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creative team
KRISTOFFER DIAz (Playwright) is a
playwright and educator living and
working in Brooklyn. Full-length titles
include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad
Deity, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Guernica, and
#therevolution. Awards include the 2011
New York Times Outstanding Playwright
Award; finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for
Drama; winner, 2011 Lucille Lortel Award
for Outstanding Play; winner, 2011 OBIE
Award, Best New American Play; and the
inaugural Gail Merrifield Papp Fellowship
from The Public Theater (2011). His work
has been produced, commissioned, and
developed at The Public Theater, Dallas
Theater Center, Geffen Playhouse, Center
Theatre Group, Goodman Theatre, Second
Stage Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater,
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Actors
Theatre of Louisville, and many others. He
is currently developing The Unfortunates,
his first full-length musical collaboration,
at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
JOHN VREEKE (Director) is a Company
Member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company. He is a five-time Helen Hayes
Nominee for Best Director. His productions
for Woolly Mammoth include A Bright New
Boise by Samuel D. Hunter, Gruesome
Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, Boom
by Peter Sinn-Nachtrieb, Homebody/Kabul
by Tony Kushner, Our Lady of 121 st Street
by Stephen Adly Guirgis, Martha, Josie &
the Chinese Elvis by Charlotte Jones, and
The K of D by Laura Schellhardt. John has
also directed at Theater J, Washington
Shakespeare Company, MetroStage,
Everyman Theatre, Olney Theatre Center,
Forum Theatre, Source Festival, Charter
Theatre, Theater Alliance, Kennedy Center
TYA, Imagination Stage, and Helen Hayes
Awards. Regionally at Alley Theatre,
Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Attic Theatre,
Salt Lake Acting Company, and First Stage in
Milwaukee. He was the Associate Producer
and Casting Associate for the CBS TV
Series: Northern Exposure. His upcoming
project is Theater J: Race by David Mamet.
MISHA KACHMAN (Set and Costume
Designer) is a Woolly Company Member
and a native of St. Petersburg, Russia. At
Woolly he designed sets and costumes for
Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, A Bright
New Boise, Oedipus el Rey, Gruesome
Playground Injuries and Fever/Dream. Since
moving to DC twelve years ago Misha has
worked for Signature Theatre, Round House
Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Maryland
Opera Studio, Theatre J, Shanghai Dramatic
Arts Center and Milwaukee Shakespeare,
among many other companies. Misha
serves as Associate Professor of Scene
and Costume Design at University of
Maryland. Prior to moving to the United
States, Misha had worked as a staff museum
designer at The State Hermitage Museum
in St. Petersburg from 1994 to 1998; he is
also a renowned painter and printmaker
whose work has been shown at numerous
exhibitions. More of Mr. Kachman’s work
can be seen at www.mishakachman.com.
IVANIA STACK (Costume Designer)
previously designed A Bright New Boise,
Full Circle and Boom for Woolly Mammoth
Theatre Company, and was the associate
designer for Oedipus El Rey. Her other
design credits include: Theater J:The
Whipping Man, After the Fall, The Odd
Couple, Photograph 51, The Four of Us, and
In Darfur ; Studio Theatre: Time Stands Still
and Adding Machine: A Musical; Studio
Theatre 2nd Stage: Bloody Bloody Andrew
Jackson, Pop! and F***ing A; Everyman
Theatre in Baltimore: 50 Words; Forum
Theatre: bobrauschenbergamerica and
Angels in America; Gala Hispanic Theatre:
Ana en el Tropico, Lucido, and True History
of Coca Cola in Mexico; Rorschach Theatre:
1001 and Lord of the Flies; MetroStage:
Savage in Limbo, Lonely Planet, The
Real Inspector Hound, and Heroes; The
Contemporary American Theater Festival:
Lidless and Breadcrumbs; and dog & pony
dc: Beertown and Mother Courage and
Her Children. She received her MFA in
Design from the University of Maryland.
COLIN K. BILLS (Lighting Designer) is a
Company Member at Woolly, where he has
designed over thirty productions including
Mr. Burns, A Post –Electric Play, A Bright
New Boise, Oedipus el Rey, Gruesome
Playground Injuries, Clybourne Park,
Full Circle, and Dead Man’s Cell Phone.
He is a Conspirator with dog & pony dc,
creating sets and lighting for Beertown,
Courage, and Punch. His designs have been
seen at The Berkshire Theater Festival,
CENTERSTAGE, Contemporary American
Theatre Festival, Everyman Theatre, Forum
Theatre, Imagination Stage, Intiman Theatre,
The Kennedy Center, Metro Stage, Olney
Theatre Center, Portland Center Stage,
Round House Theatre, The Smithsonian
Institution, Signature Theatre, The Studio
Theatre, Synetic Theater, Theatre for
the First Amendment, Theater J, the
Washington Revels, and The Williamstown
Theatre Festival. Mr. Bills has won three
Helen Hayes and is a 2009 recipient of
a Princess Grace Fellowship in Theater.
He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.
CHRISTOPHER BAINE (Sound Designer)
Recent design credits with Woolly Mammoth
include Gruesome Playground Injuries and
A Bright New Boise for which he won the
2012 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding
Sound Design. Other credit includes Heir
Apparent and Julius Caesar FFA with The
Shakespeare Theater and Taming of the
Shrew with Folger Theater. He has also
designed for over 30 different companies
in the region including the The Kennedy
Center TYA, The Studio Theatre, Olney
Theater Company, Everyman Theatre, Forum
Theatre, Theater J, Adventure Theatre
MTC, Imagination Stage, Children’s Theater
of Charlotte, Synetic Theater, and Theater
Alliance. He has also been a guest artist
with The University of Maryland, Catholic
University, and American University. He
was a Kenan Fellow at The Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts in 2012.
JARED MEzzOCCHI (Projection Designer)
is a recent winner of a Princess Grace
Theater Fellowship and begins this fall as
theater faculty at University of Maryland,
College Park in Projection Design. Jared
has created several original works at Andy’s
Summer Playhouse in NH in which he won
Best Original Playwright at the NH Theater
Awards (2011) for his adaptation of The Lost
World. Other notable original works include
Powerhouse Theater: The Projectionist
(2010), and The Process Series: Poppa, God
Bless (2011). As a video designer, Jared
recently designed The Studio Theater:
Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Arena
Stage: The Glass Menagerie and continues
working in NYC and with Caden Manson /
Big Art Group: SOS, The Sleep, The People,
HEREarts: You Are Dead. You Are Here,
The Builders Association, 3-Legged Dog,
and New Georges. Jared has also taught
at NY’s Playwrights Horizons and the PIMA
graduate program at Brooklyn College.