Rachel Bonds is a playwright, screenwriter, and writer for scripted podcasts. Her plays have been developed or produced by Studio Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, MCC Theater, Ars Nova, Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater Company, McCarter Theatre Center, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, La Jolla Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival and NYS&F. Recent projects include Jonah, winner of the 2024 Laurents/Hatcher Award, which premiered at Roundabout Theatre Company; The Lonely Few, with music & lyrics by Zoe Sarnak, which ran at MCC Theater and The Geffen Playhouse; and the scripted series The Boar’s Nest, starring Mandy Moore, for Audible. She was the Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Ars Nova, and in addition to the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation Award, her plays have received the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and the Heideman Award.  rachelbonds.com

Taylor Reynolds is an OBIE-award winning director based in New York, originally from Chicago. Her work centers around joyful collaboration and new play development. DC directing credits include Fat Ham at Studio Theatre (Helen Hayes nomination for Best Director), Merry Wives at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Primary Trust at Signature Theatre, and The Sensational Sea Mink-ettes at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. New York and regional directing credits include The Waterfall at WP Theater/Thrown Stone, This Land Was Made at Vineyard Theatre, Tambo & Bones at Playwrights Horizons/Center Theatre Group, Man Cave at Page 73, Plano at Clubbed Thumb (Drama Desk nomination for Best Director), Clyde's at Berkeley Repertory Theatre/Huntington Theatre Company, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington at Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (New York Times Critic's Pick), and Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally at Baltimore Center Stage/Playwrights Realm. Taylor has also worked as a director and collaborator with companies including The Movement Theatre Company, Playwrights’ Center, Keen Company, Ojai Playwrights Conference, MCC Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The 24 Hour Plays. She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, 2021 League of Professional Theatre Women Lucille Lortel Award recipient, 2017-2018 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow, and Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab alum. She has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and is a proud member of SDC. 

Ismenia Mendes is a proud immigrant and Portuguese-American actor. Her theatre credits include Mac Beth with Red Bull Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Mary's Seacole at LCT3, Troilus and Cressida with The Public Theater, and All's Well That Ends Well at The Old Globe. Ismenia can also be seen in television episodes of Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), High Maintenance (HBO), and Evil (Paramount+). She is a recipient of Red Bull Theater's Matador Award for Extraordinary Talent in Classical Theater, as well as a Drama Desk Ensemble Award for The Wayside Motor Inn at Signature Theatre Company (NYC). Ismenia is a graduate of the Juilliard School for Drama.  

Quinn M. Johnson (Danny) returns to Studio after appearing in Clyde’s. His Off Broadway credits include Jordans at The Public Theater and Black Mother Lost Daughter at Atlantic Theater Company. Regionally Quinn has appeared in Clyde’s and Goodspeed (staged reading) at Denver Center; Much Ado About Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and Our Town at Shakespeare Theater Company; and Jesus Hopped the A Train at Short North Stage. International credits include The Bacchae with the International Festival of Greek Drama; and  Mother Courage and Her Children, The Changeling, and Revenger’s Tragedy at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Quinn was recently featured in FBI (CBS) and is a proud alumnus of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the Shakespeare Theater Academy. 

Rohan Maletira (Jonah) makes his Studio debut. His recent credits include A Few Good Men at University of Michigan and Prometheus: Beginnings at the Sibiu International Theatre Festival. He is a recent graduate from the University of Michigan's BFA acting program.  

Louis Reyes McWilliams is an actor, writer, and filmmaker. He previously appeared at Studio Theatre in Heroes of the Fourth Turning. His Off Broadway credits include Coriolanus and Titus Andronicus, both with The Public Theater; Café Utopia with Notch Theatre Co.; and Anna Karenina: a riff at The Flea Theater. Regional work includes A Tale of Two Cities at Alliance Theatre; Clyde’s at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Huntington Theatre Company; Teenage Dick at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company, and Pasadena Playhouse; and Little Women at Dallas Theater Center and The Old Globe. His on-screen work includes Elsbeth on CBS and the film Little Footsteps, which he also wrote and directed. Louis is an ensemble member with Notch Theatre Company. On social media @louisreyesmcfly (Instagram). louismcwilliams.com.