Mona Pirnot is an NYC based playwright and songwriter. She is a current member of EST/Youngblood. Plays include Private (2019 Kilroys List) and Offshore Clinical Trials (2019 EST/Sloan commission.) Her work has been produced by or developed with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Two Headed Rep, Premiere Stages, The Tank, Mile Square Theatre, and Hecht Studio Theatre. Selected monologues are published in In Performance, Contemporary Monologues for Teens (Hal Leonard.) She was the 2014-15 Literary Fellow at Center Theatre Group and Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2019 Playwright in Residence.

Knud Adams is a New York City-based director of artful, innovative new plays. At The Atlantic, he directed Eboni Booth's PARIS, which was hailed by New York Magazine as one of the "10 Best Theater Moments of 2020." His recent productions also include THE HEADLANDS by Christopher Chen (LCT3, finalist for SDCF's Joe A. Callaway Award) and Andy Bragen's NOTES ON MY MOTHER'S DECLINE (Play Co., cited by N.Y. Times' Scott Heller as one of his best of the year). Other notable world premieres include: TIN CAT SHOES by Trish Harnetiaux (Clubbed Thumb), THE WORKSHOP by Torrey Townsend (Soft Focus), ASSHOLE by Justin Kuritzkes (JACK), and TOM & ELIZA by Celine Song (JACK). Knud is an alumnus of the Drama League Next Stage Residency and Fall Directing Fellowship, the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the Playwrights Horizons Directing Residency, and Kenyon College. He trained by assisting some of the nation's foremost theater artists, including Sarah Benson, Richard Foreman, Sam Gold, André Gregory, and Elizabeth LeCompte. Next up, he's directing Sanaz Toossi's ENGLISH as a co-production with Roundabout and The Atlantic.

Tẹmídayọ Amay (they/them) is a Trans Non-Binary writer, actor, producer, and queer activist born and raised in Washington, DC. Some highlighted works include School Girls: or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh (Round House Theatre, dir. Nicole A. Watson) in which they received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer; On Love by Mfoniso Udofia (MCC Theater, dir. Awoye Timpo); Everybody Black by Dave Harris (The Kennedy Center); Queering the Canon: Sondheim (Joe's Pub, pro. Ring of Keys, dir. Ann James), Will on the Hill, The Ruby Sunrise (Shakespeare Theatre Company, dir. Samantha Wyer Bello); Coffeehouse Chronicles #124 (La MaMa ETC, dir. Ping Chong); Foriwa (Classical Theatre of Harlem, dir. Goldie Patrick); Describe the Night by Rajiv Joseph (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); Ay, Gerald by Vaughn Ryan (Signature Theatre); and She a Gem (The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, dir. Paige Hernandez); Tẹmídayọ Amay has been featured in American Theatre Magazine, Playbill, The Washington Post, and DC Theatre Scene, among other publications. They have produced alongside theatreWashington, TCG, and Longacre Lea. It is their hope to celebrate Black queer existence through their storytelling. Instagram: @temidayoma

Eric is a Baltimore born, NYC based artist whose main medium tends to be acting. He is involved in work that he believes his great-grandmother would dig. He spent much of the quarantine beginnings continuing the study of the saxophone. Recent theatrical credits: Alien/Nation (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, A Record Album Interpretation (Wooster Group/St. Ann’s Warehouse-Drama Desk Nomination); Moby Dick, A Musical Reckoning (A.R.T.); Detroit Red (ArtsEmerson-Elliot Norton Award); Toni Stone (Roundabout Theater). Recent Film/TV credits: “Bonding,” “Marriage Story” (NETFLIX); “Evil” (PARAMOUNT+); “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Empathy Inc” (AMAZON); “Motherless Brooklyn.” Training: The Baltimore School for the Arts; BFA: Carnegie Mellon University. Eric is a Resident Company Member at Everyman Theater.

BEN KATZ is an actor and writer. NYU Grad Acting Class of 2019; credits include Mark Wing-Davey's Hamlet. LCT Directors’ Lab 2019 and THE COMMONS at 59E59th.

Sophie Schulman is overjoyed to make her Mosaic Theater debut in Private. DC AREA: 1st Stage: A Civil War Christmas; NextStop Theatre Company: Bad Jews; Prologue Theatre: Dog Sees G-d; Toby's Dinner Theatre: Into the Woods, Hairspray, A Christmas Carol; Imagination Stage: Davy Copperfield, Anatole; Adventure Theatre MTC: Blueberries for Sal, Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Winterfest; REGIONAL: Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble: The Diary of Anne Frank, Merchant of Venice, Manuscript. NATIONAL TOUR: A Little Princess; OFF-BROADWAY: Piggy Nation; EDUCATION: BA in Music Theatre, American University.

Masha is a designer for live performance. Recently: Cunning Little Vixen & Salome (Bard); Puppet Lab (St. Ann’s Warehouse); To the Yellow House (La Jolla Playhouse); The Pool Plays (The New Ohio); blush (Soho Rep); The Woman’s Party (Clubbed Thumb). Previously in DC: Kleptocracy (Arena Stage); Noura (STC). Internationally, her work has taken her to Russia, Chile, China, Germany, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Bolivia, and one very big boat. Homes for New York projects include Playwrights Horizons, The Kitchen, Atlantic Theatre Co., Clubbed Thumb, PlayCo, Invisible Dog, Page73, and Bushwick Starr. In addition to design, Masha’s interests include progress towards pay equity and a more ethical model of making in the American theater. Masha received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama. She is the Masha of design collective, Masha and the Bear Design and a proud member of USA829. More info at www.mashald.com.

Kenny Neal is a Helen Hayes Award recipient (The Royale at Olney Theatre/1st Stage) and seven-time nominated sound designer, composer and arranger. His work has been heard at Olney Theatre Center (Dance Nation, The Royale, Oil); The Kennedy Center (She a Gem, Digging Up Dessa); Signature Theatre (The Upstairs Department, Daphne’s Dive, Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes, Heisenberg, John, The Gulf); Studio Theatre (Straight White Men, Jumpers for Goalposts, Choir Boy); Prologue Theatre (Recent Tragic Events); Constellation Theatre Company (The Master and Margarita); Theater Alliance (Klytemnestra); 1st Stage (Airness, columbinus, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, Well, Floyd Collins, Old Wicked Songs, Bat Boy); Factory 449 (Agnes of God); Taffety Punk (Pramkicker, Mom Baby God); as well as production for NextStop Theatre, WSC Avant Bard, The Welders, Rorschach Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Adventure Theatre MTC.

Deb is a set and props designer. Mosaic Props Design work: Private, Marys Seacole, Birds of North America, Eureka Day and Milk Like Sugar. Studio Theatre work: Props Director from 2009 to 2019; Studio set design for Terminus: Studio props design for John Proctor is The Villain, Pass Over, Fun Home, Love-Valor-Compassion, Sylvia, Suburbia, Slavs!; Theatre J props design for The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife and Freud’s Last Session. Currently in development: a production design project for NIST, a historical documentary set in 1947-1953. In addition to national commercials, TV/Film work include: original set design for Discovery Channel’s Puppy Bowl, sculptor and sculpture consultant for 2011-2013 seasons of TLC’s reality show DC Cupcake; Washington bureau set design for TV Tokyo; Natty G pilot set design for National Geographic; production design for PBS American Experience Dolley Madison, art direction for PBS American Experience Alexander Hamilton, and set and props design for Discovery Channel’s Moments in Time: Jamestown, Against All Odds.

Recently: WILD: A Musical Becoming (A.R.T., dir. Diane Paulus, feat. Idina Menzel, Javier Muñoz). Off-Broadway: Who’s Your Baghdaddy? or How I Started the Iraq War (NY Times Critics’ Pick). National Tour: Rock of Ages, Young Frankenstein, My Fair Lady, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Bellobration. Regional/Other: Romy & Michele: The Musical (NYC Workshop/ShowTown), Double Helix: A Musical (NYC Workshop/Bay Street Theatre), Rock of Ages Hollywood. The Rock of Ages All-Star Reunion Concert, Singles in Agriculture (Bristol Riverside Theatre), Once Upon A Pastime (WPPAC, NY), Endgame (Baltimore CenterStage Mobile Unit), The King and I (Riverside Performing Arts, CA), Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Resident PSM. Washington, DC: BLKS (Woolly Mammoth), Twist Your Dickens (The Second City/Kennedy Center), Marie and Rosetta, The Vagrant Trilogy, Paper Dolls, Queens Girl in Africa, Milk Like Sugar, The Gospel of Lovingkindness (Mosaic Theatre), Hand to God, Choir Boy, Laugh, and The Big Meal (Studio Theatre), A House of Glass (Arena Stage), Our Town and Awake and Sing (Olney Theatre Center), Escape from Peligro Island (Imagination Stage). Graduate of University of California, Santa Barbara.