Molly Smith Metzler (playwright) is the author of Cry it Out, Elemeno Pea, The May Queen, Carve, Close Up Space and Training Wisteria. Her regional credits include: Northlight Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Repertory, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Chautauqua Theater Company, City Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Geva Theatre Center, Mixed Blood Theatre Company and more. In New York City: Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC). Metzler’s awards include the Lecomte du Nouy Prize from Lincoln Center, the Harold and Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting and a finalist nod for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is a proud alumna of the Ars Nova Play Group, the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages and the Cherry Lane Mentor Project. In television, Metzler has written for Casual (Hulu), Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), Codes of Conduct (HBO), and is currently a writer/producer on Shameless (Showtime). She is also a screenwriter, currently adapting Ali Benjamin’s award-winning novel The Thing About Jellyfish into a film for OddLot Entertainment with Made Up Stories and Pacific Standard (Reese Witherspoon’s company). Metzler was educated at the State University of New York at Geneseo, Boston University, New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts and the Juilliard School. She lives in Los Angeles and Kingston, N.Y.

KIM WEILD is a Drama Desk Award nominee, the recipient of nine NY Innovative Theatre Awards and winner of the 2018 NYITA for Outstanding Performance Art Production for the world premiere of NY Times Critic’s Pick Soot and Spit.

Possessing an extensive knowledge of new play and musical development, she is longtime collaborator of renown playwright Charles Mee and has developed new work for the stage with artists such as Charles Strouse, JC Lee, Alex Beech, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Ted Malawer, Liza Birkenmeier, Edward Beck, Elizabeth A. Davis, Harrison David Rivers, Andrea Lepcio and Michi Barrall among others.

Her work has been seen at: Shakespeare’s Globe London, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, New York Theater Workshop, Cherry Lane Theatre, ArtsEmerson, Red Bull Theater, Beckett Theater, Goodspeed Musicals, Primary Stages, New York Live Arts, The Mark Taper Forum, Williamstown Theater Festival, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, The Beall Center for Art and Technology, The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, The New Ohio Theater (NYC), Teatro alla Scala, and Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center. Her production of Uncle Vanya was an official selection at the Prague Quadrennial and in Greece she has directed The Bacchae and The Birds.

Recently, Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theater she directed the widely acclaimed American Moor, where previously in 2018 she had directed Mee’s First Love starring Academy Award nominee, Michael O’Keefe and Angelina Firodellisi.

On Broadway, Weild has worked as Associate Director to multiple TONY Award winning director Michael Blakemore on the world premiere of Deuce by Terrence McNally with Dame Angela Lansbury and Marian Seldes; the world premiere of Mark Twain and David Ives’ Is He Dead? and Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit with Dame Angela Lansbury, Rupert Everett, Jayne Atkinson and Christine Ebersole. She also served as Associate Director to Gabriel Barre for the world premiere of the Broadway musical Amazing Grace.

Fellowships and residencies include: The Park Avenue Armory, The Kennedy Center, The Schubert Organization, Williamstown Theater Festival – Foeller Fellowship, Luna Stage, The Archive Residency - New Ohio Theatre and IRT, the Obie-winning New Georges, two commissions from NYC’s High Line and the first recipient of SDC Foundation’s Guest Artist Initiative.

Steadfastly committed to the training and development of versatile, innovative, imaginative, knowledgeable, disciplined, and dedicated theatre artists who are tomorrow’s leaders, Weild currently serves as the Head of Directing for the John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon University.  For more info: www.kimweild.com

JULIANNE AVOLIO (Beth) is overwhelmed to be back on the City Theatre stage, right where she left it in March of 2020 as Lina in Cry It Out. After working on this piece for some years at both City and Pittsburgh CLO, Julianne is delighted to finally share it with the world, and is beyond grateful to Matt and Reg for helping her find - and value - her voice. Thank you to the audiences who have waited patiently to see this. For Ellen. 

Sarah Goeke (Julia) originally from Missouri, is an actor/writer living in NYC. She's genuinely delighted to be back at City Theatre! Recent roles include: Understudy for Denise/Leslie/Vicky/PJ in 53% Of at Second Stage Theatre in NYC, Offstage Swing for Desiree/Countess in A Little Night Music at Barrington Theatre, Lena Decker in Inherent Resolve at the Genesis Festival, Jessie in Cry It Out at City Theatre, and Cynthia Weil in the 1st Nat' Bway Tour of Beautiful the Carole King Musical. She's also recently been seen on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and City on Fire. sarahgoeke.com

REBECCA HIROTA (Adrienne) City Theatre debut! Selected New York: Vietgone (Manhattan Theatre Club), Romeo & Juliet (Classic Stage Company) Bullet Catchers (Judson Memorial) and The Tower (HERE Arts Center). Selected Regional: Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Caviar on Credit (The Guthrie), The Most Deserving (The Denver Center), Junk (Milwaukee Rep), Jane Eyre (Cincinnati Playhouse & Milwaukee Rep), Vietgone & Fault (TheatreSquared) and 36 Views (The Huntington and Quantum Theatre). Television: Law & Order, Elementary, Unforgettable and Gossip Girl. Education: MFA Acting, Columbia University, BA Psychology, Boston University.  

TIM McGEEVER (Mitchell) is thrilled to return to City Theatre where he has appeared in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City, Hand To God and Time Stands Still. Broadway credits include Cyrano Debergerac, Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Don’t Dress for Dinner.  He has performed in more than a dozen off-Broadway shows at theaters that include Lincoln Center, The Roundabout, The Public, The Cherry Lane, and many others.  Tim is now a full-time resident of Pittsburgh and has appeared at the West Virginia Public, the Pittsburgh Public, the CLO Cabaret, Quantum, Bricolage and Kinetic theaters.  He played Zazu on the national tour of The Lion King, Sheriff Gray in Red Dead Redemption 2 and will be seen in an upcoming episode of The Blacklist on CBS.  Tim is a director, writer, teacher, coach and standardized patient. Tim trained at Juilliard.