BRETT J. BANAKIS is thrilled to be a creative member for these inaugural productions of TOGETHER. He is a designer for theater, opera, film, concerts and environments based in Brooklyn. Along with Christine Jones, Brett is a co-founder of AMP Scenography, a design collective created to amplify emerging and underrepresented designers by engaging in equitable collaborations. Broadway: The Outsiders (AMP, Tony nom), John Proctor is the Villain (AMP), The Notebook, The Cher Show. Other credits: All of Me (New Group); Camp Siegfried and Whorl Inside a Loop (2ST); Your Own Personal Exegesis and Ghost Light (LCT3); The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Transport Group); Big Love (Signature); Sunday (Atlantic); Close To You (West End). International Scenic Supervisor for all worldwide productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway, West End, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto, Tokyo, US Tour). Faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. www.brettjbanakis.com @brettjbanakis

CHRISTINE JONES is a theatre artist, designer, and director. She is the creator and artistic director of Theater For One, a private portable performance space for one actor and one audience member; co-conceiver/director with Steven Hoggett and Thom Yorke of Hamlet Hail to the Thief (Factory International & RSC); director of Queen of the Night, the Drama Desk-awardwinning sensational immersive nightclub experience; and co-conceiver/director with Steven Hoggett and David Byrne of Social!, a social distance dance club created for the Park Avenue Armory in 2021. As a set designer, Tony and Olivier award-winning projects include The Outsiders, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, American Idiot, and Spring Awakening. Jones founded AMP Scenography with Brett Banakis, a design collective amplifying emerging and underrepresented designers through equitable collaborations. She is currently a professor at New York University and an Artist-in-Residence at the Park Avenue Armory.

Ásta designed costumes for the world premieres of Infinite Life, The Coast Starlight, Usual Girls, Dance Nation, The Wolves, Men on Boats, Porto, John, You Got Older and 10 Out of 12. Last fall she designed the world premiere of the opera 10 Days in a Madhouse with Avery Reed. She is a founding member of minor theater and directed their most recent work: Marie It’s Time, a short punk edit of Woyzeck. Other favorite projects include: Gnit (TFANA), Dom Juan (Bard), Taming of the Shrew (Old Globe) & Reread Another (Brick). A member of the collaborative ensemble The Mad Ones with whom she designed Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie and Miles for Mary. USA829 member.

Recent Broadway work includes Romeo + Juliet, and in 2024, An Enemy of the People and Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, both designs nominated for Tony Awards. Isabella is the recipient of a Drama Desk Special Award for her work in the 2023-24 season, on and off Broadway. Notable world premiere collaborations: Infinite Life (Annie Baker), Primary Trust (Eboni Booth), Weather Girl and Epiphany (Brian Watkins), Sanctuary City (Martyna Majok), Jeremy O. Harris’ Daddy: A Melodrama, and multiple plays by Will Arbery: Heroes of the Fourth Turning and Corsicana, Plano. Internationally, she has designed in London and Edinburgh, and works regionally across the US. Honors include three Lortel Awards, two Obies, a Henry Hewes, and has been featured in The New Yorker. Isabella is a proud USA829 union member, supporting pay equity and sustainability. www.isabellabyrd.design

Broadway: Pirates! The Penzance Musical, The Roommate, Enemy of the People, Doubt, Thanksgiving Play, Fat Ham, Death of a Salesman, Cost of Living, Macbeth, Thoughts of a Colored Man. Awards: Tony Award nom, Drama Desk nom, Obie Awards, Creative Capital Award, Henry Hewes Awards, Audelco Award, and CTG Sherwood Award. www.mikaal.com

Broadway: The Book of Mormon, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. NY City Center: Call Me Madam (Encores). Off-Broadway: Dakar 2000 (Manhattan Theatre Club); Sanctuary City, Othello, Dreaming Zenzile, An Ordinary Muslim (NYTW); Good Enemy (Minetta Lane); The Apiary, Somebody’s Daughter, The Layover, Invisible Thread, The Other Thing (Second Stage); Gently Down The Stream, Sweat Mobile National, Measure for Measure Mobile (The Public); Daphne’s Dive (Signature). Regional: Cambodian Rock Band (Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, ACT Seattle); Last of the Red Hot Mamas, Anastasia (Bucks County Playhouse); Seder (Hartford Stage); 10x10 2016 (Barrington Stage); On the Town (Boston Pops).

JIM CARNAHAN, CSA

has cast over 170 Broadway shows. Work this season: Sunset Blvd, Stranger Things, Pirates!, Just in Time, Hills of California, Our Town, Swept Away, Cult of Love, Harry Potter, Moulin Rouge. Off Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors. Nashville: Dolly: An Original Musical. London: The Seagull, Oedipus. Film: Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid

Upcoming: Not Not Jane’s by Mara Nelson-Greenberg at Clubbed Thumb. Broadway: The Hills of California (US Associate Director to Sam Mendes), Lempicka (Associate Director to Rachel Chavkin). Directed/developed work: New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, PBS, No Guarantees, Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Directing fellowships: Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, Actors Theatre of Louisville. New Georges Affiliated Artist. BA: Northwestern University.

OBIE Award. Broadway: John Proctor Is the Villain, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Sunset Boulevard, A Wonderful World, Eureka Day, Lempicka, The Outsiders, Hamilton, Parade, Sweeney Todd, Illinoise, and others. Off-Broadway: 3 Summers of Lincoln, Jonah, How to Defend Yourself, The Comeuppance, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, My Broken Language, The Half-God of Rainfall, Here There Are Blueberries, The Lonely Few.

BEACON THEATRICAL is Jameson Croasdale, Katherine Dumais, Eloia Peterson and Naomi Siegel. They are a multi-faceted live production management firm specializing in Theatrical, Live Television, Fashion and Immersive Entertainment. Off-Broadway credits include: Energy Curfew Music Hour, Strategic Love Play (Audible), The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM), King James (MTC), Judgment Day, Deep Blue Sea (Park Ave Armory), Stargazers (Page73). Other credits include: BravoCon Live with Andy Cohen - NYC & Vegas, The Traitors - live reunion shows, The Dream Machine Experience (Lincoln Center) FENDI - New York Show, DiscOasis and helping launch New York’s newest OffBroadway venue: Studio Seaview.

Broadway/Tour: Oh Mary!, Parade (Broadway/Tour), Job, How To Dance In Ohio, Just For Us, Into the Woods (Broadway/Tour), A Christmas Carol (Broadway/Tour), In Residence on Broadway, The Jimmy Awards, Notre Dame de Paris (Lincoln Center) OB: Audible Theater, Joy, Mind Mangler, A Sherlock Carol. Upcoming: Galileo, Bad News Bears, Anne of Green Gables, Romy & Michele, and When Playwrights Kill. showtown.nyc.

HANNAH MOSCOVITCH is one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights. She has been honoured with numerous awards for her work, including Canada’s highest literary honour The Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Nova Scotia MasterWorks Arts Award, and the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize. Hannah’s music-theatre hybrid Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story, co-created with Christian Barry and Ben Caplan, became a Time Out and New York Times Critic’s Pick, receiving six Drama Desk Award nominations, and winning the Herald Angel and a Scotsman Fringe First at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Old
Stock: A Refugee Love Story has been touring since 2017 and recently crossed the 400 performances line. In television, Hannah was the Co-Creator, Executive Producer and Head Writer of “Little Bird” alongside showrunner Jennifer Podemski, which garnered a landslide of critical praise and won thirteen Canadian Screen Awards including Best Drama Series. Hannah is currently a writer and Executive Producer on the hit series “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” for AMC.

IAN RICKSON was the Artistic Director of the Royal Court from 1998 to 2006. He directed numerous productions including The Weir by Conor McPherson, Jerusalem, The River (also West End and Broadway), Mojo (also Chicago), all by Jez Butterworth; Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen and This is a Chair by Caryl Churchill. West End shows include Lyonesse, Rosmersholm, Uncle Vanya, The Birthday Party, Old Times, Betrayal and The Children’s Hour; National Theatre, London Tide, Paradise, All of Us, Translations by Brian Friel, Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn, The Red Lion by Patrick Marber, The Hothouse by Harold Pinter. Productions at the Old Vic include Electra by Sophocles. Ian was Artistic Director of Sonia Friedman’s Re-Emerge season in the West End in 2021 and directed for the stage and the filming of Walden, one of the three plays in that Season. Rickson also works with PJ Harvey and Kate Tempest on their music and poetry shows.