Stephen Belber’s plays have been produced on Broadway and in over 25 countries. They include Match, Tape, Don’t Go Gentle, Dusk Rings a Bell, McReele, Finally, Geometry of Fire, Fault Lines, Carol Mulroney, A Small, Melodramatic Story, One Million Butterflies, The Power of Duff and The Muscles In Our Toes. Theaters where he has been produced include Roundabout, Atlantic, MCC, Primary Stages, Naked Angels, Labyrinth, Rattlestick, The Huntington and The Geffen. He was an Associate Writer on The Laramie Project, and co-writer on The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Movies include Tape (directed by Richard Linklater), The Laramie Project (Associate Writer), Drifting Elegant, Management starring Jennifer Aniston, and Match starring Patrick Stewart, the last two of which he also directed. Television credits include Rescue Me, Law & Order SVU, and pilots for F/X, Amazon, The History Channel, FTVS and HBO. Upcoming films include O.G., starring Jeffrey Wright.

ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT Adrienne is the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur and the recipient of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award. Upcoming: world premieres of JOAN by Stephen Belber (Colt Coeur), Hatefuck by Rehana Lew Mirza (Colt Coeur/WP Theater), We Are Among Us by Stephen Belber (City Theater). Recent world premieres: Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck (Primary Stages/Dorset Theater Festival), Thirst, by C. A. Johnson (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Zürich, by Amelia Roper (Colt Coeur/NYTW), What We’re Up Against (WP Theater), Empathitrax by Ana Nogueira (Colt Coeur), Cal in Camo by William Francis Hoffman (co-pro Rattlestick & Colt Coeur), Theresa Rebeck’s The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), One Child Born (Oberon at American Repertory Theater), How to Live on Earth by MJ Kaufman (Colt Coeur), Chiara Atik’s 52nd to Bowery (EST Marathon), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur), Greg Moss’ Reunion (South Coast Rep), Everything is Ours by Nikole Beckwith (Colt Coeur), Recall by Eliza Clark (Colt Coeur), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur), and Seven Minutes in Heaven by Steven Levenson (Colt Coeur). Adrienne has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights’ Center, and EST. She is also the director of #makeitfair and the Associate Director on the Broadway production of Dear Evan Hansen. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

NILANJANA BOSE  Off Broadway: Tamburlaine ( Theater For A New Audience), Cock ( The Duke on 42nd Street), The Memorandum ( The Actors Company Theater). Off Off Broadway: The Queen ( Theater For The New City). Regional: Macbeth ( Shakespeare Theatre Company, D.C, World Premier of Way of the World ( Dorset Theater Festival). The Lake Effect (TheatreWorks), Noises Off ( Dorset Theater Festival). Television: 'Crossbones' (NBC). Education: The Juilliard School. Nilanjana is also a trained Classical Indian dancer. She was part of Sundance Episodic Lab as a TV writer and 2019 WeForShe WriteHer List, that honors the work of female writers in Hollywood. 

KYLE HADEN  is excited to be returning to City Theatre, where he most recently directed the Momentum reading of Inda Craig-Galván’s Berth Breach/Breech Birth. Other City projects include directing a reading of Christa McAuliffe’s Eyes Were Blue and performing as Taylor in We Are Among Us. Other directing credits include the world premiere of Parental Advisory: a breakbeat play (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); The Royale; Hazardous Materials (Creede Repertory Theatre); the world premiere of The Devil is a Lie (Quantum Theater); Waiting For Lefty (Quintessence Theatre); The Chief (Pittsburgh Public Theater); The Realness; A Brief History of America (Hangar Theatre Company); Hamlet; The Winter’s Tale (Island Shakespeare Festival); and The Tens (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville). Kyle was named a 2018 Drama League Directing Fellow, and is a member of their Directors Council. Kyle is the former artistic director of the Ashland New Plays Festival. He currently serves as the Senior Associate Head at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama, where he is also an Associate Professor of Acting. BA: Wake Forest University, MFA: Columbia University.

JO MEI Jo is thrilled to be back in Pittsburgh for the first time since attending summer camp here in high school. Theater credits include Babette’s Feast (off-Broadway/ Portland Stage), Fingersmith (ART), World of Extreme Happiness  (Manhattan Theatre Club), King of Hell’s Palace (Goodman Theatre), You For Me For You (Woolly Mammoth Theater). Jo has developed new works at The Public Theater, Center Theatre Group, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, Ma-Yi Theater Company, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. TV credits include “Crashing”(HBO), “Nicki”(Freeform), “Bones” (Fox) and “The Good Wife” (CBS). Jo stars in and co-wrote the award-winning film “A Picture of You”; other film credits include “Who We Are Now”, “Adult World”, “The Grief of Others”.  Jo is a graduate of Wellesley College and The Juilliard School’s Drama Division. @jotomato

LISA VELTEN SMITH Lisa is thrilled to be back at City Theatre where she was last seen as Fiona in Nomad Motel.  Other notable Pittsburgh theater credits include A Doll's House Part II, Equus, Disgraced (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Oblivion, Hand To God (City Theatre).  Broadway:  After Miss Julie(Roundabout Theatre).  Off B’way: Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club), Antony and Cleopatra, All’s Well That Ends Well (Theatre for a New Audience).  Other select credits include:  Hand To God (TheaterWorks Hartford), Greedy (Clubbed Thumb), Silent Heroes (Roundtable Ensemble), FUBAR, LoveSick (Project Y Theatre), Rabbit Hole (Premiere Stages), Paris Commune (La Jolla Playhouse), Bash (About Face Theatre), Absolution (Steppenwolf Garage).  T.V/Film: “Gone”, “White Collar”, “Law and Order”, “Law and Order Criminal Intent” (recurring), “Early Edition”, Feast of the Seven Fishes, Proxy, In Our Nature, 100 Towels, What Are You Having?,  among others.   BFA: The Theatre School at DePaul University, MFA: University of California, San Diego.  Lisa is an artistic associate of Project Y Theatre in New York City and a Designated Linklater Voice Instructor.

Eric Wiegand is a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University. New York stage credits include: POP PUNK HIGH (Le Poisson Rouge), AQUAMARINE (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival), THE TEST (Project Y), THE TROUBLE WITH DEAD BOYFRIENDS (SheNYC). TV: Outsiders (WGN America).