New York Theatre Workshop, HERE, the Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row (off-Broadway), and the New York International Fringe, among others. Regionally, the Guthrie Theater (commission), Aurora Theatre Company, Crowded Fire, Kitchen Dog Theater (multi-year), the National New Play Network, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (multi-year). Internationally, the Tokyo Festival for the Arts and the Pasinger/Fabrik Theater in Munich. He is a four-time Fellow to the MacDowell Colony and a founding producer of Workhaus Collective.

Dominique Serrand, a Paris native, was Artistic Director and one of the co-founders of Theatre de la Jeune Lune (1978-2008). He has staged several operas, and his directing credits include Actors Theatre (The Miser), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, the Guthrie Theater, the Children’s Theatre Company and the Alley Theatre, among others. Among his many awards are the 2005 Tony Award for Best Regional Theatre, a 2006 USA Ford Fellowship, and a 2009 Bush Artist Fellowship. Mr. Serrand has been knighted by the French Government in the Order of Arts and Letters.

Victoria Stewart has received the McKnight Advancement Grant, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (finalist), Francesca Primus Prize, Helen Merrill Award and the Jerome Fellowship, as well as residencies at Ucross/Sundance, Hedgebrook, Hermitage Artist Retreat and the Donmar Warehouse. Her work has been performed and developed at the Public Theater, South Coast Repertory, SPF, Urban Stages, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Jungle Theater, Actors Theatre, Guthrie Theater and elsewhere. Her plays include Rich Girl, 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick, Live Girls, Hardball, Leitmotif, Nightwatches and an adaptation of Henry James’ The Bostonians. She’s currently working on a screenplay for HBO, Appetite For Self-Destruction. Ms. Stewart holds an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and is a Core Writer at The Playwrights’ Center and Workhaus Collective.